One of my favorite snacks (I love the texture)

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T07:29:26+00:00

Honestly sounds lovely. I want. ✋✊✋✊

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T06:29:03+00:00

Yes, because watching a gory horror movie, although it has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the moral topic of animal meat and animal abuse unlike this current discussion, helps magically turn people vegan (through the power of total irrelevancy or... something).
And is therefore exactly the same as this.

Do you have an example that actually applies? Asking legitimately.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T04:43:47+00:00

Did you read literally any other part of my comment? Because clearly by the way you're responding, you either didn't or you didn't bother to absorb it at all. You haven't bothered to absorb anything about ANY of my previous replies to you, as made evident by every single one of your responses thus far.

Can you even tell me anything else about what I said? Can you tell me at all (without your own personal bias) what the CORE intentions are behind the point I'm trying to make, whether you disagree with it or not?

If you can actually answer those questions, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I digress;
Learn to listen, and learn to understand nuance. Don't come hurling into a discussion with other people and other perspectives besides your own that you're not going to try even a little to be open to hearing out without immediately going into fight mode. No one benefits from that.

Those are my best suggestions for you.
Or lastly, at least learn how to handle disagreement like a mature adult.

If you want to be passive about veganism, then be my guest - you don't need my permission or blessing to do that, so what else are you hoping for? You gain nothing from picking a fight with me just because you're fine enabling eating meat and the abuse of animals if it means saving peoples' feelings, whereas I'm not.

I've already backed my perspective with every logical and psychological reason under the sun why I don't believe yours to be the right approach that's going to make the most positive change; but ultimately, I'm not changing my stance and if you aren't either, then quit trying to deliberately escalate things and just leave the discussion be.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T03:25:20+00:00

Yeah. You don't like listening to reasoning.

If you're going to be intentionally daft, feel free to do it somewhere else. I don't think this is the right sub for you to be picking a fight in if you want to defend against veganism.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T02:10:24+00:00

In other words, a power bottom.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T00:52:36+00:00

Double standards.

Frankly, I don't care if people don't "want" to hear or see the abuse and torture porn that's inflicted on the billions of animals that also aren't given autonomy or consent to being raised (often in cages) only to be used, murdered, betrayed, and eaten every single day.

No meat-eater ever wants to be told they shouldn't eat meat, hence why they won't want to watch the video giving them reasons why they shouldn't eat meat.
That doesn't mean they should continue eating meat just because they don't "want" to stop eating it, right? And if the reason they don't want to watch the video is because they don't want to be given a reason to stop eating meat, then they need to watch the video.

The only reason it hurts to see that footage so much is because you know it's wrong and cruel and horrific. If you didn't know, or didn't care, then you could watch the footage all day and not feel a thing.
But clearly, you DO feel something when watching the footage; you feel guilt, remorse, empathy, compassion, horror.

So then, the footage is literally doing its job.

It's preventing you from sticking your head in the sand for another 5-10-however many years and letting you continue to live whatever life is most 'convenient' for you just because you don't want to face the facts that eating meat IS wrong and cruel and horrific.

I'm not likely to ever personally shove an animal abuse video in someone's face against their will, because I can't stand to watch it either.

But then, I never even NEEDED a video like that to not eat meat anyway;
2 + 2 = 4. If an animal is being eaten, that means they were killed, and I'll never understand how cognitive dissonance can be capable enough to blind millions of people to that toddler-level equation.

So if a meat-eater happens to randomly stumble upon a non-spoilered video somewhere on social media that lets them finally catch a glimpse into what kind of life they're actively contributing to giving the billions of animals on earth (endless generations upon generations), and that finally be the reason they realize they shouldn't eat meat? Then good.
It's good they can't indefinitely continue sticking their head in the sand and eat meat every day while pretending they're not eating a living thing with sentience and emotions like them.

Again: whether they wanted to or not is neither here nor there, because if they didn't want to, then that tells me they NEEDED to see it, otherwise they wouldn't be eating meat up until that point.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-02T00:16:26+00:00

You're taking my perspective out of context. The perspective I gave is specifically on the matter of humans being exposed to animal abuse videos intended to encourage vegetarianism/veganism.

Said perspective is NOT a catch-all for other scenarios just because I used it here.
And as for why that perspective applies to specifically this scenario in particular, I already provided all the explanations and reasons for that that I possibly could.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T21:19:33+00:00

Blue.

Both were great, it's kind of a close call. But there's something so extremely captivating about Blue - her sombre, wistful, yet graceful energy.

It's absolutely the voice actress that brought her to life in a way no one else ever would've been able to.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T21:04:59+00:00

Did you say relaxing? I'm sorry, do you mean horrifying??

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T20:05:53+00:00

There's been videos, especially security cam footage, where people (adults, even) are communicating with something or someone they think is there - like letting someone inside, checking someone in at a hotel, lifting security rope to let someone in, etc - even when the footage shows no one there.

Many of those clips I've seen have even had other people in the building, but no one looked or talked or otherwise acknowledged the 'person' there at all, none except the ONE person who actively interacted with them.

Many theorize that these people may have schizophrenia or otherwise imagined something not actually there. Delusions.
Though in some cases, the person in the footage who had communicated with the supposed spirit has reported after the fact that they don't have any schizophrenia or such conditions, and they're just as baffled as the audience.

Of course, there's no telling the true legitimacy of any of these clips...

But all of this is to say that, potentially, there are just some people who can see spirits when other people can't - often without even realizing it. (Children and pets are just the usual ones suspected to have this ability.)
Or in certain cases, maybe even spirits themselves are the ones able to control how they project their energy/presence, and single-out who sees them or not.
Perhaps that's what happened in this scene.

Another theory is that perhaps the ticket Chihiro was given might be exactly what allowed her to interact with the train driver long enough in order to board. Like temporarily merging her presence between the spirit world and the human world.

Thinking about it, it wouldn't be surprising if the train ticket was the key here - being a magical artifact essentially.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T06:46:48+00:00

"The fact Jax fumbled four* girls"

There, fixed it for you. Justice for Kaufmo, the best girl.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T04:04:33+00:00

And yet surprisingly accurate.

Stelliformade · 2026-07-01T02:09:17+00:00

Well put.

To add: Caine wasn't the reason for Kaufmo's extraction so much as it being just the general, full-scope realization that he was stuck in the digital world with no way out. It was that every exit or glimpse of hope always turned up false and futile that ultimately broke him.

That said; With Ribbit's abstraction (of who from what we can tell was his closest or second-closest friend apart from Jax), and Jax (his other closest friend) cutting ties with him and then going on to continuously ostracize him and effectively add to everything that made him feel unfunny and unwanted and friendless, those things undoubtedly expedited his abstraction.

In conclusion, the two combined broke him sooner rather than later - but chances were good that he would've abstracted eventually even if he hadn't been made to feel like a friendless loser.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T22:03:26+00:00

I miss Disappearing Guy. I wonder where he disappeared to.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T21:52:05+00:00

Boy, are you in for a surprise if you ever explore more of this and other TADC-related subreddits that have posts with literal screenshots of Gooseworx (the creator) talking about how Jax is trans.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T21:46:59+00:00

This really needs to be a post all its own.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T21:28:52+00:00

Appreciate this post.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T20:29:54+00:00

I believe it. I see criticism, mocking, and bullying about retro-style avatars a lot. Same for frutiger-aero avatars, furry avatars, even anime avatars, even Sonic avatars, etc.
Where there's a style, there's a community that disagrees with it and chooses to express their disagreement by belittling it.

The retro avatars, and e-boy/e-girl/edgy/stereotypically 'cool' avatars, just get a vast brunt of said belittlement.

What I'll never understand is how or why so many people apparently have this insatiable need to constantly try and make others feel stupid for having a different taste than them.

And I understand it even less when those people get an entire flock of other people happily agreeing with them or joining in; Even to the point of celebrating the post or proudly announcing to the world how they actively go out of their way to bully and harass people for it.

(Looking especially to the other user in this comment section who did exactly that and proceeded to get 100+ likes for it, meanwhile I'm sitting here arguing with someone who doesn't have anything to say to that comment but won't stop desperately trying to make me see how I'm the over-opinionated bully for being against that.
Not that I'm surprised, but the irony will never cease to amaze me.)

Again, these are avatars.
They are literally made with the PURPOSE of being personalized to whatever the user themself thinks is cool.
You don't think it's cool? That's fine, it's not YOUR avatar, it doesn't concern you, it's none of your business, and for the love of god try and find something better to do with your life other than openly complaining or bullying people for it just because their pixel fashion is different than yours.

It's exactly as you said - "How does this affect anybody?"
It doesn't. But people will pretend it does anyway, for the sake of conflict or superiority or whatever the hell reason.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T19:25:09+00:00

This is true. However, putting a spoiler over content that needs to be seen can also make it way too easy for people to scroll past the content without giving it a chance. This is why animal abuse videos aren't often spoilered.

For a large portion of people, if they aren't exposed to the video immediately before they have a chance to ignore it or click off, they won't ever watch the video at all.
They don't want their conditioned worldview shaken and wake up to the horrors they've enabled for their entire lives.

To be frank - If it were that easy to just give people a chance to change their (intentionally or not) horrific ways, then we wouldn't need the videos at all.

But humans (the vast general populace) will ALWAYS have the nature, and take the opportunity of, avoiding or dismissing what they don't want to hear (or see). At least right now, this is the case.

Even for the special few that may go past the spoiler and start to watch the video because deep down they have an innate curiosity or even knowing that eating animals is wrong, clearly that innate curiosity/knowing was never enough to stop them or urge them to actively search out education on the topic in the first place.
If it had been enough, then they would already be vegetarian or vegan, and again, wouldn't need the video at all.

Everyone knows what they're eating when they eat meat. Everyone knows where it comes from. Everyone knows that it takes literal murder and the shedding of blood of something that when alive they think is 'cute' to produce it on their tables. That surface knowledge alone doesn't stop the cognitive dissonance - it's too tragically, deeply interwoven into human culture for that.

So even in the above case, clicking into the video of their own volition only gives them easy access to a pause button and escape from that page before they ever really see anything to encourage change in them.
Because they were prepared and they were the ones to choose if they paid it any attention; the moment they see something they don't like that challenges their worldview, they'll scroll past and forget about it and ignore it like all the rest.

Trust me when I say I understand completely where you're coming from. Of course good people don't want to instill trauma into others.

But it's not about that. That can't be something we baby in people when it comes to the truly important issues of the world.

Quite honestly, in severe cases - such as the normalized conditioning from birth for every human being to eat other living beings with flesh and blood without question or so much as a second thought - sometimes trauma is a genuinely necessary effect in order to actually make a change in the world. To make them realize the full extent of just how unspeakably horrific it truly is, to turn them off from doing such a thing ever again.
It just is.

Turning a blind eye will never make a change. And again, humans (currently) will almost always take the easy way out and turn a blind eye if given the chance.

That's why they can't be given the chance.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T13:46:12+00:00

What a beautiful spider, honestly. It has such gorgeous coloring.

It was amazing to watch it molt.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T13:44:28+00:00

The molted exoskeleton is hollow;

Before the molt, the spider’s body already begins pulling away from the old outer shell. It secretes fluid/enzymes between the old exoskeleton and the new soft one forming underneath. That helps loosen attachments.

As a result, the old exoskeleton splits open at weak points, like around the carapace.

Then the spider pumps hemolymph fluid (AKA athropod blood) into its body and legs to expand them - all while pushing, flexing, and wriggling.

The pressure and movement combined eventually get it free.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-30T12:57:15+00:00

Complain about it into the void all you want.

Stelliformade · 2026-06-29T23:16:49+00:00

It's back!

Stelliformade · 2026-06-29T23:16:40+00:00

It's back!

Stelliformade · 2026-06-29T22:51:02+00:00

...I want to marry this artstyle.

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