#i hate vegetables

[pennysylveon]

she is literally me

[starlightdreamboy]

Growing Up

As a kid I was often told by my mums friends that I was 'mature for my age'. I never totally understood what that meant but I do understand what it means for me now.

I remember being impatient to grow up, I wanted so badly for adults to stop thinking of me as a child even though I was one. I felt that I had gone through too much to be a child anymore, that I had earned the right to associate as an adult and be treated as one. When I was 15 I got what I wanted. I was deemed legally independent, received my own money, paid rent and paid for my own food. I was excited at the idea of being an adult but looking back on it now I think I was just excited to be taken seriously.

The irony of that being that it couldn't be further from what I want now. I turned 20 last month and I feel more like a child than I ever have before. I think its a common experience with people my age, especially if you're autistic like I am. I felt so alienated as a kid and so I shoved it all deep deep down inside of me. I had to be 'mature' or I was weird. Spoiler alert: I was deemed weird either way.

I pushed aside the things I was interested in, in favor of being liked. It was only at 18 that I realized I could be liked and be myself. Don't get me wrong, there is defiantly people that don't like me, but nobody gets along with everyone.

But now at twenty years old. I'm not ready to grow up. I don't want to let go of being a teenager, it is genuinely terrifying. What do you mean I have to get a job and just 'learn to function like everyone else'. How it that fair? Why am i expected to let go of the things I love just because its seen as weird for me to like stuffed animals now. I might be a year older but I'm still the same person. I still need to sleep with the stuffed toy I've slept with every night since I was a kid. I still wont eat all my vegetables and I will do everything I can to avoid them.

I can't just let go of that part of me for the sake of other people. I would love to say I don't care what people think of me but that isn't true. I don't want to care about what others think of me. So from now on I simply refuse to.

I will sleep with stuffed animals. I will cry about everything. I will not order for myself at restaurants. And I will not care.

— Forever a hater of carrots, Starboy

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[marzipanandminutiae]

I'm pretty sure there are grapes growing up the side of my new building?

I asked a housemate who's lived here for years and he said he's never seen anyone harvest them. just grapes on the ground every fall. but upon research, they don't look like a poisonous grape-mimic. they look like...grapes. actual edible grapes

I'll ask the landlady about them when she gets back from her trip but uh. guys. that's Maybe Food out there and nobody's been eating it?

like shit if the people living here currently don't want them, your girl's going to have herself a Grape Feast when those babies ripen

[s0fter-sin]

rewatching s1 and in ep2 w*ndigo, dean makes a joke about not bringing provisions into the woods just to pull out a bag of peanut butter m&m’s and stick with me here, it’s why the later seasons’ “goofy dean” loses me

this moment is clearly a joke but if you think about it too much, it also makes some sense; a family size bag of peanut m&m’s is calorie dense and even the high sugar is good to keep you moving which they need on an overnight hunt. it also shows how due to their upbringing, they’ve had to eat lower quality food, things they always had access to that was cheap and also in bulk

what does dean eating ghost pepper jerky then tipping water on himself exist for other than to be a cringy joke? what does smelling old chinese food, testing to see if it's still good then shaking his head with cabbage hanging out his mouth when it isn't serve? it's just to make him look stupid and contrast sam's healthy/clean diet (and superiority but that’s another conversation) which has always existed but it used to be nuanced and natural

we see dean as a child give up the food he wanted to eat so sam could eat it. (“i’m sick of spaghetti-os,” “you’re the one who wanted them,” … “i want lucky charms!” “… there’s only enough for one bowl and i haven’t had any yet!” proceeds to give them to sam, 1x18) we know he hustled and stole food to ensure sam ate. (“so, what’d he take?” “get this- peanut butter and bread.” 9x07)

we also see throughout the early seasons dean teasing sam about his salad or healthy choice while he eats some form of burger or other fast food (or notably, cheerfully eating prison food that sam won’t touch, 2x19). it's typical sibling teasing but it also shows that it isn't new for sam to eat like that and for dean to know he eats like that

sam being picky isn't just a character trait they chose for him, it's a result of how dean raised him; he raised him to like and want healthy food and be food secure enough to reject food he didn't want

but dean eats anything he is given and seeks out unhealthy - cheap, plentiful, filling - food

he is the opposite of picky to the point of it being a consistent bit; they show him multiple times eating when it's socially frowned upon to do so eg. questioning a grieving victim when they're trying to be discreet (1x14, 2x15, 2x18)

a similar moment to the chinese food is in 4x19; dean wakes up in the car while sam brushes his teeth outside and is hungry. sam says there's a sandwich in the backseat, dean smells it and recoils bc it's an old tuna sandwich. the moment is funny on its own but it also exists as a comparison of their lives to adam's; he has a loving mother, goes to school and importantly, a steady stable childhood

it’s a joke with a purpose

it also supports dean's food insecurity; he wakes up and is immediately hungry, enough to complain about it and seek out food before anything else

dean is always hungry bc he never has access to nutritionally rich foods bc he got used to using the money he earned to buy sam's more expensive food. he got used to his cheaper, denser foods and grew up with (and continues to live with) intermittent access to said foods. think of how long it takes to drive from one state to another; how many hours it can take to see another town that offers food, if you arrive at a reasonable enough time for anything to be open. also think how they can’t keep any food beyond what fits in an esky; nothing that needs defrosting, nothing can be heated up. it’s bags and jars and take out for as long as they can trust it

then they get the bunker which has its own kitchen

dean even describes himself as "nesting" when he decorates his room, something he hasn't had since he was four years old, and he uses said kitchen to cook a burger from scratch that he is proud of. he is food secure for the first time in his life and it shows in how often he cooks for both himself and sam

so these moments where they have him acting goofy regarding food are no longer character driven and only exist as a joke which is why they come across as cringy and out of character compared to similar earlier moments

a lot of my issues with dean's characterisation started when they introduced the bunker. the argument can and is made that the reason these jokes happen is bc he feels safe in the bunker, that bc he now has a home he can relax and unmask but that still doesn't feel sufficient. they crank up these sillier moments for both of them, giving them a sort of playing house comedy vibe of two roommates with completely different personalities but it doesn't feel like an authentic progression. it feels forced; an attempt at humour for humour's sake

food stopped being an informed part of their characters and their trauma and instead became flanderised; sam is the judgy vegetarian health nut and dean is his borderline slovenly carnivore counterpart

[vellichorsdesire]

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[coridallasmultipass]

HAPPY 413! Here's more of the [non-Sburb AU] Filipino/multiracial Striders I write and draw. Bitter melon was on sale in the store, so I bought a ton, and I was like, 'How can I make this Homestuck content?' Lol. I like the taste, but I thought it would be funny to have Bro bully Dave into eating it as a punishment for being a sneaky vegetable-hating teen. (Good thing Lil Cal is always there to keep an eye on him when Bro is out.)

Idk, mostly wanted to draw the food, bc bitter melon looks so fun when it's sliced like that.

Bro and Dave are both trans men.

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[Dave walks in on Bro cooking. Lil Cal is seated at the table already.] Dave: the fuck- what are you cooking Bro: Ginisang ampalaya. Heard you're not eatin' your veggies. Dave: cal... fuckin snitch Bro: HEY. Dave: seriously what is that alien dick Dave: ugh its all bumpy too Bro: Bitter melon. It tastes like cucumber skin, but has a better texture. Dave: fuckin gross Bro: What, are you a fuckin' pussy? Too white to try pagkaing Pilipino? ["Filipino food"] Dave: damn right if it involves warty dick-cumbers Dave: aint filipino no more Dave: gonna have to hog the white genes on this Bro: Here. Prob want some cock sauce on that. [The food has crisp bitter melon, melted tomatoes, and scrambled eggs.] Dave: ugh do i have to eat it Bro: Yes. [Everyone is seated at the table. 'Cock sauce' is Sriracha because of the rooster on the bottle.] Dave: oh its not bad Dave: ... [The bitterness sets in.] Lil Cal: HAA HAA Dave: is this even edible Bro: Sure is. [Bro eats it normally.] And if I hear you're not eating your vegetables... Well, I'll just have to cook more of the same thing dad used to make me. There's enough to last all week. Dave: ...fuck Bro: Eat up. It's healthy. Dave: please dont make me eat this Dave: ill eat any other vegetables ok? just not this Bro: That's what I wanna hear. But you're still finishing this one. For throwing out all that food. Dave: ugh END.

[peevishpants]

friends put me onto zucchinis a while ago and holy shit i love zucchinis

[joshlerfreak]

NOT a leek listener

[heich0e]

i know this is the Weirdo Website™ and yet somehow every time i get weird replies on my posts or weird asks i'm still like :o

[ineedyoutotellmeyouloveme]

INSANE that I recognized an actor not from his numerous tv shows and movies (many of which I’ve seen) but because he was the vegetative state guy who had to deal with house and wilson’s marriage spat during his last day of living

[pinkinsect]

What is shidou's problem

[dragonpyre]

How can you hate onions and garlic? I think we're going to have real beef here. Garlic is the best thing to happen to food since we domesticated grains.

They legit just don’t taste good to me. Like how some people hate the taste of broccoli, I hate the taste of onions. Garlic tho is on thin ice.

[lynxindisguise]

you shouldn't be listed as vegetarian friendly if you don't have a single vegetarian entree...

[vaguely-concerned]

I think rye is mostly vegetarian-adjacent when he gets to pick meals for himself (not particularly out of ideological reasons or anything, he just prefers nevarran style cooking and doesn't care for the taste of most meat -- he's a picky eater who will force his way through food he doesn't like if absolutely necessary. but no one is paying him to be happy about it lol he is being quietly bitchy about it in the privacy of his own soul. he might be the most relieved person on the team when bellara and lucanis stage their very polite and earnest kitchen coup.)

so when shathann asks taash to add some vegetables to the cursed tense family dinner when taash wants to come out to her, rye is like 'well that's not really a nice or productive way to say that. but thank you a little bit for saying it' as he stares down his plate of 80% ham with some trepidation