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“too many nights I justify

all my casualties of love”

One of the things I really appreciate about Dungeon Meshi is how the text is so clearly full of love for animals. Like the true kind of love Laios feels for the monster where he wants to know everything about them, but most of all he respects them and loves them as animals.

One of the chapters I can't stop thinking about is the one about Anne the Kelpie. It's kind of impressive how well it illustrates the different kind of love people have for animals. And how someone that loves an animal isn't necessarily an animal lover. If that makes sense.

When Senshi calls out Anne what he says is "Don't worry Anne's Harmless" but she isn't, she's a wild animal.

Marcille immediately reacts positively about it thinking it's cute she accepts the treat Senshi has for her. And hers and Chilchuck's reaction to Senshi wanting to cross the river on her back is more surprise while Laios immediately realizes how bad of an idea it is.

But Laios is the animal monster lover so how come when he finally is faced with a "docile" monster he doesn't react positively like the others? Marcille even calls him a monster. That's because Laios loves monsters, and Senshi loves Anne.

I've seen this attitude around me several times, where people love a specific animal but what they love is their idea of that animal, they don't really know them because they don't love the animal part of them.

It becomes a "this one is special because I love them" that can quickly become an issue for the animal as much as it is for the person. It's something unfortunate I see time and time again irl.

Anne wasn't wicked, Anne wasn't mean, Anne didn't trick him. Anne was a wild animal and Senshi loved her as Anne but not as a kelpie.

She acted on instinct, maybe she did love Senshi in the way kelpies can love, but animals are still animals and must be respected and treated as such. Climbing on top of Anne's back was the equivalent of putting your arm inside a alligator's mouth, the mouth is gonna close because that's what they're designed to do.

The real life equivalent I see the most of "I love this animal but I don't love the animal part of them" is with dogs. If you insist on loving an animal without acknowledging they ARE an animal they might hurt you, you might hurt them, it will only end in grief.

The best way you can love an animal is by understanding they're an animal.

That is all to say I don't mean that the love Senshi felt for Anne wasn't real or that it's all his fault. He couldn't have known with the information he had and unfortunately it came down to the worst outcome.

I just love dungeon meshi dearly.

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One of the blu-ray bonus is an extra about Anne

Dungeon Meshi continues to be amazing "can you really provide for that animal" is something more people should ask themselves before getting a pet <3

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MOAR Coming Home!

since all i can really do one-handed is edit, have another chapter, uh, 2 more chapters of Coming Home!

In which...

BOTH my MCs are unconscious which means...

Micah POV!

in which the dad out of time is just not thriving

we finally found someone who doesn't like Bow you guys

no you see because that is his little baby and how dare that man touch her???

Casta MVP of this section honestly, speaking up for Angella

Then Glimmer gets to be powerful and terrifying, as is her right, and Bow faints prettily in her arms!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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“Raise an alarm. Bow may be in a significant amount of danger, and if we don’t find him soon—”

Without warning, the door behind them exploded outward. It flew clear through the window on the other side in a shower of glass, bits of pink twinkling with deceptive innocence between the rubble. Micah gasped as he turned towards what had been a doorway and saw a miniature goddess in a healer’s gown, glowing with power so bright he could only watch through a painful squint.

Angella had never looked like this, all fierceness and steel. This was a dread queen made of pure power, a woman who wouldn’t hesitate to do whatever it took to protect the people she cared about.

In that moment, Micah understood what his sister had been trying to say. That this was not Princess Glimmer, the little girl he had left behind. This was Queen Glimmer, the leader of the Great Rebellion.

And he didn’t actually know her at all.

Glimmer flexed her fingers. Her hands sprang to life, crackling with pink sparkles, each one shining like the polished edge of a blade.

“What did you do to my Bow?”

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She-Ra ballet AU!

Catra and Adora are rivals, Glimmer and Bow are partners :3

what your favourite catra ship says about you

catradora: congratulations you have media literacy, and you were probably a repressed gay with feelings for a close friend who couldn't handle it well

scorptra: i am so so sorry. you need a hug. you love incredibly tragic stories though so this is kind of on you.

glitra: you're an enemies to lovers connoisseur and you know in your heart that these two balance the tightrope between stabbing each other and fucking each other

catrapta: you have severe RSD. you probably like warrior cats or a similarly convoluted media.

catmista: you are the smartest person in your group but you try not to show off about it. you came to the fairly logical conclusion that catra and mermista should make out.

#catra #she ra #spop

creatingblackcharacters

Hiii I hope you're doing well on your birthday week.

Sending Adora's design again :D

Thank you!!!

Both are cute but I really like that second one! Love the way the movement is captured!

sometipsygnostalgic

I think my mistake with Steven Universe is I always saw it as using a 13 year old boy as a narrative device to tell a story about space aliens, when it was actually using space aliens as a narrative device to tell a story about a 13 year old boy.

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When I first watched She-ra in 2021 I was like "aah, this is Steven Universe done correctly". Which isn't really true, because Steven has a far richer personal journey than Adora or Catra, and the side characters in SU are written with far more nuance and humanity than the SPOP cast.

But that's actually SU's failing - The characters are given lots of love on their introduction, then they have nothing to do with Steven's actual narrative journey, so there is this sense of frustration. It has poor utilisation of its bloated cast due to not having an effective way to move them around the story, which is focused on Steven's introspection without having any real ongoing external conflict.

I think my mistake with Steven Universe is I always saw it as using a 13 year old boy as a narrative device to tell a story about space aliens, when it was actually using space aliens as a narrative device to tell a story about a 13 year old boy.

#steven universe

karkudan

file-saver

goodbye, she-ra! thank you for taking a big leap towards positive lesbian representation with a meaningful happy ending and helping many of us learn to accept ourselves! 👋

psst! you can still watch it forever by downloading the entire show here (+ in other languages)!

nickotinie

how it feels to beat the hardest undertale mods of all time when you beat the roaring knight's ass

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My personal designs for the thingies ( •̀ - •́ )

eilooxara

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

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It’s been long enough that I can give more context on Dark Elvis. I was working in a labyrinthine office that rented editing suites to TV studios, in a cluster of pre-war central London buildings that had been haphazardly remodelled a few times and were full of these kinds of accumulated knickknacks and bizarre architectural features. If I had heard of the Backrooms back then I would have described it as Backrooms-esque.

We were open until 11pm for some reason even though I never saw any editors working there after like 8, and most of the office space was completely unused, so I often ended up wandering around doing things like bathroom checks and tea restocks on my own in the dark. Here’s a video of me searching for a bathroom that my colleague refused to look for because she spent twenty minutes trying to find it and was too scared of the dark to continue:

I wish I took more photos of the place. Here’s a WWII bomb shelter that was converted into a kitchenette (those barred and frosted windows don’t lead outside, they are actually looking into a bathroom) and a weird chair placement overlooking the ceiling hatch where I hurt myself trying to carry a heavy box of Christmas lights up a ladder.

Dark Elvis’ dark secret was that he guarded a sort of DIY mezzanine-level storage area with no guardrails or trip hazard corridors. Having to edge across this ledge like a triple-A video game protagonist without any supervision if I fell was one of the main reasons I quit the job, along with crazy understaffing.