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Remember there will always be people out there to match your freak. They might even be your coworkers. Your classmates.

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the reoccurring salad, yea. it's funny but I wanna know the context if that's okay

I’d say it’s okay! It started as a joke on how Norman would act post-studio; 

Someone a while back sent an ask about his sleeping habits and it’s a minor fact that TSV Norman is a vegetarian so I joked that people would walk in to the kitchen to find the man sitting in the dark, 4am, just eating, his hand in a bag of lettuce

On calls and streams this is a reoccurring joke, and on stream there was a discussion about how Norman would mess with people (mostly Sammy) in weird but harmless ways, one of them was based on a post I read a long time ago where he would just take out a head of lettuce and start eating it like an apple

later it became interchangeable to associate lettuce, cabbage, or a salad with him and TSV  

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Later the vegetarian thing and his position living with Sammy and Henry reminded me of the “are you serious? right in front of my salad?” meme,  and we joked about people ruining his “salad day” because he was dressed nicely too so that brought in the salad part to the joke as me and my friends quoted it constantly 

One time replied to a tweet by themeatly about eating lunch with the BATIM characters:

and there’s also a panel in the TSV flashback comic with a hidden salad bowl (which I wont show just in case people want to find it themselves) 

So yeah nothing too deep, just salad and lettuce jokes 

(wonderful art drawn by @robboyblunder)

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Guys I'm writing (another) academic article on cannibalism and I need some really good cannibalism puns! I'm studying book eight of a Roman epic poem. If you feel so inclined, share you puns with me.

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Hi :))

You said you could recommend some grotesque and disturbing novels … I Love grotesque and disturbing novels 👉👈 Just btw. Fyi. If you even care.

Here are some of my favourite!

1. The picture of Dorian Gray. It's a classic for a reason. It's well written, but warning for just. So much antisemitism. It's still worth reading in my opinion, though.

2. Our wives under the sea. This one has a certain kind of horrific charm to it. I'm a particular fan of psychological and oceanic horror, though. Also, there's lesbians, and I'm EXTRA a fan of lesbian horror that deals with the unspeakable. (Alice isn't dead fan right here.)

3. The girl in red. A zombie apocalypse red riding hood novel. The plot is gripping, and the zombies are horrifying, but the ending is lackluster. That said, I'd still recommend it.

4. The spirit bares its teeth. Anything by Andrew Joseph White is worth a read. I would define a lot of his literature as queer literature because the queerness is often an essential part of the plot, which to me makes it feel a lot more real. Like, your queerness is going to have significant effects on what decisions you make. In this novel, there's a Victorian trans boy that's sent to a spooky all girls reformation school. And it's really fucking good.

5. Into the wild. You may know this author from Under the Banner of Heaven fame. Into the wild is nonfiction, but really really interesting, and about starving to death in Alaska, so it's cannibalism adjacent.

6. Resurrection bay. This is a short horror novella by one of my favourite authors, Neal Shusterman.

7. I, Pierre Seele, Deported Homosexual. This is about a french gay guy who gets put into a concentration camp during the holocaust, and then ends up fighting on the Nazi's side because it was either that or go back to the camps. I had a bit of a world war two bro phase and this book made me rethink everything I thought I knew about warfare and media and queerness and really all of it. It's a difficult read.

8. Wilder Girls. The usual dystopian plague novel I keep recommending. I wonder if I keep recommending plague based novels because that's my OCD.

9. The secret history. This is a big "Dark academia" novel but you've gotta read it outside of just that context because everyone sucks so bad and as you get further into the book, it's more and more horrific and spine chilling. Personally I read it because my mom gave it to me and said "look it's a fun novel about greek students, they're just like you!" And that was all the context I had going in.

10. Mnemonic. This is a play by complicité but it's got to be on this list. It's so good. I saw it in person, so I don't actually know how good it'll be as just a script, but I recommend it.

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Do you have any recommendation on books revolving cannibalisms? Maybe for metaphors etc, idc I want to eat the doves

I've talked about how I don't have many suggestions here, but for other dead dove novels, I have a list of my favourite here!

If a list of academic articles and nonfiction books interests anyone, I can rustle up a list after I stop actively hiking in Alaska lol, if there's interest

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how long has this blog been around? its so hard trying to find other people who are serious about cannibalism on this site who arent mentally ill minors or some other brand of weird

It's been around for a while! To be fair nobody on this earth would call me normal. I am mentally ill, and I have been interested in cannibalism since I dissected a frog in middle school, so your quest to find someone normal and mentally stable who likes cannibalism may have been in vain.

Cannibalism is a taboo, so it makes sense that people that feel like they're on the outskirts of society are the ones who are "serious" about it. Often the fascination comes from the taboo. The delight someone has in cannibalism can be a delight in the grotesque, which in turn can be freeing when someone feels that the label of grotesque has been applied to them.

Similarly, there's a level of humanity and inhumanity at play when looking at especially survival cannibalism. The ultimate selflessness in being eaten and the ultimate selfishness in eating another. That kind of interplay between human and beast, predator and prey, person and food, can be really enticing for people who have been consistently dehumanised.

All that said, I think cannibalism is inherently more attractive to weirdos and mentally ill people, especially isolated kids. It's not surprising you've found that most people talking about it are those people. And we are all weirdos in our hearts.

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fave human organ to eat?

I will be eating my placenta if I ever give birth. Or if my hypothetical wife gives birth and lets me.

Other than that, I don't really know. I haven't eaten any human organs other than skin to compare. I love the taste of animal hearts though, so probably the heart. Plus, it would be really cool to pull someone's heart out of their chest.

I also joke that since my name is lettuce, eating salad is cannibalism, so take that as you will. (And I didn't even choose lettuce for my name because of the cannibalism! I chose it because it's the closest English word to my real name!)

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any fav cannibalism novels?

I have this novel on my shelf but I haven't gotten very far:

But in seriousness, I don't read many novels. The Bacchae by Euripides has some good cannibalism scenes, and Sallust has some excellent descriptions of blood drinking in his bellum catalinae. In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex is a very good nonfiction dramatization. I of course LOVE silence of the lambs and would suggest reading that, but other than that, I could give you some grotesque and disturbing novels, but not many more that are cannibalism related.

If anyone else has other cannibalism related novels they think anon would like, leave them in the comments!