#add image description

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Kabru #Kabru of Utaya #Laios Touden #Dungeon Meshi meta #you can have him in the tags too. as a treat. #Dungeon Meshi spoilers #this was directly inspired by livelaughlaios's post about Kabru self harming but I decided it got too long to make it a direct reply #this is a theory I've been working on for weeks because I kept noticing this while skimming for screencaps #I'm hesitant to trigger tag this because of the way certain subcultures on tumblr operate #but if anyone needs me to add a content warning please let me know #also I included image descriptions! I did my best #I think they even help illustrate my points but my god were they sad to write. Kabru is so fucking sad you guys #musings with Dea

[nastiagarachtchenko]

#i tweeted this and it was underappreciated so im repostig it here #spider gwen #spiderverse 2 #spiderverse #across the spider verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #gwen is trans #trans gwen stacy #image description in alt #edited to add alt text

[abandoned-quiche]

#toriel #toriel deltarune #toriel undertale #utdr #safe utdr #i'll add an image description.....later. i'm sure you can understand that this is a lot #susie deltarune #undyne #undyne deltarune #napstablook #napstablook deltarune #mettaton #mettaton deltarune #mad dummy #mad dummy deltarune #mad mew mew #mad mew mew deltarune #deltarune #textboxes #1k #2k

[who-is-page]

#OK HB3084 #otherkin #furries #I'll add an image description when I'm off work but im. losing my mind rn

[dick-chugger]

Get r/okbuddyvicodin'ed, idiot.

#r/okbuddyvicodin #house #house md #hate crimes md #hatecrimes md #gregory house #james wilson #allison cameron #lisa cuddy #robert chase #eric foreman #remy thirteen hadley #hilson #choreman #ill add image descriptions soon

[doodlesaresketcheswithnoodles]

wasn't gonna post these, but since it will be a while before I can draw for myself again, here's the coloured sketches of the next SW illustrations I'd prepped up, this time random moments set during the Clone Wars

#star wars #the clone wars #104th Battalion #Plo's Bros #Plo Koon #Cut Lawquane #Suu Lawquane #Jek Lawquane #Shaeeah Lawquane #501st Legion #clone trooper Fives #clone trooper Echo #clone trooper Kix #commander Fox #Anakin Skywalker #captain Rex #Palpatine #phew that's enough #sketchndoodles #FORGOT TO ADD IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS BEFORE POSTING but now they're there SORRY

[helielune]

vanity

[Image description: digital art of Grace from Infinity Train, facing a mirror and using a lipstick tube to apply the red Apex squiggle/sine wave to her face. The first image is grayscale, aside from red and gold accents. The second image is identical, but uses full color. End description.]

#infinity train #grace monroe #infinity train book 3 #two hours and seventeen minutes. give or take. closer to 3 if we include filters and cropping #i want to know how ppl interpret this. like which grace is holding the lipstick tube #i drew it unambiguously at first in the full img but then i cropped it out #MY ART #edited to add image description!! thank you anistarrose for describing <3 #my described art

[soppingwetrat]

:'D

[ID: Image one is an excerpt from the transcript of episode 8 of The Magnus Protocol. It reads:

Gerry: Oh, don't take it too much to heart. It's such a lovely morning.

[Gerry sounds so deeply, plainly happy.]

Image two is a meme of Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec looking down fondly at something and then looking meaningfully at the camera, saying, "It's beautiful. I've looked at this for five hours now." End ID]

thanks to @princess-of-purple-prose for the image ID!

#thank you very much for bringing it to my attention! I'll go add image descriptions to some of my posts #gerard keay #tmagp spoilers #tmagp #my boy

[blocksgame]

quackity was even there

#qsmp #orpheus's dank meme stash #qsmp spoilers #updated to add image description

[pencildragons]

henry’s mind every time he sees glenn after the meth bay arc:

#many thanks to the codywanweek server for this EXCELLENT image #FUCK it's not letting me add an image description #glennry #glenn close #glenn close dndads #henry oak #dndads #dungeons and daddies #words of wyrm

[hegory-grousing]

im not a writer so this doesn't have real dialogue. mad libs I guess. I imagine this happens often on their lunch dates hehe

#house #house md #house md fanart #hate crimes md #greg house #james wilson #wilson #hilson #house x wilson #fanart #sillyposting #slugs art #slugs posts #oh hey. im trying to write image descriptions for my art more consistently and I am open to feedback cause I don't really know what im doin #if you use image descriptions/are knowledgeable and you notice something amiss or have suggestions please feel free to tell me #cause I'd like to make my stuff as accessible as I can! #will go back and add descriptions to all my old art at some point. maybe tomorrow

[beesorcery]

silver and sulphur

[ID: a drawing of Zirk Vervain from NADDPOD in profile, visible from the chest up. He looks in front of him with a neutral expression and holds a glass flask of colourful liquid in each hand. Zirk is a young humanoid man with dark brown skin, droopy elf ears, and blonde hair with rainbow dipdyed ends. He has messy, curly bangs and a pair of round glasses, and wears a white shirt with puffed sleeves, thick black protective gloves, and a black apron. Behind him, the wall is covered in pipes, glass vials, and other alchemical equipment. Decorative writing on the wall reads "Vervain's Potions & Salves / Thornkirk". end ID] (id via transguyhawkeye)

#might as well put this here too #descriptions welcome! i never know how best to write them so pls feel free to add in the notes #procreate #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #eldermourne #naddpod c2 #zirk vervain #lookin at this again goddamn. tumblr absolutely fucked the image quality #click to see it without so much pixelation lol #bees’ art

[autisticredhood]

ARKHAM KNIGHT #19 YOU ARE THE REALEST MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!!!!! 

#sorry will come back and add image descriptions later !! #no jason but i dont even care like yeah thats batman! thats gotham caring for gotham!! gotham & batman bond!! #batman #my very correct ak!jason era

[shop5]

I spent so long on these but I'm really happy with how they turned out they look good with the Lestat I posted a while back

#Armand #louis de pointe du lac #IWTV #interview with the vampire #Shop5 Art #loumand #I used the image description function in the post I hope it works if not let me know I'll add them back in the description!

[army-of-bee-assassins]

it's been said before and i'll say it again: image descriptions are not meant to be added later by other people. they are meant to be written by op and included within the op.

#when people add descriptions in a reblog - that's just a stopgap measure #it's not the goal to do it that way forever #the goal is for as many people as possible to write their own image descriptions #accessibility #glad we're all feeling angry about ids today together #accessibility has to be promoted by everyone - not just a tiny minority #this is also why we are constantly asking people to edit ids into the original post #if you rb my id to say thanks i assume you're unintentionally ignorant at best (i am hoping you will read my blog description) #and at worst i assume you know and you are just too ableist to edit the id in #(sorry i keep editing the tags i just keep thinking of more things i wanna say)

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Pro-Palestine manifestations in Brazil on October 2023.

#politics #brazil #palestine #israel #gaza #brazilian politics #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt #originals #if you have any cities or protests in other days to add please tell me so i can reblog this with additions