Shai' here! Adult Agender Pan/Ace that goes by any pronouns! I'm the run-of-the-mill Random fandom obsessed Tumblr user and Gen Blogger that switches fandoms by the week or by the month. (Current Fandom: Cells at Work!) Will mainly reblog but also post my art and maybe writing when I get stuff done! I also have an art side blog where I'll post fandom and original art as well as potential stories on called : @shai-artistic-brain-loaf !!
I have to appreciate, and profusely thank Ryoko Kui for, that every modern day thing I have ever seen with Dungeon Meshi, the characters are all their respective fantasy races. Elf girl Marcille doing Smith College Girls with Falin. Dwarf Senshi at Bass Pro Shop. Halfling Chilchuck at the pub. No matter the context they are always the fantasy races they are in the original story.
It helps sell these already well written characters to be more believable, seeing them in modern settings still 100% being themselves. There is NO compromising the character designs and I'm glad that even the fanbase understands that.
I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.
Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".
Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"
I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"
Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"