People know that the whole “don’t portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it” thing is a rule for children’s shows right? It’s supposed to be shit like “don’t show peppa pig playing with fire so we don’t get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down.” Not like, fanfiction for adults.
smth smth “are u ok? i noticed u were reblogging my post about smut not needing the censorship of childrens media again”
Jesse, you’re forgetting that Dragons are not just beasts, they are inherently magical and they are of the element they embody, Jesse. An ancient white dragon would create an icy tundra wherever it built its lair merely by existing in that place over time. It is the surrounding animals that have adapted to the cold to even exist in the landscape of a dragon, Jesse.
Also dragons have teeth, Jesse. I don’t think ice resistance is gonna be that big of an issue. The prey isn’t teeth resistant, Jesse.
It really is dissapointing how many women these days hear “it’s okay to be critical of men as a class and the ways in which society prioritizes them” and go “okay so that means I dont have treat any men including and especially marginalized ones and children like human beings” like bestie. Where the fuck did we lose you.
If you legit say something like “I don’t care about little boys becoming indoctrinated into misogynist beliefs I only care about the little girls who have to listen to the things they say” then you are not serious about ending systemic misogyny.
I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.
Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.
Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.
Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.
It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.
You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.
You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos
You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.
You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..
Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.
Truly, genuinely, as an indigenous person I talk about this exact thing a LOT! Like, don’t get me wrong I get a bit squicked when dressing a chicken or gutting and cleaning a fish, lord knows I had really mixed feelings the first time I saw a deers throat slit (I thought it was cruel, until my elder asked me if I would have preferred to let it suffer instead)
The truth of the matter is that animals and humans are intertwined. We are food to one another, that’s the way of the world and I think people forget that when we champion for humane treatment of animals and when we rail against factory farming we need to remember that removing death is not the goal, removing undue suffering it.
Excuse me mr bogged leech but why do jellyfish need such unbelievably potent venom? Especially that one extremely tiny jellyfish whose poison makes you feel the worst pain possible for days on end and has a symptom along the lines of "makes you feel impending doom." What evolutionary factors could there be for such a tiny creature to evolve a toxin that makes you feel like Death is personally coming for you
It is Precisely just because they prey on fish! A fish is a highly active vertebrate that evolved for lightning fast movement and reflexes through deep, heavy water, so more than half of a fish’s body is a dense hunk of proportionately high-powered, dense muscle all the way through! Look how little space is devoted to organs in even just an anchovy, muscle and bone fills ALL the remaining space:
That’s muscle for escaping sharks and dolphins! Muscle that can fight currents stronger than hurricane winds!
But a jellyfish evolved for an extreme conservation of resources: just barely enough tissue to hold it together, which allows it to grow and multiply on barely a sliver the resources it takes to make a vertebrate, a high efficiency approach to building, growing, and multiplying a living body that has allowed jellyfish to keep thriving in the harshest conditions and through global extinction events.
So, relative to one another, a fish is practically built like a cheetah, a stallion or an ox while a jellyfish is built like…a cobweb, a snowflake or a latex balloon.
The only way a latex balloon can possibly hunt oxen for a living is with sheer firepower alone, or some kind of magical instant-death-touch, so that is exactly what evolution resulted in. While box jellies prey on fish seldom larger than themselves, a single sting delivers venom potent enough to kill a THOUSAND little fish in an instant, or completely wreck an entire massive human. The venom equivalent of a point-blank shotgun blast.
This is cool as SHIT
Patently Absurd Item: latex balloon with some kind of magical instant-death-touch.
Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …
Whenever an artist who makes dark content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like ‘aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so dark and nasty’ and whenever an artist who makes wholesome content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so aggressively wholesome’ and it’s like you know I think maybe you can’t tell whether or not someone is a predator based on their artistic output.
“what use is it to be an illustrator of children’s books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?”
some of baraa’s illustrations:
this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a “small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef,” a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
“we want a new year that doesn’t kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year’s card unlike any other year:”
baraa is currently fundraising to get her family of 12 out of gaza. she is a friend of mine and this is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. the egyptian government is currently charging upwards of 5,000 USD per person to get to cairo through the rafah border:
