#meat reducing

[venomgaia]

not a good idea to bring that one on the bus, no

[kokytea]

If Curly sees Sterkan Anya: "Thank God, she's alive. Though she does look a bit different, did she do something with her hair?"

She is still really angry about the whole thing, probably Curly got pretty much fixed by the Sterkan too. So Anya can punch him.

[fluentisonus]

WILD GARLIC TIME

[polutrope]

10 and 11 from the sensory headcanons for Maglor?

A texture they hate

He's a particular and sensitive person so there are a lot, and more as time goes by. These include chain mail touching bare skin, unfiled fingernails, stubble (discovered when at an ancient age he began to grow a beard), raw meat, coagulated bodily fluids, orc skin, scales, pruny skin, slime.

Fortunately, he is able to deal with all of these, with varying degrees of success. But it sure makes life difficult.

A texture they love

Silk. Horse hair, elf hair. Plant spores. And harp strings, of course.

[screamingshark]

It's stock making day 🙌

[ubersaur]

one weird part of my job is sometimes I get little old ladies with sweet hearts poking through the compost box on the bottom of my cart that tell me I shouldn't be throwing away what I am throwing away. Like yeah, I get it. Food waste sucks! I hate throwing anything away. But everything down there is rotting or bruised or withered or just ugly enough that I know it will sit on the shelf until it is rotting, bruised, and withered. I cannot mark it down, and you will not buy it at full price. "But poor people---!" Poor people deserve food that isn't moldy or bruised or withered or ugly! And afaik our company already donates actually edible food to pantries!

[snekdood]

people are only gonna realize honey is bad and corporations have been lying about which bee needs to be saved when all the native bees are dead, huh

[masquenoire]

Roman's not much of a gamer but if he were, this would be a pretty accurate representation of what he'd be into.

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Still coping with homelessness and doing my best to count my blessings when I can.

Though I still haven't found a permanent home within my means, I'm happy to share that I have a safe place to stay since last night and for the next six nights. It's a huge relief not to have to scrabble every couple of days to find a place to lay my head (including the breakroom at work), and I'm so grateful to have access to hot showers and a bed.

However...

The bad news is that this comes at the cost of leaving me severly cash strapped. Between my checking account and my pocketbook, I've got exactly $40 to last until my next paycheck (August 31). I have groceries enough to feed me the next few days and under a quarter tank of gas (the only driving I do is back & forth to work). So, as much as I don't want to ask for help again, I must because next Thursday is still ten days away. The town food shelf is open one morning a week, and that's while I'm scheduled to work. I would greatly appreciate any donations people can spare to bridge me to the 31st.

As always, thank you in advance for your understanding and kindness!💗Even a reblog could make a crucial difference in my situation.

my kofi

[fruithonorific]

The fight for lab-grown meat seems like a really odd thing for environmentalists to go to bat for, tbh. Cell-cultured meat literally needs to be fed a sugary chemical slurry that takes more carbon to produce than literally just feeding a regular, living animal. Not to say I'm here for the meat industry as it stands, either, but *both* are bad. Food produced for profit and not for the people and the planet is always going to be exploitative and harm both.

[normalbrothers]

haven't eaten meat in about three weeks & i don't think i'll truly abstain forever, but i'm not missing it either

[hey-its-sybarite]

Remember: You Are Prey

[In mythology the ancient and wild Gods were recast] in a more bloodless and pro-human-society light. I’d argue that this parallels a major shift in how popular storytelling has changed the story of the vampire: increasingly humanising them and showing them working inside of human society and its rules, instead of being a destructive force that hurts us.

How many vampire stories now feature characters who only target the evildoer? Who channel their monstrous natures in ways that benefit humans? Who are inspiring and even loveable to humans?

I’d say too many. We neutered horror in our story telling. Pulled its fangs or worse, made those fangs sexy. Something about the way this incarnation of Interview With the Vampire is unfolding suggests that this has been our mistake. They aim to remind us not simply of our empathy and love for the monstrous, but of our fear of it.

The trial, too, is a recurring feature in stories where humans grapple with the supernatural and horrific. It’s an overlay of human reason, fairness, judgement and control, human morality, on the random, cruel and violent nature of forces previously believed beyond our sphere of influence, outside of prayer, sacrifice and ordeal. The trial is our triumph of reason over the terror of millennia of Gods and Monsters. Of our ability to protect ourselves, we who were once merely another prey animal.

Trials are so modern and so human, even when the trial itself is a sham or when the punishment is barbaric, the fact that a trial exists at all is narrative evidence that humans have some control over their world. But Interview With the Vampire is a horror story and I think it’s going to pose the question of whether humans can actually hold the horrors at bay, especially when we’ve recast our old supernatural foes as romantic heroes in our new mythology.

This criticism of the audience is of the audience in the theatre for The Trial, yes. But also of us viewers, and even of the people making the show. We’re all complicit because we all enjoy telling stories this way. We’ve trapped ourselves here, come willing to our doom and doomed others along the way.

((This is from a more detailed post, one of two on Francis Bacon and the Greek Furies, hence the abrupt beginning, apologies.))

[a-little-bit-oddish]

i just. can't understand people here. we all agree factory farming is horrific. we all at least seem to know that poultry in particular is awful, the living conditions of the animals shouldn't be legal. or at least, i hope we agree, and i sure hope we would if any research was done about it at all.

but as soon as i say "hey, maybe don't support that industry directly as often" it's things like. "we live under capitalism and there's no way out of that". it's "we're disabled/poor/anything and not a single one of us have a choice ever and we simply must eat meat as often as we do, every single one of us." it's "it wouldn't make a difference anyway, the corporations are so huge."

okay. go buy a box set of harry potter books. if it's just a drop in the bucket. go buy from chick-fil-a. what, that's against your morals? well!

i'm not against eating meat as a whole, even if i don't do it myself. i recognize that for a lot of people, it's not all that feasible to reduce meat consumption. but i also know that americans get far more protein than they need, on average, and only 5% of americans get enough fibre. i know that meat alternatives are getting cheaper and more available.

i know that even if people ate less meat it would make a difference. that's all i want. just stop directly giving money to an extraordinarily inhumane practice all the fucking time. look into what you're spending your money on. yes, it's hard to look at. it's hard to see just how cruel poultry farming is. that doesn't mean you get to just look away.

[lasersheith]

I've got hasselback potatoes in the oven and I've never been so excited for a dish in my life. Some of my goals this year involve learning how to make some incredible potato dishes and I'm starting off really strong in January. Made some roasted potato bites with a delicious creamy sauce yesterday and they turned out amazing. Hopefully these hasselbois turn out good too 😤

If anyone has any fun recipes they love please let me know 😁💚

[eugeniedanglars]

admittedly i am already someone who enjoys loud grating music normally but i swear to god under the right circumstances that shit is like a deep tissue massage for your brain