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[tornioduva]

Dungeon meshi and body proportions

Ok, i'm feeling the rush i got from binging the manga this last week is starting to fade away, i'll be back to being a normal person soon i think. at least, that is before i find a new something for me to dive into uhuh.

Before that happens, i want to praise Ryoko Kui for one last think. The design of the characters!

For years i've expressed (maybe not so much online) my hate towards the "anime style", this homogenization of traits and beauty standards to an artificial degree, and the mass spread and consumption of it. yes, trends exist for a reason, this is not the first nor the last art current to be popular and i'm not the first detractor of one in history. I do think there is something uniquely harmful in this one though, and that is why i'm able to find the energy to be such a pretentious dipshit about it. That is a discussion for another day though.

All this to say that going through Dungeon Meshi and seiing these characters, plus (and in a way because of it) all the additional sketches of the daydream hour bonus sections, was such a breath of fresh air! (at least for what concerns japanese exported stories)

All i could say and praise in regard to character designs in general is perfectly expressed in this video, which i recommend you to watch if you want to hear my opinions (and the video author's too, uhuh):

I want to leave you though with at least one specific praise for me: Falin.

i've seen countless time people (online) just not understanding how people's body work, how much differences there can be and how proportions do distribute and affect the body. in anime I see a lot of short and tall people (mostly women girls) that share the same proportions despite their actual height, and that often leads to think "yeah, she is short" and than she's tall when around someone, or (most often) the contrary. same lenght of limbs, same head to body proportions, and little details like this.

Falin you can tell at a glance she is a tall woman before she's around anyone, even when she is standing near her brother who is taller than her.

Kui did her homework in studying bodies and variations, and, whether consciously or not, she differentiated her in body in subtle but fundamental ways: her head being slightly smaller than her body, the neck being fairly long, and her having somewhat broader shoulders.

I accept that there might be an element of suggestion at play here, considering also how she is dressed most of the time, but I really do think there is a direct effort at differentiation here.

This is the first time in a long time (in a series like this at least) where i've seen a woman carrying herself around others and the space around here kind of like a person like me, tall, would; at first i didn't think much of it, but then i saw her near other characters and....i don't know, i felt a warm, joyful feeling, seeing that i was right in recognizing that trait and being right.

I was especially happy in seeing her next to marcille. not so much for the height difference, but for how different they were in proportions and mannerism. A lesser manga i fear would have used marcille's body type and way of moving and interacting as the default for most other girls, but here she was uniquely herself!

Now, i could've used more extreme exemples to show how this author rocks in body types representations (while aknowledging there could've been even more diversification still), given there are far larger, taller and stranger women, but to me, nailing the little, most subtle details in such a chirurgical manner shows a greater level of mastery and comprehension. As such, Falin left me with a deeper fascination than most other characters.

Sorry for this wall of text, but i needed to let my happy thoughts go, so that i could be free again uhuh.

Feel free to tell me that i'm wrong, or that i should just accept anime media as is. i'm just really happy Dungeon meshi exists as is and i want Ryoko Kui to keep refining her craft, and drawing beautiful women and dwarves.

Plus, this was very much a stream of consciousness, i didn't go into technical details about what i think conveyed what i described, but if someone is interested, or does not get what i'm saying (while expressing it in a curious and gentle way, i won't respond to spiteful assholes), i'll be happy to make a follow up post in which i try to dissect this! For example, i didn't reread the whole manga to find examples of her, i just went to the wiki uhuh. in a follow up post maybe i'll try to go through chapters and pick more specific examples of her.

Anyway, have a good day!

[rieskale]

Tornio, Lapland, Finland

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[fafou-en-finlande24]

Jeudi 14 Mars :

Réveil vers 8h. Tout le monde est en train de se préparer. Il neige comme les prévisions l'avaient annoncé. Il y a déjà une petite couche de 5 cm de poudreuse qui recouvre le paysage.

Je prends le petit déjeuner avec Samuel, porridge aux myrtilles, pain grillé et fromage local.

Le temps qu'on se prépare et que Sam bosse un peu on décolle vers 10h, direction Tornio, ville frontière avec la Suède.

La route est bien dégagée et plus on va vers le nord, plus la couche est épaisse.

On s'arrête une première fois à l'entrée de Tornio chez un briquetier et vendeur de poêles de masse avec qui travaille Sam.

C'est intéressant de voir ce que ça peut rendre et de voir que les tarifs hors livraison et pose sont assez proches voir inférieurs à des poêles en fonte un peu design.

On fait un petit détour en Suède dans le premier village en face de Tornio. Et quelle première enseigne bien visible à peine avons nous passé la frontière, je te le donne Émile, IKEA.

En retrouvant la Finlande on décide de s'arrêter manger dans un restaurant chinois à formule buffet. C'est bon et copieux, tellement qu'on évite même la case dessert.

Ensuite on remonte par la route plus au Nord, longeant la rivière Torne, Tornionjoki en Finnois, 513 km de long, reconnue pour ses saumons et le fait qu'elle n'ait pas du tout de barrages (car c'est une frontière entre la Suède et la Finlande sur près de la moitié de son trajet).

Notre destination est un petit hameau au nord des rapides de Kukkolankoski. C'est une zone qui ne gèle pas l'hiver et où le niveau descend de plusieurs dizaines de mètres en seulement quelques kilomètres.

Nous rejoignions la base de départ de la compagnie Nordic Safaris, d'où nous partirons sur 15 cm de neige fraîche, moi en raquettes et Sam en skis de rando.

Nous devons rejoindre à pied une île de la rivière (nous apprendrons ensuite que celle-ci est en Suède), appelée Toivolansaari.

Samuel vient y faire de la reconnaissance pour y organiser avec un autre guide des balades naturalistes.

Il repère rapidement six ou sept biotopes différents, des points d'observation et en peu de temps nos croisons des traces de loutre et de chevreuil. Nous apercevons aussi un aigle pêcheur à queue blanche.

C'est super intéressant de faire la balade avec un guide naturaliste car il reconnaît toutes les traces.

Pour la loutre par exemple j'apprends que c'est facile à reconnaître car elle s'amuse à glisser collé les phoques entre deux bonds.

On fait une jolie boucle dont une bonne partie au milieu de la forêt en 1h20 de marche, un peu moins de 4km, mais il faut dire que les quinze centimètres de neige fraîche et lourde (il fait en dessus de zero degré), ça ralentit le rythme.

On arrive vers 16h à l'appartement, sous un grand soleil, et on traîne un peu. On joue à un jeu de cartes, un peu comme le Uno, le skid bo, sympa, jusqu'à l'heure du repas qu'on prend en décalé car Sam va à son cours de guitare.

Quand il revient on se pose devant la télé et on regarde ensemble Marius et Jeannette, de R. Guédiguian, de 1997, fable sociale marseillaise bien marrante avec Ariane Ascaride.

On va se coucher vers 23h30, ciel toujours couvert, je pense que c'est mort pour les aurores.

[ruskatuskapuskasapuska]

Slou Damake? Nääh, se on poka Hiras Lämä (I swear suomalaistan kaikki fandomit johon saan paskaiset näppini)

Tein nää pahimman SD-brainrottini aikana ja toivottavasti nää pääsis joskus iha tarramuotoonki (kuha vaa saisin itteni joskus vielä taidekujakuntoon)

And as usual, poor translations just in case (I've actually thought of making eng. versions of these, but ehhhhghhh i don't think that'll happen for a while (if ever)):

Towa "Booze & smokes"

Taku "In my medical opinion: Don't."

Rei "I wanna beat you, then eat you <3" (can't believe it rhymes in eng as well!)

Madarame "Ya wanna get beat?"

Fujieda "Thank you, that's enough."

Kotarou "Fuck it's cold!!"

Mayu "You look just like my anime-waifu <3"

Eiji "Nuclear bomb! :-D"

Vampire "Thristy..." (it's actually in estonian (or as we like to call it: drunk finnish))

Ikuina "wanna play knife-tag??"

Asakura "uncle-ing hazard" (a word play on "radiation hazard" and...? "uncle-ing?"/acting like a creepy guy (probs the most tastleless out of the bunch but eghhhh i'm cancel-worthy anyways))

Mizuno "(I) got beaten up..."

(Nearly all of these are in low/highkey dialect or slang and just stolen memes/jokes in general)

[owlcatchyoul8r]

Ophelia is one of eight siblings.

She is also a middle child AND the oldest daughter.

[oodlenoodleroodle]

We have been cleaning the museum exhibition the past few weeks and this week we actually are closing some bits down to the public in order to get the cleaning all done in time for next week, and it is physically hard work

AND I had an in-person physical first aid course today (two minutes of nonstop CPR is hard, I can barely imagine having to do that until the ambulance arrives, which can take like 6-10 minutes if you happen to be in an area with reasonable distances, which is not a term that describes Lapland let's be honest).

I am physically exhausted.

Luckily tomorrow I have a webinar so tomorrow evening I will also be mentally exhausted :D

And then more cleaning on thursday and friday, as well as monday next week. But then it will be done.

[argmaker]

[finsug]

[tornioduva]

An act of will.

A little idea for a fanart i had (plus any excuse i find to draw something deltarune related is a good one uhuh).

Plus a little bit of making of for those interested:

If you like what i do and would like to support me, feel free to visit my page on itch or donate (all links in pinned post)

If you too have an idea and would like for someone to illustrate it, i'm more than available!

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Now that the rail between Tornio and Haaparanta is almost finished being electrified (it will be opened at the end of January 2025), there is a group of people who go wait for the train every wednesday on the Tornio train station (like, as a bit).

Also super fun detail is that Finland and Sweden have a different gauge rails, so there are actually four rails so that both kinds of trains can use the track:

Does VR offer cross-border trains to Sweden?

Only for freight today. There was a cross-border passenger service to Haparanda (Haaparanta in Finnish) from Finland, but our services there ended in 1988, and our Swedish colleagues SJ stopped theirs in 1992, when passenger service to Haparanda ceased entirely. (The rail line between Tornio on the Finnish side and Haparanda on the Swedish side is our only western rail link).

However, Swedish train service to Haparanda was restored in 2021, and with an upgrade of the rail link between Tornio and Haparanda (including electrification) under construction, we could restore a passenger link to Haparanda in 2025 at earliest. However, please note this is not yet confirmed.

Interestingly, right now Finland is a rarity amongst European countries in that we have no passenger links to other countries. There used to be a high-speed train link from Helsinki to St. Petersburg, and an overnight train to Moscow... but those were discontinued after Russia's new invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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