#falin and marcille aren't a canonically romantic pairing

[athina-blaine]

genuinely don't understand people who gripe about someone getting into dunmesh for m/m pairings as opposed to f/f when none of them are even close to being the main point of the series

#dungeon meshi #fandom wank #cringe! cringe! none of us are free of cringe! #yall i ... i dont know how to say this but #falin and marcille aren't a canonically romantic pairing #like there's good shit there and i happily invite you to spam my inbox on why it fucks so great as a ship #but it's not canon #and it's not even the focus of the series as a whole #gosh i feel like im saying santa isn't real #the absolute psychic damage ive been taking from these takes i stg #calling laios an “irrelevant male character” #the main character ... #insisting that every single interaction between the men in the series is underbaked and boring #do they think the concept of narrative foils was made up by fujoshis to peddle yaoi propaganda #do they think ryoko kui can't write #allow us a moment to appreciate the irony of accusing m/m shippers of tunnel visioning on one pairing and discarding the rest #that's how you know dunmesh is progressive media because the yuri shippers get to be just as obnoxious as the yaoi shippers lmao #if there's any One Relationship i would consider The Relationship it's laios and marcille since they experience the most growth #and it could not be a more obviously platonic one #yall had better not be saying you ship farcille just for clout!! #you ship it because you want to see marcille choke on falin's monster cock like a normal person

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Now that I've finished dungeon meshi I have to say, while I understand the disappointment with fandom's constant obsession with shipping two dudes in fandom typical ways and ignoring the women/men that don't fit a certain mold and basically ignoring the entire rest of the story...

People acting so indignant that people would do gay or even straight shipping, because this manga is such a super women-led yuri show that's all about the power of Marcille's all-consuming love for Falin, are absolutely fucking bonkers and have lost the plot.

That is not to say that these shippers are not insane or can't be annoying in the typical ways that they are, or that Marcille/Falin aren't the most shippable pairing and just about the closest you're gonna get to something romantic in Dungeon Meshi (it's a platonic ass story and I love that), or that it wouldn't be nice for the fandom around something to stay mostly devoted to the closest to a canon pairing most shippable F/F ship. It would. But like. I don't know I'm kind of upset by that attitude now

And my intention is not to be super negative about Marcille/Falin fans, because they are certainly not all like this, it's just. WHOO! That is just so not remotely what Dungeon Meshi is about to a degree I still wasn't prepared for despite being aptly warned.

#dungeon meshi tag #like this isn't a case where you'd have to shove every female character out the way to do your gay shipping exactly. #Again. I would not call these men very shippable with each other. And I would never tell anyone not to bitch and be snobby. #Bitch and be snobby always! #I'm just saying this attitude more than anything else is what gave me a different impression of what the show would be like #and the refusal to engage with a work for what it is is one of the annoying things about fandom shipping culture #like I wasn't expecting the relationship between Marcille and Falin to be SO understated. I wasn't expecting the bathroom hands #to basically be *it* with Marcille and Falin's interactions. Like there's just so little between them. Falin is barely in it. #And being super indignant that people would dare to ship Marcille with what the story clearly acts like is basically boy Falin #a character she actually spends the entire manga with and has a developed relationship with and that she clearly loves #(I think in general there are a few too many posts to my liking that toe a line towards 'gay shipping icky' for my tastes. But I get it) #I don't think I've been this gaybaited by something on tumblr for close to a decade which is also part of what's grinding my gears