I Think A Big Part Of The Reason I Love De Is That It Always Affirms The Things In Themselves. There

i think a big part of the reason i love de is that it always affirms the things in themselves. there is a temptation, when a core part of your outlook on the world collapses, to look at everything that exists and say "well, what is the point of you, then? do you even mean anything anymore?" and it says yes, it does. the things - the lights, the clinking of cups, the smoke, the cold, the colors that make up the picture - just being - it has value, the things mean themselves if nothing else. it is what it is, and what it is is enough.

I'm actually really touched by this scene, which you only get if you're with Cuno or alone in the end:

You think you're going to be abandoned, but then a bunch of skills jump out to encourage you in their own way.

And all the options you get except the last one are positive.

GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS

I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.

They've updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal's censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.

This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people's source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.

I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.

I don't know what to do next, there isn't some sort of "here's what you can do to help!" People just deserve to know.

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awaybyrail

1 year ago

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: