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the19thlemon · 6 months

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Flower.

I'm tired.

#flowers #art #acnh #acnh inspo #im so tired #cute #sketch art #eat children or be eaten #i made this instead of sleeping #why do i do this to myself #smh #anyways sleepy time #*combusts*

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kabutoden · 5 months

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having a 8 billion spider siblings wouldnt fix her but it would be funny. its so hard being a middle child that’s why she’s like that

RQ OPEN!!

#vriska serket #homestuck #spidermom #lusus #homestuck troll #give her siblings!!!!!!#it’s hard growing up with a billion spider siblings in funny hats who are constantly backstabbing each other #they all have to feed spider mom to not get eaten btw. sometimes sibling bonding is sharing one of the dead trolls you caught #but also this is abt vriskas difficulty to bond with trolls. in this way she is both neither a normal troll or a normal spider : (#its family business to catch trolls but she wishes she was excluded from it on account of being a troll #spidermom’s a better parent in this but believes morally if her children can’t catch trolls and help feed her it’s her obligation #to eat them rather than let them grow up and starve #it’s hard having a giant spider for a mom #buglore

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chuthulhu-reads · 2 months

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[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on?#what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'?#what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world?#Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman?#enquiring minds (mine) want to know

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vitamin-zeeth · 2 months

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♪ hiii

HIII RAINE!! "Skinning the children for a war drum, putting food on the table selling bombs and guns, it's quicker and easier to eat your young" from eat your young by Hozier. It's suchhh a good lyric this song is so interesting and cool

#the chorus was based off this essay written by an irish guy during the potato famine called a modest proposal #it was satirising the english government and their response to the famine cause theyd been doing jack shit to help #and pretty much just demanding the same amount of food as usual be imported despite people already not having enough to eat #and so his modest proposal is mocking them being like hey if you dont have food or money try selling your children to be eaten #or even eat them yourselves if theyre not good enough to be sold!#its super interesting im a huge nerd about this lol #anyway thanks for the ask!!#raine tag #asks #ask game

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incarnadinedreams · 1 year

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This scene from the novel doesn't get nearly enough recognition when it comes to appreciating Wei Wuxian's dedication to premium, individualized, no-shortcuts torture.

Jiang "I'm only 3 months into this sect leadership thing and already can't imagine having the free time & energy" Cheng vs. Wei "only artisanal, handcrafted, bespoke torture made from scratch will do" Wuxian:

"Were you the one who has been killing Wen sect disciples?" Lan Wangji asked.

"Of course," Wei Wuxian replied.

"I knew it," Jiang Cheng said. "Why did you kill them one at a time? That's so much work."

"It's fun, toying with them until they die," Wei Wuxian explained. "Exterminating them right away is letting them off too easily. Kill them one at a time, one slow slice after another. Force them all to watch it happen. Needless to say, I haven't tortured Wen Chao enough yet. As for Wen Zhuliu... he owed Wen Ruohan a debt of kindness for his recognition. So much so that he changed his surname to join the Wen Clan and carried out Wen Ruohan's orders to protect his precious little son."

Wei Wuxian sneered.

"Since he wants to protect him, I want to make him watch all the more. Give him a front-row seat to watch Wen Chao deteriorate beyond recognition in his hands, little by little, until he becomes neither human nor ghost."

His smile was sinister, cruel, and cheerful in equal measure.

--Ch. 13, Vol. 3, 7S translation (ch. 62 of the original novel)

As much as I love Jiang Cheng, I think it's clear that on this topic Wei Wuxian is superior in his detail-oriented and thoughtfully considered approach. It's like comparing a Michelin starred chef to a TV dinner. True craftsmanship is always something that deserves appreciation.

#jiang cheng is boring and uncreative with torture :(#to be clear: this was very sexy of WWX #'revenge at any cost' mode WWX is very compelling #but between this and feeding ghost children people's fingers I think the novel is pretty clear he definitely intended to do some tortures #and succeeded in his torture goals with his usual flair and infuriating talent #I'm not tagging this with character tags because I don't want to be eaten alive #like how wen chao was forced to eat himself alive #even though this is more of a WWX appreciation post #cw: torture

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gizmocreates · 15 days

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Eating as a metaphor for camaraderie, loyalty and family, yes, but also eating as a metaphor for compromise, sacrifice, and loss of self. The food chain as symbolism of creation and destruction and the ultimately cyclical process of life

#gizmochats #random thoughts #writing #this might be a little bit about dungeon meshi.#but also food/eating/being eaten as symbolism in writing generally interests me #The food chain is such an important part of our lives and food itself holds a lot of cultural weight #The same bird who shares a catch with its mate is the one who sacrifices that catch to feed its children.#The same bird who consumes a worm will one day give itself up to a snake. Or if it lives a full life #one day it will return to the trees #the ground #the roots #and the worms it once consumed

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monty-glasses-roxy · 6 months

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I feel like I don't talk much about how Roxy's still a asshole in my stuff. So. Um.

Yeah Roxy's still an asshole lmao

#she's just so fucking tired man fazbear ent keep throwing shit at her and she's just gotta deal with it but she's an animatronic wolf ffs #she's a children's entertainer stop painting her fur in the blood of your god damn negligence #let the poor dog live!!!! her best!!! 'fuck you' lifestyle!!!!#or she's in meteors and finally getting to fucking heal #which means sometimes she's screaming and crying and throwing fits of rage and making bad situations worse in desperation #OR she's eaten three crayons because she thought the brown one looked like chocolate and when it didn't taste like it? well...#maybe the others do...#plot twist: they absolutely do not. devastating news.#so in a nutshell you either have roxy who knows too much in a highly stressful environment #or you have roxy who knows too much about one specific thing and fuck all about literally anything else ever and cassie has to explain-#what a fucking bird is and that you can't just eat a rotisserie chicken in aisle nine...#well you CAN but it's not a great plan if you don't want to get banned from fucking aldi or something sjjs #anyway I'm so tired goodnight

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call-me-maggie13 · 4 months

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I love you (my toddler nephew) but I can’t look at you when you’re like this (eating) (it makes me physically ill).

#I love him but it’s disgusting how he eats #like he’s covered in half-eaten food #toddler things ig #children maybe #idk how to tag this

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facebook-stabber · 4 months

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The Grub Father! But on birthday mode!!

YIPPEEEEEE

#hollow knight #birthday #yippee #i actually like this one :)#he's adorable #if only he hadn't eaten the other grubs 😔#i have a theory in which he didn't actually eat the grubs #he did what chronos did with his children #he just gobbled them up whole but didn't chew them #you can hear the grubs inside his stomach #my theory suggests that he 'ate' them to help with some sort of metamorphosis #drawing #my art

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atimeofbeing · 1 year

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Is the Florence Pugh movie The Wonder? I haven’t seen it but a friend told me about it I remembered it was based on an Emma Donoghue book.

Oh yeah, that’s the title! I do not know why it will not stick in my head, but every time I go to talk about the film I draw a blank

#anyway yes the wonder! a good film #Florence Pugh is great and it’s quite well shot #I read donoghue’s bit of writing about it on her website #and she described how she was interested in the intersection between the idea of the ‘fasting girl’/#& the contemporary phenomenon of the eating disorder particularly in young girls #it’s also just a really interesting story I think about the mixture of holiness and desparation #the premise of the film right is that Florence pughs character is hired to monitor this girl who has supposedly not eaten in 4 months #it’s set in Ireland and donoghue says that she was particularly interested in Ireland as a setting because ‘we have defined ourselves #in relation to hunger’ and I think that that is so striking - yes of course in the wake of a famine the holiest thing is a girl who does #not eat. it is proof that your children will live even past the base necessities of the mortal world #if they’re just holy enough/pious enough etc #and there’s so much more at play! the more I think about it the more I think i should have been more effusive in my praise of it #in the tags of that post #lol anyway having now written an essay…

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martyrbat · 2 years

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madness – batman: haunted knight

[ID: Batman crashing down from a train station's glass roof in pursuit of the villain Mad Hatter. Beneath them are screaming civilians - including Jim Gordon trying to protect teenage Barbara Gordon out of reflex. Batman's internal narration reads, "Tonight is Halloween. Children should be allowed to dress up as spooks and fairies and collect candy... without having to worry about being poisoned... molested... or worse..." END ID]

#actually think he should be allowed to kill mad hatter #im thinking of the btas episode where bruce finds out some villain was keeping runaway children as slaves to do his stealing #and they weren't allowed to talk or have names. or eat until he got what he wanted and all.#and bruce thought he fell to his death to be eaten by the crocodiles he would threathen the children with and just. let him.#i know the saying is like... choosing to not get involved is still a choice #but personally?? i think he should be 'allow' their deaths. was he pushed or fell from the window?? he and jason both dont know or care <33 #anyways. i hope you all had a safe halloween. sending smooches and no cavities wishes #i never celebrated 50% of holidays and that includes halloween so today i took a nap as i have an awful chest infestation :) good day !#crypt's panels #batman #c: batman: haunted knight | madness #mad hatter

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tj-crochets · 2 years

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Octopus friend here!!

(The one who thought the Frogs were octopi, changed my user since then soo whoop)

And eheh!! A question for you as the distraction post requests,

How come objects sometimes look like they have faces?

Hello frogtopus friend!! Why objects sometimes look like they have faces, as explained to a four year old: Our brains are like really really complex machines. They are doing all kinds of things in the background as we walk around and [list one or two things the kid likes doing or is currently doing]. Without thinking about it, you're breathing in and out, and blinking, and your body is turning your food into energy. How cool is that! So many things you don't have to tell your body to do, it just does them automatically. One of those things that humans are really really good at doing automatically is recognizing patterns, and one of the patterns we are best at recognizing is faces. I think it's because if we were out in the forest (or in whatever fantasy setting of a show/book the kid likes), and there were lions or tigers or monsters out to get us*, noticing them before they could pounce would help keep us safe. And there are lots of different kinds of animals, that are different colors and sizes and everything, but you know what they all have? Faces! Every animal we might see on land has a face, and most of the animals in the sea have faces too! Do you know any animals that don't have faces? (maybe talk about jellyfish and starfish and animals** like that). Nowadays, we spend less time worrying about lions and tigers and monsters, but that automatic face recognition is still in our brains, so we still notice faces. We're just more likely to see them on trees or stains on the ground or in the clouds. Why do you think we see faces on things? (talk for a while about their ideas) Let's see who can find the most faces in the house/yard/room! Ready, set, go! Let's find some faces! *unless you live somewhere where large carnivores hunting children is a legitimate concern, maybe do not tell toddler that the hypothetical lions are trying to kill or eat them. Depending on the kid, that could be fine, or it could give them nightmares and make them scared to go outside (not as dramatic, but I accidentally had the toddler I babysat super afraid of snakes for a few days and he wouldn't go in the part of his yard with tall grass. We did live somewhere with a lot of rattlesnakes, though, so it was important that he knew that there were dangerous snakes and what to watch out for so he wouldn't *run towards a snake* again)

**idk where the line is between "animal" and "not animal" or where jellyfish fall but I do not think that's a line a four year old is likely to know a lot about or care about

#ask away!#tj explains things to toddlers #snake mention #local-hellcat #long post #explaining to toddlers why objects sometimes look like they have faces #I don't know if that's really the reason we see faces?#I think it's like vaguely in the right direction of the answer #so I made sure to couch it as 'this is what I think'#and ask 'what do you think?'#I try not to lie to children #that said. the tolerance for sentences like 'if lions are trying to eat you' varies WILDLY between little kids #when I was a toddler I really really liked animals and the movie Jumanji #the idea of large carnivores eating me wouldn't have bothered me a bit I'd just have started talking about the food chain #(yes I know now it's called the food web I did not know that at age four)#but I have met several toddlers that are terrified at the idea of any animal out to get them #I've also had a toddler chased by a dog and utterly unafraid (both toddler and dog were fine I intervened)#so...err on the side of not implying they could get eaten by lions if you don't know the kid well #if you do know the kid well use your best judgment #the toddler I babysat was completely unafraid of any kind of animal (except temporarily snakes)#but was TERRIFIED for weeks after learning about the SCP foundation through youtube videos of a game #that was like...based on it? a version of it?#he was having nightmares and his parents had no idea what SCP was and I had to explain it while also only vaguely knowing

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kakusu-shipping · 3 months

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Sketches I mostly did to get the Vibe right before I really worked to make a real reference but I ended up really liking them more than the real reference so fkdgjkfdg

What if I was an Inkling mad doctor who 1. Created the King Salmonids and 2. Ate other Inklings would that be fucked up or what

#Emile's Arts #Splatoon OC #Splatoon Self Insert #Why not you know #I just. I loved the King Salmonids instantly but Meglodontia really REALLY got to me #Her braces... My baby girl I made those #He's a vampire squid thus the. Eating other Inklings part #And working around Salmonids. they're all about being eaten/eating their opponent #I know there's a running theory that Frye is a Vampire Squid so it's not aaaaaaaas solid a reason BUT #I wanna do it anyway.#This is what my Salmonid Dad S/I has evolved into #I still love my Salmonid children don't get me wrong they're my perfect little babies #I'm just a LOT more manic about it now

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hauntingblue · 3 months

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Sanji is actually so lucky he has pudding...