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Frolicking and Joy and Happiness and Love and Frolicking and Joy and

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Maxfield Parrish - At Close of Day (1941)

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sea, swallow me

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and then she goes for her first ever day on the job and the world ends. impeccable. no notes

this is so fucking funny to me bc unlike with her you Could argue that was the reasoning behind mithrun being sent to the canaries: choosing his brother who wasn't very physically strong or well regarded status-wise would probably be seen as insulting to the crown or whatever. mithrun was just mad about it bc despite being the 'perfect' son he still ends up in the losing side of this power dynamic, he's not angry his parents would trade a child for better status he's just angry that the child they traded was Him, despite him playing along by elf society's rules perfectly. but because he measures his own worth by how well he can play that role, him not reaping all the benefits that come with it automatically means he must be inferior somehow. Pattadol on the other hand. im sorry there's no way her parents just didnt pick whatever kid they'd care less about losing sorry pattadol. she was sent to the canaries after the utaya incident where whatever vast amount of elfs died was enough to leave them understaffed for years. there's no way a massacre like this wouldn't be fresh in any parents mind. even if they just couldn't refuse the queens request or something, it still stands that they looked at their kids and went. hm which one of those are we willing to risk getting utaya'd okay pattadol it was nice knowing you. and the only reason this doesn't utterly fuck her up as it should. is that shes genuinely like. nooooo was i a bad daughter :( well i can't think of any flaws that i have actually. am i just too awesome yeah that sounds right and im fine now. insane. entire crisis averted bc pattadol is simply too confident in herself

#dungeon meshi spoilers #pattadol

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this is so fucking funny to me bc unlike with her you Could argue that was the reasoning behind mithrun being sent to the canaries: choosing his brother who wasn't very physically strong or well regarded status-wise would probably be seen as insulting to the crown or whatever. mithrun was just mad about it bc despite being the 'perfect' son he still ends up in the losing side of this power dynamic, he's not angry his parents would trade a child for better status he's just angry that the child they traded was Him, despite him playing along by elf society's rules perfectly. but because he measures his own worth by how well he can play that role, him not reaping all the benefits that come with it automatically means he must be inferior somehow. Pattadol on the other hand. im sorry there's no way her parents just didnt pick whatever kid they'd care less about losing sorry pattadol. she was sent to the canaries after the utaya incident where whatever vast amount of elfs died was enough to leave them understaffed for years. there's no way a massacre like this wouldn't be fresh in any parents mind. even if they just couldn't refuse the queens request or something, it still stands that they looked at their kids and went. hm which one of those are we willing to risk getting utaya'd okay pattadol it was nice knowing you. and the only reason this doesn't utterly fuck her up as it should. is that shes genuinely like. nooooo was i a bad daughter :( well i can't think of any flaws that i have actually. am i just too awesome yeah that sounds right and im fine now. insane. entire crisis averted bc pattadol is simply too confident in herself

#dungeon meshi #pattadol #mithrun #you know that post that's like #mithrun was literally dumber than a kid (thistle) #it's true but it should also be recognized that he was also more insecure than a 16 year old #dungeon meshi spoilers

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'ivy is beginning to clothe the 2 seated people made by simon gerhold at groombridge place, in kent, england' in livingsculpture - paul cooper (2001)

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this is so fuckin funny

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the muse ⬇️

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the haterrrrrr

#thats so cute........ #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #op you're right about the clothes those are so charming #i love the brother's little cape #the expressions are so good too #mithrun the grouch

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It's so funny that Misa is famous. Imagine that you're a normal ass cop and you get put on a special task force to catch a mass murderer. And you meet with the expert detective in charge. And he tells you your top 2 suspects are a random teenager and like. Ariana grande

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Miquella the Unalloyed 🌻

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falin holding cat!izutsumi like jesus holding a lamb

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#not american #45%

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Last will

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Getting more into the details Elves and Dwarfs live about the same amount, with the Gnomes being the longest lived long-lived race (what a tongue twister) when you compare age of maturity to life expectancy. Using the same metrics Half-foots on the other hand are the shorter lived ones of the short-lived races, followed by Tall-men, then Oni, then by Ocs, and finally by Kobolds, who are the longest lived race of the short-lived races. It does makes me wonder if there's a racial component to it after all because although you could explain Gnomes living longer as a result of a lesser involvement in the Elf-Dwarf war, you would assume Orcs would live less due to poorer living conditions, but they're faring pretty well comparatively. Another possible interpretation of this could be that Orcs or Kobolds, do live less, but because of it the age they consider one of their own as an adult would be lower as well (this being a thing influenced by societal factors) affecting the ratio, but that's just a lot of extrapolation. I don't really have an answer for it lol

One detail I've always really liked in dunmeshi's worldbuilding is the difference in life expectancies among races. I don't mean the different rates at which they age but specifically how long they live from the point of view of their own group. For example, dwarfs are directly stated to age 2.5x slower than a tall-man, but where tall-men's life expectancy is only about 60, for a dwarf it would be about 200 (equivalent to 80).

At first this stood out as odd to me but it makes sense when you look up the average lifespan for every race. In general, the short-lived races all have a smaller age of maturity to life expectancy ratio than all the long-lived ones.

I really love this discrepancy because the implication here is that long-lived races not only have longer lifespans due to aging slower, but they also just live longer generally due to a better quality of life, as they have taken the most fertile and livable lands to themselves, resulting in less conflicts over resources and faster technological developments.

Ultimately how long you live isn't just a fantastical element of the setting, but a political one as well.

#dungeon meshi #i'm speaking specifically of the ratio between age of maturity and average age of death to be clear #not absolute years lived

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One detail I've always really liked in dunmeshi's worldbuilding is the difference in life expectancies among races. I don't mean the different rates at which they age but specifically how long they live from the point of view of their own group. For example, dwarfs are directly stated to age 2.5x slower than a tall-man, but where tall-men's life expectancy is only about 60, for a dwarf it would be about 200 (equivalent to 80).

At first this stood out as odd to me but it makes sense when you look up the average lifespan for every race. In general, the short-lived races all have a smaller age of maturity to life expectancy ratio than all the long-lived ones.

I really love this discrepancy because the implication here is that long-lived races not only have longer lifespans due to aging slower, but they also just live longer generally due to a better quality of life, as they have taken the most fertile and livable lands to themselves, resulting in less conflicts over resources and faster technological developments.

Ultimately how long you live isn't just a fantastical element of the setting, but a political one as well.

#dungeon meshi #I'm so fond of dunmeshi world-building can you tell