So as an anime watcher of Dungeon Meshi my first impression of Laios was "wow, the fandom made me think this guy was kinda weird and dumb" and tbh thats totally on me.

Because Laios is actually fucking awesome?? First of all, hes unintentionally hilarious. Like this mf scared away sirens with the power of his awful ass singing and im supposed to NOT laugh? Impossible. Also him just always asking if he could theoretically eat something inedible is funny af too.

Second of all, he can be a great leader. Unironically if this guy had an ounce of understanding of social queues he'd be unstoppable (honestly same dude) but even then his personality makes him easy to like. His vibes in general, although a lil weird, do help him be a great leader for his friends.

Lastly is that hes really smart. Like, impressively smart. Its literally canon that his infodumping has helped his party members and i love that so much. This guy be saving the day with the power of autism fr and as an autistic person i absolutely love it. Even that aside, he is very smart in his own way and that sets him apart from other characters without really making it feel like hes supposed to be written as a dumb character, if that makes sense.

Another thing that’s super cool about Dracula Daily is that along with how those long stretches of time where we didn’t hear anything served to drive home the length of jonathan’s stay at Castle Dracula, reading these Incredibly Long Emails just serves to drive home how MUCH is happening within the span of a few days. Like, in the last four days we’ve gotten WAY more content than we got for like, the entirety of the summer

Reading the book as a Book, this pacing would have felt pretty normal, but reading it one day at a time shows just how batshit crazy these people’s lives have gotten so quickly. One week ago Arthur literally did not know that vampires EXISTED and today he’s out there actively hunting one to save his new best friend Mina

imo Leo has every right to be prideful about his appearance because if I had red stripes over my eyes, I’d make my face a personality trait too

WAIT WAIT WAIT HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE

So normally we only get fullblown, extended and dedicated flashbacks for heroic characters in One Piece, the characters who we're meant to root for. The literal only TRUE exception we've had to this rule was Big Mom's flashback. Even fucking Doflamingo's flashback was tied to Law and Rosinante's

So the fact that we haven't gotten a single fucking GLIMPSE at Crocodile's backstory is?!?

Like sure, we haven't gotten like a Moria flashback, but you know, he literally told us all we needed to know himself, AND we got to see glimpses of him in the Wano flashbacks. Arlong didn't get a flashback of his own, but he did get to cameo in Fisher Tiger's flashback. And Rob Fucking Lucci got a flashback that was 6 whooping panels long

BUT CROCODILE?? Not only do we know almost Fuck All about his story, but also have never gotten as much as a glimpse at it? But his backstory has been HINTED and TEASED at multiple times??

GUYS. FELLAS

Like. I am SURE the "Full Backstories for Heroes Only" rule is going to get broken again, but with Imu and Blackbeard already there just BEGGING to have their beans spilled, can we even be sure Sir Fucking Crocodile is somehow going to become A Villain So Dangerous To The Narrative that he ALSO should also recieve a Full Fucking Backstory?? For his Nefarious Schemes?? AT THIS POINT??

Y'all

I think it's more likely Oda's been saving up Croc's backstory because it might just completely recontextualize his entire character

was anyone going to tell me that deandra from the most popular girls in school is canonically an aroace icon

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

i hate when a good fic hates xander. it ruins the whole thing for me. there is this tiny sliver of a subsection of this fandom who actually gets what’s going on with xander — man is a bisexual monster fucker with daddy issues who cannot handle the fact that he feels he’s not living up to the life the world said he was supposed to. AND GOSH, WHY DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR

people need to give more love to The Answer (Persona 3 FES)'s soundtrack. it's good enough to stand alongside The Journey in my opinion; sure the Mass Destruction remix isn't all that good but then you have stuff like Heartful Cry which goes hard as hell and Interstice of Time which is just as good as Tartarus in my opinion. the way it's packaged into the officially released soundtrack is perfect, too; instead of each part of the song being separate tracks that all have fadeouts and don't last longer than like 2-3 minutes, it's one continuous seamless 10 minute experience that is so fucking good, as the tension builds and builds and builds and builds with all the different kinds of instrumentation that's introduced, same as Tartarus, but instead of capping off at an epic orchestral finale like how Tartarus does all that tension is dissipated instantly by the return to the simple piano at the finale and it's fucking Haunting I love it so much

watched saw x. quite enjoyable movie. shawnee smith the woman you are.. literally acting the roof off like the rent was due 😭

yeah im thinking about the full version of 1・2・3 again yeah its making my brain a little mushy about The Characters

unironically the elf yuri post with the high fantasy x santa's elf girls scratches an itch in my brain because it literally is like. dog breeds to me. the genetics that went into building one for survival and for the species to thrive and propogate in a mild forest setting and the resulting culture that followed (camoflauging into the trees with their willowy appearances, hair they grow out to imitate the growth of wisteria and willows and other types of tree, the silk clothink that is easy to manouvre in their cities and tie up to work in the underbrush, etc.) vs the harsh winter climates of the other (the small builds to withstand polar winds and hide from large predators under the snow, the rosy cheeks likely from higher body temp. to keep them warm in the cold, the knitwear and heavy clothing to prevent them from freezing to death). it all means so much to me when varying types of one species exist simultaneously in one universe. [shaking you by the shoulders] you understand. you HAVE to understand.

the first thing people always notice about alana is her eyes.

It is objectively at least a little funny to me when people draw Crocodile super muscular 'cause like, sure, his torso may be as wide as a brick wall, but y'all seen his arms and legs?

They're skinny as shit, this man has never lifted a thing in his entire life, he probably doesn't even know how to run. Like Oda can draw people with muscular limbs, this shit's intentional

Read more of Moira's pen and once again made myself sad and once again it has NOTHING to do with the content and it just seems to be like??? I think about it engage with qt for longer than 5 minutes and it hurts??? It's like looking into the sun??? It's this inexplicable ache that nothing else in the world has ever given me? Absolutely truly nothing no matter how much I've loved it has produced this specific sweet sorrow/bitter joy and I can't explain it it describe it but I'm so deeply upset??

this entire straud generation is just gonna be caspian being like Im so fucking ugly and stupid. Everyone hates me. and everyone else being like Theyre so cool. I want him so bad. its kinda like this scene in meet the robinsons

this one. this is caspian

Today i was like no i gotta get rid of this bsd hyperfixation by finding something new to obsess with but then where else am i gonna find another funny & tragic & slightly eccentric metafiction based on semi-decently researched literary canon and quantum physics with superpowers and government experiments and mafia and detectives and terrorists and a global apocalypse and so many pairs of enemies to lovers AND illustrated by manga artists with absolutely the COOLEST styles