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retrospec2017-03-21 01:08 am
notyourutopian) wrote in retrospec2017-03-21 01:08 am
[Video] TW for cruelty to dancing fruit.
[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.]
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.]
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That they aren't actually alive to begin with.
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None of the other fruits I've seen have said anything since, but still. They have faces and they move, until you cut them apart. What part of that isn't alive?
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You sure you didn't imagine that?
None of them made any sound to me.
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Still. Doesn't make it any less messed up. Talking or not, they're close enough to being alive that it feels like murder. Fruit murder.
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And you murdered it.
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James doesn't respond to this for a little while, he needs to go bury his head under a pillow. He already felt bad enough about the fruit murder, not to mention the queasiness of that weird ACTUAL murder he's got playing on repeat in his head, but now this?
He just needs to feel his feelings right now. So he can write a song about this later. ]
Look, I'm not proud of it. I thought they were all like that at the time. And I thought it was gonna be like a 'top of the food chain' type deal.
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I'm sorry, I was just teasing.
But I'm pretty sure we'd never actually lose to...well. Fruit.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes isn't a documentary.
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It's the morals of it! Like, who died and made us the all-powerful overlords of life and death, getting to decide when we can sacrifice these fruits for our own gain?
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For real.
They don't react to stimuli.
i'm sorry
Sometimes, when everything's made to be broken, you have to bleed just to know you're alive.
That's you right now. You're making them bleed.
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Fear paralysis wears off when you actually get hurt.
Also did you seriously just quote the goo goo dolls at me?
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If you felt the lyrics, you'd know how the fruit feels.
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