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I have the headcanon that Leslie lived until 11, even if he had not super good scores, because he was a little genius of music.

Not everyone can create a song, not everyone can learn super quickly to play a music. I don't remember which song he wanted to learn before his deparature, but i think that it was a difficult one (we don't see him train a lot in the story too) and he plays it before going to the gate, without any partition to help him and without doing any mistake.

I headcanon that she demons keep all the little genius, even if they not have good scores and are genius in other ways, because they think that it worth to keep them.

A kid has not good scores but it a genius with drawing and creates super beautiful things? It's worth to keep him until the age limit.

Leslie is super good in music, learn quickly song and has not need of a partition when he plays? it's worth to wait until he's 11 (close of 12). It could also be a kid who has a beautiful voice ansd sings super well for exemple.

etc....

Norman was a genius in studies and stuff so they keep him beyond 12 by sending him to lambda but people can be genius in other ways that in studies. A genius can be super good in something but kinda bad in another things.

I feel like this is essentially canon, no?

The only birthdays mentioned in "The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List" are Isabella's twelfth birthday and Ray's sixth birthday, so contrary to what the wiki currently says, it doesn't look like Leslie was shipped out exactly on his twelfth since they don't celebrate or even mention it.

(Leslie's page on the TPN Wiki | TPN Light Novel 2: Moms’ Song of Remembrance - “The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List” Chapter 1)

They are among the oldest though since Isabella turns twelve within a year of his shipment while not being physically able to jump atop the wall as we see her do in chapter 37/S1 episode 12 yet due to the sprained ankle she sustains over the course of the light novel, in addition to spending weeks to months writing him letters that never received a response and what finalized her decision to make the jump in the first place.

(S1 Episode 12 | TPN Light Novel 2: Moms’ Song of Remembrance - “The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List” Chapter 8 | Chapter 9)

But it's still soon enough that she discovers the truth of the house during the night of the first snowfall of the year, which could be anywhere from late October 2025 to January 2026 (since the full score trio deduces in chapter 5 that Grace Field is located in [the demon world equivalent of] the northern hemisphere, in addition to "The Guiding Star" short story mentioning them planning on using Polaris to find each other again after they go off to foster homes, winter would be during this time of the year).

I'm inclined to go with January 2026 since we don't see snow on the night of January 15, 2046, and also because I feel there's some poignancy in what would have been Leslie's twelfth birthday month getting to Isabella as the final push to make her seek him out. He surely would have written her in response to the birthday wishes she mailed him. (This is also why I feel his shipment was after September 9, 2025 because him not sending her any birthday well wishes would have tipped her off sooner, too).

(TPN Light Novel 2: Moms’ Song of Remembrance - “The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List” Chapter 9)

This could be an oddity in the translation, but Isabella also mentions how her her twelfth birthday was close enough that they could mark it on the calendar while the snow was piling up outside. Assuming they put up a new calendar at the start of January, she discovered the truth only in 2026, and then spent over half a year trying to come up with some sort of plan to escape (and isn't there a wealth of potential there, thinking of the adversarial atmosphere between her and Sarah during those few months and how that would be replicated in the next generation between her and Ray, although not 1:1.)

I don't remember which song he wanted to learn before his departure, but i think that it was a difficult one (we don't see him train a lot in the story too) and he plays it before going to the gate, without any partition to help him and without doing any mistake.

He learned to play Nocturne No.2! Though the translator, c72684, wasn't entirely certain what larger body of work it belonged to.

(TPN Light Novel 2: Moms’ Song of Remembrance - “The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List” Chapter 2)

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Hi, do you have any tips on how to be comfortable being a Muslim while being queer?

I've been trying to do that for a very long time, focusing on my faith in Allah, but it's a bit hard and I always get demotivated randomly :(

Hey! Salam! Sorry for the kind of late response, moving houses has been hectic. This will be a long response (sorry), so I will put it under the cut.

I want to preface this by saying every queer person is different. I don't know the specifics of your identity so I am going to cover both sexual queerness and gender queerness.

My biggest obstacle in nurturing my relationship with Allah was believing that the way I am was haram, and even that I was cursed by Allah. I no longer believe this, but it was a long road.

Sexuality

I don't believe that homosexuality is haram. The common claim that the story of Lut is about homosexuality is full of holes and inconsistencies and it's largely based on the Christian religious tradition, even if the grammar of the Qur'an doesn't align with the Christian tradition (eg. the Qur'an uses the word "banaat" for Prophet Lut's (as) daughters. Bannat is plural, meaning 3 or more daughters, and in the traditional telling Lut (as) has 2 daughters).

Here is a really good study by Nahida Nisa:

I recommend reading all of Nahida's things because she's an amazing writer.

And a video from Dr. Shehnaz Haqaani's (PhD, Islamic Studies) podcast "What The Patriarchy":

and you can find her blog here

These articles from the blog, Lamp of Islam are also pretty good. He is a hardcore Qur'anist with some strange opinions, so peruse his blog with caution.

Letting go of the belief that the way I am was haram and that Allah had cursed me was the most critical part of fixing my iman and overall nurturing my relationship with Allah.

Also, it doesn't make any sense that The All-Merciful, Allah would make someone with an innate attraction to the same gender and then forbid them from "acting on it".

The Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) never punished anyone for homosexuality, after his death, his companions debated whether or not to punish homosexuals and they could not come to a conclusion.

Gender

The Qur'an seems to acknowledge the differences between sex and gender. For example, the word for 'man' in the Qur'an is rijal and the word for 'male' is dhukran. And the word for 'woman' is nisa, but the word for 'female' is untsa. You can read Lamp of Islam's article on the meanings of these words here.

There also may be a vague reference to intersex and/or gender non-conforming people in verse 42:50.

There are also some hadith that seem to imply that gender non-conforming people were accepted around Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam). Prophet Muhammad's (Salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) wife Umm Salama (Radi Allahu anha) had a seemingly close friend who was then called a 'mukhanath', named Hit, who was described as a 'male who exhibited effeminate traits' was was welcome into the private women's section of the Prophet's (Salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) home. Today this person might have been a gay man (who displayed effeminate traits by accepting the "woman's role" (🙄) in relationships), or, more likely IMO, this person would be considered a trans woman today.

Hit was punished by the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam), but not for their sexuality/gender expression, they were punished for describing a woman's body to a man, which was possible because they were allowed into both men's and women's spaces. The punishment of Hit is often used as 'evidence' to support homophobia and transphobia, but they neglect to mention the specific reason that Hit was punished.

You can read more about queerness in Islamic history here.

The link above takes you to Muslims For Progressive Values, they also offer marriage services for queer Muslims and interfaith couples, specifically for Muslim women seeking to marry non-Muslim men.

Here is a link to MPV's video series, but massive trigger warning for the comment section.

And a second MPV video series.

And another article from MPV.

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As I said, learning about LGBTQ Islamic History helped me a lot.

Keep your relationship with Allah between you and Him. Only share it with people who you 100% trust, because religion is extremely personal.

Find your people. Whether online or in-person, a community of people like you is important.

Know that Allah knows you, your identity, and the way you feel. Ultimately, Allah is your creator and we will only return to him. And we, as queer people KNOW that this is the way we were created. Nobody can tell you that who you are is false because they have no way to know that.

Block. Block. Block. Block. Block anyone who is being a problem, who might become a problem in the future. Block them all. Block Islamophobic queers, block queerphobic Muslims. Protect your peace and your relationship with Allah at all costs.

Here are people that I block quickly: anyone who has outwardly queerphobic or Islamophobic things posted on their page. Salafis and Wahabis. The black flag freaks: those with black flags in their user names/bios. I block people for the comments they leave all the time. Generally, I don't wait for them to do something, I block them on sight.

You mentioned that you struggle with low imaan sometimes. It's important to know that fluctuations of imaan are normal and completely natural. But I'm assuming since you've sent this ask, you always come back, which is what's important.

Here is another video from Dr. Shehnaz Haqaani's (PhD Islamic Studies) Podcast for Muslims who struggle to practice.

And a TikTok from @/soundous.boualam:

My biggest tip for building faith is to start slow.

Pray one prayer a day at first, and wait until that prayer is deeply ingrained into your habits, then add another. I recommend starting with Isha before bed. Don't try to do everything at once. You'll burn yourself out.

Build up the fard actions. Your prayers, primarily.

If you can take on more, add in the dhikr after prayer (subhanallah 33x, alhamdullilah 33x, and allahu akbar 34x). Or add dhikr in throughout your day. I use an app called Azkar that I set to send notifications to remind me to do various worship activities.

When I braid my hair I say alhamdullilah every time I cross a piece over another.

If you can, it might also help to put a poster or picture on your wall with your favorite Qur'an verse, hadith, or Islamic quote on your wall, or make your screensaver a reminder to remember Allah.

You can also buy or make a beaded tasbih bracelet, sometimes having something on your wrist can make it easier to remember.

I also like to spend 20-30 minutes every morning after Fajr to just spend time with Allah, talk to Him, and read the Qur'an.

But also remember that you don't only get rewarded for outright acts of worship. You get rewarded for caring for your body, taking a nap when you're tired, eating food, drinking water, caring for pets, and spending time with family. All of that stuff is worship.

Be easy with yourself. Allah does not want hardship for you (2:185).

And I'll leave you with a Qur'an verse.

It was We Who created man, and We know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him that [his] jugular vein. (50:16)

I hope this helps you some. I love you. Allah loves you. May Allah bless you with peace, imaan, and His abundant guidance and mercy, Allahumma Ameen.

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BYI or before you interact. For old and new followers and lurkers.

Have a native introduction here in my own bio links and pinned post. Be sure to check it out if you can. For old and new followers. For accessibility purposes and safety reasons. Esp as a lgbt and disabled native of color creative and social media user.

It’s a singular native introduction post on my tumblr, wordpress, and my blogpost. If reading one singular post is easier than a thread. It’s why the links are in my bio and pinned post. It’s also a native introduction thread on my bluesky and my threads (of instagram).

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Not all of the info on this single native intro pinned post on tumblr, wordpress, or blogspot is reposted into the native intro pinned intro thread on bluesky and threads though. Since there is a social media text block limit. As well as for privacy, safety, & security reasons.

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This is a list of rules, guidelines, procedures, & boundaries. For those of you who are also bipoc, qtipoc, and disabled. For those of you who are white, cishet, allistic, neurotypical, abled bodied, & or non native. To make this a better, healthier, & safer social media experience for me.

This is how i am vetting people i want or don’t want following me. I’m trying to cultivate and curate the social media sphere I want here. To protect my social media space. Esp as a marginalized person.

I don’t do follow for follows. I don’t have the time or the energy to follow back every single person who follows me. Thats how we got twitter into x. I’m not doing that. I also don’t follow anyone without vetting them first as a lgbt and disabled social media user and creative. For safety, security, and privacy reasons.

Be sure to check out my bio links pinned post and or pinned post before interacting with me in any way if you are a new follower. You should be doing this for every social media anyway. I’m trying to not have the clusterfuck of Twitter happen here too.

Always recheck my bio links pinned post and or pinned thread before interacting if you are an old follower. I’m always updating this with up to date information. This tumblr, wordpress, and blogspot singular pinned post btw is the most up to date native intro cuz of how easy it is to edit here.

Remember those symbols and that before you interact are in my bio and pinned post for a reason. Please respect my social media boundaries. Esp as marginalized social media user. I’m a visibly brown queer trans and disabled native of color.

If you don’t read my bio, links, pinned post, and or pinned thread and you interact with me. I’ll see this as you not respecting my social media space/sphere and boundaries as a marginalized person. I will mute unfollow and or block you. I’m taking extra steps to keep myself safe here as a marginalized person. If you can’t take the time to respect that. Then you’re not clearly someone I want in my social media space. Plain and simple.

The introduction is detailed and thorough for a reason. Past lateral violence and micro aggressions. I’m trying not to encounter that here. This shouldn’t need to be fucking said but apparently it does. Don’t be mad at a marginalized person for having a long intro. Remember rules guidelines and procedures. Be mad at bigots who made this all necessary in the fucking first place.

You don’t have to read the bio links pinned post and or pinned thread in one go also btw. Remember that I am a disabled writer artist and creator. It’s not meant to be read in one go. I’ve written it with the help of bipoc qtipoc and disabled mutuals. You can like it, pin it, bookmark it, whatever. Continue where you left off until you’re done reading it. 📌

With that out of the way. Thank you. Welcome to my social media sphere and space. 👋

Info about me and my WIPS art and projects as a as a disabled and queer/trans native of color writer artist and creator creative. Info about me as a disabled and lgbt native of color gamer/streamer/podcaster.

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Hello. My Indigenous Pasifika preferred name is No’eau Aitonui Hoata/Heiani Mareva Hoata. If you are Indigenous or Indigenous Pasifika please refer to me by that name

My Vietnamese Kinh name is Ngoc Hien/Xuan Dinh Nguyen. If you are a non native person of color please refer to me by that name

Names on the left is when I’m kane/tane or masc. Names on the right is when I am vahine/wahine or femme.

I do have unisex names for when I am maohi raerae (think two spirit, mahu, or fakaleiti) or native third gender.

But I am not comfortable sharing it on social media. Only use these names if you are a fellow native or indigenous pasifika. Or if you are a non native person of color. Not if you are a non native yt settler.

Names have power. I don’t want certain people referring to me by my certain names for obvious reasons.

My English/French name is Christian Henry Nguyen/Charlotte Jeanne Nguyen. If you are a non native white person you can only refer to me by this name.

It’s alot more nuanced than this but this is based on our racial cultural and gender identities and their relationship to each other.

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Any and all pronouns. Including neopronouns and indigenous third gender pronons. He/him. She/her. They/them. Xer/xers. Zer/Zehir. Native third gender neutral oña. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧

For unisex or gender neutral names when I am they/them, xer/xers, or zer/zehir. Ask privately for the names.

I will also accept native masc femme and native third gender terms. As well as masc femme and genderfluid terms from other cultures of color. Be sure to clarify which ones are which first for me.

Don’t assume masc. That queer and trans symbol is in my bio for a reason. Esp as a third gender native of color. I really don’t want to be misgendered or deadnamed on here like Twitter. The only time you can ever refer to me by masc without asking me first is when we are irl for safety reasons.

General rule is ask for pronouns first. If I say he him. Refer to me by my names on the left. If I say she her. Refer to me by my names on the right. If I say they them, xer xers, zer zehir, etc. Ask privately for my unisex or third gender names.

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Displaced state side diaspora on Chumash and Tongva occupied stolen land. 🗺️ Orange County/LA County Southern Cali. 📍 Land back. Indigenous 🪶 agency, sovereignty, and stewardship. All land back. Turtle Island Hawaii Samoa Guahan Papua Palestine Etc. End to all settler states.

Leftist and Progressive. Commie. Anarchist. Socialist. ✊🏾 ☭ Ⓐ

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I play and stream PS3, PS4, & PS5 games. I play and stream Xbox 360, Xbox One games. I plan to play Xbox Series X games in the future. I plan to play Nintendo Switch One and Two games in the future. I plan to play PC games in the future. 🎮 🎧 🎙️ 📷 📺

I’m a QTIPOC or queer and trans Indigenous person of color. I’m nonbinary bigender or genderfluid. I’m bisexual pansexual or omnisexual. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧ I’m polyam or polyamorous. 💛♾️ I’m maohi/raerae in the middle indigenous native third gender. 🪶 🏳️‍🌈

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Homophobes and transphobes

TERFs/radfems and swerfs

Ableism fatphobia and classism

Antisemitism, Islamaphobia and or anti Romani/Roma sentiments

Bots trolls bigots

Crypto ai nfts etc

Nazis fascists and Zionists

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Let’s get this out of the way. If you’re planning to use this as a dating app. Remember that I’m 30+ I’m only interested in dating people 22+. Im not into problematic age gap relationships irl cuz of power imbalances.

Remember I’m also a disabled native of color. Remember that I’m a queer, trans, and polyam native of color. Remember that I’m a brown ass native of color. Those things are important to my lived experience.

If you are white cishet and or non native. I’m only interested in being friends or acquaintances. Full stop. This is self explanatory. I’m only interested in dating bipoc and or qtipoc partners. I’m not interested in being fetishized, dehumanized, or sexualized etc again by white non natives as an Asian native of color. I’m not exotic I’m exhausted. I’m not a race play fantasy for settler colonizers.

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Im a writer, creator, & artist. I’m a multidisciplinary creative. Im a literary artist and performance artist. Im a creative writing and fiction writer. I’m a nonfiction poet writer. Im an author, comic book writer, screenwriter, spoken word poet, & songwriter. I write SFF or sci fi fantasy futurism in fiction. ✏️ 🎬 📖 📜 🎶 I am also a variety, indie, and small gamer, streamer, & podcaster. 🎮 🎧 🎙️ 📷 📺

I’m a Indigenous language keeper, culture keeper, & storykeeper.

I’m an indigenous third gender elder and healer. Remember that this isn’t just lgbt for indigenous people. I see this as a seperate racial, cultural, and gender identity. That is a cultural obligation and spiritual responsibility.

Former native of color high school and college reporter journalist and reviewer

I will freelance write or write for commissions

I write about racial, sex, cultural identity, sexual orientation, & gender identity in music and poetry.

I write about Black, poc, Indigenous, disabled, and or lgbt characters in disabled, bipoc, and qtipoc futurism.

Im the writer and creator of the disabled, Bipoc, and qtipoc futurism anthology project. It’s a hybrid soft and hard science fiction and magical high fantasy. It’s precontact and post land back. It’s a comic books and graphic novels hybrid series called Chronicles of War.

Basic info is the pinned post of my tumblr, wordpress and blogspot. More information is on a google doc on my google drive. Needs email for google doc invite link.

Im the performing artist spoken word poet of the spoken word poetry anthology book Heart of Fire Dragon, Soul of Flame Pheonix, & Sea Fairy Ocean Blood that is about being a disabled native, an Asian Native, a child of a transracial adoptee, a displaced disconnected diaspora, & QTIPOC.

The cut and censored version of it was linked in the pinned tweet on my twitter mudaship39. Before musks bs made me delete the account. Uncut and uncensored version is on a google doc on my google drive. Also needs email for google doc invite link.

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Expanded info about my wips art and projects:

Info about my wips art and projects as a multidisciplinary creative. Info about my wips art and projects as a small and variety gamer streamer and podcaster

Current Wips Art and Projects:

Spoken word poetry anthology book:

Do you want to read a spoken word poetry anthology book I wrote as an Asian native Pasifika artist who’s a songwriter and spoken word poet? Its called Heart of Fire Dragon Soul of Flame Phoenix and Sea Fairy Ocean Blood.

It’s about being a disabled native (autistic, neurodivergent, chronically ill, & mentally ill disabled), a displaced disconnected state side diaspora, being an Asian Native (as a Vietnamese Kinh, French, Chinese Hoa, & Polynesian Tahitian Indigenous Pasifika person of color), a child of a transracial adoptee, & about being a QTIPOC (queer and trans third gender Indigenous person of color).

I have been working on it for a long time as a storykeeper, language keeper, and culture keeper. I have been working on it for a long time as an artist who’s a poet and songwriter. Since seventh grade of junior high.

It includes a personal foreword and personal afterword to Indigenous people specifically Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian audiences.

The old cut and censored version of it was linked in my pinned tweet of my Twitter mudaship39. Before I deleted my Twitter. Cuz of musk.

The new cut and censored version will be posted to tumblr, wordpress, blogspot, threads, and or bluesky. If anyone is interested in reading something like this. The uncut and uncensored version of it is on a google doc on my google drive.

Need email for google doc invite link. Let me know which version you prefer to read if you're interested in reading something like this. Let me know an email on socials with messages. Be sure to like and reblog my pinned post to boost my art to other bipoc qtipoc and or disabled mutuals.

Cover art of the Spoken Word Poetry Book: Heart of Fire Dragon Soul of Flame Phoenix and Sea Fairy Ocean Blood:

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For the cut and censored version. Go to the pinned post.

Like and reblog the pinned post. This is to boost info about my wips art and project to your disabled, qtipoc, & or bipoc followers.

The cut and censored spoken word poetry book is linked in my pinned post thread.

Like reblog and quote any line of the cut and censored version of the spoken word poetry book. Quote tweet it with your thoughts.

Use any hashtags if you know any. This is so it gets out to others in the poc community and Indigenous community especially those indigenous to turtle island or Indigenous to Pasifika Oceania or Moana.

It’s also so I can find poc or Indigenous producers and publishers to actually make it into a spoken word poetry book.

For the uncut and uncensored version post comments into the google doc itself and leave a review at the end.

Let me know if you know anyone else interested in reading something like this.

Let me know if know any poc and Indigenous artists especially indigenous to turtle island or Indigenous to Pasifika Oceania or Moana who are willing to draw art for this poetry book.

Bipoc qtipoc and disabled futurism anthology project:

Im also a writer and creator who writes bipoc, disabled, and qtipoc futurism. I write magical high fantasy and science fiction books, comics, and graphic novels.

My bipoc, disabled, and qtipoc futurism anthology project called Chronicles of War. I have been working on it for a long time. Since freshman year of high school. It is a soft and hard science fiction and urban and modern magical high fantasy hybrid comic book or graphic novel series.

It is soft and hard Sci fi (bio punk, solar punk, ray punk, nano punk, & cyberpunk) in the near and far future. It is also a magical high fantasy (steampunk, Tesla punk, arcane punk, and dungeon punk) in modern and urban fantasy.

For the bipoc qtipoc and disabled futurism project there are several google docs. The main google docs. The character bio google docs of the main and supporting characters. The google doc of the character questionnaire for bipoc qtipoc and disabled character creation.

If you want to help with representation of these characters you share racial cultural and or gender identities with lmk. Use these google docs for them. For past current and upcoming characters of the bipoc qtipoc and disabled futurism anthology project.

If you want to help with art of the futurism anthology project and the bipoc qtipoc and disabled main and supporting characters let me know.

Art of Chronicles of War:

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It is a hybrid fusion that is bipoc qtipoc and disabled futurism with bipoc qtipoc and disabled main and supporting characters. It is precontact and post land back.

It’s a futurism anthology or collection of sci fi fantasy stories. That is about several disabled, bipoc (or Black Indigenous and or person of color) characters, and qtipoc (or queer and trans indigenous people of color) main characters.

One is mahu third gender Kana’i Akana/Ataahua Akana an Afro Asian pasifika/Afro Latine Native. He/she/they are a demigod metahuman and alien hybrid superhuman superhero. He/she/they are in a science fiction bio punk, solar punk, ray punk, nano punk, & cyberpunk world in the near and far future.

Art of Kanai Akana/Attaua Akana:

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The other is Kittsak/Kaeo Alin Pramoj an Afro Asian native third gender coded magical human with light and dark fae elvish, hobgoblin goblinoid, & giant kin ancestry. He/she/they are a multi class spellcaster, swordfighter, and gunslinger hero and adventurer. He/she/they live in a magical high fantasy steampunk, Tesla punk, arcanepunk/aetherpunk, and dungeon punk modern fantasy world.

Art of Kittsak/Kaeo Alin Pramoj:

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There are other disabled bipoc and or qtipoc main characters in other worlds pre contact and post land back.

Such as a Sami Indigenous and European Scandinavian coded third gender god/goddess Jotunn Loki. King/Queen Loki Laufeyson/Loki Farbautidottir of Jotunheim and Utgard. Child of Queen Laufey and Queen Farbauti born of Vanir and Jotunn magic. Living in the ancient past during the age of the gods.

Art of Loki Laufeyson/Loki Farbautidottir:

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Such as Lushanya Williams a two spirit third gender Afro Indigenous Chickasaw Native Freedman were lion and were leopard hybrid character. She is living in a town of Afro Indigenous Freedman and hybrid humanoid communities. In a modern and urban fantasy world.

Art of Lushanya Williams:

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Such as Eloxochitl Hueytletl a female Nahuatl Indigenous woman, Chiaquitinta Mallqui a male Quechua Indigenous man, Piatã Jucá a Tupi or Guarani Indigenous man, Malia Tsethlikai a Zuni Indigenous woman, & Zacal-Noh a female Maya Indigenous woman. They are Central and South American summoners of kaiju or titans based on Nahuatl, Quechua, and Maya and other Central and South Indigenous mythology. It’s a precontact story. As they use the kaiju to fight off the Spanish Empire.

Such as a female Asian Native superhero Zhao, Zhen who lives in the near future and far future cyberpunk world and her alternate reality doppelgänger Zhou, Chen a monk adventurer who lives in a silk punk martial arts world. She is a demigirl, a butch of color, and a lesbian of color. They are connected by minds, hearts, and souls after a traumatic experience as an adventurer and as a superhero. They are both Isekai into each other’s worlds.

Art of Zhao Zhen/Zhou Chen:

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Such as a Pirate Captain Meilani Taerea an Asian Pasifika native of color maohi raerae third gender Polynesian and Melanesian Indigenous Pasifika sea pirate living in the bronze, silver, & golden age of piracy in a modern fantasy world.

Art or Meilani Taerea:

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There are several bipoc qtipoc and or disabled supporting characters.

Such as Afro Asian half dragon (Chromatic European, Celestial Asian, African, gemstone, & metallic dragon) half human Chun Hei Kim a dragon mage and dragon fighter adventurer.

Art of Chun Hei Kim:

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Such as Afro European British and Afro South Asian Desi Hindu Amelia Himmat Mishra. Like her older siblings she is a champion and hero of the Hindu pantheon.

Art of Amelia Himmat Mishra:

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Such as Afro West Asian and Black African Muslim Maysa Nibala Uzun a lesbian Black femme of color. She is a veteran powered armor soldier. She is an ace battle walker and mecha pilot.

Art of Maysa Nibala Uzun:

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Such as Latine Native Tsalagi Indigenous two spirit native third gender Valeria Nadia Torres Garcia or Tsistunagiska Colagnee. She is a hacker activist. She is a technopath who has power over electricity and technology.

Art of Valeria Nadia Torres Garcia or Tsistunagiska Colagne:

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Such as Madison Cao or Isabella Rodriguez an Asian Hispanic Native or Asian Latine Native mutant of color. She is a rookie superhero in training. She is one of the many bipoc qtipoc and disabled protégés of the Afro Asian Pasifika and Afro Latine Native superhero main character.

Art of Madison Cao or Isabella Rodriguez:

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The main and supporting characters are in monogamous or polygamous relationships. It has Black, Native, poc, queer, trans, & disabled representation. It has Indigenous and indigenous pasifika representation too actually. If that’s something you are into.

Need email for google doc invite link also if you are also into this. Let me know an email on socials with messages.

If you want to look up excerpt blog posts of my poetry book or futurism project. Be sure to search my blog with my tags of native, indigenous, trans, disabled, and or queer: artist, writer, representation, character, and or creator. Be sure to like and reblog to boost my art wips and projects to native of color, disabled, & or lgbt mutuals.

Don’t repost my art. Just tag and credit me on other socials.

Upcoming Wips Art and Projects:

Upcoming project once i find cast crew and a studio and network to green light it: Modern take movie about Medusa and her disabled blind lesbian love interest. With more diverse characters. Since it’s a modern take with disabled, qtipoc, and bipoc representation like my other wips and projects. If anyone wants me to re green light it let me know. We had cast and crew interested in the project from all over the world but we couldn’t figure out the logistics of it.

Polynesian Micronesian and Melanesian sports anime or cartoon. Each season being about different Pasifika sports. Volleyball, football, ruby, surfing, rowing, canoeing, & sailing. Each season with different main characters. Characters from across the Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian diaspora. Characters from past seasons returning in cameos. Bipoc qtipoc and or disabled main and supporting Pasifika characters.

Payment, Gifts, Wishlist, Donation, Reparations, & Mutual Aid:

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Payment for art as a disabled native of color writer artist and creator creative. How to support as a disabled native of color gamer/streamer/podcaster. How to help with mutual aid as a disabled and queer trans native of color:

If I ask for help with payment gifts wishlist donation and mutual aid. Refer to here. Please help out if you’re able to assist a low income poor native of color.

There is an ableist pay cap as a disabled writer artist and creator. There is also an ableist income inequality. There is an ableist marriage inequality.

If anyone wants to pay me for the spoken word poetry anthology book and or the bipoc qtipoc and disabled futurism project as a disabled multidisciplinary writer artist and creator.

If anyone wants to support me as a small, indie, and variety disabled native of color gamer streamer and podcaster. To help out with items in my wishlist to support me as a disabled native of color writer, artist, creator. To help support me as a disabled native of color gamer, streamer, podcaster.

To help with mutual aid (food, water, clothes, medications, groceries, gas money, public transportation, laundry, bills, insurance, rent/mortgage, pet care for my emotional support animal, shelter, & housing) as a disabled native of color.

To help with healthcare, insurance, hormones, medications, and other gender affirming care as a qtipoc. What I want and need to get rid of gender dysphoria and get gender euphoria is nuanced. Since it’s not tied to cis heteronormative and Eurocentric ideas.

To help with moving out of the place I share with right wing conservative family members. To move into affordable, inclusive, and accessible housing and shelter with friends and partner(s) as a lgbt and disabled native of color.

To find someone or some people (who are also bipoc and qtipoc for obvious reasons) to provide in home care service for a disabled native of color.

Be sure to dm or pm me. There is a specific way to do so as a disabled writer artist and creator.

Help with these whenever and however you can. Especially on eastern Moon Lunar or Chinese new year (Our moon new years last for fifteen days from the new moon to to full moon following the lunar phases). My birthday on September 7th. For Colonizer/Invasion days (the fourth Kanada day or Australia Day). Esp for Indigenous peoples day. Esp for Indigenous day of mourning. For Yuletide winter solstice and Christmas. For western new years.

Wishlist as a disabled creative and as a disabled writer, artist, creative. Wishlist as an indie, small, & variety gamer, streamer, podcaster:

For pencils, pens, notebooks, etc, and other writing tools and supplies. For colored pencils, crayons, markers, paint, etc, and other art tools and supplies.

So I can go to comic con anime con twitch con and other conventions as a writer artist and creator

So I can go to museums, art galleries, observatories, zoos, aquariums, etc as a native of color who’s into stem and the arts/humanities.

Other than being a writer I am also a reader. There are alot of books, e books, audio books, comics, graphic novels, & manga I would like to read and listen to that’s in my wishlist and add to my library.

I use an old windows 7 laptop for my writing and art. It’s gonna run out of support soon. Still trying to get a windows 10 or 11 laptop with an accessible wireless usb mouse and an accessible mousepad. As well as a new Samsung tablet with a tablet keyboard for accessibility for writing and creating art and projects. As well as a IPad for mobile and tablet gaming.

I am a mobile, handheld, tablet, pc, & console gamer.

I play old, current, and next gen console games. I play PlayStation 3, 4, and 5 games. I play Xbox 360 and Xbox one games. Still need secondary controllers for my old and current Xbox and PS systems.

Still trying to get a gaming computer to play old, current, & upcoming pc games. With an accessible: gaming mouse, mousepad, and keyboard for gaming as a disabled pc gamer.

Still trying to get an Xbox series x for other current and next gen Xbox games. Still trying to get a Nintendo switch One and Two to play current and new Pokémon and other Nintendo games. Still trying to get wired and wireless controllers for these upcoming systems.

Games I am playing currently is in my Xbox and PlayStation account. Games I want to play but am waiting for as a disabled gamer, indigenous gamer, gamer of color, & gaymer is on my gaming wishlist on my PlayStation Nintendo and Xbox accounts.

You can also send me PlayStation store, Nintendo store, or Xbox store gift cards amount from 25 to 100 $.

So I can buy the old, current, & upcoming games I want to play and stream as a gamer of color, native gamer, gaymer, disabled gamer, & variety streamer.

So I can preorder the deluxe editions of upcoming games on my gaming wishlists on my gaming socials.

So I can subscribe to Nintendo switch online, PlayStation Plus, & Xbox Live Gold monthly and yearly to play multiplayer games on handheld and console games.

So I can play seasonal content of the multiplayer games I play. So I can play game packs, expansions, & dlcs of the offline single player and online multiplayer games I play.

Also still trying to get a microphone, camera, and headset for streaming, gaming, and podcasting.

As well as USB Drive extended storage portable hard drives. So I can play more games at a time from my game catalog. So I have more storage and memory. Without needing to reinstall games to do so. For Xbox One and Xbox series X. For PlayStation 4 and 5.

Wishlist for these is on my separate on my throne wishlist and Amazon accounts

Wishlist Socials:

Shipping Name and Shipping Address for payment gifts donation wishlist and or mutual aid:

People in the past have paid me by sending cash, money orders, or check to me to my address under my government name. Be sure to dm me or pm me for the shipping address and the name to send the payment, gifts, wishlist, donation, & mutual aid under.

Contact at:

Cellphone 📱 714 717 2482

Let me know a name to save it under and the social media I know you from

If you want to talk by call text or FaceTime

I don’t respond to people I don’t know as a disabled native of color

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Private emails:

Personal Email:

christian.nguyen1994@icloud.com

Work Email

christian.nguyen2868@gmail.com

Unpublished and Not Represented as a Disabled and Queer Trans Native of Color Creative:

Unsponsored as a Small Indie Variety Native of Color Gamer Streamer Podcaster:

Still looking for a agent, rep, publisher, and producer as a disabled and queer trans native of color creative

As well as a sponsor as a disabled native of color gamer streamer and podcaster. As a small and variety game streamer and podcaster shooting for partnered and affiliate on twitch youtube noise etc. So I can get good streaming equipment, gaming setup, and a game catalog to game, stream, & podcast to a bigger disabled, bipoc, and qtipoc audience.

I plan to perform my spoken word poetry anthology book at venues in Orange County and LA County Southern California. To bipoc qtipoc and disabled audiences. I plan to perform it to bipoc audiences across turtle island. If you want to be a part of that let me know. After I get artists, a publisher, and editors to help with the spoken word poetry anthology books about being an Asian native, a lgbt native, a disabled native, & displaced disconnected diaspora. Once I get the spoken word poetry book published.

I plan to go home to my Pasifika mainland of Tahiti and Bora Bora to connect and reconnect with my cultural identity. I plan to get traditional black and white and modern colored Southeast and East Asian Vietnamese and Chinese and Polynesian Indigenous Pasifika Tahitian tattoos. On my face, neck, chest, back, arms, hands, legs, & feet. I plan to find Asian and Native Pasifika regalia. I plan to get jewelry of necklaces, rings, bracelets, & anklets, etc. I plan to get facial and body precious metal piercings with precious gemstones. As well as perform my spoken word poetry anthology books across Moana or Pasifika to Polynesian, Micronesian, & Melanesian audiences. I plan to perform it with Indigenous Pasifika translators, haka, percussion, dancers, & singers.

After I get a producer, studio, network to fund my bipoc, qtipoc, & disabled futurism project. I plan to turn it into a book, comic, manga, web comic, light novel, & graphic novel series for bipoc qtipoc and disabled readers. A cartoon, tv show, movie series, animated series, & anime for bipoc qtipoc and disabled viewers. A table top rpg game for disabled qtipoc and bipoc players. As well as a open world next gen and cross platform video game series for disabled qtipoc and bipoc gamers.

Be sure to also like comment and reblog my bio and pinned post to boost it to disabled bipoc and or qtipoc mutuals.

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Be sure to like comment and reblog the bio pinned post and pinned thread (if you or mutuals are on bluesky and or threads) of my tumblr, wordpress, bluesky, and threads. This lets me know if you read or haven’t read my intro before interacting with me. Use any hashtags you know. Such as bipoc qtipoc and disabled hashtags. Such as writer artist creative hashtags. Such as gaming streaming and podcast hashtags. Such as donation wishlist payment mutual aid hashtags. Likes and reblogs. To boost it to disabled bipoc and or qtipoc mutuals. Remember the social media algorithm. Just likes doesn’t help much in boosting a marginalized social media user and creative.

[thedansemacabres]

The Almost Lost Relationship of Adonis and Dionysus

[ID: An image of the seats at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens. The sun shines on the pale steps, illuminating them slightly. Beyond the stairs, there is nothing else in the theatre and it acts as an empty scene.]

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ADONIS IS KNOWN FOR BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN PERSEPHONE AND APHRODITE, and this eventually being the cause of his death—Artemis, Ares, Apollon, or perhaps all send a boar to gore Adonis and end the affair between him and Aphrodite. However, of course, there is always more to this story: that being the continuation, the romance of Adonis and Dionysus. This will serve as a small introduction to a relatively unknown aspect of Adonis’ mythology, especially in the perspective of Adonis representing infertile life compared to Dionysus’ fertility. 

PANYASSIS, AND THEN PLATO

Apollodorus contains one of the earliest tellings of Adonis’ death from the 5th century poet Panyassis, who states that Adonis died twice—once when Persephone obtained him, and another when he was gored by a boar. However, continuing Panyassis’ fragment, Plato Comicus states that Adonis’ death was caused by Aphrodite and Dionysus, not Aphrodite and Persephone: 

O Kinyras, king of the hairy-assed Cypriots, Your child is by nature most beautiful and most marvelous Of all humans, but two divinities will destroy him, She being rowed by secret oars, and he rowing them. (fr. 3)

By desiring and loving Adonis, Aphrodite and Dionysus later cause his demise. This is one of the earliest mentions of Adonis and Dionysus, whilst grim, does lead us slightly into the romance of Adonis and Dionysus. Another myth—or perhaps a continuation of this one—presents another tale, as recorded by Plutarch. 

PLUTARCH’S FRAGMENT 

Plutarch presents a differing story: that Dionysus fought with Aphrodite for Adonis and won. In discussing the ethics of food, particularly eating swine, he invokes this in a lost text written by Phanocles: 

Εἰδὼς θεῖον Ἄδωνιν ὀρειφοίτης Διόνυσος ἥρπασεν, ἠγαθέην Κύπρον ἐποιχόμενος. Knowingly, mountain-roaming Dionysus carried away the divine Adonis, after approaching the Holy Cyprian with hostile purpose. Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales

One of the many reasons he cites for pigs being less than ideal animals for consumption is that they gored Adonis—which, in hypothesis, could be a reason that some Aphrodisian cults avoided consuming pork, but this is merely my own thinking. 

This fragment gives little context to the motives of Dionysus in this myth, the reaction of Aphrodite or Adonis. Despite this, the wording is of intrigue to me of several parts:

What does knowingly mean? The translation phrases it as Dionysus knowing, but knowing what? Or does this refer to Adonis knowing that he would be carried off—as in the original ancient Greek, it is placed as “knowing, divine Adonis.” 

Adonis here is called a god, theos, which may refer to his apotheosis, which was of contention in ancient Greece.

“Hostile purpose”, ἐποιχόμενος, also refers to the passing of wine. So, instead of violence, he may have given Aphrodite wine in “exchange” for Adonis. 

There is also something to be said of the similarity between Adonis being carried off with Dionysus carrying Ariadne away from Noxus. There were also contentions about the divinity of Ariadne, with some myths declaring her dying and another conflating her with Aphrodite—similarly to Adonis, who Plutarch mentioned previously could be identified with Dionysus.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 

As remarked in the Adonia in Context, Adonis’ divinity was a contested question—with some remarking him as nothing sacred, while others entreating him as a deity. I personally have come to understand him as divine, returning from the underworld, especially as he journeyed there with Persephone. That within itself—returning to and from the underworld—is no task for mortals, even if it was divinely sanctioned by Zeus. If he did die when he was first received by Persephone, does this imply a cycle of resurrection that eventually led to a state in between, or an odd sense of immortality? 

There is also the notable comparison of Adonis and Dionysus mirroring Ariadne and Dionysus, in which they are taken by Dionysus and become his lovers. In my own practice, this does come into Adonis being in our modern terms in a polycule with the god. Fascinatingly, Ariadne’s own divinity was of debate, perhaps remarking her as a parallel to Adonis himself. There is certainly something to be said of Adonis being a sterile god with the fertility god Dionysus, continuing the paradox of Dionysus. Adonis represents the ancient Greek man that was infertile and as such did not mature into a proper member of the polis, and Dionysus is the great disrupter of the polis. 

As a personal practice though, there is always the option for others to honour them as I do—as divine lovers—and in my personal practice, Dionysus is the one who eventually “wins” Adonis. And as someone extremely unconventional and a “failed” man in the eyes of my biological family, Adonis is the perfect comfort as the failed adult who succeeds into immortality. 

References

Edmund P. Cueva, (1996). Plutarch’s Ariadne in Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe. American Journal of Philology,

Jameson, M. H. (2019). 2. The asexuality of Dionysus. In Cornell University Press eBooks (pp. 44–64). https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733680-007

Plutarch,  Quaestiones Convivales, stephpage 612c. (n.d.). http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg112.perseus-grc1:612c

Reitzammer, L. (2016). The Athenian Adonia in context: The Adonis Festival as cultural practice. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/45855

Seaford, R. (2006). Dionysos. Routledge.

[anguraresearch]

Angura Research Center introduction

Hi everyone, and welcome back if you've come from instagram. After much deliberations, AnKenJo's second life will be happening on tumblr as a decision to move away from instagram. This change will allow me to post more varied content and hopefully engage more closely with all of you, even if the audience will be smaller. I consider this space my side project to the main Ankenjo wordpress blog. It will feature short-form content similar to insta: movie screencaps, photos, art, but also short texts and translations that would not fit on the main blog.

I hope you will enjoy this new step in developing this project with me after many months of hiatus. Thank you for your support as always!

[idoherty451]

We Found Love in a Haunted Place

“Well, I’m scarred for life.” Thus spake my father, in a very bemused, matter-of-fact tone, as he, my brother, and I left the theater after seeing Christophe Gans’ 2006 movie Silent Hill. It was our introduction to the series, after only previously hearing about it when my brother went to a sleepover in the early 2000s where he played it and professed it to be “the scariest video game ever.” For…

[hypokeimena]

wait ur thesis sounds so interesting, I'm researching for funsies friendship and love a a broader topic (crazy how often people talk about merging and becoming one with their beloved). can you dox your thesis just a little? just the bibliography?

this isn't a thesis bib it's just for you (focus on friendship and romantic love; some other related topics useful for consideration). links are pulled from google scholar where possible (generally open access sources preferred). Most of these authors have also done other work on the topic(s) in question.

Moran, W. (1963): "The Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Love of God in Deuteronomy," in CBQ. (jstor) <- seminal

Leighton, S. (1982): "Aristotle and the Emotions," in Phronesis (jstor)

Roberts, R. (1989): "Aristotle on Virtues and Emotions," in Philosophical Studies (jstor)

Venuti, L. (1995). The Translator's Invisibility. (academia.edu)

Brenner, A. (1997). The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and ‘Sexuality’ in the Hebrew Bible. (publisher)

Ackerman, S. (2002): "The Personal Is Political: Covenantal and Affectionate Love ('āhēb, 'ahăbâ) in the Hebrew Bible," in Vetus Testamentum. (jstor)

Lapsley, J. (2003) "Feeling Our Way: Love for God in Deuteronomy," in CBQ (jstor)

Van Wolde, E. (2008): "Sentiments as culturally constructed emotions: anger and love in the Hebrew Bible," in Biblical Interpretation. (academia.edu)

Mirguet, F. (2016): "What is an “Emotion” in the Hebrew Bible? An Experience that Exceeds Most Contemporary Concepts," in Biblical Interpretation. (brill)

Fleming, I. (2016): "Political Favoritism in Saul’s Court: חפץ, נעם, and the Relationship between David and Jonathan," in JBL. (jstor)

Schweizer, I. (2016) "Making Equals: Classical Philia and Women's Friendship," in Feminist Studies. (jstor) <- couldn't find the article I was looking for online so take this one as a substitute

Akiyama, K. (2018): The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism. (brill) <- could not find this one full text online but it's about how the understanding of whether a neighbor is "like you" or different from you impacts the emotion in question. it rocks.

Mermelstein, A. (2021): Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation. (academia.edu)

Milstein, S. (2024): Editorial introduction "Translating Emotion," & Article "The Misleading Nature of »Love« and »Hate« in Biblical Translation," in HeBAI. (publisher) <- could not find the article open access anywhere but the introduction should be available and contains an overview.

Konstan, D (multiple):

"Introduction: Defining Emotions Historically," in Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece (ed. Konstan, 2022)

Friendship in the Classical World (1997) (doi) (archive.org)

Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (2006) (jstor) <- seminal

"Friendship and Patronage," in A Companion to Latin Literature (ed. Harrison) (2005) (doi) (wordpress)

"Before Jealousy," in Envy, Spite, and Jealousy: the Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece (eds. Konstan, Rutter, 2019) (publisher) (researchgate)

[burgeoning-ambition]

I've created a masterlist of the Japanese lessons I've posted on my wordpress blog so far! Please feel free to check it out here, or feel free to use any of the following links to navigate to a certain lesson:

Reading and Writing Hiragana and Katakana

Reading and Writing Kanji

Parts of Speech in Japanese (Part One: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives)

Parts of Speech in Japanese (Part Two: Adverbs, Counters, Postpositions, Conjunctions)

An Introduction to Particles

The Copula (です)

I'll do my best to remember to update this post, but the main link on my wordpress will definitely stay up to date as I post!