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There’s something so important about dungeon meshi choosing falin to be their missing party member. She’s their healer. She is, in many ways, the most important member. She’s the one who ensures they all come home in one piece at the end of the day. So from a storytelling perspective, it makes sense that it would be her. It intrinsically raises the stakes by taking away the party’s ability to quickly heal.

But from a thematic standpoint it’s even more significant. Falin is the best of them. She holds them all together. There’s a reason why the party splits up when they lose her, after all. The only reason Laois and Marcille know each other is because of Falin, so by extension she’s the only reason their party exists the way it does.

There’s something almost divine about the way she’s characterized by her friends. They talk about her kindness, think of what she’d do if she were with them. You never hear anyone speak poorly of her. Everyone else has flaws. Laois struggles to connect with others, Chilchuck can’t admit when he cares, Marcille refuses to be wrong, and Senshi is very stuck in his ways. None of these are necessarily a bad thing. It just makes them complex people. But Falin is almost more of an idealized concept than a person.

And then we see Falin on screen, a mess of bones and viscera. We see her put back together with forbidden magic, her new body soaked with blood. We see that there’s something off about her, that alongside her kindness is incredible power. And everything up until that point reframes itself. Falin has always been part monster, from her compassion for the dead to her magic school hideout in a dungeon. She dies and comes back, not just changed but amplified. She’s a healer, a ghost, a monster, all tucked beneath the same skin.

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if u pay attention there are themes and motifs on my blog

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

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Courtney Stapleton as Belle in Beauty and the Beast, 2022

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I just want to say I really loved how much Laios stood up for Marcille this week. He really said I'm not about to let y'all shit all over my friend for doing what she could to save someone we all care about. I'm not about to let y'all shame her for her talent and genius. I'm not about to let her hard work go unacknowledged while the rest of you wouldn't ever have the balls to do what she did. Because unlike all of you she isn't a little bitch. It was beautiful man.

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i love the dichotomy of neurodivergencies in how falin and laios are portrayed, especially how it pertains to how men and women in the spectrum present differently

laios is incredibly obviously autistic. he can't read a room, he loves to bring up things he loves at every opportunity, he likes to feel prepared for every situation. he's also loud, personable, and kind.

falin (from her limited screen time so far imsorryihaventreadthemanga) shares a lot of traits with laios. she's kind, friendly, and loves to discuss her interests, but won't bring them up unless someone initiates. she's also very quiet and doesn't start conversations as much as joining them.

they're both clearly on the spectrum, but falin i think has made herself more tolerable, which is why people like shuro like her but not laios. like a lot of women with autism, she's learned to squash her more abrasive traits to be likeable

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#yes

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whats the fucking point of having laws if people can keep making led headlights

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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Dungeon Meshi so based for not only having lesbians but leaving the main male protagonist single and it not being a problem. I stg so many anime/manga I’ve seen have the male protags lusting so hard after either a relationship or sex and it’s nice that the only thing laios lusted for the entire time was a comically large drumstick that he takes an enthusiastic bite out of

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It was a fierce battle of paper and acrylic markers...

#he’s so unsettling <3333

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"The author never actually MADE these meals. Want to know how I know?! TRUST ME. I CHECKED."

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convinced some of you just don't like mcr because "what's their worst song" and you say FOUNDATIONS??? no. you're wrong. you've never been right in your entire life.

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kabru is so fucking funny. he’s out here playing 15 dimensional manipulation mind chess with a guy whose hobby is barking like a dog

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doing my duty of drawing skeleton falin