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look alive, 2025! femslash february prompt list drop, hot and fresh from the oven. sorry it's late everybody but we are yuri-ing out this year again don't worry ✌️
full prompt list under the cut!
FEMSLASH FEBRUARY 2025 (THEME: CHECKLIST)
I want you to:
See me
Heal me
Kiss me
Hate me
Kill me
Love me
Hold me
Leave me
Feed me
Trust me
Be me
Find me
Treat me
Save me
Please:
Forget me
Ruin me
Marry me
Remember me
Sing with me
Dance with me
Bring me to life
Trick me
Fight me
Understand me
Lie to me
Sit with me
Be here for me
Be mine
For anyone clicking into this who is not aware, Femslash February is a month of creating content of women loving women! Anything can be made for any day and there are no restrictions as long as it's sapphic. Please make sure to tag warnings and R18 content appropriately. That's all! Thank you! See you February!
#minifemslashfeb2025#femslashfeb#femslash february#wlw#yuri#personal#BASICALLY if you stumble across this... we're making wlw stuff in february#no restrictions as long as it's sapphic. please tag warnings and R18 content appropriately. thanks!#graphic is simple because I am sleep-deprived but I needed to get it out!!#for the yuri enjoyers!!!!#I do this every year but I don't have the energy to answer questions rn#feel free to reply to this post if you need anything clarified. ty ty mwah
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#this is just an april fools post please don't listen to this playlist i don’t want to know what it would do to a person#(but if you do listen to it. tell me about it i need to know what it was like)#hxh#hunter x hunter#link in replies btw. for the brave soul who asked
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hi! your art is sososo gorgeous. i was wondering if you had any advice for artists looking to sell their work like you do? like, what kind of supplies you need/use to make and ship prints? i'm considering trying to sell my own art, though i don't have a following at all right now. thank you for sharing your art and being such a kind soul. i hope you have a great day!
Thank you!! I don't make my own prints sadly- I don't have the room with everything else I make myself all in my room! Some advice:
-I make mine with Catprint, heavy plain cardstock option. It's a nice thickness that does well flat or rolled and feels very sturdy.
-it costs less to ship rolled, but people prefer flat and tracking is safer as flats! Tubes take longer to arrive due to being non-machinable.
-i have classroom shelves like this I keep under my work table, I can fit two of them perfectly under it and it keeps things condensed and organized.
-don't be hard on yourself about how quickly you get business and start slow! I started smaller with stickers- people gravitate more toward things they can use than art for the wall currently, it's easier to justify the purchase.
I'd probably recommend a heat press over a printer if I was starting out, if you were planning to invest in a printer. You can use DTF transfers on fabrics to make your own tote bags, pouches, patches, clothing and even wood things- I make bookmarks, jewelry boxes, and soon wooden wall hangings with it. My heat press was 175$- far less than a decent printer, too. With a wide option of things you can make at whatever pace you want, it's way easier to get started in IRL art markets too!
My final advice is.. be careful with respecting your own feelings and what you want with your work. Sure, if selling your work is all you can do (it was for me, I was on disability) you want to make sellable work but.. make work that's important to you still over what will sell "better". Burnout can be really rough, and then comes art block. Take care of yourself mentally, it's a lot of pressure between marketing yourself, shipping everything, customer service, making the physical items and still needing time to actually make the art.
If you need any more advice or resources I'm always happy to help and send links! And thank you for being very sweet yourself! ❤️
Materials: (I buy in bulk so upfront is a lot but cheaper overall) Print Mailers Cardboard inserts (for stability in shipping) envelopes (fits up to 5x7 mini prints) 5x7 chipboard (backers for mini prints) bubble mailers (fits folded tote bags and non-print things)
#long post#hyde replied#if you need links to things id prefer off anon to make sure you see my response! i often get anxious and#delete my replies#also: if you use a platform like etsy keep track of the FEES! they can be brutal.#art shop advice#funny aside but the heat press is also great if any clothing of mine is wrinkly and i don't want to run the dryer. 🧍♂️#also.. work that is important to you can be anything. it can be fanart of characters you love. drawings of ants kissing. literally anything#i just know that drawing things that make my heart happy are all that's made me able to handle the “job” part of things#i started with my stickers when i had a few hundred followers.. it takes time and persistence but where there's a will there's a way! 😭#also: it took 2 years of constant effort before i could begin to think about trying to live off my art.. so please know it does take time n#be patient with yourself#you'll probably want smaller quantities of shipping materials when starting but it's probably helpful to see what i use!
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Thinking about lazy morning sex with Jason Grace. Making him feel so wanted because you’ve just woken up and there’s a million things you could be doing but all you want is him. Imagine his brain short circuiting at the concept of being the first thing you want when you wake up. He’s not an afterthought anymore and he just can’t wrap his head around it.
Jason is so sweet in the morning. He's all disoriented and drowsy, his eyes are all puffy from sleep and his glasses are sitting on the night table where he left them last night. his blonde hair looks like he got struck by lightning, which in all honesty wouldn't surprise you knowing him. his cheeks are all flushed and his muscles are all soft and relaxed. he's never been relaxed before ever, and it's only since he started sharing a bed with you, snuggling up with you and feeling your soft little good night kisses that he's known what peace feels like. so that particular morning, birds and cicadas singing outside, the ac blasting cold air over you and your blonde superman of a boyfriend, you just can't resist him. you're so right that he's not used to not being an afterthought. this is literally Jason whenever you express how much you love him or even do the bare minimum, much less treat him the way he deserves to be treated. you're like I love you so much and he's like whhhat??? whhat is going on????? what the hhhell are you tahlking about?????????? then you kiss him and his brain short circuits. this morning in particular you just can't resist him. you start peppering his puffy sleepy face in kisses. he's barely awake, he's blinking one eye at a time and thinks it's dream. then you climb on top of him, and that really wakes him up. his brain understands unbelievably horny hottie and sitting on my morning wood, but he can't get much further than that. he can't connect the two, make himself realize that he's the reason you're like this. and quite frankly if he did his head and balls would explode so violently neither of you would come back from that. so as you ride him, languid and lazy, soaking in every electrifying sensation of pleasure shared between you two, as you indulge yourself in touching him, kissing him, anywhere and everywhere you possibly can, you decide this is a good starting point. your breathing gets faster and you keep moaning out his name, sighing it into his lips over wet, messy kisses that just get deeper and deeper and he can't believe his ears. but he really wants to. you decide this is a good place to start. maybe after a few more weeks of riding his morning wood till he's nice and soft, he'll start to get the hint that you really, really like him. like, a lot.
#drabbles#heroes of olympus#heroes of olympus x reader#heroes of olympus drabbles#heroes of olympus smut#jason grace#jason grace x reader#jason grace smut#jason grace drabbles#no bc literally you're like 'i'm in love with you' and he replies with tears streaming down his face#'whhhhhatttt??? what is happening????? i don't know what the hell is going on but somewhere our wires got crossed'#and you're like that's... fair. let me clarify#and by clairfy you mean kiss him lol#big boy's gonna need some breaking in#also happy 4th of july I guess????????
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-How can a man (Flug) get pregnant? It's impossible.
Flug could be a trans man, they can get pregnant bc they're usually born with an uterus. I was. I'm 27 weeks right now🐊🙌🏻✨


I think other people would just explain it with "it's fictional so anything is possible". Black Hat can canonically impregnate people by making them drink his saliva, none of dis shit makes sense or works irl
#I don't have weird cravings#just an extreme need for sugar particularly chocolate. chocolate chip cookies.#I haven't really drawn traditionally in years#I was supposed to write a really long bureaucracy letter#this is the result#you can tell I suck at art without lasso tool and liquify#villainous#villanos#vilanesco#dr flug#flug#kenning flugslys#villainous flug#villainous dr flug#mpreg#domestic mpreg#non kink mpreg#cartoon#fanart#my art#sketch#ask reply
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the way I was having this conversation with my friend weeks ago and said I think mint choc chip or rum raisin... he's so cute...
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#emmrich volkarin#emmrich#datv#dragon age veilguard#I'm also too scared to reply anything on the post like don't perceive me but I very much enjoy the character you've written...#haha...#sweats#thank u to the person who asked this#actually you know what they need to know from as many people as possible how much we enjoy their work let me just
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blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)
"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie
#liv in the replies#if i were insane there would be an appendix to this called telling the bees however i finished this at 3am yesterday its nearly midnight &#my cutoff is when my ahl asg stream cuts. GOD by now i should know when i save a poem like hmm. not applicable but god it'd be perfect#THAT'S A CURSE. DON'T PUT IT IN THE DOCUMENT. DON'T SAVE IT. FORGET YOU READ IT. IT'S A CURSE!! <- things i should've told myself when i#went to read bees was already like 👀 &then the first line was FUCKING CLAUDE!!!!! anyway. sorry also this is like. insanely long but ALSO#regarding mf claude. the first picture is a leftover from the claude edit i made years ago so that feels GREAT and BEAUTIFUL & also for me#as ever y'all will be getting a full breakdown. starting with what i regularly have a breakdown about every time i see it which is joelle's#james 1:12 tattoo which if u use the king james version (gay) is blessed is he who perseveres under trial because having stood the test he#will receive the crown of life the lord has promised to those who love him. which i always go blessed is he who perseveres // for those who#love him. and that's joel. ignoring him getting it then getting sent down on his birthday IGNORING IT. also we know the frosty/maple leafs#hahaha fuck the flyers lore right? good. that's morgan and his dad also bc i love a baby picture & it was perfect. also the dave isaac pic#next was in an article talking about morgan 'stung' by draft camp. shut UP. i have an alt for tells him with claude and ALSO hate the#elephant w/phil bc myesie u fuckin leaf-eater (giraffe) but i love the composition of that jake shot & had to use it (it was also almost#tells him) with thylacine jakey frog nolan also raff the extinct whale bc i needed him here. if my editing on incapable of joy is bad no on#tell me i did some SHENANIGANS to put morgan in there & color-pick/alter his jersey. new skill. i think euphoria is one of my favorite for#the sake of pride night but ALSO that polaroid kills me very time &they're so stoners contemplate the universe but ALSO i love transcendenc#so that whole three photo string i think is my favorite. and i was in looking at these like listen okay it's okay there are only so many#photos in the world. you can repeat from others you've seen before. except ALSO there's so many of these freaks together do you separate#and every time i was like there can't be more there was more. don't ask the number of back-ups for the sweetest blossom/pinch/ruffle sets#okay also the ready to be stung one was a surprise favorite fit for me because i love that line but wasn't sure how to convey it? so it's o#i think with how morgan's face is and the almost of it all. yes joel hardest trier is in there purely for me i do have an alt but. how coul#u doubt him. insert sasha's tweet abt how much joel loves philly but all his quotes have been abt being excited for morgan to have a fresh#start. AND NOT EVEN TWO MINUTES IN CALGARY AND YOU'RE STILL INSEPARABLE god i literally googled frost farabee calgary to find the last#blessed [because. heard but not seen you know of everyone traded but you went together. not seen. (which ties into the terrible appendix)]#and IT DIDN'T EVEN TAKE ME TWO MINUTES TO FIND THAT!!! WHAT DO YOU MEANNN anyway. sorry again it's so long & also i will be vanishing a wee#& a half after posting [redacted] is kicking my ass & im doing [redacted fun things WAIT ACTUALLY U CAN KNOW ONE i'm seeing hippo campus]#morgan frost#joel farabee#philadelphia flyers#calgary flames
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replying to anons and more musings (re: Tamaharu fankids names) under the cut
thanks! Yeah idk it didn't seem like the right fit since they'd be primarily Japanese kids not born in France. I read that middle names in Japan really aren't really a thing, so it would be an alternate name like what Tamaki had in France, though I have a feeling on his Japanese documents is just 須王 環 . Idk! As a compromise I'm looking at names with French leanings/easier for French speakers to say.
I'm glad you like Masumi :)
Yay I'm glad you like Louis! Ah I see your point with Natsuki, very good point. And thanks for the advice!! For a bit I considered Mari/Marie since it's Japanese and French, but I run into these issues (I'm an overthinker)...
-Mari: very close to "Mori" (in terms of me making comics in English and the potential for confusion). Also idk why I anticipate more miraculous fans in my mentions (I'm one of you pls don't come after me)
-Marie: may be a little corny next to Antoinette (Tamaki's dog). Like idk it's either perfect or a total eyeroll, I can't tell.
Also both don't fit my gender nuetral criteria (bummer) and may be too similar sounding to Rui. Ahh!
#I need to decide on these names it's taking over my entire life#If you have opinions they will be heard#don't be afraid to leave a reply/anon#rambling#Rui is locked in#Masumi is top contender unless Mari/Marie gets a big response
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Do you think Kui retconned Kabru and Rin as a couple? It seems so strange how Kabru treats her if he views her as a sister
Rin & Kabru relationship analysis
Skip to the keep reading cut if you only want my Kabru & Rin thoughts. Tldr of the preamble is that I don't think Kui retconned anything but I don't think Kabru and Rin were ever meant to end up as a couple, but that doesn't mean that there's no way anything deeper or more complex is happening here. Under the keep reading is my pretty full analysis of Rin & Kabru, which I'll still cover in my full Kabru party analysis eventually.
1) People do debate about whether or not Kui changed her approach to a lot of her characters halfway through the story, Kabru, Thistle and Chilchuck to name some of the biggest ones. I've heard it be an explanation for the shapeshifters even, that it's a meta joke on how characters' old behavior and appearances have now become out of character. I personally believe nothing has been retconned, that all the characters are coherent and, perhaps more importantly, that regardless of later intent the early writing makes the characters more interesting and layered. Not that the idea of there being or needing retcons has no merit at all, for example forest goblins are in-world common knowledge to be found on the second floor, but we also learn later that "goblin" is a slur against half-foots, and knowing Dunmeshi's philosophy about humanoid monsters it's odd that they never ever come up again if they exist. The anime -and iirc adventurer's bible- kept there being goblins on the second floor of the dungeon, so much like Thistle's early appearance I have to believe it's a part of canon that's not meant to be retconned, ie that's canon and accepted as such, with some degree of intent. We do know that the climax of the manga was going to happen differently with what Kui was planning in the earlier manga days, with demon king dunlord Laios, too. Regardless of all this, for better or worse we have what we have now, and we must take it all into account as the whole picture of the work's story, setting and cast– starting to pick and choose what's actually canon from the canon story is just giving up and letting the world burn lol.
2) Kui is fearless when it comes to presenting us with complex layered relationships without feeling the need for them to explain themselves or offering full closure. Marcille canonically sees Falin as a friend. Laios' succubus was undebatably Marcille. Mickbell sees Kuro as family. Were the Touden parents bad parents? Is Maizuru? Is Milsiril? Ambiguity in Dunmeshi's case is a feature and not a bug, and perhaps this short story of Kui's shows why she prefers not to cast moral judgement as a narrator on various acts and characters. There's this very neutral approach to her writing where the cast does its own thing and she just tells us what happens, and as I said closure isn't a given. I've talked about the matter of whether or not Chilchuck's wife accepts him back before, something that bothers and lingers for a lot of readers, but an example that haunts me is Mickbell and Kuro. It's explicitly stated that Mickbell continues to "still being worked hard by Mickbell" after canon, and though we have one hint of how it might get better with Kuro learning common slowly but surely, there's no 1) conclusions as to what their relationship is exactly and 2) discouraging or encouraging framing for it, there's chiding but ultimately whether the relationship is more healthy than it is unhealthy and more salvageable than unsalvageable and "worth it" isn't answered. What happens will happen, and we just have to come to an answer that satisfies us on our own :') Or hey, how Falin only starts finding herself in post-canon! It offers a nice end to her arc in canon of having a very malleable unpresent identity, but it starts another of self-exploration growth that is left open-ended. So, it's not because a relationship feels wrong or unfinished that it wasn't well-written or intended.
3) Kui doesn't lie but characters can. Characters can be unaware of things or even wrong, even with their own feelings, like Chilchuck saying he doesn't care about the party etc etc, or more widely Marcille thinking orcs are scum, or people at large in Dunmeshi believing in a modified truth of history, a version of it without the demon. These can be wrong objectively, but furthermore they can be disproved by the text, the way that Dunmeshi shows us orcs can be communicated with and peaceful etc etc and every character's racism ends up narratively or implicitly discouraged and disproven, kobolds included. The story is told by us through the characters and their actions, so it's their flawed perspective and incomplete information that we have.
So, okay. Relationships are very complex but Kui doesn't tell lies, there's no info or moments that really have been retconned. The reader is left to make their own interpretation of canon.
... OKAY LAST TANGENT but we have to acknowledge something about canon quick too: This is gonna sound ironic considering what I said earlier but while all extras are made to be in-character they're not all canon to the storyline, so to speak. There are sort of three types of extra comics context I can think of, there are comics set in pre or post canon, like the one about the way Marcille was welcomed into Laios' party, or Falin's answer to Toshiro's proposal, which we have no reason to not believe happened in the canon timeline. Daydream Hours extras are exceptions because they're usually looser than Adventurer's bible extras, for example the comic about Milsiril visiting Kabru has a "what if" phrasing to the blurb, implying it didn't happen. Then there are extras set vaguely in time that if during canon could simply happen off-screen, like Chilchuck's extra about hearing the party members going to the bathroom, a lot of monster tidbits also fit into this, which again I have no reason to assume haven't happened. But now we get to the last type, the one set at a precise moment in canon that is impossible. My go-to example is the tidbit about werewolves, it's set during the Laios vs Lycion fight with Kabru present, and those chapters in the story had quite tight plotting, it makes no sense to consider that extra within the reality of that moment, it breaks the tone and story continuity and timespan of the scene, it can't be canon to the canon storyline. This is to say that again, although in every extra the lore is correct and characters are in-character, some extras are not "canon" to the story's timeline and can't have actually happened. And since it happened with one extra that didn't have any disclaimer of being different than any other, it does put other extras' canonity into question a bit too. Ultimately, what we get in the actual manga is above everything else in both relevance and credibility. This is about extra comics, but I don't call into question all the extra info through text we get in character blurbs and about the Dunmeshi world within the Adventurer's Bible at all, especially since it was specifically made to inform us more about canon. This is all just something to keep in mind, when talking about Dunmeshi canon.
Okay, now. In terms of rin & Kabru's relationship, as for what we see of it...
The quickest summary of how they see each other:

Rin's line reflects how she follows him out of worry, thinking that his ambitious manipulating ways will fail him and get him in trouble eventually, and how that worry is out of care and love. Kabru's line... Is more ambiguous, but we'll get into it.
We don't see Kabru and Rin interact a ton, but we do see him bring her up/think of her unprompted this time, which reveals a bit of how he sees her/feels about her and what his priorities are.

He "wants to help her get away somehow", and this out of what? Duty? Charity? Care? The companionship they once shared? Sympathy, knowing how it feels like to be under inadequate care by elves? Kabru is empathetic and wants good for people, cares about people and community, is rather concerned by the greater good instead of individualistic gain etc etc, so this attention isn't necessarily uncharacteristic on its own.
What makes their bond unique is the history between them.


It's implied they spent a lot of time together growing up, which led to Rin wanting to stick with him. Perhaps as some trauma-fueled-bond hero, but in her own words mostly because she's worried he'll get into trouble if he's left alone. She expicitly loves him romantically, started presumably before canon and presumably hasn't stopped by the end of it either.
We see his priorities here. It's notable that besides Rin being the sort of by default second most important kabru party character, she's also the one he thinks of first, understandably since he knows her best. Like above, he speaks very matter-of-factly and coldly about it though, and he seems surprisingly apathetic. It's not the thought of hostages that drives him to eat those monsters and keep strong, it's the thought of learning the mystery of dungeons and how to prevent Utaya tragedies



This moment below may seem like nothing, but it's also pretty telling of their dynamic:

Rin in the moment negatively assumes he's only frivolously interested in Namari, and although Kabru doesn't shut it down instantly with a "this isn't about personal interest" he does imply clearly with "friends" that his intent isn't to woo her (the fantranslation uses the word lovers instead iirc, so the original japanese word might be more revealing. Considering how Kabru sometimes teases Rin and provokes her jealousy on purpose like with the mermaids, it's not impossible the word was an euphemism). Rin ambiguously disbelieves this and/or disapproves. It does feel like Kabru keeps this sort of persona air when answering her, so it's not entirely hard to understand- it's true he was keeping his real reasons and intent secret: only later on does he give his party the "Laios party" spiel and mention Namari was part of it.
This can also be seen as an example of the chaperone "big sister" effect of her nagging, and of her recurring bad faith towards him. Rin chastises Kabru for behavior and stances that are understandable, like telling him he shouldn't just smile and gloss things over when being belittled, but she does have the habit of being easily jealous and lashing out because of it. But again, if you see it from her stance, your childhood friend always thinks he an handle everything alone and acts like he has the fate of the world resting solely on his shoulders, and he keeps shutting you out and leaving you to guess for his intentions, and being someone under his leadership on top of a friend makes this more alarming and frustrating. Loving him as you do, knowing him for as long as you have, you'd wish Kabru was open with you and that'd create frustration.

Yet despite everything there's trust here. There's familiarity and a degree of comfort, even when Kabru always refuses to fully open up. A promise from Kabru means something to her, it's worth something, she does trust his word and morals even when she knows he can be dishonest. She's used to Kabru, and through thick and thin she wants to be there to support him in his goals and look after him.




But below, his priorities are reaffirmed. He literally pushes her out of his way in that first page, to get to laios who represents his goals, and then figuratively by brushing her off. I think it's very interesting that the look her gives her feels alike to the look he gives Laios shortly before, those sort of empty eyes. They make me think it's his mask-on "business mode" look, and when it's a matter of business things have gotten serious and he will not entertain irrelevant matters. Like Rin's feelings. My first instinct's always been that his look at her meant a resounding "shut up", but it's true it could also easily be a "come on, catch up", especially since he goes on to explain that they mustn't have meant harm in the first place.



It's not only the look that's cold though, because you'll remember, "catching the culprits" was the promise Kabru made to her, the one she trusted that made her agree to their party's plan at all in the first place. Even though the phrasing wasn't precise on that front, by giving up on confronting or punishing Laios' party at all he's breaking his promise, and doing so very dismissively.
It's the distance of it, in how cold he is to her, how distant from him and pushed away by him she feels. It seems to say that yes, the teases he does are meaningless bones he throws at her, the moments they share are below him and below his goals, this is what's important to him and this is how Kabru wants to treat her when push comes to shove. With harsh chiding of his own and then calm explanations, as if while she's heartfelt with him he's indifferent with her.
Although, like how in the end he doesn't want to kill Laios despite it being the safe choice, there's much to say on wether or not he would actually throw her under the bus in the end even if cornered. He always steels himself for the worst, but he's also more talk than bite when it comes to truly being effortlessly ruthless and he prefers to find peaceful and humane solutions. In the end though, the hostage situation more or less tips the scale both ways, even if it'd be easy to say he was simply hiding his concern.
Okay and now to quicken things up this is where I start dividing interpretations as "good faith" as in believing Kabru's explanation that he has a strictly sisterly attachment to her, vs "bad faith" where there is potential for considering romantic interest on his end.
To start with the least questionable:

"We're talking about how cute your smile is, Rin." Good faith: He's complimenting his friend, wants her to not feel insecure, wants her to feel more confident and likeable desirable, because he's nice or because he cares about her. It does make her happy in the end, after all. Knowing it would, he might even have said it just to demonstrate his point to Mickbell with her reaction. Bad faith: You know she likes you, isn't this weird to go out of your way to say? He's not lying exactly, but they were moreso talking about her attitude around smiling, and he could just as easily have deflected or said "Oh, nothing much". Bringing up her appearance or how cute she is could also have made her self-conscious, she's not really the kind that likes public attention- but he knows her the best and it shows, after all. In the end, it doesn't sound like something you'd just tell someone you know pines after you that you want to turn down or discourage from pursuing you.
"When she furrows her brows, I assume she's smiling inside" is also weird to me. Sure she does have this weird situation with emoting going on, but claiming Rin is never angry is factually wrong and always dismissing that anger feels belittling. But this approach to reading Rin and interacting with her would explain why he always teases her, I suppose.
But this is kinda what I mean when I say they are close, in a way, the way he knows how she is with smiling, the way he's comfortable saying things like this to her despite not being someone you just have to interact with occasionally. There IS familiarity there IS intimacy, it's just odd and inconsistently applied.



Kissing her: Good faith: This is an urgent dangerous situation and kissing her is the quickest and most direct way to shut her up, which in his situation he does not have the luxury of time or ressources to think through solutions better. We don't fully know the details of incantation magic's workings, had he slapped his hand over her mouth maybe her lips could have continued moving and chanting so she could have still finished her spell, compared to kissing where it stop both lip movement and sounds from coming out. Plus, kissing her has the added effect of heavily shocking her. In a 'what if' bluray bonus comic Kabru's party faces shapeshifters and he suggests everyone get naked as a quick solution, so it is implied there too that physical intimacy and privacy aren't something he puts above practicality. Bad faith: Gag her. Hell, shove your finger down her throat. 'Master of human anatomy and psychology' here decided he had no other choice than kissing her. In that 'what if' extra I mentioned, Kabru did find another much less practical way to deal with the shapeshifters and went through with that instead, knowing no one would be happy getting naked. Also "It's too bad she looks like a monster", hello what? Neutral: Perhaps he chose, because either way in any case he did choose to, to kiss her precisely because he's mr. master of psychology, because knowing it was Rin he decided kissing was the best approach specifically because it's her, knowing it'd shock her etc etc, regardless of it being tactful or not or if it'd hurt her or even encourage her love for him.
"It's too bad she looks like a monster." Good faith: It's a neutral enough statement that he could mean a couple of different things with it, including wishing he could see her reaction better or speak with her more easily. If we go with the "I wish I wasn't kissing her as a fishman" angle, well, he really hates monsters to a traumatized degree so pseudoincest may be preferrable over monsterfucking. Fair enough. Bad faith: The fantranslation translates it as "it's a shame" instead of "it's too bad", which does lend itself to a less neutral reading, but wether that's reliable and telling or not would depend on the original japanese sentence of course. He could have meant "I wish she looked like anything else but a monster", but "I wish she (at least?) looked like herself when I kissed her" is the most direct interpretation, and then, well. That's pretty damning. To me it sort of feels odd that'd have been the phrasing if that was the case, especially since Kabru especially has noticeable reactions to monsters like shaking, horrified faces and dramatic thoughts. This is his internal thoughts and "Too bad she looks like a monster" feels very casual- the same type of casual that he has when deflecting not being interested in Namari to Rin, aka him being more playful. "I wish she looked like herself when I had to kiss her", like man. Okay. There's a lot of leeway you can give him but it's still odd.

Good faith: ??? I do struggle with this one. A friend of mine has the interpretation that this is an epic own of sorts, that by "always like this" Kabru meant "unable for me to hear you" so he likes not hearing what she says. Reardless, wether his assumption is accurate or not, Kabru is taunting/teasing when he says "look at me, not the mermaids", to what could have very well been just Rin noticing his staring and telling him to focus, and "You'd be cute if you were always like this", and like always he's very casual as he does it, says it like it's nothing, so it could mean nothing deeper. Bad faith: Why do you have to say any of this, what do you think it accomplishes, this counts as flirting in most books. It doesn't make her mood better, it doesn't shut her up, so I can only imagine Kabru simply enjoys doing this, it entertains him for one reason or another. Why do you keep calling her cute why is this a pattern that is forming. Neutral: Presumably, Rin is also unable to hear him since they all wear the earplugs. This would mean that beyond his gesturing, his words aren't meant for her to actually hear.
So.
My honest reaction:

Kabru what is this............. Huh. Kabru. What do you mean
The issue
It's less intimidating when analyzing each piece of interaction one by one to slowly form a wider picture, but it's still quite the puzzle. Because ultimately, what he feels for her aside, he is both pushing her away and encouraging her crush on him. He is both keeping her out and leading her on. He is both trying to keep a distance and throwing her bones to latch onto. And huh. Why though.
He's too socially savvy not to know Rin likes him right? Right? He even teases her about being jealous. He has to. He hassss to. And then obviously he has no intent of reciprocating. Especially since he's a huge flirt with anyone and Rin makes it clear she feels jealous.
Then, it feels kinda cruel...? You don't have to flirt, or taunt her because you know she likes you, and blow her off like that without ever having a serious talk. And like I said, shove your finger in there instead of kissing her. Did he do it because he prefers her being kissed over her puking? Was it out of pity? Throwing her crumbs of attention? Is him wanting her out of the elves' grasp just pity? Is it soooo easy for Kabru to tease her and kiss her despite having no feelings of his own, borderline mocking how deeply she loes him and what it means to her? Is doing all this "for her sake" too, like bringing her along was? Just. Free Rin. Free Rin of this.
In the end, what side of "does Kabru like Rin or not" you fall on pretty much depends on wether you favor a consistent "good faith" reading or a consistent "bad faith" reading, which impression you got while reading. But I hope I was able to show that both sides have reasons to think it and both are coherent interpretations of canon, neither are just being dense or difficult for the sake of it. A Kabru interpretation differs almost person to person. Personally I think the ambiguity itself is telling, which is why I usually land with a weird ambiguous situationship characterisation with them, they're a third secret thing and Kabru's feelings for her are complicated imo. He doesn't love her but he doesn't not love her etc. Dungeon Meshi largely lets the reader come up with their own interpretations of details, Kui herself said interpreting characters however is readers' freedom, and the story also avoids romance in general.
Although, there's debate as to wether he even leads her on at all, and personally I think it's pretty undeniable regardless of his intent, if anything even just going by effect.
All I can safely say is that this is not the behavior of someone smartly turning someone down.
Potential 'why's
BUT you could almost say he's purposefully trying to hurt her by being jokingly flirty and casual about it all, which could be to push her away and discourage her from pursuing him, wether it be for her sake or his own. It is a ship post, but I explore this stance a bit in my previous kabrin post if you're interested and unafraid of shippy brainstorming.
Or, inversely, maybe to him leading her on is a way to spare her feelings. Maybe he feels guilty about her liking him, or maybe he feels like he has to repay her somehow. Where his behavior when teasing her in early canon is rather provoking, most often I'd call his demeanor towards her placating if anything. We do see that Kabru prefers letting people down easy, except when shit is serious in the dungeon I guess, and he tries not to rattle people.

Personally, my favorite niche reading is I think it's his way of avoiding confrontation. He doesn't want to lose her, so he gives her just enough hope to hold onto so she'll keep following him, unknowing that Rin follows him out of a sense of duty of her own rather than romantic hope, because he always underestimates people's like of him like Laios does, assumes that people like him less than they seem because even when they do it's a version of him that's tailored to be likable. So he does this to keep the status quo going and keep her interested without having to reciprocate or commit.
I do think he also takes her for granted a bit. "Whenever she frowns I imagine it's a smile instead" what are you talking about. Like I said earlier, it feels weirdly dismissive and belittling to treat her anger as if it was something else, even assuming it to be joy- and there's merit to calling the anger Rin often shows a misdirected feeling, because yes, it's out of worry and care and love and she has a hard time emoting outside of a harsh-seeming scope etc, but is this what's going on here? His words leave me equally intrigued and concerned.
And like, her caring anger coupled by her nagging and scolding and looking after him unconditionally, I'm sure she does frustrate him sometimes and makes him feel stifled especially with his background at Milsiril's, making the big sister comparison very understandable... ... BUT THEN WHY LEAD HER ON.
What he could feel
Okay so first of. "She sort of feels like how it'd be like to have a big sister" and "I see her as a sister, I strictly see her as if we shared family ties and she was the blood of my blood" are different. Kabru being like "Man, I wished she looked like herself when I had to kiss her" does not feel like a brother-sister thing to me, personally.
But hey, going with the opposite angle too- "She's like a sister to me" can be an easy shorthand to say "I care about you but I don't see you romantically or sexually at all" and it can be "you are deeply important to me and our bond would remain no matter the distance or time we are apart" and even "I can't imagine my life without you (no romo)". In many languages like french, the word soulmate instead literally translates as 'sister soul', as in a twin soul etc etc-. A husband and a wife, too, are family. This is to say that both familial love and romantic love can run very deep, with a similar intensity just in a different nature, platonic or romantic. Kabru doesn't necessarily feel very strongly towards Rin even with the sister angle, but what I'm saying is that if it isn't just a catchphrase to let Rin down easy, whether something he would tell Rin or just something he tells himself, then it's not entirely out of the question Kabru would mix up the nature of that affection he feels for her. Maybe being childhood friends, he thinks it makes sense for it to be what he feels for her. I don't think this is necessarily farfetched because we see that Kabru neglects his own needs heavily for the sake of his goals, he doesn't recognize or acknowledge his needs for social connections or things like sleeping, cooking and keeping his living quarters orderly. I think it's in character for him to dismiss outright that he could be in love with someone, and even for him to suppress it, because he can't let anything be more important to him than preventing more Utaya tragedies. If you subscribe to the idea that Kabru wanted to be Laios' friend at the back of his mind, this is in line with that.
Regardless of the "truth"/intent, I agree Kabru treating 'his sister' Rin the way he did in canon is really mega major weirdo of him though.
He sees her as a sister, or he believes he does. With a romantic angle, it could mean: Denial, repression, having a bond that feels as deep and immutable. Leading her on because: wanting her near but still pushing her away, being interested and scared to admit it, thinking he shouldn't let himself have this, not interested but still wanting the safety net of her.
Again with my own interpretation, I think he loves her the way one loves a safety net. What I and others may mean when we say that we think Kabru doesn't love her but he also doesn't not love her. I think this is why he's both taking her for granted and caring, dismissive and considerate, her "brother figure" but also the guy who will flirt with her without a second thought. A safety net the way one is comforted by a big sister mayhaps, who's disapproving yet always unconditionally there to help. But family and comfort are so closely tied together, it's unsurprising they get entangled sometimes, a lot of behaviors can be seen as both romantic and familial and it's just a matter of the facts and perspective, because in the end what they are both is loving- and canonically, Rin loves Kabru romantically and Kabru cares for Rin like a sister.

Conclusion
I've said before that I think you can call them each other's best friend and that that's sad, and I stand by it. I think it's easy to argue that Rin is the one who knows Kabru best currently in his life, and the reverse is true for Kabru knowing Rin best. It's lonely, for both of them I think, Rin's kind of tough love is not working for him and Kabru is not filling Rin's emotional needs.
The reason why Kabru might feel like he has to get Rin out of the elves' grasp is because she has no one else, at least no one else that was deemed important enough to have been referred to or implied at all. And Rin calls him out for his shallow behavior and his unhealthy habits. They're close enough and weirding others around them enough that people like Mickbell notice when they heatedly do their song and dance and argue but hey, this is just another monday, and how Mickbell asumes she cleans his place up for him because that's what intuitively makes the most sense- it's the first thought, the most intuitive. Rin would do anything for Kabru and devotes herself to helping him, after all.
Reminder that this is the guy we're talking about:

I think her concern is worried tbh, he doesn't know what a DUST CLOTH is and he's pretty unhealthy, forgetting to eat and drinking to go to sleep, overworking himself. He'd easily work himself into an early grave. He neglects himself. I've said before in my Kuro x Kabru post that I think Kabru focuses so much on the bigger picture and saving the world that he forgets that he himself is important too, that he's truly special to some people, that he's even some people's hero, not just the world's, and I think to a degree it's good that Kabru has someone there to ground him and scold him when he's being thoughtless or overthinking, to try to show him that he's loved and valued, in her own way which he claims to understand so well like he does her smiles.
Kabru's a character where fan interpretations especially differ, he's hard to read when it comes to the details, so his relationship with Rin is very much a grey zone, especially when trying to precisely pin it down. I think though that it is a mistake to say that Rin isn't special to him in some shape or form.
I talk about human connections as a big theme of Dunmeshi sometimes, as this thing everyone needs but may deny themselves or deny that they do need and want, and Kabru and Rin are part of that theme, to me.
Post-canon, Rin and Kabru continue to see each other, presumably semi-regularly, which is an implication from an extra that we don't get with the other Kabru party members. They stay in touch, because what tied them together was never work but a personal tie.
This ask took long af to write up but it's gonna make my Kabru party analysis easier later yay. Little preview of the chart i made.

I'll remind that Mickbell and Kuro's relationship is also stated to be of a familial nature. Contradictions aren't always mistakes, people are made of them! Just like how ambiguity can be a narrative tool, complexity and dissonance can be a feature and not a bug.
#Ask#Spoilers#Dungeon meshi manga spoilers#Dungeon meshi#Kabru of utaya#Rinsha fana#Kabrin#Meta#Analysis#feel free to argue in my notes this is a very layered and subjective topic and i guess not everyone sees his behavior as flip flopping#just don't expect me to reply i feel like i was pretty extensive here#hm wait i should have swapped the red or green with the blue in my chart for colorblind folk i'm stupid#well i did again lose all my files with my ipad breaking so this is what we got ig...!#i need a smoke after this kabrin kabrin you are so wtf. (I do not smoke)#ask asked on the 14th#btw in my head after all is said and done here I do see them as just staying friends forever and mellowing out with time becoming normaler#the preamble is very much Fumi Rambles but not the second half so i won't tag ig. why do i take this so seriously#Kui did go out of her way to make Kabru weird about Rin. Narratively and behavioraly these did not need to happen
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The “baby ending means hope” thing is also nonsense when you consider the war won’t be really over in at least 7 or 8 years. So yes, this baby will grow up during wartime, and Bix will raise them as a single mother in a imperial occupied planet. It doesn’t sound hopeful to her, it sounds terrifying, actually.
Yeah, that's the point I was making - this would be a terrifying ending if this story viewed the situation from Bix's or the baby's point of view, or even from the point of view of a father who knew and cared about the child's safety and happiness. But the visual language isn't giving "this is a tragically depressing nightmare scenario", it's giving serenity and hope - because it is saying, isn't it tragic that his man will die not knowing if his contribution did anything, when he could have died safe in the knowledge that his genes live on in this child like the Christian God intended??
There are so many ways this is upsetting - it's the callous disregard for the reality of many women in the world right now (go talk to a woman in Gaza or Ukraine or Sudan with a young infant whose father is missing and ask how hopeful and serene they're finding their existence, I dare ya!). But it's also the odd decision of turning a death that was tragic because Cassian didn't know his legacy would live on in giving the Rebellion its first major win and, through that, ultimately lead to the defeat of the regime he spent most of his life struggling against into a death that is tragic because a man dies without knowing he has a child. And yes, that is tragic, but it's so much smaller and more self-involved than the original message, and we never even get the vibe that Cassian is concerned for maintaining his family line or that he wants children, so I don't see what we're gaining here. And it's not even implied to be tragic in that this child will never know its father, oh no - it's just being sad for the man hours.
But again, as a woman, I'm mostly horrified that people need to have it explained that being a single mother with ptsd in a warzone with a vulnerable immigrant status is not a situation that is hopeful or a good place to leave off with someone's story.
#replies#andor critical#i don't even understand the mindset you need to have to make these choices tbh it's all so odd#and truly upsetting to be made aware how many people think like this. like we can be upset about fictional people and ships and that's fine#but can we have a moment to say that this experience is FRIGHTENING#this#anonymous
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when you turn around expecting a bracken but it's just your eyesore of a teammate
#undertale au#w9 art#lethal company but i don't want it in the tag so i'm adding words#alright i'm done with these yay#mutt is like “did i scare you? need me to hold your hand? lmaooo”#money replies “do me a favor and take ten steps backwards” and there's a mine there
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Hell yeah dude congrats on the mini human!!! If you’re craving chocolate chip cookies, brownies etc but don’t want to worry about a messy kitchen after, there’s a few ways to make single servings in a mug in the microwave and a few of them don’t use egg if you’re worried about things like salmonella and any other health concerns that come with not using a conventional oven. Also, if you REALLY want another layer of protection, heat treating flour can kill a lot of harmful stuff as well for extra peace of mind. Either spread a thin layer on a cooking sheet and bake at ≈150°C (converted from freedom units lol) for 10 minutes, or you can nuke a bowl of it in the microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring occasionally.
I know when my mom was having my sister years ago, she had to be careful about things that were normally okay before and my dad would take a couple extra precautions when cooking for us.
I’ve also seen packets of Betty Crocker mix in stores marketed as “(X) in a mug” (the blueberry muffins are my favorite personally)
They’re marketed as just “Mug Treats” and so far I’ve seen one with Hot Fudge Brownie, one with Soft Chocolate Chip Cookie, and another with Funfetti.
Whew, sorry for the yapping 😅 I just remembered you mentioned craving chocolate and sweets so I thought I’d share with the class in case you wanted baked goods quickly and without all the mess afterwards.
Congrats again on the pregnancy, and don’t let the bastards get you down👏 you’re doing awesome
THANK YOU this is godsent, omg🙏🏻😭💗
I'll share it for everyone who's also pregnant or just hungry for no reason🫡 this is amazing and easy (and I'm a great cook and baker! I love being in the kitchen) I made one a week ago and then I made 5 more (aka my own mom made them with/for me) and I said it was literally the best thing my taste buds have ever witnessed in that moment. it really hit the spot. we also threw some cherries from a jar in that bih and it's🤌🏻 chef kiss

I should have put some empty mugs around him but this still conveys an accurate picture of what my past few weeks looked like
#love you for the no-egg recipes as I am allergic to eggs!#and a million other things! I rather list the things that my body won't violently reject than the things it will fight as if it's a virus#(I'm not as big; I barely show for some reason)#(which I'm kinda sad about)#(especially bc I feel super pregnant but I don't look like it at 30 weeks unless I wear smth tight or nothing)#but anyway I've been very tired!#no art; not online; just sleeping and eating and honestly chilling#we're almost done with the baby room and then I'll try to get a few more artworks out?#I'm gonna answer other asks soon#I miss a lot of them too bc I get spam-liked to hell here#thank youu again I'm always doing this now!!#villainous#villanos#dr flug#flug#kenning flugslys#vilanesco#villainous dr flug#mpreg#non kink mpreg#domestic mpreg#ask reply#anon ask#fanart#my art#“congrats on the mini human” is now my fav expression I need to remember that#did I mention how tired I am#I'm about to knock out as I write this
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Buck honestly made such a good call in pulling in Ravi to fill his friend gap. Ravi "I have devastating millennial imposter syndrome that causes me to think of/threaten to quit every couple of months" Pannikar was always, always going to fall a little for the myth that is Perfect Infallible Eddie (through the words of lovestruck Buck and the constant reminder from Bobby that Ravi is a Replacement for EDDIE). Like, sure, he was skeptical at first. He KNOWS Eddie, has worked with him for a bit, plus fully knows about the illegal fighting, but it's an appealing thing to hear when you're wallowing in the "maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I NEVER WILL BE" of it all. Which is why *I* am super excited to see Ravi slowly remember that Eddie really is some silly dude with good eyebrows.
#911#911 abc#eddie diaz#ravi panikkar#obligatory tag that firmly states I don't believe Ravi has feelings for Eddie#I think his imposter syndrome just loves to have an Eddie Image to compare himself to#Probably won't help that Eddie IS super competent but it will help that he's also just a corny dude#also anon that asked if I think Ravi has a crush on Eddie this is sort of my reply but I didn't want to answer it because you seemed stoked#about the possibility and I hate to rain on a harmless parade#Oh and also#Ravi’s eyebrows are also beautiful so really he just needs to be Ravi and he’ll be okay
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my headcanon is Alastor being drawn to roses. Maybe it wasn't his mother's favorite flower but he always admires the contrast between the pretty petals and the sharp thorns, duality of beauty and pain.
In his human life, every time he passes a rose, he always has the urge to pluck it from the bush and lift it to his nose for an indulgent inhale. Even after his death, he's always had this compulsion towards those flowers but he couldn't touch them like he used to as they wilt under his fingers. He doesn't seem that way but he is the least bit bothered he can't do his little old routine of stopping to smell the roses, a fond habit of his pre-afterlife days.
Fortunately for him since arriving at the hotel, he's fond his own rose he can finally touch that doesn't wither when he has her in his grasp. He finds her better than any other rose in the past. They pale in comparison to her beauty, to her pain. He gets to help her bloom, help her sharpen her thorns in this place of the dead and the damned. Charlie is his rose in a graveyard.
anon i'm on the floor crying i wasn't expected to get shot like this
#ask#anon#charlastor#had a whole reply typed up but you know what this is so good i don't need to ruin it#canon that viv associates charlie with roses and i may disdain viv but i'll take this with two hands and an iron grip#alastor obsessed with charlie's duality of beauty and power HMMM#charlie being the bloom that doesn't wilt in his hands HMMMMMM
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i know it would only be an unnecessary pain in the ass for him if i did but it does bother me not to respond like THANK YOU SO MUCH to my gp's messages to me through the healthcare online portal thing. he has a tendency to sit and answer messages and prescription refill requests late as hell in the evening because that's when he finally has the time and it feels so wrong to not reply even if it's entirely unnecessary and he neither expects nor wants that
#i feel the same about customer support emails 😭#like they don't need an additional email of me thanking them for their help that's only gonna clog up their inbox even further#but it feels so rude lmao#i have thanked tumblr and irl merch support a few times though they're just so lovely to me always#lovely to everyone i assume but i have a tendency to write the most chaotic and desperate apologetic sounding emails because the concept of#emails in general stresses me the fuck out And i feel bad for bothering them even if i know that's their job#so they get this longass paragraph of me rambling that's definitely far more annoying than just a simple question#but the responses are so cute lol they always start off replying to all the off topic shit in a very personal way before getting into the#actual issue at hand#shoutout to the adobe support guy who apologised to me six times over the company's rules about older versions of their software#ur a real one#i will die on the hill that adobe is evil but their customer support people are extremely nice#and no doubt underpaid#nice once you finally get past their fuckass ai bot and get to talk to an actual person that is. nightmare#again i know it's a job but i've had plenty of unpleasant customer support interactions so the extra lovely ones make me smile :)
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can anyone recommend fluffy (long) spuffy fanfics ? i need softness, yearning, longing in spuffy style
if you have a favourite story it's okay too hehe (ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ.゚
#spuffy#personal#to be deleted later#i don't normally do that#but im in crisis and i need help#ive been reading geliot99's fanfics and now i fear i will go insane#no matter the season#s5 or s6 rewrites are my favs#bonus points if buffy and dawn actually sit in front of a therapist but even then i guess a demon would barge in and ruin the session#my girls can't catch a break#big huge bonus points if we get big brother/parental figure spike with dawn#he loves and protect his summers girls and that's the energy i love#*✲゚*(❁´▽`❁)*✲゚* thank you in advance to anyone that replies
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