oh to be a worm

she/her | 20 This blog is pretty random, I just (re)post anything I like.

[afk-lost]

Dungeon Crawler Carl really came out here and said the human race can out-stubborn fucking anything, asks what survival is and what you're willing to do for it, and how you carry the weight. that capitalism is violence, and that it breeds violence. that we need to hold each close and do what we can to help when we can, because what else is there?

....it also made me read the word nussy in a context where it makes sense.

[lydiardbell]

Dungeon Crawler Carl book 1: oh cool, someone else brought goats!

Books 2-4: oh the goats are pretty weird I don't know about this :/

Book 5: if anything else happens to Prepotente I am killing everyone in this room and then myself

[ivycrowned]

One thing I really love about Dungeon Crawler Carl is how all of the women are written. Each one is so unique and interesting. And every time something was introduced that SEEMED like an eye-roll worthy male-gaze moment, it turned out to be a pretty fricken clever subversion, or interesting character clue.

Spoilers below:

Carl comes across his first (i believe) killed crawler, Rebecca W., (Killed by Crawler Frank Q.) and comments on her being entirely naked. He assumes the goblins came through and looted her clothing, etc because they cannot access a player inventory. This one I was willing to let slide as a world building note, even though the woman being entirely nude irritated me. Then.

Then we meet Frank Q. And when Carl asks if the man has any pants Carl can borrow, since the collapse happened with him only in boxers and all, Frank Q. gives Carl comically small women's pants. Despite mentioning the firefight, and the many other people killed in it whom he supposedly looted.

Frank Q. stripped her. Which is a deeply revealing character moment. This man is willing to execute his fellow humans on the FIRST FLOOR of the dungeon, and he doesn't even have the basic decency to leave a dead woman her underwear.

Then there's his interview with Odette, who is described with truly COMICAL boobs being supported by a table. And yeah it made sense and wasn't egregious guy-writing so I was just gonna roll my eyes --

Then they're off air and Odette literally steps out of the boobs. They're a stage piece.

Not to mention the fact that, for as scary as Frank Q. Is when he's introduced, his partner, the woman, is ultimately the bigger, scarier threat.

99 year old Ms. McGibbons is a sweet old woman with dementia -- who cheerfully recounts her absolutely wild youth. And later goes from level one, with zero kills, to level 13 or 15 on level three, in a maximum of 8 days. She's both supportive to the group, but ultimately not shoved into a maternal role in the least.

Of course there's so many more, Katia, Imani, Helka, even Gum Gum and Quil! but just. I really, really appreciate the women in these books, from Donut, to Tsarina Cignet and Maggie My. I also really appreciate the way DCC subverts stereotypes and expectations just in general.

The overall message of planting seeds, watering them with kindness and a willingness to help others in need for no reward gets me too. It's comforting. Carl's mantra of 'They will not break me' every time he's forced to make a terrible choice, and all the ways he strives to do good from with in by causing chaos AAAAAAAHHHH I love these books!

[ginnie-darling]

Carl, lightly touching Donut with the side of his foot: Donut move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you

Donut, her eyes enormous: you KICK Donut? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for Carl! jail for Carl for One Thousand Years!!!!

[haleingstorm]

god the way that DCC treats the crawlers that are taking deals. It would be so easy to suggest that they are simple cowards for running away from the fight. But no Carl makes that so fucking clear that It's okay to be done, to want to give up. You fought long and hard and we will not begrudge you stepping back.

And they in turn passed on thier skills???? giving as much as they could forward in order to protect Carl and Donut and the remaining crawlers as much as possible???? Good god dcc you've done it again.

[espiricalesper]

turns out you only need three things to survive the apocalypse (total collapse of human society and takeover by aliens for an intergalactic game show):

your ex-girlfriend’s prizewinning persian cat

the system ai’s foot fetish (your feet, specifically)

anticapitalist RAGE

[sealestial-k]

Check out inspiration here : https://www.wikiart.org/en/alphonse-mucha/cropped-print-of-four-panels-each-depicting-one-of-the-four-seasons-personified-by-a-woman

Prints for sale here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4445734302/mucha-style-carl-and-donut-poster

[mastahpotato]

Princess donut request here!!!

Can you draw donut in a rubber donut ring in a pool with a sort of laid back vibe to it (you can put Carl in a inflatable if u want to aswell)

:)

She really does 💜

[jazzy-lea]

cleaned and colored. Mongo would love this. #dungeoncrawlercarl

[bludsheep2]

😭

[caimanartsblog]

Carl is "avoids politically charged language but holds beliefs he doesn't realise are political" to a hilarious extent. He incited revolution against an empire live on TV. He planted a bomb on a political agent. He made speeches about how the rich and powerfull are assholes. Cuba? oh, he doesn't know about Cuba, he's not interested in politics.

[spidersarecannibals]

The dungeon crawler Carl experience

[askclint]

MONGO IS APPALLED

(Art by Layna of Lund, Discord)

[nat-20s]

i think one of my personal favorite aspects of the dungeon crawler carl series is watching Carl, a cishet dude, avoid any sexual or romantic subplots with the deftness of a trained aroace.

[itmightbehere]

Eat that ring by Andrew Mar

[newvegascowboy]

carl and donut you will always be famous to me

(matching nipple rings not pictured)

[meiyinart]

The Anarchist