I feel like it’s a really common trope to have a non-biological entity disgusted by squishy bio things like secretions and flesh and stuff but. Wouldn’t they utterly lack revulsion to those things? The reason we are repulsed by things like blood and shit and corpses is because they are intimately connected to our bodies, are uncomfortable reminders of our animal mortality, can be vectors of harm, or are a signal of danger. A being made of energy, metal, or plastic does not have the same sympathetic connections to these things that we do, except as a kind of intellectual sympathy for what people they care about fear. Disgust is repulsive, and you can only repel something if it’s close to you. I think the things that viscerally repel a non-biological mind are not going to be biological.
Hmm… Maybe not as extreme as a corpse, but if you handed someone composed of mostly metal an extremely corroded piece of copper, I could see them reacting like you just handed them a very moldy orange.
To reach “handed a decomposing roadkill squirrel” level, maybe give them something with identifiable parts similar to what is in their body, like corroded circuit boards, batteries, wire connectors. That’s a more direct reminder of mortality.
as a smoker one of the fastest way i dissuade people from smoking is i go you know how your headaches suck. imagine a permanent headache that slowly gets more and more expensive to cure and also you cant stop coughing in the middle of all of this. yeah? this sucks.
i have said this before but end stage liver failure did not dissuade me from starting opiates. what dissuaded me was someone telling me “do you want to be itchy for the rest of your life? this is how you be itchy for the rest of your life.”
people in the tags keep bringing things that are terminal, and i need you to understand some thing critical here. people do not conceptualise what they’ve not experienced properly and the ‘inconvenient’ side-effects come faster, and are far more likely than the Big Scary Ones. “dont start cocaine because your liver will fail” – means nothing to me, have never experienced liver failure, also it takes forever for me to get to that stage. “do you want to know what cocaine shits are” – paying attention, do not alter my shits habits.
because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.
BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don’t trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won’t give them enough money to live.
you can’t make a free, genuine choice about the time and manner of your death until you have the right to live, as independently as possible and with all your needs met.
this is also true of people who commit regular old unassisted suicide because they can’t transition, because of harassment or discrimination, because they can’t keep a job or don’t make enough money to live. it’s government murder by proxy.
After 822 days, Gaza has been completely erased nothing remains. We are trapped here; no one can leave.Life in Gaza is being slaughtered slowly. We live like ghosts without shelter, without hope, without a future. Our children are being forcibly driven into loss, devoured by hunger, cold, and disease in deadly silence.
What is happening is a crime committed before the eyes of the world, and we are forgotten without a voice, without anyone to remember us.
We will not forgive anyone who witnesses this injustice and chooses silence instead of offering any help.
“i would kill a pedophile to protect my child” ok but would you teach your child how to say no? even to adults? even to adults you like? would you teach your child the words “penis” and “vulva” and then use them? would you let them ask questions about their body? would you answer them honestly? would you learn how to cope with your feelings when you talk about human bodies, so they don’t feel ashamed? would you set a positive example for how you talk about your body? would you tell your child they don’t have to hug or kiss anyone? would you tell your family the same? would you stand by them when they refuse to hug someone? even someone you know has never done anything to hurt them? would you let your child avoid food they don’t like? would you let you child avoid people they don’t like? would you believe them? would you sit in the discomfort of not knowing all the answers and not take it out on them? would you love your child the same if someone did hurt them? would you make them feel valued just as they are? would you let them talk to doctors or nurses in private? would you let them express their feelings? would you show interest in their life? would you let your child say no to you? would you help your child feel safe coming to you when they make a mistake? would you apologize to your child? would you believe them? would you put aside your anger to focus on what would make your child feel safe and loved? would you put your ego aside for your child? would you take your child’s concerns seriously? would you listen to your child? would you believe them?
my breakfast sandwich just blasted thick ropes onto my keyboard fuck my life. She might as well be smoking a cigarette right now look at this
Back when I worked at Panera and they were experimenting with over easy eggs in their breakfast sandwiches, we did this online training about how to prepare them. And the main thing that they stressed was not breaking the yolk, in order to preserve the customer’s “egg-bursting pleasure.” Exact words.
Anyway that’s lived in my head rent-free for like 8 years so now I’m passing it on to you.
