#also i’m eating primarily vegan

[trannykong]

Mac n Cheese & Burgers for breakfast/Lunch and dinner also ive got an apples pinnacle of health over here

[vegautistic]

A lot of people don’t actually understand omnivorism, and it shows when they speak against vegans.

It’s not entirely correct to say that certain animals “need” meat/plants/bugs/etc. what we all need is nutrients, and what determines how we obtain those nutrients is what our species is capable of digesting and it’s availability.

Felines are obligate carnivores, meaning they struggle to digest vegetation and therefore end up relying majorly on meat… while dogs are facultative carnivores, meaning they primarily consume meat but can and benefit from some plants being part of their diet.

There really isn’t such a thing as an obligate omnivore, as far as I’m aware. Because if you are capable of digesting both meat and plants, then meat becomes an efficient option to get certain nutrients rather than a requirement. Meat is a convenient source of fat, proteins, and other nutrients like Omega-3s. In fact most omnivores closer to humans aren’t crazy about meat eating…

take bears for example. Bears, minus polar bears (they’re carnivores), can have their diet be up to 90% plant matter, and they go for meat because it’s an efficient source of fat and protein, which they need. While less efficient, given the correct diet a bear could be vegetarian. Same goes for pigs, raccoons, etc.

And also, provably, humans. We have seen vegetarian and vegan humans time and time again all throughout history, who have led healthy fulfilled lives. Sometimes even being healthier than the average person of their time. To say that humans need meat is ignoring the myriad of evidence suggesting otherwise.

Anyways, this was my disjointed rant about omnivores. Just because it’s a little bit difficult doesn’t mean humans can’t survive on a plant based diet, especially given all of the resources humanity has today.

[localplaguenurse]

So uh idk how to present this

But blood is a substitute for eggs in baking so the substitution ratio is like 65g of blood for one egg (approx. 58g), or 43g of blood for one egg white (approx. 33g)

So that means if you want to make a vegan baked good, you can just stab yourself. I mean you consented to it right, so doesn’t that make it vegan?

Also this is totally my agenda for why vampires can eat normal food because I’m starting to get sick of “vampires can’t eat normal food” bs

Also doesn’t that mean that technically speaking. Wifey can just eat eggs as a blood substitute

Oh I knew that lmao. I wanted to be a horror author when I was younger, so I know a lot of weird facts.

Vampires can’t eat normal foods reminds me of when I watched Tokyo Ghoul when I was 14 and when they were like “we can only eat meat and coffee” my brain went down a rabbit hole of “what could a ghoul theoretically eat?” I’m not up to date with the series at all btw and again I was in middle school but hear me out regardless and assume my thought process applies to vampires.

So they primarily eat human meat but Touga (?) was fine eating Kaneki in a pinch (granted he was human before) so surely they can eat the flesh of other animals, like pigs and chickens and cows. They don’t even eat that often, so surely you can just save up money, buy a few high quality steaks every now and then, eat them raw, and be good for a while. Also, they drink coffee. Do they add milk to coffee? If they add milk, does it have to be cow’s milk, or could it be any animal milk? If they can drink milk, then does that mean they can eat cheese? And if we’re going down the road of milk, there’s no reason they can’t eat eggs, both because of the blood substitute thing and also if milk is safe to consume as an animal byproduct while not being flesh, SURELY eggs count too.

This is legitimately a thought process I had during my rather brief Tokyo Ghoul phase, and have continued to have because I haven’t read the manga to actually see why the ghouls can only eat humans or watched anything past season 1.

So my rough headcanon/worldbuilding is that vampires don’t really need to eat, but they can, it just won’t give them the nutrients needed for their new metabolism or satiate the bloodlust. Like if you wanna eat cake to keep your vampirism a secret, or because cake is delicious, then go for it. There are alternatives to drinking blood, namely consuming a high protein/iron diet through predominantly eating meat/animal products and perhaps taking like iron supplements. This will not deter bloodlust though. The only way to combat bloodlust is to either indulge in a feeding, or to lock yourself away and try to wait out the symptoms. The symptoms do fade after some time, but they will come back stronger next time if you don’t drink some actual blood in the meantime. If you have a willing participent, you can feed off of them a bit and then take iron supplements after a feeding so you don’t totally drain them. Human blood is preferable but animal blood also works.

Assume my thought process applies to wifey, but wifey also doesn’t have to do all that because Morax is kind of an infinite blood glitch because Archon and adeptus powers.

[eazy-group]

Tonette lost 80 pounds

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Tonette lost 80 pounds

Transformation of the Day: Tonette lost 80 pounds. She began her journey to help relieve some digestive issues. She also transformed her lifestyle to address depression and anxiety. Faith and intermittent fasting have been critical factors in her success.

Social Media: TikTok and Instagram: @studio828bic Facebook: Studio 828 Body Image Consulting

My name is Tonette. Through intermittent fasting, I lost and maintained a 65-pound weight loss for eight years. I most recently lost 15 more pounds, and I continue to lose weight. That’s 80 pounds total! 

What was your motivation? I never intended to lose this much weight! My initial goal was to find some relief from the digestive problems that I was experiencing – mainly heavy bloating after meals and acid reflux.

How did you change your eating habits and embrace intermittent fasting? I stopped eating beef and beef by-products. By making that change, I found immediate relief and lost about 12/15 pounds (those pounds were later regained). 

After a severe bout with debilitating depression and anxiety, I took eight months away from my teaching career. My life became sleep, eat, pray, and work out! 

I accidentally discovered intermittent fasting. How? By the time I got home from the gym and showered, I was eating my first meal around 12 or 1 p.m. 

What is your height? I am 5’5″.

What is your starting weight? What is your current weight? I went from my highest non-pregnant weight of 245 pounds to 180 pounds in about six months. I did cardio, weight training, and sauna 5-7 days a week and adopted a low-carb lifestyle. 

Most recently, I’ve adopted a primarily raw vegan lifestyle, which led to the additional 15 pounds. I lost that in 5 weeks. I currently weigh 168 pounds! 

I cannot talk about my weight loss without giving credit to God because I sincerely prayed for healing (from the depression). God blessed me with that healing, plus a significant amount of weight loss. I’m also blessed with the passion to help other women lose weight through intermittent fasting.

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[fuegito-de-eeuu]

Man… mermaids…

I feel like I see a lot of interesting interpretations about them. Cause I mean, there are a fusion of a fish and human, and the human half is the upper half so obviously they act human.

But like. That’s. Kinda lame imo.

Yeah, this essentially different race of people who live in an entirely different environment and are often shown to have either not interacted with humans for a while or were shown to have separated from humans ages ago… yep, they speak English. I’m sorry??? They speak? Under the water?

I know it’s for convenience sake in some media, but lordy anyone who has gone swimming knows it’s kinda hard for people to just talk underwater, even if they could breathe the water.

GIVE ME THE WHALE SOUNDS. GIVE ME THE DEEPLY HORRIFIC NOISES. GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE ON LAND.

It just. doesn’t make any sense to me. Like maybe I can get it for more like. Close to shore mermaids or mermaids in contact with humans more, but even then it wouldn’t be the greatest for communicating underwater.

Not to mention like. Why are mermaids built like a surf and turf platter. Like occasionally I see fin-like ears which, aesthetically, I’m a big fan of. But other than that it’s just, “yeah they got a fish tail” AND THAT’S IT.

There so many different kinds of aquatic creatures, why just fish :(

Why is the difference at the waist. Why is it just a normal guy or gal. Give me claws. Give me teeth. Give me more traits for a creature that likely needs to use its body to hunt more.

Slightly going back to the first point, but usually I only see people-sized mermaids. This isn’t bad but, it would be so cool to see this giant humanoid shark mermaid or something just grinning at you because they managed to sneak up on you. Or maybe slightly or very small reef-fish mermaids. There’s so much more to do!!! Why just. Normal sized people.

Why do they still have an internal breathing structure. I would get it for a more mammalian mermaid I guess, like a manatee or seal mermaid. But like, there's a reason fish have a more external breathing structure and that's because it's more efficient for getting air from the water. Granted we see mermaids surfacing a lot in media, or just chilling on land. But maybe a more amphibian build would be cool to see?

Also with the size thing, most mermaids I’ve seen in media are just like. Vibing in the open ocean. Maybe they got a castle or something there, or something else important is there, but like. Only open ocean? As just bright-colored, pretty-looking fish? The wide open ocean isn’t exactly home to brightly colored fish because it makes them easy to spot. Most open ocean fish are blue, grey, and/or white. If you want the fancy, brightly colored fish and a mermaid society… CORAL REEFS. THEY’RE LITERALLY SO PRETTY AND WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE IF YOU WANT THE PRETTY, NOT DANGEROUS GROUP OF FISH PEOPLE.

Which also leads me to where exactly would mermaids be on the food chain. Let alone the ocean food web. I’d say they could be predators as humans are omnivores and there’s plenty of predatory fish, but the pretty reef fish usually eat algae. Maybe it’d just depend on the type of mermaid you’d be in my version, but like, for the standard surf and turf mermaids in media… where are they.

They’re not really shown eating a lot. They have human teeth which aren’t exactly good for hunting. No claws. Maybe sometimes they'll have like weapons and stuff but even then, spears aren't exactly fantastic for fighting underwater unless you're fighting someone else with a spear.So are they vegans??? Vegetarians??? I wouldn't mind that but it's just something that still bugs me.

But aside from that.

WHY DO THEY HAVE BOOBS

It seems so inconvenient for a creature that primarily lives underwater. Especially for series such as One Piece that already has the slight issue of giving almost every afab character MASSIVE FUCKING HONKERS. Big tits are heavy on land, and in water, they float. HOW INCONVENIENT WOULD THAT BE AS A MERMAID.

You constantly have to swim just downwards slightly or exert more effort just to stay down. Like??? No other sea fairing mammal has boobs 24/7. No other mammal in general has boobs 24/7. Why? They're just. kinda inconvenient.

Not to mention, for a race of creatures that are part-fish... why aren't the afab mermaids big. Their upper bodies have no difference compared to humans on land. GIVE ME THE ALPHA FEMALE MERMAIDS YOU COWARDS, WE ALREADY HAVE ALPHA WEREWOLVES AND THOSE AREN'T EVEN SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT EITHER.

Finally onto the culture. Why is it just a copy of human culture. Like you just put human cities and castles and systems underwater without giving two shits and called it a day. Have fun with it??? Go crazy??? Especially if you're just doing it in the open ocean of all things. Why are they civil. Mad max that shit. It is the open ocean.

If you want your cities, there are much more interesting areas in the ocean than the outside of fucking bikini bottom. There are coral reefs, kelp forests, mangroves, estuaries, mid-ocean ridges, and quite a bit more. Make it more interesting than a palace of gold that seemed to have come from nowhere.

What would genuinely have value in a mermaid world? Would new creatures and plants adapt to living with larger creatures? What would mermaids try to cultivate if they do attempt to grow food? Would they both with clothes or armor? What would cause issues and divides between mermaids? etc.

there's just... so much more to think about that I feel doesn't get talked about in common media. I'm not mad about pretty mermaids or anything, I'm just mad that not more is done with such a cool race.

[martin-jordan]

End of year review 2023

It’s been over 2 years since the last note. That’s a while. In between, a few things have happened, including me moving to Berlin again and joining the German government’s Digital Service as the first Head of Design. I’ve managed to write notes about the work I do there almost every week. So do have a look there, if you’re interested in any of that.

Following a question format developed by Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson, which I discovered on Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino’s blog, I am answering her list of questions to reflect my 2023.

What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before? I have never led such a big team. The design and user research team at Digital Service is now 20 people strong. By the end of this year, 2024, we might get closer to 30. I’m still getting used to that responsibility.

Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn’t bother to make any promises to myself for 2023. So there was nothing to keep. I intended to run, eat well – primarily vegan – and do public speaking and writing, though. I failed miserably at running. The rest was alright.

Did anyone close to you give birth? Some people I work with gave birth, but I don’t feel close to them.

Did anyone close to you die? Luckily not.

What countries did you visit? Only a few. I did not fly at all, which I am proud of. I visited the UK several times, including Scotland – a 19-hour non-stop train journey from Berlin. I visited France (Paris) once and Switzerland twice for leisure, including skiing in Saas-Fee, close to Zermatt. 2024 will be different. I will travel internationally again.

What would you like to have in 2024 that you lacked in 2023? A better work-life balance. I worked seriously long hours in 2024 – at a level that even I don’t find sustainable.

What date from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory? My own and another birthday. I know that I did then. There is no other specific date that I remember – maybe that’s even a good thing.

What was your biggest achievement of the year? I find it difficult to name one. I am proud of what the team is doing; I wrote and delivered an all-new talk on the ‘long slog of public service design’ with Kara that was well-received at 2 conferences. I also co-ran a 24-hour remote conference, which was a success.

What was your biggest failure? I didn’t get anyone else in the German public sector to embrace the Service Standard or any senior person to embrace it publicly.

Did you suffer illness or injury? I fell in the first 5 minutes of skiing in December – straight on my skier's thumb from 2001. I am still recovering from that several weeks later. Apart from that, I was fine.

What was the best thing you bought? A Vitsœ 606 shelf for my living room. I installed it for my birthday, and it brings joy every day. It took me over 15 years to convert from a clueless design student to a customer. That’s when I worked for Thomas Manss & Company, which did all the design and branding for Vitsœ.

Whose behaviour merited celebration? Countless anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-fossil fuel activists. More closely, I admire and respect our CEO, Christina and how she is navigating the growing Digital Service through a tricky political and stakeholder landscape.

Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? The behaviour of a few German ministers that actively block the progress they set out in their party manifestos and coalition treaty from 2021.

Where did most of your money go? To food, in general. I visited some nice restaurants. It was still no outrageous amount, though.

What did you get really, really, really excited about? The Vitra Campus in Weill am Rhein was quite spectacular. I am not sure it was a 3x ‘really’ level of excitement, though.

What song/album will always remind you of 2023? I discovered Philip Glass’ ‘Dance Pieces’ and listened to them extensively. It was played as part of ‘Age of Content’ (LA)HORDE’s performance at the Berliner Festspiele in August. It was marvellous.

Compared to this time last year, are you: Unsure how I was or felt last year. I think I was less exhausted in mid-December 2022, though. 2023 was dense. I did a lot.

What do you wish you’d done more of? More exercise. More breaks and holidays.

What do you wish you’d done less of? Even though not everything was fruitful, I think everything I’ve done was worth it.

How will you be spending Christmas? As it’s already after Christmas, I answer this retrospectively. I went to my sister’s family place and celebrated there – right after the pre-holiday ski trip.

Who did you spend the most time on the phone with? My mother, even though she thinks I could call her more often.

Did you fall in love in 2023? No need. All good and stable.

What was your favourite TV programme? ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO stood out. Great drama, themes, storytelling, actors. While not the greatest show, ‘Extrapolations’ on Apple TV+ will be on my mind for the years to come as it shows snapshots of human existence dealing with a changing climate between 2037 and 2070.

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Such a strong word, no. But I do have much less respect for certain people. That includes several men in charge of driving digitalisation in the German public sector. Their performance is weak and deeply disappointing.

What was the best book(s) you read? At the end of the year, I started reading ‘Baustellen der Nation’ (‘Construction Sites of the Nation’ in English) – an analytical and progressive book outlining what needs work in Germany and how to do it. I like it goes deep and broad and covers problems and potential solutions, enriched with a lot of data and strong narratives.

What was your greatest musical discovery? I discovered Oskar Sala at an architecture exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie. I watched a documentary about the construction of the ICC building from the early 70s and waited until the end titles to see who composed the music. I have been listening to Oskar Sala’s music for various hours since then.

What did you want and get? The mentioned Vitsœ 606 shelf.

What did you want and not get? Some upgraded camera equipment. I did not prioritise it enough in my budget.

What were your favourite films of this year? It was neither ‘Oppenheimer’ nor ‘Barbie’ – the blockbusters and most discussed movies of the year. I missed a few films I still like to watch when they are streaming. ‘Decision to Leave’ by Park Chan-wook stood out for me. And Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ was powerful in its message, especially when watching the documentary with director Peter Sohn telling about his family’s immigration story that inspired the movie.

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 41 in April. We wanted to take a canoe trip to the Spreewald, but the weather wasn’t great. So my parents came around, we went to the ‘Futurium’ exhibition about science and democracy and had cake afterwards. In the evening, I got invited for dinner at the Korean fine dining restaurant ‘CHOI’. That was a very pleasant and intimate food experience.

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? More significant progress in driving user-centred design approaches in the German public sector. I didn’t get done what I wanted to get done. Too many actors are following their own agendas instead.

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2023? Adding a bright colour to my navy blue – beyond the colourful socks. I got two new RÆBURN jumpers in 2023. I like the brand’s regenerative design approach and some of their designs.

What kept you sane? Focussing on the things that I can influence and that give me a sense of progress.

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? No idea. Not my thing.

What political issue stirred you the most? So many. It’s hard to pick a single one. The wars, the inequality, the rise of the far-right. It is remarkable how terrible communication from politicians around policies to prevent climate breakdown is – globally. So, global inaction regarding climate change is the one that stirs me the most – as too many democratic politicians don’t even address it regularly.

Who did you miss? My grandmother, especially around Christmas.

Who was the best new person you met? I built a good relationship with Stephanie, our Chief Product Officer. I first met her in 2022 when I started at Digital Service, but we only had a few overlaps and encounters last year. That changed in spring. She is smart and driven, and we share views, values and attitudes.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2023. Take things step by step. There might still be countless steps missing from your goal, but you got a bit closer, at least.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year? I am bad with song lyrics – as I mostly listen to instrumental music. So, I need to pass on this one.

[vegi1]

Is Eating Imitation Crab safe for a Vegetarian?

The main ingredient is usually surimi, a paste that is made of fish and essentially formed through the processing of other fish into a paste and other ingredients are starch, egg whites, sugar, water, vegetable oil, salt and additives.

Surimi is often made with pollock, which is used to make fish sticks and breaded fish products.

Have you ever seen some stuff that is mixed with gobs of mayo and it is usually used to make crab salad or red and white meat stuffed in a sushi roll or even crab sticks in frozen cases at grocery stores?

Yeah, that’s imitation crab.

But another question that you might ask is that “Is imitation crab vegan?”

Before answering your question, I have to give you whole lotta information about what plant-based means and explaining the differences of 3 different plant-based diets.

As you can see in the name of it “plant-based” as a word is an adjective that is referred to foods or diets that are truly based on plants which basically means that the majority or even the whole of it comes from plants.

The only unexplained part of plant-based diet is that there is no clear answer for the question “does plant-based mean that it has no meat or a little bit of meat?”

Most websites and vegan magazines claim that plant-based means every food in the diet is without meat and there is no way of having even a little bit of it.

In contrast, it is really obvious that they really stand up for that fact.

But as of 2021, a contributor of Harvard Health Publishing which is the medical school of Harvard University wrote a blog and stated that plant-based or plant-forward eating patterns focus on foods primarily from plants and it doesn’t certainly mean that you can’t be a vegetarian or you must be vegan and you can never eat dairy or meat.

So, in conclusion, we are going to say that because of mixed opinions there isn’t a one-way theme for plant-based diets.

Previously, I said that there were 3 main plant-based diets and they vary from one to another.

And that leads us to more explanation about plant-based diets and different variations of it.

People who follow vegetarianism are called vegetarians.

A vegetarian is someone who follows a plant-based diet that is mainly based on plants which means, most of their foods come from plants.

Now we get to meat eating allowance, vegetarians don’t eat any meat which supports the fact that they don’t want to consume any kind of animal meat because that leads to animal killing.

In simple words, they don’t want to kill animals in order to meet their food needs.

But that doesn’t mean that they don’t eat animal products.

I don’t want to make this article, a personal article but I have to say that I’m a vegetarian myself and speaking from a vegetarian standpoint I can firmly say that the vegetarian community doesn’t have any problem with eating animal products such as milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, cream, ice cream.

The items above were all dairy products that can be eaten directly or you can use them to make some sorts of foods and snacks.

Also, you should know that all of them products are made from milk and there are loads of different types of them.

Like for cheese, we have blue cheese, cheddar, mozzarella, feta, parmesan, cottage cheese, cream cheese, etc.

Even there are different types of cream.

Such as, sour cream, light sour cream, heavy whipping cream.

And these products mentioned are only dairy products.

There are other animal products like eggs and honey.

To sum it up, you should know that vegetarians eat animal products because they claim that eating animal products won’t lead to animal killing.

Do vegans eat Imitation Crab?

Now, I’m going to talk about veganism.

A vegan is a person who follows a vegan diet which is also another plant-based diet.

Vegans don’t eat any kind of animal meat, neither do they consume any animal product.

Vegans believe that you should never consume any form of animal products because of particular ethical reason.

The ethical reason that vegans don’t even eat animal products is animals’ suffering.

For instance, they say that cows suffer from being milked constantly.

Or another example could be the cruelty of chicken farms.

Because, every year, around 7 billion male chicks are killed by egg producers.

So, the main difference between vegetarianism and veganism is eating or not eating animal products.

I’m a vegetarian myself. so, it wouldn’t be fair for me to say which is better or which one is worse.

Next up, we are going to talk about another so-called “plant-based” diet that might be weird for many people and speaking personally, it doesn’t make any sense to me too.

Do Pescatarians eat Imitation Crab?

A pescatarian is someone who chooses to eat a vegetarian diet which means plants and dairy but also eats fish and different types of seafood.

Healthline website explains their diet as a largely plant-based diet of whole grains, legumes, nuts, healthy fats with seafood playing a key role as a main protein source.

Also, most of them also eat dairy and eggs.

Although I believe that their diet is nonsense, but pescatarians claim that their diet is eco-friendly because it reduces climate impact since the carbon footprint of it is much less than the carbon footprint of raising land animals.

Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint is an indicator that showcases the total amount of greenhouse gasses emitted from an activity, product or company.

As a vegetarian, I am completely against the ideology of counting pescatarians as people whose diets are plant-based.

To me, it is utterly foolish since they say it is cruel to kill land animals but it is acceptable for them to kill animals which live in water.

We have to bring imitation crab back to the conversation.

Despite people who eat meat, pescatarians eat crab meat too.

But the invention of imitation crab has a long story.

But before we get to that part, I have to ensure you that although this article is all about imitation crab, we don’t suggest it to anybody. Because not only you are still killing animals, but you are also damaging nature by fishing.

It is estimated that between 0.97 to 2.7 trillion fish are caught each year.

Overfishing is a real crisis.

[inquisitive-june]

Separatist Swaps: Home Cook Youtubers

This week’s theme from @radblrthemeweeks is  Separatist Swaps (suggesting equivalent female artists/musicians/creators/etc to support as well as or instead of men)

I’ll admit I don’t read or watch TV much, but I do watch a lot of YouTube.  I added some of my favorite channels to this post in the past (X).  This will be an expanded list in no particular order.

Initially, I wanted to compare each channel to a similar male-led one, but I opted to just summarize what I think is unique about each one.

Food and Cooking

Note: I prefer vegan/plant based cooking, so I’ll specify which of these channels are exclusively vegan.

Cheap Lazy Vegan (V) Rose makes a lot of Korean food, but the ingredients are pretty easy to find at a regular grocery store.  Many of her videos feature high protein, nutritious meals that can be ready in 20 minutes or less.  I’ve also found her recipes to be shockingly simple without getting boring.

Rainbow Plant Life (V) Nisha is one of my favorite youtubers.  Her recipes are a bit more involved that Rose’s, but I’ve made several of them myself so they’re still approachable for a home cook.  Her recipes are primarily American or Indian inspired with advice for meal prep and saving time.

Pick Up Limes (V)  Sadia is a nutritionist, so her recipes tend to be wholesome and nutritious.  However, she still has a lot of recipes for comfort food and desserts.  I don’t make her recipes as often, but her videos are enjoyable.

Sierra Ann  I like her easy “recipes” (more like meal ideas), but she sometimes posts about fashion as well.  Her content is more akin to a vlog than concrete recipes or cooking tips, so I find myself watching her YT shorts more than her longform content.

Lisa Nguyen  I’ve only ever seen her YT shorts so idk if she makes longer videos or not.  She does instant ramen challenges where she tries different brands or ramen hacks.

Morgan Drinks Coffee  Morgan releases a mix of recipes and other content like appliance and coffee reviews.  She has a lot of advice for people just getting into coffee or those who want some fresh ideas.

Inga Lam  When I made the other post she was still working for Buzzfeed, but she recently decided to focus on her own channel.  I’m not sure what she has planned but she’s very creative and ambitious.

How to Cook That  Ann Reardon mostly makes baking videos, but I prefer her debunking videos.  She seems to have shifted more toward debunking dangerous videos in general, not just food related videos.

June Xie from Delish  June makes long videos creating a week’s worth of meals, often on a budget.  My main complaint about her content is that some of the food she makes is either not for everybody or uses ingredients that aren’t readily accessible, like produce from specialty shops.  However, that also means her recipes tend to be unique and interesting.  Her boyfriend also comes off as kinda rude, but he’s only there when they’re tasting the food.

Beryl Shereshewsky  People from around the world submit ways they eat a particular food, like instant ramen or onions, and Beryl makes and reviews them.  These videos are helpful when I feel stuck in a routine and want to see ingredients from a different perspective.

Alix Traeger  Alix used to work for Tasty, but now she makes content on her own channel with her girlfriend Zoya.  Zoya is Persian, so it’s been fun watching Alix try to master Persian dishes.

Here are some others I saw in my Watch Later list that I don’t watch often or haven’t seen yet.

Mina Rome (Cooking)

Doobydobap (Cooking)

Flo Lum (Cooking)

Sarah’s Vegan Kitchen (Cooking)

Sweet Simple Vegan (Cooking)

Julia Pacheco (Cooking)

Feelgoodfoodie (Cooking)

Anne of all trades (DIY)

The busy brown angel (Gardening)

Gardening and Homesteading

Girl in the Woods  I just found her channel last week, but it was too interesting to leave out.  Usually I don’t like homesteading YouTubers because they focus on the aesthetics, but I’ve actually learned a lot about off-grid living just from watching a few of her videos.

HannahLeeDuggan  She bought a property with a run-down cabin a few years back.  Before that, she was living in a van and selling handmade clothes online.  I can’t say I’ve learned much about van life or homesteading from her videos, but I haven’t given her a fair chance yet.  Last I checked, she was planning on documenting the process of fixing up and weather-proofing her cabin.

Learn Something

Answers in Progress  This channel is run by three people, two of which are women.  They answer random questions with a surprising amount of research and interviews with professionals.

The Take The Take claims to be “ the leading female-led entertainment analysis channel on TV, Movies & Pop-Culture”

Cheyenne Lin  Cheyenne focuses on feminist analysis and film analysis through a feminist lens.

Jessica Chou  She isn’t active anymore but she has some basic videos on car maintenance.

Micarah Tewers Micarah sews a combination of beautiful and insane clothes.  I’ve never tried to recreate any of her patterns but she’s so entertaining to watch.  She made fake eyelashes out of her dog’s hair and that’s not even the craziest thing she’s done on her channel.

Since this is intended to be a discussion, I’m also including a list of channels I’d like to find that are usually male dominated.

Game News and Lore I like watching lore videos for games like the Fallout series, RDR2, and TES.  So far, the only female gamers I’ve seen on YT are overly sexualized and don’t make the content I’m looking for.

Food Science There are a few channels that break down food science like Adam Ragusea and Kenji Lopez-Alt.  The closest female equivalent is How to Cook That, but it’s not quite what I’m looking for and she primarily posts baking videos.

I’ve been watching a lot of Ethan Chlebowski’s videos lately because he makes meal formulas and focuses on high protein meals.  If anyone knows who I’m talking about, I’d love to see female-run channels that make similar content.

Gardening and Homesteading  I want channels that actually teach me something new and don’t focus on pseudoscience or religion.

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Asexual Desi in the United States (POC Profiles)

Hey there! Thanks so much for making space for this! I’m a second-generation immigrant, born to two South Indian (Hindu, Tamil, Brahmin) immigrants. I grew up in a part of the United States that had a large Asian American population, but not a huge South Asian population – at least, not until later.

Beauty Standards

Skin color and colorism have been discussed a lot already, so let’s talk about hair! My hair has always been very thick and curly. When I was little, my mom would cut it super short – but then at some point, I put my foot down and insisted on growing it out. From then on, until I learned to do/experiment with my hair myself, my dad would spend half an hour each morning just braiding my hair. For most of elementary school, I was the only non-White kid who had hair like this, and as a result, it became incredibly important to me to straighten my hair at every possible opportunity.

To add to this: in the 90s and early 2000s, one popular perception I was raised on was that curly hair = unclean and unprofessional, at least in the U.S. Unfortunately, I internalized that a little too hard, to the point that, even when naturally curly hair has become more widely accepted, I still struggle to feel comfortable and confident in my appearance when I don’t take that extra time to straighten my hair. I’m working on it, but progress is slow!

Food

I was raised vegetarian (not very strictly) in a region and at a time when vegetarian/vegan options were not super commonplace. I didn’t have a “lunchbox story” because my mother had cousins that also grew up in the U.S. who advised her to send me to school with sandwiches and pasta salads for lunch – though I do remember another Indian classmate who brought roti sabji to school once and the other kids gave him shit for it.

In hindsight, the “Indian” food I used to eat at home was actually a mishmash of cuisines from both North and South India. Dals, roti, and yogurt rice were super common (yogurt rice is currently one of my top comfort foods!), and my mom got into a habit of making a vegetable side dish with every meal (cauliflower, potatoes, and cabbage were especially common). Every so often, we’d also eat dosa with chutneys and sambar – though the amount of time and assembly required meant that we reserved this for special occasions. I also grew up eating eggs, though my parents never did (they’ll eat desserts with eggs baked into them, though). On the day of each new moon since my grandfather died, my parents have also insisted on eating only sattvic foods (though loosely interpreted to mean: just no garlic or onions), though they never insisted that I follow this as well.

I can’t stand most Indian sweets, except for gulab jamun and jalebi. Almost everything else makes me gag. When I was a kid, I figured I would one day acquire a taste for them, but somehow that never happened…? For the most part, my family’s accepted this as a weird quirk of mine, but over the years, there have been some aunties and uncles who said this made me whitewashed and “too American.”

My family also celebrates primarily with food! Birthdays, holidays both American and Indian, even Mother’s Day and Father’s Day meant either going out to eat or cooking a special (frequently non-Indian) meal.

Language

So fun fact: I forgot how to speak my native language! Yes, it haunts me to this day.

Initially, I grew up speaking both Tamil and English. I was also a terribly shy and quiet kid – so when I was in kindergarten, and I was spacing out a lot and not following directions properly, my teacher saw me speaking in Tamil to my grandparents when they came to pick me up at the end of the day, and assumed that I couldn’t speak English. I’m my parents’ first child, and they hadn’t been in the U.S. for very long before they had me – so when my kindergarten teacher brought this up with them, they panicked and insisted on speaking only English at home, just to stamp out any doubt that I wasn’t fluent in the language. (Another fun fact: I had a half-White friend then who also didn’t say a word her first day of kindergarten! Her parents were advised to take her for counseling and speech therapy.)

I don’t blame my parents for this at all – they were first-time parents with a young kid in a new-ish country; how were they supposed to know how to handle pushy, racist teachers? They just wanted me to do well in school, and they did the best they could with what little they knew of how to navigate the system.

Eventually, I reached a point where I could no longer speak Tamil, though I could still understand it. Right now, I can comfortably watch Tamil movies without subtitles and understand all the family gossip, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge of the language. It’s a point of insecurity for me – when so much of culture and identity is supposed to be tied up in language, I can’t help but feel like I screwed up somewhere. I’ve met a small handful of other Desi peers in similar situations, but it still feels incredibly isolating.

Identity issues

My name’s not difficult to say, exactly – but it’s not super intuitive for people unfamiliar with Indian names to get right away. Naturally, when I was younger and living in an area less densely populated by other South Asians, this meant that people were less likely to make an effort to say my name right.

For pretty much my entire life, I’ve had a “preferred mispronunciation” of my name – not the way my name is actually supposed to be pronounced, but if you’re going to mess it up, then I’d prefer that you mess it up in this particular way. Almost every Desi kid I went to elementary, middle, and high school with had a preferred mispronunciation; the only people who didn’t have one were people with really easy to pronounce names like “Neesha.” Heck, we referred to each other by preferred mispronunciations, even though we all knew perfectly well how to properly say each other’s names properly!

Come college, I decided to try introducing myself to people with my name as it’s actually pronounced. It was a strange experience, because I didn’t anticipate how exhausting it would be to have to break down that pronunciation over and over again because it was still difficult for people unfamiliar with Indian names to get it right away. To complicate things even further, I still went by my preferred mispronunciation academically and professionally.

This is by no means a universal opinion, and I don’t intend to speak for anyone but myself here, but: I don’t hate my preferred mispronunciation of my name? At this point, it’s just as much a part of me as the actual pronunciation of my name.

Dating and Relationships

Most of my relatives were connected with their spouses through arranged marriages. They would be introduced through their parents, and then they would spend several months texting, emailing, and talking to each other before announcing to the family that they’d agreed to marry each other. There are some exceptions to this, however: my parents and a few other aunts and uncles met for the first time just days before their wedding; on the flip side, I also have some aunts and uncles who had love marriages. The impression I got was that my parents would generally be okay with me dating and marrying a non-Indian person, but I’d have a fight on my hands with my extended family – though they, too, would eventually come around.

I didn’t know I was asexual until I was in my twenties. Until then, I’d assumed that I was just doing what was expected of me, as a “good Indian girl” – I didn’t date anyone when I was in high school, though I had a few crushes here and there; I dated a White boy when I was in college, and then another Southeast Asian boy after I graduated, but neither relationship lasted for very long. It wasn’t until I was in my early twenties that I got to a point where I was comfortable and confident in my sexuality, where I could say things like: “I could die a virgin and have zero regrets,” and: “I could never get married, never have kids, and I would be totally fine” without feeling like I was doing something wrong.

… and then came my mid-20s. By the time I was done with grad school, my family – both parents and extended – started clamping down hard on the fact that I was still single, that I hadn’t expressed that much interest in dating. They felt personally responsible, assuming that they’d somehow given me the impression that because they wouldn’t have approved of me dating when I was younger, that somehow convinced me to never try in the first place. It has been intensely uncomfortable to dance around this topic, and pretend I’m just delaying this part of my life until I pass xyz milestones. 

Realistically speaking: I don’t think I could ever use the word “asexual” to describe myself to anyone in my family, even my parents. My parents at least are pretty open-minded, and they’re making a strong effort to wrap their heads around LGBTQ+ issues, but they’re not there yet. This is not a conversation I’m ready to have with them. A part of me has resigned myself to having to lie about this part of myself when the day comes where my family deems me “too old” to still be single, and… I’m sorry, this is not terribly optimistic. I don’t have an answer for this part yet.

Things I’d like to see more/less of

Just more Desi characters in stories that aren’t inherently about them being Desi! Y'all have no idea how excited I was to see a character named Jeevan Choudhary at the core of a post-apocalyptic story like Station Eleven, playing a pivotal role that isn’t necessarily contingent on him being Desi.

I’d also love to see more loving, supportive Desi parents! It’s so common to see strict parents who want their children to follow a certain path, who then serve as obstacles for those children to overcome as they pursue their dreams – both in Western and Indian media! It would be nice to see the opposite, for once.

I’d also love to see more sci-fi/fantasy stories centered on Desi protagonists – and not as “the smart one” in the group.

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Days 2-3 of Portland vacation

In which we eat yummy things and hike and see exciting birds!

On Day 2, Friend needed a day to recover her spoons, so Wife and I took the bus to Mt Tabor, a smallish park not too far from where we’re staying, and did a short but pleasant walk, with some steep inclines. We enjoyed the smells of the trees--I especially love the scent of Douglas fir, but we also got to smell some elderflowers. When we were ready to head home for lunch, we checked the transit app and saw that we had about 15 minutes before the next bus, so Wife sat and faffed around on her phone while I spent a few minutes birdwatching. I got a good look at a Northern Flicker, and also saw a smallish brown bird that may have been a fledgling calling for food, but I didn’t see the parent and couldn’t identify it. (I wasn’t close enough for Merlin’s sound app to identify it either.)

We took the bus home and ate. Wife wanted to go swimming in the afternoon [though in the end that didn’t work out], so I took the bus into town to visit Powell’s City of Books. I enjoyed browsing around but in the end only bought one book: a pretty Word Cloud Classics edition of Persuasion. I don’t entirely agree with the selection of quotes they included in the embossed cover design (how did they leave out “You pierce my soul” and “I am half agony, half hope”?!), but I still couldn’t resist it.

Then Wife and I met for dinner at a Latin American fusion restaurant/bar called Mestizo and drank cocktails with a delicious meal, including fried banana-flower tacos in tortillas made from 3 different colors of corn (white, yellow, and blue). 

In the evening, we watched Fire Island. That was enjoyable, and I thought they did a really good job of adapting the story of P&P to the new setting. 

Today, Friend picked us up around 11:20 or so and we went to buy doughnuts--first, to Mikiko for gluten-free mochi doughnuts, and then we tried to go to Coco but they had sold out of the raised doughnuts (and I don’t like cake doughnuts), so we went to Doe Doughnuts instead. I ate a sort of doughnut sandwich--a traditional (though actually vegan) “raised” doughnut sliced in half, with whipped cream and sliced peaches inside. It was exquisite. Though I’ve just realised that I have no idea what the whipped “cream” was made out of, since that was a vegan doughnut shop! 

Then we drove out of the city to the Columbia river gorge, where we took a 2.5-hour, 6-mile hike on the Historic Highway Trail in eastern Hood River County. It’s a paved path, so we saw some cyclists, but it wasn’t too busy. It was a spectacularly beautiful day. We ate our lunch before starting, and then hiked along the trail above the river. There were beautiful views, both on the drive there and once we were hiking, plus nice trees (including more Douglas firs), interesting rock formations, and some excellent birds! The first bird I spotted was a black-headed grosbeak, which is new to my life list. There were lots of robins and juncos, but we also saw 2 ospreys circling. And I heard a bird that Merlin sound app identified as an orange-crowned warbler. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to locate it visually, but the song was a long trill, descending at the end. @lies, should I report it? And finally, near the end of the hike I spotted a raptor at the top of a tree above a nest. I looked in the binoculars and discovered it was a bald eagle! and another one was soaring around the nest too, and then we saw another just as we were getting back to the parking lot. That was exciting (new to my eBird life list and possibly my life list at all), and even Wife (with her lack of patience for birdwatching) was thrilled to have seen them. I’m not sure if I should report the nest as it’s not 100% clear if it was in use. The other thing is, this was not primarily a birdwatching walk. Should I report the list as “Incidental”?

We rested for a little while at the shady picnic table where we’d parked and ate another doughnut (mine was a salted vanilla glazed raised doughnut. It was tasty, but I don’t understand the current vogue for salting one’s sweet treats.). refilled our bottles, and then drove back home by way of the grocery store.

From the freeway, I spotted a raptor sitting in a nest at the top of a tree, but of course I couldn’t identify it as we drove past. I also couldn’t tell if it was a parent incubating eggs or a nestling waiting to be fed.

[starving-prxncess]

Dear Diary,

Guess who just weighed in at 178.4!! I am now 78.4 pounds away from my goal, so 1.6 pounds closer! And 1.2 lighter than I was yesterday!! 9.4 away from my first goal weight as well! Overall I’m super pumped up, excited to run today, extra excited to hopefully fast today! I don’t know what time I ate last night, I’ll guess around 4pm, so if I can make it to dinner today without eating I’ll be super happy!

Also, tonight I’m going to chop up apples and put in some lemon juice, and put them in bags in the fridge, and they’ll be in 1/2 apples per bag, that way when I want a snack or need to eat for my mom, I can eat those at about 45-50 calories a bag!

I found out the Apple Cinnamon and Lightly Salted flavors for Quaker Rice Cakes are both vegan! At 50 and 35 calories, respectively, they’ll make a great dessert, breakfast, snack, etc! I plan to eat primarily plant based, but I think an occasional rice cake, as a treat will be fine.

The hardest part about planning to go vegan is the nutrition. I think my next entry will be some information regarding how I plan to get all my vitamins and nutrients as a vegan, especially with such a low calorie count.

Love,

Princess

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Hi, I'm the anon that said that Klaine was unhealthy in season 5. Some of their arguments were pretty normal but there were other things, like their actions in Tested (Blaine trying to manipulate Kurt into gaining weight, Kurt shutting down communication with Blaine and then getting mad that Blaine wasn't being honest, that gross fencing fight) that made me think they were unhealthy. Also, Kurt slapping that bag in the piano scene in 5x20 and Blaine yelling at Elliott were both kinda gross.

Anon 2:  What’s weird to me is when people create this weird healthy or unhealthy binary. There is so much more to most relationships beyond slapping either label on it and calling it a day. Did both Kurt and Blaine do and say some shitty things? yeah. but that doesn’t make the entire relationship unhealthy. if you expect every person to go through life doing and saying all the “right” things that is.....unrealistic lmfao

Anon 3:  I think what's also important to acknowledge w s5 klaine is that their issues were primarily w themselves, not the relationship. Kurt keeping his walls up and closing off existed way before Blaine was even a character. And Blaine had been a people-pleaser from the start. They both projected their issues themselves onto the relationship and that's why they struggled. Them together wasn't the problem, them working on themselves individually solved most of their relationship issues

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I’m just putting these all together bc I feel like I’ve been talking about this for forever and while everyone is making points I don’t wanna keep talking about it for forever lol so I’m doing a catch all and then that’ll be it 

Actually I kinda think the second and third anons answer the first but still. Once again I’m just gonna say that these are two teenagers and no matter how mature they seem sometimes, they’re going to do dumb teenager-y things whether we like it or not. Like am I the biggest fan of them getting too rough in fencing class? Or of Blaine confronting Elliott like he did? Or of Kurt calling Blaine a psycho? no one even brought that up i brought it on myself No of course not. It’s not like those are my favorite Klaine moments or anything, but it’s just them handling their own issues in a dumb and immature way. And they can be dumb and immature bc they’re 19 it’s fine they’re still learning and growing. 

And honestly Anon 1 the fact that you said you like them in s6 just proves that they did learn and they did grow. And they had to have their rough and messy time to figure themselves and each other out. And without that then we wouldn’t have had the “healthy” times again in s6 so it was all working towards something. It’s a process, like I said before 

And like 3 said how their issues are more within themselves than with the actual relationship. Like they both have normal problems that crop up in a relationship, and they sometimes handled them in less than brilliant ways. Because they’re still dumb teenagers and they’re allowed to make mistakes

But idk it’s like even with everything we’ve talked about, they’re still the best couple to me. On their own, and also in comparison to everyone else. 

Blaine manipulated Kurt into eating a little extra at a time when Kurt was working out and dieting like crazy? Finn fed meat to his vegan girlfriend bc he forgot she was vegan. Santana manipulated Brittany into cheating on Artie with her lmao

Blaine went to yell at Elliott and it immediately deescalated after he got his feelings out? Finn physically attacked/beat up Puck, Jesse, Brody, Puck again, and tried it with Sam and Joe 

Kurt hit a bag? Again, violent Finn and his constant furniture kicking which is brushed off as a running gag. Or Santana hurting Rory to the point bleeding after he was interested in Brittany

And like I’m not saying Klaine was perfect bc everyone else was worse. And I’m not saying you can’t critique the bad stuff just bc it wasn’t as bad as everyone else’s stuff. Idk man sometimes I just feel like Klaine gets scrutinized extra hard bc they’re like THE couple of the show meanwhile everyone else gets away with such bullshit?? Idk I guess I’m just explaining why these things don’t bother me as much but your feelings are still valid and you obviously don’t have to like those things about them but I do think that a few bad issues in the span of like 5 episodes isn’t the end of the world for a fictional tv couple

So yeah those are my thoughts

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“Finally, there’s “social dominance theory”, which suggests that men might find meat more appealing when they’re reminded it’s made from animals, because it reinforces their sense of dominance and superiority – by viewing animals as unworthy of respect, they are asserting their power over them.

There is some evidence to support this idea. A survey of the attitudes of American college students, conducted in 2015, found a link between a preference for a more hierarchically stratified society and the use – and endorsement of the use of – animals.

The link between meat and dominance isn’t just about animals – it also seems to extend to our own species. One early study, conducted in the 1980s by the anthropologist Peggy Sanday, involved comparing the power structures of a hundred hunter-gatherer cultures, some of which relied more on meat for food, and some of which relied more on gathered fruits and vegetables. She found that the meat-based societies tended to be more patriarchal, while the plant-based ones were generally more egalitarian.”

I’m not vegetarian or vegan, at least not anymore. I tried to be for a few years, partially because of health reasons because high blood pressure and high cholesterol run in my family. But I have very clear memories of how men generally reacted to me being vegetarian vs how women generally reacted. Women generally, not always but generally, were very kind and supportive when they found out I was vegetarian even if they weren’t vegetarian themselves. They’d tell me they thought it was cool that I was trying and they’d generally be helpful with helping me find options. Men however, generally were pretty rude about finding out I was vegetarian. Not always, but generally men’s reaction was getting mad about me being vegetarian, even though my choice didn’t affect them at all, and a lot of men would be spiteful and put me down and act superior over me because they ate meat and I didn’t.

Regardless of your feelings on vegetarianism and veganism, I think it’s interesting to explore the relationship between gender and meat consumption, and how our society has to put gender on everything and every action, including putting gender roles on what you eat. I also think it’s interesting to explore this topic because of what it says about toxic masculinity. The fact that for many men eating animals actually gives them feelings of dominance and superiority, and when faced the reality of the abuse a lot of animals face in the agricultural industry a lot of men’s reaction is to actually eat more meat out of spite.

And finally, it’s not brought up in this article but I’ve seen it brought up elsewhere that this could in part be because women’s diets are already heavily moralized because diet culture primarily targets women, primarily shaming women and painting women as immoral for “eating too much” or eating the “wrong things” like too many carbs or too much fat. So for women there’s already a stronger link in their subconscious minds between diet and morality and this might be steering more women towards vegetarianism and veganism.

[yicruz48]

Teen Titans Review: Issue 42

Written: June/23/2020

The issue starts off with Damian recalling memories from the past that he had with Alfred. Damian looks back at this memory as a moment that Alfred gave him guidance when he felt lost in the past. And this is when we hit the biggest problem with this Issue:

I’m not denying that Alfred is not an actual support system to rely on and some sort of guiding force in his life because he is:

The thing I have an issue with, that I’ve discussed with @wesavegotham​ is that Alfred, primarily in Teen Titan’s has been everything but a support system to Damian. If anything, he is one of many who antagonizes him and claims that Damian knows exactly who is (When the core conflict in Damian’s character is not knowing who he is because of his upbringing in the league and his  connection to Batman so that claim is stupid).

But most importantly, Alfred is portrayed as someone that Damian NEEDS in his life to make good, sensible moral decisions in this issue. And now that Damian doesn’t have him in his life he is incapable of telling good from bad. 

Which if you have read Batman and Robin (2011) and R:SOB you know that Damian is self-aware of what is morally bad. As well as knowing what he did what he did in the past was wrong and why it was wrong. Sure, he had a push from Bruce but he mostly he reflected and discovered it on his own. 

Writing it as if Damian doesn’t have the cognitive ability to understand that killing  (even if they are evil) is wrong in current times without depending on someone else for guidance trashes his previous development. It makes it seem like Damian never learned anything from killing Nobody in Batman and Robin.

But moving on, the Issue continues with the members attempting to find out what is going to happen next with each other after breaking up last issue:

-> Damian attempting to figure out the next best way to end crime while stopping a bank robbery. 

-> Crush somehow very open to becoming friends with Roundhouse after he trapped her...um...crush-love interest in her ring.

-> Wallace seemly out of no where having the desire to confess to Emiko even though there wasn’t really anything in the previous issues to make me think that he liked her. Would’ve made sense of Emiko was the one confessing since she has shown more interest in him, but whatever. 

Later, the gods have appeared to have answered the members question about what to do next after breaking up: which is coming back together to find out who killed Brother Blood (not as a team as explicitly mentioned by the team several times but I guess as individuals who will work together for one last time(s?)).

Anyhow, they go into the sewers (where Brother Blood died) in order to find clues to who killed Brother Blood. As they are finding clues in a hidden location where Brother Blood had barrels of toxins to control his cronies they are interrupted by his cronies. 

Their plan suddenly shifts from finding out who killed Brother Blood to stopping Brother Blood’s cronies. Once they do, they leave the scene quickly before the police catches sight of them. 

The team again questions whether the death of Brother Blood was a good thing or a bad thing. Evidently having very conflicted feelings about it.

The team is ready to drift off their own ways again but Emiko is adamant about figuring out who killed Brother Blood. The team eventually decides to continue working together till they find out who killed Brother Blood. 

Towards the end of the Issue Bruce suddenly remembers he has fucking son (that he probably should check on) and like Damian is very lost on how to approach and/or reconnect with Damian without Alfred around (and this my friends, is called a parallel. Which means we should probably remember this for future issues).

Conclusions: 

-> So I am guessing Batman didn’t encounter the Teen Titans like in said in the solicitations? Because to me it just seemed like it picked off after where we left over last issue.

I’m guessing this was one of the changes Teen Titans took after quarantine hit? Because originally Eduardo Pansica was supposed to draw these issues (42-44) but it was suddenly switched to Javier Fernandez  as if the story was scrapped.  

-> Overall, surprisingly this issue wasn’t that bad besides that big issue I mentioned in the beginning. 

-> It was enjoyable to see Damian not portrayed as an non-sympathetic asshole like Glass liked to portray him. With the added plus of vegan/vegetarian being brought back to canon after disappearing years ago.

-> Wished that Thompson would’ve focused more on the emotional aspect of Damian seeing his grandfather die in front of him rather than emotionally-dependent aspect of it. 

-> Glad the team “broke up” I guess. Though I can’t get the feeling off like they are all in a toxic relationship they keep finding weak reasons to stay in. In the words of Roundhouse, “You all need therapy.” 

-> Very confused as to why are they running away from the police when they did nothing. Was it because they trespassed? 

-> There is apart of me that is questioning whether Damian did actually kill Brother Blood before meeting up with the Teen Titans and the cover was not just a ruse. It was Emiko, not Damian who brought the team together in Roundhouse’s home. Damian wasn’t interested enough to organize this meeting himself. And why would he if he was the one who killed him in the first place? 

Also every time the team questioned Damian about what to do or what HE wanted to do, he kept getting flashbacks back to Alfred and him. As if he was conflicted about telling the Team something he did. 

Also when he was asked if he wanted to find out how Brother Blood died he hesitated and said, “ I agree with Red Arrow. You need to know why.” 

Not, “‘we’ need to know why”. Almost implicating that he knows why he died (obliviously, if he killed him) and wants to: 

a) Play along because if he said no they might be suspicious of him.

b) He wants them to know it was him. Like the guilt is eating up at him or he thinks it will somehow convince him to see his way and join him.

Plus it seemed like Emiko was suspicious of Damian. She was in deep thought at Roundhouse’s home about something. She kept trying to bring the focus on the cause of Brother Blood’s death as if there was something crawling at her in the back of her mind.

But I could be wrong. it could be KG Beast who killed him (which starts off Damian on his hunt or something). 

Anyways...let me know what you thought about this issue in the comments. I love to see discussions in the comments.

What is your guy’s impression on Robbie Thompson’s first issue alone?  

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When Did Veganism Become So Popular?

Some people even say that our ancestors were carnivores, so why would we choose this for ourselves and our kids?

I used to be one of those people who thought that humans were naturally carnivores. But then I started learning more about the history of human nutrition, our body anatomy, and the evolution of vegetarianism. I also wanted to learn more about the factors that have contributed to veganism’s popularity. And the more I learned, the more I realized that there are actually a lot of good reasons to go vegan.

In this article, I’ll explore the history of vegetarianism, highlight some famous vegetarians from history, and I’m going to share what I’ve learned about some of the challenges and benefits of a vegan diet.

The human body is naturally adapted to consume plant matter. Our teeth are flat and designed for grinding plant matter, not tearing flesh. Our canine teeth are small and not as pointed as those of carnivores. Our jaws also move in a side-to-side motion, which is ideal for chewing plant foods.

Our digestive system is also long and winding, which is ideal for digesting plant fiber. Our appendix is also thought to be a vestigial organ from our omnivorous ancestors. However, recent studies have shown that the appendix is actually quite useful for breaking down plant matter.

Archaeological evidence suggests that our ancestors primarily subsisted on a plant-based diet, occasionally consuming small insects. They ate what was safe and accessible, which usually consisted of plants, fruits, and nuts.

Scientists believe that our ancestors were vegetarians for most of their history. Only in the last few thousand years, as humans began to domesticate animals, did meat become a regular part of our diet. And even then, meat was only eaten on special occasions.

So if you’re thinking about going vegetarian, know that you’re not going against your natural instincts. Your body is perfectly designed to thrive on a plant-based diet.

Did you know that the concept of vegetarianism has been around for centuries?

If you, like me, are curious about the evolution of vegetarianism, you should know the term “vegan” is relatively modern, but the idea of refraining from consuming animal products has ancient origins.

One of the earliest known instances of vegetarianism can be traced in back to ancient Egypt. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who lived around 1300 BC, banned animal sacrifice due to his belief in the sanctity of all lifes. The Roman poet Ovid also condemned the consumption of animal flesh, highlighting the moral implications of eating meat In his poems.

The first recorded vegetarians in ancient Greece were the Pythagorean and his followers, a Greek philosophical school founded by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC. Pythagoras believed that all living things were sacred and should be respected, and he prohibited his followers from eating meat. They also believed that eating meat was harmful to the body and mind.

Also, there is evidence of vegetarian practices in ancient China. Tofu, a popular vegetarian food in China, originated in the Zhou dynasty.

Vegetarianism has a long history, dating back to ancient India. The Hindu religion teaches that all living things are interconnected and that we should avoid harming other creatures. Jainism, another major religion in India, also teaches ahimsa or non-violence.

So, India has a long-standing tradition of vegetarianism deeply rooted in its religious and cultural beliefs.

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all promote the concept of ahimsa or non-violence towards all living beings. They believe that our souls may be reincarnated in different bodies of humans and animals, and any pain we inflict on animals will enter our bodies and trap us in bad karmic cycles.

The 24th Tirthankara, Vardhamana Mahavira, who lived around 500 BC, played a significant role in promoting vegetarianism and ahimsa. His teachings continue to influence many people in India, making it a country with a large population of vegetarians.

Around the same time, Siddhartha Gautama was also discussing vegetarian diets with his followers.

Vegetarianism spread to Europe in the 17th century. The first vegetarian society was founded in England in 1847.

It is clear that avoiding animal products and being kind to animals has been around for a long time. I think it’s interesting that many historical figures and scientists have come to the conclusion that eating animal meat and their products can have a negative impact on our spirit, morals, and thoughts.

Which countries currently have the most vegetarians?

Today, India has the highest percentage of vegetarians in the world, with an estimated 38% of the population following a vegetarian diet.

Veganism as a distinct concept gained prominence in the 20th century. Donald Watson, a British woodwork teacher, coined the term “vegan” in 1944. He sought to create a movement that not only avoided animal consumption but also rejected the use of animals for any purpose, including clothing and entertainment.

One of the biggest reasons for the popularity of vegetarianism is that people are becoming more aware of what happens in animal farms and slaughterhouses, and the ethical implications of eating animals. The spread of media and people’s access to the internet has made it possible for us to learn more about the way animals are raised and killed in factory farms. Videos, documentaries, and horrible images of torture, suffering, and killing animals have been published that anyone can watch. People realize that they should not be involved in this cruelty.

The scenes that were once hidden from us by the meat and dairy industries are now out in the open, and people are starting to see the truth about this industry. They’re realizing that the meat and dairy industries are built on violence and exploitation. This is leading more and more people to stop eating meat and dairy products and they’re choosing to eat plant-based foods instead.

More and more people are realizing that animal testing is terrible, and they’re trying to buy products that are cruelty-free and don’t involve animal testing.

I think it’s great that people are becoming more conscious of their impact on the environment. Nowadays, More and more people are becoming aware of the environmental impact of meat production. The meat industry is a major contributor to climate change, water pollution, and deforestation. Lots of people go vegetarian as a way to reduce their carbon footprint and protect the planet.

In recent years, we’ve seen a lot of devastating environmental events, like fires, floods, and global warming. These events have made people more aware of the importance of protecting our planet. Governments are enacting new laws to protect the environment.

People are slowly realizing that the main cause of world hunger and the death of hungry children in third-world countries is the meat industry and slaughterhouses. People are slowly learning how important their choices are to the environment, and they are choosing veganism as a great way to protect the earth.