Maybe you’ve noticed: there’s been a shift in how people and movements that are anti-trans present themselves, and it feels designed to make them more palatable to people who would otherwise recoil at arguments that position trans people as threats. They don’t hate trans people! They’re very concerned about them! Think of the risks! Think of the children!! If that language sounds familiar, it’s because the anti-abortion movement uses this same playbook. Just like a crisis pregnancy center might advertise itself as offering pre-natal care, counseling or free pregnancy tests, an anti-trans provider might offer “gender exploratory” therapy or claim to offer valuable information on the “harms” of transition. Just like reporters being too willing to parrot unsubstantiated, anti-choice claims to the greater public, anti-trans groups are using places like the New York Times—and the fact that many people within those spaces were already held anti-trans beliefs-- to spread misinformation and position their “experts” as the reliable voices on trans care. Quite contrary to articles that claim people are being rushed through transition, accessing gender affirming care remains difficult for most people, especially young people. There are a limited number of places that provide it (and, due to transphobic violence both digital and physical, some of the places that used to aren’t able to anymore), waiting lists, and a dozen other barriers to access. Not to mention that plenty of elements of transition, especially physical transition, require at least a letter from a therapist. And now, on top of that, you have healthcare providers and resources who seek only to discourage or pressure all trans and nonbinary folks into not transitioning. This is a recipe for trans folks, or the people helping them access care, to walk right into a trap, and enables ongoing, anti-trans bias more broadly. Here's a guide from Scarleteen co-director Sam Wall to help trans people, and especially, adults in the lives of trans young people, to identify legitimate — and illegitimate — sources of trans care.
"I'd never use it/its for someone else even if they wanted me to, it sounds like I'm saying they're not Human"
average it/its pronoun user:
Isn't it confirmed in the comic where itzutsumi talks to lycion that she was actually a cat turnt into a beastman?
She's a human soul and a monster soul fused together 😔
That comic's revelation is that its impossible for her to be freed from her monster half like Lycion. Not that she's a cat.
It's a little disheartening to me that that comic somehow convinced everyone she isn't human when a big part of her character is her accepting that she is both human and monster.
Proof that she's still a human child that was turned into a beastmen ALONG with a monster cat
Profile says she's a tallman beastman
This says HER SOUL is mixed with a monster soul
Succubus chapter
Lycion confirming the human soul is the one in charge
The issue with izutsumi's body is that she's more cat than human. She's still very much the human child that was kidnapped and fused to a monster cat. What Lycion can tell her is just that she's more cat than girl. I don't like the wording that she's actually "A cat cursed to be a human" she's both human and cat, there was a child involved in this fusion.
Here's another post I made about my thoughts
i just realized why it makes sense that lycion could immediately recognize that izutsumi is mainly a cat with a human mixed in instead of mainly a human with a cat mixed in, its bc when lycion is in beastman form hes becomes mostly a big wolf but has a couple of his regular human features like his long head hair and long ears
izutsumi is the opposite, shes mostly human with a couple of small cat features so by the logic of how it presents, and considering hes probably done his research, he would be able to know just from a simple conversation with her what her deal is
seeing a glimpse of izutsumi's mom's appearance, really made me wish the story delves in more of izutsumi's unknown past. like are her parents still alive? and how exactly izutsumi became a beast man? who made her like that?
The story keeps focus on whats happening at the moment and there isn't many flashbacks, I think we don't know because Izutsumi doesn't know or remember.
By context it was probably some scumbag demi human seller that turned her into beastkin to sell her to a freakshow. How he got his hands on a human child we can only guess. She was turned when her human half was 6 and it says she was separated from her parents.
By that little description I don't think they sold her so perhaps she was kidnapped?
She wasn't originally from the Isle of Wa (the equivalent of japan in dunmeshi from what I understand) either. So she was taken from one of the other islands.
The wiki says her mother is wearing a Deel
Here's what wikipedia says "A deel (Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠪᠡᠯ /дээл [deːɮ]; Buryat: дэгэл [dɛɡɛɮ]) is an item of traditional clothing commonly worn by Mongols and Turkic and Tungusic peoples for centuries, and can be made from cotton, silk, wool, or brocade."
So yeah Izutsumi is a victim of human trafficking that was turned into a beastman to make money for her kidnappers.
I gotta say I’m impressed with what they done with Falin as a character.
She was set up as a plot device character, a sort of fridged character for her male relative’s main drive for the series and a sort of manic pixie dream girl for the other male character but she’s more than that.
She’s the autistic coded human mage who was set up as the weird girl who couldn’t make friends besides Marcille at the magic school she was attending. She followed her brother because she wanted to not just because she was asked. Falin chose to save everyone else at her own expense but she got to be revived thanks to the dungeon’s magic that keeps them alive. She was willing to eat the dragon that ate her. Even when she became the “damsel-in-distress” again she was also the fierce dragon for the mad mage.
She’s not motivated by romance. At least not initially. Especially with guys. At the end of the manga (spoiler alert), she turns down Shuro’s proposal and opted to follow her own desires rather than follow others like she has done her whole life. Falin doesn’t let the permanent feathers on her body phase her and she still wanted to partake in exotic monster cuisine like her brother and his party had been doing.
She got to be weird, flawed, and not limited by the relationships to the other male characters in the story.
So beyond her just being picky- or seemingly so- What if Izutsumi isn't actually simply just ' a picky eater' and just appears so on the outside.
Consider what if the reason she doesn't like/won't eat Mushrooms for example is because she CAN'T. After all she is a CAT Chimera, and cat's don't eat, and outside of like extremely controlled small amounts of like commercially grown Mushrooms, can't and shouldn't eat them anyway.
So sure maybe taste/texture wise they're off putting but on a deeper level, perhaps that not even Izutsumi understands it's the feline side of her body basically telling her "No, DO NOT EAT"
Like don't get me wrong I love me a picky eater character. Picky eater rep goo, But also given the series it is I think it' would have made for an interesting challenge for Senshi himself to be faced with a situation where sure ordinarily beggars can't be choosers about their food, but instead of just him simply making a lecture on not wasting foods- which you could still have- but then him also having to come to understand Izutsumi's side of things of sometimes there are people who literally CAN NOT eat certain things having to adapt and accommodate for it.
Maybe even learning the hard way of feeding her something but she ends up sick while everyone else feels fine.izu
Easily being in Laios' vast knowledge of monsters/animals he could bring up the suggestion that since she is a Chimera and has the partial body of a Cat what if that means it reflects in her diet as well (Meaning she likely needs a high protein/animal based diet)
alright ive resisted for long enough, but its time i finally post on tumblr, ive posted times before but eventually delete it,
what made me cave?
dungeon meshi ofc
this latest episode is just the fucken best one, im gonna gush so hard right now okay
there are like 15 moments that just have have me going XD and i mean CAPITAL ECKSDEE
yea ill be going thru all of them with screenshots
1. oh fuck the elves are really really reaaaallly hot, especially these 3 like aidbwkdnkajiffoqpqoldkwj
2. uh oh here comes meanie
2.5. mean asf! what a way of portraying this too wow
3. “you fucken heard me the whole time?!” (XD)
4. beautiful uwu by izutsumi here, marcille doesnt even know shes in for a whole day of clinging
5. of course the LAOIS IS A FREAK MONSTERLOVER moment, thought he was reaching for a titty grab at first
6. “not tryna hear it” - chillichuck
7. laois like “whats up with your cat” completely oblivious to marcilles beauty, marcilles expecting a compliment like “OH YEA MY CAT YEA!” like yes bish your cat. 7.5. also izutsumi cling 10/10
8. the way izutsumi just withouta fuck drunkenly sits in marcilles lap i love this so much
, also i am guilty of doing this EXACT same thing irl, notice how i say EXACT because when i did this i too had purely aroace intentions (reason #420 izutsumi is my favorite and also me)
9. nya!
9.5. laios is mortified to be denied. cant blame em.
10. ah i can only dream of being the aroace kitty at the end of the bed in a polycule as perfect as this ;-;
, i mean im halfway there ;"3
11. senshi. XD
this is easily the best anime, no contest
20 | he/they/it | just thinking about a certain cat... could be transgender but who knows...
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