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Retrieving your partner’s body, and dealing with the devil: Etho buries Bdubs at the snow castle.

1.8k fic exploring Etho's thoughts the night after Bdubs dies; warning for (discussion of) major character death. i just keep thinking about how etho says 'that hurts me' right after bdubs death... he is so hides everything behind 1 million layers of jokes usually. but that hurts him.

my cuties return to me!!!!!!

i feel really silly talking about this but a weird thing that happened for me when the Dungeon Meshi anime took off and the fandom really exploded was seeing how weirdly cutesified a lot of fan depictions of the characters was. the "canon versus fanon" of it all, if you will. a week or so ago there was a bonus comic drawn by Ryoko Kui that got spread around Twitter about a What If situation in which Laios got eaten instead of Falin, and people were shocked about the idea of the party basically immediately giving up on the idea of saving Laios, including at least one "why does the writer think she knows so much" joke (i'm hoping it was a joke), which really baffled me because it just made sense to me that the party initially wasn't all that close to Laios (besides Falin, obviously). the relationship of the main cast is something that grows over the series. please read that carefully: the main cast does care for one another, they care for Laios, it's just that it's something that is developed over the course of the manga... and even that idea was too much for some fans

i'm probably going to sound really snobby, but i think there's a lot of people who are more fans of the fanart than the actual series...

i was mainly being silly when i was like "yeah let Marcille be weird about gender" but i was also kind of serious because it kind of is a prominent part of her character. it speaks to the world she lives in, what she values and finds important, and if you think about it, it actually speaks a lot to the subtext around her and Falin: Marcille hates "gross things," Marcille hates being uncomfortable, Marcille thinks women should be girly, and men should be masculine, and yet she willingly journeys down into a gross dungeon and eats weird monsters in order to save Falin, a woman who likes bugs, fucking around in the dirt, and pants. what do you think that implies about Marcille?

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T-pose/sitting variation

extend arms out in a T-pose; face forward and shoulders back

rotate one thumb up and the other thumb down; turn your head to face the up thumb

move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm

return to step 1's default T-Pose and repeat a mirror of steps 2 and 3, facing the up thumb previously down

continue to alternate for ~1 minute

sitting down, put the first down thumb hand firmly under your butt; your arm should be parallel to your side.

keeping shoulders back, use your opposite hand to gently pull your head to the side for 30 seconds

repeat a mirror of steps 6 and 7

occupational therapist variation

bonus 6 step: with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few seconds

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.