#texting back

[reasoncourt]

i was simply not built for tasks that recur

#texting back #dishes #exercise #homework #breathing? #help

[stuckinapril]

every year the time passes and i say "wow i can't handle the passage of time" and the time continues to pass and the cycle repeats

#looking back at my passage of time posts from early 2022. #girl imagine existing in late october 2023???? why must i deal with this #text

[glumby]

I love the concept of exile. like dude just get out

#text post #edit: the notes are an absolute warzone and i cant believe this has to be said on 2 line joke post but go trans rights and fuck terfs 💀 #edit 2: changed back to original post because some people wanted it

[saltiecattoz]

got a hair cut today and i had to keep myself from laughing because i randomly thought of that jerma bit where someone said he has no eyebrows and then he left to take a “pee break” and came back with his eyebrows filled in

#‘whatever who cares’ *comes back with filled in eyebrows* #saltcat text #jerma

[deancaskiss]

rb to have an ultra gay 2024

#2024 #lgbt #gay #bisexual #bi #lgbtqia #lesbian #transgender #trans #asexual #queer #intersex #pansexual #pan #pride #txt #txt post #text #text post #it’s time to bring back my classic post #3rd year in a row let’s make this another hit! #bring on the holiday cheer and everything queer #wishing you all a gay 2024 #every year I get gayer and more queer and every year I’m happier finding my truest self

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them. #hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore. #but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

[bruciemilf]

Every time the batkids get into legal trouble (damaged property fighting a villain, entitled old ladies being mad they didn’t get saved first, Damian sueing a classmate for proprietary rights over an OC he drew in class, the ONLY person they want to be represented by is Harvey.

Sure, TEHNICALLY he can’t practice anymore, but this is Gotham, and the law system is made of tangled wires. If you pull the right one, you’re in the clear.

The hardest plaintiff is Jason, by far. Ironically enough, he has the simplest cases.

“Okay, so, HOLD ON— I have to TELL you to get out of the way when Bane throws an ENTIRE truck your way? If you can’t dodge death, it deserves to have you, period.”

“Lady, I’m not going to save your weird ass dog/frog hybrid science experiment , — who BIT me, by the way, — over an entire bank full of PEOPLE.”

“Oh im sorry I forgot to pay for the overpriced 12 dollar latte while RUNNING FROM WILD MANEATING PLANTS. “

Harvey, pouring a violent amount of vodka in his coffee: your honor, my client just needs a nap probably

#dc #dc comics #text #jason todd #harvey dent #batkids #dc two face #batman #text post #Bruce hardly cares tbh — he’s just sitting at home with a cucumber mask. Dami sleeping on his chest. ‘did you win already? no? alright. #come back when you do. if you don’t — send Jay and that’s it. ‘

[sadchocoholic]

Just shared this on fb but got told face to face it might not be a good idea to post thisbor any negative feelings online but like why not? Everyone in my friendlist on fb knows i have been struggling with my mental health for years...

#life #texting #replies #texting back #anxious #brain fog #fb #post

[weewoo911]

Buck taking grainy, zoomed-in pictures of every single helicopter he sees and sending them to Tommy like “dis u babe? 🥰”

#911 abc #bucktommy #they’re so cute together #you can’t tell me he wouldn’t #and it would make Tommy smile EVERY TIME #and then one time it WAS him so he just texts back ‘yeah’ and it makes bucks entire WEEK #evan buckley #tommy kinard

[catofthebarricades]

happy magpod release day to all who celebrate

#it’s so over we’re so back etc etc #the magnus protocol #magpod #tmagp #id in alt text #tmagp memes

[demigods-posts]

headcanon that whenever percy returns home from a date with annabeth, and he does that thing where he presses his back against the door and slides down to the floor with dreamy look in his eyes. and sally and paul, both beaming with happiness for their son, asks if the date went well. and he just sighs and smiles like he just saw elysium himself.

#bonus points if he comes back with lipstick marks on his cheek and forehead #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo text post #pjo headcanon #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percabeth headcanon #percabeth fluff #percabeth for the win #percy is so in love

[copepods]

the demons. they’re coming for me (fic ideas that i will never write but theyre soso good i promise)

#university au where wilbur is back from a breakdown-induced gap year and he is desperate for a return to normalcy but nobody is treating him #the same way anymore. even his best friend tommy won’t talk to him. the only person treating him as normal is that one guy from debate club #who still fucking hates him #also there are cars. the cars are important #text

[dickpuncherdraws]

what da dog doin

#zukka #sokka #zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #id in alt text #dickpuncherdraws #waddup guys im back and i bring you uhhhh some gay dogs. enjoy? #oh also. sokka is a seppala siberian sleddog and zuko is a croatian sheepdog. btw

[rad-roche]

i have a few resources i look to consistently but i'm gonna plug anatomy for sculptors as One Of The Most Useful. great if you're a 3D artist, INVALUABLE if you're a 2D artist. gives you turnarounds of specific limbs/fiddly body parts like ears. great especially if you're referencing a photo and start looking at an individual part like 'wait, what the hell is going on in there'

#text post #back muscles.... brrrr

[u3pxx]

is this anything

#gave him that harriet drip ... #disco elysium #harry du bois #described #id in alt text #sunnysidedraws #sunnysidedoodles #i am once again back into the school of using geometric shapes as a background DFGHDJKD #im so eepy ........ #sunnysidedisco

[blended-ice]

on a stroll!

#went through a funky art block but I am back!!! #intentionally omitting Yuuri’s glasses because I wanted them to be dressed in reds and grays and BLUE DOESNT GO WITH THAT ANALAGOUS VIBE #yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #peas n guac #id in alt text #fanart #viktuuri