#do I care? fuck no

[just-somedude]

My head's pounding, I'm think about pounding you, let's make something happen

#mine #this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted #do I care? fuck no

[voxmilia]

Josh Groben's evermore made it on to my wrapped and I fully blame my huleth playlist thank you

#NOW I KNOOOOOW SHE'LL NEEEEEEVER LEAVE MEEEEEEE #EVEN AS SHE FAAAAADES FROM VIIIIIIIEW #SHE WILL STILL INSPIIIIIRE ME!!! BE APAAAAART OF EVERYTHIIIIIING I DOOOOOOO!!!! #christina.txt #huleth #is this song probably more d*mileth coded? yes #do i care? fuck no #he rages against the trials of love!!!! he curses the fading of the light!!!! #though shes already flown so far beyond his reach!!!!! she's never out sight!!!!!!!

[nekokvmaa]

Wait since when was Edgar trans what did I miss😭?

Literally fucking always? Bro idk what you missed 😭

It's been written in his profile since forever

#he is indeed trans #because i said so #is it unrealistic? yes #do i care? fuck no #snapedom #hp oc #snape fandom #harry potter oc

[argburlazerbeamsyou]

yknow i like to think of wilbur's finale as a bad ending thats framed to be happy (like whiplash's)

because this was wilbur making his final mistake, leaving tommy alone fighting for scraps once again because he didnt give himself the time to learn his lesson, and most importantly he never quite forgave himself so he left to go home without being able to give the last sorry, and the most important he never got to forgive himself and be able to sleep at night peacefully because his mistakes will follow him around forever until he forgives himself which apparently will never happen so in my point of view this ending is like whiplash's

(whiplash spoilers below)

in whiplash's ending, we see neiman give his sólo, give his heart to the craft and we see for he first time ever, fletcher give him approval, its a happy ending until you realize that thisis actually neiman's abuser gaining power over neiman again, but why does it feel like a happy ending until you rethink the implications?

framing

In whiplash, this final moment is framed from neiman' perspective, the lights are bright yellow, the audience isnt there at all and the only person out there is him in the spotlight and fletcher's approval. (another proof is how the colors go dead when we see his dad' pov, he's frightened, his isnt a happy ending, this is self destruction and his dad is seeing this without being able to save his son)

Then in wilbur's ending, we are seeing his pov, we see him leave while the sun rises, we see a bright blue sky and vivid colors when he arrives to utah, we also see the closeup to his face when he realizes he made it home, he's happy, he's free.But there's also two peculiar shots i'd like to talk about which are first, the ending shot.

Wilbur is alone, we see his happiness, yet emptiness, he's all alone, just him and the sign to what he thinks is his happy ending, yet he chooses to use a wideshot, you could argue that it is an establishing shot due to this scene introducing us to a new location, but what separates this shot from an establishing shot is the subjects in the scene and the way it frames itself from the position of the camera.

it doesnt try and introduce the setting, it instead focuses the sign and wilbur, in the center, surrounded by emptiness, by the fact that he just left the only person who was always there for him to rot, and he is now fully alone and pathetic without realizing it yet.

the other shot is tommy crying before wilbur sails to the sunset, as soon as we switch from the beautiful scenary shown in wilbur's pov to tommy's, which is rainy, cloudy, lonely, it also shows a closeup to tommy's facecam as a way to express how miserable he has been left (similary to the closeup to neiman's father which helps express his fear for what his son had become)

My point here is, wilbur has been an unreliable narrator from the start and this ending is a sad ending for both wilbur and Tommy, but it is framed as a happily ever after due to the subjectiveness presented in the format wilbur presents his story in, we see the way he sees the world as a happy ending yet get short glimpses to the cruel reality and empty life he has yet to realize he has trapped himself and tommy in.

#i finally finished this yipeee #am i overthinking? yes #do i care? fuck no #this is my way of enjoying media #but if you have any other interpretation of the ending please share id like to compare views #wilbur soot #tommyinnit #dream smp #dsmp #meta #essay

[fcb-mv33]

Max🤝Leo

Being called cheating cunts before Christmas lmao✌️

#do i care? fuck no #neither of my babies can cheat #they #are too adorable for that #they deserve it all too much #🦁🧡

[alixlives]

hey do you think i have enough c!tommy designs

#is syndicate tommy canon? no #do i care? fuck no #ransstrangeblog #ran shut up nobody cares

[lilacponds]

now resumes the belting out love songs to pretend someone has romantic feelings for me etc. etc.

#is this sad? maybe so #do i care? fuck no #Charlie chatters

[secretsbehindthenine]

What kinds of songs do you think idol randy would sing owo

Okay, so, Randy's definitely the type that likes to perform high-energy songs! Like, he feels like the type whose taste in music can be pretty much summed up as anything he can vibe with. So, the stuff he listens to can range from bright and upbeat songs to those with a more gritty, in-your-face kind of sound.

In the AU, he's a bit of an all-rounder, so a lot of his training focuses on both vocals and dance. Songs that can help him show off his singing, rapping, and dancing are often his go-to performance pieces.

If ya need examples, here's a playlist I put together that illustrates how I envision Randy's range (which also doubles as my, like, headcanon for some of his fave Kpop/Jpop artists and his fave songs by them):

Walk It Like I Talk It

Algorithm

Move the Soul

Born To Be Wild

YOLO-konde

Speed of Light

Universe

Double 20

Ready to Burn

Do It Like This

Nemonade

Hot Sauce

Diggity

Beatbox

BOOM

Don't Need Your Love

CIRCUS

MANIAC

CHEESE

Back Door

Good Boy Gone Bad

LO$ER=LO♡ER

#Ari answers #murderedheroes #rc9gn #randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #rc9gn idol au #randy cunningham #randy is a jam (jo1 fan) and you cannot convince me otherwise #he's also a stay and a nctzen cuz why the fuck not #is that hc largely me projecting onto him? yes #do i care? fuck no #like??? their songs are 10000% what randy's into #catch him in the practice room belting his heart out to btbw #and also making a dance cover of maniac to post onto star demon's official tiktok #this is what happens when the ninja doesn't exist in the idol au #randy's diehard fanboyness gets transferred over to him stanning kpop and jpop groups #but like he isn't THAT kind of kpop stan #HELL NAW #he's got madlad energy but he knows how to act like a decent human being #miss him with that stalker shit and toxic fan behavior #aldskfsdlkjf the i am sorry for all this rambling in the tags

[bluebaronness]

EVERYONE STOP LOOKING AT ME IM RB INSIDE JOB SPOILERS LIKE A BITCH

#should I liveblog the day it got released? yes #did I do it? no #do I care? FUCK NO #inside job

[soulless-paper-bag]

Pass the happy! 🧡 When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications!

Ok!

1. Wall-E

2. Sky: Children of the Light

3. My friends :3

4. Gravity Falls

5. Over The Garden Wall

#am I just now answering this? yea #do I care? fuck no #I got about 5 others asks that have been sitting here for a long ass while #gotta clear out the inventory

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

#Sir Crocodile #Monkey D Dragon #Emporio Ivankov #Dragodile #Crocodad #My art #One Piece #We're not gonna talk about the work I should be doing rn I have Severe Procrastinitis and I'm doing my best okay #Alternative version where it was both Crocodile and Garp beating Dragon's ass before Iva-chan joined in but that was too much effort lmao #I'm a believer in Dragon being a Wind Logia so don't worry guys he is 100% taking this beating intentionally #He knows what he did and he's dealing with the concequences of his actions. With grace. #You know I realize Iva-chan should be two whole meters taller than Crocodile but we're just gonna ignore that #Look Iva-chan taking Crocodile's side and being like ''Crocoboy is right you fucked up bad Dragon'' brings me joy #And for real I've been wanting to draw this for months. But never did because I had other shit to do. Which I still do #But. You know. Sometimes you need to draw a shitpost. It's ✨ self-care ✨ #And appearently One Piece shitpost comics have become the thing I draw for myself on occassion

[marsbars1714]

Am I forcibly introducing an irl friend to CoD characters I have hyperfixated on? Mayhaps

Do I regret it? No I’m not gonna stop

#was asked by a friend to send pictures of myself that I have saved #because I don’t take pictures with anyone and they want some #get your mind out of the gutter #and I slipped one of Roach in because he’s so scrungly #soaking wet meow meow looking ass #not even bothering to explain why I’ve fixated just that he is all that I can think about and that I hate how he wasn’t added to mw3 #she gets 0 context just me blathering about a scrungly and being upset about a game #does she know what I mean when I say scrungly? fuck no #do I care? fuck no #is this shitposting? #idk man #now it is

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them. #hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore. #but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

[squidsmeister]

dungeon meshi is my favorite road-trip comedy film

#dungeon meshi #my art #laios thorden #senshi #marcille #chilchuck #chilchack #izatsumi #laois #laius thorden #sorry guys I don’t know which spelling is correct here #chilchucks car is a beat up beige Honda civic #laois never got a license because even though he’s actually a good driver he just never cared enough to do it #plus he wants to travel in some wacky way. like on a five person tandem bicycle or some shit #marcille never got a license because just fucking look at her #plus she gets motion sick in cars. she just would #senshi walks everywhere and has no need for cars #izatsumi just learned what a car was two days ago and she’s pissed that chilchuck doesn’t have a lambo #chilchuck doesn’t have time for any of this. he has to get his daughter to soccer practice at 5

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting