#Viking Raider

[littlefreya]

Called OUT

Ooops 👀 that’s definitely us

[littlefreya]

My sister is from another mister. 💖😍

[thesilicontribesman]

Silver Viking 'Broad Band' Arm Rings, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, 900 to 925CE, St. Fagans National Museum of History, nr. Cardiff, Wales

[illustratus]

Charlemagne anxiously observes the approach of ships carrying Norman raiders by Alphonse de Neuville

[bolloxtothat]

Lil' Sea Raider

[littlefreya]

My girl 😍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 I love you so much

Stay in there.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Viking Raid

[hockeydogwoof]

At the Raiders versus Vikings game in Minneapolis wearing shiny PVC Raiders gear.

[littlefreya]

AND I GOT A SNEAK PEAK, AND IT'S BLAZING HOT!!!!

Sy One-Shot Coming Soon

I have this one-shot about Sy coming soon.

What's it about you ask? Well, it's about Syverson getting into--wait for it--Pottery! He gets into pottery as a means to cope with his PTSD and falls in love in the process. Then opens his own Pottery business, with reader!

If you want a TAG, comment or reblog with a - 👻 (hehehe)

[braindead-virtually-tv]

Reblog if you vote !

[littlefreya]

babe! the August vibes I'm getting from those new photos from the new Guy Richie movie Henry's in. I can't wait to see more of it.

Yessssss!!!!! Imagining August after he escaped and shaved his stach 👀 and he has a new trainee

Please let me dream 🥲

[viking-raider-library]

Henry Cavill x Reader: Series List - Part Three

Key: ✽ - Complete, ✽✽ - Hiatus, ♥ - Mature, ✢ - Sensitive Content, ⟳- Coming soon

Always Us: I II III IV V VI VII VIII ♥/✢

[littlefreya]

Definitely needed that this morning. It’s like you read my mind 🖤

[thesilicontribesman]

'The Journey' Contemporary Sculpture in Durham, depicting the founding of Durham through flight from Lindisfarne with the body of St. Cuthbert

[illustratus]

The Sea Raiders by Albert Goodwin

Depicts four Snekkjas (Viking longships) at sea amidst a flock of seagulls

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should