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Hey! Fun question, how do you think an in-canon kabumisu confession would go? People keep portraying mithrun as blunt and straightforward about their relationship, but would he be scared to tell kabru in the chance that he'd say no and leave? Is the desire to just be in a relationship with kabru, or is the desire of not wanting to scare him off greater than that? I'm so starved on the lack of post-canon kabumisu content, they make me go crazy

As usual, I'll try not to go into TOO much detail because then I won't be motivated to write fic about it... and I AM planning to write a post-canon Kabumisu fic anon, so don't worry. I'll get there eventually :3

They make me go crazy too 😔

I think Mithrun's a complicated guy with complicated emotions. Even when he was "empty" in the dungeon he actually showed a lot of feelings - smug satisfaction, annoyance, anger, even a little bit of subtle happiness.

So while I DO think he will still be blunt in general, I also think it's a mistake to assume that means he doesn't feel things and won't have anxieties and insecurities just like any other person.

Mithrun used to be WILDLY insecure, and jealous, and paranoid. He just stopped caring about anything, but if, like the end of the manga suggests, he is going to try to START caring again, he will then start to have feelings, too.

I think Mithrun is intensely aware of his own "undesirability", that's one of the reasons he's BEEN so depressed. Most of his self-worth before the dungeon hinged on being "better" than his brother, and better than other people. Then he looses that (or maybe he was never actually better at all!), so what does he have left? And now his youth is gone too, he's middle-aged and lost his "best years" to depression. He's disabled, he's scarred, he's a bastard that nobody wants.

It's a pretty huge fall from "most eligible bachelor in the empire"!

So I think no, he won't just bluntly tell Kabru that he likes him. It will take Mithrun awhile to realize how he feels, and once he does, he'll be afraid to reach out, so he's going to do what I call "playing silly little elf games". He's going to try and flirt via writing letters and sending gifts, to hint that he likes Kabru.

Luckily for Mithrun, Kabru also knows how to play Silly Little Elf Games (he's an Olympic champion), so he picks up the signals and starts reciprocating, though he's also uncertain and worried that he's misunderstanding. Captain Mithrun couldn't be flirting with him, could he? But... what if he is?

(I will go into Kabru's feelings at a later date anon i promise.)

I think the thing that will ultimately push Mithrun to act is the fear that he'll miss his chance. Mithrun realizes Kabru is a limited time deal that he can only enjoy for the next 60-something years, and he wants every minute of that time for himself, no matter how much it will someday hurt to lose Kabru.

And he also knows that Kabru is very handsome and charming, and he can't expect Kabru to wait for Mithrun to get himself figured out. Someone else will swoop in and snatch that man up, so Mithrun has to hurry.

ALL OF THAT SAID... I think their confession is a lot less of a confession, and much more "we have both been picking up these signals of interest for months/years, and finally one of us pushes it a little bit further than we've ever pushed it before and we acknowledge the unspoken thing that has been growing between us."

Maybe it's a hand resting on someone's leg, or a gentle touch on the arm. Maybe it's leaning in so their shoulders touch. Maybe it's looking into each other's eyes a little bit longer than normal.

Probably it involves both of them admitting "Spending time with you makes me happier than anything else in the world. Whenever we're apart all I think about is when I'm going to see you again. I spend hours composing letters to you in my mind. I want us to spend our days together, no matter what shape that takes."

It's very vulnerable and scary for both of them, and I think they're both DEEPLY relieved after they finally get it out, and they don't get rejected. They know each other so well, and they're so good at reading people - they both thought that the other might feel the same way, but it's so scary to take that leap of faith and hope that they're right.

And just for the record, I think that Kabru worries about if Mithrun will be interested in sex or not, because sex is something that matters to Kabru, but what if Mithrun just doesn't have any desire for it?

And so before they get into a relationship Kabru has a long hard think about it, and decides that even if they never have sex, he wants to be in a romantic relationship with Mithrun anyway, because just being around him makes him feel happy, and understood, and like he isn't alone anymore. There's someone who sees him as he is, all the good and the bad, and says "I love you anyway."

And Kabru decides that he's willing to just jerk off for the rest of his life if that's the price of this relationship that he wants.

Luckily for Kabru, I think Mithrun does want to have sex with him, but I like to think that Kabru thinks through all the possibilities and decides that no matter what they end up doing together, being with Mithrun is worth it.

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It still boggles my mind how one of the creepiest scenes I have read in a manga comes from dungeon meshi.

It's a scene that after I read it stayed impressed in my mind more than any other in the manga, I'm talking about the scene where the goat eats Mithrun desires

I think there are multiple reason why I find it so creepy.

The first is of course the goat itself.

While in the previous panels of the chapter we saw it grow until this point it always looked like a normal goat, so seeing it emerge as this giant monstrosity with humanoid hands without even knowing what it's going to do is dreadful.

The second is the setting.

Seeing it emerge from the darkness into the bedroom is evocative of a common childhood fear, and feels like a violation of what should be the safest of spaces.

The uncaring look on mithrun's lover face also adds to the creepy vibe, of the feeling of comfort and normal life being cut open to reveal it as being simply the spider web of a predator.

Finally is the act itself

The way a still living person is treated as a meal by the demon is creepy in itself, but it's made so much worse by the way the demon eats: entering inside mithrun as if eating from a soup, while grabbing his legs to prevent a struggle.

His way of eating is a mix of animalistic and perversely human, which only adds to the feeling that this thing is not a monster but something else, something unnatural.

Interestingly ryoko kui achieves to be this unsettling with barely any gore, the little there is (mithrun's eye being caved) being treated almost like an afterthought both by the framing of the scene and by the goat itself

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Recommendations of 2019 °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Absolute Favorites 1

Absolute Favorites 2

Action/Military

Age Gap

Angsty

Best Art

Black and White Hair Couples

Black-haired Uke

Brother Complex

Childhood Friends

Chubby MC

Comedy

Confusion

Cool Uke

Cross-dressing Seme

Cross-dressing Uke

Dark-skinned MC

Deal with the Devil

Demi-human

Depressed/Suicidal Seme/Uke

Disabilities

Drama

Established Relationship

Gay Fathers

Gay Parents

Gay seme x Gay uke

Great Art/Plot

Had Feelings or Dated at School =>Separated=>Reunited

Height Difference

Helping Hand

Historical Smutty Yaoi

Hot & Possessive Seme x Cute & Feisty Uke

In Prison

Internalized Homophobia

Jealous Seme (where did he touch you)

Jealousy

Long-haired Seme 1

Long-haired Seme 2

Long-haired Uke

Love Disease

Love Triangle

Lovey-dovey

Low Self-esteem

Magic/Gods

Manly Couple

MC with Long Black Hair

MC with Long Fringe

MC with Phobia

Misunderstanding + Drama + Happy End

No Rape

No Smut

Normal-looking => Delinquent-looking

Omegaverse

Physically Unattractive Seme/Uke

Piercing

President/Delinquent

Prince Seme

Protective Seme

Pure Love Between Adults

Rich x Poor

Rising Sexual Tension/Forbidden Love

Reunite After School

Rope Play Smut

Sad Past/Caring Partner

Sadistic Seme/Uke

School Life

Seke

Seme x Seme

Seme/Uke With a Goatee

Similar to BJ Alex 

Similar to Here U Are

Similar to Living with Him

Slow Burn

SM

Smut 1

Smut 2

Soft Shounen Ai

Stoic and Protective Seme

Straight x Straight/ Straight x Gay

Super Possessive Seme

Supernatural Smutty Yaoi

Tattoo Artists

Teacher x Student

Teacher x Student Sounen ai

The Jerk Falls for the Person He Hurt 

Trans 

Tsundere Seme

Uke-like Seme/ Seme-like Uke

Uke Older Than Seme

Uke Pursues Seme

Uke with Beard

Unrequited Love with Angst

Werewolf/Vampire Seme

Yakuza/Gangsters

Yaoi/Shounen ai subtags

Others:

All Genres Favorites 1

All Genres Favorites 2

BL Movies

GL

Josei 1/ Josei 2

Love

Not Fetishy Yuri

Polyamory

Seinen

Shoujo

Smutty Yuri

Tear-jerking

Yuri

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Yaoi/BL Master Lists

Remark: 

Master list of all current AVAILABLE recommendations 

Organized alphabetically for each section

Some recommendations are old and not updated (will update when I have the free time)

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Other than that, Happy yaoi-ing! 

✩°｡･⋆ Favourites ⋆･｡°✩

FAVOURITE AUTHORS

FAVOURITE FANTASY

FAVOURITE MANGAS

FAVOURITE MANHUAS/MANHWAS/WEBCOMICS

FAVOURITE OMEGAVERSE (denoted with a [***])

FAVOURITE ONE SHOTS

FAVOURITE SEQUELS WITH SIDE CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS

FAVOURITE YAOI/BL ANIME

✩°｡･⋆ General ⋆･｡°✩

AFFECTION/ADORATION (affectionate couples)

AFTERCARE/CUDDLING

AMNESIA (memory loss)

ANGST

ARABIAN NIGHTS

AVOIDANCE (runs away from responsibilities)

BARTENDER

BDSM / CONSENSUAL-BDSM

BLACKMAIL

BROTHER COMPLEX (bro-con)

CATS (couples that has a pet cat)

CHEATING/HAVING AN AFFAIR

CHRISTMAS

COMEDY

COOKING (plot focuses on food/cooking)

CROSS DRESSING (includes lingerie)

CRYBABY (emotional, sensitive, always crying etc.)

CURLY/WAVY HAIR

DANCERS

DELIVERY GUY

DENTISTS

DEPRESSION/MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

DISABILITY (deaf, blind, paralyzed etc.)

DOMESTIC & CHILDREN (family, married, kids, single parent etc.)

DRUGS USE & ALCOHOLS

ESTABLISHED COUPLES (couples with an established relationship from the start / couples that get together very early in the plot)

FLORISTS (flower themed)

FUDANSHI

GOOD DRAWINGS/ART

HEARTBREAKING PLOTS

HOLDING BACK (sexual urges)

HUGE MISUNDERSTANDINGS (almost lead to break up)

LIGHT-HAIRED CHARACTERS (both MCs are light haired)

MANHUAS/MANHWAS

MASKED / FACE-MASKED

MURDER

OMEGAVERSE (mpreg)

OTAKU/GAMER

PIERCINGS

PORN ACTORS

PROSTITUTES (male prostitution/casual sex)

RAPE/NON-CON

RED STRING OF FATE / SOULMATES

REJECTION (uke rejects seme)

REVERSE ROLE (seke)

ROYALTY/PRINCES

SAD ENDINGS 

SALARYMEN (older men; age ranges from 30s to 40s)

SEXUAL ASSAULTS (seme saves uke from harassment)

SLOW BURNS 

STEP-BROTHERS

STORIES WITH WELL-WRITTEN FEMALE

SUICIDAL

TAN CHARACTERS

TATTOOS

TIME SKIPS (with physical growth spurt)

TOYS & BONDAGES

TRADITIONAL/HISTORICAL/PRIEST (theme, settings, occupation etc.)

TRANSGENDER

UNREQUITED LOVE 

VIRGINS

WET DREAMS

YAKUZA

YANDERE

✩°｡･⋆ Fetishes/Kinks/Foreplays ⋆･｡°✩

69 POSITION 

ANGRY SEX (angry mid-fight sex)

BATH/SHOWER/ONSEN/OCEAN/WATER SEX

BITING

BLOWJOBS

BUTT/ASS

CAUGHT HAVING SEX

CIGARETTE BURNS

DRUNK/SLEEP SEX (having sex when one or both partner is asleep/drunk)

DRY HUMPING

FETISHES/KINKS (general)

FINGERING (detailed fingering)

FORCED SEX (seme feels guilty, remorseful afterwards)

FOURSOME/POLYAMOROUS

INVERTED NIPPLES

LINGERIE 

MASTURBATION

MULTIPLE SEX POSITIONS (seme makes uke do all sorts of positions)

NIPPLE PLAY

OMORAISHI (pee desperation/humiliation)

PHONE SEX

RIMMING (ass eating)

ROUGH SEX

SPANKING

SOUNDING (urethral insertion)

TEASING

THREESOMES

WALL/PUBLIC SEX 

✩°｡･⋆ Hardcore/Smutty ⋆･｡°✩

HUGE DICKS

PORN WITH PLOT

PORN WITHOUT PLOT

PASSIONATE LOVE MAKING

UNCENSORED DICKS

✩°｡･⋆ Long Series ⋆･｡°✩

COMPLETED MANGAS (at least 12+ chapters)

FLUFFY SHOUNEN AI

GOOD GRAPHICS & PLOT (at least 10+ chapters)

MATURE & SMUTTY (at least 10+ chapters)

✩°｡･⋆ Relationships ⋆･｡°✩

ABUSIVE LOVERS

BREAKS UP WITH A FEMALE TO BE WITH A MALE (realize gay feelings)

CHILDHOOD FRIENDS

DAMAGED SEME X COMFORTING UKE

EX-LOVERS/BOYFRIENDS (reunion)

FATHER FIGURE (foster father, adopted son, not blood related)

LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP

MANLY COUPLE 

MASTER X PET/SERVANT/SLAVE/DADDY KINK

MARRIED COUPLE

NO HOMO (straight X straight)

OLDER/GROWN UP COUPLE (age late 20s - 30s)

POLICE X YAKUZA

PRETEND / FAKE RELATIONSHIPS

PUPPY LOVE (young love)

TEACHER X STUDENT

TEACHER X TEACHER

✩°｡･⋆ Height/Age/Size Difference ⋆･｡°✩

SHORTER UKE/TALLER SEME (small uke / big seme)

SHORTER SEME/TALLER UKE (small seme / big uke)

OLDER SEME/YOUNGER UKE

YOUNGER SEME/OLDER UKE

✩°｡･⋆ Seme 【Specified】⋆･｡°✩

BADASS SEME

BEARDED SEME

BIG & SCARY BUT ACTUALLY CUTE & GENTLE SEME

BULLY SEME (seme likes to tease uke a lot)

DOMINANT & COMFORTING SEME

DUMB & BIG SEME

FOREIGN SEME

HANDSOME SEME (good looking)

HIGH SEX DRIVE SEME (seme keeps going even when uke exhausted)

HOT & DANGEROUS SEME

INDIFFERENT SEME (cute ‘shiny’ uke) 

LONG HAIRED SEME

LOVING/CARING SEME

OBSESSIVE SEME (attention-seeking)

POSSESSIVE SEME

PRETTY SEME (effeminate, uke-like, androgynous etc.)

QUIET/SERIOUS/PRIM/PROPER/INDIFFERENT SEME

SEME GETS FORCED 

STRAIGHT SEME

✩°｡･⋆ Uke 【Specified】⋆･｡°✩

BADASS UKE

BEARDED UKE

‘BEING BULLIED FOR BEING GAY’ UKE

BLACK HAIRED ASSHOLE UKE

CHUBBY UKE

CONFIDENT UKE

DELINQUENT UKE (with respectable seme)

DRUNK UKE (gets sexier/forgets memory when drunk) 

FEMININE UKE

IN-DENIAL UKE (uke constantly in denial but end up falling in love with seme)

INSECURE UKE

LONG HAIRED UKE

NEKO UKE (anything related to cat)

MEGANE UKE (glasses-wearing uke)

POKER FACE UKE (mistaken identity)

RECKLESS UKE (always in danger and worries seme)

TSUNDERE UKE

SEDUCTIVE UKE (uke seduces reluctant seme)

SHY & QUIET UKE

SLUTTY UKE

STRAIGHT HOMOPHOBIC UKE

SUCCESSFUL UKE (boss/president/CEO or expertise at field of work)

SWEET, INNOCENT & CHEERFUL UKE

UGLY/PLAIN/AVERAGE UKE (physically unattractive)

UKE SCARED OF SEME (fluffy stories)

✩°｡･⋆ Fantasy ⋆･｡°✩

DEMON & ANGELS

DRAGONS

ELVES

GHOSTS

GODS/DEITIES

INCUBUS

MERMAN

SUPERNATURAL MIXTURES ( vampires, werewolves, ghost, demons, dragons, wizards etc.)

SUPERPOWERS

VAMPIRES

YOUKAI

✩°｡･⋆ Fluff ⋆･｡°✩

CUTE ART/GRAPHICS

FLUFFY ONE SHOTS

LOVEY DOVEY (early confession)

LOVEY DOVEY PART 2 (possessive seme)

SHOUNEN AI (less intense sex etc.)

SOFTCORE

✩°｡･⋆ Doujinshi ⋆･｡°✩ 

BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA (BNHA)

HAIKYUU!! (HQ)

KUROKO NO BASUKE (KNB)

YURI!!! ON ICE (YOI)

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iwachan is redy for all the kisses, I think I had this idea around valentine’s day???? but I’m BARELY getting around to this but hey

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Mood

school starts tomorrow

i have twenty alarms set between four and six o’clock

i’ll still probably be late