Depressed Bitch

Disclaimer: I have nothing against this user specifically, but I think they're representative of a wider trend which I'd like to talk about. Don't go pester them, it doesn't materially help anyone.

There's a lot to be said about how the average (white) westerner cares more about harm to a dog than mass harm to racialised people or people from the global south.

Why is that, specifically, what made you stop reading? as opposed to everything else? Nothing about how the “transition” in tender is the flesh was at first gradually carried out by the ultra-rich on poor Black Africans for sport, and not out of necessity as the ruling class claim in the text. Nothing about how Tejo treats Jasmine essentially the same way he treated the dogs he euthanised all those years ago, and is enabled to do so by his status as both a man and a free human. Or how he and his wife steal the baby he impregnated her with as their own, in a way reminiscent of residential schools, the Stolen Generations, and other examples of forced assimilation and genocide around the world. Nothing else about systemic butchery of othered and marginalised groups under capitalism and imperialism?

Nah, the off-screen dog death was the most unforgivable part.

I'm reminded of the Palestinian man and his dog who were displaced by Israeli occupation who received messages asking how to help his dog, but not him (if anyone can link me to that post I'd be very grateful).

I'm reminded of the uproar about US law enforcement killing dogs and the mainly unanimous support of initiatives against it, as opposed to law enforcement's murder of Black kids and babies. The murders of baby Kohen Wiley and dog Jameson a day apart in June, with the latter receiving far more public outcry.

unfortunately this fuckass analog horror style is very fun to draw in. go my other mommy

bonus:

It's not grief, one woman posted, it's more like a haunting.

The Lamb by Lucy Rose - Margot and Mama live in a cottage in the woods, and they eat ”strays”, lost people who come by their home looking for help. Everything changes when a woman named Eden shows up and mama falls in love.

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - a medieval fortress under siege, a starving people, a woman in a tower trying to create a miracle, a lady knight forced to protect her, a disgraced noblewoman looking for revenge and saints showing up in the flesh. Yep, there’s cannibalism in this one too.

Don’t Let the Forest in by CG Drews - toxic and codependent gays at a boarding school with a forest where the horror creatures they wrote and illustrated might be coming to life.

My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen - Roos lives a dreadful life with her mother, but at least she has Ruth, the ghost and spirit companion only she can see. One day she meets Agnes, a woman like her who has a spirit companion of her own, and she gets whisked away to her haunted manor.

Bunny by Mona Awad - Samantha goes to a literature class with a group of girls who call themselves the bunnies, and one day she gets invited to hang out with them and participate in their ”art”.

"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."