#there was HESITATION

[itsdefinitely]

haha yeah guys i'm completely fine about episode 7

#i was gonna draw main ooo and winter king's candy queen and marcy but. art was not arting #thats also why it might look a little off #today was not an art day :/ #id in alt text #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time #adventure time spoilers #gary prince #marshall lee #gumlee #anyway. something about them being meant to be in every universe #something about marcy wanting pb to join her #something about pb considering it #because you CANNOT tell me she wasnt considering it #there was HESITATION

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

#like literally every time ive hesitated sending a text or complimenting someone or stuff ive thought of it #like youre right. what if i played it a little risky what do i have to lose in doing a nice thing!!!!!! ur so right!!!!!!!! #but its forever lost cos i cant search it with any words cause its an image #misery and pain. you know how it is #my post

[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

[odinsblog]

Istg, if I ever get rabies because some dumb ass antivaxxer refused to vaccinate their dog, I’ll probably be doing the rest of my blogging from prison because I promise you, Imma curbstomp the shit out of the owner

#politics #republicans #antivaxxers #rabies #dogs #vaccine skepticism #vaccine hesitancy #animal abuse #pets

[dulcevenganzaa]

i know im not crazy

#im hesitant to compare danger days to the sun. #but an argument could be made for it

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this fucking site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

#op #you know what makes people hesitant to fork money over to tumblr? #the fact that the leadership is so incredibly out of touch with the reality of this place #that his paper thin skin chafes at the mere thought of transparency and accountability. #you're a grown man worth hundreds of millions of dollars #stop pissing and shitting in your diaper about your feelings being hurt and do your fucking job

[qrowscant-art]

things grow when left unattended

#3d #gore #artists on tumblr #pixel art #visdev #horror #mal-art #i hesitate to tag this as anything robot/supercomputer related because its mostly meatstuffs in this picture. hes complicated like that. #real ones know #alt title: you know how it is with spaghetti #is-ot

[dapper-lil-arts]

Should they even comment on it or just pretend it didn't happen

#girl didn't even hesitate #absolutely legendary lmao #the whoole vibe #applejack #rarity #rarijack #mane 6 #twilight sparkle #sunset shimmer #rainbow dash #fluttershy #pinkie pie #i will not make art of the mane 6 without sunset being present #watch that horn giiiirl #my little pony #MLP #friendship is magic #these two's vibe is mwah heheh #the hyrdogen bomb of ships #anthro #that SHIRT GRAB tho #casual friendship meeting #the PDA rules have been violated

[dailyjermasparkle]

I love how @photomatt and the Tumblr staff are focused on banning trans women for showing off non-sexual transition pics while there are literal hundreds of photos of naked women mistagged with fandoms in my "your tags" tab with links that I can only assume lead to virus-ridden websites.

Yes, I know I'm on strike for one thing rn, but tumblr staff needs to get their crap together. They have banned a bunch of trans women on invalid claims while trans people get harassed and stalked and their reports go unnoticed or ignored.

Fix your freaking site matt. 🔨 🚗

#transgender #trans #trans rights #not blog related #the dailyjermasparkle blog will not hesitate to fight for others #trans women are real women #and should not be sexualized

[rockingthegraveyard]

Every time Jason has a positive interaction with a kid people will make posts with various panels were he saved or was just gentle with children but it always gets me when when this kid is added

like Jason wasn't talking to him with his hand on his gun the whole time.

Jason is all for protecting kids but he's also like...

#listen i love when jay is so good with kids #but also #he will deck a 13yr old no hesitation #AND I WOULDN'T WANT HIM ANY OTHER WAY #Jason Todd #DC #also ppl who make these posts stop leave out scarlet/sasha

[dragonfollies]

How the last few episodes of Fionna and Cake have been

(No text version under cut)

#Cake would definitely say this unironically with no hesitation let’s be real #this is the first thing I thought of after I finished ep 7/8 #aside from being on edge the whole time #I’m not ready for the next episode it’s going to legitimately end me #be prepared for that #there’s gonna be so many tags on this one… #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake fanart #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #marshall lee #gary prince #prince gumball #gumlee #garylee #i genuinely did not know their ship name so I’m guessing it’s this #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #marceline #bubbline #Fionna and cake Fionna #Fionna and cake cake #<- I always debate tagging them since their names are already on the title #yuri #follysart #digital art

[leaff0dil]

The sleepers (+wings au)

#one piece #monkey d. luffy #sabo #portgas d ace #asl brothers #one piece sabo #one piece luffy #one piece ace #i was hesitant on posting this cuz of some parts of the drawing I wanted to change #but it’s late and i’m too tired so I just ball with it

[benevientowoes]

one of my fav things about the sonadow sonic prime dynamic is that shadow likes to put out the persona he’s so unbothered and thinks sonic is annoying but then will pull him out of danger at every opportunity like ok buddy i see what’s going on here!

#he does this but then will also punch him with no hesitation of the time comes for it #sonadow #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic prime

[qweenofurheart]

their dynamic is so

#my art #tim drake #tim drake fanart #jason todd #jason todd fanart #red hood #red hood fanart #batman #batman fanart #batman comics #dc #dc comics #batfamily fanart #batfamily #batfam #batfam fanart #jason would not hesitate to tell tim to kys but he would rather die than leave tim stranded #my blog is becoming a batfam blog great

[ragsy]

big big big fan of found family relationships with shithead sibling dynamics

sure, yeah, they had no one in the world until they found each other, and they will fight tooth and nail for each other's safety, but they will also eat the last of the other's cereal and put the box back in the cabinet or tell the other's significant other every embarrassing story about them or greet each other by means of full body tackle and chokehold

#ragsycon exclusive #mark and pip have this dynamic and it gives me so much joy #she gives him so much shit for being awkward and painfully uncool but she will not hesitate to stab someone for being mean to him #he's focusing on something & doesn't hear her come in the room and she slaps him on the shoulder which startles him so badly he alert barks #which he is instantly mortified by the fact that he just literally actually barked and goes 'please don't tell anyone that happened' #to which pip responds by showing him her phone screen where she has just texted literally everyone that this just happened #...... #hall of fame

[bitterly-almond]

[inspired by that lovely painting of @_K0TTERl_ on twitter (creator of "Veil" manga)]

They're such a rarepair lol but once I saw the vision I cannot go back.

#lowkey hesitant to post this cuz theyre not everyone's cup of tea #but they're mine #like how did “roronoa-ya” became “zoro-ya” while the others' name stayed the same huh #i'll live for my goals x i'll die for my goals #theyre so similiar yet polar opposite at the same time #one piece #trafalgar law #lawzo #zolaw #artists on tumblr #roronoa zoro #one piece fanart #if u saw me on twt no u didnt