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I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the limes of "why do characters like Falin and hate Laios when they're so similar?" and i've also seen good analysis on the differences in how the touden siblings carry themselves that would, despite their shared traits, make a person gravitate to one more than the other.

But i feel like we've overseen one very central thing here.

People don't like Falin

Like... the average person in dungeon meshi doesn't like Falin. She was deeply ostrasized by her home village, in magic school she had zero friends before Marcille and the others generally saw her as strange and a bit offputting.

Characters like Namari and Chilchuck like her well enough but not necessarily more than any other member of their party, including Laios. Neither Kabru nor his party think much of her. The canaries don't give a fuck about her. Toshiro's retainers don't see her as anything else than the weird foreign girl their boss has a crush on.

The reason we think everyone loves Falin is because, despite all the indifferent side characters, the 2 most important and central characters of the story are Laios and Marcille. Who are NOT representative of the average attitudes to Falin! But necromancy georg number 1 and 2 are our main eyes into the story and they love Falin so much that it colours our perspective of the whole world.

The only side character who qualifies as liking Falin and not Laios is Toshiro (at least at first, as he ends the story on much better terms with Laios) and that says a lot about his character, with him drifting to the quiet Falin precisely because of her oddness but being both uncomfortable with and deeply jealous of Laios' much more open expression of that oddness. Because he's a repressed guy from a culture where etiquette is incredibly important.

But like I said, that's a specific aspect of him, not to the world at large.

Because there's also people that click more with laios than with Falin.

Kabru, for one, who is initially distrustful of laios but clearly also deeply fascinated by him and drawn to him.

Minor spoilers, and you don't have to read too deeply into this, because I don't think Kabru particularly dislikes Falin or anything. But it's interesting that when he talks about his distrust of the toudens in ch.32 he's talking about them both. But his big friendship declaration in chapter 76 is aimed squarely at Laios, he doesn't say "you and your sister" he says "you"

And Senshi!! He instantly clicks with Laios, well before he does so with anyone else in the party– who he also becomes friends with, it just takes a bit longer– specifically because they bond over their shared special interest in monsters!! Senshi is kind towards Falin and cares for her wellbeing, but he also... doesn't know her. The reason he is even here, helping to save her, is because he and Laios bonded over monsters and he wants to help his new friends out!

Of course, the theme of neurodivergent isolation is very present in Laios' story. I'm not denying that. He does turn people off, without meaning to and unable to fully understand why! But so does Falin. And just like there are people who like her despite of or even because of those traits, there are people who do the same with him.

In conclusion: "Average person loves Falin and hates Laios" factoid actually statistical error. Average person is neutral on both Falin and Laios. Georcille, Laiorg and Geoshiro, who live in the dungeon and think over 10,000 Falin-loving thoughts a day, are statistical outliers adn should not have been counted.

#dunmeshi spoilers #i think chilchuck and namari do like falin more than laios at the point where the story starts #and i think it is because she's quiet and more ''tolerable'' in her weirdness #but people do seem to forget that a lot of people dislike falin in canon

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OP also turned off reblogs for this but it has to be said

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barring that palestinian queers have and will always exist and to deem an entire group of people as being inherently homophobic is a fucked line of thinking, i do not support palestine because i happen to agree with their politics or because i expect palestinians to lay their life for me. i support palestine because genocide is, and will always be wrong, because i do not need a reciprocation for me to fucking loathe oppression and colonialism, and it scares me that many of you do not truly believe in liberation of the oppressed.

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what if we saw shapeshifter versions of izutsumi?

Explanations under the cut

#1 is Laios' Izutsumi:

extra detail on her cat parts

more monster-y traits present

outfit mistake

#2 is Marcille's Izutsumi:

influenced by their time in the Golden Country

a little more chill than the others

softer hair

#3 is Senshi's Izutsumi:

details of puffed up fur

this izutsumi is skinnier than the others (ribs showing)

^^ senshi must take care of the child

#4 is Chilchuck's Izutsumi:

rounded ears like marcille's

eyes kinda look like his kids puckpatti and flertom

stanced

#dunmeshi #i was close on my guesses to whose izutsumi was whose! #i just didn't notice the ribs on senshi's izutsumi and hadn't thought abt marcille and izutsumi's time with chill izutsumi #so i swapped those two bc senshi sees A Kid and marcille sees A Feral Creacher #but that is more my inattention to detail lmao

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THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUN/FUNNY POLL

POLL IS OPEN TO ANYONE IN THE QUEER COMMUNITY

#space gay #to balance out with my beloved wife who is indiaputably a sharks gay

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#i watch tv and read webcomics the most #but video games and plays/theatre are my favorites

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Three years back, I created 13 alternate accounts on Discord and inserted them into my friend group over the course of a few months, pretending each of them was a new person. They have their own personality and typing / grammar distinctions, and their own fake life events and stories that I've had to keep meticulous track of. Some of them even engaged romantically with real people, though none in the present day. Nowadays the original friend group is split up, with some fake people being present in about each server that still has some kind of connection to the former group. One active group chat even has six alts and one real person. I literally have to keep this up like a puppetmaster because these pretend people have real, important connections to people I still care about. It's hard but I literally don't know how to resolve or change the situation without causing a wave of dispair and destruction in one way or another.

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#i am choosing to believe the tags are from someone who was duped by the asker #bc i *know* there's almost certainly multiple people who have done this #but i choose not to believe it

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Might I interest you in some magical art? I haven't sold enough this month and I have bills to pay

anaisfae.art/shop

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the idea some people have that androgynous nonbinary people have any dimension of privilege for being androgynous... like yeah it's really really fun for me how being happier in my body means being constantly recognizably trans. definitely isn't stressful at all being The Tranny Cripple everywhere i go. definitely also doesn't impact my feelings of desirability since my androgyny is not of the Hairless Elven Twink genre.

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Don't just learn queer history; let it be a transformational force. Give it as a gift to the people in your life. Tend to it as you would a garden, share it when you can, fertalize it, water it. Gather strength from it. It's not a finite resource; it is constantly growing, and there is always more you can gain from it.

Pushing forward the garden metaphor (because that soil is so rich) let yourself enjoy the biodiversity. Don't allow your knowledge to become a pristine, perfectly cut lawn; bring in native wildflowers and watch them bloom. You won't regret it.

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good news chat.. the devil's hole pupfish population was counted in april and 191 pupfish were observed, which is the highest spring count recorded since 1999 :D

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Another day in the Office

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the thing about me is i get hannibal and hamilton confused

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I know everyone’s talking about how the cast of Danny Phantom is full of gay and trans characters exclusively to piss of Butch Hartman but let us not forget, Butch’s bread and butter, Fairly Odd Parents…

Timmy’s parents were 100% sure that Timmy was going to be a girl before he was born, as seen in the episode Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker.

Cosmo seems to be the only other one in the know about this, and has baby pictures of Timmy in a dress on hand

Then, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen…

When Wanda does, inevitably, transform Timmy into a girl to teach him a lesson…

Cosmo immediately panics.

AND in the episode “It’s a Wishful LIfe” when Timmy wishes he never existed…

The Turners have a daughter instead.

In conclusion:

Timmy Turner is trans and used the power of one of his fairy godparents to wish that everyone in his life completely forget that he was born and raised female for a portion of his life, including his parents and his other fairy godparent.

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So many people treat anger as something inherently toxic that you have to repress, but it can actually be a sign of growth and recovery. If you have been through trauma and abuse, reaching a place where you're able to go "your behavior is not acceptable and I'm not going to tolerate it because I know I deserve better" is very much a GOOD thing

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The Ballad of Bella Buttons (based on a true story)