#manga posting

[weirdplutoprince]

Trauma in Solo leveling

Always haunted by what could have been of Solo Leveling if the narrative acknowledged the inherent trauma vision that guides most of Jin-Woo's actions through the series instead of glorifying him for that.

Like, it is pretty clear to me from the start that a lot of his obsession with self reliance and his increasingly cynical views of the world ("The weak are destined to be betrayed") are a direct response to the double dungeon incident, and in more ways than we initially realize.

I think it's particularly obvious in the way he is paralled with Lee Joohee; while they're both shown to be traumatized from their encounter, Joohee is supposedly 'worse off' than him. She has noticeable flashbacks to that episode and withdraws from life and work in an attempt to avoid possible triggers - becoming paralysed when she fails to do so. And because, while also afraid, Jin-Woo is instead making a point to return to dungeons we are very clearly meant to think that he is moving on when she is not. ...Except that he isn't.

Because, you see, along with withdrawing, the reenactment of a traumatic event is also a very common response to trauma. And so is the risky behaviour that might come with it. And what does Jin-Woo does as soon as he's able to leave the hospital again? Immediately throw himself into dungeons, alone, with a clear disregard for personal safety and an extreme need to both prove himself and give meaning to his near death experience before.

Not only does he goes right back into the very same place his trauma took place, but he seems to subconsciously be trying to recreate said event in a way that gives him control of the situation. This time, he wasn't abandoned to die alone in a dungeon: he did it himself, willingly. He placed himself in that position. And later on, when he risks himself with shady parties he expects to betray him, he seems almost content; once again putting himself in risk by creating a scenario where he is 'abandoned' and 'betrayed' but where he can come off on top. He is desperate to both have his belief confirmed that someone perceived as a weak hunter like he is will always be betrayed, always be left behind, and to fight that supposed fate. To prove that he has 'fixed' this aspect of himself and will thus not fall victim to that consequences of that abandoment again. In fact, he is so detatched from the current scene that he deliberately ignores the fact Yoo Jinho challenges those believes by protecting Jin-Woo, whom he believes to be an E rank at that point.

And were this any other story, all his development from then on would prove the faults of this mindset. The dangers of self reliance, of cutting yourself off from any support network, from depriving himself of any sort of meaningful trust or vulnerability with others. But instead, we're meant to respect the fact he is increasingly isolated from everyone else. That he becomes cold, emotionally withdrawn and paranoid (his refusal to join any of the existing guilds always felt to me like his need for control taken to extreme, plus the fact he could not deal with how exposed he felt working with others again). And I think that's really sad.

It would have been really interesting to have a story that is willing to challenge the notion that he is better off alone, and that trust in others is ultimately unecessary. And that would acknowledged the strength necessary to allow himself to trust and be vulnerable after everything - and the importance of surrounding himself with people he loves and knows will protect him too. Sad 😔

#falando #long post #analysis #manga posting #solo posting #solo leveling #sung jin woo #every day i think of the version of solo leveling that exists in my head #analise

[sir-klauz]

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan

#life lessons with uramichi #life lessons with uramichi oniisan #kikaku hanbee #gaku kuze #manga #manga blog #manga aesthetic #mangacore #manga reader #anime and manga #manga recommendation #manga tag #manga posting #manga post #manga and anime #manga and stuff #manga screencap #manga community #manga cap

[crimsonyoukai]

Don’t be too loud. Okay? ∞༺♥༻✧ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

#{like/rb if you save/use as this was from my own book I bought #shizuma x minato #mito minato #minato mito #ikushima shizuma #shizuma ikushima #meguru hinohara #hinohara meguru #therapy game #therapy game manga #therapy game restart volume 1 by meguru hinohara #therapy game restart manga #anime #manga #lgbt manga #anime art #manga posting #manga update #manga cap

[upp-loader]

#upload! #manga posting #manga panels #manga panel #shounen no abyss #boys abyss #ryo minenami #ryou minenami #nagi aoe #monochrome

[lowkeydivine]

Underrated panel

#he should be beating Laius’s ass more often tbh. We all know he wants to #chilchuck tims #laios touden #dungeon meshi #rereading the manga for the 347th time because the anime has resparked my brainworms #my post

[suiheisen]

studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

#i'm sorry but unnnnffffffffffff. Hot. my humongous chicken-lizard wife <33333333 #she's so majestic.... #like. i get it shuro and marcille. #also that is my favourite page of the manga #watch as tumblr tags this mature content for chimera boobs. i'm always getting kinkshamed on this site... #anyway. this too is yuri. climbing her like a tree. #this episode coming out on lesbian visibility week... the universe knows what i need #falin touden #marcille donato #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #anime #manga #spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #blood tw #long post #lesbian #dunmeshi spoilers

[avo-manga]

today i got the french limited edition of yona of the dawn 40!

it comes with a reversible cover and a mini artbook with 160 pages. i ordered it from an online shop in france since i live in the eu and it was only 12,90€, too.

im pretty happy about it. i dont really understand french, but if i want to read it i can always get it online

i actually havent read yona in years. i started reading it years ago when it first got really big and only a few volumes were out, ive been wanting to reread for some time. one of these days ill get to it.

#manga posting

[avo-kat]

(this is Ikoku Nikki)

i love going on bookwalker and randomly picking a free manga to read. i basically have fun or at least see something interest and funny.

...i realize thats just like using the library.

#manga posting

[jinaxxo]

the dunmeshi party if i were to be the lord of the dungeon.. just a glimpse into my dark reality..

#gonna try to draw izutsumi farlyn kabru and mithrun before my classes give me big assignments again 😭 #sorry i havent been posting for a while :') #would also LOVE to draw the winged lion as a calico critter too if i get the chance cuz i think he'd look ridiculous lol #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi fanart #my art #personal #digital art #fanart #manga #calico critters #sylvanian families #laios thorden #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #senshi #senshi of izganda

[weirdplutoprince]

I love you extremely slow burning shoujos. i love you hyping up the smallest of progress and celebrating every step of the journey. "Have they kissed yet?" "When will she confess" bro shut up its the school festival arc and they're watching fireworks from the empty classroom window and she can see the light of the fires reflected in his eyes - knowing that this is a moment that only the two of them can share. do you hear yourself

#falando #shoujo manga #shoujo #manga posting #this is double true for romantic comedies

[sir-klauz]

Not them both meeting looking at a gay sculpture upon visiting an art museum but actually staring at eachother being like “ur staring lasers do u like it” “yuh I like it a lot, do u like it?” “😶‍🌫️” guys fr might as well just bang there

#under the green light #Mathew Rayner #Jin Cheong-woo #lgbt manga #manga #manga post #manga posting #manga reader #manga blog #manga spoilers

[crimsonyoukai]

Apparently yaoi day was yesterday n I would say I wanna cry bc I didn't say anything as I didn't realise but then I remembered I posted that wedding femboy lingerie video w cock tease on twitter, that exactly matches the twink in the yaoi I'm readings outfit (a video I made weeks before I read this as well) yesterday n that's even better.. just sums up the day on a spiritual level 🤣🖤

Here's the one I mean if you don't have my nsfw twitter..

#manga #lgbt manga #nsft posting #manga blog #manga posting #yaoi day #yaoiday #yaoi manhwa #yaoi bl #yaoi smut #yaoi manga #femboii #boys love #boys love manga

[lordsmaf]

This is what I sound like talking about my current hyperfixation to people

#chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man manga spoilers #chainsaw man manga #asa mitaka #mitaka asa #csm 113 #chainsaw man chapter 113 #csm #csm manga spoilers #csm manga #chainsawman #chainsaw man #mangacap #autism things #marine biology #seems the marine biology side of tumblr found this post lol

[1alchemistart]

some dunmeshis bc i love them

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #laios touden #marcille donato #farlyn thorden #farlyn touden #laius thorden #laius touden #laois touden #that's right i'm including the misspelling cause i see it a bit too often JSDFKLSDKL #SOON I SHALL POST THE SPOILERY DRAWINGS I'VE BEEN WITHHOLDING. #THIS IS A REMINDER FOR PEOPLE TO TAG THEIR MANGA SPOILERS i read the manga fully but please think of the anime onlies JKSDFKLSD #my art #i love laios v much as you can tell

[mithrun-house-of-kerensil]

It made me so emotional the kindness the party treated Thistle with again and again throughout the story. Laios never wanted to hurt him even though he, in a way, took Laios's sister from him. Marcille wanted to talk to Thistle about magic even as he attacked them. Laios could have killed him but he chose to reason with him even as Thostle resisted. The party didn't abandon his body when he got eaten, they tucked him into bed like he was just sleeping. Yaad went back for his body so he wasn't left in the rumble. Laios, in the middle of the celebrations, went to check on him in hopes he would get his desires back the way Mithrun discovered he could. Oh the love in the world!!! The narrative that anyone can be taken advantage when alone and the only way to help is kindness and care!!!

To eat is to live but to eat together is to be loved.

#sorry its me again #overtaken by the love written into every page of this manga #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #delicious in dungeon spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #thistle dungeon meshi #laios dungeon meshi #marcille donato #fuck it also #yaad dungeon meshi #oh the emotion!!! #my post #thistle

[solrin]

this girl also gets me

from Futoku no Guild (Guild of Depravity)

#guild of depravity #mangacap #manga posting #haha it's not just me right? right???