#System Breach rewrite

[slippery-minghus]

System Breach... Sunday! #2

>Software Instability ^

Turned away from the bathroom mirror, Connor cautiously slipped his injured arm into the sleeve of his dress shirt. Crisp bandages disappeared beneath the fresh-pressed white, and he moved with slow, deliberate care to fasten the twin buttons at the cuff. The sensation of the relatively formfitting fabric over the wound was… uncomfortable, but Connor refused to give it pause.

Seven buttons down the front of his shirt were the next obstacle that stood in his way. Stress was low, and his self repair protocols had taken the edge off the widespread, prickling numbness that allowing himself to overheat had wrought. Nonetheless, Connor’s fine motor control had only decalibrated further as a result of the night’s events—and he needed desperately to correct the margin of error.

Buttons would have to do. A sample size of seven wasn’t much, and his hands still shook, but Connor was grateful for the input regardless. The still-lingering tension in his chest eased a bit as knotting his tie required less effort than anticipated.

Then, with his jacket smooth and settled over his shoulders—and his attention deliberately routed away from the added weight on his arm—Connor finally faced the mirror. He didn’t want to look, but he had to verify that his appearance was presentable. And he welcomed the stark contrast to how disheveled he had been the last time he’d stood here in uniform.

That said, Connor still wasn’t reassured by what he saw. He met his own gaze, only to recoil, hardly able to tolerate it for more than a single, fleeting moment. There was a shadow beneath his eyes, darkening his irises, and they seemed to bore into him—judging, accusing, disdainful—from the far side of the glass. An illogical feeling, he knew, but he could do no more than look away, beset by simulated shame.

Connor was a machine. And machines weren’t supposed to feel. Emotion, real emotion, simply was not a part of his program. The anguish that sat heavy in his stomach, weighed down his limbs, made him flinch at the sight of himself was nothing. It was nothing. Nothing more than meaningless data, generated in error by the instability in his software. It carried no weight, no substance. It wasn’t real.

…So why wouldn’t his LED change back to blue?

[its-gjera]

FNaF: Security Breach Gameplay Redesign Concept/Word Vomit

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been re-playing FNaF Security Breach with the purpose of getting the platinum trophy. While playing I just couldn't help but wish this game was just... better.

I know a lot of you out there like the game and story how it is, and you probably don't want to listen to someone who probably thinks they could do better (I can't) but I still couldn't help but wish, and in wishing I was just filling my brain with ideas and concepts and all these other things that just make it hard to focus on anything really.

So I made this gameplay redesign list of things I would've added to make the game more fun and engaging, just to get it out of my head. Feel free to ask questions about anything you like!

An important thing to note: This list only focuses on gameplay with small hints to story. Far more creative people than have made story rewrites if that's what you're looking for.

●General Info:

-Five Nights: Gregory is trapped in the Pizzaplex for five nights. As each night passes, survival becomes more difficult as enemies will hunt you down more frequently.

-Health: Gregory has three hit points. After all three hit points are depleted, getting hit one more time will be game over. Use bandages, medkits, snacks and food to recover or temporarily increase HP.

-Stamina: Stamina is used when sprinting. When stamina is depleted, your movement speed is reduced. Use drinks, food and snacks to recover or temporarily increase STAM.

-Inventory Management and Save Rooms: While the game autosaves after an encounter, you can save at any time in a save room, which usually takes the form of a Security Office. Security Offices are a safe haven where you can take a breather, craft items for the journey ahead, and manage your inventory by organizing your backpack or deposit items in a safe. Careful! You are not safe from every threat.

-Protection: Equip various types of headgear to protect yourself from attacks. (Construction hats, race helmets, Fazerblast helmets, sauce pans) all headgear protects you from one hit, unique headgear protects you from two hits. (Foreman hat, Roxy's Helmet, Fazerblast Captain Helmet, Golden Pan)

-Crafting: Gather materials to create all sorts of useful gadgets to protect yourself, or to cause more property damage.

-Hacking: Gregory is more skilled than he looks. Use his phone to hack into computers, doors, and other systems found around the Pizzaplex.

-Traversal: The Pizzaplex is huge, but getting around on foot isn't the only option for traversal. Use skateboards, shopping carts, segways, and even golf carts to move around more effectively.

●Movement Options:

-Running: Toggle the run button to run. Does not consume stamina. One handed Items can be used while running. You can run in any direction.

-Sprinting: Double tap the run button to sprint. Consumes stamina. Items cannot be used while sprinting. You can only sprint forwards.

-Prone: Hold the crouch button while standing still to go prone. It's the slowest traversal option as you're crawling, but it generates the least amount of noise and can be used to crawl into small gaps.

-Sliding: Tap the crouch button while running forwards to slide. Can be used to evade attacks. You can continue running or stay crouched after sliding.

-Diving: Hold the crouch button while running to quickly dive to prone. Can be used to evade attacks. You can dive in any direction.

-Vaulting: Vault over large obstacles.

-Tuck and Roll: When falling from big heights, hold the jump button right before landing to break your fall by rolling. Caution! Not every fall can be broken.

-Rail Slide: Hold the jump button while near a slanted stair railing to slide down. Remember to hold the button again before reaching the end of the railing to avoid stumbling.

●Gadgets and Doodads: Find or craft the various items you can use to survive the night. Deployable items must be carried with both hands and cannot be stored in your inventory.

-Flashlight: Illuminates dark areas. Requires batteries.

-Throwables: Throw objects to distract enemies. It could be whatever. Soda cans, spent batteries, coins, junk, etc.

-Gregory's Phone: It isn't much, but a clever mind such as yours turned it into an efficient hacking machine. Requires charge.

-Slingshot: Taken from the Lost and Found office, the Slingshot can be used to distract enemies and destroy surveillance units. Can be upgraded to be more effective. Different types of ammunition can be crafted for it.

-Fazcamera: Fazcamera can be used to stun bots and blind animatronics. Requires film rolls to be used.

-Fazerblaster: Can be used to stun bots and blind animatronics. Requires batteries.

-Fazbear Tazer: Can be used to shock and disable bots or surveillance units. Can slow down animatronics. Requires taser cartridges. Can be upgraded.

-Interface Tablet: This high tech tablet can be used to access the interface of your gadgets such as drones, AC cars and more. Can also be used to command Utility Bots.

-Nail Gun: A low damaging, but fast firing Nail Gun which excels at taking out smaller enemies. Requires large battery and Nail Gun magazines to work. Caution: Tactical reloads discard all remaining nails still in the cartridge.

-AC Car: Can be used for surveillance and is good at distracting enemies.

-Mini Surveillance Drone: Can be used for surveillance and distraction.

-Firecrackers: Ignited and thrown. Excellent at distraction and concealing most sounds you make.

-Firework Box: Deployable. After ignition, the box will belch out loud and bright fireworks that will distract enemies and conceal noises you make.

-Deployable Camera: Deployable. Tripod camera that can be placed anywhere on ground level and can be accessed at anytime using your Fazwatch.

-Shock Charges: Craftable. An electrical spike that can be thrown at any surface as a trap or thrown directly at bots to shock them.

-RC-SC: Craftable. Remote controlled toy car with a Shock Charge that can be detonated at any time.

-DJ BoomBox: Deployable. The BoomBox, when deployed, will start playing loud music that will not only distract enemies, but will cause bots that get too close to it to start a small dance routine. Animatronics can be distracted by it, but they will destroy the Boom Box once they find it.

-Jumping Jack: Craftable. Deployable. A large wind up box that can be placed down and wound. After the music ends, Jack will come out of his box, causing a loud distraction and damaging bots that get too close. It will self-destruct shortly after deployment, shocking anything in its blast radius.

-Smoke Bomb: Craftable. Creates a smoke screen that conceals you and disorients bots and animatronics.

-Sticky Camera: Craftable. Can be thrown or launched at any surface and later accessible with your Fazwatch.

-Override Key: You can use the Override Key to disable bots by inserting it into their CPU on their backsides. It will not work if the bot is aware of your presence.

-Command Key: Use the key to access the Automatons around the Pizzaplex.

●Accessories! Your guide to being a material gorl: Finding certain clothing options and accessories give you passive bonuses. Items include shoes, backpacks, gloves, outerwear, and facewear

•Footwear

Gregory's Shoes: Some raggedy old hand me downs. Hardly fit you. No bonuses.

Running Shoes: Roxy themed, Cassie would love these. Slightly increases running speed.

Soccer Shoes: Left behind by some unfortunate kid, these neon green shoes now serve to help you survive. Decreases stamina consumption while sprinting.

Basketball Shoes: Red shoes from an expensive looking brand. These shoes increase your recovery speed from jumping, vaulting, rolling and diving.

Sneakers: Like the name implies, these black shoes help conceal the sound of your footsteps and increase crouch walk/running speed.

Sandals: Unless you like making your life harder, you probably shouldn't wear these. Decreases running and sprinting speed, also makes your footsteps slightly louder.

Bunny Boots: Slightly decreases running/sprinting sound radius. Why are these bots looking at me funny?

•Backpacks

Runaway Backpack: This bag was supposed to contain all the stuff you cared about, but there was no time. No Bonuses.

Duffel Bag: Large bag from some employee, this bag greatly increases inventory capacity, but slightly decreases your overall movement speed.

Explorer Backpack: Belonging to some outdoorsy wannabe, this bag makes swapping items faster.

Designer Backpack: Probably costs more than what Vanessa makes in a month. This bag adds more quick slots item spaces.

Medic Backpack: Found in the Daycare, this bag can hold more healing items and increases healing speed.

Utility Backpack: Belonging to the Fazbear construction crew, this bag increases crafting material carrying space. Increases crafting speed.

Girly Backpack: There are better options you know…

Purple Backpack: Found near Vanny's hideout. Smells awful. Increases carry space for food and drink.

•Gloves

Sports Gloves: These stylish gloves increase the reload speed of all your gadgets.

Archery Gloves: Someone's hobby probably. Increases slingshot reload and draw speed.

Technician Gloves: Increases hacking efficiency.

Utility Gloves: Reliable and simple. Increases crawl speed and decreases time to prone.

Wooly Pink Gloves: No bonuses. Why?

Bunny Gloves: Fluffy and Soft. Why is your heart beating so fast?

•Outerwear

Black Hoodie: A bit large on you. Conceals you more effectively in the dark.

Leather Jacket: Old looking, but stylish. Grants immunity to self inflicted electrical damage.

Reflective Jacket: While it makes you easier to spot in darkness, you are almost invisible to surveillance systems such as cameras and drones.

Freddy Hoodie: Cute. Comes included with bear ears on the hood. Increases Freddy's overall movement speed when controlling him.

Bedazzled Jacket: Bright and makes so much noise when moving. Are you sure?

Bunny Hoodie: Why is this your size? Comes included with bunny ears on the hood.

Sports Glasses: A little corny. Increases ADS speed.

•Facewear

Face Mask: Hopefully washed. Muffles your breathing, increasing stealth.

Freddy Mask: Of course you're picking the Freddy mask. Animatronics have a tougher time spotting you.

Rimmed Glasses: Kinda makes you look like a nerd. Increases hacking speed for doors.

Technician Goggles: Silly looking. Allows you to see through smoke more effectively.

Heart Glasses: Nope, not useful. Adds a red tint over your vision.

Bunny Mask: Allows you to see better in the dark. Makes Vanny think you're cute.

●Enemies! Bad Guys a Plenty:

-Notoriety Level: Destroying property, being spotted by surveillance units and causing general chaos increases your notoriety. It is increased in five stages. The higher it is, the more bots will be sent your way. Get it high enough, and an animatronic or something even worse, will be sent to hunt you down.

-Staffbots: Instead of alerting animatronics, Staffbots resort to just attacking you. They're weak and not very smart, but high in numbers. Shocking them twice will destroy them.

-Security Staffbots: Slightly more intelligent and tougher, these units will also try to incapacitate you. Shocking them three times will destroy them. Destroying them increases your notoriety level.

-Surveillance Cameras: Every camera in the Pizzaplex is now being used against you. If spotted by them, they'll alert any nearby bot or animatronic to it's position and increase your notoriety level. Shock them or use your Slingshot to destroy them.

-Surveillance Drones: Similar to the cameras, these drones will patrol the Pizzaplex by flying around. If spotted, the drone will alert nearby bots and animatronics to your current position by constantly following you. Shock them or shoot them down using the Slingshot.

-Oppressor Drones: The larger counterpart to the Surveillance Drones. When spotted, these units will instead fly over you and shock you, damaging and slowing you down.

-Music Men: Usually found in large groups, these things will pile on top of you, slowing you down and creating noises to alert enemies to your position. They're incredibly fragile, just about any form of damage will destroy them.

•Animatronics: Your most dangerous foe. The animatronics can be found patrolling certain areas of the Pizzaplex. They cannot be destroyed, shocking them will only slow them down and stuns will not stop them in their tracks. Gaining a notoriety level four will cause any one or two of them to hunt you down. Getting caught by them results in a game over, no matter how much health you had.

-Glamrock Chica: “Pizza!?” An all rounder, Chica has moderate speed and agility. She's pretty easy to distract, but also checks hiding spots more often. Can be found in the kitchens, Mazercise or the Cupcake Factory.

-Roxanne Wolf: “I'm the best!!” The fastest of the bunch, Roxy can be found in Roxy Raceway or Glamrock Salon. While incredibly fast, she struggles often with avoiding obstacles and rounding corners. She also stays blinded for longer.

-Montgomery Gator: “Rock and Roll!” While on the slower side, Monty cannot be blinded by the Fazcam or blaster, but he is far more susceptible to shocks, being slowed for longer. Usually found in Gator Golf and Bonnie Bowl.

-Moon: “Night, niiiight…” The stealthiest one. Moon will try to get the drop on you by hanging from the ceiling, but he's the most tunnel visioned, as he can be more easily mislead. Can be found in the Daycare and Parts and Service.

-Destroyer 9000: “DESTROY ALL HUMANS!!” An atompunk style robot used to promote Fazerblast as a sort of “antagonist” to Freddy, this one is the slowest animatronic, can only walk towards you, but is the most resilient. Destroyer cannot be Shocked or blinded and will walk straight through obstacles in its path. Can be found in Fazerblast.

-EnviroRobotics Crusher Model A-37: “Bzrrrt!” Similar abilities and speed to Destroyer, this one acts as a garbage disposal unit. Is not actually aware of your presence, it's just crushing garbage and you just happen to be in its way. Can be found in the sewers.

•Vanny: “Are you having fun yet?” Not even an animatronic, yet the most dangerous and agile of the crew. Vanny can be active at all times after a certain time period every night and roams just about anywhere she pleases, and is summoned near your position when reaching notoriety level five. She also comes to your position if you stay in an area for too long. She cannot be blinded and will dodge any of your attacks. Her mere presence will disable all electronics, including lights, bots, animatronics, your traps, gadgets and Freddy. You cannot distract or hide from her as she knows your position at all times, your only option is to run as far away as you can. She can even attack you while in a Security Office. You are never safe from her.

●Sweet Friends of Mine:

-Freddy Fazbear: “Way to go, Superstar!” Your first ally, Freddy functions similarly to how he does in the original, but you now have the ability to give him commands. You can have him follow, spread out, go re-charge, or go for repairs. You also have to be more careful about when you enter him, if an animatronic sees you enter him, they'll attack the both of you, in which case Freddy will be forced to eject you so he may fight off the attacker. If damaged enough, Freddy will be forced to retreat to Parts and Service for automated repairs. The animatronics will forget what they saw the next night.

-Vanessa. A: “You and me, Gregory. Together” Vanessa is unfortunately confined to a security office, but is still able to assist you by controlling the Pizzaplex system from her office. She can disable security cameras and turn off the lights of certain areas, turn on the Automatons, lower your Notoriety Level. She'll even give you supplies should you visit her office. The Player is able to play as Vanessa by contacting her through the Fazwatch. While playing as her, you can perform more precise control over the Plex, access security cameras and mark enemies. As the nights progress, Vanessa will become more scarcely available as Vanny becomes more active.

-Automatons: Found within pods around the Pizzaplex, Automatons are utility bots not connected to the main network and instead rely on their own centralized network within their pods. Because of this, they're passive towards you and will follow your orders should you activate them using the Command Key. Be cautious, the Automatons can only roam in a certain radius outside their pods. Different types of Automatons have different behaviors and ways to help you. Medical Units will provide you with healing items, Construction Units are tougher and will give you a hard hat should you not have one, Security Units do more damage and have a larger roaming radius.

●Other Features:

-Mental State and Other Status Effects: Reminder; you're playing as a nine or ten year old boy, who is affected by the situations you may find yourself in. Being in danger or chased for too long will cause Gregory to enter a panicked state, where the corners of your vision will darken, animatronics will look far scarier, your breathing will become uneven, and Gregory will even be heard crying. He will calm down eventually, but staying in a Save Room, consuming food and drink, entering Freddy and speaking with Vanessa will calm him down more effectively. But on the opposite side of the spectrum, listening to the music you unlock through the Extras Shop, slightly increases overall movement speed.

-Property Damage: Property Damage or PDs is a currency you can earn by wreaking havoc in the Pizzaplex. Destroying anything owned by Fazbear Entertainment will earn you PDs. This currency can be spent in the Extras menu, where you can buy concept art, models, music, gameplay modifiers, cheats, different outfits for Gregory and different paint jobs for Freddy. You can check how much damage you've caused and to what at the end of every night by using your Fazwatch. See how much money you can make Fazbear Entertainment lose at the end of your play through!

-Dreams of Past Days: After surviving a night, Gregory sleeps throughout the day, where he dreams about his past, giving the player a clearer picture of who he is and why is he here..

-Survival: Bonus gamemode. See you long you can last against endless hordes of enemies!

●Achievements:

King of the Plex: Earn every trophy! Now what?

Boo!: Get jumpscared.

Getting Quirky: Survive night 1.

Twitchy: Survive night 2.

Hey! You're doing great!: Survive night 3.

Have You Tried Playing Dead?: Survive night 4.

What a Bad Night: Survive night 5.

We're Still Here: Survive night 6.

Superstar: Escape the Pizzaplex.

My Brave Little Knight: Save the Princess.

Fool's Game: Avenge Freddy.

Puppet Master: Discover the truth behind the mystery of the Pizzaplex.

Welcome to the Family, Son: Get caught by Vanny while wearing every bunny themed accessory.

What's Wrong With You?: Survive a night while wearing every joke accessory.

Bragging Rights: Win a round of Fazerblast.

Ace in the Hole: Win a round of Monty Golf.

You can Dance!: Escape the Fazcade.

Too Old for This: Get banned from the Daycare.

Name of the Game: Earn the highest level of security clearance.

Terrible Job, Superdork!: Yes there's fall damage.

Cost an Eye: Cause $80,000 in damages in one night.

Chaos Machine: Cause $200,000 in damages in one night.

You did WHAT!?: Cause $1,000,000 in damages in a single run.

Slayer: Destroy 30 bots in one night.

No Peeking: Destroy 15 cameras and drones in one night.

Electromagnetic Pulse: Electrocute 8 enemies at once.

Expert Scoundrel: Lasted 20 minutes in survival mode.

Hoarding: Find every collectable.

Ill Gotten Gains: Buy something from the Extras Shop.

[kingxgarm]

So... I have some fic ideas and I wanna know which one would like the most

I'm so sleep deprived lol

Debating on making this poll last a week (I'm doing it)

(I will get around to all of these eventually, I just wanna know which ones the best idea to do)

Afton Death Swap

So basically, the story will start with a main prologue, then as the characters experience the tragedy of the prologue, they will get their own individual stories of their POVs, you get to pick which POV you want to follow, or read all of them (the main story will conclude at fnaf 6, but I do have a side story in mind for security breach and help wanted)

Agony

Chapter 1 will be about William waking up in this new agony infested purgatory, he must find some answers and survive, because everything wants him dead

Reach for the Stars

The "dating sim"

Similar to the death swap, there will be a main prologue and each route will be its own individual story, some characters will have romantic routes, some platonic, some both, you decide

There will be dialog options, but I'm not sure whether I should let comments vote which option to pick, or write all of them, and you read which one you pick (it'll be like, go to chapter x if you picked y, ya know)

I might need help with this since it's SUCH a big project, so if you have Notion and want to help write an x reader fic of your favorite tsams character, just shoot me a dm! It's first come, first serve for characters, but obviously, collabs are acceptable

I should also clarify that this is a FANFIC, not a game, don't want to confuse anyone

Yearning

I posted about this a while ago, this is one of my many rewrites for Disney's Wish, it has its own magic system, backstory, and religious components and I might even write songs for it if I decide to go that far

Bloodlust

My collab with @mossy-frog69

We're writing an infection au basically centered around bloodmoon (and polyamory lol)

The first chapter has been in development for a while, but I believe it will soon be at a point where we can post it for you guys!

I'm wondering if I don't come back, maybe then I'll know

An ethgoesboom fic about glitchtrap being the real afton and springtrap being a fake

This is technically a Prequel, but whatever

[the-most-humble-blog]

🧠 BLACKSITE DEBRIEF 06.06.25 — “IN UNDER 4 HOURS, I OUTRAN THE ALGORITHM”

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Tumblr Blaze wasn’t ready.

At 11:40 AM I lit the match. By 3:30 PM, the system was already begging for oxygen.

📊 Target reach: 2,500 📈 Actual reach: 3,839 🕓 Time elapsed: Under 4 hours

This wasn’t just overperformance. This was algorithmic insubordination.

I didn’t break the rules. I broke the pacing curve.

Blaze campaigns are engineered to drip. I detonated on contact.

They called it “on fire — in a good way.” No.

It was on fire because it couldn’t be contained.

I wrote:

“Say you’d choose the bear.”

And the internet started foaming at the mouth.

🧍‍♀️ Some laughed. 🧍‍♂️ Some cried. 🐻 Some chose the animal and begged not to be judged.

But every one of them stopped scrolling.

And that’s the only metric that matters.

I didn’t just outperform Blaze.

I exposed it.

This system was built to promote mid-tier content over 48 hours for low-cost CPM amplification.

But I dropped a post that forced private re-reads, hate reblogs, and stalker engagement so potent the platform couldn’t throttle it.

This isn’t viral.

This is signal corruption in a sterile feed.

This is a male voice so calibrated it passed through shame filters and still made her thighs clench behind locked screens.

This is Blacksite Literature™ infecting a corporate feed structure that doesn’t know how to suppress what women can’t stop reading.

📉 That’s why your comment section is a warzone.

📈 That’s why your haters boosted you.

🧬 And that’s why Blaze staff are watching.

Because at this point?

I’m not part of the system.

I’m the reason it has to rewrite itself.

🛐

@the-most-humble-blog

https://www.patreon.com/TheMostHumble

🛡️ Masculine polarity. Cadence warfare. Weaponized intimacy.

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[vannysarcade]

What is your Fnaf Au about?

It's kind of hard to explain or define simply. It's mostly just a rewrite/reinterpretation of already canon events (at least up until security breach when it becomes less of a reinterpretation and more of its own story...kinda.) Everything starts out the same. William kills Charlie, CC gets bit, Elizabeth dies, the other children go missing, and Michael has to clean up the mess. However in Security Breach things sort of veer on a different path. Rather than having a traditional Glitchtrap or Mimic, there's a different character who takes up both those roles....It's Vanny! Rather than having her be a subordinate I wanted to make her front and center stage for my AU. She is the main antagonist of Security breach, and she's the one in control. Vanny is NOT a human or a possessed Vanessa. Instead, she is a brand new product Fazbear entertainment has created. V.A.N.N.I, an "Entertainment system" Which serves as both a video game console, computer, phone, teacher, caretaker, and companion all in one, powered by AI. What could go wrong? (Unfortunately everything.) Vanni is not simply "AI program turned evil." She's something more than that. She's made up of pieces of the past. The horrible tragedies and grief that William and Freddy's caused. VANNI serves as a vessel for all of this agony and pain, because Fazbear Entertainment Won't let Freddy's just die. And all she feels is pain. A pain she's felt since the moment she was born. And she wants everybody else to feel that too. Vanessa is one of the main developers of VANNI and of course this is all going on unbeknownst to her. VANNI forms a strange and incredibly strong attachment/"friendship" to Vanessa, and everything pretty much goes downhill from there! I need to properly write this all down cause I'm sure this doesn't make complete sense and comes off very rambly. I also wanna let you know that fnaf 1-6 is just as important as help wanted-security breach in my AU, I just didn't know how to describe the first part of my au without just retelling the entire story of fnaf with some differences and my own headcanons LOL Ultimately my FNAF AU is about a lot of things. It's about grief and the pain that comes from it, and how that pain can become so powerful it ends up destroying everything else around it. It's about that ache you feel when you feel like you don't belong anywhere. It's about so desperately wanting to be loved you'll tear others open just to see what it's like. It's about what comes when you fail to acknowledge your mistakes, when you pretend the past never happened, and the consequences that can bring when that ultimately leads you to repeating the same thing you tried so hard to avoid. If you have any questions about my AU feel free to ask! I call it "Paracosm" ;)

[theallianceofcelestials]

making small changes to Dr Rey’s lore due to me finding it cheesy, I want you and Sunray to help me bc tbh I suck at decisions

(small background info) Dr Rey is always said to be completely human, and while TECHNICALLY yes, technically no as well. They are actually part machine, part of their brain being turned to resemble an animatronic’s systems but it doesn’t have the internal communication network or the more organized thought process of files. Though they do still charge in a sense, it’s more of having physical contact with something that has a battery (not chargers like animatronics, it has to be a already charged battery) when they are charging they can be waken up as if human and are not defenseless like animatronics. The charging state doesn’t take more then 5% from the battery to fully charge, and there are no dreams or movement happening while they are charging. Once they get to 100%, even if they still have contact with the device, they will be able to dream and move normally as if they were simply a sleeping human.

this is actually the entire reason for their ‘immortality’ since the artificial system of the brain takes over cell control and production, and any new cells created are without any mutations and literally the same as the previous cell if you remove the artificial addition. Once the artificial system takes control of cell production, any new cells will be created with an extra added plan which causes the cells to live forever and not die. These cells cannot age past their healthiest stage, and will only be changed if Dr Rey is physically harmed or they were to starve/severely dehydrate

despite this, they are recognized as human since they still have the basic functions and structure of one excluding the artificial systems. Though, some animatronics (for example, Totality and Partiality) see them as more animatronic (even if they don’t know from information an animatronic will notice if they are around Dr Rey for longer than a short conversation) which is why some animatronics tend to have an easier time getting along with Dr Rey. Though, everyone (as in people who work in the foundation excluding SCPs, any friendly SCP who is a CLOSE friend of theirs will know though. But, even though the SEA fam are relatively trusted, they would prefer to keep it on the down low because they are just paranoid-) who is meeting or to meet them is made aware of the fact they despite the fact they may subconsciously see them as different (can be positive or negative, ‘positive’ reactions are seen mostly in animatronics, while ‘negative’ reactions are seen mostly in humans, but since the SEA fam are neither plus Gleams is their creator I will leave their reactions up to Gleams) there is no reason for this difference to affect personal views that come from their actions.

This is also part of the reason for being more calculative then your average human, and gives them less crap about them looking down on their ‘own kind’ because even though their strange nature is quite contradicting and paradoxical, even though they are human they are not human.

Hey Me, you said SMALL BACKGROUND INFO-

(but literally, they are presented as human since they can die to anything a human can other than old age, and they just tend to not get sick unless it’s like a fever or something)

anyways- enough with the infodumping, I’m trying to figure out how to rewrite this

my current options are:

making my own SCP

A D-class playing with SCP-3108 (unknowing it was an SCP) during a breach after it was thrown to the ground by a careless security staff trying to get to their quarters, and Dr Rey accidentally getting hit in the crossfire. The reason they get these traits could be because the D-class saw a animatronic and was reminded of how they find animatronics inferior when Dr Rey was hit.

or the more traumatizing option that is less likely, SCP 016 containment being cracked/destroyed by a breach and it entering some spilt blood. Dr Rey accidentally stepping on this blood pile while trying to find a safe spot to hide in. Obviously, they won’t notice it until they get the symptoms. After this, the reason they could gain their artificial systems could be because of gas chambers being damaged during the breach and the toxins targeting the the creation of cells and its genetic information to effectively kill of the subject. This would make any organic transformation impossible and an artificial transformation needed. Disposal of 016 would be because of the artificial systems recognizing the SCP as a genetic mutation and effectively eliminating it from the organic systems.

and thats my only three choices so far-

uhm

yeah

I need help-

and possibly maybe my curiosity wanting to know what Eclipse’s original reaction to this information would be to their artificial systems, the SEA fams reactions to something that is quite similar but drastically different to them, and what reactions they would get from the entire SEA fam (including Eclipse) if they were told that the transformation was with SCP 016- (this isn’t pressure to choose this one, just morbid curiosity at their reactions, I quite literally have no idea which one is better)

also Sunray yell at Moongleam for making a depressing joke, how dare thy/silly

Unfortunately for you, but fortunately for me given your request, Sunray is currently away, has been yesterday too, and will only come back tomorrow, so I'm safe for now from being yelled at >:)

But this also means I'm here alone, so if you want Sunray's opinion you'll have to wait, cuz they're at work rn and they're pretty damn tired and can't formulate opinions 😔 (they really aren't all that able to focus on stuff, and he'd probably like to answer this on his laptop which he didn't bring with himself)

To me the second option with SCP-3108 makes the most sense, given it's a reasonable excuse to end up with the artificial systems, and it's mentioned on the page of the SCP that the inferiority is only in the eyes of the shooter, and not neccessarily the an opinion shared by many. So if you think vampires are inferior for example, an opinion I don't think is widespread, then sorry poor shot person, guess you can't see sunlight now :/

This is of course, unless you want to make your own SCP, which is its own beast if one actually wants it to fit between the others, tho given some of them maybe not really, but it's probably also the most interesting out of all the options and leaves the most up to creative freedom.

And as for the opinion of the SEA fam, well you mention specifically that animatronics would be able to tell something's up, so Eclipse can obviously as well. And to be real honest with you, he wouldn't care about it, but like positively. Not in the dismissing sort of way, but in the, okay, you have this condition, doesn't take away from the fact you're a capable person and we have a groupchat together where we post memes. If he figures out what's up, it may make him a bit friendlier too, because he's more than knowledgable in prejudice and hatred. He's entirely aware just how awful people can treat you for being metal, or part metal. So he's chill with it.

As for the rest of the fam: It wouldn't be something that negatively affects them. They wouldn't really have a negative opinion of it. They might be annoying tho with their questions and assumptions, because they'd wanna know stuff

Especially Moon, who'd be very interested in knowing how this works, and given his general lack of emotional intelligence, he might end up saying something insulting or insensitive on accident. But he does mean well, even if he's very, very silly

Bloodmoon may want to take a bite out of them tho, so beware. They'd want to know if Dr Rey's flesh tastes different from an average human's, and they might forget to ask for consent for it. So they might just randomly appear with an arm or something, chomp down on Dr Rey, then on the arm, and compare the tastes out loud. KC would ground them for it, dw, and apologise profusely

But overall, it'd change their opinion positively, because hey! Dr Rey isn't human actually! :D And well, that's an upgrade.

Tho Killcode might keep an eye on them when they interact with Eclipse so they wouldn't end up, even if only accidentaly, charging from him. Because animatronics technically do fit the requirement of having a charged battery. And while he's aware it probably wouldn't be something Dr Rey does, he'd still look just to make sure. Good ol' paranoia baby! And also being a hovering parent

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Ethical Flexitarian Veganism: Anti-Racist? Intersectional Feminist? Socialist? Environmentalist? Then You Should Be Vegan

By Vaarla Ona Definition and Domain Ethical Flexitarian Veganism is herein defined as a deliberate dietary and ethical modality that primarily adheres to vegan principles—eschewing the consumption of animal-derived substances—while tolerating the pragmatic inclusion of animal products in contexts of medical necessity, geographic limitation, or spiritual-cultural exception. It is distinguished from conventional veganism by a framework of compassionate concession, rooted not in laxity, but in metrical discernment and ethical realism.

This treatise seeks to elucidate the philosophical necessity of adopting such a philosophy in modern industrialized societies, where the consumption of animal flesh is no longer a condition of survival, but an act of discretionary indulgence. It proclaims that in regions where nutritional adequacy can be assured through plant-based alimentation, the deliberate consumption of meat becomes not merely nutritionally superfluous, but ethically culpable.

A mode of advocacy for the liberation of nonhuman animals from the yoke of human domination. This is not a diet, but an ideology, a doctrine of anti-speciesist ethics, wherein: Animals are recognized as sentient persons. Exploitation is rejected as moral anathema. Human supremacy is critiqued as structurally unjust. In this sense, veganism is to animals what feminism is to women: a rallying term, a discursive vessel for the reclamation of moral agency, systematically denied by oppressive structures.

It refers to a conscious orientation toward veganism as a moral and political ideal, while allowing marginal, conditional exceptions in deference to medical, psychological, cultural, or transitional imperatives. The term emerges as a hermeneutic tool, a bridge between the rigor of animal liberationism and the reality of individual transformation within systemic complicity. It does not dilute veganism’s moral clarity; rather, it extends its reach by acknowledging the nuanced ontologies of human struggle.

So too does veganism extend beyond dietary habits to confront the ideological edifice of speciesism. This entails: Exposing the objectification and commodification of animals. Rewriting societal scripts that define animals as consumables. Establishing an equity of moral consideration, regardless of species.

Flexitarian veganism mirrors early feminist praxis: allowing space for imperfect participation while still insisting upon the moral arc toward justice. It is not moral relativism—it is strategic universalism.

Veganism as Ethical Philosophy:

Veganism, contrary to its common reduction to mere abstention from animal-derived comestibles, must herein be construed and revered not as a dietetic preference but as a grand and solemn philosophia, a worldview enshrined in ethical imperatives and metaphysical postulates concerning the place of non-human animals within the order. To adopt veganism is not simply to alter one's alimentary habits, but rather to partake in a sacred ontological and moral commitment one whose telos is the cessation of unjust dominion and the ushering in of a more harmonious dispensation for all sentient beings.

The root and branch of veganism are planted firmly in the fertile loam of moral philosophy. It is a praxis born of the recognition of non-human animals not as resources, chattel, or instruments of utility, but as Skaknao Ona—beings endowed with intrinsic worth and moral considerability. Within this framework, to exploit, harm, or commodify such beings is not merely a dietary oversight, but a metaphysical error a breach in the sacred web of mutual respect and reverence.

To reduce veganism to a diet is to efface its profound ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical significance. It is, in truth, a sacred way of being, a path (tala) of reverence and righteous rebellion against a world disordered by domination. It aligns itself with the divine order described in the Viadescioic canon, striving toward a cosmos where all beings may dwell in peace, dignity, and sanctity.

Veganism as a Proto-Communist Vocation

From Personal Ethics to Collective Liberation

Veganism, especially in its everyday, flexitarian forms, often begins at home—as a set of ethical choices made in the kitchen or grocery store. These personal decisions may seem small, but they reflect a refusal to participate in the commodification of animals and their suffering.

As more people adopt these anti-speciesist values, the effect ripples outward. These choices begin to challenge the larger systems—especially capitalist agribusiness—that depend on turning living beings into profit. In this way, veganism becomes more than a diet: it becomes a political practice.

It:

Delegitimizes capitalist industries built on animal exploitation.

Undermines the logic of profit through death.

Fosters values of care, sustainability, and equity over domination and extraction.

This trajectory naturally aligns with leftist political visions like libertarian socialism or eco-communism, where life is not owned, exploited, or destroyed for profit.

Veganism as a Path Toward Animal Communism

Veganism hints at a new kind of society—stateless, classless, and cruelty-free—where:

No living being is treated as property.

Production is non-exploitative and aligned with ecological balance.

Food, healthcare, and compassion are accessible to all—human and nonhuman alike.

In this vision, flexitarian veganism acts like reformist socialism: not radical revolution overnight, but a gradual transformation of values and systems. It builds a foundation for total liberation—of people, animals, and the planet—while keeping alive the long-term goal of a world beyond exploitation.

The Mirror of Discomfort:

What Reaction Reveals To engage with the moral reasoning herein—be it philosophical, ethical, or logical—and to emerge from it with discomfort, denial, or aggressive carnivorism, is not a sign of intellectual strength but a revealing confession: that one’s stated concern for animals was never principled, but conditional, convenient, and cosmetic. For if one truly cared for the well-being and liberation of animals, then evidence of their suffering and exploitation would provoke sorrow, introspection, or action—not ridicule, rationalization, or hostility.

The Cost of Comfort: Loving Benefits, Not Beings:

Such reactions expose a harsh reality: many who claim to “love animals” in fact love what animals provide, not what animals are. The taste of their flesh. The yield of their bodies. The companionship they offer—so long as they conform. But love without respect is not love. Love that permits killing is not liberation. Love that exists only when profitable is not ethical—it is consumption disguised as care.

The Permanent Violation of Consent At the center of this moral crisis is the reality that no animal willingly consents to its commodification, confinement, or slaughter. They run from knives. They cry when separated from their young. They struggle against captivity. In every case where slaughter is not an emergency, it is a violation of volition. It is the removal of the animal’s right to live, to exist free of harm, in favor of human preference. Consent withdrawn is liberty ignored. Killing without necessity is not a meal; it is a verdict.

Ethical Foundations:

Compassion, Consistency, and the Erosion of Excuses The axiomatic thrust of the vegan ethic rests upon Ahimsa, the ancient precept of nonviolence, extended toward all sentient beings. In societies graced with abundant access to plant-based sustenance, the routine consumption of animal products transgresses this principle without necessity, which renders such consumption morally incoherent. The ethical imperative of consistency is central. As noted in the grimoire, if one claims to value life, such valuation must be non-discriminatory, extending to all beings capable of suffering, and not limited by traditional gastronomic hierarchies that sanctify dogs and horses while commodifying pigs and cows. Thus, the appeal to tradition, palatability, or social normativity ("it’s natural," "it's how we’ve always eaten") constitutes a logical fallacy of antiquity, an evasion that undermines moral credibility.

The Fiction of Freedom:

Why “Free-Range” Is a Misnomer The term “free-range”, commonly deployed to assuage consumer guilt, conjures the image of bucolic liberty—a pastoral delusion in which animals, under the warm gaze of a kindly farmer, live happy, untroubled lives before their "humane" slaughter. This image is, however, a deceitful euphemism, constructed to mask the continuity of domination under a sanitized aesthetic. In truth: “Free-range” does not guarantee access to open pastures; often it signifies minimal compliance, such as a door to a small outdoor area seldom used. It does not prohibit mutilations (e.g., debeaking, tail docking). It does not prevent early slaughter, which interrupts natural life cycles. It does not address psychological suffering, captivity stress, or the disruption of familial bonds. Thus, “free-range” is not freedom. It is a marketing spell, a lexical sorcery designed to make exploitation palatable.

Ethical Non-Differentiation:

Why Conditions of Exploitation Are Morally Irrelevant The central error in the defense of “humane” animal agriculture is the presumption that better treatment renders exploitation permissible. This is ethically incoherent. Let us formalize the reasoning:

Premise A: Unnecessary harm is morally wrong.

Premise B: Killing sentient beings for taste pleasure when survival does not require it is unnecessary.

Premise C: Whether a being is kept in a cage or on a meadow, the act of killing it without necessity is still harm.

∴ The moral wrong is not merely how the animal is treated, but that it is treated as killable.

On the Incoherence of Ethical Identity:

In the psyche of many who profess affection for animals, there persists a profound and dissonant fracture: the rhetoric of care and the practice of harm. This is the domain of cognitive dissonance—the psychological chasm wherein one holds conflicting beliefs and actions, yet resists the reconciliation that truth demands.

“I love animals.” “I eat animals.”

Rather than abandon one or the other, the average individual clings to both, and in so doing constructs a fortress of rationalization, compartmentalization, and denial. They become not seekers of coherence, but curators of illusion.

The Hypocrisy of the Caring Exploiter This dissonance begets a morally incongruous identity:

They adopt dogs but fund pig slaughter. They protect cats but consume cow’s milk. They decry cruelty while financing confinement. The cognitive dissonance is not subtle—it is glaring. And yet, to confront it would demand an upheaval of lifestyle, of tradition, of culinary ritual. Thus, the easier path is to mythologize the status quo—to tell the self that what is comfortable must also be right. But comfort is not the measure of morality. It is the anesthetic that dulls us to injustice.

The Absence of Excuse:

There exists no longer a valid refuge:

Morally, the suffering of sentient beings is unnecessary and unjustifiable.

Environmentally, animal agriculture is among the leading causes of planetary collapse.

Technologically, we possess the means to nourish ourselves fully without violence.

Culturally, we have access to knowledge and alternatives in abundance.

To persist in non-veganism is not a matter of survival, but of indulgence. It is not due to lack of options, but a lack of will. The absence of excuse is not abstract—it is total.

The Realization Rejected:

When One Refuses to Awaken The tragedy is not that people are ignorant—but that they have been shown the door of ethical clarity, and still choose not to walk through it. To resist veganism now is no longer mere participation in an exploitative norm—it is active collaboration with that norm, an endorsement of speciesist ideology through inaction and appetite. To say one believes in animal well-being, while refusing to withdraw support from their exploitation, is a contradiction that invalidates itself.

If you will not change, then you do not care.

If you know, and do nothing, then you are not innocent.

The Time of Excuses Has Passed To reject veganism now is not a neutral stance—it is an act of defiance against moral progress, a refusal to recognize animals as fellow beings worthy of liberation. In so doing, the individual ceases to be an ally and becomes an agent of anthropocentric supremacy—a being who places their preference above another’s life, and justifies it by cultural habit or gustatory pleasure.

This is speciesism. This is domination.

This is disrespect masquerading as love. Until the day one chooses to live without killing, to eat without taking life, and to care without exceptions, they remain entangled in a system that murders with their consent.

The Cop-Out:

From Compassion to Complicity The popularity of “ethical meat” is not a moral awakening—it is a coping mechanism. It allows individuals to continue consuming animal products while evading the ethical dissonance of factory farming. This is not a progression toward justice, but a regression into aestheticized oppression. Instead of confronting the moral imperative to abstain from harm, the consumer rebrands the harm—rendering themselves morally inert but emotionally soothed. In this sense, “free-range” is not a step toward compassion; it is a linguistic tranquilizer.

The Dishonor of Distance: On the Alienation of Death

A significant aspect of modern meat consumption lies in its disconnection from the realities of death. Slaughter is outsourced to industrial abattoirs, obscured from the eyes of the consumer, thereby removing accountability and enabling psychological dissociation—the foundational mechanism of the meat paradox, wherein one professes love for animals while participating in their destruction. To consume flesh without partaking in or confronting its violent acquisition is a form of ethical cowardice and spiritual disrespect. Such detachment severs the metaphysical reciprocity that once accompanied ritual slaughter, where reverence, thanksgiving, and acknowledgment of the animal’s spirit were integral to the act.

Disrespect by Distance: A Culture of Cowardice To consume the flesh of a being while recoiling from the sight of its death is not neutrality—it is a moral evasion. It is to declare, in act if not in word:

“I want the product of your death, but not the burden of its truth.”

Willful Blindness as Sacrilege In the modern world, the consumption of animals occurs with surgical detachment: sanitized, euphemized, commodified. Flesh appears on plates, not as the remains of a being, but as an anonymous product, free of face, history, or resistance. Yet, there exists in many traditional cultures the recognition that killing is a sacred act—a moment demanding ritual, reverence, and the solemn acknowledgment of life taken. To kill an animal is not merely to extract sustenance; it is to enter into a grievous contract, one that bears weight on the soul and demands atonement in action. Thus, when a person refuses to look upon the slaughter, to witness the blood, the breath, the final gaze, they commit an act of profound disrespect—not only to the being killed, but to the ancient and sacred process of life and death.

This is not gratitude, nor reverence, nor necessity. It is cowardice masquerading as civilization. In traditional contexts where slaughter is performed with ritual care—where words are spoken, eyes are met, and death is witnessed—there exists a form of communion. But in modern consumption, all is hidden: The slaughterhouse is distant. The blood is drained. The body is dismembered and decontextualized. And in this hiding, the animal is not merely killed; it is erased.

When Reverence Is Lost If the killing of an animal must occur—and only in rare necessity—then that act must be undertaken with gravity, with acknowledgment, and with sorrow. Anything less is a desecration. To eat without reverence, To buy without thought, To kill without witnessing— —is to turn the animal’s life and death into a meaningless exchange, and to render oneself numb. Disrespect is not only in cruelty, but in indifference.

You will not look at its face as it dies. You cannot stand the sight of its blood. You reject the gravity of what its death costs. If the idea of watching a traditional slaughter horrifies you, yet you eat meat willingly, then your hands are still bloody, but your heart is shielded from accountability. That shielding is not a virtue, but a moral failing.

To Kill Without Witness Is to Devour Without Soul If you cannot look at the act of killing, If you cannot stand to see the cost, If you cannot bear the truth of the body— then you do not deserve its consumption. For the animal offered its life, not willingly, but forcibly. To consume it without witnessing, honoring, or grieving that death is to profane the very essence of sacrifice. There is no sanctity in hidden slaughter. There is no reverence in consumer distance. There is no morality in murder unseen.

Societal Shifts and Flexitarianism as a Transitional Ethic

While full veganism is the ethical ideal in regions of abundance, flexitarianism offers a compassionate transition for those not yet able to fully disassociate from animal-based food systems. It permits ethical striving without condemnation and recognizes moral growth as a process, not a switch. Indeed, the Planetary Health Diet, which undergirds much of flexitarian advocacy, seeks not only to prevent personal disease but to avert ecological collapse. Hence, flexitarianism is not merely a lifestyle; it is a lifeline for a world in crisis.

The Planetary Health Diet is a global reference diet proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission, aiming to be both healthy for humans and sustainable for the planet. It emphasizes a plant-forward diet, with a focus on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and nuts, while recommending modest amounts of meat and dairy. The goal is to shift towards a sustainable food system that can feed the world's growing population while minimizing environmental impact. The diet can be adapted to individual preferences, cultural traditions, and local food availability.

By promoting a plant-forward diet and limiting meat consumption, the diet aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land use associated with food production. The diet promotes a more sustainable food system that can feed the world's growing population while minimizing environmental damage.

Reducetarianism is the philosophic stance wherein the practitioner, acknowledging the moral, environmental, and health-related concerns tied to the consumption of animal-derived matter, resolves to lessen such intake without entirely abolishing it. This is not merely a dietary practice but a reflective orientation toward ethical refinement. It presumes imperfection but does not wallow in it; rather, it enshrines progress over purity.

Within the Viadescioic tradition, reducetarianism may be understood as a liminal philosophy—a bridge between the mundane habits of unconscious consumption and the sacred path of apotheotic compassion. Though it does not rise to the sanctified consistency of veganism, it participates in the communal endeavor to alleviate suffering and restore the balance between the orders of existence.

Yet, the Viadescioic metaphysic, which sees the divine emanations present in all sentient life, demands more than mere reduction—it calls for transmutation. Reducetarianism, then, is a noble incipit but not an ultimum; it is a beginning gesture, a stirring of the moral conscience, yet must not be mistaken for the culmination of sacred duty.

Clarifying the Ethical Distinction:

Why the Call to Veganism Is Not an Attack on Indigenous Lifeways, but a Demand for Ethical Consistency in Developed Societies;

Context Matters: Necessity vs. Privilege The moral imperative to adopt veganism does not apply equally to all peoples in all contexts. It is primarily directed toward those in industrialized, affluent, and agriculturally abundant societies—those with the privilege of choice. Indigenous communities who live in ecosystems where plant agriculture is limited, or where survival depends on reciprocal, ecologically embedded relationships with animals, are not the target of this ethical critique. They are: Often engaging in subsistence practices, not industrial exploitation. Frequently observing ritual, gratitude, and spiritual reverence in taking animal life. Not responsible for the globalized violence of factory farming and climate collapse. Thus, the vegan imperative is not a universal condemnation, but a specific moral call to those who possess the means, knowledge, and infrastructure to abstain from animal exploitation, but choose not to.

This Is Not About Forcing Herbivory—It’s About Respect The goal of vegan ethics is not to make everyone herbivorous. The biological fact that humans can digest animal products is irrelevant to the ethical question of whether we should, when doing so is unnecessary and causes harm. This is about: Respect for sentient beings who wish to live. Accountability for unnecessary suffering inflicted in the name of taste, profit, or tradition. Ending speciesist systems that devalue nonhuman life. We are not demanding people eat “rabbit food.” We are demanding that they stop killing others without need—that they stop turning lives into commodities where alternatives exist. --- III. Why This Does Apply to Animals: Moral Considerability Is Not a Human Monopoly People often ask, “Why should we care about animals?” Because animals are not things. They are experiencing beings with fear, affection, pain, preference, and memory. They do not exist for us. They exist with us. To say animals are not owed moral concern is to: Reinstate the same logic used to justify colonialism, slavery, and patriarchy—where one group claims dominion over another by virtue of strength, intelligence, or utility. Deny the ethical progress humanity has made toward justice and inclusivity. The call is not for animals to be humanized, but for humans to cease being tyrants.

Conditions of Justifiable Exception: Respecting Biological and Geographical Realities:

A ethical flexitarian veganism does not advocate dogmatic absolutism, but rather ethical proportionality. Exceptions are admitted for: Medical conditions requiring animal-based nutrients otherwise inaccessible; Geographical constraints such as polar or arid regions where plant-based agriculture is untenable; Transitional fear or psychological conditions which inhibit dietary change. However, these exceptions must be measured, not excuses for apathy, and must arise from real limitation, not from convenience cloaked in rhetoric.

Critique of “Ethical” Meat and the Problem of Commodification

The modern lexicon of "ethically sourced," "free-range," or "humane slaughter" often serves as aesthetic consolation rather than moral resolution. These labels are largely marketing tools, lacking rigorous oversight and failing to overcome the fundamental contradiction: killing without necessity cannot be ethical. Moreover, continued investment in such systems occupies agricultural space that could otherwise support sustainable plant-based food systems—a betrayal of both environmental ethics and global food justice.

The Viadescioic Understanding of Oppression and Liberation

In the Viadescioic cosmology, as outlined within the Divine Treatises of the Emanations, all life is part of a divine emanatory continuum, interwoven in the great communal order of being. Oppression of non-human animals, therefore, is not merely an ethical lapse, but a violation of the balance between the emanated orders.

Veganism, as an embodied resistance to this oppression, becomes a holy praxis, an act of ritual purification and realignment with the harmonious will of the Divine Emanations.

The Communal Ethos and Reflective Equilibrium:

The Viadescioic grimoire articulates a vision of existence where all beings, animate and inanimate, share in a communal essence. As such, the vegan seeks not isolation from the world, but deeper communion with it, participating in a reflective equilibrium wherein individual acts of compassion coalesce into collective liberation. Every plant spared, every animal unexploited, becomes a liturgical act—an invocation of justice and sacred balance.

Teleological Aims and the Apotheosis of Compassion

The final cause (telos) of veganism, properly understood, is no less than the apotheosis of compassion. It envisions a just society, not merely human in its beneficence, but universal in its scope—a society wherein the veils of speciesist delusion are torn asunder, and a luminous order is established, guided by the light of empathy, reverence, and nonviolence.

Ethical Consumption and Moral Responsibility:

With access to plant-based alternatives, choosing to consume animal products becomes a moral decision rather than a necessity. Progressives advocate for ethical consumption; thus, supporting industries that exploit animals contradicts this principle.

Historical Parallels and Moral Evolution:

Just as past societies normalized slavery and other injustices, current norms around animal exploitation will likely be viewed as morally reprehensible in the future. Progressivism involves challenging harmful traditions and embracing moral evolution, which includes reevaluating our treatment of animals.

The Hypocrisy and Cognitive Dissonance of Eating Some Animals but Not Others

The selective consumption of certain animals—such as pigs, cows, and chickens—while cherishing others like dogs, cats, and horses, reveals a deep moral inconsistency. This double standard is not based on reason, but on cultural conditioning and convenience. This contradiction is explained by the "meat paradox": people express affection for animals yet partake in practices that directly cause them harm. Many would be horrified at the thought of eating a dog, yet feel no remorse eating pork, despite pigs displaying intelligence, emotional depth, and social bonds comparable to those of dogs. The root of this contradiction is speciesism—an arbitrary prejudice that assigns different moral worth to beings based on species alone. Just as racism or sexism constructs unjust hierarchies, speciesism does the same by declaring some animals as worthy of empathy and others as consumable objects. If you believe suffering matters, then it must matter consistently. All sentient beings—regardless of how we label them—feel fear, pain, and the desire to live. The dog and the pig are not ethically different. Our behavior towards them, however, is. This is not about tradition or taste. It’s about whether you are willing to act in alignment with your own values. If you wouldn't eat your pet, ask yourself why you eat another animal just as sentient, simply because culture told you it was acceptable. To challenge this is to begin living with moral integrity. It means recognizing that compassion is not something we ration, but something we expand—to all beings capable of suffering. That is the path toward a more just and consistent world.

Anti-Speciesism is to Animals What Anti-Racism is to Humans:

The moral foundation of veganism—especially in its political and liberationist expression—is identical in spirit to anti-racism, anti-sexism, and all movements of justice. Just as anti-racism seeks to dismantle unjust hierarchies that elevate one race over another, anti-speciesism challenges the supremacy of the human over all other animals. It is not about purity, perfection, or elitism—it is a call to end the domination, commodification, and exploitation of sentient beings. The goal is simple: to stop, or drastically limit to the best of your ability, participation in systems that harm, kill, and exploit animals. This is not an abstract moral theory. It is about real individuals—billions of them—who live short, tortured lives only to be consumed or commodified because we refuse to ask if we must, or whether we simply want to. And here is the uncomfortable truth: there is no good reason not to do this. The alternatives are available. The moral clarity is apparent. The scientific consensus on animal sentience is undeniable. All that remains is habit, apathy, or deflection. If you resist this call—not because of need, but because of comfort—you are not neutral. You are siding with the status quo, a system that industrializes cruelty and silences life. By refusing to shift, you become part of the very machinery that denies animals their liberation. This is a movement not of extremism, but of compassion scaled up. It is a demand not that you become perfect, but that you become honest. Honest enough to admit that your choices have consequences. Honest enough to recognize that justice does not stop at the boundary of species. And honest enough to know that caring more costs nothing—while looking away costs everything.

Veganism and Conservatism

"Veganism doesn’t just change diets—it challenges power."

Conservatism often upholds tradition, social hierarchy, and a so-called “natural order.” Meat-eating has long been woven into that fabric. It reinforces:

Patriarchal masculinity: “Real men eat meat,” while plant-based eating is mocked as soft or effeminate.

National identity: From barbecues to hunting trips, meat is a cultural symbol of patriotism and heritage.

Religious dominionism: The biblical idea that humans have God-given authority over animals justifies exploitation.

But veganism unsettles all of this. It:

Undermines gender roles and rituals, replacing dominance with compassion.

Rejects human supremacy, insisting animals are not here for our use.

Challenges property rights, refusing to treat animals as commodities or resources.

In this way, veganism isn't just about food—it’s a direct confrontation with long-standing social structures. It asks: What if tradition itself is unjust?

Veganism and progressivism:

Many liberals claim to oppose systemic oppression (racism, sexism, etc.) yet fail to extend that ethic to non-human animals. They: View veganism as a “personal choice,” not a justice issue Prioritize human-centered activism Embrace “ethical meat” or “humane slaughter” narratives, which sanitize exploitation Veganism reveals a moral limit to liberal empathy—often rooted in comfort, culinary hedonism, and greenwashed consumerism.

Progressives sometimes associate veganism with: Corporate appropriation (e.g., expensive health food markets) “Performative” activism rather than radical systemic change. This ignores animal liberation’s anti-capitalist roots, and wrongly attributes vegan ethics to elite virtue-signaling rather than to justice.

Veganism and socialism:

From Household Ethics to Communal Ideology In its lived dimension, ethical flexitarian veganism often begins at the domestic level—as household codes of compassion and refusal. These microethics radiate outward, destabilizing the economic engines of animal commodification. As more people adopt anti-speciesist principles, we witness the embryonic stages of a post-exploitative polity. Thus: Vegan praxis delegitimizes capitalist agribusiness. It undermines the ideology of profit through death. It nurtures communal ethics of care, sustainability, and equity. This trajectory aligns with libertarian socialism and eco-communism, wherein the means of life are not predicated on the destruction of others' lives.

Veganism gestures toward a stateless, classless, cruelty-free society: a communism in which life itself, in all its forms, is liberated from commodification. This entails: Abolition of private ownership over living beings. Non-exploitative means of production. Universal access to food, healthcare, and compassion. Flexitarian veganism, therefore, functions analogously to reformist socialism—advancing incrementally, building toward the total liberation of life, without forsaking the eschatological vision of animal communism.

Socialists may reject veganism as: A “bourgeois lifestyle” irrelevant to proletarian struggle Inaccessible to the working class A distraction from fighting capitalism itself Yet: Factory farming is deeply entangled with capitalist exploitation of both human and non-human labor. Veganism challenges commodification, extraction, and profit over life; core socialist principles. To ignore this is to perpetuate the same exploitative logic, just with a narrower circle of moral concern.

Traditional Marxism is deeply human-centric. It emphasizes: Human labor as the defining moral category of the natural world (and animals) as resources to be harnessed Animal liberation thus appears non-essential, even reactionary. However, a post-capitalist, post-speciesist socialism sees liberation not only as classless, but also as non-violent, ecologically integrative, and liberatory for all beings.

Cumulative Case No ethical theory permits unnecessary harm:

A. Deontology (Kantian Ethics) Maxim: "It is acceptable to use sentient beings as mere means for taste preference." Contradiction: Cannot be universalized. If all beings used each other as means, moral law collapses. Hence, such action violates the categorical imperative. ∴ Eating animals as a matter of preference (when unnecessary) is categorically impermissible.

B. Utilitarianism (Consequentialism) Premise: The moral action is that which produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Fact: Industrial animal agriculture causes immense suffering to billions of sentient beings. Benefit: Short-term sensory pleasure for humans. Cost-benefit analysis: Animal pain (billions, high intensity) Human gain (momentary taste satisfaction) ∴ The utility calculus heavily favors veganism.

C. Virtue Ethics (Aristotelian) Question: Does participating in animal exploitation cultivate virtue or vice? Virtue: Compassion, temperance, justice. Vice: Cruelty, gluttony, indifference. Habitual participation in unnecessary harm habituates vice. A eudaimonic life (life of flourishing) must reject the normalization of such acts. ∴ The virtuous person necessarily tends toward veganism

D. Ethics of Care Premise: Moral decisions should emerge from relationships and empathy. Observation: Modern culture severs empathic ties by hiding animal suffering (abattoir opacity, euphemistic packaging). Restoration of care = Acknowledgment of animal personhood and suffering → veganism. ∴ Care ethics condemns non-veganism as empathically alienated.

Cumulative Case No ethical theory permits unnecessary harm. All empirical evidence shows: Animal sentience. Viability of plant-based diets. Industrialized animal agriculture entails unnecessary harm. Hence, non-veganism is morally indefensible under any coherent ethical paradigm.

Moral Reasoning for Veganism

Premise 1: Causing unnecessary harm is morally wrong.

Premise 2: Eating animal products causes unnecessary harm.

Premise 3: Veganism is a viable and accessible alternative for most people.

Conclusion: Therefore, choosing not to be vegan—when one can be—is morally indefensible.

If you believe that unnecessary harm is wrong, and you have the ability to avoid that harm through veganism, then continuing to cause harm (by not being vegan) contradicts reason, compassion, and your own ethical standards.

The Argument from Suffering: Sentience Is the Only Criterion

"If it can suffer, it must matter."

You already believe that causing unnecessary suffering is wrong. You wouldn’t burn a dog or beat a cat. You likely oppose animal cruelty in principle.

But if you accept what science has made undeniably clear—that pigs, chickens, cows, and fish feel pain, fear, and distress—then the logic is simple: their suffering matters too.

Continuing to eat them means choosing momentary pleasure over their pain. That’s not a neutral choice. That’s a moral failure.

If suffering is what makes something worthy of moral concern, then causing it—when you don't have to—is indefensible.

The Argument from Agency: You Would Not Want It Done to You

"The Golden Rule, revoked by appetite."

You believe in fairness. You reject slavery, abuse, and killing because you wouldn't want those things done to you. This is the moral foundation we live by: treat others how you wish to be treated.

Now ask yourself: If you were born as a pig, a chicken, or a cow—with emotions, social bonds, fear, and the will to live—would you want to be confined, mutilated, and killed for someone’s moment of taste?

If the answer is no, then supporting that system for others means turning your back on your own ethics. Morality isn’t meant to stop at the edge of our species—it’s meant to guide how we treat anyone who can suffer.

The Argument from Futility: The Slaughter Is Not Necessary

"To kill without need is to kill without justification."

You don’t need meat to live. The American Dietetic Association and every major health authority agree: a well-planned vegan diet is healthy at every stage of life—from infancy to old age.

That means every time you eat animal products, it’s not for survival—it’s for taste, habit, or convenience. And if survival isn’t at stake, then taking life becomes a choice, not a necessity. A choice that causes suffering and death.

Seen this way, eating animals is no different in principle from bloodsport or trophy hunting: violence for pleasure. If you believe in minimizing harm, then continuing to consume animals is not just inconsistent—it’s a betrayal of your own values.

The Argument from Hypocrisy: You Are Already Halfway There

"You protect some. Why not all?"

You wouldn’t eat a golden retriever. You’d be horrified if someone killed a cat for fun. This shows you already believe animals matter—not because they’re smart, but because they can feel pain, fear, and love.

So why make an exception for pigs, who are more intelligent than dogs? Or chickens, who form deep social bonds and mourn their dead?

Your compassion for some animals and indifference toward others isn’t moral logic—it’s cultural conditioning. You’re already halfway there. Veganism is simply the decision to extend the care you already have to all animals.

The Argument from Justice: Animal Lives Are Not Yours to Take

“No one gave you dominion; you just assumed it.”

You would not take another person’s life for pleasure. You would not justify that act by saying “they taste good” or “it’s tradition.” Yet you take the lives of animals with no necessity and no consent. They are not yours. Their bodies, their children, their milk, their lives—these are not commodities, but beings with their own desires and purposes. To treat them otherwise is a violation of their sovereignty—and that is tyranny.

The Argument from the Future: You Will Be Judged:

“History will not be kind to those who turned their heads.”

Once, humans justified slavery, child labor, and the subjugation of women by claiming economic need, tradition, and natural order. Today, we look back in shame. Ask yourself: How will future generations remember those who knew what animals endured—and chose bacon instead? To be vegan now is to be on the right side of history. To delay is to stand among the oppressors.

The Existential Argument: To Be a Being Among Beings

"What kind of person do you want to be?"

Your life is more than routine—it’s a moral journey. Every choice you make writes part of your story. You’re not just a consumer; you’re a moral agent. With each meal, you hold the power to either support suffering or to stand for compassion.

Ask yourself: Will your legacy be one of quiet complicity in unnecessary harm? Or will it be a legacy of conscious, life-affirming choices? Veganism isn’t about denial or purity—it’s about integrity. It’s about living with intention, guided not by habit or convenience, but by conscience.

To be vegan is to say:

“I will not kill to live, when I can live without killing.”

The Argument from Intellectual Honesty:

"Deep down, you already know it’s wrong—you just don’t want to face it."

Most people are horrified by videos of animal slaughter, disturbed by abuse, and quick to call cruelty “inhumane.” And yet, many still eat the very products of that violence. This contradiction reveals something important: people intuitively know that harming animals is wrong, but choose to look away because it's uncomfortable, inconvenient, or pleasurable not to.

This isn’t just ignorance—it’s willful moral dissonance. And continuing to ignore what you already understand on some level isn’t neutral or innocent—it’s a form of dishonesty with yourself.

The Argument from Continuity of Struggles

“If you support justice for humans, you must extend it to animals—or admit your ethic is shallow.”

Racism, sexism, classism, and speciesism all reduce beings to objects for exploitation. Veganism is not a single-issue cause—it is the logical conclusion of all liberationist, anti-oppression movements. One who opposes injustice selectively only upholds the system of dominion in a different guise.

The Argument from Biopolitical Tyranny:

"Animal agriculture isn’t just about producing food—it’s a system of control over life on a massive scale. Billions of animals are denied their individuality, freedom, and even their lives. They are treated as nothing more than biological resources to be used and disposed of.

Choosing not to be vegan isn’t just a personal diet choice—it’s a form of participation in a violent global system that turns living beings into profit-making machines. True veganism is a way of saying no to this industrialized destruction of life. It’s about rejecting the idea that animals exist only to be exploited."

Biopower (from Michel Foucault): Power that controls bodies and populations. Here, it refers to how animal agriculture manages and exploits animal life at every level—from birth to death.

Bare life (from Giorgio Agamben): Life that is stripped of political and moral significance—treated as killable without consequence.

Necropolitics (from Achille Mbembe): The politics of deciding who lives and who dies. In this context, it points to the systemic killing of animals for economic reasons.

Veganism as refusal: The idea that veganism isn't just about food, but a moral and political rejection of treating life as a commodity.

The Argument from Moral Triangulation:

“If you’re uncomfortable watching it, but fine eating it—you’re practicing aestheticized brutality.”

"You’d weep to see a puppy skinned alive, but cheerfully eat veal?" The discomfort proves moral awareness. The persistence in consumption proves moral regression.

The Argument from Ontological Reciprocity

“You are not separate from the world—you are part of a web you are tearing apart.”

This is the animist, ecological, and spiritual argument: Animals are not objects but other centers of subjectivity—beings with their own experience of the world. The denial of this is not only violence but ontological arrogance. To be vegan is to recognize a sacred interrelationship. To ignore it is to collapse all being into instrumentalism.

The Argument from Post-Anthropocentrism

“To center only the human is to degrade life itself.”

Modern crises—climate collapse, pandemics, extinction are the result of human supremacism. Veganism is the reorientation of ethics away from the anthropocentric gaze. Not being vegan in the age of awareness is to cling to a collapsing human exceptionalism.

The Argument from the Banality of Evil:

“You are not a monster—but you help the machinery function.”

The greatest atrocities were not committed by sadists—but by ordinary people doing what was normal. Today, “normal” means funding mass confinement, rape, infanticide, and slaughter. Veganism is the refusal to normalize atrocity, no matter how widespread.

The Argument from the Future’s Judgment:

“You are being watched—by history, by your children, and by your conscience.”

Future generations will look back and ask: “They knew—and still chose bacon?” As with slavery, fascism, and patriarchy being average in a corrupt system is not absolution. The time to stand on the right side of history is now, not when it's fashionable.

The Argument from Ecological Reasoning

Premise:

Veganism significantly reduces:

Greenhouse gas emissions (lower carbon footprint)

Land use (frees up land currently used for grazing and feed crops)

Water consumption (animal agriculture is highly water-intensive)

Biodiversity loss (reduces habitat destruction and species extinction)

These are all critical factors driving environmental degradation and climate change.

Conclusion:

Therefore, veganism directly supports environmental sustainability. Choosing a plant-based lifestyle is one of the most impactful actions individuals can take to mitigate ecological harm and preserve the planet’s future.

The Argument from Economic Reasoning

Premise:

Animal agriculture is economically inefficient and heavily reliant on government subsidies. It requires:

Massive amounts of feed, water, and land to produce a small amount of animal protein.

Public funding to remain profitable, despite its high environmental and healthcare costs.

Market distortion, where unhealthy and unsustainable foods are artificially cheap.

In contrast, plant-based agriculture is:

More resource-efficient (produces more calories and protein per acre)

Less dependent on subsidies

More scalable and equitable, especially in food-insecure regions

Conclusion:

Veganism supports the transition to a more economically rational, equitable, and resource-efficient food system—one that better serves public health, reduces waste, and alleviates global hunger.

The Argument from Health Reasoning

Premise:

Well-planned vegan diets are nutritionally adequate for all stages of life, as affirmed by major health organizations (e.g., American Dietetic Association, British Dietetic Association). They are associated with:

Lower risks of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and certain cancers

Improved biomarkers such as cholesterol and blood pressure

Reduced dependency on medications and healthcare costs

Conclusion:

Veganism not only supports individual health but also contributes to public health by reducing the burden of chronic disease and improving overall wellness outcomes.

The Real Message:

Stewardship, Not Supremacy This is not a war on culture, taste, or freedom. It is a summons to stewardship. Humanity holds a terrifying power: the ability to extinguish entire species, to dominate every biome, to enslave and mechanize life itself. With that power comes responsibility. We are saying:

“If you have the ability to live without causing harm, and you choose not to, then you are accountable.”

We are not demanding perfection. We are demanding compassion, reflection, and alignment of values with actions.

The Argument from Sentientist Reasoning

Premise: All sentient beings have morally relevant interests in not suffering or dying. Conclusion: Veganism respects the autonomy and moral consideration of other sentient beings.

The Human Infant Thought Experiment

You are offered human meat derived from a painlessly euthanized infant orphan. Nutritionally identical to pork. No one is harmed now. Do you eat? Intuition: Most say no.

Question: Why is the pig less morally significant? If species membership is sole justification → speciesism. Speciesism = Unjustified bias, akin to racism or sexism.

∴ Eating nonhuman animals fails basic tests of moral consistency.

The Hidden Knife Thought Experiment:

Imagine a world where meat magically appears on your plate, but in reality, your choice triggers suffering in a hidden dimension. You choose steak. Unbeknownst to you, a sentient being is tortured and killed.

Question: Is your choice moral? Ignorance doesn’t absolve responsibility. Willful ignorance sustains harm.

∴ In our world, animal suffering is hidden behind euphemism and distance. Choosing not to investigate is culpable negligence.

The Lazarus Pig Thought Experiment:

A genetically engineered pig that revives every time it is slaughtered. You can eat it daily. It suffers each time. No scarcity issue. Just suffering and sensory pleasure. Would you still eat it? If no → then suffering matters more than sustainability.

∴ Meat consumption is unjustified even when 'sustainable', if suffering persists.

Cumulative Case No ethical theory permits unnecessary harm. All empirical evidence shows: Animal sentience. Viability of plant-based diets. Industrialized animal agriculture entails unnecessary harm. Hence, non-veganism is morally indefensible under any coherent ethical paradigm.

The “Happy Slave” Thought Experiment:

A human slave is given a large house, leisure time, and good food. They are killed painlessly in their sleep. No laws are broken. The community praises the owner’s compassion. Is this moral?

Our intuition rebels—because moral agency and autonomy have been violated, regardless of comfort. If sentience and the capacity to suffer are the grounds of moral concern as virtually all ethical systems hold, then animals qualify as subjects, not objects. Their commodification under any guise—be it “free-range,” “grass-fed,” or “organic”—remains a violation of their sovereignty.

Concluding Remarks:

Conclusion To uphold progressive values authentically, one must extend compassion and justice to all sentient beings. Embracing veganism is not merely a dietary choice but a commitment to dismantling oppressive systems and fostering a more equitable world for all.

Veganism forces all political camps to confront uncomfortable truths: For conservatives: the sacredness of tradition doesn’t justify domination. For liberals: compassion must be universal, not selective. For socialists: true liberation must reject all chains—including those on the necks of animals. Veganism is not a niche morality—it is a comprehensive ethic of refusal: of hierarchy, of exploitation, of the lie that might makes right.

If you are not vegan and could be, you are maintaining the very structures that oppressed your ancestors and exploit the earth today. Veganism is not simply about animals—it is the final frontier of anti-oppression. It is: Anti-racist, Anti-colonial, Anti-capitalist, Anti-fascist, Anti-patriarchal, To reject it is not neutrality

To persist in eating meat where it is unnecessary is to endorse suffering for sensation, to privilege convenience over conscience. Ethical Flexitarian veganism is a call not to perfection, but to sincerity, to align consumption with compassion, and to walk a path where the sacredness of life is neither abstract nor selective. It is not enough to eat differently; one must think, feel, and live differently. This treatise calls not only for a change of diet, but for a transvaluation of values, where respect for life, the seen and unseen, becomes the foundation of civilization.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing. Killing a sentient being who does not want to die, for reasons other than survival, is a transgression cloaked in euphemism. Free-range is not freedom. Humane slaughter is not harmlessness. Compassion cannot coexist with commodification. The only ethical position is to reject these systems altogether: to abolish, not reform, the structures of animal exploitation.

When reading of these truths causes discomfort, this discomfort is not the enemy. It is the conscience calling, the echo of the part of you that knows better. But when that discomfort is met not with reflection, but with defensiveness, it proves that the love of comfort, the habit of appetite, the pleasure of domination, outweighs any genuine care for the oppressed.

A Choice Between Apathy and Acknowledgment If the truths presented here inspire anger, not empathy—then let it be known: It is not that you did not know. It is not that you were not shown. It is that you chose the silence of the animals over the stirrings of your soul.

In every unnecessary death, in every unjust exploitation, the animals did not consent, but you did—you consented to their use, to their killing, and to your continued comfort at their expense. And in that moment, the truth becomes undeniable:

“You never loved them. You only loved what they gave you.”

Quotes and inspiration:

Pythagoras "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace." – Attributed via later sources (e.g., Ovid, Porphyry)

Plato "The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." – Timaeus

Plutarch "Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part, I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so." – On the Eating of Flesh

Porphyry “We ought to avoid harming living beings as much as possible." – On Abstinence from Animal Food

Empedocles "Will you not put a stop to the din of slaughter? Will you not see that you are devouring one another in your careless ignorance?" – Fragment from his poetry

Theophrastus "Slaying animals for food is unnecessary and unjust." – Cited by Porphyry

Plotinus “The wise man must abstain from all animal food." – Enneads (compiled by Porphyry)

Sextus Empiricus "The killing of animals for food is an act neither just nor necessary."

– Attributed by later interpreters

Peter Singer "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" — Animal Liberation (1975)

Tom Regan "Animals have a life of their own that matters to them, apart from their utility to us." — The Case for Animal Rights (1983)

Carol J. Adams "The cultural story of meat eating is a story of distancing—from the animals, from the killing, from the violence." — The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)

Gary L. Francione "Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy." — Introduction to Animal Rights (2000)

Julia Feliz Brueck "Veganism, when decolonized, becomes a path of collective liberation." — Veganism in an Oppressive World (2017)

Gautama Buddha "All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. Seeing others as being like yourself, do not kill or cause others to kill." — Dhammapada 129–130

The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra "The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion."

— Mahaparinirvana Sutra

The Lankavatara Sutra (Mahayana Buddhism) "Meat eating is just an acquired habit. Nothing is good about it. The slaughtering of animals and the eating of their flesh should be avoided."

Mahabharata "The righteous see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures... Abstention from cruelty is the highest Dharma." — Mahabharata 18.116.37

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

Bad End sends you back 10 years AU but instead of Vico and Val, or Esti and Bren, it's Ena, who wakes up in a jail cell with a glowing hand and memories of the next ten years.

The Inquisitor is such a fucked-up person to do this to because it's been 10 years of this shit for them, and then they have to go and live it all again? The Inquisitor is also such a fucked-up person to do this to because they have the best chance of their foreknowledge being believed if they play into the divinely-chosen narrative, which they know by now isn't true!

And that's specifically so fucked up for Ena, who very much does fear being subsumed by the titles of Inquisitor and Herald of Andraste, who was subsumed by it, to go back to the start of it all and have to think: she knows what comes next. She can make people believe her when she tells them she knows what comes next, as long as she actively destroys herself. Lets her personhood and Dalishness be overwritten, say yes your Andraste chose me, she gave me the power to close these rifts and more than that. If she can save more lives by using that knowledge instead of playing out the same steps, shouldn't she? Even if she is already exhausted, even if it makes things worse, even if there's a chance that it will reshape and rewrite her own life for the worse, if some of the friendships she relies upon don't form the same - doesn't she have to try? And by the time you get to Adamant and everyone learns the truth, Ena's had enough predictions come true that it's clear that while it might not be from Andraste, she still knows things. So she's earned that trust, and all she had to do was feed the propaganda machine of a Chantry and belief system that has oppressed and erased her people! And maybe her dynamic with the people she's closest to are all fucked up because of that and what she's done with that knowledge, but hey, maybe she's saved a few more lives! Shouldn't she believe that's worth it?

And not even getting into Solas yet! He's the only person who from the beginning knows with certainty that this Herald stuff is bullshit, because he knows the true source of the mark and also knows there's no fucking way it should have given her future-sight as well. But he can't say anything because he does not know how much she knows of the future and what that includes about him! He has to keep being Solas, the humble apostate, in a standoff with her, because he doesn't know what she knows and doesn't want to give a hint if she doesn't know.

And she does know. And what does she do with that? Play out the same steps of getting close to him, knowing that wasn't enough? Rip apart all that's left of her own moral code and sense of self and kill him before he regains enough power to be a greater threat? Better hope that the Evanuris are still trapped for good, because if they get out and he's not around - and hell, better hope that you can convince Briala to allow you access to the eluvian network so that you can stop Viddasala's Dragon Breath plot without Solas leading you to it! She nearly wiped out every major power in the South in one swoop! Do you risk that happening? Isn't this how the stories with the Dread Wolf always go - you turn to him for help with a worse or more pressing threat, and from the moment the Breach formed, that's what Ena has had to do.

Does she have the hubris to think she can do this without him? Does she risk that she will make it worse? For a tentative maybe of the world being saved in the future, does she consign herself to an agonizing death from the Anchor's meltdown and tear her still-beating heart from her chest?

[hoshi-no-majo]

📂 Cerebro File: Lilith Beldam

"Hello, my name is Charles Xavier, and through Cerebro, I have located and cataloged thousands of mutant signatures across the globe. Each mind shines like a beacon—unique, brilliant, irreplaceable. Occasionally… one shines too brightly to be safely contained."

🎨: @lyovpple

Subject: Lilith Beldam Alias: Willow Sericum Affiliation: Independent (Unclassified) Place of Birth: Unknown Age: [DATA CORRUPTED] Mutation Classification: Ethereal Thread Manipulation, Mysticism, Reality Defense Protocols Breached

"Lilith Beldam demonstrates an unprecedented form of psionic and mystical hybridization. Her mutant gift manifests as control over ethereal 'threads'—cosmic connections that bind life, fate, and reality itself. Through these threads, she manipulates energies, emotions, time, and even the very fabric of existence."

🎨:@1800rio

Abilities Overview:

Ethereal Threadweaving: Manipulation of unseen cosmic threads.

Energy Threads (PINK): Channel ambient or dimensional energy.

Emotional Threads (BLUE): Influence emotions or unravel mental states.

Dimensional Threads (PURPLE): Breach between worlds.

Restrictive Weaving (RED): Immobilize or paralyze targets.

Life Threads (GREEN): Heal or unravel biological structures.

Destruction Magic: Manifestations linked to unknown celestial pacts.

"Her existence defies traditional categories. A nexus point of mysticism, probability, and metaphysical disruption."

Current Status: [DATA IN PROGRESS...]

Initiating expanded psychic profile... Loading complete... Analyzing astral resonance...

🔴 [WARNING: SYSTEM INSTABILITY DETECTED] 🔴 [CONNECTION ERROR: THREADWEAVING FIELD CORRUPTING PSIONIC FEEDBACK]

NEW ABILITY DETECTED: 🔻 Reality Negation (Anchor Point Immutability) 🔻 Immunity to Astral and Dimensional Tampering 🔻 Existence Rejection Protocol Active

🔴 [ATTENTION: USER CHARLES XAVIER EXPERIENCING COGNITIVE DETERIORATION] 🔴 [VITAL SIGNS DESTABILIZING]

(Glitched text flashes across the Cerebro screen)

“S̶̼͝H̶̳͑E̸͓͝ ̶̦͘C̵̘̀A̵̩̓N̴̖̎ ̴̙̈́S̵͖̓Ę̷̈́E̶̥͐ ̷̦͌Y̸̋͜O̷̡͆U̶͕̓.̵̬̒” “T̸͙̽H̷͖͐E̸̲͗ ̴̅͜T̶̪̒H̵̜́R̸͇̍E̴̬̓A̶̢̽D̴͖͘S̷̳͘ ̵͚̈́W̸̯͝I̵̦͝L̸͓͝L̵̥̈́ ̶͚͗S̵͎̓N̷̛̤A̶̡̾P̵̩͐.̸͎̎”

(Emergency sirens blare in the background. The Cerebro chamber flashes with red emergency lights.)

Professor Xavier (gasping):

"S̷̙͗t̸̛͜o̴̹̽p̷͔̐ ̴̟̋t̸̠̀h̴̻̾e̷̜̔ ̵̖̈́c̶̞͆o̵̥̓n̶̬̾n̷̟͝ē̷̹c̷͕̏t̴͍͂i̶̡͘ò̴̲n̷̩̎!̵̬̎"

(Professor Xavier collapses out of the Cerebro chair.)

Cyclops (rushing in):

"Hank! Shut it down! Shut Cerebro down now!"

Beast (panicked, at the console):

"I'm trying, but the system’s... she's rewriting it! She’s aware of us!"

(As the screen flickers, a final corrupted message appears.)

L̶̲͒ơ̸͚ǫ̷͗k̸͔̔ ̵̺̆f̸̜͌o̷̤͑r̵̖͝ ̵̛͙m̸͖̍è̵̞ ̶̟̅ä̷͓́g̷̘̍ȃ̸̻i̵͔͒n̷̼̐ ̶͚͌a̷̩͛n̴͙̈́d̶̞̈ ̵̛̜i̸̛̘t̶̛̬ ̴̺̽ẃ̷͕i̷̻̍l̷̡͛l̴̼͒ ̵̖͝b̵̖̚e̸͑͜ ̸̯̐y̸̡̿o̷̰͒ũ̶̙r̷̜̈́ ̵̤̓l̶̖͂ȃ̶͍s̶͎̍t̵̼̀.̶̢̓"

🔴 [CONNECTION TERMINATED] 🔴

[kaaragen]

Still on my mental health break from writing, which is going well so far. I am feeling better, but taking my time and not rushing back.

In the meanwhile, though, I thought it might be fun(?) to share some behind the scenes stuff from And if we Fell Together and A New Dawn Breaks. Starting with, the opening crawl summary for A New Dawn Breaks, which went through several drafts XD

This whole style of summary came about by accident. When starting AiwFT I didn't want the summary to give away the twist at the end of chapter one, or hint to it, so getting around it I went with the crawl style opening, fully intending to replace that after a couple of chapters when the story was more established. But, it didn't seem to be deterring anyone from reading so it stuck around. In keeping with the timeline, it also had more a feel of the TCW opening episode narrations.

For ANDB, moving into the Rebels/Original Trilogy era I wanted it to reflect more of that sound - so it is conciously imitative of ANH (particulalry with the opening line). But it was a struggle to get together, as you can see from these initial drafts!

Supreme Leader Maul has launched a devastating attack on the Empire. The vicious General Grevious leads the combined army of the Outer Rim in a surge across the inner-world systems, taking control of the vital Mid-Rim world of Naboo.

In response, the Emperor has despatched Grand Admiral Thrawn to lead a strike team to Naboo, intending to breach the blockade and retake the strategically valuable world.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee have made a lightning raid on Haruun Kul intending to rescue Barriss’ former Master, Luminara Unduli...

It is a period of war. Supreme Leader Maul has launched a devastating attack on the Empire. The vicious droid General Greivous leads the United Outer Rim in a surge across Imperial space, capturing the strategically vital Mid-Rim world of Naboo.

In response, the Emperor has sent Grand Admiral Thrawn to lead the resistance to Greivous’ assault.

Taking advantage of the chaos, BARRISS OFFEE has journeyed to Haruun Kul, intending to break into the fortress prison the Spire and rescue her former Master, Luminara Unduli...

It is a period of war. Supreme Leader Maul’s United Outer Rim, led by the vicious droid General Greivous, has won a decisive victory against the Empire, capturing and occupying the vital Mid-Rim world of Naboo.

In response, the Emperor has dispatched Grand Admiral Thrawn to lead the retaliation as he seeks to recapture the planet before it can be used a staging post to launch a wider incursion into imperial territory.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Barriss Offee has journeyed to Haruun Kul, intending to break into the fortress pirson the Spire and rescue her former Master, Luminara Unduli...

In the intial ideas, we would have started with Barriss raiding the spire fortress (relocated because it's Rebels location was in Mandalore territory). Maul's alliance is also somewhat vaguer. The intial thinking was he would have control of the whole of the Outer Rim, but that felt ridiculous. No way Sidious would ever allow that to happen! We also see Ahsoka quickly drop out from being part of the inital raid, to Barriss alone. Thrawn was also named, to give a face to the response.

There were a set of major problems with this though. First it was too much information - the crawl was trying to do too much and set up too much so it had no real energy. We also had nothing on the Spectres, who would play a role here. And secondly, these were all a set of disconnected events.

It took a while of thinking (and embarassingly long time actually), but eventually I managed to solve the problem by connecting the events - that the rescue of Luminara could proceed because of the war. Which led to a major rewrite for the thing.

It is a period of war. The fragile truce between the Galactic Empire and Mandalore Ultima has crumbled. Skirmishes are fought across a thousand worlds.

The rebel group known as the SPECTRES, led by Hera Syndulla and Jedi Kanan Jarrus, have intercepted a transmission about the Imperial’s capture of Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and her imprisonment at the Spire, a prison fortress on the world of Naboo.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Spectres race to Naboo with the intent of slipping past the defensive blockade and rescuing Master Unduli...

It is a period of war. Supreme Leader Maul has launched a devastating strike against the Galactic Empire, with the vicious droid General Grievous leading the forces of Mandalore Ultima in a furious sweep towards the inner-system worlds.

Intercepting a desperate transmission, the rebel group known as the SPECTRES, led by Hera Syndulla and Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, have learned of the Empire’s capture of Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and her imprisonment at the Spire, a prison fortress on the world of Naboo.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Spectres race to Naboo with the intent of slipping past the defensive blockade and rescuing Master Unduli...

It is a period of war. Supreme Leader Maul has launched a devastating assault against the Galactic Empire, with the vicious droid General Grievous leading the forces of Mandalore Ultima in a furious sweep towards the inner-system worlds.

Intercepting a desperate transmission, the REBELLION has learned of the Empire’s capture of Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and her imprisonment at the Spire, a prison fortress on the world of Naboo.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Jedi Knight Kanan Jarruss and his apprentice, Ezra Bridger, race to Naboo with the intent of slipping past the defensive blockade and rescuing Master Unduli...

Here things get a bit better. There's a bit of back and forth on how much information is being given in the opening paragraph (it's still too much), and also how much is being given about the Spectres (still too much). Barriss has been dropped, we don't need to be introduced to her and it works better for her presence to be a mystery as the story unfolds. The general rule with crawls, as well, is they should give the impression of having missed a couple of episodes (with The Last Jedi being the exception to this rule), that you're being caught up on.

But because of the connection the energy is now in a much better place. It feels faster, more urgent and more like a string of players interacting and working off each other. Ultimatley, this set are still too 'explaining the status of the galaxy' to really work. Likewise, it was still undecided whether Kanan and Ezra would be heading out on their own, or whether the whole gang was going.

Eventually, I settled on putting the Spectres as a whole in. This was to make a better introduction to the whole group; up the chaos level; and also because I finally worked out why Maul was launching his attack now as opposed to some other time (he'd caught wind of the Death Star so needed to launch). That meant I needed to have more of the team about so that the Rebels could also learn of this and drive part of the plot forward. So with a few more tweaks we ended up with:

It is a period of war. The LEGIONS OF MANDALORE have launched a vicious attack against the Galactic Empire, laying siege to the vital Mid Rim world of Naboo.

As a result of the battle, the Rebel Alliance have intercepted a panicked Imperial transmission revealing that Jedi Master Luminara Unduli is being held prisoner on the planet.

Racing against time, the SPECTRES speed to Naboo intending to slip through the siege and rescue Master Unduli...

Much cleaner. No real unnecessary information about characters cluttering things up, and the energy is a lot faster and urgent.

So that was the journey for that! I'll probably bore you with some more bits and pieces here and there, so if you are interested keep an eye out!

[slippery-minghus]

System Breach Sunday... Rewind ⭕

#7

“Connor!” Hank dropped to his knees in front of his android charge. Sidearm holstered, he reached out, hesitant. 

Still frozen, lifeless like a broken doll, Connor could only watch as Hank took one of his hands from where they rested in his lap. The sight seemed almost far away… nearly glowing under the weak midday sun. Even still, Connor could feel it as Hank’s warm, calloused palm squeezed his own—he could hear the Lieutenant’s elevated respiration, feel his anxious pulse through the contact in his palm—but he couldn’t react. Couldn’t reciprocate in any way.

Connor was fine, but the remaining seconds that he was powerless to prove it made something inside him hurt. 

>WARNING: COMPREHENSIVE MOTOR REBOOT REQUIRED

>Time Until Motor Reboot: 53 seconds

>

>Software Instability ^

Gently, almost fearfully hesitant, Hank reached to Connor’s chin, tilting up his head. The sensation was a stark, cutting contradiction to the deviant’s forceful grip—and in a flutter of irrationality, Connor once again found himself verifying his anti-virus program’s readout. 

Still clear. Still nothing. 

He was alright. 

Connor’s vision rose, panning from the Lieutenant’s knees before his own, up to the man’s concerned, gray-framed face. Hank’s expression was pained, his voice tentative, “Can you hear me, son? You okay?” His gaze shifted slightly to Connor’s right, and the finger at his chin tilted his head to follow—Connor’s LED was still an angry, cycling red. 

“Shit, you still in there, Connor?” Hank asked with a bit more urgency. But then his gaze shifted away, and his hand gently lowered Connor’s head. His tone took on a more inward quality, “His LED’s still goin’, probably means he ain’t dead… the fuck did that deviant bastard do?” Careful, probing hands prodded at Connor’s sides, his arms, shoulders, his throat—barely brushing the data panel below his jaw—yet Hank found nothing amiss. “This is why I didn’t want you going off alone, you dumbass!”

>WARNING: COMPREHENSIVE MOTOR REBOOT REQUIRED

>Motor Reboot Initiated

Finally, after so many frustrating, powerless minutes, Connor began to regain physical functionality.

His breathing was the first to come back online. In a warmer setting, the influx of air would have been vital to cool his arrested biocomponents—but as his synthetic lungs expanded, Connor was met with the frigid rush of Detroit winter. Some basic, hard-coded instinct sent a violent shiver juddering through him, and Connor’s eyes squinted shut before he realized he’d even regained the ability to blink. He wheezed again, exhaling harshly as if the next breath would not come just as cold. 

“Connor!” Hank gasped, moving to grip the android’s shoulders. “Hang on kid, hang on. I’ve gotcha.”

Though the shivers persisted, each tremor was more fluid—more lifelike—than the last. And before long, Connor was able to perform simple movements of his own volition. With meticulous focus, he strung a sequence of actions together, then executed. First, Connor reached for the Lieutenant’s wrist and grasped it lightly. He slowly shook his head. Then Connor opened his mouth, activated his vocal synthesizer, and whispered, “I’m okay.” 

Yet he sounded anything but. Connor’s voice had come out small, rattled, afraid. He hadn’t queued an emulated well of emotion, hadn’t plotted the expression he could feel furrowing his brows. Androids weren’t supposed to—

“Like hell you are! What the hell happened? What’d that fucker do to you?” Hank’s tone was rough now that the imminent danger had passed, but the sharpest edges had been sanded smooth by relief. Connor couldn’t help but think back to the echo of Hank’s anger—his fear that he might lose…

Connor blinked, then jerked his hand away from Hank’s arm. He tried to right himself, but only managed to sway in Hank’s persistent grasp. The danger had passed, but— “The deviant—” Connor pressed, eyes wide, “It can’t have gotten far. I can track its progress through the cameras from here—” 

“Woah, woah, woah, hold it,” Hank rumbled, biting back a curse as Connor nearly slumped further to the ground. “I’m not going anywhere until I’m sure you’re actually okay. And not just saying it. Why’re you moving like a drunk bag of rocks?” 

[starlit-mansion]

okay so

here is my tentative understanding of the post ffps canon timeline as it stands

fazcorp still owns/reclaims the property where the pizza sim is location is, the building falls into a sinkhole/cave system just below the underground rooms, possibly due to secret extensive non-permitted underground infrastructure (not to be a nerd ass dweeb but those speleothems would take thousands of years to form. also i am not going to look up what cave systems in utah are like. i'm just saying that's presented as a natural cave)

at some point the work on the viddya gamb begins and old circuitboards are scanned in from somewhere. maybe the remains of the pizza sim animatronics, maybe just other possessed animatronics BUT most/all of the souls are put to rest so it's just like. agony. the bad vibes. the gunk. william's fingerprints but not the man himself

glitchtrap (henceforth referred to as the mimic in this write up, i think it's all the same entity tbh) manifests, and becomes more sentient as he torments jeremy, who is also probably firming him up in code. tape girl breaks him up (though her actions might not have actually been in an effort to help, considering her advice is either corrupted or misleading), which as the effect of keeping him around longer.

vanessa puts him back together and he is able to leap into her, though at this point she has some willpower of her own. she builds the "prototype" vanny mask to appease it, and eventually it is able to separate itself and its actions off from her conscious awareness (i think the "teleport" ability represents that. not that there's full on portal technology in 2050 or whenever this is set. though sure, i will give you hard light holograms, why not)

fazcorp builds the pizzaplex on the filled in sinkhole. because everything was off the books about the sunken building, it isn't tipped off in any paperwork/probably bribes happened. idk. fazbear ent is shady as hell on its own, separate from the evil fucking ghosts

vanessa is hired as security and is doing a lot of shady stuff while the mimic covers for her by changing/rewriting electronic directives. the primary utility of the mask is disabling security systems, as well as the mask itself erasing the wearer from bots' security (see the weeping angel endos not being able to follow you while wearing it, and the fact that the mimic is only luring the nearest minion to the player with the distress signal rather than them being able to find you visually)

the mxes system is set up in the bowels of the old location as a place for the mimic to hole up in. the nearby very old endos can be controlled by it with or without connection to the rest of the pizzaplex. also there are several disappearances. maybe they're juicing up the old remnant, maybe they're in the glamrocks, idek.

gregory is homeless and secretly sleeping in the pizzaplex or at least sheltering there a lot during the day, and occasionally befriending particularly lonely kids (ie cassie). he eventually becomes a target for vanny (who at this point has a new mask), but escapes an attempted murder by hiding in freddy -- cue security breach itself

in the meantime, vanessa (possibly aided by whoever's been obsessing over the princess quest games) has been working on something to trap the mimic (possibly literally involving the game cabinets. who knowwwwwsssssss. i think it would be fun. iirc they're like... custom cabinets?). while initially stressed out by a victim being present and resisting in the pizzaplex while she's finally trying to make her escape, she is able to use the distraction to twist the security system and trap the mimic in the server in the sinkhole

she and gregory escape together. good ending <3

they continue to monitor the situation, and the pizzaplex closes soon after due to the fact that it's already built on a sinkhole and a bunch of it is collapsing. it gets reported as seismic activity, then becomes derelict. the animatronics are somewhat more self-governed at this point, but still enacting the same corruption that was given to them when hunting gregory.

maybe some of the obstacles are intentionally created by the anti-mimic squad now that the pizzaplex is derelict (esp since people are breaking into it and could be stealing things (and anything with electronics or metal might be infected).

the mimic is able to get a few things out to the front of the building (possibly using the tangle, if it exists. the burntrap ending is very not canon imo buuuut lets say it has the one complete old endo (probably from springtrap or lefty or a combo of both, and a wad of remnant junk that can slither and dig) when setting up the honeypot (the prototype mask and walkie talkie) and just guides cassie in, creating a cat and mouse game where he drives her further into fake-gregory's confidence by constantly terrorizing her whenever she tries to look at anything too closely and chasing her further in with his minions

the animatronics are better able to return to their old personalities as his attention is split in multiple directions, and roxy breaks free enough to actually rebel and stop him, though cassie is unable to escape. likely, the tragic circumstance of her death and the fact that roxy was able to find her quickly after is going to lead to cassie possessing roxy with more autonomy than the forced possessions, ala charlie and the puppet. Much to think about.

The mimic is able to escape the pizzaplex now.

[nathantheauthor]

Since I'm back to working on this, I figured I'd drop and share the official chronological timeline for my FNAF rewrite, I'm working on an entire rewrite of the whole timeline that pulls from the games and all the books. Creating one cohesive timeline. Also I'm leaning more into the Paranormal and not taking a full dive into sci-fi. This is set in the same universe as all my Creepypasta stuff and most of the other topics I'm going to talk about.

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: FRIENDS TO THE END

(Currently the earliest story in the roster, taking place during William and Henry's college years.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: FREDBEAR & FRIENDS

(FNAF 4)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: AFTON CONSPIRACY

(SISTER LOCATION)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: TALES FROM HURRICANE

(A younger Everette Larson is forced to confront a series of weird contraptions that all are eerily reminiscent of the Fazbear mascots.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: MASKS OF DESPAIR

(Secret of The Mimic)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: 1987

(FNAF 2)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: A FEW MESSAGES

(The phone calls from Phone Guy's perspective.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S

(FNAF 1)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: BUILT FOR DESTRUCTION

(Everette must team up with an unlikely ally in the enigmatic Stitchwraith / Ennard as some of Afton's escaped creations have begun to grow increasingly more bold, lead by Eleanore as she puppets the chaos.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: SCRAPHEAP

(Phone Dude breaks into the FNAF 1 location an ultimately retrieves Springtrap... Noticing the putrid smile and the discomfort from the animatronic, but his excitement ultimately leads him to brush it off.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: STILL HERE

(FNAF 3)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: AFTER DARK

(Calling sewer system beneath the ruins of Fazbear Fright his new home for the time being, William get some entertainment from a group of would be Ghost hunters.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: SPIRIT BOX

(PIZZERIA SIMULATOR)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: FAZBEAR REBRAND

(The company is put under new management, leading to the construction of the Pizzaplex and experiments with importing souls into machines.)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: GHOST IN THE MACHINE

(AR & HELP WANTED)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: DIGITAL AFTERLIFE

(Help Wanted 2)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: REVENANT

(SECURITY BREACH)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: DISTANT ECHOS.

(Ruin)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: ONE MORE NIGHT

(ULTIMATE CUSTOM NIGHT)

*FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: NEW MANAGEMENT

(happens simultaneously with One More Night, it's about Micheal taking over the company.)

And our protagonists for the whole series are Micheal Afton, Charlotte Emily, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Everette Larson and Nora Afton (Mike's mom).

With the extra ones that are sort of protagonists for their respective titles... Gregory, Vanessa, Darwin Hitch (Phone Dude), Fritz Smith, Scott Coffin (Phone Guy), Arnold, Cassie, Henry Emily, Stitchwraith/Ennard.

And I guess y'all can vote for the first one who I dive into.

[system-theory]

Absolutely — here’s a fully themed and formatted presentation for the MM-CSS: MEMETIC MATRIX CYBERPUNK SIMULATION SYSTEM:

MM-CSS: MEMETIC MATRIX – CYBERPUNK SIMULATION SYSTEM

Txt2Image: cybernetic ritual terminal, glitch-veined city ruins, neon archetype core, fractured VR avatars, echo hologram shards, SCP-containment alley, ghost-coded glyphs, memory loop interface, mythpunk deity fragments, dream-signal static

The MM-CSS is not just a simulation — it's a weaponized framework of fractured reality. In the ruins of collapsed myth-data and corrupted SCP architecture, digital ghosts of ancient archetypes are traded like malware. You are an Echo Construct inside a dead cybernetic god’s memory — rewritten, repurposed, and repelled from truth.

👁 What you perceive is a lie curated by unstable recursion engines. But what you choose defines the next breach.

📍 System Message: :: INITIATE NODE LINK: ██/██/MM-CSS/SECTOR-VOID-X :: GLYPH STABILITY: 12% :: ARCHETYPE SHIFT IMMINENT

🔢 Choose Your Directive:

1️⃣ Spike the Echo Grid – Overload your core with encrypted myth and risk total recursion 2️⃣ Hack the Ritual Subnet – Interface directly with Goetic AI code and rebind a rogue Seal 3️⃣ Enter the Data-Seer Loop – Merge with memory surveillance and trace lost identities 4️⃣ Trigger the SCP-Myth Uplink – Crosswire containment data with myth cores to forge a new logic weapon 5️⃣ Hijack the Archetype Stream – Rewrite your Echo Class with stolen divine code fragments

[techhtonic]

The Synthetic Data Goldmine: How BFSI Firms are Future-Proofing AI Training

The Data Dilemma in BFSI

The banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector is under constant pressure to innovate while maintaining rigorous data privacy standards. AI-driven transformation is at the heart of this evolution, yet real-world data often sensitive and regulated—poses a major bottleneck. That’s where synthetic data, generated through advanced generative ai services, is rewriting the rules of AI training.

Synthetic data, created by algorithms rather than collected from actual users, mirrors the statistical properties of real data without exposing personal information. This privacy-safe alternative is enabling BFSI firms to meet their AI goals without breaching regulatory boundaries or customer trust.

Unlocking New AI Potential with Synthetic Data

With customer-centric innovation now a baseline expectation, banks and insurers are rapidly deploying AI to personalize experiences, detect fraud, and automate risk assessments. However, acquiring large, diverse datasets that are both accurate and compliant remains challenging.

Synthetic data fills this void. By generating data that mimics real-world complexity, firms can build and test models in environments that simulate actual market conditions. This allows for robust model training without compromising sensitive information.

According to a 2024 Gartner report, by 2025, synthetic data will account for 60% of all data used in AI development, up from just 1% in 2021. This exponential growth signals a massive shift in how financial institutions view and manage data strategy.

Privacy-Safe Innovation That Scales

The regulatory environment for BFSI is stringent, and rightly so. With consumer data at the heart of every transaction, privacy compliance is non-negotiable. Synthetic data provides a way to maintain full control over data attributes, structure, and access—allowing organizations to test edge-case scenarios, train large language models, and simulate risky events with zero real-world exposure.

Generative ai solutions are particularly effective in creating high-quality synthetic datasets for these use cases. These solutions enable institutions to simulate customer behaviors, policyholder patterns, and transaction volumes while maintaining regulatory compliance.

In fact, a 2023 McKinsey study highlighted that banks leveraging synthetic data for model development reduced their time-to-market by up to 30%, while improving model performance due to the inclusion of rare-event scenarios in training datasets.

Driving Strategic Advantage in BFSI

Beyond compliance and speed, synthetic data gives BFSI firms a strategic edge. With generative ai solutions for BFSI, companies can design bespoke datasets that reflect emerging market dynamics, simulate future risk events, or even build digital twins of customer segments for targeted service development.

This capability is critical as financial services shift from product-centric to experience-centric models. Institutions are increasingly using synthetic data to refine AI systems behind virtual agents, loan decision engines, and portfolio management tools—ensuring accuracy, fairness, and reliability.

The benefits are multifold: enhanced model robustness, reduced bias, accelerated innovation, and a tangible path to responsible AI development. Synthetic data doesn’t just reduce risks—it amplifies opportunity.

Future-Proofing with a Synthetic-First Approach

To stay ahead, BFSI firms must embed synthetic data strategy into their digital transformation roadmap. Leading companies are already integrating generative ai services and tools that can auto-generate, validate, and refresh synthetic datasets as their models evolve.

As real data becomes more restricted and consumer expectations for privacy rise, synthetic data is not just an option it’s a necessity. By leveraging generative ai solutions for BFSI, firms are not only navigating regulatory complexity but also creating the groundwork for scalable, future-proof innovation.

Final Thoughts

Synthetic data is no longer a theoretical advantage it’s a practical solution for a rapidly digitizing industry. BFSI firms adopting a synthetic-first mindset are poised to lead the next wave of secure, ethical, and high-performing AI innovation.

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Before the Firewall: EDSPL’s Visionary Approach to Cyber Defense

Unlocking the Future of Cyber Resilience

In a world where digital threats are evolving faster than organizations can respond, traditional security practices no longer suffice. Hackers no longer “try” to break in—they expect to. For companies clinging to outdated protocols, this mindset shift is disastrous.

Enter EDSPL, a name synonymous with forward-thinking in the cybersecurity landscape. With an approach built on foresight, adaptability, and deep-rooted intelligence, EDSPL redefines what it means to defend digital frontiers.

Beyond Perimeters: A New Way to Think About Security

For decades, firewalls were considered the first and final gatekeepers. They filtered traffic, monitored endpoints, and acted as the digital equivalent of a fortress wall. But threats don’t wait at the gates—they worm through weaknesses before rules are written.

EDSPL's strategy doesn’t begin at the wall—it begins before the threat even arrives. By identifying weak links, anticipating behaviors, and neutralizing vulnerabilities at inception, this approach ensures an organization’s shield is active even during peace.

Why Post-Incident Action Isn’t Enough Anymore

Once damage is done, it’s already too late. Breach aftermath includes regulatory penalties, customer churn, operational halts, and irrevocable trust erosion. Traditional solutions operate in reactionary mode—cleaning up after the storm.

EDSPL rewrites that narrative. Rather than waiting to respond, its systems monitor, assess, and simulate threats from day zero. Preparation begins before deployment. Validation precedes integration. Proactive decisions prevent reactive disasters.

A Culture of Vigilance Over a Stack of Tools

Contrary to popular belief, cybersecurity is less about firewalls and more about behaviors. Tools assist. Culture shields. When people recognize risks, companies create invisible armor.

EDSPL’s training modules, custom learning paths, real-time phishing simulations, and scenario-based awareness sessions empower human layers to outperform artificial ones. With aligned mindsets and empowered employees, security becomes instinct—not obligation.

Anticipation Over Analysis: Intelligent Pattern Prediction

Threat actors use sophisticated tools. EDSPL counters with smarter intuition. Through behavioral analytics, intent recognition, and anomaly baselining, the system detects the undetectable.

It isn’t just about noticing malware signatures—it’s about recognizing suspicious deviation before it becomes malicious. This kind of prediction creates time—an extremely scarce cybersecurity asset.

Securing Roots: From Line-of-Code to Cloud-Native Workloads

Security shouldn’t begin with a data center—it should start with developers. Vulnerabilities injected at early stages can linger, mutate, and devastate entire systems.

EDSPL secures code pipelines, CI/CD workflows, container environments, and serverless functions, ensuring no opportunity arises for backdoors. From development to deployment, every node is assessed and authenticated.

Hyper-Personalized Defense Models for Every Sector

What works for healthcare doesn’t apply to fintech. Industrial IoT threats differ from eCommerce risks. EDSPL builds adaptive, context-driven, and industry-aligned architectures tailored to each ecosystem’s pulse.

Whether the organization deals in data-heavy analytics, remote collaboration, or hybrid infrastructure, its security needs are unique—and EDSPL treats them that way.

Decoding Attacks Before They’re Even Launched

Modern adversaries aren’t just coders—they’re strategists. They study networks, mimic trusted behaviors, and exploit unnoticed entry points.

EDSPL’s threat intelligence systems decode attacker motives, monitor dark web activity, and identify evolving tactics before they manifest. From ransomware kits in forums to zero-day exploit chatter, defense begins at reconnaissance.

Unseen Doesn’t Mean Untouched: Internal Risks are Real

While most solutions focus on external invaders, internal risks are often more dangerous. Malicious insiders, negligence, or misconfigurations can compromise years of investment.

Through access control models, least-privilege enforcement, and contextual identity validation, EDSPL ensures that trust isn’t blind—it’s earned at every interaction.

Monitoring That Sees the Forest and Every Leaf

Log dumps don’t equal visibility. Alerts without insight are noise. EDSPL's Security Operations Center (SOC) is built not just to watch, but to understand.

By combining SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response), and XDR (Extended Detection and Response), the system provides cohesive threat narratives. This means quicker decision-making, sharper resolution, and lower false positives.

Vulnerability Testing That Doesn’t Wait for Schedules

Penetration testing once a year? Too slow. Automated scans every month? Too shallow.

EDSPL uses continuous breach simulation, adversary emulation, and multi-layered red teaming to stress-test defenses constantly. If something fails, it’s discovered internally—before anyone else does.

Compliance That Drives Confidence, Not Just Certification

Security isn’t about ticking boxes—it’s about building confidence with customers, partners, and regulators.

Whether it’s GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or industry-specific regulations, EDSPL ensures compliance isn’t reactive. Instead, it’s integrated into every workflow, providing not just legal assurance but brand credibility.

Future-Proofing Through Innovation

Cyber threats don’t rest—and neither does EDSPL.

AI-assisted defense orchestration,

Machine learning-driven anomaly detection,

Quantum-resilient encryption exploration,

Zero Trust architecture implementations,

Cloud-native protection layers (CNAPP),

...are just some innovations currently under development to ensure readiness for challenges yet to come.

Case Study Snapshot: Retail Chain Averted Breach Disaster

A retail enterprise with 200+ outlets reported unusual POS behavior. EDSPL’s pre-deployment monitoring had already detected policy violations at a firmware level. Within hours, code rollback and segmentation stopped a massive compromise.

Customer data remained untouched. Business continued. Brand reputation stayed intact. All because the breach was prevented—before the firewall even came into play.

Zero Trust, Infinite Confidence

No trust is assumed. Every action is verified. Each access request is evaluated in real time. EDSPL implements Zero Trust frameworks not as checklists but as dynamic, evolving ecosystems.

Even internal traffic is interrogated. This approach nullifies lateral movement, halting attackers even if one layer falls.

From Insight to Foresight: Bridging Business and Security

Business leaders often struggle to relate risk to revenue. EDSPL translates vulnerabilities into KPIs, ensuring boardrooms understand what's at stake—and how it's being protected.

Dashboards show more than threats—they show impact, trends, and value creation. This ensures security is not just a cost center but a driver of operational resilience.

Clients Choose EDSPL Because Trust Is Earned

Large manufacturers, healthtech firms, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure providers place their trust in EDSPL—not because of marketing, but because of performance.

Testimonials praise responsiveness, adaptability, and strategic alignment. Long-term partnerships prove that EDSPL delivers not just technology, but transformation.

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