32 & 62 pls!
32: What is your favourite color?
It honestly changes, but anything generally green or blue (especially a peacock blue) is a safe bet. I also really love bright reds. But there's no colour I don't love, and I don't have an exact favourite. :D Right now I'm really enjoying grass greens.
62: What makes you happy?
That's honestly a question for the ages, because Major Depressive Disorder means sometimes nothing makes me happy, and not consistently.
But... in general, when I'm not in an episode, I am easily pleased, though it may not seem like it in my social media, because I often forget to post when I'm happy, because I'm too busy living in the moment-
The way jarrah trees all blossom at the same time.
A perfectly ripe peach
Raspberries
Fresh sheets
When Moet snuggles into the small of my back in winter
My other cat Maybe sitting on the top of my chair and nuzzling my head
Shibari and kinbaku
A really good brewed cup of oolong or green tea
Crunching on ice
Rewatching my favourite shows
Starting a new game of Stardew Valley
Talking with my friends
Seeing my Mum on Fridays
The sound of black cockatoos as they fly overhead, heavy and proud
The feel of the ocean on my feet and ankles at night, especially on a warm summer's night, when the sea is cool but not cold
Galeforce winds, and the shuddering of the house at the mercy of the world
Hail
Thunder and lightning
Clouds, especially during summer sunsets
Lemon and mango sorbet
When an art piece starts to come together
Connecting through my writing
Knowing that I actually wrote something pretty well
Sank! toys
My bookshelves
My Studio Ghibli collection and Studio Ghibli movies in general
Researching and reading non-fiction
Alternatively reading mindless and fluffy or whumpy manwha
The feeling of my legs after moisturising them
Stepping into a hot shower in winter
The feeling of a plane taking off (I used to hate it!)
The feeling of a plane landing when you know you're home again
Seeing the final street back to my house at the end of the day
The light on the hills
The lizards in our garden
The ladies at our local bookstore, who know us by name
Decent biltong
Crepes with lemon and sugar
A junior whopper with heavy onion from Hungry Jack's
Simpatico with my doctors
Silvia's art
My liked Tiktoks page
The way the MRI machine can sound like a janky dubstep concert and how funny that is to me.
When I make my therapist laugh (x.x)
Art supplies, washi tape, and stickers
Murderbot
Bun bo hue, my favourite comfort food
A perfect hot beef (or pork) and gravy roll (or chips and gravy)
Feeling accomplished
When mutuals and other folks create things, like writing or art or posts or theses.
The way stalks of grass, empty of seeds, glow in the afternoon sun
And...so many more things.
The world is an exercise in finding more and more reasons to be happy, or things to be pleased by, and it's a never-ending exercise. I try my hardest. (Sadly my mind is just as good at finding things to be upset by, but like, at least I keep looking for things that make me happy).
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From the horrible questions meme! (Except these questions weren't horrible at all!)
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Ūropi (Europe)
Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day.
While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.
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I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the limes 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.
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