#why go vegan

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

[chicago-geniza]

Might get an impulse tattoo today if there's a walk-in appt available and the flat rate isn't too expensive (the FALL RISK knuck tats I've wanted for ages) (The origins of this tattoo idea are I am always in the hospital and they always give me a FALL RISK wristband because of epilepsy and I thought it would be very funny to get as knuck tats) (They always give me two ALLERGY ALERT wristbands too but alas that doesn't fit as knuck tats)

[treasureguardingdragon]

nobody talks enough about how alex rider in the books is SOOO vegan coded my guy becomes an animal rights activist at every opportunity

not to mention that animal death/cruelty/eating meat is often used to depict the villains in an even crueller light

blunt saying ‘i hope you eat meat’ on the meal after alex has just been drugged and kidnapped by mi6, point blanc being lined with animal heads, damian cray abusing a snake for the sake of his video game ect

in the narrative, alex is treated the equivalent to these animals. he is the prey, the expendable. it doesn’t matter whether he lives or dies, so long as he can be used

alex is treated like an animal and so he finds kinship with and sorrow for those creatures like him who were brought up to die from the start

[hearthoof]

"climate change is getting worse! we have to do something!" yes i agree!! you could definitely try going vegan! i know it's not a possibility for EVERYONE, but going vegan would really help in our fight against climate ch- "oh im not gonna go vegan. individual action doesn't do anything, silly! however, if someone that WASNT me decided to blow up a pipeline or kill a ceo, then suddenly climate change would stop" oh. okay. so do you actually care about the cause? or.. (do not interact with this post if you don't support trans rights)

[b0tster]

Yo where do you buy your accesory belts/harnesses/whatever else there is? I'm vegan and want to get into more gothy clothing, but it feels like there's leather fucking EVERYWHERE

killstar stuff and demonias afaik are both 100% pleather, or at least have an extensive list of non leather options, those are good places to start!

[elftwink]

one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context

[aloeverawrites]

Being a vegan and a children’s rights activist means you are scared on many levels when people start debating if they want to have children or buy a dog. Like what do you mean you’re going to a breeder to buy an animal away from its parents-

What do you mean that’s your alternative to creating and raising a human child-

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE GOING TO KEEP THE PUPPY IN A CRATE ALL NIGHT-

What do you mean of course you would never hit the dog but you’d spank the child-

[rohirric-hunter]

Do I take the risk of ordering groceries delivered after what happened last time, keeping in mind that I paid a not insignificant amount of money for a membership to this grocery store specifically for the benefit of having groceries delivered, or do I put on pants and shoes and pull my hair up and find a jacket and get out my cart and drag myself all the way over to the grocery store, where I will be tired and hungry and probably buy a ton of random crap I don't need just because it's there

[pitotube]

veganism was truly the worst thing to happen to vegetarianism.. used to be u could get a veggie meal that still had animal protein in it and now all u can get is shit plant based alternatives in everything with fake meat and white mystery sauce instead of mayo and cheese. why do this to me specifically

[sereniv]

can someone explain why non vegans have such a hard time understanding why a vegan would want to eat something that tastes/smells/feels like meat? Or seem to believe that we never liked meat or animal products?

i need a non vegan to answer, or a vegan who used to have this mindset bc it just doesnt make any sense

even with thinking veganism is a diet, it (their confusion) still doesnt make sense

PLEASE its driving me crazy i never get an answer. Like im not trying to start a fight i legitimately want to know the thought process /genuine

also read tags

[comraderoscoes]

self care today has been 20 garlic dough balls and an entire bulb of roasted garlic in my pasta sauce

[svnflowermoon]

planning christmas meals will be the death of me

[bishopony]

So um. The reminder replies were really helpful and I greatly appreciated them!! However I ended up having to go to a separate doctor entirely cause i ran out of a prescription that I have to go in person to get refilled. So I didn’t get to schedule a gastro appointment. Aaaaaand guess what I’m struggling with now 🥴🥴

[ghwosty]

ngl the outright hostility towards vegetarians and vegans is more annoying than the vegan straw-man that is supposedly forcefully evangelizing veganism

[crowcryptid]

$17 for lentils, yuca, mixed veggies, and rice is crazy

Idk how people at work eat out daily

[lediz-watches]

Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon

AKA, cooking, with world building. And dragons.

Quick overview for the uninitiated: Delicious in Dungeon (or Dungeon Meshi) is an anime following a small group of adventurers in a vaguely first-edition Dungeons and Dragons setting (except also very much not DnD, despite the pun) as they attempt to find one of their lost party members. To ensure they survive without money, and to indulge a kink of their leader, they resort to hunting the monsters of the dungeon for food. The show is very heavily influenced, to the point of affectionate parody, by cooking anime, with stillshots of the final meals and the original manga including mock-recipe and nutrient maps on said stillshots.

I didn’t watch it for several months because Tumblr’s manga community had presented the show as being one of those shows where everyone is queer and neurodivergent and it’s all about their struggles and love conquering all and I was just like “that’s cool, you have fun, kids”. I can't remember why I decided to watch it - I think I saw a Netflix trailer and decided I was bored enough to try it. But it is not that.

I mean, don’t get me wrong. Two characters are almost definitely autistic, one of whom is probably a lesbian, and the closest thing she has to a love interest is maybe bisexual, but honestly, despite being fifty years old, she’s probably too young to really know. Half-elves, man, they’re problematic. But none of that is the point of the show. In fact, it's mostly entirely platonic the whole way through. At most, the show is about self-acceptance, personal sacrifice, and the difference between what you want and what you need.

Also good nutrition.

There are a few things I love about it, one of which is my personal kink, which is worldbuilding and poking at the strangeness of a world until it makes sense. The characters are products of their environments and backgrounds, with prejudices and conceits that make sense to not only their backstories but also their respective ages (which is further problematised by their varying maturity rates and race profiles). The world itself is an evolving character, created by a flawed and (I suspect, haven’t finished the manga yet) sympathetic villain. It’s so juicy and good.

I also love (most of) the characters themselves and how they interact. With my favourite, of course, being the emotionally repressed father of three that looks like a fourteen year old kid.

Chilchuck is everything I love about the series in one character. He’s so complicated. He’s a half-foot, which is the equivalent of a halfling, and therefore always looks very young and cute, to the point that even half of the main characters see him as a child. However, because half-foots are the shortest lived race, he’s actually the equivalent of a fifty-something. Add to this that half-foots do legitimately seem to use teen vernacular out of habit, no matter how goddamn done they are with these frikking kids around them. Add to this that he became a married father of two when he was still the equivalent of a teenager, was immediately thrust into a toxic work environment where he was confronted with the fact his whole race is mostly considered greedy scum-sucking thieves at least positive and outright monster-bait at most positive…! ADD TO THIS that he is a self-sacrificing idiot that would rather the whole world—including his family—think he’s a vile, narcissistic, cheating coward than admit even to himself that he just can’t handle seeing people he cares about hurt and is trying to keep them out of trouble the only way he can.

And he’s the main character with probably the least amount of screentime, it absolutely kills me!

There are a few things I don’t love, however.

I don’t love Senshi. The dwarf hermit that enables the story by being an essentially dungeon-native with a love of cooking. The story starts off with him being the all-knowing, down-to-earth, reliable old man, which rubbed me the wrong way because he was also stubborn and self-righteous and the story seemed to be entirely on his side. But in the story’s defence, it does poke and prod at him, and showcase his prejudices, but at the end of the first season (and I think halfway through the story) I still mostly just tolerate him.

I watched in English, and… look. Look.

This is one of the few examples where I think subs not dubs might have worked in its favour.

Normally I don’t agree with that, because dubbers are not given nearly enough credit for their skills. Voice acting is hard, and dubbing even more so. Also, while the Japanese actors may be very good, they are not infallible. Sometimes, the reason you think they’re incredible is because you don’t understand what they’re saying and so can’t tell whether they’re good actors or not.

BUT. In this specific case. I think that last point might have helped.

Because there are long stretches of exposition and cooking narration in this series, told in quite monotone, matter-of-fact ways which are perfect for the character and tone of the series but are not actually that entertaining to listen to. And so I suspect that hiding behind another language may have really helped mask that. There are things that work in written form that just don’t in audio.

I wish the series could spend a bit more time poking at its characters. Especially Chilchuck. Seriously, this man’s instinct when confronted with his own good qualities is to stop moving. I love it so much. Marcille, the half-elf, is interesting to me because of her unique growth rate. Half-elves live to be a thousand, and she’s only fifty. She was still a toddler at thirteen. She thinks of herself as an adult. She sees the twenty-something tall-men (humans) as young teens. As the series goes on, she seems increasingly more like a seventeen year old to me. I want to know how much of that is intentional.

The actual main character, Laios… I want to understand his head more. It’s hard, because he’s clearly autistic and canonically struggles with other people’s feelings, and self-reflection, so in many ways I think he legitimately is as simple as he seems. But because of that, he’s one of the few prophesised kings/chosen ones that I find myself… not rooting for. His instincts entirely revolve around monsters, he doesn’t get humans, and I just… can’t see that working out for a king long-term without some serious infrastructure and look at me getting all political world-building again and I’m just not invested enough in Laios to explore it myself, so I want to see it happen in-series.

But it’s generally so good. If you’ll forgive the pun, it’s meaty and tasty and it’s so good. I think it’s what I needed. Unfortunately, the fandom isn’t what I wanted it to be, so I don't know how much fun I'll have with it outside canon, but I’ll be honest, that’s pretty appropriate for this series.

Sometimes, it’s not about what you want.

Sometimes, you just need to chew on what you need, and keep looking for what you want next.

Probably a good life lesson, all things considered.