#tutorial religious

They're more like guidelines traditions, outside the US. Different schools and structures depending on who taught you, and who taught them.

(My main teacher went to Jacques Cousteau's school)

Did you know that clown paint is corrosive to seadweller skin? It's a closely guarded piece of knowledge! Some very nasty executions have been done this way.

I say this to set the tone of relations: strictly speaking the Ranking Highblood, leader of the clowns, is the highest in blood save the Empress, and the seadwellers Do Not Care for that Shit at ALL. The paint helps prevent any of them from trying to be the highblood and a seadweller both not that that's something any of them would want.

There's a real division between land and sea, the sea having it's own courts and the land being definitely separate and lower. It's not going to affect the life of anyone who isn't jade, Navy or higher, a clown, or Mindfang, though. Warmerbloods are also disdained by the high land dwellers so who is doing the oppressing is less important save for some teals who've really bought into the ideals of prestige (Philosophy tube' S video on the monarchy gives a good run down of that, that sense of belonging and commonality with someone without sharing your best interests)

Jades just Have respect. They do a hard job and they are vital for reproduction and theirs is a rare caste. They don't OUTRANK sea dwellers but they rarely MEET seadwellers.

((oh shit son, let’s GO.)) 

So essentially: people have a surface level of thought where things change all the time. It’s where you take in what’s going on, and have the thoughts you interpret as thoughts, like, did I leave the oven on, I like that hat, whatever. Even novice clowns can get in here because it’s not something that’s hidden? It’s like, the working pages of an exam. 

A little further in, you have the bit I’d reckon I’d call your inner thoughts? You’re not responding to stimuli directly, you are constructing a framework within which you respond to things. You pick up deeper opinions from the outer layer and braid them in here if you want to keep them, or sometimes without thinking. For instance: I like that hat, but I’ve noticed she only wears them when she’s feeling self conscious, I should make a joke about something. This is as far as Grand is happy to go? Because this is where people themselves are as deep as they’re likely to go. The consciousness, I guess, of your opinions. Memories or traumas or whatever might bubble up from even deeper, but they’re not going to stick around, they just further inform the framework that exists, but you’re not aware of 100% of the time. 

Deeper is the memories that make you who you are, a collection of feelings and tangles of patters so emeshed in who you are that you can’t really undo them. To give a personal example, I don’t like behaviours that leave others feeling belittled and I’ve stepped in on what others call ‘teasing’ or ‘harmless hazing’ before. That shit’s not going anywhere. It’s not something I might change my mind about when presented with new information, for better or worse. the memories behind this rarely come to the fore, but they’re here and they’re important. 

Deepest down is the shape of who you are, and that’s something that slowly spreads outwards. You are a person, and that is important, and your nature and the outside bits, that which is nurtured, expand out, I guess. You might grow to be more like a person you admire, without ever realising it, you might be stifled by propaganda, whatever. 

What Grand hates is anyone who attempts to like, mould people. Shape them like topiary by cutting through the mess of thoughts and bias and opinion at the second layer, give them new traumas at level three or even 4, and change the pattern of their growth artifically and too fast into exactly what they want it. Even if you only reinforce the surface thoughts you like, again and again, ever after, you will eventually see that sift down into the core of who a troll is. 

surface as sand by waves deeper moved, AND RIPPLES EXTERNAL ALSO SHIFTED. any as clown could be can these touch. IMPERMANENT IS AND BY ACCIDENT CAN THEM SENSE AND MOVE. 

deeper attitudes broader reside, THEM AS LEARNT ARE AND BY DESIRE SHAPED. exceptions myriad make, BUT BROADLY TO THESE A TROLL KEEPS? distinct in braiding and exceptions and mistakes and innovations are, BUT FROM MATERIALS ANY MOTHERFUCKER MIGHT PICK UP AND INTO THEIR OWN SELVES BRAID. this as deep as should to go, THINK, if impermanence desire and would a motherfucker autonomy allow, BUT OTHERS WHO ARE NOT VILE DISAGREE. 

deeper down experiences are that a motherfucker shapes, AND HERE THEM AS WITH DISAGREE FEEL CAN PLAY. to see will, AS UP INTO BRAIDS AS ABOVE PLUCK ARE, but for my own self never these touch, UNLESS ASKED EXPLICITLY. 

deepest yet who a motherfucker is resides. WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE AND IS BEING CHANGES, as all motherfuckers change, BY WHAT ABOVE IS SINKING IN. larger grow, AND OUTWARDS SPREAD. why the repeated access to pan and the resistance matters. LIKE TREES BONSAI CAN SHAPED BE BY OUTSKIRTS OF PAN YOURS, and what would boundless grow diminished being. SIDEWAYS AND OUT AND COMPRESSED EVERYONE IS BEING, but the shaping deliberate despise and save to those who pans took themselves? NO MOTHERFUCKER WOULD AT THE DEEPEST DOWNS CHANGE.