Good Couture

Fuck.

What if the ghost is Thomas? Like... he reacted to Matthew's flask, told them to go to the tavern, reacted badly to Blackthorn (Tatiana killed his sister), and led them to Alastair's dagger

Akali has a tiny manta ray and she has friends she can trust. I am speechless and so happy.

Star Guardian 2022 Event Teaser! ✨

"Excuse me, but I wanted to say-"

No, why would I excuse you for interrupting me? You dug this pit of snakes now go slither inside with them.

Hmmm. Desi person weighing in. I have read Lore Olympus and Trials of Apollo.

In Trials of Apollo, Apollo is depicted as a God of many talents who was unlucky with love, yet his attitude towards others could somewhat lead to this failure in finding love. He is seen as someone who admired mortal aptitude for the arts yet was also someone who thought of mortals and demigods as things to observe like a human observing a gerbil. He comes to admire the bravery that demigods show and also realises that even among places like Olympus and the island of Delos he has never really had a place he could truly call "Home" and his family is quite disfunctional.

Artemis is seen as someone who simply doesn't feel romantic love but understands it's power. She is not comfortable with skin-ship yet will try to comfort her brother when she can.

Zeus is seen as a somewhat manipulating person who holds his own interests first as he feels that they are logical this must be respected.

Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, sees and despises how her mother is underestimated. She tries her best to understand her mother and does respect her intentions.

For this, I do respect how Riordan has portrayed the Olympians and the original PJO series has little to do with the Olympians and more with the specific demigods and their stories. So I don't think he deserves the flak. Rachel is something else entirely.

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I HATE PEOPLE FUCKING POSTING ABOUT THE GREEK GODS

The next time I see someone say Hades is "actually a cinnamon roll" I am starting a fucking fight. No. Fuck no. Go fuck yourself. The popularization of actual deities as silly little characters is disgusting and go take a minute to learn about hellenic culture and religion please and thanks.

The gods are not fun characters for you to assign whatever personalities you want to. Just about every media representation of the hellenic gods is so far off it's not even recognizable. You wanna talk about the gods' personalities then go listen to some hellenic pagans and polytheists who can offer more modern but still respectful answers

Tumblr's "for u" algorithm sucks because it just recommends the stuff that I posted.

Lol, is this real? Even if it isn't, it's funny af.

ASDDHSJSKSSKS

I can't believe Elon Musk got suspended for enjoying his own piss!!! What is happening to free speech in America ???

And they sit on 45 trillion USD that's stolen from India and have the galls to call us "poor." Who made us that way? Your ancestors did and you've done nothing to recognise or change it.

truly amazing how most of the current geopolitical conflicts across the globe can be traced directly back to English invasion/colonialism and yet those pasty fuckers on their birdshit of an island have the gall to go we're just quirky tea drinkers uwu look at our unproblematic tourist trap royal family uwu bbc Sherlock doctor who uwu we're NOTHING like those evil racist Americans uwu

I'm learning coding in 10th (we start in 8th in IGCSE board of India) so I've been suffering for three years straight, since I was 13. We have Practical and Theory tests on this. Beat that Pukicho!

I am learning to code and no one told me math would be involved in this shit, I refuse 

So recently this Tweet went viral on Twitter, which is generally stating something that is rather common that I have also noticed on the app. (I will say that I do believe antisemitism and anti-black racism to also be extremely normalized as well, perhaps to an even greater extent).

That being said this was the general response (found in the quote retweet and the comments) to the above tweet:

I wanted to put this together and show it to others on here because it seems that it is strongly indicative of how hated Indian people are in progressive spaces. And before someone comes after me to say this is largely online, I will state that this rhetoric is eerily similar to the discrimination I faced growing up as Indian and that I continue to face. Additionally, people online are people in real life, they carry this rhetoric in the real world too and Indian people exist online too, we see how people dislike us.

To dissect and debunk all the sentiments in the tweets above would take an immense amount of time and energy that I do not have. Even archiving and collecting these tweets caused me to fall into a spiral of stress and tension. You don't have to go through all of it, much of what is expressed is vile, but I am trying to point out something. And it's that racism against Indians has become normalized, perhaps even encouraged, obviously in right-wing spaces but in progressive and liberal-left wing spaces as well. If you click on the accounts of many of these people, you can see them advocating against other forms of racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Palestinianism etc. These are progressives, not your run-of-the-mill conservative bigots. Hostility is growing against Indians, out in the open, and it seems that not many are willing to combat or acknowledge it.

The tactics are the same of course, to take a vocal minority of a group of people and paint the vast majority as the same, effectively portraying the group as if it has monolithic ideas. This is obviously a ridiculous thing to do, but even more so when one realizes that India is home to 1.4 billion people, not counting Indians living in other countries. These are all individuals who hold their own complex ideologies and beliefs, it is not possible to condense them down to one stereotype.

Am I denying that Indian people have our own issues and bigotry (to say the least) surrounding anti-Black racism, misogyny, islamophobia, casteism etc. Absolutely not! I have spent much of my life trying to unpack these sentiments drilled into me from a young age, and I have tried to help my peers do too. I have also spent time in real world activism combating such issues, because it is the only way forward to a more equal society.

But just because our society has prejudice does not mean we should be subjected to such bigotry from other progressives or have the discrimination we face not be taken seriously. Even the worst among us does not deserve to have racist sentiments spewed against them because bigotry is wrong, point blank. We don't deserve to be called rapists, to be accused of all being racists, and say that racism against us is "self-inflicted". Indians do not deserve that, we just don't.

If someone called me a ten, I'd take it as the greatest insult ever. I'm an infinity. Everyone knows that.