Some people who are just naturally good at things love that and will enjoy the hobby, but he's not getting any dopamine from that. There's no challenge, so no real gratification.
He uses sweet treats to stimulate his brain for crying out loud. For context, I have a MASSIVE sweet tooth when not on my meds, on them my impulse control is better and my dopamine chasing isn't so constant or severe. So yes his diet is linked!
There are lots of other things as well, such as his behaviour towards and interactions with others and his gestures/physicality which all come across very ADHD.
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.
Not American but when I was younger, my father sometimes took me hunting. Peers at school thought my dad was scary, and I was cruel for eating Bambi and Thumper. The ones complaining were friends who I'd seen eating things like beef burgers and ham sandwiches not even an hour before!
"That's different, I didn't have to kill it!" So your 'cruelty' is better because it was outsourced and you didn't have to think about the reality of what you were consuming?
Meat is meat, regardless of how cute the animal is, and regardless of who ended the animals life.
Mha simultaneously having some of the best and some of the fucking worst abuse representation drives me insane. The way each member of the LoV's trauma and the ways they processed it was (in my opinion) so well made and tragic, just for Horikoshi to not redeem a single one and have all of them either die or go to jail in the bleakest fucking way possible.
It was as if initially it was going to be social commentary on prison reform, trauma, the way we treat people who are mentally ill etc., but then some higher ups said the heroes have to be right and the villains have to go.
Not saying that is what happened, but that's how it felt.
1. Emotionally Repressed: Dabi rarely shows emotions besides anger or amusement, keeping a cold and distant demeanor.
2. Sadistic but Purpose-Driven: He enjoys causing destruction, but his motives are deeply personal (revenge on Endeavor).
3. Doesn’t Care About the League (At First): He joins the League as a means to an end rather than out of loyalty.
4. Struggles with Physical Pain: His quirk overheats his body, causing burns and possible nerve damage.
5. Not a Flirt or Player: He doesn’t show romantic or sexual interest in anyone in canon.
6. Serious Daddy Issues: His entire existence revolves around proving Endeavor wrong and making him suffer.
7. Detached from Human Connection: Unlike Toga and Twice, Dabi keeps his distance emotionally.
8. Brutally Honest and Insulting: He doesn’t sugarcoat things and often taunts people in a cruel way.
9. Uncaring About His Own Survival: He fights recklessly and doesn’t seem to care if he lives or dies.
Fanon Dabi Headcanons
1. Playboy/Flirty Dabi: Many fics portray him as a smooth-talking, charming bad boy who flirts with Y/N.
2. Loves Nicknames: Fans love making him call people things like “doll,” “princess,” or “brat.”
3. Cuddly & Soft With S/O: Despite being a murderer, fanon Dabi often becomes a protective, clingy lover.
4. Heavy Smoker: While he is often drawn smoking in fan content, it’s never confirmed in canon.
5. Secretly Wants a Family: Some fan interpretations give him a hidden desire for love and stability.
6. Jealous & Possessive: In fanfics, he often gets possessive over Y/N, which isn’t shown in canon.
7. Loves Messing with People for Fun: While canon Dabi is cruel, fanon Dabi tends to be more playfully teasing.
8. Unbothered by His Burns: Fanon often portrays him as fully confident in his appearance, whereas in canon, his burns likely cause pain and deterioration.
9. Overly Cocky & Laid-Back: In some fanon versions, Dabi is always cool and smug, but canon Dabi has emotional outbursts.
*This includes myself, I also use the term “doll” for Dabi when he refers to the reader, and so on.*
I agree with a lot of this, but that level of scarring from burns definitely lends itself to him *not* feeling pain.
Burns at third and fourth degree destroy the nerve endings.
Too many people think if a burn doesn't hurt, it can't be that bad. Sometimes they're in shock. But no matter how small the burn, if it's potentially a third degree, get it looked at ASAP.
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Not my usual content but thought the "great Alastor, altruist, died for his friends" line was hilarious. Yes he's being sarcastic but also there's a cult in GTA called the Altruist Cult, and what are they? Cannibals.
You can supply them with new victims as Trevor and they'll pay you for the trouble. They also have a lot of cash lying around and hate technology. Interesting tidbit for the day. Not sure if it was an intentional reference or pure coincidence, but I enjoyed it regardless.
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