Normandie is a very lovely place, I would love to go also to not only see the country side, but to pay my respects to the D-Day landing sites, particularly where the Canadians landed on Juno.

But the part of France I really want to visit is Brittany, the Breton are my Brythonic cousins.

Glad I’m not the only one XD

Then North Atlantic will be painted Ochre Red

I just deleted my account in its entirety tbh.

Haha. Sometimes I do just that in Cruader Kings 3. I have a mod that adds ways to interact with Greenland and Vinland (Newfoundland), and that includes Native American characters.

Very little could ever top Crusader Kings 2’s Sunset Invasion (Western Europe gets invaded by the Aztec Empire)

Oh nice! Where in France are you?

From the makers of Ant Farm Keyboard

Norse tattoos because of the far right, and it is so, so much more dangerous and impactful when it’s done to a still living culture.

Hitler learned many things from settler colonialism for Nazi Germany, clearly “appropriating from an indigenous culture” is just another tool he learned.

To sign Declaration 127 (a reference to The Havamal, stanza 127: “When you recognize ill will, speak out against it, and grant no respite to your foes”), as a vow that the far right are no longer going to be welcome in heathen spaces.

But unfortunately too this day I still have to double check

This is another reason I’m very keen to point out the realities of what Norsemen were actually like, becaue the original Nazis we’re fond of appropriating their image during WW2 for similar ends; and this is still a problem Norse pagans today face, enough that we had to actively gather signatures

This ties into another reason I like John Brown so much: when he was asked to help displace some native peoples from their traditional hunting grounds by a Kansan settler, John Brown replied “I will have nothing to do with so mean an act, and I’d sooner drive the likes of *you* from this country.”

If pagans were allowed to flourish, the age of exploration would’ve much less genocide in it. Believing that there are more gods than just your village’s pantheon is the perfect pretext for such compersion

So much of our understanding of the pre-Christian European world is filtered through the lens of Christianity.

But the more I learn about indigenous peoples of the Americas, the more convinced I am that pagans were similar in worldview.

Converting to Christianity.

And one of my partners, who’s a Hellenic pagan, can likewise talk how about how so much of the Greek gods valued genorsity and likewise how political power only sustainably existed because a governor provided for his polis.

That a chieftain/king only ruled because his ting, the community of locals, approved of his rulership, his ability to provide. The reason Norsemen raided so much? Because Scandinavia was frigid and remote during the Middle Ages, and it was the only way to get money moving that direction without

I see so much of this compersion among pre-Christian European societies too, which is a big reason I’m a Norse pagan.

From believing that agency is the most sacred thing a person has, to the compersion to not commit genocide against indigenous peoples, to the generosity of a people who believed

And I could probably write a lot about how this correlates with higher rate of polyamory among queer people.

Our dating opportunities are limited enough as is that being jealous is just not in the cards, and a lot of us plan our futures around multiple partners.

Same tbh. Coyote and Crow gives me a similar conundrum: a primarily Indigenous party of adventurers feels like it needs to be drawn by an indigenous artist.