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xxlovelynovaxx · 8 months

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Ah. "Animals rights" bullshit okay. Being animals that are not obligate herbivores and eating the flesh of other animals because of it is "oppressing" non-human animals. And they called out my comparing it to anti-choicers because "murder is different than death" okay well anti-choicers think abortion is murder. I don't happen to consider a human killing an animal for food murder any more than I consider an animal killing another animal for food murder, especially when as you pointed out yourself some people can't survive without meat.

Or is it a contract killing/hit on every animal You've ever eaten to survive? Are you just not a murderer because you paid not to get your hands dirty?

Like yeah it's fucking NATURAL. Humans aren't some wondrous ascended beings that don't crawl through the dirt. We fuck and fight and survive and yes, part of that survival for many is KILLING.

And it's good that you don't think people should be forced onto veganism because that would be as bad as the people who want to force all animals to eat synthetic meat and hunt via robots or whatever but my gods can you imagine telling someone who has been a vegetarian by choice for years for animal WELFARE purposes (not rights) who is vegan for disability reasons that they are "justifying the oppression of animals" and "killing animals for food is murder" when you literally can't go vegan for health reasons yourself? Okay murderer. Guess your life matters more than those oppressed animals.

Like sorry I'm going full "you're an asshole and I despise you and I'm genuinely sorry for myself that I thought we could be friends".

Like yeah the anti-choicer metaphor wasn't perfect. But it also got you to cut right to the heart of the matter. You are so divorced from humans as part of the ecosystem and food chain you genuinely believe we have some moral duty to not kill animals (but only animals, not plants or fungi, which are also living and have some measure of sentience) and to hold ourselves separate from the biosphere to the greatest extent possible.

That's just ecofascism 101. Are we gonna do the "any form of hunting or land management, even responsibly by indigenous stewards using traditional practices is bad" next? Or are we gonna avoid that one because you hopefully know better than THAT and simply think that removing humans from ONLY one part of the consumptive chain is ✨different✨?

For reference:

Also where does "choosing to die" come in to this? I wasn't talking about euthanasia, I was talking about withdrawing the life support provided by a human body if the owner of that body stops consenting to providing it, therefore depriving a fetus dependent on that life support for survival of said survival. I'm pretty sure the fetus doesn't have a choice in the matter. (Whether or not it's "alive" doesn't have much to do with anything since it's been made pretty clear that medical autonomy in terms of mandated use of your body's parts or resources is unethical at ANY point. Even if you ARE killing it, we've determined that's the most ethical option.)

Also if we're going to make bullshit oppression claims why don't we talk about transspecies people who are obligate carnivores?

#literally I'm not a fucking legalist but no I don't believe murder in the sense of nonconsensual killing is always wrong #like self defense. hello.#like maybe my moral system is just built different but to call it oppression and make me out to be some kind of bigot?#come on. that's bullshit and you know it.#we're literally not talking about rights being taken away. also this is why animal welfare is such a better concept than animal rights #stop anthropomorphizing animals!! stop treating them like furry humans that can't speak!!#literally somehow both a veganism centrist and an 'animal rights' person at once #go yell at people for literally having a moral-spiritual belief system that encompasses eating animals as neutral somewhere else #oh and btw don't EVER fucking moralize any kind of food related consumption around me again that goes for everyone #meat is neutral. sugar is neutral. artificial sweeteners are neutral. preservatives are neutral. plants are neutral. fish are neutral. etc #some of these may be unhealthy for a given individual and their production under capitalism may be fucking harmful #but conceptually they are neutral and there are ways of making them physically so by changing the harmful systems #you can keep feeling bad about your oppression of poor animals or w/e. or maybe you don't feel bad idk #I happen to find that far more harmful than humans who want or need to eat meat - doing so - will ever be #thanks for the mask off moment where you decided it was actually okay to moralize food and survival #I'm so happy to say goodbye forever #(note: if you know who this is don't fucking harass them. I have them blocked and am being a bit nasty *bc* they can't see it)#(I don't want them to suffer. I just think they're a monumental asshole. gods know I'm one too.)#(let people be assholes 2k23 lol)

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quenthel · 3 months

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I feel like most online conversations abt veganism and being vegetarian or Abt primarily eating meat are going to be hamstring by the fact that vegans n vegetarians who aggressively argue online and the meat eaters who argue with them are usually kind of assholes AND incredibly judgemental and retort to moralizing. Like ok I do agree with that one post that at it's core the more popular critiques from vegans when it comes to the meat industry AND the more popular critiques of veganism relying on plant products made in horrible conditions on the periphery ARE capitalism critiques. But like imo you can't really build a coherent political ideology on eating habits bc those habits are wrapped in cultural norms, the structure of society and where said person is within the hierarchy of that structure AND personal preferences.

Like of you have the idea that ok all vegans and all meat eaters are within the same community you will have to include like... Theveganteacher or neonazi rappers who only eat raw meat lol. Like treating nutrition as a moral thing by itself is dangerous imo bc it WILL attract fascists lol

#quenthel special #like i genuinely think both options are just morally neutral #in order to live you have to eat things that were alive be it plants or animals or bread #like i think a lot abt food bc of my special dietary needs obviously lol anyway this is a tangent #also its all wrapped in diet culture very heavily like #the way vegans went after nicocado avocado... not critiquing him for the weird shit but specifically saying that #after he started eating meat je became fat and THAT was a moral failing like hmmm.... hm.

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akimeowk · 2 months

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Siren Goddess Reader Hcs

Y'all voted for this, sorry if it's bad

I don't write fanfiction often lol

Fem reader because i specified goddess and i don't think i'd be good at gender neutral

Warnings: some stalking, mentions of kidnapping, mentions of selling people, mentions of drowning

Enjoy!

Before i get into reader and freminet, i feel like some info about my ideas on sirens should be shared

Sirens come in the following three forms:

Shallow water:

These are the smallest sirens. They tend to stick near the surface and around islands, often have tanner skin. They feast on small fish and land animals. They closely resemble mermaids, except with sharp teeth to eat meat.

Open water:

These ones are longer than shallow water sirens. They swim in to deeper waters and don't go near land often. A little more blue in skin tone than shallow sirens. They swim way more than shallow sirens, so they have more fins to help them swim quickly. The fastest of the sirens, they hunt larger fish.

Deep water:

These sirens are HUGE. Because they live in the depths of the ocean, they can grow to extreme lengths. They don't often go to the surface, because of this their skin is unnatural shades of blue. They often have claws. They don't chase their prey, they evolved to swim at consistent speeds for longer distances. Their color allows them to blend in, stalking their prey silently.

Y/n is most like a Deep water siren, however she's not actually a specific kind of siren. She's technically a mix of all three.

Also some backstory

Y/n was friends with Egeria (hydro archon) before the archon war. The sirens used to all live in the dark sea, but frequent hunting caused them to seek shelter in Fontaine.

When the archon war began, Y/n knew she wasn't strong enough to become an archon. But she couldn't allow her daughters to die. So she asked for help from Egeria.

Egeria agreed to help, and sealed off a large underwater cavern so that only Y/n could allow people to enter and exit. The sirens all hid, and haven't been seen since.

But even queens surrounded by their children get lonely, so Y/n finally decided to take a trip into Fontaine.

Freminet just wanted to go for a beachside walk. He didn't expect to come back with a clingy fish lady.

How Y/n and Freminet met:

Y/n had been seen by some people in her half siren form, and they were trying to capture her to sell her. She was perfectly capable of defending herself, and was about to, but Freminet stepped in, thinking she was in danger.

Freminet had recognized her from an old fairytale.

One about hideous monsters disguised as beautiful sea women that lure sailors to their deaths. She fit the description of them, except the tail. He thought that maybe the fairytale had some truth, and that she was an endangered species, hence why he decided to help her.

In awe of how a human could care enough about a creature like her to fight his own kind, she decided "he's adorable. He's mine now."

She fully planned on keeping him in her domain, but when she picked him up and started walking away, he freaked out (he thought he was gonna be eaten), and convinced her to let him go home.

They ran into each other by "coincidence" (Y/n stalked him until the perfect time to reveal herself) later and had an actual chat. Freminet learned that no, she didn't plan on eating him. Y/n learned that it's actually morally wrong to stalk people and very creepy, along with what kidnapping is.

Human customs are so strange.

Y/n is already infatuated with him right away, but Freminet doesn't quite like her like that yet. At most its a simple "she's really interesting, i wanna get to know her better" kind of thing.

Though that starts to change as Y/n makes an effort to court him with sea related gifts and cute dates.

Also, she can carry him.

I think he'd just swoon over a lady who can literally sweep him off of his feet.

He's always trying to be strong for other people, he needs someone to be strong for him so he can lower his guard for once.

And who better than a giant sea goddess who's head over heels for him?

He'd have a wonderful time in her domain.

So many sirens... if only the looks they were giving him weren't ones of hunger and bloodlust...

At least the caverns are gorgeous.

He wouldn't be able to explore her domain on his own for a while. Too many sirens that have been deprived of their favorite food for too long.

Once they start to understand how attached their queen is to this human, they back off.

Back to Y/n being in Fontaine

Freminet (obviously) can't stay in the caverns forever. So he has to leave for long periods of time.

But without her favorite human to occupy her, Y/n quickly finds that the caverns are too boring.

The sirens are all big girls. They can handle themselves! At least until Y/n gets back.

Of course, she has to go about it differently than last time (Freminet banned her from exiting the caverns without him unless she disguised herself.) She forgot that sirens are nothing but a myth to humans now, so showing up in her semi-siren form will only attract unwanted attention.

The solution? Human form!!!

I think it'd be funny if her human form was a little bit shorter than Freminet. Amongst other sirens she's HUGE. But if she was scaled down like other sirens, nope. Below average length. Which is why her human form is on the shorter side.

The sirens find it hilarious. Y/n, not so much.

Of course we can't forget about our favorite twins (wonderful transition i know), Lyney and Lynette!

As funny as the whole iCarly smoothie scene is, i don't think they'd meet Y/n in her semi-siren form or her full siren form right away.

The house of hearth is in the middle of fontaine, Y/n is NOT sneaking past that many people.

Freminet also wanted to wait a bit before letting his siblings meet her. Y/n isn't exactly... caught up on human culture.

After a month of dating though, the twins get suspicious of all the "walks" late at night that he's been taking.

They immediately figure out he's been going on dates with someone, just haven't figured out who.

At this point, Freminet deems Y/n educated enough on modern Fontaine to only be slightly strange.

So the twins finally meet her in her human form.

But they know something is off.

It's uncanny valley for them. She looks human, acts human, talks human, but you just get that feeling that something isn't right.

Freminet doesn't seem to notice their discomfort. Or maybe he does, and he's just praying that the months worth of lessons he gave Y/n didn't go in one ear and out there other.

Lyney puts up a front. He doesn't trust Y/n one bit. But he doesn't have any reason to start a commotion. So he acts friendly and observes for now.

Lynette i think would be a bit conflicted.

She's like Lyney in the sense that she doesn't trust Y/n. However, Freminet is smiling and chatting happily with somone who isnt from the house of hearth or the traveler. He's opening up to someone without the help of his siblings.

She decides that as long as Y/n doesn't hurt Freminet, then there's no issue with her being human or not.

It's still gonna take some work for them to fully trust her.

They'd find out shortly afterwards that Y/n is a siren.

Lyney, wanting to learn more about this strange girl who just showed up one day, suggests that they follow her home.

Lynette finds it ridiculous at first, but she can't help but be curious as well.

So they follow Y/n and Freminet from a far.

I honestly don't think they'd be that surprised when they see Y/n shift into her half-siren form.

"You mean the random girl who's never been seen around fontaine before, has no records of existing EVER and has a strange fascination with trying to drown fishermen, is a siren? How shocking. :|"

Like, they're not surprised that she's not human. But the siren thing? A little shocking. Actually, Freminet spends 80% of his days in the water diving. So maybe they shouldn't be that surprised.

Y/n knew Lyney and Lynette were following them. She doesn't care. She may not be able to win in the Archon war, but she damn sure can keep two human magicians silent.

Unfortunately, now things are awkward. Lyney and Lynette know that their brother is dating a sea monster. Y/n is too smug for her own good.

Freminet is struggling. How did he get into this mess?

Whenever Freminet leaves to hang out with Y/n, Lyney tells him to "not let her eat him alive"

Most people think it's a joke. Freminet knows it's genuine advice.

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I think i'm running out of ideas.

Lyney and Lynette finding out that Y/n is a goddess would have to wait for another day

Feel free to request some things if you have any ideas! I think i'll only write for Freminet for now though

Thank you for reading and have a lovely day!!

#freminet x reader #anon who cried #hellion’s anon who cried #akimeowk #siren goddess reader

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giulliadella · 4 months

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Scarlet Gospels sucks

Spoilers for literally the entire book if you even want to read that pile of hot garbage.

Scarlet Gospels is a novel written by Clive Barker in 2015 as a conclusion of Hellraiser saga AND IT'S PURE GARBAGE. I will try my absolute best to explain why it sucks, starting with...

The summary (in 5 sentences)

Hell Priest (that's Pinhead for the uncultured) enters a din of magicians and turns all except one into minced meat and also makes one female magician give birth to some abomination that eats their remains; the remaining magician Felixson is taken to Hell. Harry D'Amour (a detective for the occult) is sad because a demon jerked off to his friend getting burned alive, so he goes to visit Norma (blind woman who sees ghosts) and is sent on a mission to investigate a house of a recently deceased ghost who needed to hide some incriminating evidence. Harry finds Lament Configuration there and opens it, Hell Priest appears with cenobite Felixson and they try to kill Harry, but he escapes and is saved by a group of weird people where a trans woman drugs him to make him have nightmares so that he can wake up faster. Meanwhile Hell Priest kills all Cenobites with origami and opens a portal to Earth from Hell, goes to Earth with Felixson, lamely fights using blood magic and kidnaps Norma. Harry then goes to Hell with a few people, a bunch of random shit happens and it all ends with Hell Priest and Lucifer having an anime battle in which Lucifer wins and Hell Priest is pissed so he blinds Harry and kills Norma and then Lucifer destroys Hell, but Harry and the others escape and now Harry sees ghosts.

Now it's time for the reasons why it sucks:

Impostor Pinhead

First and foremost, what the FUCK happened to Pinhead's character?! I've read old Hellraiser comics from 80s and 90s and there you can meet the Cenobites in their full glory and understand them as characters. In those comics Pinhead is chaotic neutral and he's extremely likeable, just like in the movies. But in Scarlet Gospels he's a total dick from first to the last page. Even the dumbass Boom! comics kept Pinhead as mostly in character until the fiasco with Elliott Spencer's reincarnation happened. I would like to personally ask mr Barker why the FUCK is Pinhead suddenly a power hungry jerk with no morals who rapes people. Why does he kill all of the Cenobites for exactly NO REASON?! In old comics, Pinhead is basically a father figure to all the Cenobites and he clearly cares about them. He teaches them, keeps them in order, gives motivational speeches and punishes them if they deserve it, but he would never kill any of them. NEVER.

Then there's the glaring issue of him having no motives for his actions. Basically in this dumbass book, he wants to take control of Hell and become supreme being which is literally the polar opposite of his character in both the movies and the comics. He isn't power hungry, he's a very devoted, dignified person who dedicated his life to serving Leviathan. But Leviathan doesn't even appear in this book, so WTF!? More on that later, power is usually a motive for a villain, heck, that's the motive of my own villains as well. But we need a reason for character to crave power. The villain who wants all power just because is cartoony and childish and that's exactly what Pinhead is in this entire book. Also, for whatever reason, he wanted Harry to document his rise to power and write his gospel which is just beyond dumb. Why does he want this documented? No clue. Why does he want power? Don't ask me, mate. And on top of that, killing all of the Cenobites didn't aid him in achieving power at all, so he also killed them all just because.

And on top of that, he's a completely different person. He's not elegant and restrained; he cusses, he uses his fists to beat the shit out of Norma, he's scummy, hypocritical and overall a pure asshole. Even Unbound Pinhead from Hellraiser 3 kept his dignity and personality, but this impostor doesn't! He's so obsessed over getting to rule Hell that he kills innocent people and cuts off parts of his own body to be able to wear Lucifer's clothes. And there's no explanation for that obsession!!!! WHY!? Why is he so out of character!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Harry D'Amour is a sentient bag of potatoes

And so are all of his friends. Literally, if you cut out Harry's entire arc out of this book, absolutely no part of the main plot would change. Harry plays no part in Pinhead's rise to power, he's just there to document it, as a witness. So he's literally just dragged around Hell.

Harry's personal life and everything else depicts him as the most generic, edgy hero and he has a personality of a wax crayon. I don't know if he's a better character in other books about him, but in Scarlet Gospels he's just an observer whose only agency is to save Norma. And in the end he gets blinded by Pinhead because he sucked as a witness as well lmao. He also didn't even save Norma, she got killed. He was literally there just to brood, say a few cringey one-liners and be useless. AMAZING MAIN HERO AMIRITE!?

And his friends are even worse. All of them were so bland and boring. Although two of them had cute gay romance which was fun, but it's mentioned just in passing and it ends with them talking about the size of their genitals which is... unnecessary to say the least!

Christianity has no place in Hellraiser!

Yes, it's called Hellraiser and, yes, there are mentions of angels and demons and Hell in the movies, but Hellraiser IS NOT Christian. Hell in this universe IS NOT Christian Hell, it's a lovecraftian alternative dimension and that's what makes it fun. Christian Hell and stories about it have been done so many times and Scarlet Gospels is just one of many mediocre Christian horror books. In the comics, Cenobites do mess with religion, Pinhead hates Christianity and all that is fine. We DID NOT need to turn the beautiful Labyrinth from Hellbound and the comics into dumb, unimaginative Christian Hell. Fuck that. Lucifer was a fun character to read about, but where is Leviathan!? Leviathan is literally the most recognizable part of Hellraiser Hell and it doesn't even get mentioned. WHAT THE FUCK?!

Transphobia (tw)

There is one character who is a trans woman and she is treated like walking genitalia. All of the characters, including Harry, constantly comment about how she's manly and how she has wide wrists and how she's too blocky and how she had bottom surgery and I'm like what the actual fuck. I am a cis woman and people have been telling me my entire life that my wrists are too broad and that I have manly hands. It triggers me to no end and I cannot even begin to fathom just how triggering that would be to a trans woman. Not to mention that her character has no personality besides trying to act womanly and she's the only one in Harry's group who is evil. And she's evil for no reason. And on top of that, she's murdered off screen and Barker uses that scene to once again describe her "mutilated genitals". WHAT THE FUCK!!! This part made me so irrationally angry and I can't believe that it was even included in the book.

Trying too hard to be edgy

This entire novel has a feeling of a 16 year old little emo trying to be edgy. There are so many idiotic descriptions, cringey scenes where demons jerk off, extremely gross stuff that has no purpose for the story, scenes that exist just for shock value, the list goes on and on. Now, don't get me wrong, I've expected a lot of graphic descriptions, it's Hellraiser after all. But there's a clear difference between graphic, but having artistic merit and edgy and most of the stuff in here are more on the edgy side. Just lame.

Also, Norma holds two pages long conversation with Harry before dying which is the cliche that I hate the most in fiction. Like she's mortally wounded, but has enough energy and clearness of mind to crack jokes for 20 minutes? I thought Barker was above such beginner author pitfalls.

Stuff I actually liked

Depressed Lucifer is hilarious. The entire anime battle between Lucifer and Pinhead was so cringey and funny that I laughed out loud. Definitely belongs on "so bad it's good" lists.

Quo'otho is an eldritch very hungry caterpillar and he's my favorite character in the novel. Too bad he got killed as well. Poor baby was just hungry and doing his job. He deserves head pats.

Pinhead once uses a spell to bring a whole bunch of origami cranes to life. That was so cute. He used those cranes to kill the Cenobites which was dumb as fuck, but the sheer image of him doing origami and bringing it to life made me smile like a dumbass fangirl that I am. That was one of the very few moments in the story where he was in character. If anyone writes a fanfic in which he uses those origami cranes to send secret love letters to Kirsty I will sell my soul to them.

The Hell Priest uniform has pockets and they are deep enough to hold several Lament Configurations and a sword. This is extremely important information.

Overall, Scarlet Gospels gets a 3/10 from me. It was really cringey and bad, but had some fun and interesting ideas and concepts. It completely assassinated my (and many other people's) most beloved character in Hellraiser franchise, has a passive, cardboard cutout hero, many ideas that go nowhere, it's very transphobic and has endless amount of stuff that happens for no reason. I like Barker's writing style, but this novel fucking sucks.

I'll take a break from Tumblr for now, as I'm working on the new chapter of my comic. I don't know if I'm going to post more Hellraiser stuff, maybe, maybe not, idk. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this dumb review. See you in a while, if I survive the finals!

#rant #book review #scarlet gospels #clive barker #hellraiser #tw transphobia

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paragonrobits · 2 months

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concept for my original setting I need to do some coherent descriptions of; the way demons are done in my setting!

Demons are not evil spirits in this setting (though such entities do exist), but are functionally conceptual elementals of base desires. Not things as broad as 'hunger' or 'lust', but specific subsets of those desires, such as the desire to satisfy a particular need. Mortal desires, primal urges and the emotional energy from both actually fulfilling those cravings and the desire TO fulfill them find a root in the infinite magical realms, and eventually colease into the realms demons call home; a seemingly infinite number of connected realms that are wild, dangerous and based on fulfilling those needs.

Where hunger settles down, you might find growing trees of meat, as an example; the desire to fight, entire landscapes populated by non-sentient monsters throwing themselves at interlopers to fight. Desire takes on physical form, influenced by the cultural attitudes of beauty, power and disgust common to many sapient cultres. Most of these beings are not intelligent, and immortal; even if killed, they will materialize again.

True demons gradually take form from these beings, and one that survives indefinitely will slowly become more complex. They begin to think, they actively feel things not related to the desire that gave birth to them, and complexity takes root. Often, you still have a force of nature that isn't really sapient, though it has some motive and ability to make decisions on some level. But rarely, they get just complex enough for a critical tipping point, and suddenly they transform into something else. And often, this becomes what the people of the setting actually MEAN by a demon. They become a truly sapient entity, shaped by the desire that made them but functionally their own creature.

Demons take on many forms; they often have some kind of inherent shapeshifting ability, though often 'settle' into a basic form that often shares certain traits in common with other demons or entities in the realm they come from, sharing traits such as brightly colored red or pitch black skin, large horns, flight-capable wings, a humanoid body, and so on. They have inherent magical abilities that are pretty powerful compared to most other beings in the setting, with a natural skill for learning magical powers that does not come easily to others; again, much of this power is drawn from primal desires, which are flexible enough to allow demons to learn a very wide variety of power compared to mortals.

Demons in this setting are not inherently malicious. They can be, as much as any other sapient being, but the desires that shape them are generally morally neutral in nature. The non-intelligent variants are often driven to fulfill that desire, which can make them very dangerous, but demons in general often have a kind of genuine innocence to them. They can also choose to grow in ways unrelated to the original desire, changing more or less as they choose. A demon born from the desire to fight and kill doesn't need to be a warrior; it may have created that demon, but it doesn't have to define them.

Common demon archetypes and concepts are present in the setting, though often a bit changed. For one thing, all demons are born from primal desires, and not more complicated ideas like 'i want to rule others' or 'wicked king of evil'. They're more about things like satisfying carnal urges, eating food, hunting things, and being safe. As such, succubi might be a very common type of demon (as pleasure is almost a universal desire) but they're not necessarily sexual in nature. Quite a few may be completely asexual in nature, only wishing to make other beings happy (and due to the broadness of this concept, may be the default demon to a lot of people who study the realms of the multiverse).

As an additional note, entities similar to traditional fantastical angels exist in setting, but they and demons don't have much opinion on each other. These angels might be considered elementals of ideas and the very best, most intellectually beautiful notions that people have devised such as the essence of humanity and protecting others, rather than the primal ideas that demons seem to embody. They rarely interact, and when they do, it is at worst in neutral feelings. These demons are not corrupted angels (though such things can exist), nor are they kin in some way.

There are, however, fiends, who as angels may embody the noblest concepts, the fiends mirror the darkest and most horrific aspects of the mortal heart. Fiends, unlike angels and demons alike, are not a natural part of the multiverse arising from the interaction of mortal desires and ideas with the raw creative potential of magic. Fiends are, some scholars believe, a corruption of ideas.

Demons are our desires given form. Angels are the best part of us, become something rather beyond us. And fiends are a mirror showcasing the parts of ourselves we don't want to admit are there, hateful and cruel and spreading suffering on purpose.

#queued #original #ideas

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 8 months

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I Wonder what you think of people fishing (in general). I personally would love to learn how to fish and learn how to catch specific fish with bait and even mount some cool catches, but sometimes, I ask myself if this aligns with my moral standings. I’m personally pescatarian and love eating fish, but can’t help feel sorry for them while eating them.

I also know that fishing does help with regulating/population-control of specific fish. 🧐

Anyways, I’d love to know how you feel about eating fish and fishing fish whilst also loving fish and appreciating fish. 🐟

(I’ve used the word fish multiple times haha, fish fish fish fish 🐠)

I get what you mean! It's a whole moral conundrum and a half, I'll say.. ^^' I used to enjoy fishing myself, my family and I would go to the local pond and do catch and release fishing; I liked it because it was the only time I could properly see and handle fish, as otherwise they were out of sight under the water. Some years back though, I became very conflicted about fishing just for enjoyment due to the inevitable stress it causes the fish to be pulled out of the water by their mouth and roughly handled on land. Sometimes fish don't recover from the shock and end up dying anyway. I felt awful thinking back on all the fish that must've suffered at my own hands. The last time I went fishing was probably about three years back, I haven't fished since. Although I haven't 100% decided that I'm never in my life fishing again, it's probably safe to assume I won't be fishing for a long, long while... @~@

That's how I feel about myself fishing, but when it comes to others fishing, I really don't mind. Everyone can decide for themselves what they wish to do, and where their stance on fishing lies. Even if I don't like eating most fish, it is a fact that fish can be more sustainable than other animal meat and eating local native fishes is a very good alternative to just buying from the store! Much like you said, fishing can be used to control populations of fish, like invasive species (lionfish come to mind immediately), which is also very good! Fishing is also just a fun hobby to have and brings a lot of enjoyment to many people, haha.

Much like commercial fishing, leisure fishing can have bad impact on fish and fish populations, but it doesn't have to be that way! One can take measures to fish in a way that doesn't harm the overall population and causes the fishes minimal stress, take for example my good friend! She has kept fish as pets and loves them much like I do, but she still fishes. She sands down the barbs on her hooks, and when she fishes with the intent of eating, she quickly puts the fish down. She holds the belief that if you're planning on having meat in your diet, you have to get comfortable with the idea that animals have to die for that diet, and also be sure that the animals didn't have to die in a more painful and stressful way than what was necessary. I pretty much agree with her.

So yeah! To make a long, rambly story short, I don't want to fish myself but I'm otherwise pretty neutral on the topic. Other people can go fish as much as they want to, but I only wish that people would make it easier on the fishes themselves! Their lives are valuable too and I think it is a fisher's responsibility to make sure they are treated with dignity and mercy.

Man, I ended up writing fish and fishing and fishes so many times myself, they don't even look like real words anymore! Fishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfishfish!

#animal death #animal death ment tw #tw animal death #did i sound enough like a politician? /j #this is of course my opinion and i simplified things a bit as to not write a whole essay on different types of fishing and their ethics #not to even mention aquaculture! but this is about fishing #im afraid the fishing ethical conundrum is something youll have to think through yourself! but such is life #asks #ferndoesentomology

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character interview. ˎˊ˗

basics.

name: valentine "allie" hope fleur.

nicname/s: allie, al, als, allie cat, allie pie, allie belly, tiny, teeny, little flower, little fairy, little cupid, little dove, dove, little fae, little wing, angel, angel dust, angelfish, doe eyes, starfish, sunshine barbie, mouse, birdie, sweetheart, darling flower, princess, sunflower, fairy baby, ladybug, chickadee, lotus, cupcake, lamb, tinkerbell, pocket fairy, pretty girl. (yes these are all rp ones and real i made a list of them like 2 years ago)

age: 18 - 22.

species: half-fae / half-human.

personal.

morality: lawful / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

religion: whatever the fae got goin on.

sins: greed / gluttony / sloth / lust / pride / envy / wrath

virtues: chastity / charity / diligence / humility / kindness / patience / justice

known languages: english, minimal fae.

secrets: she really isn't a person with any secrets, and is a very open book besides keeping her full name close to her. she's kind of scared to talk about her trauma in fear of bothering people. at least, she doesn't talk about the trauma that she knows is trauma. she's very frequently dropping concerning information about her childhood without thinking of it.

physical.

build: scrawny / bony / slender / fit / athletic / curvy / herculean / pudgy / average

height: 4′11″

scars / birthmarks: two scars down her back, in line and along her shoulder blades, where wings should be, though she's very insecure about them and she covers them with magic treatment that puts a glamour over them to hide them. she also gets little scabs and bruises a lot because of her clumsiness and frequent time spent in the woods among sharp branches and thick roots. / she has one on her left hip that she swears looks like a heart. (it does not actually look like a heart but you will break her heart if you tell her that, she’s very proud of it.)

abilities / powers: magic affinity, being able to detect magic without meaning to, affinity for nature, communicating with plants and animals, somewhat unconscious allure, especially to humans (ex: she's harder to refuse, normally very easy to be drawn to in a crowd, unnaturally charming), she has somewhat of a temperature resistance, or at least she has one on feeling alone. (meaning, her body may suffer from the effects of the temperature and her not realize it) she also has a high alcohol tolerance and strong immune system (both due to fae blood as well as her experiences) for human alcohol and human diseases.

restrictions: iron and silver, though she really tries to stray from metal of any kind. iron and silver, specifically, poison her and her skin, making her feel ill and burning her. her senses are heightened and more sensitive than the average human, and while that alone isn't a weakness, allie finds that harsh smells and sounds bother her to a point of almost pain. meat also makes her ill.

favorites. i'll let you know right now this was a flop. there are hardly any favorites just vibes, she so rarely has favorites.

food: she kinda just loves food and trying new things, there aren't really any flavors that she doesn't like, besides she just doesn't eat meat and actually doesn't enjoy any substitutes that claim to taste like meat. no favorites here i think but she loves fruits and sweets always and forever.

drink: sweet and fruity things <3 again <3.

pizza topping: i don't think she really has favorites for this but she doesn't eat meat, otherwise she likes everything.

color: she loves pastels, and pinks and greens and yellows and oranges and greens and purples and blues. she does not care for red, black or dark colors.

music genre: she enjoys pop n dream-pop but she'll listen to anything. very much a top 40 girlie by default just because it's what is always on.

book genre: she's not a book girlie 😔

movie genre: rom-com's/chick flicks primarily i imagine, she just loves fun movies. not a big fan of horror movies but she's never Opposed to anything. you will just need to hold her hand.

curse word: she really doesn't swear. she doesn't even like,, fake swear.

scents: flowers......

fun stuff.

songs: matilda + harry styles, you're on your own, kid + taylor swift, wildest dreams + taylor swift, cry baby + melanie martinez, all you wanna do + SIX, aimee atkinson, 13 beaches + lana del rey, sober + p!nk, nonsense + sabrina carpenter, because i liked a boy + sabrina carpenter, hey blondie + dominic fike, what was i made for? + billie eilish, earthangel + the penguins, moonlight + kali uchis

aesthetic: dainty jewelry, friendship bracelets, dancing in the rain, parties, loose curls, hair ribbons, cuddling with your friends, sundresses, kicked off shoes, meadows filled with flowers, fun patterned rolling papers, playful love, barefoot in the grass, colorfully painted fingernails, glitter everywhere, baked goods, forest floors covered in blossoms, intense feelings said casually, holding hands, petting wild animals and cradling them like babies, talking and singing to your plants, lots and lots of kisses, sparkly lipgloss.

sings in the shower: absolutely!

likes puns: yes! she thinks they are so fun and clever and will always laugh.

tagged by; stolen <3 from nearly an actual year ago <3 tagging; you, steal this and say i tagged you!

#the entire song section is just white women music i don't wanna talk abt it #𖥸 ₊ * “ about ” … i take on the colors of the flowers‚ the bloom‚ the delicacy. it becomes me.#𖥸 ₊ * “ headcannons ” … all spring i brushed the confessions out of my hair.

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hideyourautumn-milkteeth · 7 months

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2 for the weirdly specific questions ask :]

I'm fairly neutral on veganism! I'm shifting over to a more vegetarian diet with my roomie to accommodate both his dietary restrictions and also to improve my eating habits.

However I have a lot of mixed feelings on veganism as a moral or environmental argument. I shouldn't have to explain why the idea of "EATING ANIMAL BAD CAUSE IT HURT THEM!!" is extremely incorrect and also the demonization of hunting of preparing animals for eating and other uses is EXTREMELY racist and comes from a long line of attacking native cultures. Also, veganism as a more "environmentally friendly" option is pretty unrealistic considering the farming of a lot the plants needed for vegan foods and meat replacements is farmed VERY unethically in a way that fucks up the environment.

Also acting like veganism is morally superior also has a lot of ties to ableism and straight up eugenics, considering there are a lot of specific diets people with disabilities have that might require the consumption of animal product. I've been called a worthless cripple and told I deserve to die straight up because I defended other disabled people who need to eat meat to live. That's fucking disgusting.

The BEST way to eat differently to help the environment is grow your own food, support local farmers, butchers, businesses, etc, and in general cut down on your beef intake since the cow industry does in fact have a MAJOR negative effect on the environment. Same for the finishing industry.

In my opinion as someone who's done a lot of research both into different types of animal husbandry and ecology, what defines something as "vegan" shouldn't be "it lacks all animal products" but instead "was created through environmentally ethical means"

Any sort of meat or animal product (to an extent) can be vegan if it's farmed and cultivated ethically enough. Which includes meat taken from animals killed for food. We've been farming and using animals since forever, and killing them for food for even longer. It's not unnatural nor is it inherently cruel.

Animals and bugs are important and deserve to be handled with kindness and respect, but human life will always be more important than animal life and that's not smth I feel like wavering on. Ever.

#major industries can choke and explode tho #wolvenwhispers #ask game #ask #SORRY THIS IS SO LONG I HAVE #MANY THOUGHTS

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vriendenboekjes · 11 months

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so yesterday i finished reading Tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica and it definitely made me feel completely awful but I also kind of loved it? I feel like I can't make this post without first giving a warning for cannibalism, human experimentation and that humans being treated as livestock is kind of the premise of the book. So with that out of the way, the book follows Marcos, who's high uo at a plant where they process "special" meat, or human meat, after all animal meat is deemed unsafe due to a virus. And the further you are in the book, the more it becomes doubtful there ever was a virus in the first place. The eating of people therefore becomes more about control than a "genuine" attempt to stick to a balanced diet.

I'm not going to get into the torture porn of it all, but it's cruel and dehumanising, which is a big part of the book. I feel like the author touches upon issues of class and race in the book, without making explicit conclusions, you'll have to come to those yourself. Who gets eaten? Who eats whom? Why is which meat valuable? Who is and who is not deemed human?

Marcos is also troubled by his dementing father, the loss of his child and subsequent leaving of his wife, and his indifferent sister. When he receives a female "head" (meant for slaughter), these issues transform. He gets her pregnant and so a replacement for his dead son is handed to him.

At one point I did genuinely think she was going to be hunted for sport, but the end is completely awful in a different way. Marcos liked to think himself above others who made use of human livestock, but in the end when the opportunity presents itself he still grabs it with both hands. As soon as he's more satisfied with his life, he ceases to see the injustice of it all.

I think some reviewers on goodreads struggled with how there's no clear conclusion or lesson to take from this, and I do agree that some parts were maybe not completely clear or fleshed out, but I think the novel is an exaggeration of how people in capitalist society always consume others, and how people (and the government) can be cruel as long as they give a different name to what they're doing. It's a lot about how this consumption can be legitimized and seen as maybe not morally good, but at least neutral. The use of this neutralizing language is deeply disturbing considering the contents, but I do think it is strongly rooted in reality.

All in all this was a very interesting read and my thoughts are not 100% clear on this yet, I think i have to let this ferment in my brain for a bit. I cannot in good conscience recommend this to everyone but maybe some of you all would like to read this as well.

#cannibalism cw #child death cw #ask to tag #reading notes #🌬️

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avikats66 · 2 years

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Headcanons About Ghoul Eating: Physiology

- A typical adult ghoul requires 90 - 150 lbs of human meat per 2 months as an ideal food intake. The average adult human is 130 - 180 lbs, so it is easily possible for a ghoul to maintain adequate sustenance from a single corpse for 2 months.

- However, many ghouls are underfed given all the different issues when it comes to obtaining food. Ghouls can either stretch their intake of 90 - 150 lbs (or one adult/adolescent human body) to 3 or even 4 months, or they can reduce their 2 month intake to 80 lbs or less.

- Underfeeding takes a physical toll on ghouls’ bodies, affecting their superhuman strength, stamina, senses, durability, and regenerative capabilities. Significantly underfed ghouls will begin to lose kagune mass and capability, and can easily be both outlasted and overpowered by other ghouls with a proper diet.

- Ghouls are also capable of greatly exceeding their required food intake with beneficial rather than detrimental results. Ghouls can consume double, triple, quadruple, or even more of their required bimonthly food intake, and this excess intake is processed into higher Rc cell levels, which in turn translate into better physical performance and greater kagune mass/capability.

- A ghoul’s activity level greatly influences their required food intake. A ghoul who is very active - frequently using their kagune in strenuous fights and healing severe injuries, for example - will need more food to compensate for the higher number of Rc cells they use.

- Ghoul bodies are capable of hyper digesting and metabolizing their food, which is to say that they break down the meat they consume and convert it into energy and Rc cells remarkably quickly. This allows them to eat more in shorter periods of time and obtain the energy and nutrients they need from that food far faster than humans.

- This hyper digestion and metabolism are affected by neurochemical communication between the body and the brain. They are slowed down when the body is in a healthy, neutral state, and kicked into overdrive by distressing factors such as starvation, grievous injury, or activated stress responses - e.g. the fight-or-flight response or hyper arousal.

- Obesity is extremely rare in ghouls, with an obese individual needing to be both incredibly over fed and incredibly inactive in both in physical activity and use of Rc cells. These are two circumstances that are very hard to attain but for a select few ghouls in positions of great security and power.

- Ghoul mothers breastfeed their infants an Rc cell and nutrient rich liquid naturally produced by their bodies after pregnancy for about the first 2 or 3 months, after which teething occurs and the baby is introduced to soft human tissue and liquids like the brain and blood.

- Ghouls are highly resistant to the majority of human disease and illnesses, either being immune via cellular/genetic incompatibility or having immune systems capable of destroying infections which would overwhelm that of a human’s. Becuase of this, contracting an infection or disease from eating an afflicted human is a very rare occurrence, although ghouls who themselves have weakened immune systems via starvation or genetic ailments are at a higher risk.

- On a purely biological level of scent and taste, all ghouls greatly desire and enjoy fresh and raw human meat; however, some ghouls may choose not to eat fresh/raw meat due to guilt or disgust stemming from morality and/or empathy, and many ghouls also enjoy meat and other tissues prepared in a variety of different ways.

#tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul manga #tokyo ghoul re #tokyo ghoul headcanon #headcanons

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bntarwarn · 10 months

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so yeah, i have an interactive story i'm planning to work on this month (after i finished this ongoing fic). about "guy (gender neutral) has to go kill a mermaid for to use as a cure for their family's sickness"

here's some doodle of the protag from said story. just finally getting her design down

more infodump about her + the story i'm planning to make under cut

gonna organize these as bullet points

about the story/setting

planned to be an interactive story with four main endings. a one-shot.

the main story is pretty much "guy (gender neutral) has to go kill a mermaid for to use as a cure for their family's sickness"

set in a universe where mermaids exist, and their meat is believed to grant powers/heal people. so yeah thats why willow has to go out to find a mermaid

there's also this in-universe mythology i crafted specifically for this story. something something mermaids being the ocean goddess' children...

the endings are pretty much "is willow willing to kill the mermaid, or let the mermaid eat her first". also every ending is laced by willow's regrets to some extent. i'd say it's kind of a tragic story overall?

i intend to make this story link into this one OC universe (A Pawn's Creation) i'm working on. the link to that ocverse is probably through references of the goddess mytho, considering how that ocverse is basically built for fucked up god dramas

about willow/the protag

*slaps willows head* this fisher can fit so much repressed desires and regrets in her

the middle child of her family. she currently works as a fisher (a job passed onto her by her parents). her siblings take on other jobs :p

she can also butcher. will need this skill to butcher the mermaid she runs into

morally questionable with morbid tendencies

jokingly named "Ishmael Samsa (Heathcliff)" when i first pitched the idea in my friends discord server.

the type to really long for a life freed from everyone's influence on her

very foggy sense of identity, unsure of what she really wants and jazz. and can be easily-swayed by certain things

"i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn"

i might end up rambling more about willow, or like. literally everyone else in the story (like the mermaid willow will run into, the entire mermaid mythos, etc.)

or idk i end up rambling about something else entirely unrelated to willow and the carnivore mermaid corner of this ocverse lol

#original character #oc talk #doodles #doodles or sketches #ocs #my drawings #project: consumed by the waves

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fierceawakening · 2 years

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It seems to me the key questions are:

Is predation moral?

Do beings who can survive without being predators have a moral obligation to do so?

I’m not actually certain of the answers to either of these. It seems to me that if our answer to 1 is no, then we have to concede that many animals have a prima facie moral taint.

This makes some logical sense if “are these animals causing suffering” is how we translate “is this behavior moral?” So it doesn’t surprise me that many utilitarians I’ve met are vegan. But I’m not entirely sure this is the best way to translate “is X moral?” Which is why I don’t call myself a utilitarian.

I also don’t like reintroducing original sin through the back door, so my intuition is that predation is either just morally neutral or at the very least, morally excusable sometimes.

Which leads us to 2. Okay, so we shouldn’t condemn, say, house cats for being obligate carnivores and acting to survive. But humans are not obligate carnivores. Is it therefore morally required of humans in a way it is not of house cats to sustain ourselves by eating plants?

It makes sense to me that some humans conclude yes here. I’m not actually totally certain the answer is no (though I don’t think it’s a great moral evil for me to eat some meat even if that’s true—if it is, I should stop, but there could still be competing reasons I might have too much trouble doing so for it to be a serious deontic requirement.)

But. Now we seem to know that plants have aversive responses to stimuli too! So we know we might be hurting them by eating them, or by harvesting bits of them.

Which brings me, at least, back to 1: is predation moral, if by that we mean gaining sustenance through bringing about suffering/antihedons/whatever?

And if the answer to that is yes, then it seems the original sin we were imputing to predators is back, and now imputable to any form of eating other life forms at all!

But that’s an absurdity unless we want to conclude it is morally proper for all animals to starve. So something has gone wrong here )or, I guess, we could maximize utility by ending some forms of life—it does seem to be a conclusion some utilitarians have drawn)

So this leads me to think that the intuitions that there’s something immoral about predation are false. Though I don’t fully know what this means—it does seem to me intuitively that there is something harsh or cruel about animals needing to kill each other.

So this is a tentative conclusion. But it seems to have several virtues, one of which is not condemning humans for traditional subsistence living. And doing THAT does seem to me a moral ill, at least derivatively; racism and judging other groups as inferior seem to come with it and not to get unstuck easily.

Therefore, I’m not vegan, but understand (I think) how different answers to these or related questions get other people there and am fine with them eating whatever.

What I’m not fine with is the idea that non vegans have not thought about the morality of eating animals. I have! I just think what actually arises is clear as mud, and that therefore individuals can make whatever sense of it they want.

(“Should agribusiness be less cruel” is another question, though a related one. I hope everyone’s answer to that is yes.)

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I posted 5,592 times in 2022

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Longest Tag: 138 characters

#is they forget why their love interest is into them too because they’ve reassigned and stripped every trait from them but the undying love

My Top Posts in 2022:

Look. We all know the Lan sect. Austere, reserved, founder is descended from a Buddhist priest who met their one true love, started a sect and then disappeared when their love died. They participated in the first and the second siege and then their leader had a crisis of made all the wrong moral choices in a video game and ended up with a bad ending. It’s okay though, now he can actually think about what he says and be a better person.

We know them, probably love them, the love interest proceeds to be fascinating by living up to the tenets in spirit and being an austere almost monk person who also loves to fuck his husband until he can’t walk the next day. The Lans- very variable fascinating sect. I personally adore writing them- once they’ve put in a little character development to be worthy of our beloved heroes.

Modern aus usually make them very old wealthy families. They’ve got the houses all in white and the rooms you can’t touch and the forty thousand house rules. I suppose this is a valid take, although in my opinion it sucks balls because it completely forgets things like the fact that they are raised in Buddhist principles. That level of rich arrogant snobbery just goes against a lot of what the Lan sect actually is supposed to be, Lan Qiren is not supposed to be the moral compass of our story, otherwise we would have a story where the Lan sect gets wiped out by someone when they refuse to stand up for anyone and fall for anything. Listen to Lan Wangji, not his rigid discipline stick of an uncle.

But, I digress. Rich Austere Lans is a take that works for modern aus, but listen to your dear Sangsang as she offers you a much better option…

Hippie Lan commune instead. Lan Qiren meditating with goats standing on him. Clothes made of hemp. Lan Wangji has never eaten a piece of food that he didn’t help grow himself. Lan Xichen names the meat they eat. They go to deforesting protests and show up as four hundred people all in white clothes and preach harmony with the earth and following Buddhist and tantric principles. What we take from the earth we must give back. We must passive aggressively stand in the way of injustice and wish good tidings on our enemies.

Lan sect. Hippies. Just think about it.

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How to you feel about wwx sort of taking advantage of lwj when he’s drunk re: the kiss? (It’s a genuine question, I’m trying to instigate a fandom war or bash any character!)

Well first off anon, I think that framing it as "sort of taking advantage" already states where your thoughts on it lie. I recognize that you do likely mean to be neutral and are asking in good faith and just accidentally missed the word not, but the way you phrased the question does have a lead in.

Which is really unfair because I wouldn't call either stolen kiss in Modaozushi either one of them taking advantage of the other. They are both impulsive actions, taken then immediately regretted with neither of the kissed party punishing the other in any way.

The Phoenix Mountain Kiss has been done to death, but let's go ahead and talk about the DrunkJi 2 kiss. It might be a bit scattered because I was having some revelations myself about this moment when I was rereading the scene. Namely that LWJ is being a lot more consenting than it first appears.

They are both not sober in the moment. Wei Wuxian was drinking before Lan Wangji joined him, at the end of the scene he discovers that the whole bottle is empty while he's all rattled about it. I would hesitate to call Wei Wuxian drunk, but as someone who has had more than my own fair share of drinks, there is a point where you can still be very aware of your actions, your senses yet your instinct that pulls you back is numbed. And it does not necessarily take a lot of drinking to get there.

They have been playing a very flirty game. Lan Wangji was threatened if he got caught during chase to get licked and his response was to turn around and walk right into Wei Wuxian to be licked. He gets all shuddery and fluttery about it like the flustered maiden he is, but also goes back in for more. He is definitely very drunk, but every sign that Wei Wuxian is getting is not only a level of enjoyment, but actively seeking out more. In addition, this is the second time Lan Wangji has gotten drunk around Wei Wuxian, so it's not like it's a surprise to either of them that he's a bit of a wild child, running around, causing trouble and being a pouty baby when Wei Wuxian doesn't give him what he wants. Lan Wangji choosing to drink alongside Wei Wuxian is both of them acknowledging that this is going to go in interesting directions; Lan Wangji is not going to remember it and he trusts Wei Wuxian with his drunken inhibition free self.

Here's where we get to the first amazing thing I've discovered on rereading this. There is a lot more going on beneath the surface than framing this as Wei Wuxian suddenly kissing Lan Wangji out of nowhere. This whole scene is showing us what their dynamic really was when they were younger and how only now do they have the ability to actually pick up on these confused signals that they were sending each other as teenagers.

Lan Wangji may be drunk, but for the first time, Wei Wuxian is absolutely picking up on what he wants.

As he was pondering, Lan WangJi turned around, his face as calm as always, “Again.”

Wei WuXian, “Again? Again what?”

Lan WangJi hid behind the wooden screen once more and peeked at him with only half of his face showing.

His intentions were as clear as could be—again, you chase, I run.

Speechless for a moment, Wei WuXian obeyed and did it again. This time, having only been chased for a short while, Lan WangJi ran into him again.

Wei WuXian, “You really are doing this on purpose, aren’t you?”

Again, Lan WangJi brought Wei WuXian’s arms around his neck as though he couldn’t understand what his words meant, waiting for him to fulfil his promise again.

These are not the actions of someone who just wants to play. There is a whole other layer going on beneath the surface. A context clue clicks into place for Wei Wuxian and presumably the audience as well, although that latter one I strongly doubt given that I only really caught onto it now myself.

Lan Wangji is not running because he is afraid or because he isn’t enjoying it. Lan Wangji is running because he wants to be chased and caught. He wants to resist up to a point and then give into Wei Wuxian and surrender the need to pretend and protest. Wei Wuxian is teasing him as though he were a playful kid, cause licking is gross at that age and it theoretically should make Lan Wangji run faster. Instead he makes it a few steps, turns around and walks right into Wei Wuxian’s arms.

It is rather an intensely vulnerable scene as I reread it for this. For just a moment, Wei Wuxian lets his guard down because Lan Wangji is asking him for something very different than he might sober and he is responding to that deep attraction within the both of them. He has picked up on that Lan Wangji was a little frightened of the deepness of the emotions within, but also he really does want it. Thus he continues because he for a brief few splendid moments has no doubt.

With his arms around Lan WangJi, Wei WuXian returned to the bed with him, then asked, “You like this, don’t you? Don’t turn around. Speak. Do you like it or not? If you like it, we don’t have to run around every single time. How about I let you have as much fun as you want?”

As he spoke, he held up one of Lan WangJi’s hands, bent down, and kissed between two of his slender fingers.

Lan WangJi wanted to take his hand away again, but Wei WuXian held it tightly, not allowing him to do so.

And then, Wei WuXian’s lips pressed onto his distinct knuckles. Softer than the touch of feather, his breaths wandered to the back of his hand, and he kissed again.

It is easy to forget, especially since the extent of Lan Wangji's strength won't be shown until the Guanyin Temple, about sixty chapters away from this point, but he is very strong and Wei Wuxian is in the body of a normal person who has not cultivated a golden core. The text here in ExR Allure says that Wei Wuxian wouldn't let him pull his hand away, but if he actually really wanted to stop it, he could easily pull his hand away or push Wei Wuxian off. He is not resisting because he doesn’t want it, he is resisting because he is continuing to play hard to get.

He is still being chased, Wei Wuxian is about to catch him.

Lan WangJi couldn’t pull his hand back no matter how hard he tried. He could only clench his fingers together into a tight fist.

Wei WuXian lifted up his sleeves, revealing the pale-skinned wrist, then kissed it as well.

After he kissed, he didn’t raise his head. He only turned his eyes to Lan WangJi, “Is that enough?”

Is that enough for Lan Wangji, hapless fragile maiden being seduced by the man he really, really likes? No, no he would like a little more romancing please.

Lan WangJi pursed his lips, refusing to speak a single word. Wei WuXian finally sat up straight again and continued, his voice unhurried, “Tell me. Have you burnt any paper money for me?”

There was no answer. Wei WuXian laughed out loud and inched toward him. Over the clothing, he kissed where his heart was, “If you don’t talk, I’m not gonna give you any more. Tell me. How did you know it was me?”

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In a world in which Wei Wuxian had plant growing/summoning powers, he would use them to make sure that Lan Wangji always has the shojo flower backdrop he deserves. He told us himself when he drew him. Lan Wangji just doesn’t look right without flowers in his hair.

374 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

One of the lovely things about rereading Modaozushi and talking about it with people is that you realize new things about the text that you’d never noticed before.

One of those things is Wei Wuxian’s absolute need to flirt with Lan Wangji regardless of what else he is doing in the moment. Even when it involves other people.

We know a lot of the bigger ones pretty well, but let me offer you one that I think slips by a lot of people because it’s a pretty subtle moment in a big chapter. I’ve copied a few lines of text around it to show how clear the transition and Wei Wuxian’s complete lack of focus on everything else once Lan Wangji enters the scene is.

The sucking force of the lake became stronger and stronger. Wei WuXian’s sword was superior in terms of agility, but inferior in terms of strength. He was almost weighed down to the point of hovering right above the surface of the lake. He steadied himself while using both hands to haul Su She, and shouted, “Can somebody come here to help?! If I still can’t pull him up, I’m gonna let go!”

Suddenly, Wei WuXian felt his collar tighten, and he was lifted into the air. He turned around to see Lan WangJi holding the back of his collar with one hand. Although Lan WangJi merely looked into another direction with an indifferent look, he and his sword carried the weight of three people, and fought with the mysterious force of the lake at the same time. Moreover, their position was still rising at a steady pace. Jiang Cheng was rather shocked, If I went down to pull Wei WuXian before him, using Sandu, I probably couldn’t have ascended so quickly and steadily. Lan WangJi is only around my age…

At this point, Wei WuXian spoke, “Lan Zhan, your sword is quite strong, isn’t it? Thank you, thank you. But why did you pull my collar? Can’t you hold on to me? I don’t feel comfortable if you do this. Why don’t I stretch my hand to you and you can grab it?”

Lan WangJi replied with a cold voice, “I do not have physical contact with others.”

Wei WuXian, “We’re already this familiar with each other, so how am I ‘others’?”

Lan WangJi, “We are not.”

Wei WuXian pretended to be hurt, “You can’t do this…”

Jiang Cheng really couldn’t hold it any more. He scolded, “You can’t do this!!! Can’t you speak a few sentences less while you’re held in mid-air by your collar?!”

The group travelled on their swords and evacuated Biling Lake as fast as they could. When they landed, Lan WangJi let go of Wei WuXian’s back collar and calmly turned to Lan XiChen, “It is a waterborne abyss.”

Source: Exiled Rebels translation, Chapter 17 of Modaozushi.

So have you all noticed what Wei Wuxian forgot in his need to flirt with Lan Wangji for coming to save him? Do you see the subtle note that the book gives us on the context of this arrangement with Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian up in the air?

Su She is still being held up by Wei Wuxian while he’s busy flirting!

Wei Wuxian either forgets or ignores that he has a whole other person dangling from him in midair while he immediately turns his attention to flirting with Lan Wangji because that is where his fifteen-year-old brain is at and where his focus is for... the entirety of the Cloud Recesses Classes arc.

Su She may be a classist asshole who went out with only a glimmer of dignity, dying for a man who gave fuck all about him, but for this one moment, let us be sympathetic to him, as he dangles from Wei Wuxian’s hand, completely ignored because Wei Wuxian needs to flirt that badly.

I love this book so fucking much.

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My #1 post of 2022

One of the sweetest things about all the juniors shipping Wangxian even as early as Yi City (as well as one of the funniest if you’re a fan of irony), is that it’s really easy to realize, but also really good why they’re the first ones to accurately name what they’re seeing.

The Multi-Clan Duckling Squad are the first people to ever see Wangxian together without any preconceived notions about their relationship — including Wangxian. They alone get to just see them as they are, two dorks who perfectly match and are clearly in love with each other, and they never assume that there’s something else going on because of their understandings of the men involved.

The juniors continue to prove that you can’t really understand someone if you’re coming at them with an assumption in place, and only with clear eyes can you see what was there all along to see.

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livelaughlovinglobotomy · 2 years

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Bloodwyrms

Dark themes ahead, read at your own discretion

Namesake derives from the way they hunt (bloody and gruesome)

Can be identified through their much darker color scheme than the average wyrm and red sheen around their mouth and down their neck

If general bloodwyrm behavior was described via the dnd alignment system, they would be around the chaotic neutral area (while chaotic good bloodwyrms are possible, it's very uncommon)

Normally solitary hunters, but it isn't uncommon for young bloodwyrms to follow alongside the hunting parent at the time

This brings us to the fact that bloodwyrms have a very keen sense of smell which helps them differentiate their young from prey with ease, making accidental infanticide very rare when on hunts

Bloodwyrms often hunt other wyrms. Not because they're desperate for food, but because they're fucking psychopaths (They will leave gravid wyrms alone, however)

While rare for most other wyrms, bloodwyrms can form familial units and usually gather underground to form a nest which can get very large without interference

When occupied, bloodwyrm nests smell heavily of viscera and gore, this makes it easier for bloodwyrms to find the nest and deter other wyrms from entering because entering a nest full of bloodwyrms is a deathwish on a silver platter

However, empty bloodwyrm nests are often sought after by mortals and wyrms with how big they can get, providing a safe zone to rest, though it's very easy to become lost in the winding tunnels, which can effectively starve you to death

Cannibalism is common among these familial units, though the one being eaten is usually the one seen as incompetent and/or has been greedy with food. And to top it off, they get fed to the younger generations first and bloodwyrm youth are just as ravenous as their adult counterparts (this is mostly done to keep some semblance of order (basically psychopaths with morals))

Infanticide involving cannibalism is seen as normal, however, any other form of harm to young is seen as taboo and will probably end with you becoming their next meal

Another thing seen as outlandish is the enslavement of mortals. They see it as you being greedy with food and use them to work meaningless tasks and they take full offense to that. They will go out of their way to make your life miserable by destroying whatever it is the forced labor is used for and will purposely let them escape as they will not hunt something that doesn't put up a fight (psychopaths with standards, if you will)

With bloodwyrms, you're either a friend or food, more often food than a friend (to befriend a bloodwyrm, you'd have to prove yourself worthy, and the criteria for proving yourself worthy varies from each individual bloodwyrm, most involving life-threatening situations)

If you do manage to prove yourself worthy to a bloodwyrm you are considered a close friend to the individual and expect them to frequently rub up against you, this is a way of showing a platonic form of affection and scenting you to prevent other bloodwyrms from eating you

Other forms of platonic affection include: gifting shiny objects and items with a funky texture that's fun to play with, will also share kills with you but will happily wolf it down if you aren't hungry (or don't eat meat)

They will also happily give information about customs and share info about traditions if you made it this far

They themselves don't actually have traditions, the mortals that worship them do via blood rituals (ha). They are flattered and greatly amused by the effort and complexity of these rituals they make to honor them and to act as a form of protection, especially when the blood doesn't belong to the one preforming the ritual

#fml #wyrmbuilding #Jesus Christ this got long #watch me turn a draconic entity into a psychotic cat

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Fish and Chips’ Surprising Jewish History

Jamie Oliver confirmed it!

You may be surprised to learn that fish and chips, though wildly popular in England for what seems like eternity, was actually a specialty of the Portuguese Sephardic Jews who fled the Inquisition in the 16th century and found refuge in the British Isles. Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver referred to this recently in an article in the New York Times, adding that, “Dishes evolve, impacted by trade, war, famine and a hundred other forces.”

Among those “other forces” are dishes born of religious ritual. For observant Jews, fish is pareve, a neutral food in kosher terms, thus an easy way to avoid treyf (non-kosher food) and possibly include dairy in the same meal. It was especially important for Marranos, the so-called crypto-Jews, who pretended to be Christian during the Inquisition. They ate fish on Fridays, when meat was forbidden by the Church, and also saved some to eat cold the next day at lunch, to avoid cooking on Shabbat.

Frying was natural for Jewish home cooks — think of latkes and sufganyiot — and as the Jewish community began to flourish in England, it spurred a taste for its beloved fried, battered fish throughout the country. According to Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food, Thomas Jefferson tried some on a trip to London and noted that he ate “fish in the Jewish fashion” during his visit. Alexis Soyer, a French cook who became a celebrated chef in Victorian England included a recipe for “Fried Fish, Jewish Fashion” in the first edition of his cookbook A Shilling Cookery for the People (1845). Soyer’s recipe notes that the “Jewish manner” includes using oil rather than meat fat (presumably lard), which made the dish taste better, though also made it more expensive.

There’s some dispute about the where and when of “chips” (what we Americans call French fries and the French call pommes frites). Many historians say that deep-fried, cut-up potatoes were invented in Belgium and, in fact, substituted for the fish during hard times. The first time the word “chips” was used was in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities in 1859: “husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.”

The official pairing of fish and chips didn’t happen until a few years later, though. Although there are some who dispute it, most authorities say that it is thanks to a Jewish cook, this time a young Ashkenazi immigrant named Joseph Malin, who opened the first British chippy, AKA fish and chip shop, in London in 1863. The shop was so successful it remained in business until the 1970s.

Who could foresee that fearful Jewish immigrants hiding their true religion and practicing in secret would be responsible for creating one of the most iconic dishes in the U.K.? The down-home dish that Winston Churchill claimed help the British defeat the Nazis, the comfort food that George Orwell said helped keep the masses happy and “averted revolution.” The dish, by the way, that was among the only foods never rationed during wartime because the British government believed that preserving access to it was a way of keeping up morale. A dish that continues to be a mainstay of the British diet.

Think about that the next time you find yourself feasting on this centuries-old — Jewish? British? — recipe.

These days, some restaurants are putting a new spin on fish and chips. Almond crusted. Baked instead of fried. Quinoa coated. Sweet potato fries instead of regular. And those are all fine; as Oliver says, “Dishes evolve.” But plain old fish and chips endures and probably always will. Good recipes usually do.

H/T : @scartale-an-undertale-au

#Fish and Chips #Jewish #Portuguese Sephardic Jews

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