And so it goes

gurl...U JUST HAVE A FRAME OF UR BESTIE NEXT TO U AT ALL TIMES#??$?$?$

ITS NOT EVEN LIKE,,,SUSAN AND HER LIKE "haha this was a amazing day let's take a pic together :]" NO????

GURL TOOK A PHOTO OF HER BESTIE, PRINTED THAY SHIT OUT, FRAMED IT, AND LAYS NEXT TO IT ALL THE TIME FOR ID ASSUME COMFORT EVEN WHEN SHE'S GONE,,,,

what I mean by that is colonizers viewed the nudity of black and indigenous people as "obscene" and inherently sexual because of the avid dehumanization of them. it's literally just fascist bullshit spread in people's brains SPECIFICALLY AMERICANS. (my European gf has told me many times that America's weirdness about nudity was strange and I agree)

Excellent tags.

1. that's not the point of popular religion my guy

#like damn why would the common ppl follow the religion the nobility does. let's think real hard on that (via @bastardofharrenhal)

And it was the common people's religion first! The Seven don't include a king and a queen, but just a mother and father, young and old women, fighting and working men, ordinary people's roles and jobs. And it's part of the doctrine that even monarchs must bow to the Seven just like everybody else. It's about as ground-level as a religion gets, and open to everyone. The village septs with the Seven as crude charcoal drawings on the walls, with a layman leading prayers once a week, they're just as valid and real to the common people as the grandest marble sept in King's Landing or Oldtown.

#if i lived in slavery world i'd probably like the no slavery religion (via @daenysthedreamer)

Yes, also never forget that the Faith of the Seven was the religion of the Andals who fled Essos in advance of expanding Valyrian imperialism. To them, Westeros was the promised land, free from slavery. It's no wonder that slavery is an abomination to the Faith (tbf it's such to the Old Gods too), and banned in Westeros for thousands of years.

And that's not even getting into how ecumenical the Faith is, how swearing by "the old gods and the new" is a thing, how the remaining followers of Mother Rhoyne live in peace with their Faith-following neighbors in Dorne, and how a septon can even assert other gods are the reason for the weather. There are militants and fanatics, but they're rare (or used to be), and those who would disturb this peace between neighbors of different faiths were usually shut down quickly.

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There are a bunch of guys floating around in the afterlife, and the government has a whole branch devoted to communing with them to get their interpretation of an increasingly-distant society that has moved on in terms of science, culture, and demography? You have to explain to Madison what a router is? You sit Hamilton down and break the news of 9/11 to him?

So many places you can go with the idea, it's really solid from a worldbuilding perspective. There's even a term for it, necrocracy, rule by those who have died. And it bakes in all these conflicts about the direction of the world and who has the ultimate say in what happens next.