#if you’re all the way down here… if any of you are Afro-latino do you get what I mean or do I sound stupid

[interact-if]

We’re going strong on Day 7, folks! Introducing the lovely Billi :chinhands:

Billi, author of Spilt Milk

Latino Heritage Month Featured Author

You are the heir(ess) of a hotel empire enjoying your independence before you  eventually assume the role of CEO. with no shortage of money, drink, and warm bodies, you would say you have a pretty good life.

Your father, however, would beg to differ, and threatens to cut you off until you demonstrate “some semblance of common sense”—whatever that means. Like he does every week.

You didn’t think he would actually do it this time, though.

Some Scottish guy once wrote “[it’s] no use, however, crying over spilt milk.” but, damn it, you’d like to see someone try and stop you.

Spilt Milk Demo TBD | Read more [here]

Tags: comedy, romance

(INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT UNDER THE CUT!)

Q1: So, tell us a little bit about the projects you’re working on!

I’m currently working on Spilt Milk, a novel made in Twine. It’s essentially a game where you play as an heir[ess] whose father is fed up with their shenanigans™. It’s definitely inspired by that genre of television where a character is completely and utterly removed from their element. Re: Schitt’s Creek, Arrested Development. As it is Latino Heritage Month, I’d toss in Que Pobres tan Ricos [starring one of my favorite Latino actors,  Jaime Camil] and Silvana sin Lana. It’s incredibly fun to write—I make myself laugh at least—and I hope it’ll be fun to read as well!

Q2: What excites you most about using interactive fiction? What are some of the biggest challenges?

Interactive fiction as a medium is incredibly exciting! I’m an impatient reader, picking up books with the intention of finishing, of finding out what happens next. Upon rereading, I love stumbling upon little details that, in my initial haste to reach the ending, I overlooked. Purposely knitting in those details to be missed, then noticed, gives me a little sense of satisfaction each time. That may apply more to fiction authors in general, but it’s definitely prominent in interactive fiction in which those minute details can entirely alter the direction of the story. What I find challenging with interactive fiction is figuring out how to actually write it.

Do I approach this section linearly? Do I first explore all these branches and then return to the main plot? And if you’re like me and have a bunch of activities going on, when you get a chance to write, you tend to work on the fun scenes just for the sake of getting something on the page. I do realize that one of these days I’m going to have to sit down and write all the interludes and transitions I’m currently neglecting. I both dread and look forward to it because, at the very least, when it’s done, it’s done.

Q3: What has been something in your project you’ve had to do a weird amount of research for?

I’ve had to do an absurd amount of research on noughties culture: fashion, music, memes. I grew up in the aughts, but my experience was that of Club Penguin, Claire’s, and Disney Channel. So I’ve been rediscovering the era through this project.

I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit making playlists, pinning outfits, and browsing old websites for design ideas.

[Aside: some aspects of the early internet aged like, well, milk].

Q4: Which of your characters is most like you? How?

I put a bit of myself in each character; however, I think the way I interact with the world is most similar to Bri. I’m laid-back to a fault; the boundaries I do have, I’m firm on. I also love me a good grilled cheese. Unfortunately, I don’t have a rivalry rife with sexual tension, but it’s only 10am—that’s subject to change.

Q5: Does your heritage influence your characters as you create them? (How? Why or why not?)

I’m Afro-Latina, born in the States. My mom is Colombian; she found asylum here with my brother back in 2001. Because of Colombia’s political situation, most of my extended family on my mother’s side lives everywhere but: Spain, England, and Texas [its own country by every definition of the term]. My dad is your standard issue African-American man from Georgia. You can definitely find influences of my heritage in my writing, because it is such an important part of how I view the world and the world views me. I don’t think I would know how not to let it influence my writing.

Bri is an absolute overachiever, which comes from having incredibly supportive parents that have afforded her every privilege and never let her see the color of her skin as an obstacle to overcome.

Juanes’ background is more than a little influenced by my older brother’s experiences; he grew up with a single mom. My mom did not have an Abuelita to help out around the house, but she found herself a family in the tight-knit community of Latinos in Roswell, GA. His addiction to telenovelas and general camp comes entirely from me.

Santy is mixed. The interest in theatre comes from a place of trying to find your niche, your own little place in the world wholly separate from the labels people try to place on you. Santy tries their absolute best to be unapologetically themselves, but it is tough sometimes, which can be seen in the way they fret a little too much about how they’re perceived.

Q6: What is something you love to see in interactive fiction?

“Can you say ‘Diversidad?’”

Interactive fiction is very much a medium that lends itself to representation, and I love seeing creators take advantage of it to showcase their own cultures or simply create an environment in which readers feel both safe and seen.

Q7: Any advice to give? 

In general: Make your bed before you leave the house; it’s a different kind of gratification coming home to tucked sheets.

To creators: Terrible first drafts are a thing. That’s why they’re drafts.

[g0lden-diety]

Can you do a shigaraki x afro-latine reader headcanons please! Like how he would find readers culture fascinating and find reader to be so gorgeous that he just can't help simping.

If you could do specifically like more caribbean afro-latine that would be amazing though any would be fine. Hope this isn't annoying and if you don't want to write that's fine. You can always ignore this lol.

Anyways god bless and have a great day!

・Ouuu this is a really cute headcannon to write I feel like Shigaraki would be absolutely enamored with you and your culture.

・He’d be genuinely curious and ask you questions. Not like those, “what are you?” Questions, they’d be stuff like asking about traditions and (if you speak Spanish) what some of the words you spoke meant.

・If you’d cook cultural foods, he’d ask what you were cooking, what your were doing, and even though he’d try to act unbothered, you’d catch him lurking.

・ And because he’s never seen anybody like you, let alone as beautiful as you, he couldn’t stop himself from Simping

・ *Shigaraki see’s you walking* Shigaraki, internally: “Oh, shitshitshit, they’re right there! God, they’re so freaking cute, and pretty, and-SHIT, they’re coming this way, ok ok, act cool, act cool, act cool”

・ You can tell he’s a huge simp for you

・ If anybody was rude to you because you didn’t “look” Latino (which is so dumb because Latinos come in all colors, dark or light) best believe Shigaraki would instantly be there to defend you.

・ “I don’t know if you were dropped on your head as a baby, but Latinos come in all different, shapes, sizes, and colors, Bastard. If you disrespect them again, I’ll dust your entire family while making you watch, and then I’ll dust you.”

・He would always have an excuse to be near you, claiming “I need to charge my Switch, and the only plug is by you” (there’s multiple plugs around) or “You’re sitting in my spot, so I guess I’ll sit next to you or whatever”

・ He’s such a moody teenager about it

・ He thinks you smell really good, like he doesn’t know how to explain it, but to him, you just radiate comfort

・ You would blasting reggaeton either in your headphones or on a speaker, dancing like nobody was watching and Shigaraki would just be like 👁👄👁

・ All in shock

・ He’s even forced the League to learn about your culture so you could be more comfortable

・ He’s always interested in learning more about you, he finds you genuinely attractive and interesting

・ One time, Dabi used all the hot sauce for a “science experiment “ (he really just wanted to see how many shots of hot sauce he could take before he passed out)

・ You happened to need that hot sauce for dinner, and when you found out what Dabi did, you started cussing him out in Spanish

・ Dabi looked kind of terrified and Shigaraki’s pupils dialated, his face turned pink, and Ouuuuu he was simping SO HARD

・ So imagine: he’s playing a videogame late at night, and here you come in his room

・ 1. You’re wearing his hoodie, which fits a little bigger on you

・ 2. (If you wear a bonnet) you’re wearing a bonnet that’s the color of his hair and you’re sleepy (he thinks you’re so adorable when you’re tired)

・ So you come over, and he pauses his game to see what you want. You don’t say anything, you just go under his arms and place your head on his lap, snuggling into him and falling back asleep

・ He turns into an actual TOMATO. He’s kind of wary because he’s scared of hurting you, but he lets you stay there

・ For the rest of the night, he turns down the volume of the game and tries his best to keep you comfortable and keep you from waking up. He occasionally paused the game to rub your back (don’t worry, he had on his artist gloves)

・ After playing for sometime, he would shut the game off and pull you up in his arms, you subconsciously wrapping your arms around him

・ He’s kinda of shocked, and kind of happy. Happy that someone trusts him enough to not hurt them

・ So he rests his head on yours, rubbing your back and eventually falling asleep

・ He’s not really good at picking up nicknames, but he’ll call you beautiful, babe, mine, Y/n, N/n

・ He likes your hands (cliché, right?) but he loves how soft they are, and how they feel running through his hair, or when you FINALLY got him to do a facemask, how they felt running across his face.

・ He likes kissing your hands, aimlessly playing with your fingers, holding your hand

・ At meetings he’ll act like a cold hearted leader, but he’ll occasionally hold your hand under the table

・ You used to do Eskimo kisses before he (being a klutz) missed and his lips landed on yours. Instead of pulling away like he thought you wood, you placed your hands on his face, deepening the kiss

・ he loves when you kiss his scars and tell him how beautiful he is

・ “you’re so beautiful, Shigaraki,” “aieicjke uhhhh, aheh, uh yeah, that’s you all they way… thanks though *blushes furiously *

・ He was so in love after that it wasn’t even funny

[sagebaileyspeaks]

In the Heights, Colorism, and the Legacy of Lin Manuel Miranda

The last few days Twitter has been ablaze with discourse about the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in In the Heights. And while I am just another voice on the internet who no one asked an opinion from, I’m going to give it out anyway.

I think the backlash that Lin is getting is uncalled for. 

And before I proceed any further, I want to be clear about which backlash I’m talking about. I will never tell anyone that they don’t deserve to be seen and feel represented--I’m sure if the Black Panther trailer had come out and it was a majority light-skinned cast, we all would’ve felt some type of way--HOWEVER, what I am 100% not for is all the insults directed specifically at Lin and his work. 

Over the weekend, I saw people say he was anti-Black, racist, that he didn’t show support for Black Lives Matter (which he did many times tweeting out the names of those who had been killed by police, talking about how he was against police brutality, making a video specifically saying that Hamilton was his responsibility and that his production supported the movement) and more laughably, that Hamilton was a bad piece of theater and that Lin himself was not only a terrible person but a terrible writer. Have whatever feelings you have about the issue of colorism--but to say “The Room Where It Happens,” “Satisfied,” and “Wait For It,” are not exceptional pieces of music is just petty. 

Criticism of the movie has stemmed from the fact that none of the lead roles were dark-skinned or Afro-Latinos. The leads of the musical are Usnavi (and that role was always going to Anthony Ramos), Sonny, Benny, Nina and Vanessa. I consider the salon ladies secondary, but that’s just me and here’s how I feel about it.

Personally, as someone who is Black/Filipino, given the narrative of the musical, I always thought that not having any dark-skinned or Black characters in the main cast was intentional to drive home the prejudice of Nina’s father who doesn’t accept Benny because he’s not Latino. In those two roles specifically, that narrative point doesn’t work if Benny is actually Latino and Nina is Afro-Latina. It would defeat this point. Now granted, in the movie for some reason they drop this from the story (it was one of the cons I mentioned in my review) so in this version Nina could’ve been Afro-Latina and really, Vanessa could’ve been as well (I thought Karen from the original production was but she’s not) and wanting to see more representation from those two characters is completely valid. 

Now, I can’t speak for John Chu who really put his foot in his mouth over the weekend (although I will say that I also don’t agree with the issue of not casting South Asians in Crazy Rich Asians. If anyone who brings this up had read any of the books, they’d know that that is a major plot point. These people are classist and colorist. They want all of their children to have fair skin, they look down on those who aren’t. I mean this very literally when I say that it wouldn’t have made sense in this specific case because if the family would’ve had no problem with South Asians, they wouldn’t have had a problem with Nick’s girlfriend being American Chinese) and really, I can’t speak for Lin--I don’t know the guy. 

However, when I look at In the Heights as a stage musical and as a movie, I don’t see something that was written to maliciously exclude Afro-Latinos. I am not Latino, so maybe I don’t have the right to speak on it, but every time I’ve listened/seen the show, I always walked away feeling happy for the Latino community because it felt like a celebration of who they are and in this sense, if something is supposed to be a celebration of your community and you are not represented I 100% understand feeling slighted but I don’t agree with coming for the man’s career, questioning his integrity and basically calling him a piece of shit. 

I also don’t agree with saying the apology was bullshit--either we want people to grow or we don’t. Either people can fuck up and work towards being better people or they can’t. So unless you’re expecting everyone to come out the womb, knowing exactly what to do with a perfect moral compass and knowledge of how to navigate through these things then it’s a little baffling for you to say you’re upset about something, be given an apology and a promise to do better, and then say, “That’s not good enough.” 

But again, this is just my long two cents about the situation. 

[cottoncandyjester]

Happy birthday Zeke 💚

I swear I’m just excited for this solely cause I’m also Afro-latino and this is basically how every birthday party is for my family

And of course this will have a dark tone at the end cause this is Zeke we are talking bout

When Zeke told you his family were having a small get together for his birthday at his parent’s house you were honestly pretty nervous since you never met his parents before this but you figured it will be a small thing so there isn’t too much to worry about.

When you got there it was a lot of people, like a lot. You could hear the music playing from the driveway, loud reggaeton playing and you felt even more nervous not wanting to stand out or anything like that. You went to the backyard where the party was and sighed in relief at the sight of your boyfriend

Zeke was sitting drinking beer before he eyes flickered over to you a grin on his face

“Y/n! You’re late you got lost?” Zeke teased out with a smile as he got up walking over and giving you a quick kiss on the lips smiling at you clearly happy to have a party and be around family. “I’m so glad you’re here, honestly getting along with my folks is super important to me.” This made you about 100x more nervous to meet his family but you tried to shake it off but Zeke knew you pretty well.

The male grabbed your hand holding you from behind “deja de preocuparte” he purred put in your ear before letting go chuckling slyly at your flushed face. He finished the bottle before throwing it out and holding your hand. He pulled you into the house where it was a bit quieter now guiding you to the kitchen where his father and mother were together getting the cake ready

“este es mi amor” he told them watching how nervous you looked. His mother was a dark skinned woman with beautiful dreads that had coloring beads in it, she gave you a hard stare before suddenly hugging you. “You’re the one he’s always talking about! Bout time he stopped being such a whore! Welcome to the family sweetie ”

“Mom!” Zeke hissed out feeling absolutely embarrassed. His father wasn’t any better patting his back with a grin “I like this one better than the last ones! Especially that boy you kept bringing over thinking we didn’t know”

“Prince isn’t that bad dad- know what Okay! Conversation over! Come on! Let’s go y/n!” Zeke groaned out pulling you along towards a different part of the house face flushed. “Sooo, you were a man whore? Wow Zeke.” You teased making him roll his eyes

“Don’t wanna hear it. Come on my brother wants to meet you” he said as he guided you to a room and opened the door. The room had a huge fake tree in the center and honestly that wasn’t the weirdest thing about it

The entire room was very mixing of aesthetics from punk band posters to a pastel bed and fairy lights to kid core stickers scattered about the wall. “Looks like a kid with adhd decorated” you mumbled out making Zeke chuckled

“Yeah cause someone did”

With that someone poked their head out of the leaves hanging upside down from the tree. A boy with curly hair and vitiligo poked out his eyes being two different colors one being green and one being brown. “Big Z!” The boy cheered out swinging back and forth from the fake tree branch.

“Little teo, this is y/n. Y/n this is my very immature 18 year old brother Mateo” Zeke explained and Mateo tilted his head to the side giving you a long stare before flashing a smile “ever been with younger guys? I may seem like a handful but I’m really good with my mouth!” He teased only for Zeke to yank him out the tree causing him to fall

“Shut the fuck up before I beat your ass myself” Zeke joked with a grin as the boy rubbed his head with a pout “don’t be so rough with me! I’m a fragile boy!” Mateo whined causing Zeke to roll his eyes.

“Stop being in your room sleeping come out to the party” Zeke said before guiding you out. “So, what you think?” He asked you clearly nervous about your reaction. You gave him a smile “your family is great! Really welcoming!” You cheered out.

Zeke relaxed now eager to have a good time with you, he took you back out to the backyard where the party was the music making him far more excited, something about good music made him wanna dance.

“Come on let’s dance! I won’t accept no for an answer plus this is a perfect way to get you to grind on me” he purred out guiding you to the dance floor. Zeke’s style of dancing with you was pure grinding, his hand on your hips as he guided you against his body your bodies close and personal as he held you from behind going along to the music.

He even started to sing in Spanish in your ear smirking at how flustered it made you. “So, how about we find a quiet place where we can have even more fu-” he was cut off by his parents bring out the cake..damn it.

Wasn’t long til he was surrounded by family cheering him on, Zeke never looked happier he truly loved being surrounded by loved ones he was beaming from ear to ear at all the cheesy embarrassing things they said.

When he blew out the candles everyone cheered. “ what did you wish for papi?” His mother asked and Zeke glanced your way before giving a wink. “I wished for kids” he teased earning his mom to hit his arm making him laugh.

The rest of the party was a lot of salsa dancing and laughs, he definitely had fun..at least until it became 2 in the morning and cops came cause of the noise complaints. Then everyone had to go home, as you two walked to the car Zeke held your hand humming happily.

“You’re giddy” you teased making him chuckle

“It’s been a while since I seen my family like that, you didn’t notice cause my folks hide it well but before then me and my parents didn’t speak for a while. My whole family hated me for a while”

You paused now looking at him curiously and with an amused smile “what did you do? Rob a bank?” You joked making him smile as he opened the car door for you “nah. Nothing like stealing or whatever, but it was bad..they finally just forgave me” he said softly now getting in the car.

“I killed someone”

You tensed up at his eyes seeing his serious gaze before he grinned kissing your cheek laughing. “I’m kidding! Jeez relax baby!” He said with a laugh as he started the car and started to go home making you relax though you didn’t like the ways his eyes darkened at that joke.

Whatever...it was weird.

[brujoenlafrontera]

hi!!! I’m a puertorriqueño/nicaragüense enby looking into resources for learning bruja stuff, any good place you know to start?

I’ve gotten a couple of asks about this lately, and i’m so happy to know there are more latinos finding their way to the practice, tumblr’s brujeria tag often gives the impression that theres so little of us out there reclaiming our practices but getting asks like these brings me a lot of faith that thats not true :) first and foremost:

GETTING INTO BRUJERIA IS HARD.

it really is. baby brujos like us know that better than anyone- getting started, is often the hardest part of doing anything, and its no different with brujeria. it can feel so overwhelming and feeling lost is natural. from my experience, although i am still a newbie ive been able to find a lot of information out there, here are the best places to find info, sorted by priority:

FAMILY! a little self explanatory, but brujeria at its best is truly is an inherited, familial practice. If you can, before delving into internet resources, definitely connect w your family if you’re able to and ask them for guidance and about their experiences!

Your family is always the best resource over anything you can find online; theres so much misinformation out there or information not relevant to your region and if someone in your family already has established practices, always trust them first

 Do some thinking back to all your cultural traditions, quirks, stories, and superstitions that you’ve  learned from your family across time and never thought too much about- and rediscover them under a new light

KEEP IN MIND: brujeria is NOT a singular , concrete practice w concrete rules in itself, the term blankets a lot of traditions across latam, the caribbean, mexico, but imo its always best to stick with brujeria related to your heritage and where your connection is.

this can be hard for people (like me!) with huge family taboos toward brujeria that make it unsafe to ask around about, and/or limitations in family connections (also like me unfortunately). I personally can really only get the tidbits and stories that my family accidentally slips out when I occasionally see them. i try to write them down as much as possible, but the info i can get is limited... and thats where the following comes in.

ONLINE COMMUNITIES. i.e, youtube, tumblr, instagram brujx communities. notice I haven’t said “internet” in general- the reason why i trust community based social media more than random individual websites you find on google is because, in the case of brujeria and honestly any non-european craft, you’re often gonna find a LOT of white people writing blogs, books, etc about their “spiritual experiences” in latam countries and wrongly/incorrectly taking ATR or indigenous traditions (like with smudging). I know, with social media, although those same white people are also on insta and tumblr, it’s a LOT easier to see the face behind the accounts and differentiate who to trust, who’s legit and has real experience to share, rather than a nameless, faceless, website that is actually some colonizer sharing colonized ideas who thinks theyre on a spiritual journey taking traditions all willy nilly. And the fact that in social media, its much easier to find a lot of good brujas at once bc they tend to follow each other lmao.what ive personally done to find information tho is essentially SCOUR tumblrs, insta accs, and watching tons of youtube videos for posts, accounts, videos, etc, and narrowing down good info from there through , namely:

CHECKING WHO YOUR SOURCE IS!!!

ASKING YOURSELF FROM WHAT EXPERIENCE THEYRE SPEAKING FROM

ALWAYS TAKING EVERYTHING WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

AND STICKING TO INFO FROM CULTURES OPEN AND RELEVANT TO ME.

again, brujería is different depending on where your family is from in latam, and if you have an established connection to indigenous and/or black roots, so it’s useful to use keywords relating to that when searching (like if ur black, you can look into ATRs(african traditional religions) which tend to mix deeply with brujeria, if ur indigenous, finding other people from your tribe is great, and if youre not pursuing your already learned traditions you can think about connecting to them more deeply(altho indigenous traditions are their own thing, sometimes they do mix with brujeria too), and apart from familial roots, if ur catholic/christian and/or want to explore it, saint work/catholic brujeria might be a good fit for you!)  

tumblr: there are a couple of fantastic brujxs on this site with great blogs and resources who have sadly left the site, but i still go through their posts heavily for spells, rituals, scraps of info! etting started w brujería is hard bc there’s really not that much info out there right now, but i compile as many good brujeria posts i find on my acc.

@brujeria-n-bongs great for catholic brujeria, now at @Upliftherbs on instagram

@brujeria-lost @barberwitch @reina-morada @highbrujita

@naomi121406 is by far the most active and informative tumblr resource ive found, shes an afro-indigenous diaguita curandera from argentina so shes also really helpful if ATRs are in your path!

Im not black myself and dont follow ATRs so i don’t really know many good blogs for afrolatine brujxs out there but if anyone would like to tag some in the replies thatd be awesome!

instagram: Ive found that instagram #brujeria tags has a pretty healthy active stream of posts. You’re gonna have to sift through a lot of them to get to the good stuff though- imo a lot of hispanics use the brujería tag not to mean “latine brujería” but just the spanish word for witchcraft, so a lot of white hispanics will put wicca/neo witchcraft in the tag. imo that’s really not something i’m personally interested in bc it’s not true to brujeria’s traditional nature, is very white/eruropean , and that wicca shit basically just got here. its a relatively a recent thing😭 so i try to stick to bruja accounts that aren’t influenced by that.

youtube: The youtube brujería tag is hit or miss? and again, contains a lot of wicca. But there are some good practitioners on there like The Mexican Witch! You just gonna look around, and dont be afraid to click on videos by really really small youtubers; they often are the ones with the most informative and legit things to say!

Everyone’s path as a bruja/o/x (sjdf trying to be inclusive w gendered language is difficult) is different but here are some topics i think are great to look into as a beginner!

ancestors: start at the bottom and figure out who they are, where theyre from, and set up an altar. it’ll help you a lot with figuring out your identity and path as a bruja later on.

setting up a grimoire

divination: tarot is actually what got me into brujeria at first! tarot isnt strictly traditional and is european in itself but its a wonderful tool for connecting to dieties, saints, etc as well as super fun and helps a lot with introspection

ritual abrecaminos, aka road opening spells!

amarres (love spells... proceed with caution)

limpias, mal de ojo

saint work: even if you’re not catholic (im ex catholic), a growing number of us (especially lgbt latines like @/upliftherbs on instagram) are starting to take back and decolonize our view of saints like La Virgen Maria and removing her from the rigid european/colonized interpretation thats been forced into us

candle spells in general (i fucking love candles tbh, cheap, easy, fun, and WORKS)

spiritual colognes, how to cleanse

finally, here are some helpful posts yall should definitely read and think about moving forward!

about using tumblr as a resource

about looking into brujeria as a part-white part latine

bruja psa + about reclaiming lost indiginety

honestly naomi’s entire brujeria tag is great and super informative for beginners and basically holds answers for almost anything at this point

hope this post helps yall out!

EDIT: oh lord now that this is posted the outline format i tried to use is all kinds of fucked up please dont mind the odd numbering lmfao tumbr hates organized formats

[anacaoris]

Can you talk more about Jewish!Percy? I've seen you mentioning this headcanon once or twice here. The best of all this is that Percy's race is free to interpretation, according to Rick. So,Free Real Estate! Happy Quarantine!

ralph wiggum vc: you're in danger

Fair warning, these headcanons are based on this au I have featuring a sibling oc (Addie Jackson) like this is 2012 all over again, and based on the two films + the idea of the Percy Jackson as a darker/more mature series. So it's not book compliant. Mind you I'm not Jewish and a was raised in a partly Pentecostal, partly Disciple of Christ household, in a predominantly Catholic country. My knowledge of Judaism extends to what I've studied for this au, read out if desire to learn, and what I've seen from people I follow who are Jewish. If I'm wrong then kick my door down and tell me asfghkl any gaysssss

Percy's great grandparents are (obviously) Jewish: more specifically his great grandfather (Solomon Jackson) was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, while his great grandmother (Aleksandra Volova, called Sasha by her immediate family and husband) was a Russian Jew who left Russia in 1922.

Due to the shock of realizing the Greek and Roman gods are real (and no I don't recognize other mythologies existing at the same time because that is a mess and not a properly interconnected book universe), Sally experiences a crisis of faith around the age of 18-19, but she calms down and still upholds her beliefs because,,, fuck Zeus and the Olympians, who do they think they are?

Following becoming a single mother of two and then her marriage to Gabe, Sally and the kids didn't go to the sinagogue as much as they would have liked to, because it was impossible to do so. They didn't have time. But they still kept up with traditions, they eat kosher, Percy and Addie attended Hebrew school for a while.

They often do mix up and forget what happens when, it's kinda funny sometimes if he's honest.

Percy 🤝 his Latino neighbors: Christmas is w e a k

Paul? Black and Jewish. One of Percy's future adopted children? Puerto Rican and Jewish? Reyna? Puerto Rican and not Jewish but she relates to Percy in the whole "my childhood was taken from me and idk how to properly relate to my culture because of it" experience.

Percy loves Shavuot: hearing the story of Ruth, eating dairy foods (he used this to eat his weight in ice cream), going to sinagogue, and decorating with flowers which he couldn't often do much because, again, Gabe. So he was pissed when — after he and Addie and Sally got back home after his first quest — he realized they missed it.

Compared to Addie, Percy is avtually less religiously inclined at first. He becomes, not exactly more spiritual but definitely much more interested in and embraces the religious aspect of Judaism later in his 20s.

Late Bar and Bat Mitzvah for Addie and Percy, because they missed out on it thanks to a childhood with Gabe. Speaking of Tyson may or may have not nearly put Percy through the roof while lifting him on the chair.

Percy learns Hebrew through sheer will power and,, sucks at it mostly but he tries. He's far better at writing and reading it however, in an ironic twist of fate in contrast to his Greek. He can understand both as perfectly as he can with English.

Man has an initial amount of conflict when celebrating Hanukkah after finding CHB because of the whole "fuck the Seleucid empire aka the Greeks" (vs miss Ariadne "Addie" Jackson who would spit in the gods' faces if left unchecked probably). But after a while he joins Addie in celebrating it without any problem because you can love both of the communities you belong to while acknowledging the m a n y faults one committed.

I saw this post about how to write Jewish characters that said something about them "eating a hot dog and threatening to hit someone if they told their grandma about it" and if that isn't the mood for Percy in this au, I don't know what is.

When Percy's off in college and in the rare quest during adulthood and it conflicted with Rosh Hashanah, he ate apple slices dipped in honey.

Guilt whenever goat meat is eaten 2: the return of Afro-Puerto Rican!Percy. Betrayal tastes good and Grover's just gonna have to handle it.

Don't feel in the need for a comfort stew or soup in his vicinity because he will make you either matzo ball soup or cholent and you're going to have to eat it. He has grandma offering you food vibes.

There's a few points here about Percy not engaging in both the religious and cultural aspects of Judaism so much due to Gabe, but that happens often in abusive environments with interfaith marriages.

That and Percy and his sister were in boarding schools for months.

Percy and Addie make the chuppah for Sally and Paul's wedding, and Percy does not cry the whole time of the ceremony what are you thinking

Additional headcanons that aren't necessarily about Jewish Percy but have to do with this universe:

Sasha is the youngest of six children and a daughter of Aphrodite, who met Sasha's father Yakov after the death of his wife.

Sasha moved to East Harlem in 1922, back when it was a huge enclave of Jewish immigrants (Jewish people, largely Eastern European, were standing at 90,000 in 1917, it wasn't until after WW1 when immigration of Puerto Ricans and other Latin Americans swept East Harlem).

Zinovy, Yakov's last son with his wife, who was older than Sasha by a year, was the closest to her, and he and his own son, Isaac took her leaving the hardest.

Solomon Jackson, Sasha's husband, could see through the mist, which is where Sally got her skill from

Sally's parents died while on their way to bring some relatives living in Europe and Israel to meet her.

Sally's uncle Rich was gay and a had boyfriend who is alive and who Percy later on meets.

Percy has a large extended family, but only really reconnects with Zinovy's descendants: his son Isaac, Isaac's wife Ofra and twin sons Alexander and Erez, and Alexander's own wife Simone and children Diana, Gila and Yosef.

There's a whole family tree for the Volov-Jackson family because there's a lot of people to keep track of, just saying

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How Anatoly Jr Got Over It

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“Deconstructed” Assimilation Plot

My wife and I were thinking of writing a near-future (2030) sci-fi novel with utopian/dystopian themes, revolving around an viral video (produced by a team of researchers) that causes a profound quasi-religious experience in a receptive viewer. As a result, people who have watched it are generally happier and have a sense of shared purpose and trust of others who have watched. 

They also become more altruistic, tend to want to “convert” dissidents, and organize together to do so. Essentially an optimistic deconstruction of the Assimilation Plot, which maintains individuality, so most of the typical reasons why assimilation is bad aren’t such large factors. We thought this had some fascinating parallels with a lot of different issues about identity, religion and politics, as long as we present it as something not entirely good or bad. We figured that this would be a great opportunity to have a ethnically diverse cast of characters to discuss the moral issues posed by such a ideological group attempting to integrate/assimilate different communities and groups of people. Our main cast is fairly diverse, though we plan to use their families and friends to offer more varied viewpoints, and avoid tokenism.

Anyways, we’re concerned about crafting authentic and nuanced reactions to this event, particularly among our main characters, so if you have any suggestions about how their ethnic backgrounds might contribute to their viewpoints about the event (either as converts or dissidents), we’d love to hear them. Two of our characters we’re particularly concerned about are a 30 year old former Syrian refugee female software developer (non-practicing Muslim, married to a white agnostic ethicist), and a 23 year old Afro-Latino cyber-security expert/conspiracy theorist (middle child from a stable lower-middle class family).

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Deconstruction is not the word

I’m confused by this question.  Let’s look at what a “deconstruction” in literature actually is.  Quite literally, you take a common or established storyline and break it down into its component parts, then examine each of those parts closely and play them through to their (often painful) logical conclusions.  In a deconstruction, if some action has a consequence, the deconstruction of that plot point is to to play that consequence cruelly straight without handwaving things away, seeing in gruesome detail what effects that conceit has on the characters.

In brief, when you deconstruct high fantasy, what you get is Game of Thrones.  When you deconstruct space opera, what you get is Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica.  Deconstruction is an intentional reading of an established formula with an eye counter to that which was originally intended.  Deconstructing modernism gives you Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” wherein the protagonist becomes a giant freaking bug for no god damn reason.  When you consider that many of the things that often occur in narratives would actually be incredibly psychologically damaging in real life, balance and optimism are not really a thing in deconstruction.

What Deconstructed Assimilation Looks Like

So, with this knowledge, let’s look at what deconstructing assimilation would look like in this context.

Cultural assimilation is about subsuming the characteristics of one’s native culture to the larger society in which one lives.  Wholesale assimilation requires you giving up your native food, your native dress, often your native name, because its “easier” or “cooler” or whatever.  People actually do this a lot. Often we choose to do so because it kind of greases the wheels when we live in a place where people like us are the minority.  But there’s a price.  Even the most psychologically well-balanced individuals are going to be torn by the tightrope act required by assimilation.  

I often give my name as “Nick” at Starbucks even against the twinges of feeling like I’m selling out my family, because it makes my afternoon proceed just a little bit easier.  Sometimes I don’t.  It’s basically a coin flip depending on how I’m feeling that very second.  But each act is a choice that changes a person’s sense of being an individual in an culture that regard them as an outsider.  If we deconstruct this notion we’re going to be playing the consequences through to the gory logical ends—every choice a person makes to assimilate or not assimilate is going to be affecting their sense of what being “an individual” means on a very basic level.  

In this sense, I see the whole point of a deconstruction being that “individuality” isn’t a discrete, concrete concept.  Deconstructing assimilation means deconstructing individuality, particularly cultural individuality, and a storyline that deconstructs the concept of assimilation can’t do so while maintaining “individuality” because the two concepts are inextricably and contradictorily linked.

Subverting Assimilation may be the word

If you mean subverting the concept, that’s different, but I have a very hard time seeing how deconstructing and closely examining the notion of assimilation can be done “optimistically” if you’re coming at it from the perspective that assimilation is a bad thing.

~Mod Nikhil

I’ve discussed people ‘deconstructing’ assimilation plots with a more positive twist here: [Pagan Scandinavians and Colonialism]. I’d suggest reading that post to get my full thoughts.

Risks of Adding Optimism to Assimilation

Broadly speaking, attempting to create a “positive” spin on assimilation runs an extremely high risk of sanitizing cultural genocide. The core rooted belief of converting others is that all other beliefs are wrong, your way of life is the best, and you should do whatever it takes to convince people to jump into your way of life because they’ll eventually see it’s the best thing ever.

This has huge problems. If you think it’s okay just because the doctrine will adapt to individual culture, allow me to point you to the sheer number of places Christianity got mixed with the local beliefs in order to convert more people. That’s what made it such an insidious religion; they were willing to adapt to whatever culture in order to get more converts (usually destroying parts of the Indigenous culture in the process, using the mix as a stepping stone to slowly assimilate them and have them lose touch with their original beliefs).

While some of the mixes have been taken back by their individual peoples, that doesn’t stop the mixed reaction many many many Indigenous people have with any religion that tries to take over. Trying to spin tactics that directly lead to cultural destruction as positive “this time” doesn’t hold up, because you haven’t created a situation that has addressed the problem. You’ve just draped it in new decoration, with a video instead of a metaphysical being. Otherwise, this mirrors colonialism. 

This sort of scenario has happened all over the world, with dozens of faiths, hundreds of ethnicities, and it always follows the same method: a group of people believes everyone should be like them, and is willing to use whatever tactics to get there. I see nothing different, at its heart, with your plot.

If you want to try and avoid it, get rid of the need to convert others. You could still have some squicky parts, but at least without a need to convert others there is far less room for psychological manipulation and coercion. 

~ Mod Lesya 

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