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potahun · 8 hours

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did you guys know about this oc stuff. you can just make a guy. big if true

#im trying to get the latest ones out!! im trying to write!! im

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potahun · 8 hours

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hei xiazi saw xiao hua with a balisong and all other thoughts immediately fell out of his head

#heihua #yeah #dmbj

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potahun · 14 hours

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Kabru’s confession

After learning that Kabru had lied about being interested in monster cuisine in order to get closer to him, Kabru apologizes to Laios for lying (something we’d never seen him do before), and Laios in turn is regretful that he had made him uncomfortable. On the surface they don’t seem like big transgressions, but they had unintentionally hurt each other in ways that actually affected them very deeply (Kabru hadn’t known about Laios having had trouble making friends his whole life, and Laios hadn’t known about Kabru’s monster trauma when he so eagerly gave him monster food).

Shortly afterwards, Kabru simultaneously admits and realizes why he had truly wanted to get close to Laios:

In this moment, Kabru has reached a point where he’s desperate enough that, instead of another clever lie, he ends up blurting out the truth. And it’s a piece of information about himself that he wasn’t even aware of - he had become so good at lying that he didn’t even know his own true feelings anymore.

And how do we know it’s the truth? Because Kabru has done and said all sorts of things way wilder than this in order to get closer to achieving his goals, without ever reacting this way afterwards. He’s never been shocked or embarrassed at hearing himself come up with all sorts of lies before, it was just a means to an end, and he had been willing to do whatever it took to put an end to the cycle of dungeons and the destruction they caused.

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Yet Laios, being uncharacteristically cynical, accuses Kabru of lying again, and Kabru reacts with anger, which again he’s never done before - he was never ashamed of lying, so why take this accusation personally? I think it’s because it’s not that he was angry at being called a liar, but rather he felt that Laios was mocking him for his genuine desire to be his friend, and he felt embarrassed (it’s also possible that he felt Laios was mocking him for sucking at dungeon exploration…but Kabru had never cared about that, he had accepted that fact just fine and had sought to find someone who was very good at it and help them conquer the dungeon instead).

Anyway, with his disbelief, Laios had now given Kabru the opportunity to walk the confession back. If it had been a lie but he was embarrassed about it for some reason, Kabru could’ve used this opportunity to be like “ok yeah, you got me! What can I say, I’m a mischievous scamp” and forget the whole thing. If it wasn’t true, then he should’ve been relieved that Laios didn’t believe him (especially since they have an audience while this is all going down).

But instead of using this opportunity to put an end to this embarrassing situation, Kabru instead confirms that he was indeed interested in Laios.

(And we know it’s not just another lie, because in none of the scenes from Kabru’s perspective after this moment does he ever think “phew, thank god Laios believed that bullshit” or anything of the like, when normally that’s exactly what he would do - as the audience, we’ve been privy to a Kabru’s real feelings, so if he had been lying we would’ve found out, if for no other reason than comedy. Yet he never contradicts the confession he made.

Anyway, this is the first time that anyone has expressed an interest in pursuing a friendship with Laios, even after having gotten to know him a bit. And it’s also a rare moment of honesty and vulnerability for Kabru, someone who hid his true feelings even from his trusted companions. This moment was huge for both of them.

Furthermore, Laios and Kabru are now finally on an even footing and know what the other is all about. It’s from this point on that they can actually start building a relationship. Kabru made the first step by laying himself bare after his lie hurt Laios, and Laios in turn decides to make himself vulnerable as well by giving Kabru another chance, and meeting him halfway and also keeping his wishes wrt monster food in mind:

And although I would have liked to see more of their relationship past this point, I can see now that this scene was this particular subplot’s climax as well as its conclusion, and I can understand why Kui may have felt that nothing more was needed.

#that was so much and yeah #yeah beautiful execution #nothing more needed tbh #just the gradual and then sudden confirmation that this guy has been repressing his obsession and finding rational explanations for it even #to justify it to himself #and also the absolute beauty of chilchuck’s face in the background #laios’ absolute shock #beautiful #dunmeshi #labru #laios #kabru

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potahun · 14 hours

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i feel sick

#yeah seeing laios’s repeatedly and increasingly unhinged faces on my dash made it impossible not to be drawn in like i just had to read it #without delay #to see what’s wrong with him #turns out he’s alright!#amazing autistic rep #dunmeshi #god op that first image just captures them so beautifully #labru #laios #kabru

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potahun · 14 hours

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labru bullshit LMAO

#god the dynamics #labru #kabru #laios #dunmeshi

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potahun · 14 hours

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new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

#feihua #of course

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potahun · 2 days

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cross posting this from my twitter

#and it's ONE-SIDED #the 7 years old would probably rather that furuya stays in his lane thank u #dcmk #meitantei conan #furuya rei #shinichi kudo

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potahun · 2 days

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still thinking about whether the reason touichi preferred to disappear was because he did find pandora and perhaps even used it. chris vineyard had to stage her mother’s death but had touichi stopped aging, perhaps disappearing in his early thirties is simply easier than having to explain what is happening. it also raises questions as to whether pandora is still out there, in touichi’s custody, and whether letting the syndicate think it hasn’t been found might be the best way to protect it until it can be destroyed

the kid room opened 8 years later for kaito, so maybe it was just the timing chosen to let kaito figure out the truth. ch. 1 did have that tape that started playing but kaito basically did not listen to it because it got all tangled up before he could

#kuroba touichi #i dont think i need to tag this as spoilers because #weve been given heavy hints that touichi is alive since kaitou corbeau and #this is all theory at this point #dcmk #kaitou kid #magic kaito #mk1412

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potahun · 2 days

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Dcmk doodle dump!!! :))

#thank you for the furukaza <<<<3333....#dcmk #momiji x sera is SO cute #meitantei conan #masumomi #furukaza #akam

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potahun · 2 days

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“i don’t kill women” gayass. you prefer to stab men huh

#di feisheng #lhl #yeah there was stuff to unpack there

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potahun · 2 days

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#yes in all 4 languages that im proficient in #and in some more such as korean and japanese #cantonese also thank you fssx and li keqin

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potahun · 2 days

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Reblog for larger sample size. Feel free to indicate in the comments your generation, approximate region of residence, your length of experience with fan fiction, or when/where you first encountered these terms.

#literally the first time i even see it understood as gender related?#fanfiction

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potahun · 2 days

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"you don't have to perform around me" sweetheart i have to perform in front of myself

#FURUYA #unfortunately hes not the type to call anyone sweetheart hed probably est a shoe before doing that #but he Is A PerFOrmEr

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potahun · 2 days

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