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My friend Ami’s clan was a laughingstock, but she wore her family’s colors proudly. Where the rest of us wore earth colors, colors taken from our natural fibers, our animal skins and furs, her clan dyed wool to be brightly colored. They did a bad job of hunting after that, bright red tunics cutting through the brush. But the thing is, where our warriors would commit the honorable suicide of seppuku to cleanse themselves of dishonor, theirs would, well..

They committed sporkuku. They would dig the plastic tines of the little used utensil into their abdomens, raise a welt, and then drag it up and across. It mocked our warriors and did little to ingratiate them to the other clans. They declared war on Ami’s tribes.

Ami’s tribe fought with toothpicks. And they won the first battle. It was brutal.

(Thanks Matt Wallace)

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