#before lamely segueing into 'but this one's cool actually. believe it or not' UNNECESSARY AND ANNOYING. UNDERMINING YOUR OWN POINT

[blujayonthewing]

I really should not try to add 'create video content, a thing I have never done before' to my cicada plans when I've already got a lot of other stuff to keep track of but I do kinda want to on account of I do wanna try eating some and I'm really annoyed that almost everything I could find about doing that is framed as 'WOOOAAHH EEEUUUGH you can EAT?? these HUGE DISGUSTING BUGS???? watch me EAT some BUGS OOOAAHHHH' like okay I get it we live in the culture we live in but there's really not even one video on this from the perspective of approaching entomophagy in the spirit of sincere openness and curiosity??

#I've had this problem before researching entomophagy it's so annoying kfgjhdfkj #'eating crickets and grasshoppers is like. really popular and normal in a LOT of places' #'SURELY I will be able to find SOME recipes and flavor perspectives from someone for whom it's just normal food' #no. lol. #gotta do everything my damn self #there is ALWAYS nestled somewhere in these things 'this is super normal all over the world and actually it tasted pretty good' #but it is ALWAAAAYSSS couched in 'WOAHH... OOOUGHHH... can you BELIEVE????' sensationalism #I'm not SURPRISED I'm just ANNOYED. like of course that's the majority but like. ALL of it?? #so anyway I don't know how to do this but I wanna make a 'trying a cicada dish' video that blithely pretends that's normal #like listen you don't need ME to tell you 'in our culture this is weird and gross!!' you know this already #incidentally I feel the same way about articles or videos about 'look how cool/ beautiful/ interesting/ beneficial this spider is' #that waste A LOT of time going 'obviously everyone HATES spiders and thinks they're TERRIFYING and DISGUSTING' #before lamely segueing into 'but this one's cool actually. believe it or not' UNNECESSARY AND ANNOYING. UNDERMINING YOUR OWN POINT #... you know if it turns out I don't like them at all actually I'm going to be incredibly annoyed kjgfhdfk #about me #cicada quest