雛ドール ✵☽

~Princess of the Babylonian Satrapy of the Trans Achaemenid Empire~

Hi! I am a lady of many names, including:
Hina (Public name)
Usagi (Nickname when I feel like being Sailor Moon)
Narāmtu-Ištar (Akkadian theophoric name; Darling of Ishtar, Cuneiform: 𒈾𒊏𒄠𒌅𒀭𒈹)
Naneδāy (Sogdian theophoric name; Nana's Maidservant)
and many more.

I'm your typical autistic lesbian trans catgirl (she/her, mew neopronouns if you're close :3) with Ehlers-Danlos who has an unhealthy obsession with Ishtar, Mesopotamia, Sogdia, the Silk Road, Chinese Opera, Visual Kei, and Eurodance. Come say hi, I don't bite :3

I'm mixed Vietnamese, but I prefer not to be classified by Western racial terms. Kindly, please do not racialize me. I am a human

18+ Only please. I am a queer anarchist and I don't entertain fascists or tankies. Fuck authoritarianism, fuck Nazis, fuck Lenin, fuck Mao

Please no nitpicking over tiny things or arguing semantics. I don't have the energy for this

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2024-11-02 06:14:04

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@npub1elm…8rwv There is also the Sukkal in Mesopotamian religion, or Vizier. Deities who act as second in command and as messengers for others. Inana-Ishtar's for example, is Ninshubur, an underrated goddess in her own right, and has an especially close relationship with Ishtar to the point of almost appearing romantic to modern readers

2024-11-02 06:12:02

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@npub1elm…8rwv The word for Angel in Hebrew, Malakh, means messenger, and various deities in West Asian pagan religions did have the local Semitic cognates for Malakh as titles for certain deities. For example, Malakbel, a sun god from Palmyra, whose name means "Messenger/Angel of Bel", Bel being Marduk
There is also the personal god in Sumerian and Akkadian religion, which everyone is assigned 2 of, a female Lamma and a male Lamassu, who function very similarly to the concept of the Guardian Angel.
Really, God in the West Asian pagan context is much more like Kami in Japan or Shen in China

2024-11-02 06:02:45

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Seriously like, on a cultural level, Manichaeism is cool,
but it's not a path I personally could take, I like my goddesses way too much

2024-11-02 06:00:17

I'm like Mani if he was a Vietnamese transgirl who decided dualism wasn't all it's cracked out to be and that goddess veneration is actually based and believed that while plants as living things do feel pain, they can't actually talk
I mean, you can't tell me I can worship Ahura Mazda, Mithra and Vayu-Vata, but not Arti, Anahita or Nanaya
You can't just be sexist toward the Iranian pantheon like that lol

2024-10-24 21:07:39

Since like, you can just say whatever the fuck you want about Diddy, please come up with the craziest conspiracy about him and tell me. Include as many artists unrelated to Diddy as possible. I wanna hear what he supposedly did with Fairuz and The Hu!!

2024-10-20 17:31:04

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also like, stop using Chinese instruments to represent other East Asian cultures??? I know like, European cultures share the same basic instruments and so does West Asia, but that's not the case with East Asia. When you cross the border from China to Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Laos or Myanmar, the music changes drastically.
Like yes, the Korean Gayageum does come from the Chinese Guzheng. They also sound entirely different and are clearly not the same instrument.
I'm not saying "Oh, you must understand every intricacy of Asian music", I'm just saying do some basic research, it's not that hard

2024-10-11 07:04:53

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@npub1jkh…m08d I remember one tried to tell me "No, it's not. You're trying to compare it to gender which leads to Rachel Dolezal. There are white people and there are black people, you can literally see it with your eyes. You are being colorblind and therefore racist"

2024-10-11 06:58:53

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@npub1jkh…m08d That's actually what I was venting about lol. Leftists who haven't caught the memo that race is a social construct

2024-10-03 17:55:24

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@npub1jce…9qgc In before someone goes "the name Young Turks also refers to any rebellious group of people!!"

2024-09-24 16:33:30

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It also claimed that Lao people never smile and only smile for tourists. Like.... what??

2024-09-20 15:15:14

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@npub13wk…erju Of course, I just wish people wouldn't act like a marginalized POC transfem descendant of war refugees is the exact same as a white middle class suburbanite.

2024-09-19 10:12:39

Western depictions of Japan treat the whole 2000 or so years of Japanese history as just the Edo period and it's so funny.
You have depictions of Queen Himiko that look like a Geisha or Oiran when... no? lol
Himiko lived in a period long before those professions existed? lol
And you always hear Tsugaru style Shamisen in the soundtracks of Samurai stuff despite the Shamisen not really being an instrument of the Samurai class, and the specific Tsugaru only having been invented in the Meiji period and didn't fully develop until the 1900s

2024-09-11 16:19:22

Kinda weird that the former Ryukyuan royal dynasty no longer lives in Ryukyu; they live in mainland Japan in Mie prefecture

2024-09-11 11:05:12

How long do you think it's gonna take for some account here to unironically claim Bush did 9/11 and that "Jet Fuel can't melt steel beams" and that the Taliban were anti-imperialists and leftist freedom fighters?

2024-09-11 02:21:17

"Ladyboy" is almost entirely used by cispeople to refer to Thai transwomen. Its an exonym and a slur to most

2024-09-10 01:35:29

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The version played as Shuri Castle is basically a compromise with an interesting history of its own. Although, I do with Etsuko Higa's work was displayed as Shuri castle more. They have an album on youtube and spotify
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJFTDHatdYGoSaqp4jLUONbhbbWIJ4abY

2024-09-10 01:29:01

Huh, so the version of Uzagaku performed at Shuri castle in Okinawa today, with modern Chinese instruments and all, is actually partially derived from Minshingaku, a form of Ming and Qing dynasty music played in Nagasaki, Japan.
Essentially they're taking Uzagaku but interpreting it in the style of Minshingaku, but with modern Chinese instruments lol. I always assumed they were just playing straight up Chinese music for tourists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3hZGSP82XA

2024-09-10 01:12:17

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@npub12t2…456z They're literally bringing up the blood libel conspiracy holy fuck

2024-09-10 00:11:47

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@npub1j5d…v4pe OHHHHHHHHH

2024-09-10 00:08:53

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@npub1j5d…v4pe I like a nice bread that's just easy to eat. Baguettes are just too dry and hard to chew so it's physically painful to eat them

2024-09-10 00:06:47

I have a hot take:
I do not like baguettes.
They are too hard for me to chew, and make the back of my neck hurt

2024-09-09 12:18:38

So there is a whole album on Youtube and Spotify of actual, reconstructed, on period instruments, pre-colonization court music of the Ryukyu Kingdom (which formerly encompassed what's now Okinawa prefecture, ruled by Japan today)
Not only is this like, really fucking cool, but this is like, asking to be sampled in a 2000s Timbaland style beat. Someone needs to do it!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJFTDHatdYGoSaqp4jLUONbhbbWIJ4abY

2024-09-09 12:12:21

Atlantis was never real

2024-09-09 07:11:25

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This is also why debates on whether Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, or Circassian people are white or not is racist: these terms were not meant to describe people anthropologically. They were meant to be used by Castilians to justify murdering their Andalusian neighbors, and abdustinc and enslaving Tuareg, Wolof and Mande peoples

2024-09-09 07:00:00

If your definition of racism does not include the idea that race is biological and a valid method of classifying ethnic groups, and that it transcends culture... You need to re-asses your definition.

2024-09-09 01:08:45

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@npub1jhj…zjm8 Why do people like him think "white" cancels out every single marginalization?
I'd hate to hear the thing he'd have to say about mixed POC. Probably would call us "Spicy White"

2024-09-08 21:48:43

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@npub1ux9…3vvl I also feel like I predicted this shit before lol. It wouldn't be the first time I predicted discourse

2024-09-08 21:27:42

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Or just get Egyptian actors, Egypt has a huge film industry with world famous actors

2024-09-08 21:26:43

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Oh and FWIW, Ancient Egyptians outside of the Ptolemies were related to their Amazigh, Canaanite and Cushitic speaking neighbors, but also mixed with Nubians, Anatolians, Greeks, etc. So Ancient Egyptians came in a multitude of skin tones and facial features.
So really if you want to do a movie on Ancient Egypt, you want a diverse cast

2024-09-08 21:25:01

America is the only place where people will get angry if a person of European descent portrays Cleopatra, an ancient person of Greek descent,
but barely anyone bats an eye when Disney gets almost exclusively South Asian actors to play Arabs in the live action Aladdin
It's like... the spirit is kinda there, but aimed at the wrong stuff

2024-09-08 21:20:42

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@npub1t6y…rnde Yeah, essentially mocking them in a tone that implies speech problems or mental disability. It's just so ingrained people kinda don't realize that's the original meaning of that tone.

2024-09-08 21:15:30

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This isn't optics or respectability politics, this is just not being a total dickwad

2024-09-08 21:15:12

Hot take but maybe we shouldn't mock other views with alternating capitalization. It kinda feels like you're implying people who disagree have a speech problem. And it's condescending; condescending behavior is never justified

2024-09-08 20:39:34

Baeddel is still a slur, even if it's antiquated

2024-09-08 20:39:05

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@npub1jhj…zjm8 It's also still a slur for trans folks. He's outwardly using slurs

2024-09-08 18:52:31

As a leftist, I criticize a lot of social trends among leftism that I feel undermine our goals.
This isn't me just criticizing lefties more than righties, it's just I want us to do better as leftists. If this makes you uncomfy, then idk what to say. I'm not promoting right wing behavior, I'm trying to prevent it

2024-09-07 21:03:31

All the internet urbanists talk about how they hate the city designs in Okinawa and I'm here like "I think this is actually cool, reminds me of Honolulu"
It could use improvements, sure, but I vibe with the unique atmosphere. Plus, I feel like Okinawa having cities distinct from mainland Japan is important given that Okinawan culture itself is dying. Making the cities identical to mainland Japanese cities would kind of complete the colonization

2024-09-07 20:17:24

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My Asian-ness and my connection to my Viet heritage did not matter to him. He perceived me as "white", and so therefore I was automatically an untrustable racist to him.
Thing is... my European ancestry is of little consequence. In fact, to most racist white people, I look Mexican or Arab. I don't look White or East Asian.

2024-09-05 20:05:27

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@npub13wk…erju Someone tried to tell me "The Khanate of Sibir was a foreign ruled empire by Mongols"
Like no, they actually were ruled by Kipchak Turks native to the area, but ok lol

2024-08-30 21:04:39

Anarchists: We don't want anyone to hold un-necessary power over anyone, ever
Random neolibs and red fash: Actually you just want slaves

2024-08-29 19:13:57

Missing the old Hot Topic does *not* make you "a boomer stuck in the past". You're not "an old hag" for literally preferring the era when Hot Topic clothes were well made and they sold CDs and just were in general a better shopping experience.
It's perfectly valid to miss the old Hot Topic, and I'm sick of people saying that "well you need to get with the times". If "the times" are overly expensive clothes that fall apart, then I don't want to get with the times

2024-08-27 20:26:26

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Sadly Tifinagh rarely gets acutally used for literature. It's mostly used among the Kabyle and Tuareg for small inscriptions of symbolic nature. In fact, even though the Tuareg continued to use Tifinagh after it died among the northern Amazigh, actual literature was written in Arabic

2024-08-27 20:25:15

It fucks with me that technically, using Latin instead of Arabic for Amazigh languages would be truer to history since Latin in North Africa pre-dates Arabic
*sigh* You win this time... Latin... except...
wait, what is that??
Is that Tifinagh coming onto the ring with a chair to beat up Latin??

2024-08-27 17:39:28

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@npub137h…lpfz Oh shit we're including stuff presidents did before they went into office?
Yeah that makes shit harder... in that case... Jimmy Carter??

2024-07-28 23:09:11

Does anyone know any good videos on the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions that don't engage in Catholic apologia?
Like, any videos that talk about how horrid of a surveillance state formed?
I've done a lot of reading, but a video would be much more digestable for me

2024-06-09 17:47:18

I wish my music taste fit in with most transfems,
but alas most pop music made after 2010, most metalcore, and most post-2013 trap music just don't vibe with me.
Instead, I fucking listen to Crunk Music and Visual Kei

2024-06-03 18:53:14

90% of the time when someone says their culture never uses pre-ground spice mixes and always grinds up spices individually,
they're classist and lying

2024-05-31 18:20:05

So FD Signifier considers mixed black people to be "spicy white" and... I really, really do not like that.
I really haven't liked him at all, I've always gotten snob vibes from him, but now... yeah fuck him

2024-05-19 00:52:57

People who use Nikola Tesla to claim why information *should* be owned and hoarded,
and not as a "wow, that sucks, we should dismantle capitalism" disgust me

2024-04-06 23:21:39

Be sharp of retrospectives that don't take into account Twitter's well deserved pre-Musk reputation of being a "Hell Site".
Beware of folks that point out all these great things that Twitter did, with the intention of telling you that your bad experiences, does not matter with the big picture
Beware of people trying to rewrite history to serve corporate interests

2024-03-13 07:07:02

New rule on fedi: Former Twitter Accounts that still act all condescending and have that "I am always right" attitude, should be yeeted into the void

2024-03-13 06:43:42

How is stock music so annoying?
How can music that's meant to fade in the background be so irritating?

2024-03-07 11:43:46

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@npub166y…6dc6 @npub1dqu…9exr Also like, not all Jewish people in the Levant were originally from Europe. There are Mizhrahim who were either already there, or were forced there because of anti-Jewish in other Middle Eastern countries. Where would the Mizrahim (who btw face discrimination in Israel) go to?

2024-02-24 23:20:45

Twitter discourse: Having decorative items that serve little function is bourgeoisie and people who have trinkets should be given the Khmer Rouge treatment
People in real life: Hey, how's it going?

2024-02-08 18:10:34

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@npub166y…6dc6 Vietnam did a lot similar to the Cham, Degars and Khmers, all in the name of spreading Confucianism. Hindu Chams were force-fed beef while Muslim Chams were forcefed pork. Degars were often taken as slaves, and all 3 peoples were forcibly assimilated into Viet culture