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faeiri-tft · 8 months

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rotating the blorbo in my mind but he rotates 20000 times in a minute and removes me from the premises with a cannon

#chip revvington #tft talks #this isn’t anything.

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theresa-of-liechtenstein · 1 year

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“we should have had you do glider training before we put you in the cessna.”

“dad, you say that every time there’s a glider performing at the airshow.”

her father looks at her from under one of mum’s floppy garden hats, which he says is good sun protection but linda knows is also to help cover his thinning hair.

“it would have taught you about energy management early,” dad muses, gesturing at the light craft doing loops above them. enya plays on the big loudspeakers. midday, but combined with the gentle dance of the glider pilot’s control, it’s almost soporific. linda yawns a little, tips her head over to rest on her father’s shoulder. he bends down, the brim of his hat tickling the side of linda’s face, and kisses her forehead. “reckon herc and arthur are headed back with lunch?” he asks, nodding over to their empty chairs.

“hopefully soon,” linda replies, eyes on the glider in a wide controlled spin, aerobatic smoke oil painting the sky in pink and green. “they’ve been away for a while.” she straightens up and takes a closer look at her father, his mustache curved up in a benign smile that seems perpetually glued to his face. “why, are you hungry? i still have snacks.”

“no, love,” her dad shakes his head. “i just don’t want them to miss this. the one time you do want to hear silence when you’re in the air.”

linda lets out a sensible chuckle as footsteps sound by them, and arthur’s returning to the group, food in hand; herc’s just behind, a grin on his face.

“linda, colin,” herc calls out pleasantly; “i need to call in some assistance from one of you on a rather pressing matter of theoretical importance.”

“heavens, herc, i’m retired,” linda’s dad replies, “surely you should refer to the captain on this.”

“don’t you teach, dad?” linda snorts, accepting some food from arthur with a smile of thanks.

“not right now,” colin puts his hands behind his head and leans back. “or maybe i just like to show off.”

linda rolls her eyes but smiles up at herc, silhouetted against the sky. “what was it?”

“i was wondering where the glider gets its speed from, since there’s no thrust,” arthur pipes up, and linda turns her attention to him.

“i knew that gliders offset drag by looking for thermals or whatnot to generate lift, but i couldn’t explain how they overcome weight,” herc says. “ground school was a long time ago, you see, and i was never that keen on glider flight.”

“oh, okay,” linda nods. “well,” she looks back at arthur. “the glider pays in height to get speed. does that make sense?”

“oh, so it has to get lower to stay moving?”

“exactly. but it can do it in different kinds of ways, which is why we can see this,” linda points upward at the glider still performing tricks above them. “each maneuver sacrifices a bit of height for a bit of speed. eventually it’s going to get back down to land, but the pilot has to get it there with energy to spare.”

“that makes sense. thanks, linda,” arthur sits back down next to her, unwraps his food, and goes to town.

“yeah, of course,” linda smiles back.

“great explanation, captain fairbairn,” herc remarks on his way to his seat, and linda rolls her eyes but smiles at him as he goes.

“see? i’m truly retired. not a word needed from me,” her dad says from her other side.

“dad,” linda says exasperatedly, and he laughs, kisses her on the cheek, and they return to the show.

#carolyn is with darla looking at the static displays.#em writes #this isn’t anything.#just some guys (gn) at the airshow #cabin pressure #linda fairbairn extended universe

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bb-enablefreebuild · 2 months

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mordeDIE and KILLby

#*#this isn’t anything.

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ambrosiagourmet · 4 months

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I want to talk about why I think this is the one of the most important Falin panels:

So, Falin is really nice, right? It's one of the first things we really learn about her. She's kind even to the monsters of the dungeon - choosing to ward the party rather than fight spirits and cause them needless harm.

In the above early flashback in chapter 11, we see Marcille fawning over Falin's kindness, calling her an angel. Namari calls her soft-hearted. We see Falin choose not to fight even when a zombie attacks - instead she resolves the confrontation with a hug. After the flashback, the first thing Senshi says is that Falin "sounds like quite the person," which Marcille strongly affirms.

At this point in the story, all we have seen of Falin are these impressions; she is a healer, an angel, a caretaker with an infinite well of kindness towards everyone she meets - both friend and foe.

And honestly, that remains most of what we have to go by to understand her. The only times we get to see Falin on the page, alive and just herself, are in the opening and closing pages of the story and in the brief period of time after she is resurrected.

Nonetheless, we do have some more details to work with. For one, there is the scene that The Panel is from - a short memory in chapter 75, when Marcille flashes back to while she's dying. In that scene, Falin prepares to teleport them all out, and says that she's sorry "if there is a person at [their] destination." And that's when we get The Panel.

If you teleport someone or something into another person, the person teleported into is likely to be, at minimum, severely injured. They could die.

We can see a lovely little horrifying example of exactly why in one of the Daydream Hour doodles:

So, hmm. That's not... that's not SUPER nice. Certainly not displaying the same "kindness to all, friend and foe included" we saw represented earlier. On a basic level, this adds some nuance to Falin's kindness. We see it break a little, when pushed to the limit. We see her chose to protect the people she loves above all else.

Which makes sense! As Laios says when the Winged Lion accuses him of similarly being motivated more by his friends' safety than everyone else in the dungeon, "...most people, aside from virtuous do-gooders, would feel the same way."

So, we can take The Panel as simply showing a moment of weakness for Falin. A time when she was pushed to her limits, and that "most people" selfish side of her shone through.

However... I think there's a little more going on with Falin than just her being an angel 99% of the time, except just that once. I love The Panel because I think it helps us understand that Falin isn't just motivated by kindness - she also has a desire to avoid seeing people in pain.

Isn't that the same thing?

No, no it very much is not.

Let's look at a short comic from the Falin section of the Adventurer's Bible, because I think it illustrates this point perfectly. The group is complaining about how much Marcille's healing hurts, and comparing it to Falin's, which "doesn't hurt a bit." Marcille retorts with the following:

Now, the punchline of this comic is that, despite Marcille's sentimental assertion that she's "thinking of [them]" by letting her healing magic hurt, they all still prefer to be healed by Falin.

But hey, this wouldn't be the first time that Dungeon Meshi hides a very real character beat or insight in a gag, so let's think about this somewhat seriously.

If Marcille is right (and she knows a fair bit about magic, so we can assume that she has at least somewhat of a point), then what Falin is doing isn't kind. I suppose if someone specifically requested to not feel the pain, it could be kind, but that's not really what happened here. She is the one who felt badly about the others being in pain, and she is the one who decided, without telling them or giving them a choice in the matter, to take away that pain.

Both Marcille and Falin are healing the party, but Marcille is doing it in a way that accomplishes the task in the most straight forward way, without any additional interference. Falin is going out of her way to perform the healing in a way she is more comfortable with. A way that avoids pain.

Going back the The Panel, I don't think its a coincidence that the only time we see Falin (well, non-chimera Falin) willing to do something that could hurt someone is when any potential pain will be far away from her. If she got someone hurt or killed by teleporting the party to the surface? Not only would it be far out of her sight, but she'd be dead before she had to deal with any consequences of that action.

Falin is not a confrontational person. She doesn't push when Marcille won't tell her the truth about the resurrection, and she comforts Laios about her own death - both of those things happening in the only full chapter she is alive and conscious in the whole story.

We also know that she considered accepting Shuro's proposal, despite not having any special feelings towards him, and that Falin never explained to Marcille that she wanted them to share a meal together. When she brought Marcille various foods at the academy, she just accepted Marcille's confused rejection and gave up.

And lastly, we know that she is still in contact with her parents, despite the neglect and abuse she suffered at their hands. Although the way someone chooses to handle contact with abusive or bad family is a complicated topic, which I don't want to overly simplify, I do I think this fact gets at the heart of how she handles conflict.

So many people that Falin loves have hurt her. There are understandable hurts, like Laios leaving the village, or Marcille not understanding the food. And there are bigger, far less justifiable hurts - like her parents neglecting her throughout her childhood, and sending her away to be alone at the magic academy.

It doesn't seem like Falin has ever confronted any of it directly.

And the unhealthy aspects of this kind of avoidance of pain and confrontation is one of the things that the story of Dungeon Meshi is all about. We see Laios grapple with it before he goes to kill Falin, and we see Marcille acknowledge it at the end of the story, when she tells Laios that she has come to terms with Falin's death:

Eating is a part of life. Consuming other living things is a part of life. It isn't really possible to avoid that pain - you can only hide from the truth of it. You have to be selfish everyday. You have to eat - to choose to live. To choose to take up space.

And this is something Falin embraces, too. She comes back to life, after all.

We see her choose to come back to life.

And how does she make that choice? She eats. She consumes, and then she is asked a question by the manifestation of hunger itself:

Do you want to eat more?

There is a double meaning in the Winged Lion's final words on the next page.

When I first read this, I took it as him saying: life is cruel. You will suffer. You will feel more pain.

But perhaps, especially for Falin, this also means: you are choosing a path where you must cause pain. Where you must consume. Where you must take, and must be selfish. Because eating is the special privilege of the living, and it is their burden, too. In order to stay alive, she will need to keep eating.

And she chooses that. Chooses to be selfish. It's why her resurrection scene is so important, and it's why The Panel is so important. Because Falin coming back isn't the ultimate reward for all of the party's hard work.

It's her choice. Just like it was her choice that started everything in the first place. But this time, she doesn't choose to accept causing pain for the sake of Marcille and Laios. She does it for her own sake.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #dunmeshi analysis #I love it when dungeon meshi says. the trauma was real and it changed you #and the way you are because of it isn’t anything to be ashamed of #but you have to keep living. you have to chose to keep living.#and you can #dungeon meshi spoilers

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rabidbatboy · 4 months

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“girlcock” this, “girlcock” that. what if I want to watch the corner of her eyes crinkle when she talks about the tv show she likes. what if I want her to be able to confide in me the things she never felt safe enough to tell anyone else.

#you guys will do anything but treat trans women as humans rather than a sex object #wanting to fuck someone isn’t allyship. by the way

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ibtisams · 6 months

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I don’t know if people here have been talking about the #1 song in Israel right now “Charbu Darbu” is an Israeli war anthem that calls for the destruction of Gaza and for the IOF to kill “terrorists” Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa and Mia Khalifa

Beyond the disgusting lyrics, it is very telling that Israel will say that “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” is calling for a genocide, but they celebrate a song with lyrics that are a call to action for people to encourage the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

#this isn’t super recent news I believe the tweet I linked is from Friday #but I have not see anything about it here #palestine #🦢

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harbingerofsoup · 11 months

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there’s death of the author and then there’s whatever the fuck is up with danny phantom

#danny phantom #death of the author #most of the lore is fan made #a decent chunk of the fandom hasn’t even seen the show #one of the most beloved side characters isn’t an actual character #because we made him up based on a like 2 second clip #he’s not even the only widely accepted fan made character #because we spawned more from him #and we ba sing se-ed ourselves about phantom planet #dannypocalypse is also a thing #it doesn’t have anything to do with death of the author #but it’s important to me that we’ve pulled off a successful fandom apocalypse #every year since i think 2017

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kayawolfhorse · 3 months

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Discuss

#this isn’t necessarily based on creature or sanity levels it’s what would be funniest for the Bit #also the idea of muppet & human duos is amusing to me. false and ren. pearl and gem. bdubs and etho. do you see it #zed and cub as unethical scientists is fun it’d be solid enrichment for them both #mumbo is equal parts muppet and man. maybe he’s a muppet that got turned into a guy idk #mumbo being over the line vs under it doesn’t mean anything i just ran out of room and didn’t feel like changing it btw lmao #kaya posts #hermitcraft #1k

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gemsandjunk · 26 days

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tbh, sometimes the “platonic explanation for this” is the more interesting one

#this isn’t in reference to anything I’m just thinking #aromantic #aro tag #nifty’s junk

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clover-mouse · 1 year

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the grassy gnoll had me thinking about a mossy rock … mossy .. statue?

so here is a gargoyle i’ve doodled up. he’s my son

#art #ID in alt text #fantasy art #fantasy character design #umm not gonna tag this dnd because technically it isn’t but #i had the thought to maybe play this fellow and use the warforged race for the function #they’re an animated statue who doesn’t sleep or eat or anything #they were born yesterday so everyone needs to be nice to them

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lazylittledragon · 1 year

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rockstar eddie gets invited to the met gala and brings that one guy with him

#steddie #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #this started with 'he would get carried in inside a coffin' and escalated #steve's vampire hunter bag is something i might actually make #edit: this isn’t based off anything from last night or ever i just thought it was cool and made it up

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warlenys · 9 months

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i actually do not think aziraphale is gonna kiss crowley all tenderly he is gonna rip his glasses off throw them on the floor grab his collar and kiss crowley with the same ferocity he kissed him with. aziraphale is ravenous. he’s already had his first taste. that shit is not gonna be sweet and gingerly. it’s gonna be pornographic. like the ox

#i would take anything obviously but #i just. aziraphale needs to be as violent as crowley in his emotions #he spends so much time making everything good and sweet but it isn’t who he is #he wants to be gross and indecent and angry #and he deserves to be #just my take #good omens #azcrow #+

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notacluedo · 7 months

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I can’t remember if Andrew ever canonically pulls Neil in by the grating on his helmet but

#Features Andrews fave activity: grabbing Neil and pulling him weirdly close #Neil’s helmet isn’t really accurate to anything it’s kind of a lacrosse helmet mixed with an ice hockey one #They bonk their heads together like cats #Aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #the foxhole court #my art #fanart #Aftg art #The anatomy is questionable but fuck it we ball #Andrew should be more padded but

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pangur-and-grim · 19 days

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at least he’s still okay

#I had a vet check him out after bringing him home #his stool results haven’t come back yet but there isn’t anything irregular in the litterbox #so I’m not expecting anything exciting #and he’s never had anything but perfect energy and appetite #belphegor

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puppetmaster13u · 2 months

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Prompt 261

“So is no one going to talk about the eldritch space child or…”

“I mean, do you want to get between a child and Batman? I think the only one who could even get close right now is Superman…”

“No you’re right, I think- oh my god the eldritch space child is playing with batman’s bat-ears and he’s not doing anything about it what the fuck I thought only Robins could get away with that-”

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Alfred is Clockwork #AndCW having adopted Danny means Danny gets to meet his new big brother from another timeline #Bruce (Once Alfred confirms) is absolutely attached within moments #Autistic bois unite & talk for hours about hyperfixations #Clark has had time to make an entire homemade pie at this point #No Danny isn’t ghost king nor is Clockwork Cronus #Bruce: I have only had a baby brother for 5 hours but if anything happens to him I will let my kids break all the rules & kill everyone her #Signal: Yeah definitely Alfred’s he glows like him and everything #The rest of the bats: Alfred does what now-#Danny with dozens of big star eyes to Bruce: How would you feel about sisters #Bruce holding 3 children & 1 young adult: I am big brother now #Alfred scathingly says that Someone in the family *cough Jazz cough* will at least finish college & get their degree #Sometimes CW enjoys turning off his future-vision and vibing as a mostly-mortal #And Gotham is an old war buddy of his (Yes Gotham is the city equivalent of an Ancient) from the [Redacted] era of the Realms #And xer son & daughter are adorable- Bludhaven & Arkham love the vigilantes lots

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soosoosoup · 6 days

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critters

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