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weird how nothing about u is like, too small or too dumb to know bc it all comes together to become YOU. sending your friend a picture of your favorite snack is saying something important whether u realize it or not. wheres that palahniuk quote

zoo wee mama...

Do you think Gotham cops have tried this? Did Dick ever try this?

America is absolutely disconnected to meat

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.

As an American. I agree with. The sentiment of the people being to detached from their food sources. It is a real issue lots of folks have.

But I can't say I've ever had to kill or field dress my food. I know how to in theory because my father knows survival skills, he's taught me plenty of things. But didn't go over hunting, because he hasn't had a hunting license within my lifetime. Apparently he used to go hunting when he was younger.

I'd begged him to bring me when I was little. Because I was an odd little kid who thought that basic survival skills were exactly what I needed. But while he managed to teach me some stuff. I'm a bit squeamish.

I always thought, "Oh, hey. Maybe the world will crumble or I'll find my own wardrobe to Narnia and need to live in a society with less advancements and easy access to needed things"

Which is a grim thought for like 4-5 year old to base their personality on for upcoming years of my life. But I kinda thought a few base skills would get me farther than most, stopped studying up on survival stuff because everyone looked at me weird. And I already was looked at weird for plenty of things. Like being a bookworm. So in general. I probably wouldn't survive long all alone in the wilderness. But I'd make it a few weeks longer than lots of people who haven't tried to learned anything of the sort.

Hey at least this was more useful than my "dragons phase"? Haha....

Anyways, point is, in cities and large towns there are lots of people with this mental distance between animal and food. We get all this process stuff from stores, when we go to in store butchers it's already lacking visible traits to link it as well.

It may as well be pink red white shades of nutrient bundles with certain consistent textures instead of meat.

Hell have you ever seen us western losers eat bugs past pur childhood? Well i have. But it's pretty rare depending on where you live. My father was a self proclaimed redneck. Well others called him one as well, but it depended on where we lived if people considered him to be one or not. Once again I've gotta say, anyways. Cause I keep getting off topic.

But I remember, going to this big cookout. Not the classic grill in a suburban backyard next to a porch though. It was in a giant yard surrounded in woods. We had a large fire going, I got to tend to the fire for part of the evening which was real fun. But some of the food was brought made. While others brought ingredients and made food there. My Father did both. There was a pork loin and gravy he made, but several moths really like the smell of the gravy and kept diving in. So for the evening it was dubbed "moth gravy"

Some people freaked and wouldn't eat it. Others wooped and hollered and asked if. The moths were still in the gravy, they wanted to eat the gravy moths.

This may come to some of you as no surprise. But it was generally the city folk and women who shyed away from the gravy. Some people that were closer to country folk, and a good chunk of the guys didn't even stop to think about it. They all knew my father as a good cook and wouldn't turn down the food.

It was actually really funny, cause they people hosting? Well the husband was an old friend of my father. His wife was terrified of all little crawling things, she actively avoided him for awhile cause he ate the "moth gravy"

I think the most important part of all this is actually that my dad had picked all the moths out and ate them when he was cooking. So he'd have cooked any germs out and everything.

The gravy tasted great. Lots of dudes there started picking bugs of that night and joked about or did in fact eat them. Someone started listing nutritional facts about ants.

I'm just glad that they generally knew what they were doing and didn't pick anything poisonous up.

There were lots of things cooked that night, someone brought a chicken they'd butcher themselves, which had some people paling a bit at the thought when he mentioned it. But he was super proud that he'd raised lots of healthy chickens that would be good food. It tasted great.

Outside of that, I got to eat some goat meet of a goat I'd helped take care of as a kid. But once again ove never had to be the butcher. I can't say I'd be fine being one either. I'm more equipped to survive off of gathering than hunting. And that would only get me so far when I only know a small regions plant life, and not that much of it.

Although I have methods to figure out if some things good to eat.

1. See what animals are eating. But watch out, animals have adaptations to eat stuff we can't. The other way around is true as well. We eat plenty of stuff that's poisonous to most animals.

2. A fun way to test berries? Break it and rub the juice on your lip or tongue. Give it a few hours. Any numbness means it's poisonous. Some plants you can do it with the leaves instead of the berries as well. Which can be a little less dangerous if you find something really bad. So leaf test, then berry test.

Of course if your lazy like me, you'll probably jump to the berry test.

Remember though, if you put the juice on your tongue instead of your lip it poses a bit more risk to getting into your system and effecting you.

But once again, I'm lazy and was told it works quicker on your tongue as a test than your lip. Which I'm not a hundred percent sure was true cause I've never looked it up. And someone else told me they work the same.

But I'll belive its riskier for the sake of safety. Have caution instead of being stupid right? Well anyways. God I've said anyways too many times. I'm done with this little rant.

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

can you please make one for Ireland

yeah okay

Friendly reminder that in a truly sibling display of affection, the bat siblings MUST bully eachother (lovingly)

Jason: I call shotgun

Dick: no

Jason: I said it first!

Dick: I was here first

Jason: you’re going to make your brother, your once dead little brother, ride in the back? I knew you hated me dickhead. I knew it! Bet you wish I was dead!

Dick: if you keep talking like that I’ll just stuff you in trunk like a good corpse

Tim: *already sat in passengers seat*

Damian: *is behind drivers seat*

Dick and Jason: oh hell no

LMAO Jason holding a goon up against a glass display and telling him to be quiet so he can watch the televising of Dick's award ceremony is hilarious, THAT'S HIS BROTHER, YOUR HONOR, NOW SHUT UP HE'S TRYING TO LISTEN

Guys help I'm talking to a fucking stunning transmasc on Grindr and I've got no idea what to talk about. I'm nervous as hell.

ALWAYS PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS

I think maybe I missed the birds and the bees talk after all, I don’t remember this part

that’s the Hawks & Hornets discussion, the more advanced version that covers kinks.

STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

Everyone who doesn't have a headache right now, stop right now for a moment and appreciate how good it is not to have a headache.

Look to your left. Look to your right. If that didn’t hurt, take a moment to reflect on what’s good in life.

Taking a moment to be thankful when feet and ankles are pain-free!

Can you access even the tiniest sliver of hope or contentedness? Take a moment to appreciate that feeling, however small!

Taking a moment... 🙏

While I was taking the moment I was leaning on my elbow. Which then started to hurt. Self fulfilling prophecy right there. Because I took the time to focus on how my body felt it starting picking up small pains as something worse and acknowledging them.

However, I am currently not suffering a daily headache. Nor the allergies of spring that I often do. So I am appreciating that.

Looking left to right must not be something I do often without turning my head though, cause that oddly enough did hurt a bit?

Probably Cause I have glasses and have to look through limited area so my eyes just don't look around as much? Idk.

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit

Okay honestly it didn't hit me how funny the concept of Weird Al's Even Worse album is until I found out they'd have gone on sale side by side.

"Hmmm, do I want Bad, or Even Worse?"

Mother Fucker Unlimited

BIG CHUNGUS

It’s Meep! Meep is a bit of a celebrity in the axolotl world. She is believed to have a form of dwarfism and is not significantly overweight, although she looks it especially in this photo.

The owner is a well-known and experienced handler who has four other axolotls that are way more… axolotl shaped lol. But she is healthy, not being overfed or suffering due to poor husbandry.

Actually Cute!

@screaming-velociraptor

Not quite birds. But it's still cute. So I wanted you to see it. ❤️

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

had to share this note i woke up and wrote in the dead of night

happy belated anniversary to this. here’s some of my favorite tags and replies

It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

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Oof

I'm sick of internet negativity, so let's combat it: reblog this and saying something nice/pay a compliment to the prev in the tags.

You will have a better day soon.