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I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the limes of "why do characters like Falin and hate Laios when they're so similar?" and i've also seen good analysis on the differences in how the touden siblings carry themselves that would, despite their shared traits, make a person gravitate to one more than the other.

But i feel like we've overseen one very central thing here.

People don't like Falin

Like... the average person in dungeon meshi doesn't like Falin. She was deeply ostrasized by her home village, in magic school she had zero friends before Marcille and the others generally saw her as strange and a bit offputting.

Characters like Namari and Chilchuck like her well enough but not necessarily more than any other member of their party, including Laios. Neither Kabru nor his party think much of her. The canaries don't give a fuck about her. Toshiro's retainers don't see her as anything else than the weird foreign girl their boss has a crush on.

The reason we think everyone loves Falin is because, despite all the indifferent side characters, the 2 most important and central characters of the story are Laios and Marcille. Who are NOT representative of the average attitudes to Falin! But necromancy georg number 1 and 2 are our main eyes into the story and they love Falin so much that it colours our perspective of the whole world.

The only side character who qualifies as liking Falin and not Laios is Toshiro (at least at first, as he ends the story on much better terms with Laios) and that says a lot about his character, with him drifting to the quiet Falin precisely because of her oddness but being both uncomfortable with and deeply jealous of Laios' much more open expression of that oddness. Because he's a repressed guy from a culture where etiquette is incredibly important.

But like I said, that's a specific aspect of him, not to the world at large.

Because there's also people that click more with laios than with Falin.

Kabru, for one, who is initially distrustful of laios but clearly also deeply fascinated by him and drawn to him.

Minor spoilers, and you don't have to read too deeply into this, because I don't think Kabru particularly dislikes Falin or anything. But it's interesting that when he talks about his distrust of the toudens in ch.32 he's talking about them both. But his big friendship declaration in chapter 76 is aimed squarely at Laios, he doesn't say "you and your sister" he says "you"

And Senshi!! He instantly clicks with Laios, well before he does so with anyone else in the party– who he also becomes friends with, it just takes a bit longer– specifically because they bond over their shared special interest in monsters!! Senshi is kind towards Falin and cares for her wellbeing, but he also... doesn't know her. The reason he is even here, helping to save her, is because he and Laios bonded over monsters and he wants to help his new friends out!

Of course, the theme of neurodivergent isolation is very present in Laios' story. I'm not denying that. He does turn people off, without meaning to and unable to fully understand why! But so does Falin. And just like there are people who like her despite of or even because of those traits, there are people who do the same with him.

In conclusion: "Average person loves Falin and hates Laios" factoid actually statistical error. Average person is neutral on both Falin and Laios. Georcille, Laiorg and Geoshiro, who live in the dungeon and think over 10,000 Falin-loving thoughts a day, are statistical outliers adn should not have been counted.

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Some guy is telling me to sit down and have a nice meal…he’s so nice I hope I meet him again!

More encounters!!

This took a while I love Senshi so much he’s so real for that

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Farewell, brave heart. Do not forgive me.

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Latest tech pet peeve is the use of the term "AI" to refer to basically anything that does any amount of automation or uses computers in any way

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Huh. says it all really.

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Things that are NOT antisemitic (anti-Jewish):

Comparing the (ongoing) Nakba to the Holocaust

Comparing the Israeli government to Nazi Germany

Comparing Zionists to Nazis (including the term “Zionazi”)

This is simply comparative analysis. Zionism is a far-right ethnonationalist ideology, and Zionists have been aiding and abetting OTHER far-right and/or ethnonationalist actors throughout the past century.

Among other things, they presented the personal journal of General Ratko Mladić, currently on trial at the International Court of Justice for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Mladić’s journal explicitly mentions Serbia’s ample arms ties with Israel at the time.

Although there is limited political, diplomatic, and intelligence cooperation between the two countries, the relationship centers on arms transfers and related service and training matters. Israel--which is now Santiago's most important weapons supplier after the United Kingdom-- has sold Chile a wide variety of hardware, including air-to-air missiles, patrol boats, tanks, jet aircraft and advanced elctronics gear.

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it's so funny to me that marcille's worst nightmare was an intricately-visualized allegory for her fear of death, not as something that will come for her but as something that will take all her loved ones away and leave her all by herself in an uncaring world, despite her best efforts

and laios's worst nightmare was just "what if everyone who's ever been mean to me was in the same room and they were all mean to me at the same time"

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i should probably back up my blog after this

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I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE THEY SAID I GOT IT

I FINALLY GOT AN APARTMENT

I CAN FINALLY MOVE OUT

IT'S BEEN YEARS

THIS WAS MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

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Spring Espeon

This illustration is one of this months sticker for my Sticker Club on P@treon. If you want this sticker, sign up here before the end of this month.

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extremely telling how everytime Israel gets mad at someone it's palestinians that are punished

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You know, if you'd asked me ten years ago what the most likely path to affordable, consumer-grade direct neural interface technology was, I absolutely would not have said "furry vtubers looking for a way to control their avatars' non-human body parts without needing to take their hands off their XBox controllers", but in retrospect I'm not even slightly surprised.

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While I prepare the MPMM brackets, TIME FOR THE PC SPECIES MID-TOURNAMENT TOURNAMENT!

Note, you're going to see some of these and realize we've talked about them before. HOWEVER their abilities, creature type, personality, size, EVERYTHING can be different here. That monstrosity is a fey, that fey is an elf, that wide variety of powers is now a slightly different teleport, and that species doesn't even RESEMBLE its kin. However, there will be one MAJOR way I go away from modern canon. In the MPMM, they retconned all PC species (and ONLY PC versions) to be the exact size, weight, and age range of a modern human from earth. With all the same strength, durability, etc. Fuck. That. I will concede that you're playing the shetland pony of centaurs for size, but I will NOT say a minotaur, dwarf, centaur, sea elf, and orc are the same size and weight on average.

Sidenote, a few entries might be lacking because like...Goliath for instance has 2 sentences in the MPMM. And many of these species have thier backgrounds or usual monster lore removed too! and not replaced with anything. So sorry if we get some "wall of text vs 4 sentences" matchups. I'll try to keep it even, but only so much I can do with mentality of "you can't complain about our lore if we just remove it all!

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i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

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Renderings!!!

Note: I got permission from the original Artist, i did not just yoink these willy nilly! I actually requested some art peices to render and these folks kindly offered them to me!!

Just wanted to render some stuff that wasn't my own! Added and redid some backgrounds for some of these of my own volition! It was really fun and i thank all that allowed me to do this!

Huey and Mew belongs to @xxtc-96xx

Aurora Borealis belongs @shiny-cubone

Stone and the Lucario/Gardevior fusions belongs to @mewtwoevolution

Chili and Okita belongs to @penumbramewtwos

Mysterytwo belongs to @a-shy-mimiktwo

Odysseus (Ody) belongs to @phlurrii !

Rendering done by yours truly! You should be able to find the originals on their blog,

Thanks again to all the artists that let me destroy their art /silly

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Happy Memorial Day