#animal cruelty??? idk

[thyhauntedmansion]

She’s so silly🥰

[rin-may-1103]

[kaalbela]

Ian Sepulveda

[keets-writing-corner]

look you can talk all you want about Yato’s self image issues, self-sabotaging behavior and atrocious spending habits

my man really said “If no one loves me enough to build me a shrine, then I’M going to love me enough to build me a shrine!” and I love that for him

[synkverv]

Freddie Lounds: Today, I sat down with the brilliant minds behind Rare Gift.  The band burst onto the metal scene with their industrial hit, "Meat's On the Menu," and audiences have been hungry for more ever since.

Founding members Jack Crawford, a Virginia native, and Hannibal Lecter, a Lithuanian native and Maryland resident, came together in 2013 with a shared drive and passion.  They were soon joined by Virginia native, William Graham, and Alana Bloom, an Indiana-born Maryland resident.  Together, the four became Rare Gift.

During my interview, we discussed their inspirations and aspirations for their career and got to know the band members a little better, too.

Towards the end, Hannibal, an alluring and polite man, tells my audience to keep an eye on Italy.  "We have a surprise planned," he told me.  "And I know the right people will appreciate it and support us."

Hear Jack's operatic baritone and brutal screams, Alana's mathematical riffs, Will's erratic and explosive drumming, and Hannibal's emotive compositions on the keyboard on "Fortune's Fool," streaming everywhere on February 9th.

Read the full article at TattleMusic.com

(i found these promotional images and got a little carried away... so here's a hannibal metal band au lmfaooo)

[bunnihearted]

5 million male chicks per year are brutally murdered right after birth bc they're "worthless" to the egg industry yet im supposed to believe that humans arent inherently evil lmao shut the fuck up

[stereax]

uh. starsmin? we... we good? why? why did we do this???

[boyswanna-be-her]

I think I gotta go vegetarian again for my mental health. Being collapse aware is a lot and knowing the ecological cost of meat has made me even more ready for a change. I stepped on a lizard last week by accident and had to mercy kill her because she was dying badly and I cried about it all afternoon and it really drove home how much my feelings are at odds with, say, randomly eating chicken wings because someone offers them to me.

[yuri-puppies]

under the cut for trauma dumping and PTSD-induced hallucinations, but i just remembered a particular episode i had once that would be very interesting to give to k@bru

i was taking a test for a class and one of the readings was an indigenous person talking about seeing white people posing with a hunting trophy and empathizing with the wolf instead, and connecting it to mmiw

i was normal levels of saddened and horrified when i read the text, but when i tried to recall it for the test some kind of empathy wire got tripped and connected the wolf in the leg-hold trap to the indigenous author to mmiw in canada to feminicidios in mexico to the attempts on my mom's life to me

and so i spent like half an hour trying to focus on a test while feeling a leg-hold trap snap over my arm and break it over and over again

so yeah. i think k@bru should hallucinate physical sensations of being eaten alive.

[risoria]

No but seriously it IS so sad and such a futile action to try talking to people online these days bc you can try to make the point ”my whole outlook on life is changing, and re-prioritizing what and who you support and forging new friendships and getting to talk to likeminded people @ protests or via endeavours online is a good thing actually. it’s a good thing to try, it benefits everyone - if your mental health is improving somewhat it helps you to keep doing things and your community and also yourself long term” and they’ll be like ”oh so you want (idol/celebrity) TO DIE IS THAT WHAT youre saying, racist!!!!??” like, respectfully, bitch are you stupid??? try not to deflect from the topic. please practice reading comprehension, and then keep going with compassion and growing personal morals because you really need all three…

[engagedtobefree]

It's really strange to me how some people only criticize plastic through the lens of it being "vegan plastic", as if non-vegans aren't also using plastic products, including fake leather. The same with slave labor and crops. Like I've literally seen someone say how harmful vegan vegetables are in agriculture and I'm just like, do you only eat meat??? Do you not eat vegetables??? I just don't understand the whole "if you're vegan and not using animal products then you love slave labor and plastic". Consuming animal products doesn't automatically mean you're not using plastic or buying anything that was produced from slave labor in the same way that being vegan doesn't mean animals aren't getting killed somewhere along in the process of you getting food on your plate. Also, using animal products doesn't automatically mean good for the environment, cuz usually somewhere along the way there's some type of harmful process being used.

I think maybe people don't realize just how ingrained plastic is. It's not some evil vegan villain wearing head-to-toe pleather that is upholding the plastic industry. Take a look around the room and identify everything you see that is plastic. Then think about all the plastic you don't see. And is it really only vegans buying from shein, temu, forever 21, etc? For some people, that's all they can afford, but for so many other people that isn't the case. Is it really so hard to acknowledge that it's literally an exploitative, capitalistic world that has done all of this and NOT vegans? Is it so hard to acknowledge that we all take part in these harmful practices in some way because they've been so interwoven into our society that there's no way to avoid it? What is so difficult to understand about any of that? At this point, I'm half-convinced some billionaires got together and brainstormed on "Who can we blame" and then collectively decided on vegans, and unfortunately some people actually took the bait.

Also, these arguments constantly erase poor people unless it's framed in the context of the vegan diet not being affordable to everyone. Organic, sustainable, fair-trade etc etc products are not cheap. It's not only vegan products that can be non-affordable.

This whole moral superiority (and also flat-out cruelty to each other) can be on BOTH sides and it's really frustrating that the one side won't admit it. Eating meat doesn't automatically make you a saint and non-complicit in harmful practices in the same way being a vegan doesn't either.

It's just...people. People are the worst. The only way to save the planet is for us to literally go extinct.

[casiavium]

Remlit

:)

trust me. you do not want the word remlit in this chapter

[swagging-back-to]

tmw you have to block radfems for being anti vegan and block vegans for being anti feminism.

[sillviie]

Got bored in class

[xythlia]

sometimes I get home from the cat shelter and just cry like how do you leave a whole litter of kittens stuffed in a completely sealed plastic tote with no air holes after hours in the freezing cold. they were in horrible shape by the time the director got in this morning, and by the time I came in this morning it was heartbreaking taking them over to the vet

[delphictrip]

coworkers started talking about killing fish last week and i kinda just noped out of the conversation like. maybe they’re not aware of how upsetting it might be to describe in detail gutting a fish and the fact that if you throw it back in the water it will swim away???? i KNOW the autonomic nervous system is a thing and that’s why a chicken can run with its head cut off. but fish are a little different in practice because usually you don’t destroy the brain you just stun them with a blunt object. you’re talking about gutting them while they live and perceive pain and throwing them back for what, fun? i don’t know how i’m supposed to function in that kind of conversation and it’s kind of alienating. sometimes i get to forget that i’m surrounded by hunters and fishers, but usually i’m at least spared the details of their kills. my boss has two bear skins with the heads and claws attached on his wall. idk. i just. idk. maybe i’d get on better in portland. it's depressing to be surrounded by so much death. and for what. it's not like they're subsistence hunting. yeah they're filling their freezer, but it's barely better than doing it for fun and it's not like they don't supplement their consumption with chicken and beef etc.