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Okay, but can we talk about c*nnibalism as a metaphor for love? I find the idea of โโloving someone so much that you want to absorb them beautiful; that impulse to incorporate them into everything and make them part of you, to always have a little piece of them present.
Let me explain further: Love can be experienced as hunger: for contact, for words, for presence. Metaphorical c*nnibalism expresses this insatiable appetite for the other, for their very essence. In profound love, one allows oneself to be emotionally devoured: one surrenders, exposes oneself, allows oneself to be transformed. There is beauty in this surrender that is not afraid of losing oneself, because it trusts in the bond. Loving also implies the fear of losing, and sometimes the desire to possess so much that it becomes symbolically all-consuming. In the c*nnibal metaphor, the beloved is not only consumed: they transform the one who loves. Symbolic c*nnibalism represents this impulse to incorporate the beloved, to make them a part of you, literally.
Just as food nourishes, love nourishes and changes from within.
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Juli
Have you watched the movie "Together"? it's not canibalism but it's a similar way of how you interpretate love.
Finley_Is_Here_Xd
though i do believe its beautiful in a sense, i find it animalistic, and selfish among all things, i barely see it being on the perspective of the one being eaten other than like beaststars and i find it hard to find cannibalism as romantic these days, it reminds me more of lust and desire if anything else
ุฒููุจ
I like ur metaphor This is cute as an idea but I'm sure nobody would like that reality (ใ๏พ_ใ๏พ)๏พ
Bea.88๐ฉท
Ok now what the hell
laricha
I used to think of this metaphor as a relationship goal, but living in a relationship makes you realize that this idea of โโ"to absorb them beautifully" only works if you're the c*nnibal, because on the other side you realize how awful that kind of relationship is. PS: I still think that if the love is true it can work, but the idea of โโuniting to become one is kind of scary.
Nick&Androids
I think that people who commit cannibalism are just hungry, not in love, that's just my opinion.
Lmao
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Quadnam|็
See this person gets it!
ava
Romantisization, yet censorship?
casx/camilla Stan <3
I wonder how high you have to be to come to this conclusion /neu
Lol
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ori
I have limited English (and wording in general) ability to express how I view this kind of metaphor for cannibalism, but you worded it perfectly! To devour is to loveโI like when a character behave like this
K0oko๏ผ
I really like your metaphor here, because love is almost like that for me to in my eyes. But just kind of the other way around. I want to love someone so much that I want to be consume by then, to have me in their mind and within them. They are mine and I am them, I'm there with them, literally. It's just a silly little thought of mine though.
br0ny:33
entiendo la metafora pero seria mas lindo y menos asqueroso decir "quiero unirme a tu ser" o alguna mierda cursi, si alguien me dice "te amo tanto que te quiero comer" salgo corriendo ya que comiendote a alguien tambien le quitas la vida eso es algo que llega mas haya del amor y es enfermizo no lo se, entiendo la metafora pero no puedo decir que sea romantica es mas bien algo mas parecido a la obsesion o algun termino parecido. no lo digo como critica si fantaseas con comerte a alguien es tu problema talves debas ir a un psicologo pero mientras no lo hagas de verdad todo bien (entiendo que es una metafora pero en las metaforas ahi igualmente algo de verdad en ellas) y finalmente si comes algo lo cagas asi que no lo mantienes al 100% a tu lado
Hats 9999
damn the amount of people that do not understand the metaphor here...
FRR!!!
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CJ
This is so real. Most people just think it's messed up without reading too much into it, like metaphors mean nothing to some people and it's really sad because the way you explained everything was perfect and beautiful and it sucks that some people can't understand metaphors because sometimes they can be way more meaningful than taking things at face value y'know?
ari
and this is why bones and all is my favorite movie
¡ghost!
That metaphor is strange for small minds
Sarah!!!
this js feels like its romanticizing cannibalism idk about this one tbh
olivBela.COM
omg yessssssssssss! "Bones and All" is the perfect example. such a great movie about cannibalism and love :0
antipatic
This post convinced me to eat my dog
D:
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Hypothesis: If you eat your dog, you are what you eat. Therefore, you must eat a second dog in order for it to constitute cannibalism. I hope you have 2.
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I circumvented this problem by eating a hot dog first
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Oh! Good. Good. Crisis averted.
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estoy de acuerdo