✖Ⓥ✖ vegan straight edge ( • ̀ω•́ )🔪
why vegan??
grl... take a look to the left and give me one good reason why not to be!! we have no business killing that many of anyone!!! im vegan for so many reasons, and it's so important to me cause it's the easiest way to reduce harm in a significant way. It started three years ago i went vegetarian unexpectedly in like spring of 2021 i remember i was at the grocery store shopping for chicken and i was suddenly like um (⊙_⊙)... that is dead body wtf. just like, flesh touching the inside of my stomach, like fuck no... i never really thought about it like that until then and i never ate meat again. and then a couple years later im like okay so whats the big deal with milk and egg ಠ_ಠ so i looked it up on youtube and watched this video and ummm! once again i was like, fuck no... i am twenty five years old what business do i have drinking breast milk of any kind let alone from another species..? or like eating chicken period? it was just fucking creepy when i thought about it and i could not look at any animal product as food ever again and i never will. plus with the way it's so harmful to the environment, the people who work in meat production, and like.. idk i feel like it's also just harmful to think of any living being as someone we can take advantage of for our own personal gain, or profit, or temporary pleasure. and like for why? cause we're smarter than them? cause it's what we've always done? and like, it's one thing if you're in the middle of nowhere and hunting an animal is truly necessary for u to survive or whatever but like i live five minutes from safeway where i can buy literally anything else.. everything i need for the same amount or cheaper than animal products would. and like i get it! it's super normalized and we dont really think about it cuz why would we? i didn't really give a fuck for so many years and like i saw it as fine. but my life has truly become so much better since becoming vegan like i feel so much more alive and i've learned about so many new foods and materials and just like how to be a more compassionate person in general. it feels really good. i also have many good vegan bands/artists that got me thinking about the whole thing like world of pleasure, street justice, xnomadx, xdeliverancex, xelegyx, times of desperation, repulse, and many more. i don't think i would have learned about how big of an injustice this is without hardcore/punk, and the people in it who speak up about it. so anyway this is why i am vegan if u even care :3 ♥ ａｎｉｍａｌ ｌｉｂｅｒａｔｉｏｎ！！！ ｖｅｇａｎ ｄｏｍｉｎａｔｉｏｎ！！！
why straight edge??
this one's less important to me but i'll talk about it anyway. it's just for me, that's it really. i like a clear head it helps me stay connected with myself and like, stay focused on what really matters to me u know. i think there's a place for drugs and whatnot but that place is just not in my body ig. something that really matters to me a lot also is facing stuff head-on if there's a problem instead of like brushing it under the rug. my avoidant ass is still working on that but drugs made me sweep things under the rug for sure. cause it was way easier for me to just like hit the dab pen than to actually think about my problems that didn't wanna be thought about. i don't really think i was full blown addicted to anything but it defo kept me in like a never-satisfied consumerist mindset and i wasn't happy. it was hard to get myself to work on my hobbies and when i don't work on my hobbies i get real sad. look at me now, i'm learning to code for fun. never thought that would happen but i'm actually having the time of my life, i haven't dove into something this deep in who tf knows how long and it's awesome. i also think in some way it led me to being vegan, like i was more willing to look at things the way they are and like accept the facts. and then change my actions to match my values. i've been doing that in a lot of other ways too and it feels really good, like i'm in control of who i am. this could be controversial, idk, but i feel like rejecting social media and smartphones kinda ties into straight edge for me. there's no definition or whatever but like straight edge is rejecting addictive substances and behaviors, and no one thinks about phones and shit in that context really cause straightedge was coined before any of that. but idk the same idea is behind it for me. i was addicted to my phone and social media it was ruining my life and i kept them around cuz everyone else had them but i really didn't want any part of it. so why not take the same idea of straight edge and reject that shit if it's not doing u any good? not knocking any of this stuff i'm just explaining why im straight edge cuz this is my website and u are reading about me :3 ♥