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.
phantomseptember said:Recommendations? Recommendations?
yES so probably most of these everyone already knows but anyway
tumblr musicians:
Adele McAllister (btw you can buy some of her songs; I think my favourite is I Sit Beside the Fire and Think)
mythalll’s Lament for Boromir
culumacilinte’s Tom Bombadil’s Song
khyeili’s Dis’s lullaby
really-saraleee’s Inudoy kurdulu
asongofparody
youtube musicians:
Eurielle (my favourite is Song of Durin)
Karliene’s Lament for Boromir
beriahim (really like his The Lay of Nimrodel but has more tolkien-based)
friendryfire (has both original songs, songs based on Tolkien and covers of other songs translated to sindarin; really like their Singer on the Shore I think about Maglor?)
Yolanda Mott
Forest Elves’s Lullaby From a Distant Land (their original song in Quenya)
Alex Hruban’s Feanor’s Lament loove the chorus of this one
The Piano Guys - Arwen’s Vigil
Professional ones:
Айрэ и Саруман / Aire & Saruman (basically all of their songs are either Tolkien or Robin Hobb based)
Caprice (their Of Beren and Luthien is lovely, though I think they have more tolkien-based)
Oonagh (songs Orome, Eldamar and Gäa)
Хелависа / Melnitsa has a cover of May it Be in russian and under name Хелависа / Hellawes has more Tolkien-based (Legolas’s Song to the Sea is really nice)
Bob Catley (his The End of Summer is about Galadriel)
Lind Erebros (the whole album Elven Oratory, it’s mostly instrumental)
Aonis (Fall of Gil-Galad to make yourself sad)
Broceliande (Galadriel’s Lament to make yourself even sadder)
The Hobbitons
The Fellowship (some of their songs are on youtube)
The Tolkien Ensemble (love their Galadriel’s Song of Eldamar)
Blind Guardian is obvious but still great–
Summoning’s In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells (thanks to noteli for telling me about the band)
Bttlelore has basically all songs based on Tolkien (really love their Fangorn; thanks to duresteintrepide for telling me about them)
LotR musical’s songs are always great
also in BBC’s Dramatization Bill Nighy (Sam’s voice) sung the lovely Song of Gil-Galad
definitely missed out a lot
Kid´s your local drag queen
he´s the kind of guy that you see in the train on your way that just looks more fab than anyone else you´ve ever seen
his wig styling game is on another level and you have given up trying to figure out how the fuck he walks with those boots
also he´s too buff to get jumped
cue drag queen protection squad
him and his crew will literally start a fight with homophobes and transphobes and curbstomp them
they literally act as bodyguards for other drag queens and accompany them to the toilet so they´re safe and nothing bad happens
Killer is the guy who throws around condoms like candy
preaching safe sex to everyone
also makes sure (especially Kid) drinks and eats enough, has all the snacks and water
also will not hesitate to elbow any disgusting gropers
they always mysteriously vanish into the night
Kid is an activist for queer youth protection so he always shows up with his ´my sexuality is not your fetish´ sign
okay but they all sing along the songs so fucking loud and yes they know every single word (and also keep up with new queer music)
their bold presence helps kids who are there for the first time ease up and feel like they belong
actually Heat is super kind (duh) and will go to the closeted kids and first timers and just talk to them
telling them about his experience, giving them advice
sigh, he´s such a sweetheart
meanwhile Wire will start a fight with literally anyone who looks at them the wrong way
literally any kid that comes along their way he´ll just go up to and be like: there´s nothing wrong with you, no matter what society tells you
Me after One Piece 906
i want to be reblogging all the sparse ‘the binding’ fanart after absolutely tearing through that book but hey can someone tell me why artists keep making lucian so fucking tall? am i insane? am i losing it? i’m like 98% sure he’s directly stated to be shorter than emmett ?? is this just because you all are reading top energy into lucian that you decided he needs to be tall? did you see skinny and immediately jump to bean pole? i want a short scrawny lord and his beefcake farmer boyfriend as they were meant to be, thank you
It’s 2:00am and I have finally finished the shawl that I have been working on to wear to Easter breakfast. Which is at 10:00am.
I worked so hard on this stupid little video. Sorry about the tags, I’ve had this account for six years and I’m just now posting lol
from their crew to yours
phrasing of this is taking me out
chilchuck is the most powerful character in the manga just for this
i got Real Mad about misinterpretations of my Favorite Boy again.
[shakes reddit by the shoulders] GOD IS A METAPHOR
(inspired by that meme on this topic with the same energy.) (transcript under the cut)
[An arrow that reads "That Scene in Liore" points at Ed.]
[An arrow that reads "That Scene in Liore" points at Ed.]
[An arrow shooting over the head of the person viewing this scene shows the description:
"The first major example of Edward's virulent Pride in believing science/alchemy is the Answer, that to "Stand on your Own Two Legs" is the way of progress. That he is the only one he can rely on to restore his and his brother's bodies.
Then to have that worldview come crashing down with the catalyst of the Nina Event and the staggering realization that "We're just Human!" and this leading him to spend the entire series learning time and time again that the solution is Other People. He can't fix it all alone. That diversity brings power, that we cannot exist above or without anyone else.
That One is All, All is One."]
[A crude illustration of a gawking dudebro in a fedora. An arrow points to him reading "IDK, fuckin' Elon & the Like-Minded"]
"Wow!! A character who spits in the face of God and Organized Religion! A Cool Atheist(tm) just like me!"