#practically cannibalism

[dunmeshistash]

am i mistaken or when the elf queen said she had eaten "something similar" to faligon before, she was talking about eating human flesh instead of dragon meat. like i distinctly remember cannibal elves being mentioned in the adventurer's bible

Yes, and there is indeed a mention of cannibal elves but I personally think people focus too much on that, there's cannibal humans irl too and you don't assume people from most countries are cannibals. The AB specifically says there's "primitive villages" of elves and "in some regions" cannibalism is still practiced, it's probably not something that happens in the central continent where most elves we meet are from including the elf queen (I mean it might happen, but it's probably not something considered normal)

That being said ex brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said one time in an interview that he would eat an indigenous person, so whats even my point, it happens irl too 🤷

She probably did mean she has eaten human flesh but don't be tricked by the existence of other cannibal elves to justify her, look at Pattadol she's horrified

[likesdoodling]

You ever do something and you're like, "huh. I did not know I could do that"

That was me with this picture 😂

Here's what I was copying if you're curious-

[cenvast]

Laios, Monsters, & Toshiro: On Racialized Desire and Identification with the Other

Arguably, the most significant part of Laios' character is the societal ostracization he faces because of his non-normative interests and behavior. For the majority of his life, Laios struggles socially, and other humans mistreat him. When he rescues Marcille from the Nightmares, his nightmare dredges up his inability to fit into school and the army. During his early dungeoneering days, he's lied to and exploited by his fellow party members.

One of his earliest and most formative negative experiences with people is his village's abuse of Falin as a magic user. He shares that after the villagers discovered that she can use magic, "adults who were just kind yesterday, all began to bully [her]." Instead of protecting Falin, his parent tell her to leave the village. The prejudice Falin faces and his parents' response to it upsets Laios to the point that he leaves home.

While Laios cares about his friends, the Demon points out that Laios understandably does not care for people in general. Laios doesn't disagree with the Demon's assessment and suspects that the Demon "can sense all [his] thoughts." The Demon goes on to say that Laios actually "despise[s] all humans." Laios denies this assessment, but given the Demon's uncanny ability to sniff out people's desires and Laios' ashamed expression, at least part of Laios likely agrees with the Demon. It's not a stretch to assume that he's held onto some hurt and resentment towards humans due to their mistreatment of him and Falin in their youth.

In response to how human society has othered him, Laios distances himself from humans and invests his time and energy into monsters and demi-humans instead. In the DunMeshi world, monsters and demi-humans are the ultimate societal Other. People fear them, exploit them, and even hunt and kill them. As someone who's similarly been mistreated by human society, Laios resonates deeply with monsters.

His desire to become a monster and/or beastman reflects his desire to reclaim agency over how society has ostracized him. If he chooses to become a monster, he gets to place value on what society has deemed despicable. He gets to choose why society hates him and be different on his own terms.

Both textually and thematically, Laios' identification with the Other bleeds into the erotic. More blatantly, he says that he'd have sex with orc women, and his succubus is a monstrous version of Marcille.

The entire story is also steeped in the theme of consumption as carnality. Laios and his party spend the entire manga eating monsters — a taboo physical act which they reap pleasure from; the underlying eroticism isn't difficult to see.

The story also presents consumption as a form of extreme identification. Eating a monster makes the monster part of you through digestion. The line between consuming the monster and becoming the monster — between erotic desire for the monster, demonstrated by eating their flesh, and identifying with the monster — is very blurred. Note that digesting a monster is an act of absorption; it destroys the original creature. Senshi states that consuming a monster erases "its individual identity," and major manga spoilers, but Laios defeats and pacifies the Demon by consuming its desire to eat. We'll come back to this concept later.

As previously mentioned, Laios is disinterested in most humans. The notable exception to this rule is Toshiro and by extension, the Eastern Archipelago. Laios doesn't seem to know much about the Archipelago before speaking to Toshiro, so he isn't drawn to Toshiro because he's an Easterner. Instead, he's drawn to his "odd appearance."

Just like Laios views monsters and demi-humans as a visible Other, Laios views Toshiro as another visible Other. On the Island, Toshiro stands out as a foreigner at first glance. While Laios as a white tallman doesn't appear visibly strange to other people, he's drawn again and again to people and creatures who are immediately visibly "odd." He sees them as understanding what it's like to be different and be mistreated for it, and since he relates to that experience, he wants to learn about them and be closer to them.

Essentially, Laios behaves towards Toshiro and his culture the same way he behaves towards monsters; he wants to know everything about Toshiro's foreign culture — the thing which makes him different. Unintentionally, Laios unintentionally reduces Toshiro to being Japanese; if he wasn't Japanese, Laios would never have approached him.

While Laios doesn't have bad intentions, as Toshiro himself acknowledges during their fight, his behavior towards Toshiro still has negative consequences. Laios' harmless interest in monsters translates to fetishization in the context of Japanese culture. He enacts multiple microaggressions against Toshiro and crossing his boundaries.

Laios goes beyond merely learning about Japanese culture. He takes parts of it for himself when he names his sword a Japanese name. Akin to his consumption of monsters, Laios attempts to participate in Toshiro's culture while failing to respect Toshiro himself. Just as eating monsters destroys them, Laios consuming Toshiro's culture while enacting racism against him causes real harm.

Many people have already written about Laios' microaggressions towards Toshiro, but a couple include Laios telling Toshiro that he looks "odd" and asking where he's from, mispronouncing his name as "Shuro," and assuming his favorite food is rice. Laios' treatment and fetishization of Toshiro is racist and harmful. However, I'd like to dive beyond the surface of Laios' micro-aggressive remarks and examine how his obsession with Toshiro becomes a racialized mode of desire, paralleling real world phenomena.

Though no concrete canonical evidence of Laios' feelings towards Toshiro being romantic and/or sexual exists, his interactions with Toshiro have erotic undertones. Their fight dialogue, in particular, revolves around eating, an act the story consistently shows as carnal. During this fight, Laios places his thumb in Toshiro's mouth and asks him, "What's the point of even having a mouth?" Laios' penetration of Toshiro's body via his mouth and his question's potential as an innuendo lend themselves to an erotic reading of the scene's more obvious conflict. Considering the overlap between consumption and carnality throughout the story, it's not a large jump to read eroticism into Laios demanding Toshiro meet his body's physical needs.

Furthermore, Laios is more enthusiastic about Toshiro than any other human in the series. While he cares deeply about his sister and his friends, Laios repeatedly expresses how much he admires Toshiro. He retains and brings up things like Toshiro's (perceived) favorite food. He wants to go to the East in Falin's place after she rejects Toshiro's marriage proposal, and in the "What-If" extra material, he's adamant about setting up a scenario where Toshiro travels with him through the Dungeon.

Undoubtedly, Laios is drawn to Toshiro. Since he sees non-white-ness and monstrosity as equivalent markers of societal othering, Toshiro's identity as a foreigner is what cultivates and maintains Laios' interest in him. Even if Laios learns to care for Toshiro as a person, his desire for Toshiro, platonically or otherwise, is still filtered heavily through race within the narrative.

Laios' relationship with his masculinity is also fraught. He broke off his engagement with a girl from his village and doesn't express normative interest in female tallmen. Seeing how the nightmare versions of his parents ask him when he's going to give them grandchildren, Laios experiences societal pressure to conform to a normative performance of masculinity through being attracted to and marrying a tallman woman and creating a family with her.

Laios frequently talks about how cool and admirable Toshiro is when he performs masculinity through combat, etc. He might find Toshiro's Asian masculinity more appealing and more accessible to him than the masculinity that's been forced onto him, precisely because Toshiro's Asian masculinity appears non-normative in a Western lens. But co-opting the masculinities of men of color as a white man would only further feed into the white consumption of cultures of color.

Overall, Laios' entitlement to and consumption of Toshiro's culture mirrors the real-life way white people co-opt and fetishize non-white cultures. Laios' fetishistic treatment of Japanese culture, because of his attraction (platonic or otherwise) to Toshiro, parallels white people's treatment of Asian people in the Western diaspora. I can only speak on the Asian American experience, but Laios immediately being drawn to Toshiro's "odd appearance," obsessing over his culture, and primarily treating Toshiro as a conduit for his said culture feels eerily close to how some white anime and/or K-pop fans act towards Japanese and Korean people.

Similarly to Laios, real queer, neurodivergent, and/or otherwise non-normative white people are marginalized by white Western society. They relate to how society others non-white cultures and/or people of color and latch onto them. While forming human connections based on curiosity and shared experiences is wonderful, white people are often unaware of the racial dynamics at play when they engage with non-white cultures and people of color and unintentionally, end up consuming and fetishizing non-white cultures in detrimental ways.

None of this negates the reality that Laios and Toshiro canonically care for each other. For instance, Toshiro's willingness to hug Laios reveals his genuine familiarity with and affection for him. The racial dynamics of their friendship complicate their relationship in fascinating ways and open up a potential path for Laios' growth. With time and effort, Laios could absolutely unlearn his racism and become a much better friend to Toshiro.

In conclusion, Laios' behavior towards Toshiro is a study in a marginalized white person's identification with and racialized desire for a non-white Other and how even a well-intentioned attempt at connection can replicate harmful racist dynamics. Toshiro's experience with Laios closely parallels real Asian people's struggles with racism and fetishization in our world today.

[spacebubblehomebase]

Faun the Goat!

🦌➕🐍🟰🐐⁉️

(Not to be confused with "Shaun the Sheep.")

Made for that one Twitter trend of designing a Radioapple fankid! 📻🍎 I went with the dark haired variant because the Morningstar family already has too many blondes and I prefer to have half of both worlds when imagining them together. As the spawn of a radio host and a ringmaster (plus having a theater kid for an older sister), Faun was practically raised to perform and he chose to use his voice for comedy (influenced by his dads). But as the second heir, he's more likely to inherit LuLu Land than all of Hell, so it works out in his favor anyway. Low-key based on my little brother. Who would just barge in our room, say a godawful joke, then leave... Like wut??? 🤓

ABOUT THIS ARTSTYLE: I know it's a lot, but there's a reason I could never do a sketchbook tour. How do I even begin to explain??? When they turn out EXACTLY like this!!! This is me at my most comfortable. Making OCs. Drawing loose and self-indulgent art. Just to remind myself to have fun. So it's mostly for me. Now that he's done... Back to making my AU!

-Bubbly💙

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 98

So there’s been a leucistic raven around the area I live and they are giving me ideas. 

 Danny is having fun. He’s on vacation! Sort of. Look, the GIW can barely find ecto-animals, and apparently being a halfa means that once Amorpho helped him with shapeshifting, he was golden. Well not literally, apparently his form’s coloration is based on his hair. So. But even then, who expects a raven of all things to be stopping crimes? Or aiding them. Look, the plant-lady has the right idea and he thinks Sam would adore her. Er, as long as she doesn��t kill anyone that is. 

 And Clockwork even gave his approval to do some time shenanigans too! Apparently there’s some super-speed heroes who he’s getting frustrated with and he’s allowed to follow them back in time to mess with their own stumbling through the time stream. Or something, does he really care? No, he’s on vacation! 

 But his absolute favorite has to be this sad funky british man and this age-shifting magic boy. He of course brings them all the best gossip- and food for the kid. Look, just because he’s on vacation doesn’t mean he’s gonna’ be heartless. He remembers how it is as a teenage-hero and the kid is like, ten so. 

 Though he’s pretty sure Mr sad-trench coat dude knows he’s not a normal raven but it’s hilarious to hear him try to figure it out. 

[turbulentgeek]

Drawing practice lol

[sapphilleansam]

can you guys tell i really like the cannibal achilles hc

[cry-ptidd]

Bad case of the munchies

[kastnblast]

This weekend's project: 3" Grand Fisher!

I always liked this guy's design and how he looks like a giant evil hamster

And yes! The lure IS posable (because it's made out of a twist tie I found on the floor)

[langernameohnebedeutung]

[murdleandmarot]

lovely flower, slowly bloom, paint yourself with shades of blue 💙💙💙

[theranilord]

• You know what I noticed in that scene? There was a stack of quarters on the payphone. Were those Rinaldo's or is that just a thing people of the region do?

• Hannibal so casual about someone rich wanting him dead. He knows exactly who it is.

• Bedelia wants to make him look like a suicide?! This is Hannibal's Theater! Not dramatic enough!

[quezzzs]

(TW FOR ANDROID GORE!!!)

"Again, I'm sorry for the rescheduling Miss Guzman. I wish you a good night."

After a long call from an angry spokes person, it had come to an end and that made Markus feel so much relief.

Having to deal with so many meetings meant he couldn't spend as much time being present for support of his people but the RK200 was lucky that he was given a pass this time so he could visit the community art center for their fundraiser.

Markus gets up from his office chair and decided that he was definitely gonna need to take a break from the long day he had.

He roamed around the dimly lit halls of the Jericho HQ, doing some check ins on their supply and other deviants.

As he's walking, he bumped into a familiar red head. "Markus, have you seen Josh? I asked him to check up the warehouse to bring in more thirium packs." North, with her bored expression, asks the revolution leader.

"No, not since this afternoon. Maybe he's with Simon?" Markus gives a suggestion to her, but even with that it didn't lighten up her mood.

"God dammit. Alright, thanks for that." She huffs as she walks past Markus. She hasn't been feeling the best lately, having to be head of security to stop anti-android protesters from becoming violent.

Markus pities her sometimes and even offers to take place but she was also just as stubborn. He just hopes she gets her rest eventually.

Markus then heads out to admire the dark navy sky above, the wind blowing gently against his synthetic skin.

While he has his night stroll, he starts to daze off and just think randomly. Maybe the night will be his next inspiration piece? Or should he focus on how to get approval for android housing?

So many things to do, none of it is organized.

He really needed to go into stasis.

After a good 20 minutes mindlessly walking around, he found himself nearby the warehouse, the one that contained tons of their necessary materials.

Since he was already there, Markus might as well check in the building too, and to also search for Josh.

As he reaches close by the double door, a gutteral shriek was heard from the inside. Instinctively, Markus rushed to open the door and went to find out who was getting hurt.

From what he could grab at the moment, he took a hanged flashlight and a metal pipe from the floor, turning on his light to look around.

Sounds of fighting echoed through the warehouse, making it hard for Markus to indicate where the source was coming from.

"HEY, WHO'S THERE???"

Markus searches frantically, shining the flashlight wherever he could. Everything he passed by were bent open and scratched up, giant containers on the side with the lid open and parts and blue blood either taken or destroyed.

A loud thud was heard from his right and he made a run for it. As he turns the corner, he points the light in the direction of the scene.

The only time Markus felt true fear was the night he has to repair his body from decay.

What he was seeing could rival that night.

Josh laid on the floor in fedal position, sobbing and crying out in agony has he held himself tightly, tons of thirium leaking out around. The area surrounding was in ruins and whatever was attacking the other android made a swift run for it.

Markus could only process the beast he saw. Not enough light to reveal anything but he saw a small red circle and a contorted body. It was too fast to see the face as the thing ran out of the warehouse.

Markus stood in place, mentally stuck at the events before snapping out and running over to Josh, dropping the pipe and flashlight to the ground.

"Josh, Josh, Josh, its gone, its gone now."

He tried to reassure his friend but Josh was still in shock. "LEAVE ME ALONE. GET AWAY. FUCK OFF."

His voice was filled with true terror as he freaked out. Markus helped him up as he had to keep up with the reassurance. "Josh, Josh its me, Markus. You're safe now, you're safe."

But Josh still couldn't hear him, his own LED bright red as he tried to get out of Markus' hold. As Markus continued his persistent effort, his hand slipped down Josh's arm.

Markus flinched when he realized that a good portion of Josh's arm had been pulled off, showing the shredded fabric of the dirtied long sleeve and the inside wiring of his body part. There were also other wounds found at his hand and other arm but it was minimal compared to the gushing injury. This caused Josh to scream louder.

"NO PLEASE, RA9 SAVE ME. I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!! OH GOD, DON'T LET ME DIE!" His voice was broken and filled with tremble.

Markus sent an immediate message to DPD and to both Simon and North. His thirium pump acher with heavy hurt for his friend as he scrambles to help the best he could.

Simon and North were first to arrive, being the closest there.

"What the hell..." Whispered Simon in worry, going over to aid Josh, taking over to fix up what he could.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" North yelled out as Markus allowed Simon to take over as he explained the situation to her.

"He got attacked." Markus tried to stay leveled headed but North couldn't care less.

"BY WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK COULD POSSIBLY ATTACK HIM LIKE THAT?" She questioned the older android.

"I don't know. I saw it but it was faster to leave. I already sent a message DPD-"

North cut off Markus as she gestures to the situation. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN FASTER? MARKUS, JOSH'S FUCKING ARM HAS A LITERAL GASH IN IT. WHAT BASTARD DID THIS TO HIM?"

Tonight was Markus' breaking point. The stress that had built up inside him was let out. "I DON'T KNOW, OKAY? I DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. PLEASE, LISTEN TO ME."

North was shaken out of her initial reaction when she saw the guilt on Markus' face. She hesitates to speak for a moment. "Sorry," Her voice softens but still held fury. "But what happened to him?"

Markus sighed as he took a second from his sudden outburst before explaining. "All that I know was that some creature got to Josh and I found him like this," The two androids look over to where Simon had managed to calm down Josh slightly, although he was shaking and still crying.

"I went over and he had that on him."

North's scrunched her eyebrows as she stared in disbelief.

"Shit."

Markus then recalled what he saw before the thing left.

"North?"

"What?"

"The thing. It had it"

She turned her head to Markus at his vagueness.

"What did it have?"

"An LED. It had an LED on the side."

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[unironicallytes]

Last Line Tag! 📝

Tagged by: @dirty-bosmer ty ty!!

Tagging: anyone who sees this and wants to play, as well as @unrepentant-heliocentrism @miliabyntite @orfeoarte @thegrunkiest and @ulanxxxs. As always, this tag is intended to be without pressure!

Alright funnily, Orfeo knows the context of the last line I've written for some later Dear Brother chapters. For everyone else, extremely concerning out-of-context LOL. It's technically two sentences, but this was indeed the last line so 😇

What a mess. Braised Dunmer flank it was.

[newagevictorianorphan]

when somebody brings up cannibalism/human sacrifice in mesoamerican civilizations as a negative point to prove that ‘mesoamerica was barbaric and cruel’ i like to bring up the fact that europeans crushed and ate mummies as medicine back in the day

[lavender-town-radio]

have yall noticed that a huge chunk of white americans are more chill with the idea of [consuming] human flesh than eating the meat of animals that are often pets [in the west]? what kind of mental hoops leads to this.