Eating a scorpion

MissUtilis

It's a thought I have every so often.

Salix Babylonika

there is a company that sells candied insects in lollipops.

You do you, friend, just don't try to get me to share one with you, you know?

MissUtilis

what candied insects

Tre

I know that the candied insect lollipops are a thing but I myself couldn't tell you where to find them.

I did go to a radically remodeled FYE a couple weeks ago that had boxes of bacon and sour cream/onion-flavored crickets and worms, among other curiosities such as Ramune brand soda.

It was a little disorienting to find them of all places selling such things (and with a particularly large focus on clothing and toys that wasn't present there before), but I'd imagine it's a bid to stay relevant in the face of most musical purchases being digital these days.

glennmagusharvey

We regularly consume various insects witout thinking about it anyway.

Insects are just sources of protein. Sometimes crunchy.

MissUtilis

There isn't enough fan art of Nala eating bugs, on a related note

Princess Alice

FYE still exists? I just assumed they went under years ago when the one at my nearby mall closed.

Tachyon

MissUtilis said:

There isn't enough fan art of Nala eating bugs, on a related note

What's interesting about insect-eating?

You talk about Cadpig hypothetically eating bugs a lot . . .

MissUtilis

Central Avenue said:

FYE still exists? I just assumed they went under years ago when the one at my nearby mall closed.

FYE's parent, Trans World Entertainment, also gobbled up the bankrupt Musicland (Sam Goody, Suncoast) in 2006

MissUtilis

Tachyon said:

MissUtilis said:

There isn't enough fan art of Nala eating bugs, on a related note

What's interesting about insect-eating?

You talk about Cadpig hypothetically eating bugs a lot . . .

It's not traditionally feminine.

MissUtilis

Also, it would serve as a shout out to Phil and Lil.

Klinotaxis

scorpions aren't insects

yu horrid peeple

MissUtilis

I know they're not.

glennmagusharvey

MissUtilis said:

Tachyon said:

MissUtilis said:

There isn't enough fan art of Nala eating bugs, on a related note

What's interesting about insect-eating?

You talk about Cadpig hypothetically eating bugs a lot . . .

It's not traditionally feminine.

So that's a good thing.

Also, Cadpig isn't human.

MissUtilis

Well, no. I'm well aware of that.

Salix Babylonika

Klinotaxis said:

scorpions aren't insects

yu horrid peeple

for the purposes of the layman the distinctions between the different groups of land-dwelling arthropods are almost entirely arbitrary

wake up sheeple

Obā-san

eating insects is not a gendered behavior

MissUtilis

I figured that society might construe it as such, given how masculine Timon and Pumbaa are and how Simba does not share any "grubs" with Nala, not on screen at least

MissUtilis

He also eats zero grubs in his adult years

Obā-san

(*head tilt*)

MissUtilis

Also, my aim is to make Cadpig as gross and unfeminine as possible within the bounds I have set for her, like not eating meat. And bugs count as meat.

MissUtilis

Today is Tomorrow said:

(*head tilt*)

Timon and Pumbaa are Disney characters. Cadpig is also one, albeit under the authority of Walt Disney Television Animation, not Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Obā-san

I just

"exceptionally masculine" is not what comes to mind when I think of Timon and Pumbaa?

MissUtilis

They act schlubby in a way that women and girls don't tend to in the media. Nobody in 101 (real one or my version) is really a schlub anyway but still.

Klinotaxis

MissUtilis said:

I figured that society might construe it as such, given how masculine Timon and Pumbaa are and how Simba does not share any "grubs" with Nala, not on screen at least

holy shit i thought you were saying that jokingly

MissUtilis

Well "society" can also mean "the executives at my imaginary versions of Walt Disney Television Animation and ABC back when they still owned it"

MissUtilis

ITT: Anonus reveals hir bizarre ideas of gendered behavior and/or what Disney execs might consider to be such

Klinotaxis

is being far even as decided to have used even go wanted to do looked more like manly or girly

MissUtilis

pretty much

MissUtilis

god I turned another thread into a trainwreck didn't I

Tachyon

i understand where you're coming from, actually.

In our culture, eating bugs is not feminine.  It's just not manly, either.  Non-crustacean arthropods are not normally regarded as suitable for human consumption in our culture, and eating animals that are not fit for consumption is considered gross.

i think it's *probably* accurate to say that men tend to get more of a pass for doing gross things than women, but they're still gross when a man does it.

So like, i can see the logic here, i think, although the behaviour is not itself gendered.

And probably doesn't need to be said but, "gross and unfeminine" ≠ feminist.

MissUtilis

It doesn't equal feminist, but it's still about smashing stereotypes.

Tachyon

Mm . . . it might depend on how it was executed.

Honestly i feel it would most likely register as a joke about dogs eating gross things, first and foremost.

Obā-san

Tachyon said:

Honestly i feel it would most likely register as a joke about dogs eating gross things, first and foremost.

yeah

i mean, dogs eat bugs and stuff all the time

MissUtilis

It's actually about how eating insects is holistic and her general aversion to (knowingly) eating the meat of the farm animals she lives with

Obā-san

but that's not really what the audience would get out of it i think?

like, even if she explicitly says that

Tachyon

If she said that i think it would read as a slightly flimsy in-character justification for a joke about dogs eating gross things.

MissUtilis

Tachyon said:

If she said that i think it would read as a slightly flimsy in-character justification for a joke about dogs eating gross things.

It wouldn't be a joke, it would be a recurrent character trait.

Obā-san

which people would think to be a joke about dogs eating gross things

MissUtilis

right