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feral-ballad · 2 days
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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bathers With a Turtle”
[Text ID: “There’s something / I’ve been gnawing: some fleshy / part of myself.”]
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teal-fiend · 3 days
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"Oh i found you. Have you been here this whole time?"
"Yes," the pred answered. Intent on their work
"Working hard or hardly working"
"I dont know. I think i should quit. Its not what i thought it would be, this project. Its too much."
"No offense. Dont take this too seriously. But you're acting kind of crazy."
The pred frowned.
They continued, " and you look all crazy. Look at how your shoulders are hunched, you're sitting around in the dark. You're all stiff and brittle. I could touch you and you would shatter."
"Dont do that then," the pred suggested
The observer stepped forward, the pred tried to lean away from where they were sitting. The observer lifted a hand and pressed it against the pred's middle. They rubbed up and down until the stomach produced a low, hollow growl.
"Hungry, are we?"
"Its fine, im busy."
"When was the last time you had a proper meal? You know, prey?" The observer petted the pred's flat stomach, which continued to groan at the stimulation
"Its irrelevant" they said, turning their head away
"You can't lie when you're right here in front of me. You want something."
The pred kept their chin up, "maybe"
"Something... wriggling?"
The observer kneaded into the pred's painfully empty belly. It wanted something. Desperately. The pred grimaced.
"I think youll find it much easier to relax once you let yourself gorge on something very alive"
"Maybe later," the pred bargained.
"Later?" The observer asked innocently, "do you really want to stay like this?"
Thanks to the observer's work, the pred was now acutely aware of how empty their stomach felt. The thoughts that caught the most traction in their mind were thoughts of prey. Where to find them. How to catch them. How to eat them.
The observer may have noticed this shift. "Buddy," they nudged the pred, "are you alright?"
"Im fine," the pred replied calmly. And stood up
"You're going to go get something to eat?"
"Yes"
"Do you need any help with that"?
"No" the pred said quickly, "thats fine."
The observer watched the pred for a moment. They hesitated before asking:
"Do you want to eat me?" The observer asked
The pred shrugged, " i want to eat everyone, you know that"
"Okay , this better be full by the time you get back." The observer patted the preds stomach.
The pred caught their hand, and the observer gasped in suprise. The pred guided their hand over their stomach, and then the ribs, letting them feel between the grooves. As if to say, this won't last long, or maybe, it might be you. You could be the one to push out these ribs, to stretch out this stomach, to satisfy the preds hunger. And then be torn apart by their body
The pred let go of their hand, then turned and left. The observer waited for them to come back
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bellyasks · 3 days
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animal-themed promptssss
🐱 Maybe your character has a little bit of a primordial pouch going on. How much would they have to eat to stretch that squishy belly out nice and firm? Can it be done, or would they be too stuffed to go on before they're anywhere close? Maybe they should give it a shot, just to see.
🐻 As the weather gets chillier, your character loves nothing more than to snuggle up in bed after a nice, hearty, filling dinner. With the warm weight in their snug belly and the soft gurgles of digestion lulling them off, it's easy to fall asleep, especially if they have somebody holding them close.
🐰 Your character is a little bit of a health nut, and their friends often wonder how they manage to stay full eating rabbit food. Do they? Or does that lunch of vegetables leave their belly rumbling all day? Hopefully they have something a little more substantial for dinner.
🐢 Your character is a very slow eater. Sadly, most of their friends tend to finish their food pretty quickly, leaving your character feeling pressured to wrap it up before they've eaten their fill. Will they remain hungry for the rest of the get-together, or will somebody notice their noisy belly and urge them to eat some more?
🦐 Your character is a real shrimp. They don't have a very big capacity, and when they're invited over for dinner, their friends have a tendency to overfeed them. If they don't speak up--or if nobody notices how much their poor belly is sticking out--they might wind up feeling pretty ill.
🐡 Drinking through straws? Chewing gum? Talking while eating? Eating too fast? It seems like an awful lot of things can cause a bellyful of air, and your character is an expert in enough of them to frequently be bloated up like a balloon. Hopefully they aren't shy about burping, because they've gotta release that pressure somehow.
🦈 Your character gets a little over-excited when it comes to food, especially when they're hungry. They have a tendency to shovel their food in so fast that their stomach doesn't know what hit it. Only when the feeding frenzy has ended do they realize how utterly stuffed they are.
🐶 Your character has an exceptionally cute belly. So cute, in fact, that some people just can't resist giving it a rub, especially when it's all full and round. Hopefully they don't mind, at least if it's coming from the right person.
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anarchoposting-moved · 6 months
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teaboot · 11 months
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Kind of a random hill to die on rn but "You'd eat this thing you hate if you got hungry enough" does not set a reasonable expectation of what "hungry enough" means for people with food problems.
Like, are we talking "stomach grumbling" hungry enough, or "can't stand up" hungry enough? Cause personally, I can make myself eat a bit of a pork chop if I'm barfy and shaking and can't see straight anymore, but if it's down to "black out for three days and wake up angry and confused" or "willingly swallow prosciutto", I'm having sleep for dinner. And I know this from experience.
People without food problems don't seem to understand this and it drives me insane. "Hungry enough" is for shit like chewing drywall because the alternative is death or cannibalism.
If I say I can't eat something, It means I can't eat it. It Is Not Edible To Me. It's not even appetizing. It literally does not register as food. You might as well hand me a rubber duck.
And it's frustrating!! Trust me, I wish I wasn't like this, too!! This isn't a choice!! I know it can be rude!! It's embarassing!! It's complicated and annoying and irrational!! That doesn't fix the problem!!
I just wish people didn't treat this sort of thing as "being picky" or lacking willpower or basic manners or something. I can't make myself eat certain foods the way you probably couldn't cut your own fingers off. Does that make sense? It's not just food. Fuck
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butchostile · 4 months
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zarabella73 · 8 months
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saintsebastiensbf · 10 months
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Herbert Mason, Gilgamesh : A Verse Narrative
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acrashedjournal · 8 months
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our theory is that there is a god, and he is hungry. Carmen Maria Machado
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behbita · 1 year
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feral-ballad · 2 days
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Caitlin Bailey, from Solve for Desire: Poems; “Incantare”
[Text ID: “Someone has replaced your heart / with raw meat. / That delicacy. I’m working on a trick / where I come across sated. / Where I don’t remember how to be ravenous.”]
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politijohn · 3 months
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macmanx · 4 months
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This US Thanksgiving, if you can spare it, please share the meal:
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kafkasapartment · 1 month
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Bryant Park Breadline, New York, 1933. Edward Steichen. Gelatin sliver.
This photograph is considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. Though the beauty of it might obscure the desperation and hardship faced by millions of Americans.
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entitledrichpeople · 1 year
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The elderly poor will have their food taken away while still dying by the thousands every week from the pandemic that isn’t actually over.
These cuts are horrifying in general, but they’re particularly cruel to households with members who are newly disabled from covid/have worsened disabilities from covid or who are trying to reduce exposure to save their lives from a society that doesn’t care if disabled people die as long as they can go to bars and eat out.
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fem-lit · 24 days
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In the current epidemic of rich Western women who cannot “choose” to eat, we see the continuation of an older, poorer tradition of women’s relation to food. Modern Western female dieting descends from a long history. Women have always had to eat differently from men: less and worse. In Hellenistic Rome, reports classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy, boys were rationed sixteen measures of meal to twelve measures allotted to girls. In medieval France, according to historian John Boswell, women received two thirds of the grain allocated to men. Throughout history, when there is only so much to eat, women get little, or none: A common explanation among anthropologists for female infanticide is that food shortage provokes it. According to UN publications, where hunger goes, women meet it first: In Bangladesh and Botswana, female infants die more frequently than male, and girls are more often malnourished, because they are given smaller portions. In Turkey, India, Pakistan, North Africa, and the Middle East, men get the lion’s share of what food there is, regardless of women’s caloric needs. “It is not the caloric value of work which is represented in the patterns of food consumption” of men in relation to women in North Africa, “nor is it a question of physiological needs…. Rather these patterns tend to guarantee priority rights to the ‘important’ members of society, that is, adult men.” In Morocco, if women are guests, “they will swear they have eaten already” or that they are not hungry. “Small girls soon learn to offer their share to visitors, to refuse meat and deny hunger.” A North African woman described by anthropologist Vanessa Mahler assured her fellow diners that “she preferred bones to meat.” Men, however, Mahler reports, “are supposed to be exempt from facing scarcity which is shared out among women and children.”
“Third World countries provide examples of undernourished female and well-nourished male children, where what food there is goes to the boys of the family,” a UN report testifies. Two thirds of women in Asia, half of all women in Africa, and a sixth of Latin American women are anemic—through lack of food. Fifty percent more Nepali women than men go blind from lack of food. Cross-culturally, men receive hot meals, more protein, and the first helpings of a dish, while women eat the cooling leftovers, often having to use deceit and cunning to get enough to eat. “Moreover, what food they do receive is consistently less nutritious.”
This pattern is not restricted to the Third World: Most Western women alive today can recall versions of it at their mothers’ or grandmothers’ table: British miners’ wives eating the grease-soaked bread left over after their husbands had eaten the meat; Italian and Jewish wives taking the part of the bird no one else would want.
These patterns of behavior are standard in the affluent West today, perpetuated by the culture of female caloric self-deprivation. A generation ago, the justification for this traditional apportioning shifted: Women still went without, ate leftovers, hoarded food, used deceit to get it—but blamed themselves. Our mothers still exiled themselves from the family circle that was eating cake with silver cutlery off Wedgwood china, and we would come upon them in the kitchen, furtively devouring the remains. The traditional pattern was cloaked in modern shame, but otherwise changed little. Weight control became its rationale once natural inferiority went out of fashion.
— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth
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