Unfamiliar Familiarity

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“Real revolution begins at learning. If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.” --Tim McIlrath

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Hello everyone, My name is Ashley Leslie, I'm from Canada, I'm 26-years-old.

I'm (a/an) Vegan, Animal lover, Writer, Poet, Photographer, Dreamer, Wanderer, Loner, Pessimist, Misanthropic, Depressive, Neurotic, Empath, Emotional, De facto Atheist, Liberal, Toriphile, Introvert, Socially awkward.

I love art, The Tudors (fictional and historical characters)-- Queen Catherine of Aragon is my favourite queen, Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor), Florence and the Machine, The Birthday Massacre, Rise Against, many other musicians; Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Madness, Bayonetta, Video games in general, Studio Ghibli, Disney/Pixar and the cute characters, veganism, animals, Sylvia Plath, Marie Antoinette, History and classic historical periods, Period Dramas, Faeries, Showtime and HBO television, Psychology, Anime, etc. This blog tends to have a lot these things and more.

I love to share my vegan life and help others along the way. After being vegetarian for 6-years, I finally transitioned to veganism on March 22nd, 2011. It was the best decision I have ever made and I really question why I didn't do it sooner now.

I truly believe that music is one of the only things that understands me.

I enjoy many things but get bored far too easy.
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"My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation. I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralysed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought. I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going—and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions. I long for a noble escape from freedom—I am weak, tired, in revolt from the strong constructive humanitarian faith which presupposes a healthy, active intellect and will. There is nowhere to go …" --Sylvia Plath
~ Thursday, January 26 ~
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If something has an animal product in it…

supervegan:

…You can be guaranteed that the animal was treated incredibly poorly. Animals are cheap commodities (read: slaves) and are treated as such. They are not treated like we are thankful for all that they provide us with. They are treated like what they have (flesh, fur, bodily fluids, etc…) belongs to us and we go about obtaining it in the cheapest possible manner - which always results in excessive cruelty*.

The size of the operation does not matter: from the largest CAFO or slaughterhouse to Ma and Pa’s country farm; the acts are still the same, it is only the scale that differs.

Stop living in fantasy land. Cruelty is cruelty. All of the animal products you consume are cruel. All of them.

They are cruel by anyone’s standards, speciesist or not. Stop believing the industry propaganda - an industry that has a vested interest in you thinking that there is no cruelty - and stop denying the cruelty when you see it.

*I say excessive because the very act of taking something from somebody (especially something integral to their or their kin’s survival) is inherently cruel. I just know that most people don’t see it that way and still see us as entitled to whatever non-human animals have.


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