#2 quiet people 1 talkative

[glitzybunny]

why 3? is it cause :3 or maybe cause its the perfect amount of anything! 3 scoops, 3 ice cubes? TELL US!!

It is those reasons and more! Though my epiphany happened while I was eating and watching that random show I was binging the other day-

We love a food found family trio, legitimately crying, tears everywhere-

[calamitydarcy]

I love not being able to even go to the next room over and bake my cake because my fucking father is blaring his stupid fuckjng tv so loud

[exopelagic]

i said i wouldn’t do it this time but it’s 3am and mods asleep. boy

[peapod20001]

He really don’t talk too much I’m realizing. Just kinda looks at people with his face

[lemonhemlock]

i find this obsession with stealth wealth that's been brought about in the wake of succession so funny bc ........... as a lady myself i found the female characters' outfits so monumentally boring like i wouldn't be caught dead wearing whatever dull lifeless arid pieces they put on no matter how expensive. also the ugliest fucking jewelry i've seen in my life

[lostandbackagain]

I think it's very easy to believe dustfinger came back wrong but I think the more likely reality is that inkdeath is mostly narrated by people who did not know him

my #1 evidence for this is that anyone wanted to bring him back at all.

mo fucking hates dustfinger yet he's willing to risk his own life (and accidentally meggie's) for him?? everyone's like "wow we need him for our Plans because he's the only magic user we know of" even though he's obstinantly non-violent?? if the og first few chapters of tcor are still canon, he still creeps the general public out despite everyone insisting they miss his shows?? people have built up this idea of him in their heads for some fucking reason and when he's nothing like that, they generally assume it's got something to do with being resurrected

"then what about farid" farid only knew a dustfinger consumed by fear. this one isn't afraid to die anymore (probably should be though) and is calling all the shots in his life. he's going to seem different if he's not constantly going through a crisis

and honestly, roxane thinks he's fine and I'll take her word for it over like. fucking meggie's

[roboromantic]

thinkin about how last time I was at Wake Tech the GSA was brand spankin new and one of the. presidents? or just a highly involved member? was very confused when I told him I'm agender, saying "You can't just not have a gender!"

hell, same-sex marriage wasn't even legal in most of the US back then.

and nowadays 2/3 of my teachers are trans, one of whom is nonbinary, and there's definitely several other trans people in my classes

[lavender---sunshine]

in all seriousness i 90% sure im going to quit my job tomorrow and for a while i will have just enough money to live on and will have to spruce up my resume and job hunt and stress but MY GOD i need to do something else because this is making me suicidal

[sunripemango]

it's so infuriating. that when i fall into a depressive episode one of the first things to go is my ability to reply to texts

like oh? communicating to your friends? the people who can and will validate you and help you through this? the people you need and want and like to talk to? yeah fuck that forget it you won't have the bandwidth to reply to anyone for a week now see ya

[avibero]

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[burger-goblin]

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[animalsandskyyy]

workplaces are apparently like high school, but I was homeschooled so I don’t know how to deal with this shit!!!

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

i made it home someone tell me to fucking avoid tumblr until i watch the new tristamp ep

[blueslight]

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[rosesradio]

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[lgbtlunaverse]

I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the lines 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.