FuckYeahCulturalMongrelization

=They/Them=. Studied philosophy at uni. i also like anime, history and other stuff. You may have heard I disagree strongly with cultural appropriation discourse and hate defunct blog medievalpoc. I also post anime

[memecucker]

toasting the new year

[monidoll]

they dont make proper yanderes nowdays. todays obsessive girls wont do a thing just cry and be vaguelly suicidal. if you want to get chained you basically need to bring the chain to her house and then probably do the chaining yourself. noone wants to work anymore

[yixaun]

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[memecucker]

Would you believe it if I said someone I met said they found out about that place because they drove a friend to meet a plug who was an old man and that’s where he wanted to meet and also there may have been a back parking lot with multiple vans that people may have lived in and some guys may have been working on cars with no license plates

[memecucker]

I’m at the spa

I’m at the plasma donation center

I’m at the laundromat ie cash heavy income

I’m at the massage parlor that doesn’t describe services other than “Table Showers” and “Women and Men”

I’m at the combination spa-plasma donation center-massage parlor w/ table showers and “Women and Men”

[memecucker]

Also I like how Joinville records that leader of the Syrian Assassins reacted to an Arabic-speaking Frankish monk emissary going “Oh I you guys also like Saint Peter?! That’s cool!” and the Old Man on the Mountain was just like “Yeh. We also believe he held the reborn soul of Abel, Noah and Abraham. We believe in reincarnation btw” bc like Ismaili belief in earthly reincarnation is a highly esoteric and controversial idea that normally is associated with Ismaili sects present in South(east) Asia syncretizing and otherwise is denigrated and described as a misconception/rejected concept or at least an extremely esoteric notion guarded behind taqiyah and only orally revealed to very deeply involved initiates and he just like, volunteered it to some random monk

[hnty026]

(#AI生成 グラフィティアートが好きです。 - FAP!!のイラスト - pixivから)

[memecucker]

I’ve posted this before but I’m doing it again and I just like how Jean de Joinville’s Memoirs of his time in the 7th Crusade are so tsundere towards his understanding of Shia Islam

Like he was a crusading knight and was not there to do ethnography or to understand the beliefs of Muslims but rather to kill them though he still does come off as a naturally curious man with how he gives very detailed and objective-in-intent analysis of the enemy from a military perspective. That said it’s really interesting how his description the Shia attitude towards death as a reflection of Shia views on predestination where ‘God determines when you die but your actions determine how’ is shockingly not that off the mark considering the circumstances and that this is someone who thinks Ali was the uncle of Muhammad (and thus obv was not getting his info from actual Muslim or even native Christians). It’s fairly strongly implied imo that he was awed by Bedouins wearing no armor charging into battle with courage and bravery equaling or many times exceeding that of Eliezer Frankish knights covered in plate armor. The fact that he even goes out of his way to mention this twice and also makes it clear he doesn’t agree with the underlying theology (since this would’ve been dictated to Church clerical scribes as his memoirs were commissioned to serve as part of of Louis IX’s biographical hagiography) when he never does that elsewhere makes it clear this left him a bit shook.

Not to mention the idea that the Bedouins supposedly used Crusader knights in heavy armor to scold their children, not to frighten them but to scold them to not become frightened like them who clad themselves in heavy metal armor because their faithlessness shows how little they trust God. Like imagine being a holy warrior that is us used to seeing the will of the enemy crumble as they panic and scatter beneath your charge l; but suddenly in the heat of battle you see enemy soldiers wearing no armor charging towards you and you can sense in it not blind recklessness but determination and shedding of fear. realize that these enemies are trusting in God not to protect their lives but that if this is their chosen hour to die then they wish to show that they accept it by fighting for God. You the knight covered in plate armor take a step backwards from the man covered in rags and get the sudden realization, he may have the wrong faith but nonetheless, he has more faith in his false God than you do in the true God. I think that’d leave a mark inside

Also it’s like really ironic that Joinville is unaware of how what he assumes is the “correct” view on destiny vs free will and “God helps those who help themselves” mentality is actually much closer to Shia theology than the traditional Catholic Church’s overall Augustinian view on predestination.

[memecucker]

You think anyone ever pitched naming a comic book event “Eschatology”

[memecucker]

Imagine rolling the legendary sword gacha and you get the Sword of St Peter like oh so like, is it just a normal sword what’s magic about it well if you use it Jesus gets upset

[memecucker]

This gotta be one of the lamest “legendary swords” like ngl its backstory is it was used to cut off the ear of one dude that wasn’t even fighting and then Jesus said “hey! Put that back, dont use it”. Why would you give that shit to St George lmao

Like idk what’s funnier the sword just being lame or doing a revisionism and asserting that what if the reason Jesus said to sheath it is that actually its a super powerful sword thats like a nuke

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archived on 2009-04-27 13:19:36

[shanks]

[cerastes]

Rumia from Touhou Project

[memecucker]

I feel like making fun of Mormons occupies a particular spot in the Evangelical psyche bc the criticisms are usually like “i dunno man i think he just made all that shit up you fucking idiots you know we can do archaeology at the place being talked about ooooooh look at that absolutely fucking nothing supports tour religious scriptures claim oopsie try again you fucking dumbasses like your really believing in some miracle only like six people saw braindead”

Like they use Mormons as an outlet to release their pent up, like, common sense?

[memecucker]

Kekistans Green Revolution

[memecucker]

This was supposed to be a color revolution joke but tbh I could also go for some news segment from six years ago you only ever see on an airplane plane but like six times

[memecucker]

Kekistans Green Revolution