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[arielries]

yo i was getting some books ordered at a bookstore and i got jumpscared by a witchy printed book?? translated in french???? i have no idea that was a thing!! cool as hell! (i bought it lol)

Yes! Witchy was released in French in...March, I think? I hadn't posted about it yet because I've been busy and then recovering from top surgery, and was also hoping to get a copy from my publisher (this is a reminder to myself to bump them about that.) but I managed to see a couple of copies while I was in France in January and it's such a beautiful version of the book!

It's hardcover and we managed to get permission to use the special edition cover for it...No one does comics like the French...I'll actually be working an original cover for Vol. 2 soon...

[eddiethehunted]

I would like to hear about the Steve cherry lip balm headcanon

*kisses you* thank you for giving me the opportunity to lose my mind about this

i have this headcanon that, a few months after nancy and steve break up officially, steve cleans out his car and he finds one of nancy’s lip balms in the passenger door. he brings it inside with the intention of giving it back to her, but ends up putting it down on his desk and forgetting about it.

a few nights later he finds the lip balm again. it’s just a small, unassuming pink tube on his desk. he’s a couple drinks in and he’s feeling kind of depressed and moody, still not over the breakup with nancy, so in a moment of desperation he puts it on because he’s tipsy and sad and wants to remember how her kisses tasted. (it’s not his best moment. it’s really not. it’s very depressing and a bit pathetic.)

it tastes like wax and artificial cherries. sweet and synthetic. he thinks that nancy must not have worn this all that often because it doesn’t make him think of her at all, really. he looks in the mirror at himself. the balm is tinted. his lips look red and glossy and he’s a bit surprised to realize that he likes it. he Likes It, a Lot. it looks really good, makes his mouth look all pretty. he’s like oh shit this is why girls wear makeup. i look Nice.

he wipes it off a few seconds later, embarrassed even though he’s just by himself and there’s no one to see him wearing makeup. he doesn’t throw it out though. just puts it down on the counter in his bathroom and forgets about it for the rest of the night.

the next day he has a shift at his new job—scoops—and he sees it on the counter. stares at it for a while. imagines it’s mocking him. stares at it some more. and then he picks it up and stuffs it into the pocket in the little blue shorts of his stupid sailor uniform and leaves quickly because he was already running late before he decided to spend several moments contemplating the lip balm.

he feels the weight of it in his pocket for his whole shift with his new coworker robin buckley, who’s pretty cool even though she spends much of her shift making fun of him. he notices that she wears some kind of tinted lip gloss every day and finds himself wondering what kind it is, if it’s similar to his. (too late, he remembers that it’s nancy’s, but at that point his subconscious had already cemented the fact that it’s his now.)

when he’s in the break room wasting time he’s fiddling around with it in his pocket and kinda just. impulsively puts it on because he can’t stop thinking about it. but like, it’s nothing. it’s just lip balm that tastes like cherries, who even cares? he looks at himself in a mirror again and he’s just like, yeah.. yeah. it’s really subtle. looks natural enough, like maybe he was just biting his lips a lot. it’s ok right? it’s fine. no one’s gonna know except him.

and it becomes a thing. he starts wearing it every day and it’s subtle enough that it feels like a secret, and he likes it a lot. likes that it makes him feel pretty in a way he never had before (but he doesn’t examine that too closely because he doesn’t even know how to begin thinking about it). robin definitely notices it, it’s obvious, and he’s panicking a bit but she just glances at his mouth for a second before saying “well i’m gonna go on break. if it gets busy, don’t call me. i won’t come out.” and the nerves calm down once he realizes she totally knows but doesn’t give a shit.

anyway. this is a really long-winded answer to basically say that steve accidentally discovered that he likes wearing tinted cherry lip balm and likes feeling pretty and yes he does wear it every day for the rest of his life as a matter of fact 👄

[envelopandkissme]

this fucks

[menderash]

i have no words. worlds first terf monk returns from a thirty year hibernation on top of a mountain i guess.

[marisatomay]

twitter is hell but i really hope it doesn’t actually die because this is in contention for the funniest thing i’ve ever read in my life

[spinejackel]

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

edit: it has been brought to my attention that the native american “legend” part of this post was a rumor spread by a documentary.

i have been asked to remove it, but i believe in letting my errors stand because i’m not perfect. i make mistakes

[alfea]

PLEASE go donate some esims if you’re able to

[chase-prairie]

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

[museaway]

I hope the fic you are working on right now finds a reader who will think about it constantly for years

[arielries]

Not french just someone with a publisher crazy enough to pay for flights all the way from Australia. I used my special ability "copy and paste" to steal the text from my publisher's posts 😔

[abbyromanoff]

Ignore that last request, please. Was coombrained

Okay then 😂

Which one would you like me to ignore? The Maria one or Carol and Kate one??

[eddiethehunted]

What do you think of the punk!steve trend? I'm like on the fence because on one hand I think he genuinely thinks the like polos and stuff are like cool so I can't see him changing his style like that but on the other hand punk steve hot

i definitely see why people like it (ur right he is hot) but tbh it’s not my thing at all. i like preppy steve and also can’t really see him doing a complete change like that 🥸

i also personally like the dichotomy of this preppy rich boy defying everyone’s expectations and being so kind and sweet and fiercely protective to the point of being a bit… brutally violent.

and honestly? the polos are sexy. the polos are so sexy. the slutty little chest hair peeking out of the unbuttoned collar? the plain blue levi’s? the plain mf blue levi’s that hide Nothing? sexy. sexy. sexy. i want to put him in my mouth. i want to put him in my mouth like he is a piece of polly pocket clothing

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

[sunflower-spots]

Messaging a girl and she referred to her conversation with me as "just playing with her food" and I nearly moaned out loud anyways what about you guys how have your days been

[ebi-noodle-doodles]

Miku art compilation

Commissions open: xixiriima.carrd.co

[alfea]

nomad put out a new code for 15% off 10gb+ esims btw