if you are what you eat then i am an innocent man

NOT THE CRABS WE EXPECTED BUT STILL SOME CRABS WE DESERVE!!!

ル祀ミ育神蟲テニ宮神父羅 (At Rabu Shrine, the insect God is raised and worshipped.)

“O Spirits, why must you test our faith so? The Child Shinchū has absorbed one more of us today, yet she will not transform into a God. The elder priest Tōji says we must keep waiting. That the Child still hungers. That the more she takes in, the more divine she will become. And yet, nineteen people has she taken into itself and her shell will not harden. She only grows larger, hungrier.”

ム慰ヲ神キナケワイニ弦管ガモド侶僧ノ宮神父羅 (The Priests at Rabu Shrine soothe the young God with music.) Priest Sōkū pictured left.

“The older faithful of the shrine still remember the elder siblings of Shinchū, and how simple it was to help them grow. A single soul would often suffice, and the union would transform them into beautiful Gods in the shape of scarabs, butterflies, and bees. Yet the Child refuses her ascension, and our numbers dwindle. Her Father does not guide us, blind as he is in his old age. I fear that life is fading beneath his shell, and his spirit readies to depart.”

神ルケ生ノメタガラ我テニ宮神父羅 (Rabu Shrine's Sacred Father, a God living amongst us.)

“Many of the faithful have left the shrine. They feel fear in their hearts that they will be chosen next, absorbed into the Child fruitlessly; they feel anger towards the young God who will not grow, all the while taking their loved ones. They say the disappearances will cause suspicion, that someone will discover the secret of our shrine and, filled with envy, will kill Shinchū’s young siblings, who are yet unready to ascend.”

リ侍チ育ニカヤ健デ池産ノ宮神父羅ハ子ノ神 (The God Children grow healthy in the Rabu Shrine purification pond.)

“There are only three of us left. Those who lost their faith have reneged their vows and left the temple. The rest of us, who remain devout in our worship, have continued uniting with the Child to no avail. Today, it was Tōji’s turn to read his fortune in the Omikuji, and he was awarded the Great Blessing of becoming one with the Child. But he would not accept it. He attempted to flee, leaving his Omikuji tied in the temple lest fate follow him. It took the three of us to bring him back and force him within Shinchū’s soft shell. We pray he may be the last. The faithful need hope to come back.”

羅父神社の羅父神はきみを御子と共に神になるやう選ばれき 共に生ける神となり御子のうちいづるほどわたりはきみを崇拝せむ (GREAT BLESSING: The Sacred Father of Rabu Shrine has chosen you to become a God with His Child. Together, you will become a Living God and live an eternal blissful life, and the people of Rabu Shrine will worship your new name.)

“I am the last one here. Day after day, the Omikuji spares me of the Great Blessing. I feel weary, and my faith is fading. Is the Shinchū really the God they promised? Or is she a demon, using our faith to trick us into feeding her? The Father has stopped moving, and her younger siblings grow weak without our care. I have found myself alone with her. Watching after her does not comfort me as it once did. I have decided to read only one more Omikuji. Let my fate be decided.”

At the time of its discovery, most of the shrine had fallen into ruin as the wooden beams rotted in the humid climate. A single structure was still standing, containing some of the temple’s statues and treasures. Today, only these documents and several photos from the 1952 survey remain.

in the sense of someone categorically being uninterested dating someone for being part of some stigmatized demographic (e.g. trans, fat, racialized, disabled, etc.) even if they were fully into someone before learning they are part of that demographic

--it's always reframed as a debate around if it is prejudiced to not date the person.

I think this is such a frustrating direction for the conversation to go. obviously losing interest in someone purely for their social position within a marginalized demographic is something that emerges from prejudice. but where people absolutely lose the plot is the implication that covering up prejudice is the same as actually unlearning it. if they were to keep dating that person just to avoid being considered transphobic/fatphobic/racist/ableist/etc., that is still prejudice!

the prejudice exists whether or not they date the person. so they probably should not, because any relationship that emerges is almost guaranteed to be abusive towards the marginalized person, as it's founded on bigoted resentment.

if you lose attraction to someone because of a stigmatized characteristic, you shouldn't date them. but you are still prejudiced, and you should still work on that. not for the purpose of widening your dating pool (who cares!) but because you impact other people in the world as you move through it.

1.) the desire/disgust politics involved in proclamations of categorical exclusion of traits that stand-in for marginalized populations (esp in public in a context that obviously and explicitly builds social rapport via in-group out-group dynamics along a class line) is an important social dynamic to identify and discuss.

saying it's ''just preferences'' is literally the ideological project of naturalization again. push on ''just preferences'' and you will provoke the ''scientific'' justifications for

ableism (e.g. ''we're biologically wired to pursue healthy mates''),

racism (espousing belief in race as pre-social categorical physically differentiated races via reference to racialized bodily and facial measurements)

sexgender assignment (espousing belief in pre-social innate permanent sexgender categorization as the basis for pre-social innate permanent sexuality, e.g. "I'm homosexual therefore I am only attracted to the same Sex" which they define via equating assignment-at-birth to genital shape on a categorical basis),

and so on.

2) when we discuss desire/disgust politics we are not saying ''come fuck us uggos or we'll get you #cancelled. this is a real rape threat." anyone pretending to believe that that's what we're saying is literally just doing more of the "building rapport along a class line via desire/disgust politics" again.

they are mocking the very idea that ''undesirable'' populations are allowed to discuss this common form of social climbing at our experience via insinuating ''we'' (whatever marginalized group) are all desperate rapists whose whole lives revolve around jealousy cause they're soooo much more desirable than us (/sarcasm).

even though it's an open secret people desire every marginalized group this is done to & the "desirable" populations have to ''hide'' this desire for us & feign disgust in public to keep up this desirability kayfabe.

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!