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i'm such a big fan of laios using being well fed as proof that he's serious. like there's so many techbros & etc who will use not eating breakfast as proof that they're productive & just in general, the idea of being "too busy to eat" is getting more common (which is exactly what toshiro is doing here!) but laios is like. no. i'm so serious about this i'm thinking about what comes next. i'm so serious about this i'm making sure my body can do everything it can when i need it.

the fact that everyone in the party took care of themselves & carefully planned out their route & when they'd take breaks is what made them so successful. they always made sure to understand their limits

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi episode 17

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#dungeon meshi #kabru dungeon meshi

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dungeon meshi textposts pt20, episode 17 edition!! and here were the manga spoiler ones from the earlier textposts :)

pt1 | pt2 | pt3 | pt4 | pt5 | pt6 | pt7 | pt8 | pt9 | pt10 

pt11 | pt12 | pt13 | pt14 | pt15 | pt16 | pt17 | pt18 | pt19 | pt20

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If you didnt believe Laios was autistic before todays episode i hope it clears that up for you

we were first shown his special interest, a very autistic trait to have. We get to see him indulge in his interest, we get to see him happy.

but this episode contains the scene that makes it clear Laios cannot understand social cues, tone of voice, sarcasm, or subtlety. He actively suffers socially with other humans.

Shuro is pissed Laios didnt pick up on the fact that he hated Laios, because he was being passive aggressive (at best, Shuro bottled up a lot of feelings), and said verbally he was Laios' friend. Laios takes things at face value, if someone says "im your friend" that's what he believes is true.

He hates that Laios "gets to be genuine". I hate the way he says that "gets" as if its a privilege for Laios. It's a privilege for Shuro who is nobility and has his behavior and emotions stifled. Laios doesnt understand that others are NOT genuine. he's not from that world.

that's why Laios asks "why didnt you TELL me?" and Shuro says it should have been obvious.

it was NOT obvious to Laios, not at all.

And also, that was who Laios thought was his FIRST friend on the island. he thought he made a friend, something actively difficult for him to do.

it devastated him to learn that he was wrong the entire time.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden

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#dungeon meshi

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LMAO THE "WOAH HEY" FROM MARCILLE HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

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WHY DID THEY ANIMATE HER BREASTING SO BOOBILY

#dungeon meshi

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@anistarrose

I personally headcanon that individual towns within The Unknown don’t have a lot, if any, contact with one another. See: Beatrice being shocked by Pottsfield, the tavern people not knowing about Adelaide

Little pockets of civilization separated by The Woods, which because of The Beast are very dangerous to cross. So very few people bother to cross them, and if they do it’s for a purpose, they certainly aren’t exploring.

So while this one town might be very knowledgeable about the beast, but other might know less. And if The Woodsman was living on the edge of society as his name suggests, he might not have know very much at all.

This is tangential, but I once wrote a fic where The Unknown was this narnia-esk world that used to be interconnected, but had become separated because of interference from the beast. He was operating as this winter lord, but he’d killed the lady of summer and the seasons were all out of whack, and winter was getting longer and longer each year because there was no balance. Wirt stayed behind, trading his life for Greg’s (NOT through a deal with the beast) and became the lord of summer, obviously. And then later (ten years real world time but like a century in the unknown) Greg and Sara (everyone irl forgot wirt except for greg, and Sara is the only one who kinda believed him) who have been searching for a way back all this time trip into The Unknown and become the Lords of Spring(Greg) and Autumn(Sara) respectively. One of Beatrice’s great grandkids, Robin (her family committed to the bit so hard that they all still have bird names four generations later) becomes the new Lord of Winter after they all kill the beast.

so the Tavern Keeper's song "The Beast is Out There" actually spells out the Beast's modus operandi in thorough detail, right? it explicitly spells out that his promises are lies, that the Edelwood trees are grown from his victims, and even that the lantern is "his."

this is all delivered, folktale-as-a-warning-style, to Wirt and Greg when they appear in the tavern as lost travelers — it may even play a part on Wirt seeing through the Beast's trick in the finale. this is a warning conveyed to residents of the Unknown through song — these people aren't oblivious to the Beast; in fact, they're "all" well aware that he's out there and he can't be trusted.

so, with this in mind, why is it so strongly implied that the Woodsman hasn't heard this song?

the Woodsman claims, probably honestly, that he had no idea where the Edelwood trees come from. and he never had an inkling that the Beast's soul was in the lantern all along — maybe a very faint one, but not enough to counteract his denial and desperation. nothing like Wirt's immediate intuition.

so, was the Woodsman's denial just too deep, or had he really never heard the song? had he really never been warned? he's been seen very near to the Dark Lantern tavern, but it seems he never entered, and this has... heartbreaking implications to me.

because clearly, he was feared and ostracized due to carrying the lantern! the Tavern Keeper was superstitious enough about bluebirds, for crying out loud, so of course she'd object to the Woodsman stepping foot in her tavern when "he who carries the lantern must be the Beast!"

but even before the Woodsman became the lantern-bearer — was he never given a proper warning then, either? were he and his family outcasts then, too? if so, was it by choice, or were they just ostracized by superstitious townsfolk before the Beast ever had them in his clutches?

I mean, think about the naming conventions in the Dark Lantern episode — the Tavernkeeper. the Butcher. the Tailor. the Highwayman. and then the Woodsman. the names seem almost designed to call attention to how these characters should be connected — but they aren't. why aren't they?

and, hell — why did the Woodsman's daughter have no one to turn to who'd help her look, when her father went missing? why was there no support for either of them? did they just... never have anyone in their lives besides each other?

anyways, if you can't tell, the Woodsman is one of my favorite tragic heroes.

#otgw #over the garden wall #otgw meta

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over the garden wall is about how the police ruin everything

wirt and greg wouldn't have almost died and gone to the unknown if the police weren't fucking around trying to scare the kids, causing them to panic and run

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Love that the Otgw fandom revives itself every fall. There’s truly nothing more in the spirit of the show than a little seasonal necromancy.

#over the garden wall

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over the garden wall makes me so weepy. also did you know that in the moment after wirt approaches the beast, just before he realises striking a deal with the beast is futile, you can hear the sound of a bike bell, aka a sign from the outside world that his friends are looking for him?

#otgw #over the garden wall

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beatrice otgw actually had some really elaborate bluebird lore ready to go, but wirt and greg stopped asking after like five minutes

#over the garden wall #beatrice otgw

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no, i’m not going to deal with my crippling depression. i am going to watch another show meant for nine year olds. fuck you too.

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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imagine a video of a crepe being made and then imagine the audio that might go along with it. whatever you just imagined is wrong