#like some people don't actively choose not to eat meat

[alarming-prism]

i went to a vegetarian restaurant with my roommate for an early birthday dinner last week and y'all. i've been vegetarian since i was two years old. this was the first time i can ever remember being able to eat everything on the menu. i had options?? i had to choose?? i can't believe people live like this y'all have no idea

[eldritch-spouse]

Hi Pinnie! Chopping block anon here again! Could we fill this prompt with Santi or Ludwig? I'm banging my head on the nearest wall, I can't choose. Honestly, I know I'll love whatever you end up writing. 😍

How would any of the TCE gang react to finding the object of their obsession (that they'd been actively trying to keep away from the Clergy) on Morrel's chopping block? :o

[Ludwig isn't really a current part of TCE, so I'm going with good old Santi. Also, I feel that this isn't where you wanted it to go, but I got a few thoughts along the way. Fem reader.]

TW: Nonconsensual hypnotism; Implied nonconsensual sharing.

He knew something was up when you didn't so much as answer a morning text.

You need time alone. All humans do. He thought he would too when he would occasionally -Very rarely- Humor the thought of a relationship. But something didn't sit right with Santi when hours passed and you gave him nothing, absolute radio silence- When you're usually so talkative, even in your moodiest days, you'll at least bother to call him a pervert.

The incubus supposes he ought to keep himself busy for a bit before persisting again. He knows he's... A little too eager for contact, and that can naturally irk you. Maybe one day of relative silence might make you trust him more.

The demon has been making the rounds through most of The Clergy's floor for the entire night, restless in his pursuit of clientele, in a desperate effort to get his mind off you. Really, Santi has made more than enough money to honestly call it a day- The crowds are well-entertained and buzzing with a healthy amount of titillation, all is well.

Except he's not quite satisfied. He's in a foul mood honestly. Sometimes it would show on his sculped features as he pleasured those keening beneath him, nothing he couldn't wave aside or fluster out of their minds if they did notice.

He can't quite tell what brings him to the restaurant. Sure, he loves the dirty little thrill of sliding his hand down the table cloth and making someone loll their tongue out with pleasure while they pretend to eat, but most people here don't really have their minds on sex. They're harder catches, essentially.

And yet, when Santi passes by the main kitchen doors, a sound makes him halt. Not just any sound, a squeal. That by itself is no motive to stall, the incubus is well aware Morell loves his job, loves butchering, that he often takes the time to play with his food

-Like the dirty little fuck he is, sticking his fingers everywhere and bending helpless humans onto his cock, like toys, like fuckmeat. A depraved lunatic, pleasant company in Santi's opinion-

But, for some reason, the incubus is sure he recognizes that squeal from somewhere. It could be mere witless paranoia, but the echo of it in his mind doesn't let his feet unroot from their spot, so he figures he might as well check for himself. A dark hand knocks playfully on the heavy kitchen doors, receiving no immediate reply.

" Morell? " He tries.

There's some shuffling, then an eventual. " ... 'M busy! "

Yeah, "busy". Maybe balls deep in one of them already.

" Oh I'll be quick, dear- Just one peek, yes? "

More shifting and another stressed noise he could swear sounds a little too familiar, rubs him the wrong way, before something that sounds a lot like "piss off" gets mumbled back to him.

Typical.

That's why Santi only sighs before parting said doors and quietly weaseling inside.

The bobbles racing around only wave at him before buzzing around in their tasks, giving the demon a decent berth and easily circumventing him. As usual, they're completely unbothered by what their boss is up to.

The salacious, mischievous expression the incubus used in preparation to excuse himself to the chef dies as soon as his eyes scroll up to the chopping table.

Now is the time to pat himself in the back for listening to his gut, because none other than you, his darling minx, lie sprawled on that metal rectangle, like no more than a slab of meat. Your top has been torn off, pieces of it messily fashioned into a blindfold and gag. Morell stands with one hand on your thigh and the other tight around the handle of his cleaver.

Something inside him boils hotter than the rifts of Wrath. By the way you struggle in your binds, it's more than clear you're not enjoying a second of it, and Santi almost wants to believe Morell didn't intentionally seek you out. He's never been that nefarious, that putrid. To provoke the demon he works with.

He couldn't. Not when Santi never even introduced you to his coworkers. They only know your first name and vague descriptions of your face, your hair... That's not enough for someone he works with to miraculously hunt you down.

" Tha Hell did ah say?! Ya- "

" Where did you get that one? "

Santi almost doesn't recognize his own tone, and apparently, it gives the shroom monster pause too. Morell notices something's amiss, he's clever enough to notice the tense state the concubus is in, eyes glowing brighter at each passing second, deceptively still, one wrong answer away from perhaps impulsively starting a fight.

Morell looks at the human woman on his table, then back to Santi. " ... Tha fuck are ya on 'bout? "

" Where. Did you get that one? "

The chef's hand moves to your bare stomach, keeping you from squirming off the cold surface easily while he shifts to face his coworker better.

" Tha usual, Santi. I ain't been havin' time ta hunt 'em on mah own. " He shrugs. " Suppliers. "

The demon continues to glare at the blue monster for a long pause, finding no hint of a lie on those odd eyes. Only confusion and the remnants of exhilaration from what he was previously up to. This calms Santi a great deal. It was just a freak accident, yes? He let his favorite fox run a little too close to home, and she got snatched up... The incubus doesn't even want to think about what would happen if he hadn't come here in this exact nick of time.

Was it a silent nudge from Krulu? No. No, of course not, that's laughable- The lord of this pit spares no empathy for frivolities like their workers' love lives. Still, some unknowable force capable of penetrating the fog of this Clergy steered him well tonight.

Had this been no one of interest, the incubus would have still mauled the perpetrator to a pulp, if only just to prove a point. Or to thrill himself a little. But this is different. Very different. He can make the most out of it if he plays his cards right.

Santi shakes his head, then advances on the pair, unbothered by Morell's defensive puffing.

" You ought to start checking your stock more thoroughly. And not just their orifices. " He teases.

There's an eye roll. " Oh, tha's real fuckin' rich comin' from ya. "

He knows.

Nevertheless, Santi only smiles a little before hooking his claws into the waistband of your pants, grabbing your panties as well, before quickly pulling the fabric down. The newly revealed skin bares a jet black mark that is, by now, unmistakable to anyone who works with Santi. A concubus mark. His mark, elegantly claiming your most intimate parts for himself.

His claws tap idly on the meat of your hips as he watches the chef's face freeze, eyes widening.

" This one belongs to me. "

Silence. You wriggle and sob behind the gag.

" Shit. "

" Yeah. "

" I thought ah... Checked that one. "

The cook looks torn. There's some manner of guilt and cringing written on that darkened complexion, he clearly doesn't intend to continue this, but there's also some selfish sort of turmoil in his body language. As if he's upset he started the process and is now going to have a "pig" taken from his hands.

Santi's smile turns into a disgusting grin when a lightbulb casts complete depravity into his mind's eye. Your mark starts glowing, heating, and your struggling is rapidly paused. Morell squints.

" Hm, but what were you up to just now? "

The shroom hesitates, making some manner of motion with his dominant hand, which clutches his favored piece of sharp equipment.

Santi clicks this tongue. " Nice try. Before that. "

You start wriggling beneath the bigger monster's palm. It's no longer the jerking of a panicked figure trying desperately to escape, but a restless sort of agony. Morell's fuse lights up under the perceived scrutiny.

" Where tha fuck are ya goin' with this?! "

Santi arches a brow.

A quick glance flickers over your form. Today has been exceedingly traumatizing for you, the demon doesn't need to be in your shoes to know that. No one makes it out of Morell's kitchen, and if they do, they'll never be the same. You don't belong in The Clergy, not yet at least, and Santi knows that even with your currently arousal-fried brain, you're going to remember the events of today for the rest of your life- Something he can't allow to happen.

Fortunately, he knows someone who can just... Eat this unfortunate day out of your long term memory.

And, since you're not going to recall a lick of it, why not make this interesting?

What you don't know can't hurt you.

The incubus hums a wordless tune, pulling your remaining clothes down your legs, an easy task, your overheated body yearns to bare itself, he barely has to do anything. Once you're bare, Santi moves to the other side of the table, where your head rests, and starts undoing your blindfold.

Morell grumbles something incomprehensible and he snorts.

" Relax. Why would I stop you from pleasuring my minx? " Santi all but purrs.

" Yer real fuckin' weird. " Morell offers after an incredulous pause. " This ain't rubbin' ya tha wrong way? "

" Oh this is rubbing me all sorts of ways, Mori. "

" Gross- "

" You're hard. " The chef's protests are swiftly silenced. " I can't blame you. She's irresistible, isn't she? "

Morell crosses spotted arms over his chest and casts his eyes away. " She's uh... She's real purtty. "

That's one way to put it.

Santi chuckles when the torn cloth comes off, revealing a flustered, disoriented face. Your eyes glaze deliciously, pupils dilated in want as they surf between him and the blue monster, the mark's hunger going full throttle on your poor organism. The magic of a high-ranker is one Hell of a drug, isn't it? You make a desperate, muffled noise.

" There there, I'm here. You'll be taken care of soon. " He lulls, voice dipping in pitch just to make you shiver. Your head is lovingly raised so you can properly view the other. " That there is my friend. You wouldn't mind playing with him a bit, would you, love? "

Predictably, you nod enthusiastically, going as far as to part your legs in your stupor. Slick gathers excessively on your already stimulated pussy.

" Go on, Morell. "

Said monster gulps behind his thick scarf, drool clinging to his teeth at the lurid encouragement of his fiendish coworker, his fingers already itching to reach out and do as he pleases.

" Show us what you do with your piggies. "

[rainyfestivalsweets]

10/20/23 Things I did to help myself.... what did I have to change? Seems like everything some days.

Healthy Tips

Realistically evaluated my eating habits. It was either not enough or too much, no in-between. That was part of my problem.

Most restaurant meals are too much, even if you think you are ordering the 'healthy option'

It is not normal to gorge yourself on appetizers, drinks, & a giant entree. Choose a moderation mindset: Pick one or 2. Share an app. One drink. Pack half your entree 'to go'.

Our society is driven by consumerism. I had to take steps to stop that. Meet people to do activities, not to consume things.

Water- I shoot for 200 oz of water a day.

I take low cal beverages with me... nearly everywhere. Tea, coffee, sparkling water.

Try all kinds of different tea.

Meals focus on protein and produce. If you are still hungry- eat another portion of meat and produce.

Try to eat as unprocessed as possible. They add stuff to our food to make our brains light the F up. It isn't natural and devastating to people like me who are especially susceptible. Often when I have issues (yesterday!) It is because I had a processed item.

Sometimes I add a fiber supplement to my drink. Adds calories yes but I don't worry about it.

Try to only have 1 sweet thing a day. The later in the day, the better. I will actually be shooting for every 3 days or so.

Some of my craving issues were blood sugar related because I was pre-diabetic and had PCOS- which has an insulin problem.

If you haven't eaten, plan and eat a healthy meal that has a substantial amount of protein.

If you have eaten already, try to distract yourself with a task. If you are still truly hungry 20 minutes later- have another bit of protein & veggies.

Walk daily. But don't count it as your cardio.

If you work at a desk, get a standing desk and try to work up to standing daily.

Cardio 3x a week. Whatever you enjoy. Yes, you have to enjoy it. If you don't, you haven't found your activity yet.

Weight training 3x a week. Lift all the weights you can, as often as you can manage. You are now in training. For life!

Supplements- figure out what works for you. I am currently on: Sam-E, NAC, Nomorbidity, Alkemi, allergy stuff, and some other stuff I rotate in.

Read books that help your mindset. Atomic habits, mindset books. 10 mins a day, make it a habit to improve yourself.

Watch YouTube videos that build your motivation and determination.

Things can get better. I also utilize therapy! There is no shame in needing help!

I am becoming a healthier person and every choice reflects that.

[beardedmrbean]

TikTok has given oxygen to some truly outlandish dietary suggestions. Last year, the recommendation to cook one's chicken in NyQuil trended enough that it caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue a formal statement warning against the practice. "Healthy Coke" went viral as well after a TikTok influencer claimed that mixing sparkling water with salad dressing could create a healthy alternative to drinking Coca-Cola. Claims or recommendations like these often masquerade as "hacks," but they fly in the face of scientific research - or in most cases, even sound logic.

The latest such trend that's gone viral, thanks to TikTok influencers like Pauly Long and the Liver King, is the suggestion to consume raw meat, purportedly to increase energy and improve digestion.

Can you eat raw beef?

Such benefits aren't backed by science, however, and the recommendation to eat raw beef isn't supported by any health agency either. In fact, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) specifically recommends against the practice or even sampling small amounts of raw or undercooked meat.

Not only should you not eat raw beef, it's also important to be careful when handling it. "Make sure to wash hands, separate raw meat from other foods, and promptly store leftovers to ensure safe handling of all cooked foods," advises Audra Wilson, MS, bariatric dietitian at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.

What is dangerous about eating raw beef?

Failing to do so or choosing to eat raw meat despite warnings against the practice can lead to some potential consequences. Raw beef often contains harmful bacteria such as salmonella, campylobacter, listeria and E. coli - each of which can disrupt the body's digestive tract and cause foodborne illness. Such illnesses can lead to "food poisoning symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea," cautions Wilson. In the elderly, children, and pregnant women, she adds, such bacteria "can cause more severe illness or even death."

The only way to eliminate such risks and kill harmful bacteria associated with raw meat is by cooking it thoroughly, says Julia Zumpano, RD, a registered dietitian at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Human Nutrition.

At what temperature is beef considered safe to eat?

That means cooking one's meat to temperatures that surpass even what some people order their steaks at in restaurants. "Rare or medium rare steaks still have potential for these bacteria," cautions Zumpano, "it's just much less when compared to raw beef."

To stay on the safe side, the USDA recommends cooking beef, bison, veal, goat, and lamb until it has an internal temperature of 145 degrees, then letting it rest for 3 minutes before cutting into it or eating. Leslie Bonci, MPH, RDN, a sports dietitian for the Kansas City Chiefs and founder of Active Eating Advice, says that ground beef and sausage needs to be cooked even longer, until it reaches an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees. "That's the only way to destroy harmful bacteria that causes food poisoning," she says.

And don't forget to use a meat thermometer when checking meat temperatures. "Accurately use a meat thermometer by inserting it into the thickest part of the beef," advises Wilson. "Using your eyes or nose alone are not effective ways to determine the doneness of meat," echoes Bonci. ___________________________________

Can we maybe just let the herd cull itself here on this one?

Just this once maybe we could try it

[cringefaillosersummit]

Round 2 - Group 2A

Submission notes under cut. Some submissions had notes others did not:

Yua Serufu and Abe Nana:

Nana claims to be an alien from Planet Usamin that crash landed on earth and decided to become a seiyuu idol. She also says she's eternally 17 years old. Through her rabbit ear antennae she can communicate with her home planet. She's also a magical girl that protects both earth and Planet Usamin. ...of course, this is all her fake backstory for her job as an idol, she's actually a grown ass woman who pays taxes. most people in the fandom believe her to be 27. but she gets. really. really into her fake idol lore. whenever people call her out on it being fake she freaks out and starts bullshitting to keep up the act. also she really loves anime, obviously.

[Yua] is clumsy, to the point of injuring herself walking to school more often than not. She still thinks it's a good idea to use power tools. If she wasn't an anime character, she would have a lot worse than bandages and a perfect school nurse attendance record. (She also suggests dream-logic ideas when she's awake. Her friends shoot those down.) She's nice, but also...

[Yua] cannot go for a second without injuring herself somehow by pure accident. She's injured so much that the nurse in her school's nurse's office has an attendance record for her and she has presumably not missed a day since she got to that school. Also the first occurances of this are her slamming straight into a streetlight while biking because she decided it would be food to close her eyes while riding a bike and a scene where she tries to use a mechanical screwdriver and messes up so badly that she ends up losing her balance, crashing into some spare wood and then immediately having said wood crush her. She was fine after this. This cringefailness goes back to her childhood, where she sucked so bad at not getting herself injured during crafts that crafts had to be replaced with drawing as an activity in her home. She promptly began eating the drawings she made and the crayons themselves (don't worry, they were safe to eat ones). Personally I think she's a dyspraxic icon but that's not canon and all that is canon is that she is a loser. Her cringefailness doesn't just extend to this, because she also just acts like the number one pathetic girl ever (affectionate) sometimes. When she joined the do it yourself her club leader and also that nurse who has to deal with her daily made one pun with her name (specifically related to the fact that "Yua Serufu" sounds a lot like "yourself", causing "do it yua serufu" to be born as a phrase) and she immediately began going around repeating it to everybody, namely her childhood friend. Speaking of her childhood friend, a lot of why she stuck with the diy club, beyond meeting one (1) butch lesbian who everybody believed chased people down with hammers routinely, was because she remembered that her childhood friend and her used to have a bench they always hung out on and she immediately went to her club leader and was like "ok I need to learn how to make a bench so that I can instantly reconnect with my neighbor", only to realize that her friend did not want that and sadly go up to her club leader to dismiss the whole idea. The bench is outside of their club room now. She's very good at art, but tends to daydream and think in abstract ideas, so she once volunteered to draw treehouse blueprints for her buddies and promptly made a full abstract art piece which was not realistic at all. She has three pets and one of them is a miniature pig who she decided to name Meat for some reason. She loves them all so very much but she keeps eating pork dishes around the pig which it does not enjoy in the slightest. One time she saw a 12 year old crying and her immediate response was to offer her a handkerchief and a hammer and let her choose whichever she wanted. Her childhood friend keeps trying to deny how much she actually cares about her and keeps telling Serufu that she's allergic to everything in her life or telling her about her very cool technologically advanced classes while Serufu got into a worse but traditional school because she spaced out during the exam (she's actually super intelligent she's just not the greatest at staying focused. me too honestly) and Serufu is just like ":))) yep. yeah that sounds really cool :))) wowee I loved this conversation" but super genuinely actually because she's just fine with everything when it comes to her childhood friend. I have many things I could say about her but mostly I think she's funny

Propaganda: [1]

Clementine Kesh:

She’s a failed girlboss. She wants to rule the planet so desperately and pilots an ancient historical mech and has no idea what it does. Her rival is infinitely cooler than her. She dies after a religious leader criticises her too much and she tries to scrap with him but she falls off the side of a stationary space ship. Pathetic wet cat energy all the time.

war criminal... and her mom is mean to her

Kesh is so pathetic they became the devils favorite clown and they think that means the devil likes them

[paragonrobits]

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.

[minty-tea-soup]

Would you mind telling me something that made you happy today? No matter how small.

Yeah of course!

So there was this really cute twine that someone posted to Tumblr today. It's one of those text based web games where you sort of choose your adventure to just read a story. It was made by kociamieta and I'm going to give the link to the game as well.

It is so cute and I immediately sent it to a friend who also liked it and we talked about it which was amazing cause I always love talking with friends about cool things.

Also while I haven't been able to do art today yet I did get some mozerella with balsamic which is one of my favorite combos and layer it in this flower pot mug. And like it's silly but it makes me happy. Cause eating out of a mug let's me have a handle and feel like the food is more safe as I walk around and eat.

Also like the mozzarella is pre sliced but still watery so it's super easy to eat and I layered it in the mug like how you make flowers for a cheese board with sliced meats so my brain looks into it and goes: "it's a flower!!!"

Oh also some people I don't always get quick replies from messaged me back today. One is from my best friend for a bunch of pics I sent him and I love getting any confirmation from him about anything.

Finally and this hasn't happened yet today but it's one of my stream days where I get to hang out with a lot of my online friends/The Rats and watch a stream together and those streams always make me feel better no matter how shit everything is.

Overall today wasn't super busy or active and I most likely won't even remember it in a week. But it still existed.

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

There's a bright side and a downside to liver/kidney/thyroid diets all conflicting to eliminate everything

The good news is that even in a normal person, so long as you don't really thoroughly fuck it up... Livers literally regenerate in humans. So long as you don't put it too far along into really active failure, that shit can outright grow back. And Lo... Would you look at this, the bilirubin from it lagging a little, if it doesn't get to be too much, actually has a protective effect on your other organs! And it comes with this handy indicator of: if it is getting too bad you will KNOW because you will start to turn yellow! [I am speaking for me mostly do not take medical advice from me I am not a doctor]

So I can safely resolve some conflict by neglecting my liver for a bit so long as -I- am not actively in liver failure already [in theory]. Also in theory it's the easiest organ to replace, as people can donate parts of theirs and have it grow back.

The down side is that eating to support your liver is what lets you eat all the yummy proteins and animal fats, and if you give those up...

Well your kidneys will have you eating only the leanest proteins, and your thyroid will demand that none of them be high in iodine like most fish and eggs [depending on whether you are avoiding or loading iodine]... so that mostly leaves you with Tilapia being the least evil of all worlds as a protein source.

Turns out I love Tilapia.

But I am sure eating no protein except that would get old fast... And like someone else on here already pointed out because they are having some kind of similar issue... Mostly you are still left only being able to eat nuts and *some* fruits like berries. Expensive and kind of annoying if you also can't have too much fruit sugar at whatever stage of kidney distress. Pretty sure people eat all nut diets when they are trying to mummify themselves.

Lucky for me I am also choosing to stop avoiding iodine right now.

Do you know why?

Because low thyroid function can -also- choke up your kidney's ability to process out phosphorus.

So I get to have the iodine meats babey [not dairy on account of the milk fat]

At least, in light of the kidney issues, I can toss my thyroid and liver issues partially under the bus temporarily.

I can have more iodine and some magnesium supplements and probably recover enough within 6 months max to be able to have steak and coca cola again.

I just want the bone pain to stop. I don't mind being careful with my diet but it's so painful to move around right now, especially when I stop moving to sleep. I can type fine by the end of the day but I wake up not being able to open anything and in the early morning it feels like I am breaking my arm to try to pull a blanket onto myself.

I have shit to do!

[sprinklina]

4, 9, 18, and 25 for the plural ask game ^_^

4. Are there any activities your system members like to do together? Collective hobbies? Talk about those!

yes !!!!! yes ! most of us enjoy drawing (i'd say lina likes it the most but that's because she's usually the one here, so it's skewed.) what's interesting is our artstyles are all (at least slightly) different. for example, lina's changes depending on what she draws, mine is more angular, etc. we also play the same games but the memory sharing is a bit weird so it causes some funny moments when certain people don't know how to play :)

9. How long have you been a system and/or known of your system?

i'd say about twelve years ? since we are sixteen. obviously since we were that young, lina didn't KNOW what a system was, but it's been going on for a while haha.

18. Are there differences between systemmates surrounding sensory things? (For example, one person likes the taste of one food and another doesn't.)

oh god yes. i hate drinking anything other than water unless someone makes me. wolf really enjoys eating meat (makes sense...) and some others just have aversions / favorites. lina goes crazy about dry cereal. other than food, i hate soft fabrics but lina loves them. it makes shopping very interesting

25. What is something you wish singlets knew about plurality?

i genuinely don't know! i think it depends. maybe something i'd say is that alters / introjects can't really choose who they are. i'm a fictive from something i'd rather not mention (but is rightfully hated on this site) and i often feel terrible about it. on a lighter note i think they knew that i am sooo funny and charming and the best 💖

[spurious]

Getting to Know You Meme

Tagged by @audioletter 🧡 who did hers here

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? m a r r i e d

02) What was your dream growing up? i wanted to be a vet until i realized i would have to deal with animals in pain lol

03) What talent do you wish you had? not to steal audioletter's answer here but also drawing tbh.

04) If someone bought you a drink what would it be? one of those fancy starbucks iced lime drinks with the green coffee beans

05) Favorite vegetable? oooooh hm. broccoli?

06) What was the last book you read? poking at a reread of Catch-22

07) What zodiac sign are you? scorpio sun, gemini moon, cancer rising

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? several tattoos and 2 ear piercings

09) Worst Habit? according to @audioletter, sleeping diagonally on the bed. according to Lemon, forgetting to refill her automatic feeder

10) What is your favorite sport? i like watching basketball

11) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? uh. i don't really think of myself as an optimist but i think i kind of am a bit of one.

12) Tell me one weird fact about you. two of my chromosomes are stuck together

13) Do you have any pets? cat & borbs

14) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? if i had to choose one of those adjectives I'd go with scary but i'm not, like, super scared of clowns?

15) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? i would give myself an ass so that i can sit on hard surfaces in greater comfort

16) What color eyes do you have? blue

17) Ever been arrested? no

18) Bottle or can soda? can

19) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? we haven't left the country since before covid so. plane tickets

20) What's your favorite place to hang out at? home tbh

21) Do you believe in ghosts? not actively but like. i wouldn't be surprised if there were.

22) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? video games, crochet, watching tv, going for meandering walks

23) Do you swear a lot? i don't know what constitutes a lot? i feel like i do.

24) Biggest pet peeve? people who get on a crowded train and stand around by the doors instead of moving into the far less crowded aisles

25) In one word, how would you describe yourself? ummmmmmmm. odd

26) Do you believe/appreciate romance? yes! i'm weird at it but i like it.

27) Favourite and least favourite food? fave: probably cheese. least fave: shrimp

28) Do you believe in God? probably?

29) What makes you happy: sound of the cat purring. sitting in bed with my wife and playing our games and talking. sour candy.

30) Currently listening/the last thing you listened to: The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes

31) Favourite place to spend time: i like! to be! at home!

32) Favourite lyric:

And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam / And no emotion that’s worth having could call my heart its home

33) Recommend a film: Clue!

34) Recommend a book: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

35) Recommend a band, a song, or album: have you heard of the mountain goats :)

36) Recommend a TV show: Freaks and Geeks

37) Where are you from, and do you still live there? Where have you lived? I'm from metro Detroit, Michigan, and I've lived there, in Ohio for school, and then in Ibaraki, Japan, followed by Osaka where I've lived forrrrrrrr. 13 years or so?

38) Do you have any pets or animals in your life? How did you find/get them? Lemon was found after a typhoon when I lived in Ibaraki. Niles and Nesmith came from the bird store where everyone wanted the fancy baby budgies and they were being ignored for being too Standard lol

39) What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten? WELL. If you don't know, some regions of Japan eat whale meat, and some regions of Japan use whale meat in their school lunch. So uh. One day when I worked at an elementary school I was blithely eating my school lunch only to be asked by one of the kids how I was liking the whale meat. 😐 (it's not even good)

40) How did you 'find' fandom? i actually don't totally remember? my first fic reading experience was cardcaptor sakura, and i think it was on a fansite or something rather than ff.net....and then i found my way to LJ and HP fandom.

41) Make a list of 5 things that you see without getting up. I'm at my desk at work so: rainbow glitter fountain pen, ps5 devkit, photo from our wedding, coworkers, "everything is fine" 10 of swords card from the modern witch tarot deck

42) How do you style your hair? currently a bob with bangs. i have started carrying a little comb in my handbag for this

I'm gonna tag people!

@alienfuckeronmain @sga-owns-my-soul @stargatebarbie @texasdreamer01 @acrowbyanyothername

@colonelshepparrrrd @queen-x-ishtar @hearteyesmcgarrett

[whumpsday]

I get that noble vampire families are Like That and they're what your story focuses on but. How about commoners families? Are they more Normal TM?

Thinking how humans used to keep chickens and pigs and other animals for food until fairly recently (we still do, but most of our meat comes from big farms and not like, a family keeping chickens and eating only what they raise), but still they befriended them/grew attached. And thinking about so many humans eating meat without thinking/purposefully ignoring the fact that they are eating a creature that was killed for them, technically.

Since commoner vampires generally eat bagged blood, are they the same level of being "unaware" of the fact that human blood comes from humans? How would a working class vamp react if they randomly inherited a human from their distant eccentric uncle who died with no close relatives/heirs?

(Apologies if you've been asked this before and for any mistakes in your lore - too many vampire media makes it hard to keep track)

Also sorry if this doesn't make much sense - I have acute brain wormitis tonight

great questions!!! :D sorry you've activated Fantasy Politics Mode

it varies! just like you'd find more conservative and more progressive people anywhere. nobility culture just tends heavily toward conservativism, and while vampire culture at large tends to be more conservative than whatever humans have going on, it's much more balanced outside the nobility, even among non-noble upper-class vampires (though in any society obviously you'll find more progressives in the working class).

more... 'traditional values' type vampires might have a mindset like "vampires are inherently superior to humans and it's fine for us to keep them as livestock", while liberal vampires might have a mindset like what you were talking about with how humans ignore the cruelty of factory farms because chicken yummy (this is the reason jim goes vegan post-escape. he can't help but think about it, now.) these two would probably be the most dominant mindsets.

much less common, but more progressive vampires (like bellamy) might have the mindset of "this whole thing is fucked up" and try to only drink ethically-sourced blood, if it's available to them. which it might not always be, depending on the vampire's location and how much money they have to spare. vampires are definitely all aware of where their blood comes from, but those that don't keep their own humans don't really have to think about it unless they choose to.

the scenario of a working-class vampire randomly inheriting a human from a rich distant relative is fascinating! obviously it'd depend on their personal political beliefs, but the fact is that there's a reason vampires without a lot of money don't tend to keep captive humans- they're expensive! humans eat a LOT and if you don't feed them properly, you're not gonna get all your nutrients either. like, think about how much a human spends on food for themselves vs food for their dog or cat. humans eat a ton! they take a lot of upkeep to take care of! it's cheaper to buy blood than keep your own human, because the blood factories can feed humans in bulk. so if the eccentric uncle didn't also leave behind a sum of money, probably gonna have to either sell the human or let them go, depending on the vampire's personal moral standing.

but if the eccentric uncle did leave some money too, this vampire could keep the human. could go a number of ways. keeping and using the human as food, trying that for a bit and then feeling guilty and letting them go, just letting them go to start with... possibilities are endless. but now i am very intrigued by the idea of a vampire caretaker inheriting a human, taking care of them until the long-term effects of persuasion wear off, and letting them go free.

[karolosyarakios]

Official Statement: On Nativity / Christmas Fast

16 November 2022

Greetings.

Nativity fast is observed from Nov 15 to Dec 25, it is indeed observed by the Eastern Orthodox Church (and Catholic Church, as well).

To quote Wikipedia, a free source of information that I would encourage people to donate to, "The Nativity fast traditionally entails fasting from red meat, poultry, meat products, eggs, dairy products, fish, oil, and wine". Though; oil, fish, and wine are permitted on feast days that would occur during this period.

Maybe you want to join this fast, but you are not able to. Say; you are a student and you can barely afford to get the cheapest food, not even looking at the ingredients. Kindly do not starve yourself. Please eat, for Lord encourages education and health above wanting to follow food restrictions in fasts.

On top of all that, fasts are not about food. It is more about refraining from detrimental activities and replacing them with better habits. You can work more on helping others. I am not talking about donating excessive amounts like a businessman as a lot of us are not businessmen with a lot of money to spare. Do small things instead.

I understand that it is hard to "be better" because a lot of us don't know where to start. Below are a few suggestions:

A little thing would be to smile at people. Smile at one random person on the street.

Say "I like your shirt" to someone.

Text a random friend "Hey, I care about you, right?".

And, most important of all, exercise self-care. Do not tire yourself to the point of exhaustion, and do not dwell on past mistakes. Every human being indeed can change for the better, forgive yourself and approach yourself with kindness so that you can show others your full potential of love and care.

Remember that you matter. If thinking about yourself in a positive light is hard, then simply say this: "I may not be the best person on this earth, but I am not the worst either." Know that no one can replace you, and know your worth. Treat people with kindness, and treat yourself with the same kindness you show others.

Remember that Christmas time was chosen by people to end the fast on Christmas day. This is not a commandment in the Bible, but the Bible indeed mentions fasting and puts some rules as fasting has been an action carried out by religious people who want to try it out to bring themselves closer to spirituality.

You can choose other ways to feel that sense of spirituality, such as reading the Bible from cover to cover and doing kindness on your own.

Don't worry if you really want to observe a fast but you cannot do it at this time of the year. You can always set up other fast dates for yourself and ask Lord to accept your intentions. Lord is merciful.

Matt 6:16-18 reminds us:

16 “When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!

17 When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

18 so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

My sincere wishes,

The Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, His Beatitude,

Karolos Yarakios.

[dreamin-vegan]

MEAT ALTERNATIVES

"Why do vegans always eat foods made to taste like meat" "if you don't like meat why do you eat fake meat?!" questions vegans hear all the time. Well let me explain that one, as humans we were raised to eat meat, which through out history if you look you'll find not everyone through time was a meat eater, beside the point, most people were raised eating meat, so we've conditioned to like the tastes and textures of meat. Now most vegans didn't grow up vegan, we grew up eating meat, dairy, eggs, honey, etc. But we watched documentaries such as dominion and did our research, not just google but actually deep diving on the internet looking into things, and we learned that being vegan is truly the best choice, for our bodies, for the animals, for the planet, but mostly people went vegan for the animals, when we learned the way animals are treated from birth to your plate, the chemicals, preservatives, meat glue, so many things we shouldn't be even touching, let alone consuming, we made the big decision to go vegan, and stop paying for that treatment of animals and moved to eat plants instead. Which is a great choice, but when we started advocating for animals, doing activism, and educating people on veganism, yes some activists are more aggressive than others, more in your face and argumentative about it, which I can see how that put a bad taste in your mouth, but the good news is there are tons of us who are willing to educate you, and help you on your journey. We know animals feel pain, they, like us, have a brain, a central nervous system, are sentient, feel fear, pain, happiness, sadness, anger, every emotion or feeling we get, they get. Which if you think about it, is both cool and sad, because when they feel hurt you can see it on them but they can't tell you about it, which if you've get a dog or a cat, and have ever seen them in pain you know it's so hard because you want to help them, you want to know where it hurts, what way it's hurting, and all the details so you can help them to feel better and explain to them that it's all going to be okay. Its the same thing with chickens, cows, pigs, horses, foxes, every animal that exists on this planet, to continue eating meat in my mind just seems heartless, especially if you've ever seen an animal suffering and sick in any way.

We do this because we want animals to live, not to "force veganism down your throat" we want these animals to experience life, love, joy happiness, to be able to run and play and be spoiled and pampered and cuddled and just be happy, how can you help them to have that? Go vegan, watch dominion, watch black fish, watch what the health, watch dairy is scary, do the deep diving on the internet, reach out to other vegans and ask them what their journey looks like for them, where they started and where they are now, you can totally do this. Lets give these animals a life, Go vegan today! start a new journey, choose the vegan options to things you would normally get, instead hamburger patties made of ground beef, get beyond meat, gardein, impossible, versions of them, and soooo many other options. You like yogurt? cool me too! try the so delicious coconut yogurt, or silk almond yogurt. like chips and french onion dip? same regular wavy potato chips, and kite hill or violife french onion dip are great! Have fun with it! welcome to veganism

[cringefaillosersummit]

Round 1 - Group 3A

Submission notes under cut. Some submissions had notes others did not:

Abe Nana:

Nana claims to be an alien from Planet Usamin that crash landed on earth and decided to become a seiyuu idol. She also says she's eternally 17 years old. Through her rabbit ear antennae she can communicate with her home planet. She's also a magical girl that protects both earth and Planet Usamin. ...of course, this is all her fake backstory for her job as an idol, she's actually a grown ass woman who pays taxes. most people in the fandom believe her to be 27. but she gets. really. really into her fake idol lore. whenever people call her out on it being fake she freaks out and starts bullshitting to keep up the act. also she really loves anime, obviously.

Yua Serufu:

She is clumsy, to the point of injuring herself walking to school more often than not. She still thinks it's a good idea to use power tools. If she wasn't an anime character, she would have a lot worse than bandages and a perfect school nurse attendance record. (She also suggests dream-logic ideas when she's awake. Her friends shoot those down.) She's nice, but also...

This girl cannot go for a second without injuring herself somehow by pure accident. She's injured so much that the nurse in her school's nurse's office has an attendance record for her and she has presumably not missed a day since she got to that school. Also the first occurances of this are her slamming straight into a streetlight while biking because she decided it would be food to close her eyes while riding a bike and a scene where she tries to use a mechanical screwdriver and messes up so badly that she ends up losing her balance, crashing into some spare wood and then immediately having said wood crush her. She was fine after this. This cringefailness goes back to her childhood, where she sucked so bad at not getting herself injured during crafts that crafts had to be replaced with drawing as an activity in her home. She promptly began eating the drawings she made and the crayons themselves (don't worry, they were safe to eat ones). Personally I think she's a dyspraxic icon but that's not canon and all that is canon is that she is a loser. Her cringefailness doesn't just extend to this, because she also just acts like the number one pathetic girl ever (affectionate) sometimes. When she joined the do it yourself her club leader and also that nurse who has to deal with her daily made one pun with her name (specifically related to the fact that "Yua Serufu" sounds a lot like "yourself", causing "do it yua serufu" to be born as a phrase) and she immediately began going around repeating it to everybody, namely her childhood friend. Speaking of her childhood friend, a lot of why she stuck with the diy club, beyond meeting one (1) butch lesbian who everybody believed chased people down with hammers routinely, was because she remembered that her childhood friend and her used to have a bench they always hung out on and she immediately went to her club leader and was like "ok I need to learn how to make a bench so that I can instantly reconnect with my neighbor", only to realize that her friend did not want that and sadly go up to her club leader to dismiss the whole idea. The bench is outside of their club room now. She's very good at art, but tends to daydream and think in abstract ideas, so she once volunteered to draw treehouse blueprints for her buddies and promptly made a full abstract art piece which was not realistic at all. She has three pets and one of them is a miniature pig who she decided to name Meat for some reason. She loves them all so very much but she keeps eating pork dishes around the pig which it does not enjoy in the slightest. One time she saw a 12 year old crying and her immediate response was to offer her a handkerchief and a hammer and let her choose whichever she wanted. Her childhood friend keeps trying to deny how much she actually cares about her and keeps telling Serufu that she's allergic to everything in her life or telling her about her very cool technologically advanced classes while Serufu got into a worse but traditional school because she spaced out during the exam (she's actually super intelligent she's just not the greatest at staying focused. me too honestly) and Serufu is just like ":))) yep. yeah that sounds really cool :))) wowee I loved this conversation" but super genuinely actually because she's just fine with everything when it comes to her childhood friend. I have many things I could say about her but mostly I think she's funny

[cybertron-after-dark]

You bet your ass it is, and Im taking this opportunity to yap about the werewolf meat episode, how far rescue bots as a show likes to test the limits of its age rating, and how often it likes to skirt the horror genre.

Rescue bots is, on its face, transformers for younger kids. The focus is off the war and the violence and the big scary decepticons with guns and swords and sharp teeth, choosing to focus on how the Autobots use their size, power and abilities to help people. But even without an authoritarian faction that needs to be stopped, even without being set in an active warzone, this is still a show about the Autobots working for the emergency services. There is still danger, there is still action, there are still stakes. Smaller-scale, buy no less deadly, and they do not shy away from stating it outright, or dancing right at the line of showing it.

A lot of the threats in this show could take lives if left unchecked; Fires, cave-ins, collapsing buildings, car wrecks, plane crashes, all stripes of natural disasters. They don't shy away from making the disasters feel real. People get hurt. People they make you care about get hurt. And they damn near end up dead once per episode at least.

The lycanthropy meat episode isn't the most graphic example of the disaster thriller aspect, but it IS an excellent example of how the show often leans into horror genre conventions.

(Spoilers for Rescue Bots s2e09 - Feed the Beast ahead!!)

This particular episode is a wonderful showcase of the Rescue Bots crew's understanding of how to fuck around with genre in a kids' show and make it WORK.

It's a simple enough premise: Cody and the bots find what they think is a cryptid called the Maine Ridge Monster, try to get proof it's real, and try to catch it.

Through the episode, we keep getting these shots of the monster framed by cameras. fleeting glimpses and snapshots before it runs off or the camera is destroyed. It gives almost a found footage feel to the episode, if only for brief moments.

And until about halfway through the runtime, aside from through a camera, all we see of the monster is the carnage it leaves in its wake:

The bots, save for Boulder, are straight up afraid of it! It may be an earth creature, but it's fast, it's big, and it's got teeth and claws that sure as hell don't look cuddly. While Boulder is skeptical of any malice for the critter, thinking it must just be a scared, confused animal, the others are just intent on finding it and catching before it can hurt anyone.

And when we finally see it for more than a quick shot, it's on a full-on rampage.

Breaking into a warehouse, tearing apart the wall with nothing but its claws, making a mess of the place, putting up a fight against heatwave, and eventually causing the whole building to start collapsing in on itself, with the bots and Cody inside.

It's a wild animal. A strong one. A dangerous one.

Now, the standard rescue bots episode is still relatively formulaic: Something goes horribly wrong, we're not fully sure what it is, Cody does some poking around, the thing going horribly wrong turns out to be reject tech that was meant to be in the Best Left Forgotten section of the lab's storage that some doofus dug up, Doc Greene finds out how to fix it, the Burnses and the Bots put that plan into action, all is fixed. This episode is no exception. The reject tech in this case was meant to be a canned synthetic meat with an infinite shelf life, but it reacts unpredictably when the poor bastard who eats it isn't exposed to sunlight.

Unfortunately, the two poor bastards who've been eating it all episode are Graham and the mayor, and we find out that's what the fake meat does through a transformation sequence that I honestly find mildly upsetting as an adult. Primus knows how some poor 5 year old in 2012 would've reacted seeing it.

You see that? That's bones. That's bones and fangs and the smartest, sweetest character in this show going completely feral and losing his mind. We are in body horror territory that wouldn't feel out of place in a goosebumps episode. Hell, even the concept of werewolf meat that turns you into a werewolf feels like it came straight from a goosebumps story.

Ultimately, this is still a kids show, so everything ends up okay; They find Graham and the Mayor before they can hurt anyone (or before anyone can hurt THEM given there's an angry mob forming), Boulder gets Heatwave to step off before he can choose violence, talks some sense into his partner, and calms him down until daybreak, where they turn back to normal and Doc Greene has a cure ready. Happy ending.

But like. Happy ending or not, that was horror. That was horror by people with a great familiarity of how horror cinematography and tropes are used. That was a creature feature where nobody was unfortunate enough to really get hurt, but with the threat of it happening constantly looming overhead.

And it is NOT the only example of the crew showing that level of genre savviness. The flying lobsters episode everyone likes to bring up as an example of how goofy this show is? That entire thing was an homage to the Hitchcock movie The Birds. Early on, there was an episode about a fake alien invasion that played out like a proper sci-fi horror flick, and dropped little references to the movies The Fly, Alien, The Blob, and Predator. And THEN had their own homage to The Blob with the Squish episode.

I'm not really sure how to end this quasi-essay or what point I'm trying to make other than that the writing in this show is Batshit insane in ways I love so very much so I'm just gonna leave y'all with the detail that made me want to gush about this episode to begin with.

The only time we see the camera framing applied to something other than the monster(s) is early on into the episode. With Graham and the Mayor as the only ones in the shot.

The fucking cinnamon tography.

Things that canonically exist in the same world as transformers prime because they also exist in rescue bots:

-fairies

-ghosts

-time travel

-still-living dinosaurs

-optimus's third mode, the fucking t-rex

-a machine that cheats death and reverses the aging process

-skyrim, if blades making the arrow to the knee joke is to be taken at face value.

-mass displacement tech the way the fandom's been portraying it for ages

-the exact same altmode-locking paralytic virus from beast machines

-full-on mind control, effective on both humans and bots

-lycanthropy inducing fake meat

-a hal-9000-esque rogue AI intent on turning the world comatose to keep humanity maximally safe

-freaky Friday mind swapping

-time loops

-machine that forces you to sing in full musical numbers

-Allspark day, which is basically cybertronian new years day

We need to start subjecting the prime bots to the weirdass facets of their world.

[growvitanutrition10]

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