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Hiya - I'm Lorian & I write dungeon meshi essays, and post art, including fun little comics :)

Meta & associated writing is tagged "dungeon meshi meta". I have a little series where I post thoughts about bits of worldbuilding from dunmeshi, particularly drawing on the world guide - these are tagged "World Map Notes". Art is tagged "my art".

⚠ I don't tag manga spoilers unless a post is going in the tags! I also don't tag reblogs at all consistently, so my blog is a danger zone if you want to filter stuff. I also occasionally post nudity/suggestive content. ⚠

Please feel free to reblog my posts with comments and to talk to me in asks or replies or the tags - though watch out because I do ramble so you might get a long reply.

That's all! Thanks for checking out my blog and let's all have a nice time on the internet together 💖⭐

#og post #i'll add links to fic when I have more posted :)

deathgripsforcutie

i always thought it was funny how in the lord of the rings sam and frodo head out and after awhile sam’s like “mr. frodo if i take one more step this is the farthest from the shire ive ever been” and then a ways after they meet up with merry and pippin on their daily vegetable run like jesus christ sam get out of the house once in awhile

ot3

Since we're approaching halloween I'm going to take a seasonally appropriate moment to recommend one of my favorite mangas ive read: I Want To Hold Aono-Kun So Badly I could Die by Umi Shiina

Tumblr as a website is pretty dominated by the werewolf and vampire lovers, but my favorite type of horror creature has always been ghosts. I think ghosts are excellent at delivering both horror and sensuality, and everything i feel like a good author is capable of doing in both of those spaces is at peak form in aono-kun

this is a horror romance series following an introverted girl named yuri, who begins going out with aono-kun, the first boy whose ever really been nice to her, only for him to abruptly die two weeks later after being hit by a car. This drives yuri to attempt suicide, only for her to be stopped by aono's ghost.

The two continue their relationship postmortem, but as things progress a sinister and inhuman alter ego begins to take control of aono-kun at times, with neither he nor yuri able to understand why or how to stop it. eventually, aono's still living best friend and a girl from their class who is an agoraphobic horror buff join the young couple in attempting to untangle the nature of aono's haunting.

i am in this moment, sincerely and with no caveats, recommending you a heterosexual romance, which i assume is probably more than enough in its own right to pique the interest of a lot of my followers. but to sweeten the pot with a little more specificity i think the place this manga really shines is in its incredibly compelling portrayal of an adolescent sexuality bogged down by depression and familial abuse.

check it out if any of that sounds interesting to you!

ot3

People in the notes have pointed out that i forgot to mention that it's also really funny which is definitely my bad. anyway here's one of my favorite gags from the whole thing

Apparently the final epilogue chapter of this manga literally came out the day i made this post despite me having no prior knowledge of that. spooky... so if you're the kind of person put off by starting something in progress, worry not!

i just finished my own reread and i definitely think this one's a 10/10

ot3

i say i just finished my own reread in this post but what i meant is i caught back up with what had been scanlated because, to the best of my knowledge, to this day the last handful of chapters are still not yet in english. but. but! i have recently learned the official english release of the last volume is coming in around three weeks. and we will all be able to read it

so all of this to say there has literally never been a better time to read i want to hold aono-kun so badly i could die

ekkka70

marciaillust

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marciaillust

I live for your doodles of Orion and Garret, they bring me such joy. And I love the doodle and color palette for it! Do you have any AU’s on how they would interact irl? Or have a university/college AU for them? What would Garret study if he was a student? Would Orion be interested in studying in the medical or engineering fields?

Ohohoho..... there are plenty of AUs.

Many of them nobody is privy to except me and my editor/best friend L (no death note relation), because the AUs are too revealing of the nature of the actual comic (and I would much rather show you the comic than a spoiler heavy au doodle). But I must admit I am very not interested in university AUs on their own. I very much think of the characters as adults first, even if they are young adults, so I like putting them in employment (or at least part-time jobs as they mauver the late stage independent uni life). If uni comes into play, Orion is most often doing either IT or engineering, while Garret attends a literature oriented course or creative writing. There are two, let's say, normalcore AUs that find their strength not in the narrative they tell, but in the potential to showcase an angle of the characters that is not usually touched upon.

The one in question is something L and I offhandedly call the shopping mall au, though it's not about the shopping mall at all. The basic premise is that due to reasons (whether it'd be a no-clock world, or Orion still attending uni) Orion is working a minimum wage job at a Tesco or, god forbid, a fast food place. It's a pretty fun sandbox of an AU. How does Orion, who (originally in TCM proper) is a very privileged and ignorant individual employed at his mom's studio, handle adversity of a spill in aisle 4? How does he cope with frustrations of his 9-5? What are the personality traits that make Orion Orion beyond the surface level sentiment of "I love coding"? In the same vein it's fun to imagine Garret in a similar position. In this particular AU he's employed at a LUSH (soaps/bathbombs), which presents his own set of circumstances for him.

If you've ever seen any doodle of Orion and Garret smoking you can be 99.9% certain it's the shopping mall au. Canonically neither Orion nor Garret smoke on the reg; Orion because he's a medic conscious of the consequences, and Garret because he's got no means of purchasing them.

However as a wise sage once said

cocoagott

witch hat atelier | 1.02 — the school of the grassland

seefasterdraws

whoaaaaghh

zoejayw

Controlled burn

marciaillust

[oc] grocery shopping

beardedmrbean

lakesbian

ive just seen the american psycho characters drawn as my little ponies and honestly i dont think patrick should have been given that cd as his cutie mark. i think you're doing it wrong if you're not making him a perpetual blank flank

lakesbian

look if you're gonna draw characters as my little ponies you have to remember that the cutie mark can't just be any old imagery you associate with them. it has to be Representative. it's their Unique Characteristic. to quote the pony wiki page i just googled, "Twilight and Applejack point out in Call of the Cutie how lacking a mark means that ponies still get to experience 'the thrill of discovering who they are and what they're meant to be'." there's narrative shit going on here there's Themes. and patrick bateman is NOT unique. he has NOT discovered who he is or what he's meant to be. the end monologue of the book is literally about how he has absolutely nothing going for him in this regard & is simply a vacant, hollow person merely vacuously gesturing at the idea of having depth. and when he rants about music, that's what he's doing there, too. his lyrical analysis is shallow/vaguely inaccurate summaries at best and completely warped at worst. everything he has to say about music--and in general--is intensely fixated on commodities and on appearing normal and intelligent while being entirely devoid of any intelligent or individual thought. so no, his cutie mark is not music. mr "missing that hip to be square is about making fun of conformist squares & proudly proclaiming that its actually about how fucking Awesome it is to be conformist and consumerist" does NOT have a fucking cd cutie mark. He's a blank flank. He has no unique identity. There is no future for him. There is no self identity. He's a fucking blank flank. okay? sorry i got a little passionate about this. there is no exit and he has no cutie mark

lakesbian

@epeboch see, I agree, but also, being a blank flank is against the social norm, so I imagine he has a fake one that he wears.

ok now this is important intellectual discussion about the subject. i agree i was personally imagining him like. always having it covered with pants or something. but he would have a fake cutie mark. he would totally get a fake cutie mark tattooed or something in my little american psycho world. in fanart however if this cannot be briefly conveyed then i think for the sake of clarity with regards to his character it needs to be blank. just so its clear he doesnt have one

letourswordsdecide

After the first time he chops somepony up with an axe he stands there, feeling nothing, no catharsis, but he still can't stop himself from turning to look at his reflection.

It's still blank. He looks at the axe as though it is the thing that has betrayed him.

kunaigirl

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!