#posts!

So who said reader inserts have to be completely blank slates? Like who made that rule? I understand keeping race and those types of things vague but it’s an insert.

when a customer BLOCKS the COKE FLAVOR SLUSHEE with a STRAW because they thought it was BLOCKED but it was just being an ASSHOLE

What happens is that in a society like India where it is so finely etched – Like everyone thinks India is anarchic and you know Bollywood and it’s not anarchic at all. It is one of the most rigid societies you can imagine and so if you don’t fit into one of those grids as I don’t, then you automatically seek - I think - others that don’t fit into that grid. And that grid is not just about gender or caste. So all the characters in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness have the boundaries of the grid running through them so Anjum for example she has a gender boundary running through her but she’s also a Shia Muslim who is born in Old Delhi and is now living in this Hindu nationalist state where Muslims are being lynched, Muslims are being mass killed so her Muslim identity is more dangerous than her identity as a Hijra which is a near word for what is called Trans so the Holy Soul trapped in a body and her brush with violence comes when she encounters the crowd that in 2002 was the Hindu vigilantes who massacred almost 2500 Muslims on the streets and she watches the massacre but she is spared because they say it’s bad luck to kill a Hijra so her Muslim identity gets her into danger, her trans identity saves her.