#obviously don't fall for the idea that animals have to be broken out of zoos for their 'freedom' or whatever

[gaydogmarriage]

tighnari fans stop posting pictures of neglected/irresponsibly kept exotic pets because they remind you of your blorbo challenge

[spacexfucker]

I find this really interesting. I was pretty big into cannibal research in college and I'm also a huge horror fan and you're so right. The "it's human!" angle is really old. I think it peaked with Soylent Green, honestly.

The relationship people have with meat (in the US) is so distant. My partner frequently helps me breakdown cuts of beef or chicken and that's been fine. But I brought up the idea of us buying rabbit (or even raising our own meat rabbits to save money on meat over time) and he was very against it.

My family when I was a kid was very poor and we took what we could get, essentially. We lived in and around more rural communities with people who raised animals for meat and who hunted. We got deals on rabbit and quail and fish and deer. In more financially secure times, we've talked with farmers to buy whole sides of beef to be broken down and stored.

I don't really have a line in my mind about acceptable and unacceptable animal meat. Human obviously has moral connotations that people put more umph behind than say, dog or rabbit. But people get pretty upset about those, too. I think it's most interesting when horror plays with the emotional impact of meat over moral impact.

A horror movie is best with stakes involved. What compells you to eat this? Is it necessary? Is it inevitable? What happens when your tongue enjoys something your brain rallies against? But we don't usually dive into that. It's just: this is human and that's scary.

You hear the way people talk about real life situational cannibalism in which people have to eat members of a party to survive. Most people tend to be on the "that's horrifying but necessary" side. I think horror would play better with the cannibalism angle if it pushed those confines to a near breaking point. When do we believe human meat is no longer reasonable to eat? What do we tell ourselves when we do that? Is the horror the meat or the fact that there is a world in which people could rationalize eating you?

I think I like the idea of secret meat having nebulous origins that are vaguely human as much as it is bovine or even plant based. An amalgamation of tissues that can be traced to tens or hundreds of different mammalian sources. Sure it has human but it also has mink and bat and whale and mole rat. How is that being processed? Why are there so many? Where does it come from? How is it being done?

I like the eldritch horror aspect of wondering how a meat cube that can have varying degrees of different mammal DNA comes to exist. Does it appear in our fridges overnight? What's up with the declining local fauna populations? Why have missing persons reports trippled? People are disappearing but so are dogs. Endangered species are wiping out completely. The president disappeared on live television; just blinked out of existence. Cars are careening off the road empty. Zoos are turning up empty overnight. Birds haven't stopped flying from city to city in clouds of thinning static.

And people have to eat The Meat. Cows are disappearing far faster than we can raise new ones. The dairy industry has collapsed. The Meat is cheap and sold in stores so Walmart doesn't loose its profit margin on fresh meats. Buying cow or pig is a luxury people can't afford now, locked away behind padlocked freezers that you need an employee to open.

There's Meat enthusiasts now who buy truckloads of the stuff. There's grilling parties and tiktok recipes for marinating The Meat and tenderizing. People start losing just different limbs instead of wholly disappearing. And its random. Sometimes it's a head. Sometimes it's a foot. Sometimes it's your liver. Bodies litter the streets and offices and churches for a day or two before disappearing completely. Monkeys are falling out of trees with missing arms and tails. Whales are losing whole chunks of blubber. Your dog is missing his tongue.

People are turning to veganism or vegetarianism in an effort to stave off Dissappearing. It doesn't help. Plant matter is showing up in The Meat now, and people say it tastes even better. There's popup auctions for "best cuts" of The Meat. Whole slabs are appearing in fields and in the middle of highways and in the center of cities. Some only a few dozen feet, others hundreds. It sweats in the heat of the day. No wild animals eat it. No bugs lay their eggs upon it. Whole cities no longer have bird song or the buzzing of insects. Bees are officially extinct.

World governments fight each other about who's fault this is. Conspiracy about invasion of hostile terrestrial powers overshadows concern about dwindling resources. We're not having children quick enough to account for the massive deaths. The ecosystem of the world is crippled and dying.

Most of the people left at this point form the Cult of Those Who Remain. There's talk about sin and how your purity is why you're left. Other people rove in gangs to hunt anything "Real" left. Refusing to eat The Meat. The Meat Obelisks begin to move and multiply. Joining together seamlessly. People start to talk about God. This is his return and it's using its creation to form itself on our plane. A throbbing hum can be heard in every corner of the world, driving the last few thousand people to near madness. The whole world is quiet except for The Hum. Slabs of Meat move across any terrain without any resistance. Bursting through houses and moving over mountains with ease, absorbing anything it comes into contact with. Flesh melts into its sweating, trembling slab like butter.

There's no resistance. There's nothing to fight. There's just Meat.

I'm so tired of the way suspicious meat is always human meat like for once I just want to be surprised. Let it be something else I'm so tired of it being human meat

[thetaekooklibrary]

hello! I'm the same anonymous that asked you about new compelted fics XD I'm sorry if that was to broad, I'm more into long fics above 30k or so so if you have any new favs ( if it was happy ending it will be much better I don't wanna be bowling my eyes out later) pretty please ^_^

I haven’t read most of these but I’m pretty sure most have happy endings^^ also not all are very new but I’m adding them if we haven’t rec’ced them because they wouldn’t have been in our word count tag before this. I’m also gonna add some that have been added to our tags in the last few months tho, just because I’m not sure what you have and haven’t read

tenacious d in the dick of destiny by jhopeg - In the midst of struggling with debts and empty plastic packets of instant ramyeon, Taehyung and Jeongguk joined forces to put the phrase “sex sells” to good use.

Invisible People by mindheist - The most important things are the hardest of all to see.

(I know this isn’t quite 30k but it’s 22k and reading mindheist is a must)

i’ll return to you (a promised handful of orange blossoms) by meanho - “Do you think he’s cosplaying an anime, or manhwa?” Jimin asked, voice in a trance. Taehyung understood his confusion because it wasn’t every day you see a person dressed as fine as the king of Joseon himself stumbling through a crowd and knocking over some Sailor Mercury’s wand. “Hmm, maybe he’s going for someone from Yona of The Dawn?” Jimin scoffed, “Yeah right, more like my 9th grade text book.”(or, the taekook Rooftop Prince AU!!) (Sequel)

of smokey bars and burning hearts by madeliefie - The boy -man- is beautiful. The way the light shines on his face tugs at Jeongguk’s heartstrings and for the first time in his life, he’s caught off guard. Jeongguk knows he isn’t going to heaven and he figures that this boy is the closest thing to an angel he’ll get. Taehyung wants the world to know who he is and Jeongguk is dangerous enough to make that happen.

Reborn in Water by TrappingLightningBugs - Freshly graduated from high school, Jungkook loses his class ring in the nearby lake, and despite the fact that his parents would be super pissed, it’s not that big of a deal. That is, until a stranger decides to appear in his bath one night, wearing his ring.

GAME OVER: Side Quest by mintsoda - “Taehyung’s eyes grow bigger than two moons, his mind goes blank, and he feels like he’s still falling from the impact of the other man throwing him down to the ground when he looks into the other’s eyes, when he takes in the scowl on his lips, the cute nose and the jet-black hair that falls into his face airily, covering his furrowed, strong eyebrows.All the sounds around him are muffled as he continues to just stare, and even when Jimin appears next to them and clutches at the stranger’s arm Taehyung cannot seem to rip his eyes away from him. And that’s when he knows that he is completely and utterly done for.”

Overtones by coley_merrin - As a vampire, Taehyung’s life is full of walls and restrictions. Jungkook is a temptation and a risk, someone who could take away Taehyung’s eternity, even as he could steal Jungkook’s future.

An Interstellar Anomaly by PaprikaFetus - They are two heirs that belong to opposite sides of the universe.

In Every Parallel Universe (I’ll Keep on Loving You) by rimacchi -   “Taehyung.” Jeongguk stops him, his hand tight on his wrist and his head roaring, aching and spinning all at the same time with his thoughts jumbling up but the elder’s lips curl — that toothy boxy grin he has seen through the years. “You disappeared. You literally disappeared. You were gone for seconds and then you just — materialized!” “I have no magic tricks, Jeonggukie.” He replies and smiles because that’s what Taehyung does. He smiles like nothing’s wrong, he laughs and makes everything brighter and beautiful and worth it. But now Jeongguk’s confused and part of him thinks it’s because of those cups of coffee last night and another thinks it’s because he’s going insane; insane because for five seconds, he saw Taehyung vanish into thin air. Or Jeongguk’s happy as a college freshman and is in love with the physical embodiment of sunshine but some shitty supernatural phenomenon makes his boyfriend appear and disappear like magic and the world must have messed up.

Bubblegum Bitch by snowmoney - Jungkook is but a simple delivery boy; the last thing he needs is a high maintenance fake boyfriend.

loving easy by aeterisks - After two years of being a cheerleader, Taehyung has come to know all the people who usually attend the basketball games. So obviously, he wouldn’t fail to notice him. (Or, Taehyung is a cheerleader, Jeongguk is a not-so-really punk and Taehyung never thought he could fall in love so effortlessly.)

you give me the whole damn zoo by themelonlord - “Taehyung, I don’t think this is a good idea,” Jimin complains as he follows closely behind Taehyung, “I mean, what do you know about this kid? He looks like some punk.” Taehyung rolls his eyes and laughs, “You know better than to judge a book by its cover.” He spots Jeongguk standing by some lockers, probably one of them is his, but he doesn’t look like he’s going anywhere. “See? He looks lost,” Taehyung points out, “It’s our job, as seniors, to offer a helping hand to new students.” - aka. taehyung learns what it means to have friends, that not everyone is as mean as those bullies that pull on his ears and make fun of his tail.

Soulmates by GiiGii - Soulmates are supposed to be rare and enviable. At the height of his career, Jungkook can’t believe he’s found his; a beautiful Omega. He also can’t believe that his soulmate has rejected him. Taehyung has struggled with being an Omega since he presented. He doesn’t want to be forced into another dominating relationship but the appearance of Jungkook is upsetting his wishes.

Kintsugi by mysweetkittae - Kintsugi (n) – The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Jungkook never expected to meet him, the boy that shone as bright as a million suns yet carried a darkness so heavy in his heart that it left his soul shattered, scrambling to pick up the splintered pieces and put himself back together again before he fell apart once more. He never expected to meet him, but he did, and he wouldn’t change it for a thing.

Burnouts, Booze, and Babes by jvante - Taehyung and Jeongguk are just two small town best friends getting drunk too often and making big plans they’ll probably never achieve. Taehyung takes it upon himself to teach Jeongguk all of the proper ways to have sex, and Jeongguk swears he’s just hanging around because Taehyung’s good in bed. Who would have thought these small town losers, who used to smoke behind the school, would become jewelers at the biggest department store in Seoul.

Be Your Forever, Be Your Fling by seikou - “As long as you want me, I’ll stay. I’ll be in love with you; for eternity, forever. I don’t think that will ever change,” Jeongguk says, a smile to his voice.“You’re my first love. My only love.”

Of Knights and Prince and Wayward Adventures by NeraB - After his castle is stormed, Prince Taehyung is forced to flee to secure reinforcements and save all those he holds dear, but he can’t do it alone, and the King entrusts his only son, the future of his Kingdom, to Sir Jeon Jungkook, one of his bravest knights, and the son of his closest advisor. Together, they must learn to rely on one another as they embark on their mission and navigate their feelings, trying to survive long enough to save their home - and their future together.

Mutual Fiend by kkumkkatcher - “I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on.” An AU where Jungkook needs to kill Taehyung, but Taehyung also needs to kill Jungkook, and things get (more than) a bit complicated.

Prisoner of the Mind by pinkeow - When your mind traps you inside its cold and dark cell, how will you escape?

I love you everyday (don’t get away) by rooxynroll - “It’s not that, hyung.” He tries out, unsure if the word will displease or appease Taehyung. “I’m going first because we’re climbing down the stairs. I’m protecting you, preventing you from falling down.” The pout of Taehyung’s lips stretch into a sweet smile that reaches his tired eyes. “So… You walk down the stairs in front of me to protect me if I stumble and fall?” Jeongguk nods, doe eyes shining slightly amused by Taehyung’s question. “Hmm. Then, would you carry me down the stairs, Jeonggukie? I’m so tired I might actually hurt myself even though you’re right in front of me. I might sprain an ankle.”or: the one where tae is a model and guk protects his ass (amongst other things).

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