On Being A Dog, Being Eaten By Dogs, Needing Like A Dog, Losing Like A Dog

Some of Bojan and Käärijä moments part.2 (part.1)

You cannot say that a top grossing artist is "feral" or making you "feral." You are listening to the Billboard Top 40. You are very domesticated.

FAVORITE FANFIC TROPES TAG GAME

thank you @eloha for the tag :D. this is gonna be difficult aaaah!

1.) Slow burn or love at first sight

2.) Fake dating or secret dating

3.) Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers

4.) There's only one bed or long distance correspondence

5.) Hurt/comfort or amnesia

6.) Fantasy au or royalty au

7.) Mutual pining or domestic bliss (but like, both)

8.) Smut or fluff

9.) Canon compliant or Canon divergence

10.) Reincarnation or Major Character death

11.) One shot or multi chapter

12.) Kid fic or pregnancy fic

13.) Arranged marriage or accidental marriage (how do you get married accidentally ???? sounds fun)

14.) High school romances or aged up romances

15.) Time travel or isolated together

16.) Neighbors or roommates

17.) Sci-fi or magic au

18.) Angst or crack (both. both is good. at the same time.)

19.) Apocalyptic or mundane

20.) Linear storyline or nonlinear storyline

21.) Holiday fic or birthday fic 

22.) Love triangle or miscommunication

imma tag @chokefriends because i sort of really want to know your takes. but anybody is free to go right ahead and take a crack at it. :)

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riza hawkeye age 11: dearest diary mine. today i was tending the houseplants as one does, hoping as i do every day that my spells will finally work and the vines will come to life and i can place it next to father as he sleeps, and it shall strangle him, and he shall wake up dead, and i shall be free. free!

anyway. i was tending the plants with my ceramic watering can and i heard a knocking at the door, and i opened it to discover the most pathetic boy alive, perhaps. soaked right through with the rain but still perhaps 75 pounds at the most, dressed up like he’s off to church, or his uncle’s wedding. how disgraceful. his name is roy mustang, and i have decided i will NOT be his friend, no matter how he pleads. i have no need for meddlesome boys.

mr mustang, age 13, apparently from central (can you believe it, diary? a city boy, and a scandalous backstory to boot - raised in a brothel, diary! i wonder if he can sing!) came to ask father to teach him alchemy. i don’t see why, it’s a trivial pursuit much akin to the parlor tricks im sure he learned back home (got em again! i hope he knows how funny i am being right now, though he must never read you, diary)

i told him we are not kind to solicitors, and closed the door. father had to ruin my fun, of course, as is his mission in life i suppose. he came downstairs after only 20 minutes or so and let mr mustang in, and took the discussion of tutelage to his office. apparently he’s going to earn his keep in the coops and the garden, which is fine. maybe i can get some meat on city boy’s bones. foolish

roy, still shivering in his wet clothes from 4 hours ago, knocking timidly on the bathroom door: miss riza are you almost finished

October 24, 2001 - Cleveland, OH, USA - Pledge Of Allegiance Tour

Daron Malakian of System Of A Down stands in for Paul Landers during Rammstein’s set

(source 1, source 2, source 3)

I've seen pieces from this extra comic before, but never read the full thing until today. And holy shit does it hammer home just how much the story is about class.

Multiple times, when food comes up in this comic, it’s also in context of money:

I've seen this last panel on the right brought up before in context of like, dungeon meshi's relationship with fat and eating, but in the full context of the comic it really hits how much adventuring directly consumes bodies for money.

As much as this has been part of the story the whole time, showcased as early chapters 19 and 20...

It never fully hit me before how often adventuring comes down to having no other way to make money but to throw yourself into death repeatedly. To be used, whether it’s by individual selfish people (like the resurrection group that is happy to try and get Kabru's group to kill each other to get extra gold from them in chapter 32), or by the greater cog of the Dungeon Economy in general.

Which, to be clear, is all too often how things work in the real world, too. So many jobs burn through the health and lives of workers. Dungeon Meshi just makes it literal in a new way: by making the healing and resurrection, a core part to the adventuring loop, directly use fat, muscle, and energy from the body being healed.

Imagine Amazon, but if you got injured at work, they could literally burn up some of your body to get you back to working sooner. And that was seen as an advantage of the job.

And then you have Laios, thinking about eating monsters:

Not just because he likes monsters a lot. But because it would help. He says something similar in the actual manga too, during the chapter discussing his dream with the Winged Lion

Laios wants to be able to make a home for Falin. He wants to give her a place where she never has to eat alone. And when he gets a party, he wants to give them a way to eat well. And when he runs a country, well…

He wants to ensure that everyone has enough to eat.

Food is political. Food ties into class, and money. What is deemed "proper" to eat, what is a luxury, what is crass… so much of it comes down to money.

Being judged for eating what's available, when what is “proper” isn't affordable, is already a thing that happens. People forced into work that consumes their energy is already a thing that happens.

Dungeon Meshi has a lot of fantastical elements, but boy is its examination of food and class very real.