>>5994774

Bunny ears tend to go back to "the bunny eared lawyer" trope.

Although there is a long, long list of symbolism regarding the rabbit.

In the east, Kaguya-Hime is often associated with the rabbit because of the Taoist legend of The Lunar Rabbit. Search engines are your friend, here. "The tale of the bamboo cutter" and "the lunar rabbit china" will get you the related stories. As such, people associated with rabbits from the east tend to have white hair and be symbolic of the moon.

In the west, the rabbit is a little more associated with the concept of Eostre - which is the Vernal Equinox, or spring. Hence why we have the Easter (Eostre) Bunny in the Spring to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. More than a few holidays were consolidated.

Because of this, a rabbit can often represent a state of relative innocence, of new life, or fertility/birth/rebirth.

Many people on the internet, and particularly among the anime-influenced, will blend the themes and symbolism. Without knowing much about this particular person, it is hard to say why they are using bunny ears. It could just be a play off of the pop culture, or it could have a deeper meaning.

For my works, I am using more eastern symbolism as those under the rabbit are related to Kaguya and the story of the chinese zodiac. You could project the broad western symbolism onto it and it work, so I don't try to write in isolation of it, but I make no specific efforts to express that symbolism.

Speaking of shills…

A friend of mine recently transformed on us. I am not sure what the cause is, but he suddenly became more secluded than normal and became a complete FE shill.

We are mildly concerned about him, he has some new additions to his family on the way, and he and I were both pushing to get a business going that would give us some extra income… Then I find out he lost interest in a lot of that to "research."

The irony of it all being that we could, with what we were setting up, test many of the things FE puts forward.

The nature of his remote jobs and the timing of his "personal shilling" makes me wonder if he's somehow bound up into this a bit more than meets the eye, if you get what I mean. It obviously didn't work, and I have my own avenues around sabotage of my peer group.

Given the death of my father and some other events, I know someone just wants me as a reserve blood line to pull from in the future. So this timely shill attempt at the personal level is not entirely outside the window of contingencies. The question is whether my friend is just that vulnerable to manipulation, or if he is being financially leveraged. I know who employs him, and so I can understand why they would keep a position like his on the edge of being eliminated given his proximity to one such as myself.

In the grand scheme of things, a single employee's payroll is a small price to pay for insurance.