Support Queers, the Ace community, the nonbinary community, transfemmes, Rroma, and Latines or I'll bite your fucking leg off. | Idris, they/them or fae/faer | trans aroace-spec fag, effeminate, gender is a nightmare | transmisogyny exempt | 💉10/10/19 | biracial Egyptian | in the process of converting to Judaism |
Hi, this shall be my new pinned because I guess we do that now. To reiterate in case you can't see my header, I'm Idris, I'm Egyptian and biracial (w/e), and I use they/fae. Feel free to ask me about things: I love to talk and if a subject is uncomfortable, I'll simply state as such. Please don't follow if you're under 18 (and be prudent and block 'nsft' because I do post smut and reblog man ass).
My talk tag is 'Cipher talk', my kind of bitchy tag for Egyptian culture is 'actually Egyptian tag', my Julian analysis and appreciation tag is 'Bashir fan club'. My Garak tag is 'edosian melancholies'. My Sisko tag is 'No divide between dream and dreamer'. My trek reference tag is celestial road map. Sycamores before the flood is a WIP tag; Jijoy is one of the main characters. The reanimators is also a WIP tag.
my NSFW Twitter (art) is KhawalAfterDark, my ao3 is deathlybijoumme
I do fanfic commissions for short pieces of about 500 words for $15 for properties I am familiar with, though I will not write graphic underage content, bigoted stories (not the same as a story wherein bigotry is expressed by a character), character hitpieces, or excessive gore. For more on that look here. My Kofi is ko-fi.com/rosebijoumme.
Current fan projects: Cardassian and Hebitian world building, which I publish on ao3 and occasionally post snippets of on here in my world building tag. Please ask me about them! It gives me the excuse to talk and odds are you'll ask a question that leads me to clarify my thoughts on something that I hadn't considered.
Check my 4 part discussion of Egyptian cultural dress (19th century to present) here . The blog where I talk about Egyptian fashion is sartorialegypt on WordPress.
If you feel like whinging at me about Egypt or Copts, donate to Coptic Survivor here instead. Also check out NubiYouth, an organization that helps Nubians in the US and Egypt and has periodic fundraisers, here.
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elizabeth holmes has been spotted soaking lady fingers in a clear colorless liquid. sources close to the entrepreneur claim she is working to "revolutionize tiramisu" by using just a few drops of coffee diluted in water. early testers described the result as tasting "like shit." undeterred, holmes insists that a breakthrough is imminent. her company, theramisu, is currently valued at $150.
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Trans candidates for public office in Massachusetts and Michigan have faced challenges from fellow Democrats seeking to remove them from key
"Uncloseted Media found examples of transgender candidates running for public office in Ohio and Michigan who have been threatened with disqualification over challenges to their eligibility. Often, the challenges come from their primary opponents: fellow Democrats.
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The first widely publicized eligibility challenge against a trans candidate Uncloseted Media identified took place in Stark County, Ohio, in 2024. The Stark County Board of Elections, which has the same chairman as the county’s Democratic Party, disqualified Vanessa Joy, a trans woman who was running for a seat in the state legislature. The board cited an obscure state law requiring candidates who changed their name in the last five years to list their former name on candidacy petitions—in Joy’s case, her deadname.
“The original spirit of the law I kind of agree with,” Joy told Uncloseted Media. “But there’s hardly any information about this law ever being enforced.”
Days later, Arienne Childrey and Bobbie Arnold, two other trans candidates, had their eligibility challenged based on this law. While both candidates were cleared to run, that wasn’t the case for Joy, who never made it on the ballot.
Tom Sutton, a political science professor at Baldwin Wallace University, told Spectrum News 1 he had never seen this law enforced in his 30 years of study. At the time, the relevant forms didn’t include a space to list former names, an omission that has since been corrected.
“The only way to find out about it was to dig deep into all of the additional documents on their website,” says Joy. “They used this law against me.”
Similar challenges cropped up in Michigan this year. Joanna Whaley, a trans woman running for a seat in the state legislature, faced a legal complaint from her Democratic primary opponent Frank Liberati, who claimed in April that she should have filed campaign paperwork under her deadname.
“Because both the original and amended affidavits of identity filed by ‘Joanna Michelle Whaley’ contain FALSE statements, she/he cannot be certified to appear on the August 4, 2026 primary election ballot,” the complaint argues.
The county clerk denied the challenge, which deadnames Whaley, because she had legally changed her name. Liberati’s complaint was widely condemned, with the Michigan Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus calling it “meritless” and “transphobic.”
“It completely backfired on him,” Whaley told Uncloseted Media. “We tripled our cash on hand within a week because of the support that we’ve gotten from our community, and actually are in a stronger position now to win this race.”
While Whaley benefited from the challenge, that’s not the norm. Toni Mua, a trans woman running for a seat in the Michigan legislature, received a complaint from political activist Robert Davis in April who alleged that she also should have run under her deadname.
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Whaley says the increased attention from Liberati’s challenge brought even more harassment her way. She says she reports death threats to the police weekly and has a security detail at every public appearance. Security has become her second-largest campaign expense, and for good reason; in October, her team intervened when a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat followed her around with a gun at a No Kings rally."
For all that people desperately try to tell us that the Democratic party is the only hope for trans people in the current climate, this kind of shit keeps happening. Many Democratic politicians are not only throwing us under the bus rhetorically, they are trying to stop us from representing ourselves and our local communities. If the DNC and self identified Democratic voters want to maintain ANY legitimate claim to caring about trans people, this kind of behavior needs to be aggressively stamped out.
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pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.
Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!
and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such
“Growing numbers of psychiatrists asserted that schizophrenia was a condition that afflicted “Negro men,” and that black forms of the illness were more hostile and aggressive than were white ones. At the time, it likely appeared to many Americans that an epidemic of schizophrenia was spreading among angry black men. In fact, psychiatry’s frame shift produced new categories of schizophrenic illness. Researchers used DSM II criteria to uncover “hostile” aspects of black schizophrenia, such as paranoia, delusions, or rage, and to draw connections between schizophrenia and civil rights demonstrations. A number of studies conflated black schizophrenia with Black Power in order to illustrate evolving understandings of the illness as hostile or violent, using long-standing stereotypes of manic, crazy black men to demonstrate “new” forms of schizophrenic illness. In 1968, psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a “Protest Psychosis,” whereby black men developed “hostile and aggressive feelings” and “delusional anti-whiteness” after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached militant resistance to white society. In that same year, psychiatric researchers Pierce and West argued that black men developed “delusions, grandiosity, magical thinking, and… dangerous aggressive feelings” when they participated in civil rights sit-ins.”
— Jonathan Metzl, Controllin the Planet: A brief history of schizophrenia.
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Even more devastating, the scene where pinocchio was made was very violent in looks and almost angry but gepetto grew to love his creation like a son but the scene of making the creature was loving and attentive but victor grew to hate his creation .
[J. Miles] Dale identifies with the filmmaker on a personal level: "Guillermo and I both lost our fathers around the same time. Part of his way of dealing with it was to make movies about it. Nightmare Alley was a father-and-son story, Pinocchio was certainly a father-and-son story. So is Frankenstein. I call it the father-and-son trilogy."
— Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro Art Book
ugh will I get hate if I say that I understand why abbot's character was potentially going to be given a storyline or scene in s2 showing him to be more ambivalent/neutral/unbothered by ICE? because I think a lot of jack abbot lovers don't actually ever deep dive into his character at all, or put as much weight into his continued involvement in the american military industrial complex as they should- hence why people are acting like this would've been a totally shocking writing choice when it actually wouldn't.
in many ways, despite his obvious belief in women's rights, and helping those in need when it comes to medication or insurance issues, and his left wing social beliefs in that regard, the character jack abbot is already shown to be less bothered by ICE (or, bothered in a different, less immediate way, I'll explain) than the majority of other characters.
you must remember that jack abbot is canonically 1)- still heavily involved in the realms of military and law enforcement and is not morally bothered by this at all as far as we've seen 2)- actually responds far less empathetically or disturbed than the rest of the characters when he learns jesse has been taken- he asks "what jesse did", implying that although he isn't pro ICE, he still defaults to believing that "law enforcement" (not that ICE really fits that category) is acting rightly and in pursuit of justice before he thinks about it any harder.
and look, i understand why they removed the scene/plotline, and i understand why it's for the absolute best that they did (and agree)- but what I ALSO understand is why it was on the table as a decision. jack abbot canonically may be left wing in social issues, but he is still DEEPLY entrenched in a military mindset and has a lot of views that mean he is absolutely NOT the uber-woke figure he's painted to be.
real people are walking contradictions, and i would say jack abbot is one of the most contradictory characters we've seen- which is why he's well written. he's pro women, pro universal healthcare, pro lgbtq, but he's ALSO still pro military and law enforcement to quite a high extent when compared to the rest of the ER. even when he does have moments of criticising the military, like with the dead veteran in s1, he isn't critical of their role as soldiers complicit or actively guilty in civilian murder, hes critical of the fact they got hurt. he's not deconstructed his involvement at all.
so, don't slander the writers. they made a storyline that would have made a pretty decent amount of sense given who jack abbot ACTUALLY is as a character. of course, taking it out/lessening it was the right choice i think, and they realised that too. stop pretending the writers pulled this out of their ass, and understand who jack abbot is. it's good they took it out, but there was a genuine reason it was almost put in.
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