#but he was into anime and so was i

[statusquoergo]

“When I was in high school, a senior asked me out one time. When I was a sophomore.”

“That must have been very exciting for you.”

“I was the stage manager for a play he was in.”

“Were the two of you close?”

“It was about halfway through the year, so we'd been working together for a while, and we were kind of friends, the way that underclassmen think they're friends with seniors because they'll talk to you for more than like ten seconds at a time.”

“How long were you and he together?”

“I was so surprised when he asked me out that I just said I'd think about it, like I was really taking him seriously.”

“Weren't you?”

“Then one of my friends told me he just did it because he was having a fight with his girlfriend. I didn't even know he had a girlfriend. She was in the play, she was a freshman.”

“Isn't that a kick in the teeth.”

“But fit still felt really important for me to let him down gently, like I had to do the whole 'It's not you it's me,' or 'I'm just not ready for this kind of thing' or whatever.”

“He was worth all that trouble?”

“I was really nervous about it. You know, was I really ready to maybe lose him as a friend, would he accept it when I told him no, would he be mad at me, would I...say it right. But then when I finally did it, he just said, 'Oh, that's okay,' you know, no big deal.”

“You must have been terribly embarrassed.”

“He'd already made up with his girlfriend by then, so.”

“You were a bit useless to him, I suppose.”

“I don't know what happened to him after high school.”

“If he's anything like the rest of us, he's probably suffering a bit.”

“I hope so.”

“Goodness, aren't you?”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[dr-rato]

GET ROTATED

[beebfreeb]

[canisalbus]

✦ Picciriddu ✦

[dunmeshistash]

One of the things I really appreciate about Dungeon Meshi is how the text is so clearly full of love for animals. Like the true kind of love Laios feels for the monster where he wants to know everything about them, but most of all he respects them and loves them as animals.

One of the chapters I can't stop thinking about is the one about Anne the Kelpie. It's kind of impressive how well it illustrates the different kind of love people have for animals. And how someone that loves an animal isn't necessarily an animal lover. If that makes sense.

When Senshi calls out Anne what he says is "Don't worry Anne's Harmless" but she isn't, she's a wild animal.

Marcille immediately reacts positively about it thinking it's cute she accepts the treat Senshi has for her. And hers and Chilchuck's reaction to Senshi wanting to cross the river on her back is more surprise while Laios immediately realizes how bad of an idea it is.

But Laios is the animal monster lover so how come when he finally is faced with a "docile" monster he doesn't react positively like the others? Marcille even calls him a monster. That's because Laios loves monsters, and Senshi loves Anne.

I've seen this attitude around me several times, where people love a specific animal but what they love is their idea of that animal, they don't really know them because they don't love the animal part of them.

It becomes a "this one is special because I love them" that can quickly become an issue for the animal as much as it is for the person. It's something unfortunate I see time and time again irl.

Anne wasn't wicked, Anne wasn't mean, Anne didn't trick him. Anne was a wild animal and Senshi loved her as Anne but not as a kelpie.

She acted on instinct, maybe she did love Senshi in the way kelpies can love, but animals are still animals and must be respected and treated as such. Climbing on top of Anne's back was the equivalent of putting your arm inside a alligator's mouth, the mouth is gonna close because that's what they're designed to do.

The real life equivalent I see the most of "I love this animal but I don't love the animal part of them" is with dogs. If you insist on loving an animal without acknowledging they ARE an animal they might hurt you, you might hurt them, it will only end in grief.

The best way you can love an animal is by understanding they're an animal.

That is all to say I don't mean that the love Senshi felt for Anne wasn't real or that it's all his fault. He couldn't have known with the information he had and unfortunately it came down to the worst outcome.

I just love dungeon meshi dearly.

[kingofthegophers]

started off with me thinking chilchuck reminded me a lot of marshal and then it spiralled from there

EDIT: part 2 with lycion in the reblogs bc tumblr is being mean and won't letting me upload multiple pictures in the original post :')

[baconplasm]

Very excited for his anime debut

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Jax found Gangle’s figure collection in TADC,,

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[lonelyvesness]

life of the party

[soyochii]

<33

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Soup solves everything.

[tawnysoup]

(You nod furiously.)

[hinamie]

sry i have chronic only draws megumi disorder the doctor said it's terminal :/

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE