Esther Evans

@esthergravityfalls

"Meet Me in the Woods" by Lord Huron is the soundtrack of my life. Greetings! Name's Esther, she/her,polysexual, 🇮🇹italian🇮🇹, I love reading, music, cryptids , animated series and movies, chocolate and aesthetics. This is a side blog, so I can't comment or like posts, etc. "The truth is stranger than my own worst dreams/Oh, the darkness got a hold on me"

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ghostfails

plasmalogical

sentence that makes you burst into tears

niedosyt555

Vegetarian posts are like ''eating meat should be as unthinkable to you as cannibalism'' but tbh cannibalism is so much more valid

#save a cow eat a person

sundewserpent

annoying pet peeve: who the hell popularized kuru on tiktok???

why are so many people running around hissing that you'll get kuru from any old act of cannibalism??

kuru is NOT "found in the average adult brain", it is an EXTINCT prion disease that was only ever endemic to ONE region and still yet just one population in that region (papa new guinea).

also, again, it's been extinct for two decades!!

prion diseases do in fact still exist (mad cow, creutzfeldt-jakob, etc) but kuru isn't one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!! god.

if you're going to fear monger about scary brain prions you should at least pick one that still exists. jesus

17lemonsunderthesea

Is cannibalism inherently immoral ?

Yes (all parts of cannibalism are inherently immoral or ‘wrong’ in any way)

No (No parts of cannibalism are inherently immoral or ‘wrong’ in any way)

I only view the killing part of cannibalism immoral

I only view the eating part of cannibalism immoral

Nuance/it depends/results

Remaining time: 18 hours 15 minutes

#sometime I forget that the first thing people think about when someone mentions cannibalism is murder #like I could eat someone and not kill them. Somebody doesn't die if you take like a leg or an arm #I don't associate immediately cannibalism with murder

cathedral-of-blood

Would you still love me if I was The Worst™️ ?

0bsessive-w0lf

callme-indigo

Cannibalism as a metaphor for all consuming love.

Cannibalism as a metaphor for abusive love.

Cannibalism as a metaphor for specifically homosexual love.

Cannibalism as a metaphor for addiction.

Cannibalism as a metaphor for being used then discarded.

Cannibalism being used as a visual representation of characters losing their humanity.

Cannibalism used to show the cycle of abuse.

The real life history of cannibalism in medicine.

Real life cultural cannibalism

Cannibalism as a kink

The line between ethical and unethical cannibalism

I can keep going

th1rstf0rbl00d

Season 2 is “fuck, the cannibal”

tbborg

"The bear loved the deer, it was obvious. It ripped the deer's throat out, and then licked the dying deer with the most passionate affection. I thought of you and me."

David Cronenberg, Consumed

plushiecreatures

mawjob from a girl with big scary teeth

plushiecreatures

and her tongue is long as fuckkkkkkk

sh1ftra2o

Murder Set Pieces (2004)

ainecdote-remade-deactivated202

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

sloppity-bilepiper

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

vintagedean

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"