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Real World Cultural and Linguistic Influences in Delicious in Dungeon by room_surprise
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
15 Jun 2024
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[NON-FICTION FANWORK] Dungeon Meshi is full of vivid and complex world-building. When you take all the information in the manga as a whole, there are clear and consistent patterns in what real world cultures the author was inspired by, and how she arranges them on the Dungeon Meshi world map.
In this essay, I will catalog and explain every real world cultural reference I was able to identify in the manga, including character and location names, historical and mythological references, clothing, and of course food!
WARNING: This essay is full of spoilers for the entire Dungeon Meshi manga, all the extra materials, and the anime. Disturbing and violent moments that happen in the series are described, discussed and analyzed. The essay also discusses real-life world history and mythology, which contains sensitive subjects like war, death, slavery, abortion, child killing, sexual assault, incest, and bestiality. These topics are mentioned in an academic context, and not described. Please proceed with caution if this concerns you.
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06 Jul 2026
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Behold The Boy Crowned In Foam by aoiiiiiiii
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
22 Mar 2025
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The sea gives, and the sea takes away.
At fourteen, Finnick Odair is the amongst the youngest tributes ever reaped from District 4 and is ultimately destined, despite the odds, to bear the crown of Panem’s youngest victor.
But victory is not the end of the game—it is merely the beginning. As the Capitol weaves him into its golden net, Finnick becomes a symbol, a prize, a pawn in a game played by those far more powerful than him. Behind the glimmer of pearls and the glamour of the Capitol’s most esteemed venues, he drowns in the weight of what he has won.
For a boy crowned in foam, there is no safe harbour. Only the tide, rising ever higher, threatening to consume all that has been built up in one burst of fury.
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23 Mar 2025
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Al visits Todd.
Months later, Todd visits Al.
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02 Mar 2025
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Where Starlight can't reach by MossyThing
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
31 Jul 2024
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He can feel the bones in his wrist grind against one another as he is led through the dark corridors of his home, illuminated only by the splinters of faintly glowing stones in the ceiling, masterfully carved and set in, and connected by small groves that paint beautiful shapes he can nearly make out by day time. Lady Aredhel, his mother, has told him once that they are made to resemble the stars, that she recognizes the constellation of the night sky in the ceilings of their home.
Lómion has chosen to take her word. How would he prove her wrong, anyway? He has never seen the stars.
Or, Eöl decides it is time to name his son.
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09 Aug 2024
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Sparks by anait, imogen (team_fen) for frostfire-17
Fandoms: Karin Lowachee - Warchild series
21 Dec 2009
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In the aftermath of Ryan Azarcon's kidnapping and near death on Austro station, his bodyguard, Marine Corporal Timothy Sidney, struggles with a painful secret. Until Corporal Erret Dorr decides to stage an intervention.
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18 Feb 2024