#also no major spoilers please!

[softness-and-shattering]

Ok the latest episode of dungeon meshi is gory as fuck.

Major episode 11 SPOILERS

Given that the episode is dragon part one, I assumed they would fight the dragon, mostly fail, cliffhanger, and the next episode would be defeating it.

I did NOT expect them to kill it, root around its insides, and find Falins fucking bones!!

The foot comes down on Senshi and he immediately vomits blood? Chilchuk knocked out by bricks to the head, Laios loses his leg?! (Nitpick but. If the leg was disconnected what was keeping him from falling out the dragons mouth? Anime rule of cool physics?)

And then. Chilchuk and Senshi is heaps of pain and Laios' leg is just itchy? Its a good joke, but I think there's more. Those heals were too easy after that amount of unprecedented violent gore.

Laios had a btw-line about of the dragon and is mating and then dismissed the thought with no given reason. So I think next episode theres gonna be a second Red dragon. ( Its possible part 2 will be next season, but following more common episode title namings, red dragon 1 and 2 will be the season finale. )

And theres the unanswered question of the whole season, why is the dragon more active, why is the ecosystem of the dungeon off-balance. I think next episode will be our big clue.

Re Falin, its no coinicidence we were introduced to the racist rich guy who assures us that souls dont leave bodies in the dungeon. That was confusing up till the last episode because the characters sure act like death is possible, and we've seen dead people and heard about body-retrieval. Then Namari goes to revivals to ask about Falin and there are bodies stored behind the desk guy. Which puts the pieces together, bodies that can be retrieved are retrieved, and the people can be revived. If someone cares to, and presumably pays for it. Someones gotta pay for retrievals.

Its also no accident that our warm-fuzzy sibling scene before finding Falins skull is about a ghost who is trapped with his body, and Falins intuition/ability with ghost magic. Can she be revived, will she stick around as a ghost, remains to be seen. (Remains.)

As someone who hasnt yet read the manga, Im also curious about long term story. Ive gotten the impression that theres significant story to go, possibly probably they reach the end of the dungeon? But Ive not seen Falin present in any of the art, and for the story to continue they need motivation to keep going.

So Im guessing that Falin ends up as a ghost, or unreviveable, and they have to get to the bottom to find the mad mage, work out what stops people from crossing over post-death (does that include monsters, orcs, humanoid mermaids or fish-oid[???]mermen), and only then can they bring Falin back to life.

That or they revive her and theres some other plot hook, but my guess is what I just described.

(Another silly nitpick, the fire is blocked by the adamantium but the heat isnt a problem until after the fire is done? "WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO EXHAUST ALL ITS FUEL" THAT WOULDVE LEFT FALIN BEYOND ALL HOPE!!!!!!)

And its funny re Senshi's knife, ooh its mithril it can cut through anything, well of course! he's used it to cut every single monster theyve eaten! And we never wondered how! Foreshadowing by cookware, its ridiculous and I love it.

Last point is it just me or are...is it Kaka and Kiki? Theyre discount Vex and Vax, right?

#for ppl who dont know me my nitpicks aren't hating on the show #i just have a brain that points out these things and they need expression #its not a negative #theres always gonna be a level of movie magic #its fun to find where that line is of what just needs accepting and whats secret foreshadowing to extrapolate from #also no major spoilers please! #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mine #review #sort of

[vaimetanyx]

Oh how wonderful, how terrifying, to be loved to destruction

The full quote can be found here

#my art #mdzs #the untamed #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #mdzs spoilers #comic #implied suicide #just in the quote tho #hi I feel a normal amount about these two #in fact I feel a normal amount about all 3 yunmeng siblings and how much they loved each other and how it destroyed them #it has me crying screaming throwing up etc #fanart #because I've figured out the reason I don't do fanart is because I worry about inaccuracies #and also because I'm incapable of being chill about it #case and point: I have more mdzs fanart in the works. its a major arcana tarot decj with the full 22 cards + 4 alternates #and I'm just being so normal about it #please ignore all my many perspective crimes and my badly planned buildings no I did not use references this was meant to be a quick comic

[mariajamel]

A farewell and a reunion or perhaps just two farewells

#fitz and the fool #the Fool #Fitzchivalry Farseer #Realm of the Elderlings #rote #rote fanart #my art #btw I'm still reading The Mad Ship but I really wanted to draw older Fitz #also something a tad bit tragic #and then I added blood #because blood always goes nicely with a tragedy #and this is basically how I ended up with these #so I suppose they are purely vibes #however #if the first one is the kiss from AQ then the blood actually makes sense because I imagine Fitz would be quite bloodied at the time #the second one can be happening whenever you want it to #they both can of course but the second one especially #just please no major spoilers regarding that

[buff-muffin]

When it comes to the ASL brothers one “what if” situation I can’t stop thinking about the idea of. What if Sabo named dropped his brothers to Dragon at the grey terminal fires. Like in that scene where he clung to Dragon’s arm and spoke of his hatred to his own blue blood, what if he added in a plea of like “please save Ace and Luffy. They’re my brothers”

Cause like, I don’t know much about Dragon, I’m just wrapping up Zoh and heading to WCI. But he runs a fucking army so he’s not stupid. The name Luffy. Mentioned on an island in the east. As well as Garps home island (and maybe his too idk?) are enough connections to think. Hey, there’s a good chance that’s my fucking son.

But as I said, I really don’t know him well enough to tell if upon hearing this news would he be a “grrr I have a job to do. he will be fine. business bla bla bla >:[“ or maybe a “my sons a fucking child I need to make sure he’s ok >:0” I do think a small parallel scene to loguetown arc of like Luffy meets dragon would be hella cool (maybe he got lost from the bandits in the fire and Dragon beat up a pirate trying to hurt him) and they just stare for a moment before dragon points the way silently and Luffy runs off cause how tf do you pull the I’m your father card when your son is literally being traumatised right this very second.

But even if that DIDNT happen. When they eventually pluck a dying Sabo out of the water like a fucken grape. Dragon would know Sabo has more family there then just his parents, he had brothers. Would that result in Sabo being dropped back with them? Or maybe he gets his memories back earlier when Ace first makes a name for himself??? Would Dragon do his fucken research or at least encourage Sabo to early on in revolution school to find out what was left behind???

I SWEAR I NEED TO HURRY THE FUCK UP ON ONE PIECE SO I CAN START MAKING UP FICS AND AUS CAUSE I NEED TO MAKE THIS A THING BUT I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DRAGON TO KNOW WHAT IS AND ISNT A STRETCH OF HIS CHARACTER. RAAAAAAAA

#no major spoilers please I am but a humble screaming at 1am girl #am I offering up this idea on a silver platter for others? kinda #I just kinda wanna know what people would think dragon would do #but without like spoiling the actual show #monkey d. dragon #asl brothers #revolutionary sabo #monkey d. luffy #uhhhh #au idea #fic idea? #I refuse to believe dragon wouldn’t not care about Luffy #but he was also raised by Garp #so tough love is also an option #rambles #one piece

[lunarrosette]

Will campos I am coming to your house if you forget about any of your resurrection spells next ep

#/j #dndads #dungeons and daddies #terry jr #seriously man god dammit #I’m going to KILL Willy stampler #dndads spoilers #I’m actually tagging spoilers because like major character death #also terry :((( #GIVE ME. MY BOY BACK #MAKE. HIM A VAMPIRE I DONT CARE #PLEASE I MISS HIM ALREADY #AND I FINISHED THE EP 5 MINUTES AGO #lunarrosette’s shit

[brookheimer]

the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.

succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.

i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.

so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.

#WOOF okay here's my unnecessary ~thematic prediction~ for this episode #i have some more like random thoughts ab what'll happen but those r less thought out and more throwing shit at the wall etc #but i've been thinking a lot ab this ep n idk i just can't see any other way it could be done satisfyingly -- they can't just do 2016/2020 #again. the focus has to be elsewhere. i have some specifics thoughts on details but again those r kinda random n will be in another post #after bizarrely getting a lot of things right this szn i know a lot of people are looking to me to see what i'll say for this ep and let me #remind yall that I AM LITERALLY JUST GUESSING BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHOW AND HOW NARRATIVES #TEND TO WORK PARTICULARLY IN SUCCESSION! if i am wrong which i very well might be please do not crucify me. i know literally #nothing more than anyone else i'm just a random english/gov major who likes speculating about media ! that said if i end up right again #somehow then yes i am a prophet i am jesse armstrong i have never been wrong about anything in my life. etc #watch this age so poorly tho. #LOL #also fwiw i dont think the Shock etc is going to come from the election results - maybe possibly from the way things happen (i could see a #line of miscommunication resulting in fucked up outcomes etc which i can get into in another post) or a roy sibs moment but i just #don't think there's any way the results themselves cld be surprising. it's jimenez or mencken. it's not gonna be connor guys. #succession #succession spoilers #except not really. just succession speculation more than anything else #long post #succession speculation #100

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

Friendly reminder that Havers's hand hovered over Cap's even before he yelled at Cartwright to fetch a medic

and that he then grabbed Cap's hand before they had even said a word to each other (except for him yelling "sir, sir!")

I'm fine

#also cap could only move his hand a bit to indicate please take my hand #screaming crying throwing up #i'm gonna drown myself in the lake #i just noticed this whilst working on a long as babbling post #but this here...it hurts #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #my soft boy and my creaky boy #redlever #caphavers #bbc ghosts series 5 spoilers #capvers #bbc ghosts the captain #lieutenant havers #major anthony havers

[cave-monkey]

Six Ears, and being left.

#mhw09 personal #gif warning #*screaming into knees* #can I draw your attention to his HAND PLEASE #I didn't realize that was going to be a *thing* #that little WAVE #I paid subzero attention to the closing and it was because I was subconsciously protecting my heart apparently #listen to me listen #it's about 'and a double-edged sword cuts your heart in two' #torn between Stone Monkey and *gestures to everything else in his life* *like literally everything* #it's about Stone Monkey going where Six Ears can't follow #and where the line is between staying behind and being left behind #and so he's stuck in place. watching him leave. weights around his ankles. #whether those be his duty to his troop or the demons in his head #always holding back. always in-between. always feeling like he's going to lose *something*. #six ears and that fear that's inside him #I've only seen 11 episodes and have just One Major Spoiler in my pocket am I barking up the wrong tree? MAYBE #but here we are anyway #also Jade Rabbit looking at him in concern from the background! this missing scene is gold. too bad it's on eternal mute.

[diathadevil]

Ohhhhhh that ending so solidified the anime adaptation in and of itself and made it very complete as a story (a little bit saddened since it doesn't feel like there might be season 2 with the way the ending changed from the the manga's plot points, at least not anytime soon until we get to some other arcs in the manga!)

Also ngl I kept re-watching some of the sign language scenes with Yuki and Itsu just because of how PRETTY the animation was for it. This anime honestly impressed me with the details in animation.

Man the anime did such a lovely job with its adaptation. I'd love to see at least an ONA or something with Yuki and Itsu and the gang giving us sign language lessons. I need to see more of them ughhhh.

I love A Sign of Affection sm y'all. This is my 10/10 anime this year.

#dia talks #yubisaki to renren #a sign of affection #spoilers #a sign of affection spoilers #yubisaki to renren spoilers #I am a little bit pedantic when it comes to the fact that they didn't bring an actual trilingual voice actor for Itsuomi #but honestly there's only so many voice actors you can find that fit that criteria (and one got recently cancelled so they dodges a bullet) #so even with my pedantic linguistic side I am genuinely pleased with how much vocal and sign languages and they added in this anime #and i also heard some of the background ones speak very fluently too especially for the german kids in the last ep so that was major points #anyway definitely a 9.5/10 which im rounding to 10/10 because i can and also 'cuz MAL doesn't use decimal scores for its user rating

[might-be-a-robot]

today i offer y'all a very silly goober - next who tf knows

#jrwi fanart #jrwi riptide #jrwi gillion #gillion tidestrider #gillion fanart #behold the power of a drawing tablet!!!! #this drawing has no right to be so good ffs #no (major) spoilers for the show please :D #i'm on episode 13 rn #i'm so far behind helpppp #also ignore the shitty background #i had no clue what to do there #so yeah ig

[my-cages-were-mental]

so we are obviously all very aware of the fact that spencer gets constantly shut down by the members of the bau when he’s infodumping, right? ok so i was watching the episode “true night” and right near the end of the episode there is this scene between spencer and jj.

and this is, by far, one of the worst, if not the absolute worst shutdown towards reid that i’ve seen so far.

like jj ily but seriously, what the fuck. that was so uncalled for.

#also i’m on my first watch through so pls no spoilers 🫶 #i’ve spoiled some things but i’d like to avoid as many major spoilers as possible me please :) #jennifer jareau #spender reid #criminal minds

[jaynaneeya]

Mary Kate Wiles as Kat Van Tassel in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story Episode 9: The Clues in the Clink

#mary kate wiles #headless series #shipwrecked comedy #mk birthday countdown #gah she plays this SO WELL #she's like kind of sus but it's not super clear why #the way she looks at matilda significantly #i can't #also if you still haven't watched this show and you've been seeing these please watch it now #major spoilers coming tomorrow

[dancingdorito]

it's really funny to me that this is in my notes.

i've been doing research so this is my evidence for a summer release of bridgerton season 3. because SOME people are mean and act like i have no idea how filming works. even with reshoots and delays i cannot see the show releasing past august.

but who am i to tell, i am just a college student with a stubborn hyperfixation that won't go away so i torture myself instead.

#netflix bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 spoilers #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton s3 #polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 speculation #bridgerton season 3 release date #i have way too much time on my hands and i really shouldnt #to be fair #i wrote most of this when i was healing from a major surgery so #i am so impatient for this season #also if anyone needs alt text for the screenshots please PLEASE let me know #let me spread my knowledge

[tactlesstuesdays]

i present to you all, my shitty writing about a chiles moment for around 600 words (i also have not partaken in any spoilers, just saw that chapa is a fangirl and sissy ruined everything and ran with it)

"What's it about AWOL then?"

It's cruel the way Miles says it. It's as if he's in disbelief. Disbelief that anyone could ever find him romantically interesting. Chapa would be lying if it wasn't another dagger in her heart. Miles is priceless, even if he isn't fully aware of it. He's her main resolution for staying part of Danger Force. He's compassionate and kind and with or with no one else's acknowledgement, he's enough.

She could hug him for hours; he'd protect her, Chapa knows he would (Miles is good like that). She's homesick for arms that don't want to hold her. She's grateful they even get to bask in the same light of the same moon; she's granted that small of a luxury. It's taking every ounce of her strength not to gush about him to his face. Chapa feels like she's done something terrible (something that amounts to worse than her petty crimes) like she's robbed a liquor store, swallowed more than a handful of pills or even buried herself in an open grave. All just because she's sat by a pretty boy who's prodding her about how she feels. And maybe it's because no one's ever really been invested in how she works, but she'd prefer it to be because Miles is pretty.

She tries to choke down the feeling, but his eyes glance over her again and she just melts. He's like a poem that no poet has ever been brave enough to tackle. He's a gilded bird in a cage, clawing for freedom. He's like a prayer for when no words exist; his heart has taken root in hers and she'll be damned if she lets it go.

"Why are you asking? Is Sissy not working out already?" Chapa croaks out. She winces at the hoarse ricochet of her voice. If Miles notices it, he's generous enough to ridicule her for it.

"Curiosity kills the cat, Chapa. Just call it a vested interest. What's so great about me?" Miles pushes, gently. She hates it. He can invade her fortified mind and have her crumble with the illusion that he'll catch her, but he's not hers. She's reminded of that every glance he takes at Sissy. But there's nowhere else to put the love. It's not hers, and it's so heavy because it's all his if only he'd accept it. "I just want to know what you're thinking completely, at least once."

It was a great question, and it made her question everything.

"Every day that we didn't talk, it felt like I was involved in a battle that I didn't want to be in. I just wanted you," Chapa confesses. Her mouth moves faster than her brain can compute and he's watching her with that warm smile. "You're just the person I want to share everything with, I guess. My happiness, sadness, frustration. All of it. You deserve so much more than we've got, Miles. And if I know it, then you know it too. You're just being stubborn about it."

"Yeah," Miles responds. And for several daunting moments, Chapa believes that's where he'll leave it. Unsaid and hanging over her. "I missed you too."

He doesn't explicitly confess it; he doesn't vow that he's grateful to share the same sky as her, but he implies he realises his luck to have crossed paths with her in this lifetime. For now, she can fool herself into believing that's enough.

They can always begin again. They will not always be this young and this vulnerable in this shitty town. They can always begin again.

#danger force #chapa de silva #miles macklin #they ruined my life #chiles #writing #please its really bad ik #but i just wanged to express my thoughts #my angsty beans #also plz if you can check out my latest fic on ao3 :) #i seriouzly have no idea what's been happening in the latest episodes #ive been avoidng major spoilers #but ik frankini and ray kissed #i did message my friends about that part

[hiragihouse]

gege needs to retire his character death note and hand it off to asagiri i swear 😭

#my sister (misinformed) told me yuta died in the latest jjk ch and i was so nervous looking at leaks #bc its smthn gege /would/ do and i really like yuta #thankfully he’s fine he just made an appearance in the latest ch thats all #tell me why my first thought after was ‘man that was a thrill i wish new bsd chapters made me feel like this’ 😭 #my biggest gripe w. bsd will forever be how all the characters always come out of battles completely unscathed #nevermind the 500 injuries th​ey sustained #nobody ever dies or gets new battle scars or life changing wounds etc etc it kinda makes the stakes boring when you know the character will #be fine when alls said and done #and honestly this wouldn’t be problem for me if ! asagiri didnt deathbait so damn much ! #he’s allergic to actually killing off a character and thats how i Know fyodor prob isnt dead #and neither is sigma bc fyodors ability is still a big mystery and we need them to reveal it for us #bc asagiri never killed anyone major off in the main manga before its hard to believe that he killed these two off 🤷‍♀️ #and ig fukuchi but all those theories of him being the masked man at the s5 cliffhanger has me squinting suspiciously #tbh idc if its my fav character who dies if it’ll make the plot more interesting then send them to the gallows !! #(okay maybe not lucy but she barely gets any panel time shhh) #like i like fukuzawa but i also think itd be interesting to see what would’ve happened if he died in the battle vs fukuchi #bc the aftermath would be a change in status quo and it would’ve been interesting to see the change in dynamics in the ada and #how they deal w. his loss !! #on the other hand gege killing off his characters too frequently . . . doesnt rlly need an explanation #(jjk spoilers?) now w. yuta going up against sukuna . . . please keep him safe gege i beg 🥲 #anyways. enough rambling now to go back to shoving bsd to the back of my mind lol #ayra croaks

[a2zillustration]

Now I wanna know what the rest of croissants bingo card says 👀 how close are they to bingo?

I have some bad news pal,

we're not going to get close to bingo LMAO

Also, tragically, I don't have the rest of their bingo card. The squares I drew for that comic had all of the "big" predictions I could remember making about the game, and I barely had enough to fill out what I drew in that panel. And despite trying to avoid spoilers like the plague, I have a handful of no-context pieces of info that make guessing what's going to happen in the rest of Act 3 feel a little unfair. I'm sorry!!

#Thank you for this ask and exposing me like this it's good for me to stay humble LOL #also @ everyone reading this please I'm begging you don't send me spoilers or questions about mid- to late- act 3 #I haven't touched the companion quests yet and I DON'T know much of anything about end-end game and I would like to KEEP IT THAT WAY WEH #But like #I do know about some of the major actors and stuff in the companion quests #but I am still looking forward to seeing how things play out in the story! #asks