with those we love alive

cade | 24 | alter

[yeshakovv]

It's just the way we're wired

[gothredy]

[kudeita]

corridors, pt. 2

[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"

[lauravian]

I’ve opened the window,

I’m not coming back.

[the-hyperfixated-queer1056]

Backrooms fans when you want to talk about the well written, complex poc main character instead of the white twink in a crop top with 20 minutes of screen time:

[dewdroppr]

It’s just how we’re wired.

original with no effects

[xenonymph]

Backrooms Movie Spoilers without context

[antiididi]

It’s like describing a dog to someone who’s never seen one before

[mail-me-a-snail]

i don't intend on coming back

[k-0re]

the bathrooms was crazy guys

[m1236914]

[shelbbot]

i dont want to change

[novembermorgon]

[rosesoma]

and in the basement of that cabin is everything that ever was

[anxident]

for the first time in a long time i feel like i'm right where i'm supposed to be

[steblynka-draws]

Self-destructive tendencies