Trying To Decide If I'd Rather Be A Tortoise Or A Turtle. On The One Hand I Prefer Dry Land, On The Other

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Sam is characterized as a very strong environmentalist. And as a part of this, they have her follow a ridiculous made up dietary restriction: “ultra-recyclo-vegetarianism”

Which sounds like it’s meant to be all extreme, right? Something ridiculously strict.

Except that it just… isn’t??

For the most part it’s basically just the same as vegetarianism, and in the edge cases, it’s actually less restrictive than being vegetarian.

Because the rule is “don’t eat anything with a face” and for the most part, only animals are gonna have faces. I guess you could make the argument that like something like a venus fly trap has a face, but I don’t think any commonly eaten plants would count as having one unless you really stretch the definition. And unless animal products like milk are grouped in with the animal they’re from, they’re all gonna be permitted too because none of them have faces. So it’s unlikely to meaningfully ban anything that wasn’t already covered by vegetarianism.

But then on the animal side of things, it leaves some allowances that baseline vegetarianism doesn’t. Sure, most animals have faces, but not all, and some of the faceless ones are occasionally eaten (e.g. jellyfish). Heck, depending on how it defines what counts as a face, some decently common food animals like oysters could be permitted.

…though of course this assumes there aren’t other rules beyond that part (e.g. if there’s something about using “scrap” bits to justify including “recycle” in the name)

Amazing! Thank you ^^

Hi! I just wanted to ask if the blanket permission for remixes in your ao3 profile also includes permission for podfics?

Yes, absolutely! I should probably make that clear on my AO3 profile lol.

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I've long held that "gen" fics are often considered an afterthought in fandom, and that it's assumed that anyone reading a fic is reading it for the romance. So I thought, what do we do on Tumblr when we feel something needs more attention in fandom? We do a challenge!

My thought is we do a "Gen Fics Week", where people will either write or recommend seven gen fics for seven themes. My thought for having recommendations being acceptable submissions is that one, it will open the participation up to non-writers, and two, it will allow writers to recommend fics they already wrote that didn't get enough attention. But, of course, this would all be pointless if I were the only one doing this, so here's a poll to gauge interest.

I'd love to have more passion to finish my thesis. But a microphone would be cool too

@sheepheadfred @powderblue2 @imtylered @maypersonne

what do the 4 people who always like my posts want for christmas

Just realized that my headphones are not broken i just had messed up settings... I've been recording with sound only in my left ear. For like 3 months...

Land of waves 🍥

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This is our sixth year running, and it's always a ton of fun! Click through to the linked post for a TON more info, and then, if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, you can sign up to play!

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[Podfic] How to Dissect a Ghost

written by @uniasus, narrated by @apple-sapling

Original work: How to Dissect a Ghost by Uniasus

Full Length: 16:52 | Rating: T

Summary:

Maddie and Jack are determined to further the field of ectobiology by being the first to dissect a ghost - but they didn't realize it would be so complicated!

Thanks to Uniasus for writing and permission to podfic <3