#sorry im a hater lmao

[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

[lazorbeanz]

I’ve been compelled to do this bc I’m fed up…SO…

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IDW Movie Sonic Appreciation Post :D

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ITS HIM Y’ALL

Work of art- is that snowman harassing another snowman 💀

Snacc time 🌭

WEEEEE :D rip chilidawg :(

He bouta cause hell

“FAAA- I’m dying-“

“I’m deeed”

M u s c l e s

IVE GOT DA POWAR

“Srsly…Heart boxers? Don’t get your hopes up too much buddy”

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@sparkles-rule-4eva your blueberry muffin

[084392]

uhmmm quick ideas but ancient swords of justice as a single ancient paradoxmon and the legendary beasts as a single future paradoxmon.....

[dizzystqrs]

just thinking about how if lewis told charlotte he was terribly afraid of the water & she decided to physically pick him up and carry him out over the sea while he begged her to stop & go back, there would be antagonistic music playing in the background, the girls would have immediately told lewis to break up with her or even intervened, the fandom would be making (more) hate posts, etc. to this day i cannot believe ash got away with that in the show

[strawberri-draws]

Messy raeda animatic WIP I’m being possessed to make..

[mango-mya]

Lmao a sudden headcanon pops out of my head. What if emperor awesome and Elora used to be exes?. Wonder what peepers reaction to that.

This probably

[ghost-bard]

Hiyaaa my FHsona’s silly outfits, inspired by @cloudmancy giving his fhsona fun fits!

Image I.D. in alt text!

Fun fact, the pants in the adventuring fit are just. another pair of sweatpants, but slightly modified. comfort trumps everything lets gooo, more fun facts under the cut as per the usual!

Lets seeee some fun info about him because idk its fun

the name rain is from my usn on every other social except for tumblr (and ao3 but i dont think that counts-), and they use any (and all) pronouns :]]]]

they do community service after certain school days and on the weekends

i imagine they're part of some sort of gaming club

very chill person, although they are a bit antisocial

and she's usually found playing on their switch

all in all, wow she just like me fr (but literally)

anyway, what if, teehee, i got sent some fhsonas... to maybe draw with my lil guy... and they interacted... wouldnt that be crazy... just kidding haha... unless-

[lunar-years]

Also last thing I'll say about this but I do want to clarify that if you hated the Jack plotline or thought JackKeeley was a terrible portrayal of a wlw relationship/bad queer rep I completely respect your opinion. There were so many well thought out posts about it when the season was airing that I very much enjoyed reading and it is completely valid to have different perspectives on the matter and discuss it respectfully! Everyone is completely within their right to have hated a storyline and to have your own thoughts on how it could have been made better (this is exactly how I feel about Colin's coming out episode, for instance). I simply take issue with someone jumping on a post to call the whole show "biphobic" with "milk toast gay rep" and then dipping, without any examples or evidence or like, basic respect for people who might think differently/enjoyed it. A relationship that turns out badly with an unlikable wlw character does NOT automatically equate to the whole show being "biphobic" and just because you didn't personally think it was good rep doesn't mean that's how everyone in the community needs to also feel. That is the only point I am trying to make :)

[orpheuslament]

"haha look a crow! a red mask! a black cat!" thats great michael are you ever gonna write something deeper than a paper plate

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

[starryvampiris]

since Vivziepop is a terrible human being and most of her character designs are ALSO terrible, i decided to redesign one of my person LEAST favorite designs of hers, Angel Dust!!!

i personally hated all all of the colors clashed on his design, and that there’s almost no detail in his outfit despite there being so many colors and patterns 😭 he’s just……… so ugly????

SO i decided to to give him a major tweak, hope he looks alright!!!

[0pheleschimera0]

Don't you love it when the narrative tries to make victims seem worse than a genocidal tyrant who got nothing for everything he's done except for some existential misery or something

[seasideoranges]

I know redemption and forgiveness is a key part of ATLA yada yada yada but the way they handle the situation with Malina in the comics is actually atrocious lmaooo.

[straycalamities]

i havent been active in a typical fandom (besides the onceler/askblog one but its not typical so it doesnt count anyways uh) since like..2016? bc when i tried to dip my toes in the last time i tried, everyone was doing this weird... fanon >>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything and coming up with all these weird rules why you couldnt ship this or that or do this concept or like that and it was AWFUL

it literally put me off of doing fandom at all anymore besides w like friends. anytime i get into anything anymore i just talk to my friends who know it, or want to know it, and that's it

[httpiastri]

Oscar is so bad LOL What even is he doing?

go off, anon 😚 you seem to know a lot

idk if i would say p9 in the championship, two podiums and being one of the four people to win a race this year is “so bad”, but you do you i guess

[biblicalhorror]