quil12 · 2 years ago
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Souyu + Yosuke celebrate Yu's birthday (I'm aware that Yu doesn't have an official birthdate but couldn't hurt to think what day and month he could be born)
I genuinely really like how this one turned out. I know that the fanon date for Yu's birthday is July 10th, since that's when P4 originally came out in 2008 (fun fact, the license plate on his scooter in Golden also says July 10th), so that's the date that I picked. (That's also just a few days before my birthday, so I like the thought that it's then just by proximity lmao)
Yosuke took a breath, clutching the tray filled with various breakfast foods in his hands as he walked into their bedroom. 
Yu was still asleep, curled up into a ball, his arm outstretched toward Yosuke’s side of the bed. 
He walked over to where he was, placing the tray down on the bedside table, leaning over him. His bangs were falling over his forehead, obscuring his face. His mouth was ever so slightly open as he gently breathed in and out. 
Yosuke smiled to himself, his chest filled with warmth, as he brushed the hair out of his face, leaning down, and gingerly pressing his lips to his forehead. 
As soon as he pulled away, Yu made a soft noise, his eyelids fluttering open. 
“Good morning,” Yosuke said, reaching over and laying his palm against his cheek.
Yu sat up a little, looking a little bit disoriented. His voice was a little scratchy and deeper than usual from sleep. “Good morning. Why are you up so early?”
Yosuke pressed another kiss to his forehead. “I made you breakfast. Happy birthday.”
“You didn’t have to do that.”
“I wanted to though. You’re always cooking for me.”
He gave him a soft smile. “Thank you.”
Yosuke smiled back, pulling away, and then grabbing the tray, putting it back down on his lap.
He blinked. “This is a lot of food. How long did this take.”
Yosuke shrugged. “I’ve been up for a couple of hours.”
Yu normally woke up around 5:30, so in order to get everything done before then, he had gotten up at around 3. It had been worth it though - if anything just to be able to wake him up like that.
“Wow. You were super dedicated then.”
“As if I’d be anything else.”
He walked around to the foot of the bed, crawling on top of it, sitting down next to Yu as he took a bite of some eggs.
“It’s really good. Thank you.”
“I’ve gotten a lot better at cooking, right Partner?”
Yu let out a small laugh. “Definitely. 
Yosuke hummed, leaning his head onto him while wrapping one arm around his waist. 
It was quiet for a few minutes before Yosuke started yawning. He was almost never up this early to begin with and getting up a few hours previous was starting to get to him. 
He wanted to stay awake. He had things planned, after all, but, after a while, he lost the battle of keeping his eyes open, eventually letting himself slip into unconsciousness, pressed up, warm and content, against Yu's side. 
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He wasn't sure how long had passed when he woke up again. He was still sleeping against Yu, but he had curled up around him, grasping onto him like a koala. 
He pulled his head away, looking up at him. He had grabbed a book at some point and was reading. He looked over at him, a small smile on his face.
"Good morning."
"Good morning. Happy birthday."
He let out a laugh. "We had this conversation already."
Yosuke hummed, pulling further away, and sitting up. "I can tell you happy birthday as many times as I want."
"I guess you can. Thanks for breakfast, by the way."
"Of course. How did you like it?"
"It was good. You're getting a lot better at cooking."
"I'm gonna be better than you someday."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah."
He laughed. "All right. When that happens, it'll be your job to make dinner then."
"Deal." Yosuke stretched his arms above his head. “What time is it?”
“About 9.”
He had slept for that long? They needed to hurry if he wanted them to get to everything he wanted to do.
"All right. I have things planned for today, so get ready."
"What kind of things?"
"You'll see."
Yosuke got off the bed, walking over to the dresser and getting clothes out, changing into them. 
After that, he walked to the bathroom and finished getting ready. 
When he walked out into the living room, Yu was sitting on the couch, seemingly ready to go.
“So, what are we doing?”
“We’re gonna go for a little bit of a drive.”
“All right.”
Before heading to the door, he walked to the kitchen, pulling a bag out of the fridge - something else that he had prepared that morning. After that though, he led him out the door and outside of the apartment building. 
They lived in the city, so there wasn’t too much need for a car - they could take the subway or a train pretty much anywhere that they needed to go, but they still had one for more out of town trips. 
He had packed all of what they needed in the car the night before, so everything was ready to go.
He put the bag in the backseat before getting in on the driver’s side. Yu got in as well, looking at him curiously.
“You’ll find out soon.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
“But you were thinking it.”
He shrugged.
Yosuke started driving, pulling out of the parking spot and onto the road. It was a decently long trip, so he settled in, turning on some music. He really liked doing things like this. There was just something about being in the car with Yu that made him happy. 
As they were getting through the city traffic, Yosuke reached over, grasping onto Yu’s hand, intertwining their fingers. That was also really nice - he liked holding hands with him, but didn’t get to do it as much as he would have really liked.
They talked as they went - it was mostly Yosuke talking about whatever topics popped into his head while Yu chimed in whenever he had something to add. That was fine though. That was how it always was. 
Before long, they got out of the city, heading into a more rural area. Most of the time getting out there had been spent driving through traffic. They were only about fifteen minutes away now. 
Eventually, they pulled into a parking lot. There were only two other cars there - that worked out nicely. He wanted to actually spend time with him, but it was sometimes hard to do that with other people around. It was a large forested area. It almost didn’t feel like there was a big, bustling city a few miles away.
As soon as they parked, Yosuke got out of the car, first going to the backseat and retrieving the bag from earlier before going to the trunk. Yu met him there, looking on with curiosity. 
He opened it, pulling out Yu’s tackle box and fishing rod, handing them to him.
“Are we going fishing?”
“I know you used to do it all the time, but there aren’t really spots to do it in the city. I figured that we could just spend a few hours out here.”
Yu smiled widely. “That sounds nice.”
He grabbed another bag from the trunk, closing it. “Come on then, there should be a path to the river through the forest.”
They only had to walk for a few minutes before coming up to a river, a wooden dock jutting out on one side. They walked down to it, Yu immediately beginning to set up his fishing rod. 
If he was being honest, he really had no idea about fishing. Yeah, he had sat with Yu while he did it before, but he didn’t enjoy doing it himself. It was boring to just sit there for hours waiting for a fish to bite and he also didn’t particularly like the reward for doing that. Fish. He didn’t like fish at all. They looked weird and kind of freaked him out. He didn’t want them anywhere near him, and that included by eating them. 
Yu liked fishing though, so he would put up with it.
Yu finished setting up his rod, sitting down on the dock as he cast the line. 
Yosuke reached into one of the bags that he had brought, taking out a bottle of sunscreen. It was a pretty warm and sunny day and he didn’t want either of them getting sunburnt. 
He put some on himself first before sitting down next to Yu.
“Hey, look at me.”
Yu complied, turning to face him.
He squirted some out into his hand before dabbing little bits onto his face, rubbing it in. He finished doing it pretty quickly.
“Thanks.”
“Of course.” He put the sunscreen back in the bag. “Oh, and I made lunch too whenever you’re hungry.”
Yu raised his eyebrows. “Wow, breakfast and lunch in the same day? What did I do to deserve that?”
Yosuke shrugged. “Be born, I guess.”
Yu hummed as Yosuke leaned against him, laying his head onto his shoulder. He closed his eyes, just enjoying the feeling of the sun against his skin.
All of a sudden, Yu jerked his arm back, causing Yosuke to let out a noise of alarm. He opened his eyes to see him reeling in the line, his gaze focused on the water. After a few seconds, he had it reeled in all the way, a wrigging fish attached with it.
He leaned away as he took it off of the hook. This was going to be a long couple of hours.
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At about 2pm, they left. They had somewhere else that they needed to be. 
Yu had managed to catch quite a number of fish. He smelled like them now, but that would probably serve him well where they were going.
It was just after 3 when they pulled into another parking lot in the city - the parking lot of an animal shelter.
Yu had been wanting to get a cat for the longest time. Yosuke had never been quite sure about it though. He had used the excuse for a while that their apartment didn’t allow pets, but they had moved into a different place not that long ago - one that allowed residents to have them. He still wasn’t completely sold on the idea of having one - he wasn’t sure he liked the idea of an animal relying on him to make sure it survived, but Yu would definitely be the one taking care of it the most, so really, it should be okay.
“Yosuke?”
“We have an adoption appointment at 3:15 to get a cat.”
“Really?” There was an excited light behind his eyes.
“Yeah. I think it’s time you finally get one.”
Yu gave him a soft smile, leaning forward, and lightly pressing his lips against his cheek. “Thank you.”
Yosuke smiled back. “Come on, let’s go in before we’re late.”
They walked inside, checking in, immediately getting led into the cat room. 
There were so many cats in there - some of them were sleeping, some of them were playing, some of them were eating. It was really a little hub of activity.
Yu looked like he was in heaven, watching all of the cats, going up to them and holding his hand out, waiting until they allowed him to pet them before running his hands down their backs. It was a process he repeated so many times until he had basically pet every single cat in the room.
There was one that he kept gravitating toward though. 
It was a loud orange tabby that kept walking up to him, demanding his attention, only stopping crying when Yu would drop everything else and begin petting him. 
Yu seemed to like it though, smiling widely every time he would pet him. 
“Do you want to get that one, Partner?” Yosuke asked, walking over to him.
He hummed. “He is very sweet. He kind of reminds me of you.”
“Of me?”
“Orange. Loud. Wants attention.”
Yosuke blinked. “All right. I’m going to pretend that those were compliments.”
Yu laughed. “They are.”
He reached over, picking up the cat. It immediately allowed him, not putting up any sort of fuss, just laying in his arms.
“What do you think?” he asked, holding the cat out.
Yosuke reached his hand out, letting the cat sniff his hand before scratching it gently behind the ear. “I think if this is the one you want, then you should get it.”
He hummed. “I think I’ll call him Azuki.”
“All right. Azuki it is.”
They found one of the volunteers, completing the adoption paperwork. They talked for a while about the care that went into having a cat. Yu seemed to already know most of it, but still listened with rapt attention. 
Yosuke paid the adoption fee and then it was off to the pet store to get supplies.
Yosuke stayed in the car with Azuki while Yu went in. He sat there quietly for a little while before getting bored.
He looked in the mirror, staring back at the paper box carrier that the shelter had provided. He could see his nose sticking out through one of the holes.
“So, Azuki. I’m still not completely sold on having you, but you make Yu happy, so that’s why you’re here.”
There was a small meow that came from the box.
“Yeah, now, you had better be nice to him and you’d better not bite or scratch him. If you do that, you’re gonna wish you hadn’t. Do you understand?”
Azuki meowed again.
All of a sudden, the car door opened, Yu furrowing his brow at him. “Are you shovel talking the cat?”
Yosuke turned away, his face hot. “No.”
“He’s a sweet boy. He’s not going to do anything.”
“I guess.”
Yu got into the car, reaching over, and grabbing hold of his hand, squeezing it. “Is there anything else you had planned for today?”
“We have dinner reservations at 8. I figured that would be enough time to get him settled in at home.”
Yu brought their hands up, pressing his lips against the top of his hand. “You really went all out today, didn’t you?”
“It’s not every day that I get to celebrate your birthday.”
He gave him a soft smile. “I love you, you know?”
“I love you too.”
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zanmor · 5 months ago
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We are well beyond canary in the coalmine warning levels with the way trans people and particularly trans women are treated on this site.
Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.
Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.
And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.
How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.
I encourage everyone to reblog this. Trans women shouldn't have to be the only ones speaking out against the bigotry they're experiencing. They shouldn't be the only ones risking their blogs being nuked by staff. We have to stand with them.
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halorvic · 3 months ago
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me-beef · 2 months ago
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@strangeravatar made a great point
i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make
but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do
ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad
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chloesimaginationthings · 7 months ago
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William Afton into the FNAF-verse
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shadowtraveled · 8 months ago
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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.
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but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)
mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…
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the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.
every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.
first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic
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which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.
which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.
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the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.
walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?
well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.
you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?
it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.
when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.
and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.
kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.
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yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.
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egophiliac · 21 days ago
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everyone out of the way, this is the only thing I'm going to be thinking about from now on.
(okay, there is one more thing)
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etchif · 7 months ago
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puppyeared · 6 months ago
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renaissance dogys
characters belong to @canisalbus
#i love i loveeee ludovica sm shes so cute. ive only known her for 5 min but i fell in love with her design and i love her friendship#with vasco ^_^ i think them having each other makes hiding their sexualities a little less lonely so thats sweet#ik in modern au shes considered an old friend of vascos but i originally assumed she and vasco fake dated in college or smth#to get their parents off their backs until they came out properly and continued to stay in touch as friends after LMAO#im not very familiar with period fashion so i had to look at renaissance costumes as reference. but i have to admit i love the#high waistlines used in some of their dresses.. i have a minidress with a similar high waistline pressed against the chest and sleeves#also if u squint machete is holding a little paper bag in the 2nd photo which is supposed to be his lunch courtesy of vasco <3#idk what ludovica would wear in modern au but i thought poet shirts might suit her because theyre like somewhere evenly between#masc and femme. to me anyway.. based on observation lesbians seem to love poet shirts and i think she looks good in one#these are all shitposts.. ill draw serious art of them one of these days i promise#i listened to fools rush in and it reminds me of them.. especially when it goes 'though i see the danger there / if theres a chance#for me then i dont care' like its so poignant and bittersweet.. a little indulgent when u think of those small moments they have togethr#save me gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries save me#my art#myart#doodles#fanart#others ocs#canisalbus#fur#furry art#machete#vasco#vaschete#ludovica#sfw fur#furry#anthro
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blueroseevergreen · 4 months ago
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Me functioning by pretending I’m married to a fictional character.
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forecast0ctopus · 1 month ago
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i get it now these guys are cool
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parisoonic · 5 months ago
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last ones i swear
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hyacinthsdiamonds · 1 year ago
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Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭
Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!
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kelocitta · 5 months ago
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[OFFICIAL WORK] The RW vinyl repress covers I was commissioned for by Videocult!
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ghosted-jazz · 3 months ago
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Species Swap AU! Retired couple gets a fairy godchild to help repair their relationship
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chloesimaginationthings · 1 month ago
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Why did Charlie Emily say all that in fnaf UCN
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