#my 100+ note posts

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Season 10 going well so far

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[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them. #hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore. #but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

[weepingwitheredwillows]

#curious how the absolutely massive dissertations in my notes ab supporting artists dont even bother to like a single drawing. curious #tired of this post getting 100+ notes a day while my art gets 0. shut the fuck up

[todayisafridaynight]

x

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza like a dragon #yakuza 7 #ichiban kasuga #ryo aoki #masato arakawa #snap sketches #beat y7 for the first time in Ever last night with kayla so i was legally required to draw something #also i wouldve just rb'd the og post but it had less than 100 notes and i didnt want op seeing me be cringe so early in that posts life #theyre brothers your honor this is simply shit ichi would do every day had it not been for The Horrors #ok bye i should eat #steadily trying to post art again cause my comm list is FINALLY looking vaguely normal so i dont have much left to do #ill probably shotgun a good chunk of them tomorrow even tho tomorrows suppoed to be a rest day but lol #ok bye bye

[bobbiesquares]

i think sam should have gone into the dropout discord and given us bingo cards for tao, carolyn, and jess

#dropout #game changer #dropout tv #sam reich #game changer bingo #this ep was so funny i choked on my dinner. #sam release the full brennango so i can play it next episode #text post #original content #100 #200 #300 #400 #amused by the new notes this got after the latest game changer

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I started reading Dungeon Meshi last week, became instantly charmed and captivated, and blitzed through the entire manga in 4 days (and changed my profile picture about it). With that in mind, I would just like to say...

I love your dungeon meshi art so so much

CHILCHUCK!!!!!!!!

Thank you kindly! I love Dungeon Meshi a lot, so I'm happy to see so many people get into it for the first time.

CHILCHUCK!!!

#ask #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #I feel like chilchuck was overlooked in the pre-anime fandom a lot (which sucked as an OG chilchuck fan). #So I am thrilled by how much love he has been getting. He is a great character and so much fun to draw. #Great comedic straight man while also having some really hard hitting emotional moments. #I think he needs a union mandated vacation after this dungeon expedition -and a drink with an umbrella in it. #Veering off topic for a moment: #I started drawing this at the same time as the Dragon comic (I had chilchuck brainrot) #and since then two of my dungeon meshi comics have hit over 10k notes. Which is bonkers! #A year ago I was getting hyped over a post reaching past 100 notes...I never thought I'd be here. Thank you for all the love and support. #I may have started as a MDZS blog but drawing for Dungeon Meshi has had a huge impact on me *and* my art. #This Chilled Chuck is thus a mini celebration for a incredible milestone B*) #I'll keep my weekly dungeon meshi posts going until the season ends so please keep looking forwards to it!

[laithraihan]

#reigen arataka #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #my art #i have another sketch page where i put notes on design choices but i'll post it another time

[tastymarbar]

look me in the eye and tell me this isn’t true.

#mar does a meme #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #kageyama shigeo #hanazawa teruki #... #terumob #EDIT: as i'm typing this the post has like 4000 notes now and I am in disbelief- #I made this shitty as meme while for my friend to arrive to my home town #and watched it skyrocket live while on my holiday friend meetup in jersey #what the fuck #is it because I tagged terumob is that what it is gdjhdfjkghdfkjghdf

[sailoreuterpe]

#Notes by Nikki #family #labor #join a union #unionization #solidarity #worker solidarity #Nikki History #long post #image heavy #facebook #This isn't my post #it's my brother's #and it feels right for my blog #labor stoppage #work stoppage #50 #100 #200 #300 #400 #500 #600 #700 #800 #900 #1000 #2000

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The post I made about this earlier wasn't enough, I had to animate it too

Reblogs appreciated! ^^

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[brookheimer]

people acting like twitter's new post count is gonna cause a mass exodus to tumblr.... this website's demographic has not changed in 865578 years and it sure as hell won't now. this is the site for people who were weird and unhappy in middle school. everyone on here has either been around since they were weird unhappy 13-year-olds or joined when they were weird unhappy 13-year-olds, left because they thought they were normal for a while, then came crawling back again when they realized deep down they were still weird unhappy 13-year-olds. what does this site possibly have to offer you if you grew up happy well-adjusted and unaware of homestuck

#like have you seen that poll of when people joined tumblr and it's ALLLL early/mid 2010s if not earlier?? #twitter's fuckups have brought some people over but like. not as many as yall think #and thank god for that. i am very happy in my small corner of this website where i am surrounded by people with good taste and good takes #LOL #i'm the second category btw. weird unhappy 13yo --> No Im Normal --> oh ok no i'm not but shhh keep it on the dl (tumblr) this time #instead of running around asking everyone if they've heard of this thing called homestuck and giggling whenever anyone said bucket #...dark times. #but no like it's so funny to me that people think normal people will actually use tumblr. the stigma around it ALONE will drive em away #which like. fair honestly lolll #100 #this time on posts i didn’t expect to get notes #lollll #500 #1000

[deepseasecret]

So what is agent 8’s sister up to during the events of splatoon 3

she got Fuzzed

But don't worry, she's fine!

(this is the post this ask is referencing)

bonus nurse octoling under the cut since i think they're cute, i made them just for this little comic lol

#ask #anonymous #splatoon 3 #splatoon #yes i drew this all for this ask #im really really really really REALLY happy people like my splatoon hcs so much.......... i expected the post to get like. 100 notes at bes #also i guess i have splatoon ocs now kinda??? yeah i guess... #i dont have names for nurse-kun or 8's sister maybe i'll think of them later #painting #illust #comic #octoling #return of the mammalians

[tigerbaulm]

cockroach showdown

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mob psycho fanart #reigen arakata #mob shigeo #shigeo kageyama #mob my son #tw bugs #tigerbaulm #wow that is a lot of notes on this post #thank you all so much ! #i’ll be hopefully selling this as a print so stay tuned

[tea-cat-arts]

A reoccurring thought I had for a while now-

On one hand, I'd like to think someone gave him a hug at least once in those 800 years. On the other, idk who Xie Lian would let himself be vulnerable with

#tgcf spoilers #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #bai wuxiang #for reasons i cant explain- no face repeatedly hugging Xie Lian got to me almost as much as the 100 stabs scene #and i really hope Xie Lian gets some nice and consensual hugs (from all his friends. not just Hua Cheng) #someone get this man a weighted blanket #(completely unrelated) not to self promo in my angst post but- #i drew some things i spent a couple days on (per drawing) and they only got like 20 notes #so if yall could check those out and reblog them I'd really appreciate that (all are linked in my masterlist)

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #william laurence #sizes are not Quite right here but we will improve with time #I think temeraire would be Much larger by the time he gets his frills but also I was constrained by the fact that I was drawing on paper #not 100% settled on his look either but his antlers are Important to me even if they're not canonical #it has been Years since I drew any dragons I think... oh far too long :( #v. excited to sketch up some of the other excellent fellows in the coming months (starting reading throne of jade tomorrow!) #way back in 2021 eve proto-language said the way I drew pullings at the time was granby-reminiscent so I have been picturing That #let's see if I have improved since 2021 <- very probably I have done so #'specially as someone looked in my sketchbook today and saw this and told me I should be illustrating books #bestie (note: not bestie at all) you know I would if I could :/

[moonlightphos]

🌱🏛️

#kavetham #haikaveh #genshin impact #genshin impact fanart #kaveh #alhaitham #artists on tumblr #my art #I don't know what their fandom emojis are so this post will remain emojiless until I find out #this one has been the most difficult so far and I'm not 100% satisfied with it #but I will redeem myself the next time I draw them #just a note that if anyone makes any negative comments about the marginal amount that I darkened their skin tones? I will block you.