zed_proclaimer [he/him]

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Cake day: September 10th, 2023

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  • In the West, temporary tattoos are seen as toys for babies basically.

    In other areas, temporary skin markings can have significant cultural or religious importance. The West has no culture remaining and no cultural events in which we would traditionally decorate and adorn ourselves in those types of markings. We are so alienated and our culture so stagnated that there’s no reason we would ever congregate and hold meaningful shared cultural events, therefore temporary tattoos get relegated to toys for babies.

    Permanent tattoos historically have also been used as signifiers of community, of joining a certain group or tribe or reaching a certain social milestone. In the West, again, that is dead and all that’s left is individuals getting tattoos for individualist/aesthetic reasons to prove their “identity” to themselves and others.








  • that’s how a lot of these raunchy 80s comedies were with Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and the like. I remember liking Spies Like Us as a kid, and upon re-watching it’s basically 2 hours of Chevy Chase sexually harassing every woman he comes in contact with and getting rewarded for it.

    The overall plot is pretty good though, American CIA psychos launching a nuke on themselves to test Star Wars and start a war with the Soviets is a pretty redpilled plotline. Very weird ending though where the Soviets and the American spies divert the missile after Star Wars fails and the CIA/military guys get arrested for their treasonous plot and the Soviets and Americans become friends and play games together. Very optimistic but not very realistic I’m afraid, nobody would arrest the perpetrators and nobody would be friendly to the Soviets



  • What part of ASOIAF do they interpret to mean “monarchy is good”? Pretty sure the whole thing is a damning exploration of the shittiness and reactionary nature of medieval feudal society. Even the best kings in ASOIAF history basically just didn’t cause wars and kept the realm stable, the worst were all inbred sociopathic monsters and sadists (Aegon I, Aegon II, Maegor the Cruel, Aerys the Mad King, Jeoffrey Baratheon, Baelon Greyjoy, Euron Greyjoy, Cersei Lannister), or drunk philanderers who let everything devolve into chaos like Robert Baratheon or Aegon the Unworthy. The kings of Age of Heroes are likely mythologized and not literally real (such as the Grey King, who symbolized a mariner culture from the East and not specific individuals; or Brann the Builder who symbolizes human-children of the forest cooperation & the things that can be built when two species co-exist and cooperate instead of war).

    Basically the only places in the world where it’s a good place to live (for smallfolk) are Braavos and Dorne. Braavos is specifically not a monarchy, and Dorne is so isolated from the other kingdoms they just kinda chill and do their own thing. The Axis of Resistance is basically The Brotherhood without Banners, a ragtag coalition of broken and re-formed militias who resist military occupation through prolonged guerrilla tactics, who fight for an actual noble cause even if they believe it to be doomed - their leader being martyred over and over but keeps resurrecting via the divine intervention of the one true god (peace be upon R’hllor)