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litiyerses · 4 months

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calypso having an emotion-centered character and being viewed & getting treated as the ‘evil woman’ is actually a reflection of how every woman's emotions are villainized when they’re shown vividly and are a main part of their character in popular media.

in general media and riordanverse specifically, women with emotions are always looked down upon because showing emotions is regarded as a dramatic act so when a female character shows and acts on their emotiotions they get degraded and instantly despised because of it. this is done with every single female character while male characters who show emotion are treated like saints and found worthy of self redemption. this happened with annabeth when she didn’t want to believe luke was the bad guy and wanted to try bring him back because she was manipulated by him her entire life, meanwhile luke, who did batshit crimes like causing hundreds of innocent deaths, manipulating little girls by flirting with them, admitting his crush to a 16 year-old at his ripe age of 23, is remembered as a hero and considered ‘redeemed himself’ after sacrificing himself while annabeth was called insufferable when she didn’t believe he was evil in the first place. let’s not forget piper, who’s a lesbian that was forced into a relationship with a man by a goddess and thought she was in the wrong for not feeling right with jason. during the entire relationship she was experiencing a very hard comphet and couldn’t figure herself out because of the fake memories, everybody was bashing her when she was acting confused, when she was, in fact confused. i have a longer post about this specific topic, so if you guys wanna check it out it’s right here.

coming back to calypso, first we need to clear out the misconceptions about her curse on percy that affected annabeth. she wasn't blind nor was personally attacking annabeth, her curse was to make someone feel like how she was feeling all time and that’s why percy and annabeth couldn’t reach out to one another while being right next to each other. annabeth’s blindness came from the titan she defeated in the sea of monsters and is actually the first curse to be put by the arai on them, so it has nothing to do with calypso. the curse was affecting annabeth because she happened to be the person percy loved and was right next to him. if percy was there alone either percy would feel alone and abandoned or the curse wouldn’t affect him at all, since there’s no person he can go back to save. and the curse itself wasn’t even a death wish type of curse she just wanted to be heard, be acknowledged and wanted free off her island. not to forget the curse wasn't harming or killing any of them yet it’s still demonized more than by literally every other thing that happened in the books. nothing luke has ever done is seen as evil as her curse just because it was by her and i’m pretty positive if something like this was shown in pjo by luke it would be glossed over and romanticized in the fandom. further proof of how a male character's actions get brushed off and forgiven easily but soon a female character does something even slightly questionable they get villainized on the spot.

she is also despised because she doesn't let everyone's favorite man get away with his misogynistic stuff. calypso doesn't treat leo any worse than he treats her. whenever she starts arguing it is a response to something leo has said or done, which in the most case she's in the right but leo gets so much slack from his past and being fandom favorite to be held accountable for the way he treats people. he's always been written as a misogynist, he never treated any women with any respect. he always had some sort of disrespect for every female character he seems have some sort of closure with like piper, hazel, calypso, the list goes on, but yet calypso is always expected to be more 'tolerable and understanding' bc of his trauma, as if every single character in the series isn't written upon a single trauma they had and have their character built on it. and he always had a problem dealing with others and their emotions and instead of expecting him to be working to change that, calypso is expected to adjust his manners.

oddly enough, she's also expected to show some gratitude towards leo for saving her, when she never asked him to do so and not for a second believed that he was actually going to come back when he said he would. is she grateful that he came back and freed her? yes. should she feel any obligations to make him feel greater because of it? NO. everything leo did for calypso was his and only his choice and nobody else's. calypso is happy that he did so, but expecting her to tolarate every single thing he does solely because of that is wrong.

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thaliasthunder · 2 years

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i really hope they dont make ares a misogynist crap to clarisse in the series when in the myths ares literally is the only decent father in the entire olympus. i dont want cabin 5 girls thinking their father would not love them bc of their gender

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darkcrowprincess · 3 months

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There needs to be more Luke lives and get redemption arc fics. Like imagine the hilarity of him being part of the seven. People making jokes about this being his karma or part of his probation of keep these 7 adhd hormonal demigods on task of saving the world. Percy understanding Luke hatred of the gods(which Luke still has) the hilarity of Leo and Luke meeting.

#my thoughts #luke castellan #percy jackson #luke castellan defender #Luke Castellan apologist #Luke lives #Luke redemption arc #luke: why do I have to babysit the idiot over powered trio?#said idiot trio: Percy Jason and Nico doing something stupid

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sisididis · 4 months

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Also, I would be lying if I said that I’m not apprehensive to start The Heroes of Olympus after Percy’s treatment of Nico in The Last Olympian.

I mean

Dude

You might say: "He led Percy right into Hades' clutches!"

But he escaped, didn't he? And Nico didn't do it on purpose! He only wanted to find out more about his mother and their (Bianca and his) escape from Lotus Hotel and Casino. He didn't know that his dad would imprison Percy. Hades tricked Nico, too!

And without Nico, Percy would have never thought of finding Mrs. Castellan to uncover Luke's past or descended into the Underworld to bathe in the you-know-what and become semi-invincible.

#nico is so important yet so overlooked in the last book #i am a nico di angelo apologist he can do no wrong #nico di angelo #percy jackson #my entries

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bomber-grl · 7 months

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✎ ╰┈➤ What I Write ❤︎₊ ⊹

This is a safe space for everyone except racists, terfs, zionists, pedos, proshippers, pro ana/pro ed, bigots of all kind, or their apologists

-> ❤︎₊ ⊹ Who I’ll Write for -

Female! Reader

Gn!Reader

Male!Reader

->What Specific Characters I Write For

Female, male, non-binary characters

Hiro Hamada

Miles Morales

Damian Wayne

Nico Di Angelo

Zuko

Etc.

->What Fandoms I Write For-

Spider-Man : Into the spiderverse

Marvel

Big Hero 6

Percy Jackson

Avatar The Last Airbender

Avatar

Sally Face

Harry Potter

The Owl House

Gravity Falls

SVTFOE

A good amount of anime (ex: Saiki k, assassination classroom, mob psycho)

The Dragon Prince

Tales of Arcadia

Obey Me

Genshin

The arcana / fictif

Twisted Wonderland

Our life beginning and always

Adventure time

Fiona and cake

Detroit: become human

Arcane

Legend of Zelda

Stranger things

The maze runner

FNAF (both game and movie)

Scott Pilgrim

Creepy pasta 😋

Umbrella academy

Our life (all love interests throughout both games)

->Genres I Write -

Angst

Fluff

->Boundaries

Treat me w respect and I’ll do the same

Feel free to message/reach out regarding requests :)

I will occasionally reach out as well, mostly to get more details regarding the request

I wont write anything with topics of ped*philia, romantic student/teacher relationships,pregnancy, or any age regression (age regression just because I’m not fully comfortable!!:))

->Extra things I write

I also write poly relationships

->Where you can find my writings

(Nothing yet posted on anything other than tumblr

Ao3 - bomber_grl

Extra words-

Feel free to ask about any fandoms/characters who aren’t here :)

Despite the fact that I write for all readers, I usually write for gender neutral since I never/hardly use gender specific pronouns. If you would like a fem or masc reader then feel free to request that.

If my reqs are closed and you still choose to request something, I’ll just delete it

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juneberrie · 1 year

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✶ rules (back to nav)

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— if you are over the age of 20 please dni (unless we're mutuals). most characters i write for are minors so its kinda weird that ur here . . .

REQUEST STATUS: OPEN!

THINGS I WILL WRITE. fluff, angst, fem!reader, gn!reader, latina or hispanic!reader, polyamory, basically anything that isn't on my no list.

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— i generally prefer avoiding writing things that could come off as offensive to any group of people, such as black!reader, asian!reader, readers with ocd/depression/etc, because i myself do not have experience writing topics like that and i don't want to offend anyone.

WHO I WRITE FOR.

pink = favs | blue - platonic only

RIORDANVERSE.

percy jackson, annabeth chase, jason grace, leo valdez, frank zhang, piper mclean, hazel levesque, connor stoll, drew tanaka, nico di angelo, will solace, clarisse la rue, thalia grace, grover underwood, luke castellan

MONSTER HIGH.

frankie stein, cleo de nile, draculaura, clawd wolf, clawdeen wolf, deuce gorgon, heath burns, jackson jekyll, holt hyde, lagoona blue

MY LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIA GIRLS

apple jack, rainbow dash, rarity, fluttershy, twlight sparkle, pinkie pie, big mac, sunset shimmer

OUTERBANKS.

jj maybank, john b. routledge, pope heyward, kiara carerra, sarah cameron

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS.

buttercup utonium, blossom utonium, bubbles utonium, brick jojo, boomer jojo, butch jojo

SPIDERMEN.

mcu!peter parker, pavitr prabhakar, miles morales

MY BABYSITTER'S A VAMPIRE.

ethan morgan, benny weir, rory keaner

THE OUTSIDERS.

darry curtis, ponyboy curtis, sodapop curtis, steve randle, dallas winston, johnny cade, two-bit matthews

THE HUNGER GAMES.

peeta mellark, finnick odair, johanna mason, cato hadley, clove kentwell, marvel sanford, treech, sejanus plinth, lucy gray baird

THE GRISHAVERSE

kaz brekker, wylan van eck, matthias helvar, nina zenik, nikolai lantsov, david kostyk

JULIE & THE PHANTOMS.

luke patterson, reggie peters, alex mercer, julie molina, nick, carrie wilson, willie

MISCELLANEOUS.

billie eilish, graham dunne

#◝˚₊‧ my stuff

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aces-cyber-cesspool · 11 months

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2023 updated about me ! 🔮

what's up internet residents, I'm Ace/Credence/Ajay ♍︎ august 26 | infj-t | tone indicators appreciated :] my pronouns are he/they (and zi/zim/zir neos !) bilingual (english + svenska)

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Resolve things privately please, I don't particularly like arguing over threads at 3am lol (and don't hesitate to reach out ! let me know if I do something that made you uncomfortable, I promise it's not intentional and I want to prevent doing so in the future :) )

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lucien-calore · 1 year

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Welcome to my blog!! My name is amanda (but you can call me vinn) and my pronouns are she/her. I'm a huge extrovert, so i love talking to people!!

My fandoms:

Red Queen Series by Victoria Aveyard

Throne of Glass series by Nehemia Ytger

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Lucien Vanserra

Harry Potter series by Emma Watson

The Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo

The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black

The Riordanverse in general

Top Gun: Maverick

Peaky Blinders

My Favorite Characters

Red Queen

Tiberias "Cal" Calore VII

Kilorn Warren

Lucas Samos

Evangeline Samos

Elane Haven

Iris Cygnet

Throne of Glass:

Chaol Westfall

Dorian Havilliard

Manon Blackbeak

Elide Lochan

Yrene Towers

Nesryn Faliq

Lorcan Salvaterre

Aedion Ashryver

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Lucien Vanserra

Azriel

Elain Archeron

Gwynneth Berdara

Nesta Archeron

Eris Vanserra

Helion

Lady of Autumn

Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy

Theodore Nott

Blaise Zabini

Luna Lovegood

Ginny Weasley

Narcissa Malfoy

James Potter

Regulus Black

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Dorcas Meadowes

Marlene McKinnon

The Grishaverse:

Kaz Brekker

Inej Ghafa

Jesper Fahey

Wylan Van Eck

Nina Zenik

Matthias Helvar

Zoya Nazyalensky

Nikolai Lantsov

Genya Safin

David Kostyk

Alina Starkov

Tolya Yul-Bataar

Tamar Kir-Bataar

The Riordanverse

Jason Grace

Percy Jackson

Piper McLean

Nico Di Angelo

Will Solace

The Folk of The Air

The Ghost

Cardan Greenbriar

Jude Duarte

Top Gun: Maverick

Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw

Natasha "Phoenix" Trace

Peaky Blinders

Esme Shelby-Lee

John Shelby-Lee

Finn Shelby

Thomas "Tommy" Shelby

Ada Thorne née Shelby

Elizabeth "Polly" Gray née Shelby

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shelby née Stark

Arthur Shelby

Gina Gray née Nelson

My Favorite Ships:

Red Queen

Calorn (Cal x Kilorn)

Marecas (Mare x Lucas)

Evane (Elane x Evangeline)

Evare (Evangeline x Mare)

Sharley (Shade x Farley)

Throne of Glass

Chaorian (Chaol x Dorian)

Malide (Manon x Elide)

Nesrene (Nesryn x Yrene)

Rowcan (Rowan x Lorcan)

Fenaedion (Fenrys x Aedion)

Sorchahemia (Sorcha x Nehemia)

Celehemia (Celaena x Nehemia)

Herrin (Hollin Havilliard x Terrin Westfall)

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Luzriel (Lucien x Azriel)

Gwynlain (Gwyn x Elain)

Neris (Nesta x Eris)

Helloa (Helion x LOA)

The Folk of The Air

Ghardan (The Ghost x Cardan)

Jucasia (Jude x Nicasia)

Harry Potter

Dreo/Dragonott (Draco x Theo)

Linny (Luna x Ginny)

Jegulus (James x Regulus)

Wolfstar (Remus x Sirius)

Dorlene (Dorcas x Marlene)

Pandalily (Pandora x Lily)

Narlily (Narcissa x Lily)

Nobleflower (Narcissa x Alice)

The Grishaverse

Helnik (Matthias x Nina)

Wesper (Jesper x Wylan)

Tolnej (Tolya x Inej)

Kazper (Kaz x Jesper)

Zoyalai (Zoya x Nilolai)

Gevid (Genya x David)

Genyalina (Genya x Alina)

Zoyalina (Zoya x Alina)

Zonya (Zoya x Genya)

Darkolai (The Darkling x Nikolai)

The Riordanverse

Jercy (Jason x Percy)

Pipabeth (Piper x Annabeth)

Valdangelo (Leo x Nico)

Reynalia (Reyna x Thalia)

Frazel (Frank x Hazel)

Top Gun: Maverick

Sereshaw/Hangster (Hangman x Rooster)

Payboy (Payback x Fanboy)

Peaky Blinders

Jesme (John Shelby x Esme Shelby)

Pollyrama (Polly x Aberama)

Finnsiah (Finn Shelby x Isaiah Jesus)

DO NOT INTERACT IF:

• you are a manorian shipper

• you are a maven calore fan/stan/defender/apologist

• you are pro the inner circle

• you are anti any of my favorite characters and/or ships (specifically chaol, chaorian, malide, nesrene, cal, calorn, draco, jason and/or jercy)

• you are pro sjm and/or jkr

i hope you enjoy your time here and feel free to message me and/or send me an ask anytime!!

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mha-platonic-yanderes · 2 years

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Who’s your favorite Percy Jackson character 👀

Very off topic but I am a Nico di Angelo person through and through. Though recently, I have become a Drew Tanaka apologist.

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imaminoccultation · 1 year

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Letters of the Imam of the Oppressed - Introduction

I am a queer Muslim dude who worships Allah as my God, considers the Prophet Muhammad his final true Messenger, and recognizes the final descendant of his viceregent Imam Ali, peace be upon him, as the Imam of the Time, the Imam in Occultation, the Imam of the Oppressed of the Earth, Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi peace be upon him. I was persuaded of this by rational argument: I saw the clear signs of God in the form of spiritual peace and happiness in the teachings of his students. The teachings of Hikma. The teachings of the Muslim Neoplatonists.

If you’re upset by any of that, fuck off and go home. Seriously. There are a billion other spaces for you in the Muslim community, you could really just use your time better. Personally, isn’t this a good time to read Surat ‘Al ‘Imran? It usually makes me feel better after a long day.

If you’re like…wait…tell me more…please, come in. I’d love to have you. There is a lot we need to talk about. As a queer Muslim man who left Islam in high school, I had internalized an inferiority complex formed by a combination of Sunni Neo-Traditionalist dawahganda, marketed to impressionable young faithful boys like me, and Orientalist polemics that had forced the dawahganda discussion into an utterly unsustainable apologist mythology that implodes the moment you investigate any real history on Islam. And yet I’m Muslim. I have very, very strong reasons for that. I do not accept God on blind faith, trust me. I’m a linguist, student of Arabic, raised by people from a Mahasi Sufi community located in southern el-Gezira: I love Islamic scripture. I am a practicing Muslim. Even as an atheist, I would pray occasionally. But I was disappointed, as such a practicing and spiritual Muslim, to see the utter spiritual impoverishment in the queer Muslim discourse as I had encountered it. But also having suffered from the consequences of growing up queer in an orthodox Muslim household, over the six years of nihilistic atheistic naturalism I’d built in high school, a profound sense of anger and disgust at the injustices I saw in my community. My father built the first Islamic center in our small town white Mormon and Christian community. My first Muslim role model. His dad was a high-ranking Sufi sheikh in the Sammaaniya tariga, extremely passionate about his faith, but extremely flexible in his doctrine. For him, Islam was about community. The tribe, and keeping it together.

My mother was equally religious, if not more so, as she leaned more on the Sunni Neo-Traditionalist side, and seems to be growing more and more conservative. I see this a lot in the Muslim-American community, and it worries me. Mostly because, you know, it’s actually a threat to my mental health and safety, and the solutions the Muslim-American community are currently proposing are absolutely insufficient. The typical progressive reformist arguments may persuade those for whom the specific inner workings of doctrine aren’t particularly important, but unfortunately for my parents, I was not one of those people.

I read Percy Jackson.

You see, Logan Lerman was my first boy crush. I saw the trailer and was obsessed with pictures of him for reasons I didn’t quite understand. I started with the third book, the only one available in the library. When it was revealed in the Heroes of Olympus that Nico also had a crush on Percy, as a Muslim, I was bothered. As an Orthodox Muslim something about Rick Riordan’s religious pluralism itched at my conscience: I remember distinctly at one point recognizing there was no difference between my relationship with Allah and the relationship many of the Percy Jackson characters had with their gods. I asked: how do I know Allah is any more real than Zeus?

Muslim parents are terrible at answering this question, Muslim-American parents even worse, because they fear for the future of their culture and see the youth adopting new, strange values, and it affects how they talk about Islam. It’s lead to one of the most soul-sucking doctrines that I ever dealt with in Sunni Islam, at least from my perspective: qadar. Fate. Destiny. Predestination. How does qadar actually work? Muslim polemicists love to mock the paradox of the Christian Trinity, but the paradox of qadar disturbed me far more in my youth, as somebody who was taught Islam is about the Garden or the Fire, doing the right things to get let into the house. But then there’s a problem.

What if God sees fit that you like a boy? What could the Lord of the Worlds have planned for you if his natural inclination is to turn you towards those of your sex and away from those of the opposite sex? I was always able to make easy friends with girls, by the time I was in high school the overwhelming majority of my friends were girls: at the time I didn’t understand why, but now I have a hypothesis. Perhaps there was something about me that made them feel safe. Perhaps it was my limited lack of actual sexual interest in them.

I don’t know. It’s not the point. The Qur’an tells you Allah is the most merciful, but if the most merciful sees fit that you have a natural inclination to what is one of the most blatant historical relics of medieval homophobia in the Uthmanic Bible (mushaf, meaning “bound in pages,” used as a guide for reciting the Qur’an – the Recitation – in prayer), you have to question this assumption. You end up on the bottom of a natural injustice in the social order, where there is complete invisibility and confusion, v.s. something like patriarchy or racism, which is simply just more visible. People always told me that, if I kept asking questions, I’d become an atheist. They were right, but there’s a reason I’m back. I didn’t become an atheist for intelligent reasons. I was coaxed out of Islam into the white supremacist cult that is American Neo-Atheism which is a source of endless cognitive dissonance when you’re also a gay Black Arab who also has Mahasi heritage, and thus a tight tribal link to an extremely old written culture. Tore me apart, but the mindset I’d been raised in as a Sunni Neo-Traditionalist had prohibited me from critical thought: I thought Islam was about salvation by faith alone. The parallel between this worldview and the equally spiritually impoverished worldview of white Evangelical Christians should be obvious, and it was a highway to a truly destructive lifestyle that lead me to have severe depression and totally incapacitated my ability to reach my life goals.

There’s a reason I’m very concerned about Andrew Tate’s conversion. I’m not worried about him – I could give a rat’s ass if his faith is sincere or not. His rhetoric is dangerous and reductive. But I was really worried about Mohammed Hijab. Genuinely. He was the kind of person I would’ve listened to as a teenager. Confident speaker. Handsome. Even crazier, Egyptian: lots of Sudanese people are invested in this inane Egyptian-Sudanese rivalry I only ever invoke in jest. But I’m a history nerd. That’s what you get for getting into the Riordanverse in your youth. I know my relationship with Egyptians: our ancestors have been drinking from the same river since time immemorial. The cultural lines between Nubia, where my Mahas ancestors hail from, and its neighboring ancient Egypt, were once so blurred as to make their cultures at times indistinguishable. Both countries then converted from polytheism to Orthodox Christianity – soon, to Islam. The cultural context Mohammed Hijab hails from and the cultural context I hail from, and the ideologies I developed as a teenager and the ideologies he still preaches, they’re unmistakably connected. Noticing these parallels brought me to some conclusions about how I’d come to see Islam that were further disabused by my discovery of the Western academic study of the Qur’an and Islam: I once feared it, but even when I left Islam, I never lost my interest in the history of the faith of my parents. I think of a comment by Hassan at-Turaabi my father would quote to prove at-Turaabi was no true Muslim: “do you not know the history of your religion?”

I didn’t. Knowing it made me see something entirely new. A fundamental shift in life perspective that led me to convert to Shi’i Islam out of a deep sense of personal calling. I am not a traditional Twelver, by any means: perhaps it’s more accurate to call me a non-denominational Muslim, the truest heretic. My reading of history led me to the conclusion that Imam Ali had the best claim to the caliphate: I did not reach this conclusion due to any blind faith in doctrines such as infallibility, which is an orthodox Islamic doctrine in both Sunni and Shi’i Islam that I fully reject. In the community of Islamic Neoplatonists, rather than have my faith used to beat me down and have my answers questioned with instructions to faith, they instead had a patient conversation with me where, through simple rational argumentation that I’d become so fond of as a high school debater, they persuaded me of the truth of their position. Isn’t that insane?

This is the truth of my Islam. I do not care if you consider it to be authentic or proper doctrine. Islam is not about doctrine to me. It’s about principles, values, developing the skills you need to survive in the world in any time and place. Sunni Neo-Traditionalism is not saalih for kulli zamaan wa makaan, and I firmly believe that, even if I respect Sunnism in concept.

But I will not accept it. I cannot accept such irrationality. So I will speak my truth, explain my thought process, my doctrine, inspired by the spirit of this verse in my mother’s favorite chapter of the Qur’an, the Song of the Stories (Q 28:1-6):

طسٓمٓ (1)

Ta Sin Mim.

تِلۡكَ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ ٱلۡمُبِينِ (2)

These are the verses of the Record which makes things clear.

نَتۡلُواْ عَلَيۡكَ مِن نَّبَإِ مُوسَىٰ وَفِرۡعَوۡنَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ لِقَوۡمٖ يُؤۡمِنُونَ (3)

We narrate to you something of the Prophecy of Musa and Pharaoh in truth and justice, to a community of believers.

إِنَّ فِرۡعَوۡنَ عَلَا فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهۡلَهَا شِيَعٗا يَسۡتَضۡعِفُ طَآئِفَةٗ مِّنۡهُمۡ يُذَبِّحُ أَبۡنَآءَهُمۡ وَيَسۡتَحۡيِۦ نِسَآءَهُمۡۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِينَ (4)

Indeed, Pharaoh seized great authority in the Earth, divided its people up into sects, slaughtering the sons of some of them, leaving their women to be assaulted; he was one of the corrupt.

وَنُرِيدُ أَن نَّمُنَّ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسۡتُضۡعِفُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَنَجۡعَلَهُمۡ أَئِمَّةٗ وَنَجۡعَلَهُمُ ٱلۡوَٰرِثِينَ (5)

We wish to comfort those who have been oppressed in the Earth, and make them Imams, leaders, and make them its inheritors.

وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَنُرِيَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنۡهُم مَّا كَانُواْ يَحۡذَرُونَ (6)

We will raise them to a great station, to show Pharaoh and Haman, his right-hand man, and their soldiers the exact thing they used to fear.

These verses speak to me as a queer, Black, Muslim-American man, and they have motivated me to this. I believe in the God that sides with the oppressed in the Earth, and he has entrusted it in our care, and we have a duty to show the oppressors exactly what they used to fear. Welcome to the Letters of the Imam of the Oppressed, the mukhannath Slave of Allah, who sees in the story of his spiritual leader, the Imam in Occultation, the key to his liberation.

I will give interpretations of narratives from the Qur’an and hadith, as well as explain the doctrines of Islamic Neoplatonism as well as expose the radical historical and scientific fallacies being committed by the akh-right dawahbros. I do so pseudonymously, for the same reason the rightful heir to the position of the Prophet Muhammad remains in Occultation: my community faces violent oppression. I fear I may be targeted, but I will not leave my community without guidance. I feel the call to help lead the oppressed in the Earth.

Prepare to be shown the mercy of the exact thing you used to fear.

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