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I don't care what canon says, Mithrun's canaries stay with him after canon and they all have a blast killing monsters (cope)

#they all adore him your honor #how can you separate them #at least pattadol stayed with him uwaaa I'm going to cry #dm #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #mithrun #the canaries #cithis #lycion #fleki #otta #pattadol #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi spoilers #akira original #mine

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食い (kui), a noun for eating, is pronounced the same as 九井 (meaning "nine wells"), the author's family name

A fun coincidence

#dm #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #ryoko kui #kui ryoko #akira original #mine

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I just read Kui's short How to Be That Girl in the Glamorous Fellows anthology and I'm even more convinced that Lycion is a deliberate trans allegory

#the blurb is literally how to come to terms with having a LGBTQ sibling #I also think it's cool that the short could be read as either transfem or transmasc even though I think the intent is transfem #dm #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #lycion #ryoko kui #akira original #mine

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That post about Marcille and Laios' relationship actually got me thinking about Chilchuck and Laios' relationship. Which is harder to see in some ways because it mostly consists of positive absences.

At first, viewers might be inclined to wonder why Chilchuck sticks with the party. He says it's because he took payment up front, but he could give back part of the deposit and leave. Two other party members left; Laios explicitly gave Marcille and Chilchuck a choice as to whether they would stay or go, and they both chose to stay.

We know why Marcille chose to stay; she wants to save Falin and she considers the other party members her friends. Why did Chilchuck stay?

Chilchuck actually respects Laios a lot -- food and monster weirdness aside -- and that mostly comes I think through the positive absences from above. The things that Laios does not do.

Laios doesn't deliberately expose Chilchuck to danger or regard him as expendable. When Chilchuck starts to get enthralled by the sirens' song, Laios immediately snaps him out of it. Contrast that to Chilchuck relating that other adventuring parties will sometimes bring half-foots along just to sacrifice them or use them as bait!

Laios doesn't insist that Chilchuck put himself in danger by getting into combat. Even in situations where they're in danger and could really use more combatants, he only ever asks Chilchuck to take on non-combat tasks such as creating distractions.

Laios doesn't get in the way when Chilchuck is working and follows his directives of what to do around traps. He respects Chilchuck's work so much that he will even hand over his sword without hesitation, even when doing such a thing causes it to be damaged!

Laios doesn't press Chilchuck to divulge private information. When Chilchuck says he doesn't mix his professional and private lives, Laios respects that and doesn't push.

All the other party members infringe on these boundaries in some way. Izutsumi tries to egg Chilchuck into combat; Marcille presses him for personal information; Senshi deliberately provokes him when he's trying to work. Not Laios. Once Chilchuck sets a boundary, Laios does his best to always respect it.

Maybe this is my age showing, but when you find yourself in a good work situation with a good boss, you stay in that job.

#dm #laios touden #chilchuck

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Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

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oh ok. the dwarves in dungeon meshi live in a steampunk world. good to know. But i love the juxtaposition between elves using magic birds to communicate while the dwarves have straight up telephones

and the gnomes are hopelessly dependent on the orb

#dm

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Shuro haters: HE IS AN ENTITLED, CALLOUSED ASSHOLE WHO LED LAIOS ON WITH NO REGARD FOR HIS FEELINGS!!

Shuro lovers: HE IS A NUANCED CHARACTER AND CRUCIAL AUTISTIC REPRESENTATION IN HIS OWN RIGHT!!!!

Me: HE IS withering away on the ground as we speak. Like he's hanging on by a thread actually. Oh shit he just went fucking limp YOU GUYS--

#dm #shuro #SOMEONE FEED HIMGOOD PLS

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#pjsk #tenma tsukasa #kamishiro rui #kusanagi nene #otori emu #wxs

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just joined tumblr today. have this.

#pjsk #tenma tsukasa

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more chilchuck and da kids

#dm #chilchuck

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#don't forget Kabru has canary-adjacent trauma#so shipping him with a canary is basically traumatizing him again and again#or something

You've inspired me:

It's actually so fucked up how Kabru was traumatized by the elves (and especially the Canaries) and now you're shipping him with his abuser. You're just retraumatizing him

The destruction of Utaya, the root of his trauma, was caused by a dungeon and now you're shipping him with a former dungeon master??? Do you even hear yourself? OP you're sick in the head kys

anticipating the discourse surrounding kabumisu so we all have time to gain immunity first:

Mithrun is literally 185 years old while Kabru is only 22!!! That's such a huge age gap it's basically pedophilia

Mithrun is disabled and Kabru is his caretaker. Since there's a power dynamic, it's abuse, specifically medical abuse. Just because real disabled people's partners often act as caretakers out of necessity, doesn't make it okay in fiction

Mithrun is an elf and Kabru is a tallman. This racial dynamic is sooo uncomfortable. If you ship them, you support imperialism/colonialism/racism.

Milsiril and Mithrun were in the same squad and she took care of him. Kabru's mom knows Mithrun, which means he's basically Kabru's uncle. This is so grooming coded. I bet you abuse minors

#dm #kabru #mithrun #kabumisu #dungeon meshi spoilers #akira original #mine

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I think we should talk about how Mithrun before he became Dead Inside(tm) was super similar to Kabru at the beginning of the manga. They both put on a lighthearted front to hide a darker interior/motives. They were both outwardly charming but inside they were haters and if they'd met before Mithrun had his desires eaten they definitely would have faked smiles and been super besties but inwardly not trusted each other at all.

#dm #mithrun #kabru #kabumisu

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#dm #kabru

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mithrun never thinking of himself nor being treated as a burden by those taking care of him is my favourite thing actually... like even kabru who is forced into it ends up feeling for mithrun, thinking about how he'd like to cook something nice for him, and ultimately becoming an honorary canary, someone who the other canaries acknowledge and trust as a really good care taker for mithrun... and mithrun is loved by those people!!! and he's aware of it!!! "you and me are lucky we have people around us whose love can fill that hole" liKE DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW FERAL I AM

#dm #mithrun

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My take on Farcille <3

(experimenting with my style too)

#dm #my exact thoughts op #farcille #falin touden #marcille donato

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#dm #laios touden #shuro