I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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 Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit
I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit
I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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...

I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit
I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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.

I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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:

I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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

I've Seen Pieces From This Extra Comic Before, But Never Read The Full Thing Until Today. And Holy Shit

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.

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1 year ago

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

3 years ago

Kid pirates at Pride parade

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

4 years ago

Me after One Piece 906

Me After One Piece 906
3 years ago

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


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2 years ago
It’s 2:00am And I Have Finally Finished The Shawl That I Have Been Working On To Wear To Easter Breakfast.

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.

2 years ago

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

4 years ago
From Their Crew To Yours
From Their Crew To Yours

from their crew to yours

2 years ago
Phrasing Of This Is Taking Me Out

phrasing of this is taking me out

1 year ago
Chilchuck Is The Most Powerful Character In The Manga Just For This

chilchuck is the most powerful character in the manga just for this

1 year ago
I Got Real Mad About Misinterpretations Of My Favorite Boy Again.
I Got Real Mad About Misinterpretations Of My Favorite Boy Again.
I Got Real Mad About Misinterpretations Of My Favorite Boy Again.
I Got Real Mad About Misinterpretations Of My Favorite Boy Again.

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!"

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