#not my muse

[coventroublemaker]

A Swagged Out Golden Edition Egglos Paired with the Coven Skateboard™

I threw in the skateboard as a thank you for takin care of beans, @frozenpizza14!

#two more egglos' to go #I told yall these would be popular #art post #not my muse #other's muses #frozenpizza14 #thecoolestscoutonthecoven #my art

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Kabru #Kabru of Utaya #Laios Touden #Dungeon Meshi meta #you can have him in the tags too. as a treat. #Dungeon Meshi spoilers #this was directly inspired by livelaughlaios's post about Kabru self harming but I decided it got too long to make it a direct reply #this is a theory I've been working on for weeks because I kept noticing this while skimming for screencaps #I'm hesitant to trigger tag this because of the way certain subcultures on tumblr operate #but if anyone needs me to add a content warning please let me know #also I included image descriptions! I did my best #I think they even help illustrate my points but my god were they sad to write. Kabru is so fucking sad you guys #musings with Dea

[baeglbites]

My boys… 🥺😢

#My first jjk muse was Choso then Yuta and then Gojo… #these recent chapter obliterated me #baegl's art #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk art #jjk fanart #do I tag as spoiler….sure #jjk spoilers #choso #gojo satoru #yuta okkotsu

[selenekallanwriter]

Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

#writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing #creative writing #writing memes #writer memes #writer mood #writer problems #am writing #urban fantasy #paranormal romance #writer musings #just something that came to mind while I info dumped my poor mom

[o0kawaii0o]

4 hearts

#i tried #top view perspective isn't my muse #also drawing sebbie for the 1st time in this angle isn't helping either but hey #felt like drawing this heart event somehow! #did a CRT version too for funsies #stardew valley #sdv fanart #sdv sebastian #sdv farmer #stardew valley sebastian #o0kawaii0o

[alibonbonn]

A @corviiids tweet that is very important to me 🙏 I'm always thinking about spawn Astarion how he loves the sun

#i am spending am unhealthy amount of time thinking about hcs of my durge and astarion going on cute adventures after the game #if you shitpost to my very particular niche vibe you are my muse i cant explain it #is hot spring running water? i think Astarion deserves to have a hot spring vacation #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #Astarion #alibonbonn #corviiids #alidraws

[lychi-kinesis]

*SPOILERS FOR THE TOTK DRAGON QUEST*

I drew this as an excuse to draw Zelda in her new dress and then that never happened. ALSO THANK YOU @katydoodles FOR DOING THE BACKGROUNDS <3

#my art #botw totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom #totk zelink #zelink #totk link #totk zelda #light dragon #naydra #farosh #dinraal #princess mononoke #tloz #the legend of zelda #ghibli #lychi musing #loz

[kaogens]

mikus once again :P

#vocaloid #hatsune miku #vocaloid fanart #shes my go to when idk what to draw... my muse #a rlly sweet woman talked to me on the plane bc she liked my art.. sobbing #drew these when i left london... i miss u london I MISS MY FRIENDSSSSS

[buggachat]

something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.

But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin

#writing this my brain was like: what if he actually likes it? #what if he likes people openly criticizing him in ways nobody actually does to Adrien agreste? #because Adrien Agreste is perfect and can do no wrong. maybe he enjoys being insulted or something #and then I remembered chat noirs multiple breakdowns about feeling unworthy and yknow what yeah I don’t think he likes it LOL #do normal people actually fall asleep when they lie down #if you can’t tell I recently decided to make my random ml musings your guys’ business instead of keeping it to myself #hope you enjoy #buggachatter

[notherpuppet]

I wanted to see this frame with ears 🦌

Fawn & Buck ♥️

#Alastor is so super model I love him sm #what a muse fr #cutie pie stat goes crazyyy #look at his Reese’s peanut butter cup ass on the left!!! ahhhh what a cutie!! ily #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #my doods #alastor

[coventroublemaker]

Oh yeah, this was a good one. Hope you love your Classic Egglos Paired with the Emperor's Cloak™ as much as I do, @covenofficialkikimora.

#he's truly a special guy #almost sad to see him go #my art #art post #not my muse #other's muses #covenofficialkikimora

[butcharium]

I AM A BIG BUTCH! I AM BIG AND FEROCIOUS AS I STOMP AROUND IN MY BIG BOOTS! I AM SOOOO SCARY!! SUCH AN INTIMIDATING BUTCH!!

#this is me if any of you guys care #post brought to you by my girlfriend #butch #musings

[katy-l-wood]

On my hike today I ran into a field trip of middle schoolers and showed them the rock I found that was covered in caterpillars. This briefly made me their god. (The middle schoolers. Not the caterpillars. Caterpillars have no god.) They asked many questions until I managed to sneak away while they were distracted by the neat bugs. The next time they saw me I was fifty feet above them on an overlook and back lit by the sun. They screamed with glee. I waved and carried on with my hike. I did not see them again.

#Musings #I will have caterpiller pictures as soon as I find time to sort my pictures #I took my good camera today so I've gotta actually pull the SD card out and load everything up

[pinkravat-art]

messy gomen

#Uuww school is next week #im enjoying my freedon while i still can #illustration #these 2 are my muses for doing diff style art everyday #good omens #aziracrow #my posts #aziraphale #crowley #drawing #sketch #artists on tumblr #composition #art #digital art #character art #artwork #good omens 2 #procrate

[cupcraft]

he may be fucked up, but i gotta tell you he has excellent tits

#my musings

[coyoteworks]

#was inspired by my muse the beautiful maiden Discord Conversation #enjoy #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #senshi #namari #izutsumi #marcille donato