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"I think Pacific Rim is unrealistic now because instead of everyone banding together to defeat COVID, the governments just gave up and abandoned everybody-"

Are you kidding me? Pacific Rim 100% predicted this kind of thing. That's literally what the Pacific Perimeter Program was about. Once the PPDC decided fighting kaiju was too expensive, they just gave up and chose to ignore the problem by putting it behind a big wall. Pacific Rim is literally about the people who were abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to protect them and kept on trying anyway.

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Dungeon Meshi - Laios & Looks

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Picking up after that glorious handholding scene, I can’t get the headcanon out of my head, so here you are 😳

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Rabbit panic!

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I love them your honor

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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Can't believe they robbed this from us 😔

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this man's moral compass is probably a roulette wheel

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these idiots are ruingin my life

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Im sorry I do this to every fandom im in

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hiii everybody are you normal about Falin showing Laios the same little spell that Marcille showed her? are you normal about Falin remembering it fondly enough that it was one of the first things she showed her brother while trying to teach him magic?

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"Shuro is bad and not worthy of Falin because he wouldn't do dark necromancy magic to save her"

Come on, just because Farcille is canon, it doesn't mean you have mischaracterize Shuro to somehow justify it.

He didn't "throw a fit" at the mention of dark magic - he explicitly became enraged that they risked Falin's long-term life and well-being. They revived her, but in a risky way that would also put them in trouble with both law and dark forces beyond their comprehension - not only Laios and the group, but also Falin.

I mean, yeah Shuro is an extremely lawful archetypal self-sacrificial Knight, but he is primarily shocked not because the group has committed crimes, but because Falin is now in a lot more insidious political danger.

And after cathartically throwing hands for probably the first time in his life and finally eating, he not only implicitly agrees that this was necessary and he would do the same, but gives Laios the bell.

Honestly the bell deserves a whole essay for its narrative role as a tiny token of long-term hope - that somewhere out there is an incredibly reliable and principled Knight that promised to have your back, and even if things go extremely south and you don't see eye to eye with everyone, there are allies beyond the close friend circle of the main heroes.

Think of the bell he chose to keep with him, not even his retainers, at all times. And think about what he does in the story if you for a moment doubt he wouldn't also move laws of physics for Falin if he could. Like, of course Marcille knows Falin more, of course their love is different, and of course he is softly rejected because of a variety of factors, not least of which is Falin finally choosing herself. But that does not mean you have to be mean to Shuro for things he isn't and didn't do.

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A seriously underrated part in the dungeon meshi manga to me is the Marcille and Laios moments during the whole familiar/griffin debacle.

Idk when Laios says “she says it’s easiest to relax this way” and “She’s doing her best. That’s what.” it really warms my heart. Marcille can be pretty self conscious/uncertain at times, and him reassuring her is nice to see.

He stands up for Falin in a similar way when people were calling her weird when they were children, and as someone who *is* unabashedly weird, he has nothing to lose with associating with people being shunned for behaving unconventionally, and doesn’t give much care to other people’s opinions. It’s just little interactions like this that make me enjoy this series so much!

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local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

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