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Welcome!

Come one come all, experience limitless flavours, and luxurious desserts in the Dungeon Meshi zine, All you can Eat!

This post serves as an introduction to the project, and will include a link for signups at the end!

What is this about?

'All you can Eat' is a collaborative Dungeon Meshi fanzine themed around group meals and communal eating. We hope that we can gather a wide range of participants to portray many different characters indulging in many different kinds of food. The more range the better!

How does it work?

The zine is hosted by myself @neotomiccccc and makani @dongoverlord . You can apply to join the project by filling in the form linked in this post! If your application is successful, we will respond to you within a few weeks and send you an invitation to the discord server where all communication about the project will commence. This means you must have discord to participate! We also kindly require that all participants must be over the age of 16!

Once in the discord server, you can begin working on your piece! This can be a piece of art or writing. Your piece must feature at least three characters from Dungeon Meshi enjoying a meal together. Ships can be incorporated, but they should not be the only focus of your piece. You will have several months to complete something!

Do I have to pay?

No! All you can eat will be a free digital PDF that you can download. We're just putting this together for fun and for the love of Dungeon Meshi!

What about Spoilers?

We're taking a fairly spoiler-neutral stance. This means that you can draw anything that has appeared in the anime so far - EG. Chimera Falin is fine. You CAN also draw characters that have not appeared in the anime yet so long as they are not doing or referencing something that is a spoiler itself - EG. Drawing the canaries simply sharing a meal is fine.

How do I join?

You can sign up HERE! Signups will be open for the next two weeks but may be extended as we see fit!

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot this blog an ask!

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The dark worlds are gonna be based on means of entertainment/media consumption

So idk if this is really a theory than it is moreso just what I think makes the most sense for what Deltarune is about???

I've seen lots of talk about there being a dark world in the church or in Asgore's shop and as likely as I can see those both being I've always had this feeling of...

How much could you reasonably do with a dark world about flowers?

Like. I think we're most likely getting dark worlds in those locations but I don't think they'll necessarily be about what that location is about. Like how the dark world in the library is about computers and the dark world in the Dreemurr household is about television.

So far, the dark worlds have followed the structure of being about different forms of entertainment: board games in chapter 1, the internet in chapter 2 and (most likely) television in chapter 3. I'd be really surprised if future chapters didn't follow this trend (except for like, maybe the last one).

See, another reason I think this is because you could easily make a dark world all about the Dreemurr household right? I find it very very interesting that Toby instead (as far as we know) ONLY focused on the TV.

So if you were to ask me for what's most likely, I'd say we're gonna get a dark world about literature and a dark world about video games. Video games especially, with how much they tie into Noelle given the information we got from the Spamton Sweepstakes.

The dark worlds in general give me huge escapism vibes so I think having them focus on these different forms of keeping yourself entertained makes the most sense narratively.

#deltarune theory #deltarune speculation #deltarune #deltarune spoilers #kind of??? mostly just location spoilers for chapters 1-3

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Protagonist from the cast I posted a few days ago

#danganronpa oc #my fangan #fangan oc #fanganronpa #oc art #original character #character bio #danganronpa #danganronpa fangan

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So ermmm I've been working on a fanganronpa and I finished designing the cast, thought I'd share

#danganronpa #danganronpa oc #fanganronpa #my fangan #fangan oc #my art #oc art #digital art #character art #not gonna be a youtube series cuz i have 0 editing skills #aiming for a fanfic-style fangan #cuz i love those

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Deltarune Gaster Idea

Okay so last night I had like a stroke of genius big brain galaxy thought that beamed itself into my head and I just need to get it out there.

What if Gaster's dialogue is fully voice acted, in the same voice as the robotic one that says "DELTARUNE" in the title screen?

So like, we're all 99% sure that Gaster (or like, the Deltarune universe version of Gaster) will show up and is the one who's behind the secret bosses acting quirky.

When you think about it, the secret bosses have both so far played around with the idea of voiced lines. Jevil has little voice clips he uses and Spamton's battle themes have lyrics to them. If the other secret bosses keep this trend, I think it'd make sense for Gaster, the ringleader of them all, to have dialogue that's fully voiced.

The Deltarune start up logo is also seemingly tied to Gaster (very loosely I'll admit) with its file naming conventions, as all the assets for it are in all caps and follow the naming scheme that the goner maker assets use (objects being called DEVICE, sprites being called IMAGE, etc).

Also, assuming Gaster still types in the wingdings font, I feel like it'd be kind of annoying to have to translate everything he says, right? This was fine in Undertale, because the only dialogue Gaster had was very optional, out of the way and had no relevance to Undertale's main plot. But Gaster is VERY much important to Deltarune's plot so far.

The only way around this that I can imagine is if he just doesn't have that much dialogue or... his dialogue is translated in game. Perhaps, by being voice acted.

THAT'S MY IDEA AT LEAST I don't think this is like, 100% real and gonna happen but I think it'd be cool.

#deltarune #deltarune theory #deltarune speculation #gaster

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Shout out to when I drew 30 spamtons (and 1 sans) last year for spamtober.

Unfortunately, since I don't hate myself, I won't be doing it again this year.

#digital art #deltarune #undertale #spamton #spamtober #spamton g spamton #deltarune fanart #okay technically i only drew 28 spamtons #because 2 of them were drawn by my friends cuz my tablet died and i had to get a new one lmao #it was a whole crisis #if you were wondering #all the prompts were just “spamton” except day 31 which was a free day lol #which is why sans is there

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I've not abandoned Tumblr I just have literally NOTHING TO POST CAUSE I HAVEN'T DRAWN ANYTHING IN WEEKS please pray for me

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Come play Sea of Stars we have

-gay ghosts

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Field of Hopes and Dreams but drawn in my own pixel artstyle

#deltarune #digital art #pixel art #my art #aseprite #artists on tumblr #deltarune fanart

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My favorite OC to draw they're such a freak, so much quirked up energy

#my art #artists on tumblr #body horror #kind of? its mild but ill tag it anyways #cw body horror #original character #angel #oc art #digital art #I always draw the halo cowlick too thin but I've been getting better at it I swear

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Louie isn’t evil.

Or: what Pikmin 4 tells us about his character.

BIG WARNING FOR PIKMIN 4 SPOILERS! (and the rest of the series)

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I want to preface this by saying that I am in no way trying to be the end-all, be-all of character interpretations, but Pikmin 4 to me, at least, confirms the suspicions I’ve had since playing Pikmin 2 and 3 all those years ago that Louie ISN’T secretly evil, or possessed, or whatever else. He’s just… Louie. And I think that’s interesting in and of itself.

1. Olimar himself vouches for him, and clearly doesn’t think he’s a bad person.

Say what you will, but I’m inclined to think Olimar is a decent judge of character. Clearly he’s worked with Louie for enough time to see that while he’s not very good at his job, he’s not intentionally so— at least not in a malevolent way (will get more into this later). He also wants you to forgive him for Olimar’s sake, which can be read as self-sacrificing (as Olimar is known to be) but I also think hints at the soft spot he has for Louie.

It's also worth noting that he states during a end-of-day conversation that he told Louie that, since he's a new employee, he should do everything Olimar does... including throw castaways into the onion. Interesting that Louie took this so literally, but it does provide an explanation for why he kidnapped the Koppaites beyond "he's evil and crazy".

2. He really, REALLY loves his grandma.

Like, wow. He talks about her SO MUCH both in his Piklopedia entries and also elsewhere in the game. It's interesting. Worth noting is that he never mentions any other family members- unlike Olimar, who talks about his wife and each of his children independently. I've said this before, but the content of a lot of these entries implies to me that Louie was mainly raised by his grandma, likely since birth. And given some of her emails in Pikmin 2, assuming they're also canon to Pikmin 4's timeline... Well, Louie certainly had an interesting upbringing. But he clearly loves her all the same.

3. He has a mischievous streak and tends to do things on impulse.

This was already fairly obvious from the previous games, but I think it's worth noting that this game confirms that he's... would immature be the right word? In any regard, he doesn't seem to see himself as a "grown-up"- when in all likelihood he is. Personally, as a 22-year-old, I find that pretty relatable as I often think of myself as younger when in reality I am by all definitions an adult. This, along with his grandma still being around, makes it pretty much certain that Louie is a lot younger than Olimar and the president, likely in his early to mid twenties. Being a bit of a goofball isn't really out of the ordinary, all things considered.

THAT BEING SAID, he's clearly capable of practicing self-restraint when he wants to. What he says here about the red Pikmin is pretty significant, since we know he's willing to eat just about anything- but clearly he has some reservations about creatures that are friendly and helpful. Which leads to...

4. He loves dogs and fluffy things.

Same. But he doesn't even consider eating Moss, Oatchi or the Ancient Sirehound, showing that his creature-eating habits stop at things he recognizes as useful. He clearly also holds affection for things that are soft and fuzzy, and says as much.

5. He is so autism.

He plays with fidget toys. He loves certain textures and sounds. This guy is stimming all over PNF-404!!! I think this also lends some explanation for why his behavior is what it is- things like taking Olimar's suggestion to do as he does super literally even after crashing on an alien planet, his hyperfixation on cooking and tendency not to communicate and incorrectly interpret situations (thinking the Koppaites are kidnappers in 3, running away from you in 4). He could even be low or no empathy as well, explaining why it takes a hot minute to get him to understand why people are upset with him about something.

Interestingly this game also makes it clear that Louie wants to live on the planet, or at least thought he did while you were chasing him down, which makes a lot of sense when you consider that he doesn't really seem to fit in back on Hocotate. I, too, wish to run away to an alien world with all of the things that I like and no other people, so I get you, Louie.

6. He hates his boss and his job, and the golden pikpik carrot incident was likely premeditated.

This probably looks bad, but honestly? As a fellow work-hating anti-capitalist schmuck I get it. The president is for all intents and purposes a huge asshole, from sending Olimar straight back to the planet after selling his ship to not caring that Louie got left behind, just wanting to find the rest of the treasures. I doubt he is very kind to his employees, and doesn't seem very good at running the business. Definitely a funny character, but if he were my boss I would absolutely want to punt him into the sun.

From some other entries he clearly wants to sell certain things to accrue money, but it's for things like getting better kitchen tools and following his dream to have his own cooking show. Clearly being a freight driver isn't what Louie actually wants to do with his life, and he could not give less of a shit about what happens to the company. Very short-sighted on his part, but also again, yeah I get you Louie.

7. He... doesn't like the color red for some reason.

Honestly, I'm not even really sure what to make of this. Is it because it reminds him of the Hocotate ship? Or does he just not like the color? Would be very interesting considering that it's Olimar's signature color. Perhaps that's at least part of why he attacks you in Pikmin 2- though that's speculation for another day.

Also funny to me is his comments on the black-colored treasures. We know blue is his favorite color, but I guess he's also a bit of a goth at heart. Lol.

In conclusion.

I think Louie isn't written or intended to be evil, and Pikmin 4's portrayal of him was intentionally written to confirm this. He's just, as some have said, an agent of chaos, but that doesn't make him a bad person. Just an autistic 20-something working a shitty job he doesn't care about, who loves his grandma and has a mischievous streak and a hyperfixation on food. At least from what I can interpret, ymmv!

#Yesss literally my thoughts exactly #Pikmin 4 makes it like extremely obvious that Louie is on the spectrum

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Silly little Roblox project I've been working on for a while

#roblox #roblox dev #roblox studio