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This afternoon, I'm watching Duck Soup (1933) and Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories (2014–) and thinking about the role of chaotic neutral figures like those played by the Marx Brothers and Tim & Eric in comedy, absurdism, and Surrealism.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The 'chaotic neutral' D&D alignment is a good shorthand to think about these kind of trickster figures of Surrealist art and absurdist comedy implying as it does anarchism but not barbarism, self-fulfilment but not greed, absolute freedom but not libertarianism.On Internet Archive
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Because I'm always - always! - on the bleeding edge of the zeitgeist, I'm thinking about Game of Thrones and how the early (book-led) seasons had great depictions of chaotic neutrals and lawful neutrals until D&D decided that, no, actually these characters are either good or bad.Permalink On Internet Archive
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See also: chaotic neutrals in Vine and how Vine culture really allowed trickster figures to flourish artistically. Not unrelatedly, I've had this Vine stuck in my head for days youtu.be/nS2PCPKomCcPermalink On Internet Archive
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I just realised that I used 'D&D' as a shorthand to refer to two separate things in the same thread: first for Dungeons & Dragons and second for David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. So that's helpfully confusing.Permalink On Internet Archive