#im throwing stones at glass

[jeonjcngkook]

the parasocial relationship with jungkook and the way we’re now in bed together is messing me up real good

[athina-blaine]

kb/ms is truly transcendental yaoi, spectacular, amazing, 10/10, no notes ... from the perspective of a mithrun enjoyer

as a kabru enjoyer, however...

I'll start off by saying that of course Kabru doesn't want or need a romantic relationship to be fulfilled, especially not with a white man, none of them do, it's all non-canon, Dungeon Meshi isn't about romance or shipping, yes yes yes, but none of us are here for that right now!! We're here to fruitlessly argue why my blorbos kissing makes more sense than your blorbos kissing!! You know it, I know it, none of us are free of cringe!! Clown on clown violence!!

That being said ... 🤡

I just don't see what Kabru gets out of kb/ms. With Mithrun, it makes sense; Kabru has a huge impact on him and ultimately helps him reaffirm his will to live. That's very exquisite drama and excellent character writing. But with Kabru, I just don't feel that Mithrun's character interacts with his personal flaws and would instigate his growth anywhere close to the same degree. I have to imagine most fics involving them focus more on Mithrun's baggage and how Kabru helps him heal from that ... because that's mostly all that happens between them in the main story, lol!

And like, that makes sense, because ultimately chapters 61-62 aren't about Kabru and Mithrun; they're about Kabru working through his conflicted feelings in helping Laios conquer the dungeon. I think it's ironic seeing people complain about kb/ms having Kabru be Mithrun's accessory when, if anything, Mithrun's main narrative purpose, outside of illustrating the danger of the Winged Lion, is to serve as Kabru's obstacle. I'd even argue Mithrun represents Kabru's personal bad ending; Mithrun wants him to kill Laios and surrender the dungeon to the canaries, preventing the short-lived races from ever understanding how dungeons function and returning to the status quo that had gotten Utaya destroyed. It's only when Laios practically forces Kabru, straight up puts his thumbs to the screws, to work past his reticence and be emotionally vulnerable that Kabru finally puts himself on the right path to achieve his goals (it's, uh, still a bit of a bumpy ride, but they get there in the end, lol!). If he'd been this way with Laios from the beginning, he might have understood Laios' intentions from the start and saved himself a lot of pain, but it's only because of Laios' influence that Kabru is able to grow as a character and get his happy ending.

(And even if one were a Mithrun enjoyer, ultimately the main source of Mithrun's life affirmation comes from the canaries. In that final scene, Kabru gets the ball rolling because he's outside of the canary hierarchy, but the scene ends with Mithrun being embraced by the canaries and as far as I'm aware the two don't interact with or reference each other post canon at all. Hell, it's Senshi who really drives the point home. Not that it matters when we're all wearing shipping goggles here, but it felt remiss not to mention it.)

At most, I can see how taking care of Mithrun would force Kabru to reexamine how poorly he takes care of his own body and that could make for some good drama. But even then, that change is ultimately instigated by Laios' influence on him, an extension of how Kabru wants to understand how Laios can see the value in monsters in an attempt to better understand his own trauma. If a person were to get into Dungeon Meshi specifically for Kabru and wanted to ship him with someone in a way that's most interesting for him, I'd be hard-pressed to argue there's a better choice than Laios (although who'd be cringe enough to do something like that haha right guys ... [sweating])

(Side note, though, I really don't vibe with the argument that kb/ms "reduces Kabru to a caretaker role" and that's why it's bad. There's plenty of instances where Kabru shoulders his friends' burdens (helps Kuro learn common tongue, listens to Daya's fiance about his relationship troubles, etc) and, more importantly, is seemingly happy to do so. I think Kabru genuinely enjoys looking after his friends and in the story seems to find plenty of personal satisfaction getting Mithrun to eat. I understand it has the potential to be more troubling considering Kabru is a brown man and Mithrun is a white man, but idk, it just feels on the same level as people trying to discount labru by saying Laios wouldn't take enough of an interest in people to want to start a romantic relationship, when his whole thing is that he does want to connect with people and just feels like he can't. It's not a bone I feel like picking, haha)

I honesty don't mind characters being "mischaracterized" in fandom or fic even to a large degree, I know it bugs a lot of people but I respect that ultimately fandom is little more than picking up the vague outline of a doll and playing with it and mashing their faces together. Besides, if I'm really worked up about it I can just write a fic and set the record straight myself, haha. This post is merely inspired by the supremely annoying subsection of twitter that acts like labru is the ship where it's just two dudes sitting in a room together. I'm just saying, Kabru ends the series whispering into the ear of another man as his day job and it's not Mithrun lmao

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

when toshiro got on laios ass for being inconsiderate and never thinking about how his actions affect others like he was mean abt it but hes not wrong. Thats a pretty major character flaw and a pattern of behavior for laios — w not choosing jobs that made money for namari who is in a pretty dire financial situation where she cant even get off the island and has to go adventuring in the dungeon to get out of debt, who even explicitly brought this up, eating marcilles familiar immediately even tho she was attached to it, kidnapping shuro into his party and putting him in life threatening situations without like really checking he wanted to be there…?, wanting to see if izutsumi has more than one set of nipples when dehumanization is a HUGE huge issue for her the list goes on and on and on. Like when a friend does this to you its just kinda annoying but when ur the leader u really should be checking if everyones needs r met without them telling u. Like the autism plays a factor for sure, his cultural upbringing plays a factor for sure, but as ppl regardless I think u gotta step up to meet the needs of ppl in the moment or realize u shouldnt be calling the shots. just bc its influenced by factors out of ur control does not make it not a serious character flaw. And its written as such in the story.

[lunarending]

I'm fucking sick and tired of the entire political landscape online being centered around disgust rather than actually changing the power structures that make abuse possible. Yeah, that post about how disgusting rape is will really make those 'rapists' think twice i bet. You're soooo morally pure and virtuous, I can tell by how much you post about wanting to kill bad people

[galaxy-fucked]

This is my first piece of art that I am sharing with the fandom. It took me a while to learn how to draw these mf's and I REALLY struggle to draw their bodies soooo .... please be patient with me as I continue to learn how to draw them haha.

This drawing it going to be a chapter cover for Chapter 5 of my fic "Throwing Stones in Glass Houses" which will be posted shortly. This particular image has to do with their honeymoon. 👀👀

This fic has consumed a lot of my time and thoughts and so I couldn't help but draw what I was feeling and seeing when writing it... wasn't fully in love with the last chapter because I wasn't able to focus on it the way I wanted to due to a lot of things. I made some plot point mistakes, but that is the challenge with writing and posting a chapter at a time. I am determined to continue tho.

I hope everyone enjoys the next chapter and enjoys this piece of art to go along with it! <3

P.S. Please listen to the song Rocket Man before reading <3 Thank you

P.S.S please don't make fun of me for making fan art for my own fic hahaha

[ironwoman359]

you know what fuck it i'm saying it

y'all on here need to stop hating on tiktok the way you do

[schizononagesimus]

i hate it when a meme from tiktok breaks containment bc it makes its way to the real world SO QUICKLY. i am so confused and it's not even funny that's not even how the word demure is used HELP. AND EVERYONE THINKS YOU KNOW WHAT THEYRE TALKING ABOUT.

[wizard-legs]

An artist here thinks you and several others have copied them for drawing the laios wolf shirt photo. Don't worry I also think it to be ridiculous

lol thank you for defending my honor! Tbh I was expecting to see a lot more laios shirtless drawings based on that original post but I haven’t :( Oh aside from sabertoothwalrus’s trans laios!! Which I just saw and LOVED <3 literally making great googly moogly cartoon character eyes at it. I would be happy to reblog any other laios boob images sent my way for my 3 active followers though 👍

[lelianaslefthand]

sometimes im like "oh i should post more about games on twitter and follow more people who post about games" and then i get on here and see everyone complaining about twitter takes and im like you know what... nevermind

[pramanixx]

how deep in the realm of guilty gear mods do i have to go to find one that turns axl's facedown death pose into the family guy death pose. is it past all the weird as fuck mods for the girls. its so dark in here.

[vigilskeep]

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGG

[beancalzone]

I had to explain who Watsky was to my boyfriend last night and I ended up referring to him as "the patron saint of sad white boys" and upon reflection I was absolutely correct when I said that. As someone who went to high school in the suburbs in the 2010s you guys don't understand the vice grip Cardboard Castles had on awkward teenage boys when it dropped. If you saw someone tweet a youtube link to Hey, Asshole at 1am on a school night you knew they were fighting some demons.

[bornunderpunchestheheatgoeson]

listen if youre online arguing about what "true punk' is youre already too far gone. ok now that being said i have a secret opinion to share ⬇️

[transgods]

finally biting the bullet and blocking the bg3 tag

[stargleam-star]

Cinderpelt bestie ilu but you are one to talk

[homocorn]

looking up random actors i had minor crushes on when i was like 10 and seeing that they are not looking too great these days