i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).
given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)
but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:
i dont think the "ocean at night in the dark" thing is intended to be in reference to color, necessarily - more just unseen immensity. my take was that porch collapse is meaningfully gray and vaporous, but within the pale itself, color is more metaphorical than anything. like it might be "the morning", "white light", "dark gray and orange" or whichever, but these are more ideas related to colors than colors themselves
quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?
widely hated for the unforgivable crime of "being mean to meeeeee (((("
people seem to really forget that harry dubois is a cop. like 90% of the shit that people rag on evrart for is pretty straightforwardly him fucking with seemingly the most incompetent cop in the world
once again going mad with envy that the G-Star E Para line is out of production. That shit all goes so immensely hard and my grubby little hands will never be allowed to touch it.
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no this rules. RIP
Have you guys seen the clip of Anderson Cooper reporting on the hurricane? He's crouching down, holding on to the earth for dear life?
Well turns out the hurricane made him pregnant. He's pregnant with the wind and rain now. CNN released a special report about how they gave him an ultrasound, and how his stomach is full of some new type of djinn or sylph or similar aqueous wind sprite.
He doesn't seem to be in any pain, but whenever Wolf Blitzer asks him about the child, Cooper just rubs his belly and mutters something about "forging a new link in the great chain of being"
1st image:
Punta de Hidalgo lighthouse, by Ramiro Rodriguez-Borlado (1994).
Tenerife - Canary Islands, Spain.
© Roberto Conte (2023)
2nd image:
One of the "arkhitektons" by the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, a series of models of avant-garde architecture produced from 1923 to the early 1930s and a way to apply to the three dimensions the principles of suprematism.
Moscow, Russia.
© Roberto Conte (2017) Follow me on Instagram
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HI Maia, i don't know if u answer questions like these but i feel like this is up your alley way... do you have a note taking software you would recommend/use that doesn't have AI bull shit in it and is somewhat okay privacy wise. I have grown tired of notion after my many years but every notes app I look into is screaming 'we use AI' at me. anyway, greetings...
i personally use obsidian and like it enough to pay for some of its features (which are all possible to achieve with free community plugins instead, there's like basically no reason you'd HAVE to pay them)
wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday