Coming in late today because I was busy doing important things, like meeting someone from Craigslist to buy dahlia bulbs, and losing my tablet pen.
Sorry, but despite everything, Cheevwut is too much of a normie have a woke opinion about carnalists. Microdosing avian cocaine at work is normal, but "sex drugs" (sex hormones and spring inducers) are for weirdo perverts.
Avians don't really chew their food and have a poor sense of taste, so a lot of the experience of meals for them is visuals, texture, and after-effects. Recreational drugs are a very common additive to normal foods. Most psychoactive drugs get filtered from an avian's bloodstream very quickly by their large hepatokidney, but this doesn't prevent dependency from forming. Addiction is major problem in modern avian societies.
Avians also had a global warming crisis, but its scale was more comparable to the human ozone depletion crisis. Their lack of land certainly made things more urgent to those with the power to stop things, but because their planet has much less accessible fossils, their transportation and energy systems were less dependent on them overall. Switching to alternatives was easier because large-scale alternative infrastructure already existed.
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Anonymous asked: Ohwitiil and Cheevwut, what are some your favorite drugs to add to food?
Ohwitiil: I've never been into the extreme flavors. I have some biih in the morning to wake me up, but I only add enough for the strong high to last a couple minutes. After work I might have some ratriit or vut in my dinner.
Cheevwut: I have biih snacks whenever I feel tired during the day. I add vut to my work lunches, to relax. Ideally just enough for the high to go away when I clock in, but…
Ohwitiil: "Ideally" meaning "never?"
Cheevwut: Oh, loosen up. You should have some woaa or alcohol with me some time!
Ohwitiil: No. I don't like hallucinogen flavors…
Cheevwut: You don't know how to dose them right. Just time it so it goes away when you're bored and want to try the next one!
Anonymous asked: Cheevwut, what's your stance on carnalist fashion and subculture? Would you ever try it off the clock?
Cheevwut: Ugh, what? No! If some people want to dress like creeps and take sex drugs and mutilate each other and whatever, they can do it all they want. Far away from me!
Typical Carnalist Traits:
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all blood and flesh colors (magenta and orange)
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tight clothing with indecent exposure
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crossdressing and gender nonconformity
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piercings and body mods
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split, plucked, bleached, or dyed feathers
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radical sexual ideology
Ladeeda asked: Cheevwut, did avians go through their own climate crisis like humans did? Is it a universal thing amongst sophonts?
Cheevwut: Oh, like how humans flooded their planet by heating it up with rock oils? I don't know if it's universal, but we had something like that almost happen. We have way less rock oil than Earth, but burning it is generally not allowed now. Non-electric vehicles and generators are usually powered by algal oil. When the Tiiliit colonized the continent and really started mining a lot of rock oil, I guess that's when people noticed the sea ice melting. Governments cut down on use pretty quickly, to limit coastal damage and temperature rise. Ha ha, I guess that on Earth they didn't? Maybe humans didn't have enough rich people living on tiny, humid islands.
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