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Bird 03 and 04! [Pattern]

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✨ Another bit from my Patreon comic 'On Gardening & Fixing The Cat', which is all about weird interactions with nature and the environment 🌿 no apologies for using the word lover, I'm very European these days

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if you've ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.

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ow.

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2005 | 2023

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Breathe in Love - Don't Smoke Cigarettes by Peter Max, 1970s.

American cancer society

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why is dungeon meshi (especially bonus content) so skilled at getting me attached to random-ass glup shittos??? what the fuck does ryoko kui put into her characters that does this to me??? i can't keep getting attached to characters with like 10 pages of screentime in the manga proper.

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Laios Touden ⚔️

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i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

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They should let chilchuck swear like motherfucker asspisser godshittingdamnit all to hell

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I really liked this post saying how this scene reminded OP of the Evrart Claire chair moment and I really. couldn't resist.

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What I love about the laios/kabru dynamic is that like. Laios is more comfortable with and obsessed with animals and monsters, monsters being his Special Interest

And it's like. One thing feeds into the other - he's alienated so he relates to and studies monsters

And this in turn triggers everyone around him to alienate and ostracize him further

MEANWHILE like. Kabru has always been ostracised because of like, his own features, his light eyes contrasted with his skin, and his early exposure to the monsters of the dungeon nearby

For him BECAUSE of like, not his fear of monsters, but because of the political situation around how everyone there was killed, HIS focus and obsession and his own autistic Special Interest has become other people. Their thoughts, their machinations, the ways they lie and obscure

And because of people's obfuscations, as soon as he meets laios his obsession becomes laser-focused on laios himself, because this is a man with almost no machinations. He's been so focused on animals and now monsters his whole life, and SO autistic without learning to mask

Whereas kabru like. ALL he has is a mask. Esp BC of the implication of racism that he's experienced within the text like, even his face has been treated physically as more like a mask than a human face, and then its just lies on masking on obfuscation on repression

Whereas laios feels every single emotion immediately and painfully, and he expresses almost all of them openly - his love, his enthusiasm, his curiosity, his frustration, and to a limited extent, his rage and anger

Here you have laios, treated like a monster so he's become obsessed with monsters, to the extent that he almost fears people more despite craving to be with them, to be seen by them and loved by them, and to an extent being blind to the extent of their cruelties

And here you have Kabru, not treated like a monster, but treated effectively as less IMPORTANT than a monster, because of other people's politics and motivations, to the extent that he has become obsessed with appearing like The Right Person to every single person he meets

It's no wonder that Kabru should become so utterly obsessed with Laios, with studying him - and no surprise either that Laios should enthuse about this undivided and devoted attention that feels equivalent in EFFORT to love and friendship... And isn't that enough?

And at first, no, but I think. So rapidly it would and could become so. Because laios' loyalty is so fierce and devoted, and I think Kabru would be blindsided by how EAGER laios is to please him even though kabru remains, in his own eyes, distant and a bit apart from him

And kabru for like. Studying laios so fervently and focusedly, as intense and off-putting as that may be, he comes to and will come further to understand laios better and more intuitively than anyone else, and no one in the world but falin has ever BOTHERED to do that

And isn't that love? Kabru might not call it that, might be disdainful at the very idea, but if it walks like love and talks like love and feels like love and takes even more effort than love... That's enough, right? That's good, right? Laios is grateful

And the more grateful he is, the more frustrated Kabru will get. Doesn't he respect himself? Doesn't he want more? Doesn't he care enough to DEMAND more?But laios doesn't like to make demands - he likes to be grateful for what he's given. For kabru.

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hi dunmeshi fandom i hope you accept this offering 🙏🙏

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Dungeon Meshi redraws🔥

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Omg the girlies are fightingggggg~~~~

They’re having realizations about each other and themselves and are growinggggggg~~~~

Their fight leads them to the understanding of the self and tightening of their bonds as comrades and friendsssssss~~~~

Omggggg~~~~~~~