#Justification for the existence of Coptic art its a very good essay will send a link if asked)
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Mmmmm writing this story has just made me repeatedly run around the fact that there's no such thing as a pre-colonization way of writing about Copts even in fantasy
#Cipher talk#The thing is that. I've seen other copts talk about how we have a victim/martyr complex as a culture#(Sometimes leading to the Shit Ass Take that Copts who understand our identity through an Indigenous framework are perpetuating that)#Abd it's true. But part of why it's true is Copts have never been the first and last governors of themselves#The cultural context is by the time we start recognizably being Copts we have been put in a political situation where we're the lowest rung#Of society by dint of being Native Egyptians at least since Rome moved in a few centuries ago and were not being treated super well under#The Ptolemic dynasty if memory serves#The iconography of Coptic culture- aside from what we adapted of the old pagan religion and suprosing borrowing from Persia- is the#Iconography of those who had powers over us- empires and those they favored before us- repurposed to our own ends (Read is there any#Justification for the existence of Coptic art its a very good essay will send a link if asked)#It goes from Rome to Byzantium to Persia for a few years and then! Islamic conquest. And then! Mamluk dynasty. And then! Ottoman empire.#And then! France and Britain. And then! Not really independent sultanate. And then! Arab republic#Of course with the overlapping Amazigh control of Upper Egypt between 14-something and 1819?#Which. I love my Amazigh brothers and sisters. But we weren't treated well then either. The historical record is flawed but not good#And I! Hate this for us!#It could maybe have been different? I'd have to go back to the textbooks but I remember there were revolts in Egypt against Rome#That Early Copts probably participated in#Anyways. Tsuris pouring out my ears <3
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