arkatia
May 15
“ I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love the gasp people take when their favorite character dies. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds. I fall in love with people and their honest moments all the time. I fall in love with their breakdowns and their smeared makeup and their daydreams. Honesty is just too beautiful to ever put into words.
— (via stymshaws)
(Source: freckledhips, via aspookylittlegirllikeyou)
May 14
(Source: illestflow, via assachusetts)
May 13
This is Stanley.
He escaped his fate, as an Angus cow, of being butchered and eaten and currently lives in sanctuary with his Holstein (white cow with black splotches) brother, Theo. He was very sick when he first arrived and it was thought that he might not survive, but this little one proved to be even stronger than first thought.
His mum was likely not as fortunate. It is possible that she is currently being forced to have more babies that will be taken from her for meat, or that she herself has been, or will soon be, slaughtered.
Bovines, being herd animals, are very social creatures and they form amazing relationships with each other. They are the kindest and most peaceful beings I know; they call out to one another when separated and they protect and groom each other.
The bond between calf and mother is one of the strongest. I knew a mother and son who lived on a sanctuary and they were inseparable until the day she died. The baby suckled until he had to bend down on his knees to reach her udders and she never once pushed him away. The few times they had to be separated for medical reasons, the mum would scream for him constantly until they were reunited, and indeed it became so traumatic for them that they had to stop removing them from each other, even for a short period of time.
It is rare that a bovine mother gets to keep her children. In fact some dairy mums have their babies taken away from them the very day they are born. It is devastating for both of them, it is not uncommon for the mums to stop eating out of sadness, or for the babies to suckle on random objects as a way to feel comforted.
Stanley engages in this suckling behaviour every day. He sucks on everything from his brother’s tail to human ears. In these photos you can see him “nursing” from my forearm. You can feel the desperation in his actions, you can tell how much he wants to be his mum. We try to care for him and snuggle him, but we are no replacement for the mum he should have had.
As long as the beef and dairy industries exist, billions of babies and their mums will face the tragedy of losing each other every year; the mums will yell for their children for days, and their babies will attempt to nurse from the farmers’ or slaughterhouse workers’ fingers.
This is not only sad, it is evil and unnecessary .
Give up beef and dairy and stop contributing to this travesty.
Do it for babies like Stanley.
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you are not on top of the food chain, your choices aren’t on par with lions eating zebras, a vegan diet is neither unhealthy nor expensive, there is no such thing as vegan privilege, it doesn’t matter if you’ve always eaten animals, hunting isn’t noble, fishing isn’t either, you are not an inuit, humans are not carnivores, you’re canines don’t mean shit, veganism is not racist or classist, cows do not need to be milked, plants are not sentient, plant-based protein is easy to come by, it is not your right, it is not a personal choice, the (phyto)estrogen in soy is not dangerous, dead animals are not healthy - every nutrient you need comes from plants, animals are sentient and thus feel pain - there is no denying that, the soy monocultures you are thinking of are actually fed to livestock not vegans, no, you can not love animals while killing and eating them, respecting an animal after you’ve murdered it doesn’t mean shit and neither does using every part of the animal, intersectionality does not negate veganism, veganism is not a belief and it sure as fuck is not dogmatic, vegans are making a difference, intelligence does not matter - sentience does, breeding someone for the purpose of eating them is not an ethical justification, buying local isn’t more sustainable or more ethical than veganism, taste does not matter, taking “good care” of them before you kill them does not make it ok, yes, cows are raped, no, capitalism does not need to be smashed first, human problems are not more important, if you are concerned about migrant worker exploitation - stop eating meat, no, there is no humane way to kill, rape, exploit or enslave, if your mom won’t cook vegan for you - fucking do it yourself, no a vegan diet is not hard or unhealthy, no, vegetarianism isn’t fucking good enough, meat does not make you manly.
i’ve heard it all before and none of this selfish bullshit is valid. you’re making excuses.
you are lying to yourselves and you are killing the planet and everyone living on it. animals don’t exist for your convenience.
(via d3ssins)
(Source: atikhomirov, via extendings)
I really didn’t want my hair this red, I was just trying to brighten it up. I was really pissed at first but I’m getting used to it.
May 12
Not a wig.
