#retvrning to tradition

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

i have been summoned for jury duty this coming week and i’m pretty hyped about doling out some justice.

[visenyaism]

viserys iii wishing the targaryens were kings again by pretending to be young aerys ii who was wishing the targaryens were powerful and feared in the realm by pretending to be aerion brightflame who was wishing the targaryens were dragonriders again by pretending to be daemon targaryen who was wishing the targaryens were conquerors again by pretending to be visenya targaryen who was wishing the targaryens would be of old valyria again by pretending the targaryens weren’t mid-tier irrelevant dragonlords in the old country. because valyria is just an idea it’s a memory of a memory and the last survivors of the doom don’t remember it they just pretend to…dragon eating its own tail moment

[superchat]

"bet this hits so hard when ur stupid" damn, did they hit a nerve comparing your beloved coomer animu waifus with pugs there, bro? first thing I see on your blog is hypersexualized Loli moeblobs

ill be honest, while that post is an incredibly dumb, reductive, and useless take on many levels that arent worth explaining unless you want me to, the real reason i added that comment to the post was cuz its a funny quote that i wanted an excuse to use on a post

but im guessing the post hit hard for you and my addition to it struck a nerve for you huh :3c

[autisticexpression2]

Superspar Hartbeespoort Dam part 2 @TVYABANTU

Based.

(Putting a label on this because tumblr is part of the problem)

[papirouge]

you know what's freaking hysterical with idiots trying to paint anti zionism as a "leftist movement" as well as Jews making those post about how they feel threatened (if not betrayed) by leftists critical of Israel policies, is that there are actual rightoids conservatives/white supremacists are straight rehabilitating Hitler unchecked

....but yeah sure, Western Leftists are totally the driving forces of antisemitism worldwide right now

[tofixtheshadows]

Everyone: oh no twitter is dying for real this time

Me: has already moved on, is back to playing dress up on Gaiaonline

hehehehe

[tcypionate]

ive been watching a lot of metal & wood working videos and just general crafts and apparently the most annoying type of people watch these videos too so it's making my recommended slightly conservative

[catsofyore]

RETVRN to traditional masculinity when Real Men would tote around their babby kitties in case they needed kisses on their fuzzy little heads. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

[soup-mother]

why do people keep acting like "we need to RETVRN to traditional values" stops being the biggest dog whistle ever when it's coming from someone who isn't white?

"traditional [culture] masculinity" patriarchy and the repression of women is not a western fucking invention you are completely fucking deflecting here

[anotherclassic]

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

This absolutely does not matter at all in terms of its validity as an artform, but for all the bitching conservatives and RETVRN Roman statue pfps do over it while fetishizing Shakespeare and "classic" art and literature, rap is genuinely one of the closest thing in modern culture to "traditional" poetry and song in terms of meter, rhythm, verse, polysemy, performance etc.

[monstrousdesirestudy]

Retvrn to Tradition (sexualizing the sphinx) aka time is a flat circle

Pictured above is the sphinx from Dragons Dogma 2 and a painting from Gustave Moreau titled “Oedipus and the Sphinx” (1864) which depicted the sphinx as a femme fatale ready to gut Oedipus for answering incorrectly.

Titties? Out.

Eye contact? Intensely made.

Victim? Acquired.

[ancient-rome-au]

thinking of starting one of those pseudonymous twitter accounts with an ancient Greek statue for a profile picture who tweets fascist dogwhistles, but the Greek statue is polychrome and instead of fascist dogwhistles I tweet about how we should RETVRN to ancient traditions that were inexplicably weird and don’t neatly analogize onto modern fault lines in the culture war

[15-lizards]

What do you think the princesses in the Maidenvault would've worn? I checked your tag and only saw Rhaena wearing the pointed hair pieces

Since Baelor is like some weird RETVRN TO TRADITION Catholic convert to me, he makes his sisters dress in out of date modest clothing that their grandmothers wore. Imagine those Pentecostal wives who wear long sleeves and skirts down to their ankles all the time yk what I mean.

Rhaena develops Stockholm syndrome immediately and enjoys going full Septa for her brother. She doesn’t protest when she wears shapeless, heavy gowns, and she doesn’t mind wearing veils and headdresses that cover her hair to “protect her virtue”, even before she becomes a septa. Full medieval fashion pulled straight from the late years of the conquerors reign

Elaena is a goth To Me. She doesn’t let herself be pushed around as much as Rhaena, and her gowns usually fairly normal compared to her sisters. Always black, with a lower cut neckline than Rhaena’s but less decoration than Daena’s, she falls squarely in the middle of the spectrum with fashion that’s evocative of Maegor’s reign. Elaena most mormalest girl of the mid 160s AC

And obviously Daena is the most dramatic of the three, wearing the most modern clothing she can. Refusing to wear anything other than white after Baelor didn’t consummate the marriage, she also refuses to wear the more matronly and septa-like fashions that her sisters do. She demands fine silks and brocades and velvets be brought in, and all of her gowns have low cut necklines and golden trims. Her hair is either flowing wildly or tied up in a garish headdress because if there’s one thing she hates she hates her brothers stupid ascetic Christian lifestyle

[collapsedsquid]

Was listening to a thing on King Charles and his political views, his traditionalist anti-modernist political views weren't too interesting in themselves but they did address the issue of "disenchantment," that unlike classic kings and churches the modern world of companies and markets seems very disenchanting, and for him that's why we need to RETVRN.

But this does hit on one of my recurring thoughts, why are companies so disenchanting? "They are abusive and exploitative" you say, well I've got news for you about kings, churches, and families, being abusive does not stop people from being enchanted. This is one those things that I think we don't even consider that anyone could be enchanted with them so we don't think to ask why we are not. (I should say that this does happen a bit at the consumer end but not at the employee end)

There's a simple answer and that's "time," these aren't old enough. Maybe in the year 2200 the people will crave a return to the traditional values of Amazon.com.

Never felt satisfied with that though, and the other answer I've had is that, unlike church, family, and king, a fundamental part of how corporations work is firing. You can be cut loose from a family or excommunicated from a church, but this is not core to how those institutions work.

Don't really know if this even makes sense to wonder about, but I return to it every once in a while