u/Marissa_on_the_town

So you know how there's a tradition in places like Brazil or New Orleans where there's this big celebration on Fat or Shrove Tuesday (day before Ash Wednesday) to celebrate the beginning of Lent. One last hurrah before 40 sobering days of preparing for Easter in your heart and community.

A cultural bachelor's party complete with booze, parades, parties, costumes, music, food, and so much more. Oh and beads and other prizes

But nothing ever happens after the Weekend of Easter. I mean sure, there's Easter Monday where there's funfairs and church picnics here and there...but nothing really huge. And the ending of anything deserves a big celebration too, right?

So I propose a Mardi Gras but on Easter Monday: Lundi Gras. A huge celebration in honour of Jesus rising from the tomb, and the successful ending of the Easter Season

And it could be in opposites. Instead of loud festivities, then the silence of the night as people prepare for Lent, it could be like all quiet and sombre, till like 12, or maybe 3 pm or maybe even by sundown and then all the celebrating begins

Or maybe the party starts at 12 midnight of Easter Monday and then ends before dawn or before sundown of that same day.

And maybe it can even be different: Either the costumes are all fabulous but in black and white or just inverted colours or just regular if no one minds. And they throw hats instead of beads. And whatever is the opposite of dance music. or just regular Mardi Gras but on a Monday. And all the food and drinks are made upside down. or maybe mostly the crowd is in costumes but the people on the floats arent. Anything's possible

But those are just my thoughts

Okay so manipulating people is usually seen as a red flag and always something someone does for personal reasons or to abuse their partner...but what ways can it be used for good?

Like, are there ways for you to change people's minds, get them to do things of their own volition and let their flaws cause their downfall without it tracking back to you? Just work the system and human nature but for a good cause?

I often hear how people who once supported the trans community/were liberal/supported black people or women and got corrected/challenged/exposed/falsely accused/or hurt by at some point and became fiercely anti-trans/ conservative/anti-black or anti-feminist and I wondered how much that happens and if there were any more examples besides the stray influencer or two online

Or do most people get challenged like that and still roll with it, especially if they get seriously cancelled or hurt but still refuse to abandon their cause?

And what would you be doing in a situation like this?