#and make art and it made me lose my mind because why COULDNT spiders do this? why be so surprised? why act so horrified?

[abimee]

wrote up a huge sappy post about tock and my time playing xiv so far and endwalker but then i fell asleep after eating bad fast food and now im embarassed to post all of that so just know i think endwalker was the greatest video game story ive ever played and hermes and meteion are going to stick in my head forever and tock is my most important oc. thats the basics

#venat was cool i guess but hermes deserves more than her #i realize too i never do my insane ramblings over here. about hermes. about how i hate people humanizing meteion when her being nonhuman is #critical to hermes character and especially how hermes cares for animals being shoved to the wayside #instead so people can just focus on him being autistic or depressed and ignore that he cares deeply and intensely for #all animals. the wasps the maggots the birds the sharks the turtles the mollusks. how he is the one consumed with the love for what #other deems lesser or below them the animals other cry couldnt possibly exhibit emotions! #i saw a tweet yesterday of someone acting horrified or absolutely astonished that spiders can recognize themselves/other spiders #and make art and it made me lose my mind because why COULDNT spiders do this? why be so surprised? why act so horrified? #they are animals that exhibit understanding. many animals have been proven to show they can recognize themselves #and even then if an animal cannot why do we see them as lesser for it. why do we argue about if animals can feel pain or not #and think that nothing deserves to be tortured by purely existing #why do we kill bugs when they are simply looking for warmth and why do we attempt to justify the merciless othering of #animals based on their capacity for emotion and humanization. when all animals should be given the choice to be as they are #wasps deserve to live spiders and tarantulas and cockroaches and maggots and pigeons and seagulls #to kill them or taunt them or degrade them for how he made them is beyond cruel. consider #anyway. i think hermes would LOVE halloween hissing cockroaches