[Video] TW for cruelty to dancing fruit.

[notyourutopian]

[It's a video feed that appears, of a counter top, and on it is a single smiling, dancing apple. It's just silently, happily bouncing in place, unaware of what is to come. After a few seconds, Eleanor's hands move into the frame, one of which is holding a paring knife.

After another moment, and with several hesitations, Eleanor picks up the apple, turns it so the face is more away from her, and starts to peel it. She's slow at first, but picks up as she gets used to it...eventually the dancing eyes are popped off, and the lips over the creepy, ever-happy mouth. But the entire time, it still wiggles and smiles in her hands. Never once does that smile fade.

Once it's peeled, she sets it back down on the counter, and even with the skin all around it, the bare apple continues to dance, smiling eyelessly now at the camera. Another few seconds of dancing, and she picks it back up and this time, starts to slice it. Slice slice slice.

It never stops dancing. Not until the last slice pops off, and all that's left is a core, is it finally still. She prods it several times with the tip of the knife, then sets the knife down and finally leans into view of the camera.]

I don't think they actually feel anything. [Her accent is a little more obvious here, probably because of the weird stress of cutting up a dancing fruit.] They don't react to anything but music and they don't ever look like they're in pain or anything.

[She picks up a slice of apple and, after a moment's hesitation, bites it.]

And they still taste normal. I imagine we're just going to have...deal with it.

[She goes to take another bite of the slice, then frowns and sets it down.]

If we can.

[And then she clicks the video off.]

Comments

[commandertoolbelt]

well that seals it
i am never eating apples again

[notyourutopian]

That might not be an option.
I mean
We don't know if this will spread to other food.

[commandertoolbelt]

that’s comforting
it might not be so bad if it just… stopped smiling and dancing while you’re cutting it up
or, you know, if the eyes didn’t fall off like that
god that’s gross

[notyourutopian]

That would sure be nice, yeah.
But they don't.

So if we want to keep eating apples...

[true_noir]

Eleanor, that is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in my life. You have just guaranteed that my love for bananas will become a permanent thing. Not that I fault you for this. You've proven your point that it is mostly just visual.

I simply can't.

[notyourutopian]

You're just never going to eat apples again?

[true_noir]

There are many lovely fruits in this world, and none of them smile back at me. I am sure that it will be fine, and I am concerned enough about this cloak. I don't want to know what eating those apples will do to me regularly.

Perhaps I am getting a little paranoid.

[notyourutopian]

I'm just worried it'll spread.
I don't want to switch to bananas then have them start waltzing or something.

I might've thought of a workaround though.

[divine_braid]

Even if it is just a surface thing... it's still creepy as hell.

[notyourutopian]

Yup.

But I think we may just have to adjust to it.
If we want to keep eating fruit.

[divine_braid]

Eh... I wasn't big on fruit anyway. And there are still some that weren't affected, so...

The bouncing while you're cutting it doesn't help.

[notyourutopian]

They don't really...struggle...if you hold them down.

Wow that made it worse somehow.

[longwei2go]

yeah i cant say eating an apples actual face off did anything to the taste

[notyourutopian]

I thought it would be different.
Somehow.

But it's not.

[longwei2go]

cannibalism jokes aside its all so messed up anyway

[notyourutopian]

I'll tell you this much.

I'm never eating an apple that hasn't been peeled again.
I don't want to know if that texture is different.

[curseoclock]

wow

that was like. a fruit snuff film.

[notyourutopian]

Well.
I'm sure someone in the world is into that.

And I made my point so I can't complain.

[curseoclock]

finally, their creepily specific fetish, satisfied

well, for real, it is nice to know it's just straight up fruit still. they just look alive, that's all, huh

[tokencanadian]

remember to tag your gore appropriately

[notyourutopian]

There isn't a category for knife-on-fruit torture though.

[tokencanadian]

There SHOULD be now!
I mean, honestly.

[frostythehitman]

[ JESUS CHRIST. ]

You know, you could've just sliced the face off first and then cut it up normally. You didn't have to make it slow and gory.

[notyourutopian]

It wouldn't really have proven the same point though.

[frostythehitman]

What point, how much we can mutilate fruit before they finally die?