#we muses

[briefsoulsuit]

Uhhhhhm....that is not cabbage

#we muses #everything is cabbage #more fuckery than you can shake a stick at #next level fuckery

[lunacwolphe]

This too shall pass

#like a kidney stone #we muses #lunac gets personal

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

#Dungeon Meshi #Kabru #Dungeon Meshi spoilers #I will say that for the people who come out of the manga still thinking that Kabru hates Laios or that he's a bad guy in any way: #you were so busy staring at the hand where the coin disappeared that you ignored the magician explaining the trick #and yes I do think that Kabru and Marcille are the deuteragonists to Laios's protagonist #we see more of Kabru's interiority than anyone else. if you don't think he's a main character? idk. see me after class. #musings with Dea

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks! #sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in -> #<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this. #its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!! #cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of -> #<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children. #rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations. #fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

[baelobog]

Dealing with the little fly demon and had a vivid flashback to being a kid with an imaginary [cartoon] Beetlejuice we used to have over our shoulder....

[thanks for the confirm by having a bug fly up my nose!]

#we muses #what in the fuckery #we must not look at goblin men

[butcharium]

My girlfriend and I had our first new year's eve together! She looked so beautiful in her suit and I think we made a handsome couple <3 both of us included a small lesbian detail to our outfits!!!

But as often we had a tendency to be mistaken for Just Some Guys - but that's just because the people around us weren't so used to seeing handsome butch women

#we were surrounded by painfully straight and normie people unfortunately #but luckily we had each other abd a really good time! #butch #butch4butch #musings #also for me it was both the venus symbol but also the tie wich has this really nice cool lavender colour! not visible is my really #nice black corduroy blazer my gf found for me when we first got to know each other!

[chipper-smol]

We should bring back the skeleton war using blazed posts

#half joking half not #this is how we keep advertisers from getting a foothold #G muses

[ciearcab]

baseball scribbles…. save me wolfwood in a jersey … save me …

#trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #trigun baseball au #<—- ???? idk if we have a tag for it #thinking ALWAYS of the baseball au #every day of my life i wish it got more attention #musing on my priv earlier about jersey numbers… 05 for vash for ship 5 ofc #ww was harder to pick but i think 02 for december being the second city is good enough #yes wolfwoods the catcher no i didn’t wanna draw the protective gear <3

[blargberries]

having visions of surfer suguru

#geto suguru #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #getou suguru #myart #a muse came to me whispered beach au and here we are #specifically seeing a video of suguru as david from lilo and stitch lmao #anyway #lifeguard gojo is on the waay #myart:jjk

[neon-ufo]

✦ Ektor ✦ Miloš ✦ Huf ✦

#ektor has been such an incredible muse for me so far this year #i've been wanting to have my bigger pieces to look rougher & i think this is the closest i got to the idea so far! i'm very happy with it! #ektor #oc #original character #oc art #centaur #dnd #dnd oc #comic #just realized i forgot his little chin hairs but like #he can shave sometimes if he wants to #even tho his entire face is covered with fur actually #im gonna stop questioning this before it gets to me #we love inconsistency here

[hopefulstarfire]

Children yearn for the Kalosian catacombs

#kenz musings #pokemon #pokemon za #pokemon day #pokemon z #i mean we gotta be going underground right #zygarde likes the caves and being underground #and if its entirely in lumiose then......

[briefsoulsuit]

We are 7 shots [6 vodka 1 whiskey] in to this night

Not me putting @mikeliebo as my singular focus for this fuckery night.

#we muses #crying to music but it's a bop #we are high and listening to music #fuckery has a soundtrack #let's do this #Spotify

[thatsrightice]

Meatball, squadron dog of the 100th bomb group, is pictured above at the 418th Bomb Squadron site in 1944.

#I’ve been waiting for a pic of meatball to drop at some point 🔥🔥🔥 #we love a good squadron dog #meatball #masters of the air #mota #masters of the air meatball #squadron dog #mota musings

[tofixtheshadows]

So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Meshi meta #Mithrun #Milsiril #Kabru #btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry #so keep that in mind #like it just seemed WEIRD to me #that gloomy introverted Milsiril #who left the life of a Canary behind #decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy #maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk! #but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice #it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril #I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have #struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective #but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party! #crazy stuff there #everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character #musings with Dea

[psalmsofpsychosis]

#literally dont ask me what happened here yes this is a fucking meta #i just wake up and have to rebel against sane traditional writing structures or i'll die #anyway the idea of Joker saying this was a last minute joke thrown in my face by my last remaining very drunk muse #before we were all thrown out of the bar #Batman #batjokes #batjokes meta

[baelobog]

What the shit?

#we muses #what in the fuckery