#eliot posts

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you may say that i am "suffering from severe clinical depression" but i prefer to call it "being in my mithrun era"

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why is dungeon meshi (especially bonus content) so skilled at getting me attached to random-ass glup shittos??? what the fuck does ryoko kui put into her characters that does this to me??? i can't keep getting attached to characters with like 10 pages of screentime in the manga proper.

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you start watching dungeon meshi and you see how marcille acts and it's like "great... another show where the girl character is fussy and dramatic and easily grossed out compared to her male counterparts :///" and then you continue watching and meet other female characters who are not at all like that and it's like "ah, she's not like that because she's a girl, she's like that because she's italian"

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i saw generic horny anime girl art of marcille and it was so fucking jarring. i'm used to any thirsty art of her involving her being like, covered in blood and kissing girls with tongue. seeing that elf posed seductively in lingerie is like seeing a polar bear in oklahoma. she doesn't belong there!

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how the fuck am i supposed to act like a normal functional human being when The Character exists

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just remembered the other day a teen approached me holding a rapidly melting chunk of ice in his hand and asked if i wanted to buy a "limited edition pet rock"

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this site has learned to accept men's tits into their hearts. now i need you all to embrace women's flat chests.

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those funny tumblr comics weren't lying, senshi dungeonmeshi DOES materialize in your brain to encourage you to practice basic self care

me (tired, walking back to car from airport): i'm kinda hungry but ehhh, i'll just wait til i get home. no need spending money when i have food at home i can cook. besides, i ate well this past week, i can afford to skip just one meal.

the senshi that lives in the shared singular brain cell of every dungeon meshi fan: it's been nearly 6 hours since you last ate, and it'll take at least another hour and a half for you to get home. if you wait that long to eat, you'll get sick with hunger!

me: hmmm, yeah. i think i've got a baggie with like a handful of crisps at the bottom of my backpack. and a few pieces of candy in my purse. i could probably eat those to tide me over?

self care senshi: that's no good, you need way more than that. you can afford to pay for a restaurant; you CAN'T afford to risk putting yourself and everyone else out there in danger by driving while distracted by hunger.

me: you're right... i'll find a diner nearby to stop at.

(also the diner food was good + when i sat down to eat i realized i was starting to get a hunger headache that could have progressed into a migraine if i left it unmanaged. thank you imaginary senshi.)

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surrounding myself with a bubble of diversity and self love and body positivity online and then being exposed to normies who actually care about conventional beauty standards feels so fucking bizarre. like you people just live like this??? are you not tired???

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hey, can my cat stay on your blog for a little while?

i'm going out of town for the night and could use someone to watch her

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i hate you "pair the spares"/"everyone must be paired" tropes, i hate you forced last minute romances, i hate you implication that a happy ending means a romantic partner, i hate you amatonormativity

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you ever see a poll and just Know that a character lost purely because their source material is less well known than the winning character's

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the girl i am referring to when i say "girl help" and the man i am referring to when i say "oh man" are The Same

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among us is getting a cartoon: oh, this is gonna be a soulless sanitized kid-friendly cash-grab, probably. maybe it'll make some little kids happy, at least?

the showrunner is owen dennis, creator of infinity train: oh, this is gonna be an animated version of The Thing, basically

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NOT ONLY do i want more m/f friendships in media where there's nothing romantic between them, but i want m/f friendships where both characters are SINGLE so that there's no reason there to "justify" why those two can't date. i want the platonicness of their relationship to be something that stands on its own merit.

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mithrun's character arc is just like. sometimes what doesn't kill you DOESN'T make you stronger. sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you torn up and shattered and struggling to function and nearly catatonic and in need of support. sometimes what doesn't kill you leave you secretly wishing it had finished the job. BUT life can still be worth living anyway.

and that means a lot to me.