ميمي

Will you gaze into the telescope?

[mayormimii]

Call me Mimii (22) she/her. Arabic/English OK. Student of physics. Muslim. Amateur astrophotographer. Seasonal tea party hostess. High priestess. 🐚🕯️🦢 This main blog is congested (at the moment) by Pathologic. MayorMimi on AO3.

Master post on Dankovsky Through His Women for which I still welcome critique!

Interested currently in Al-Andalus and Orientalism, on which my favorite readings are The Imaginary Orient and The Ornament of the World. Feel free to send posts on the matter ت

I avoid posting pessimism when I can help it, so l’m chronically tongue-in-cheek and jokey, including (or especially) regarding topics I care about. If I seem too flippant on a given matter, feel free to directly ask for more serious clarification about my attitudes.

Other favorite games (/franchises):

Majora's Mask

Professor Layton

Animal Crossing (pre-NH)

Pokémon

Dragon Age: Inquisition

My queue largely covers my snoozing hours (GST).

I often softblock/break mutuals with those who don't tag very (photo)graphic NSFW or anything I find TMI—without hard feelings on my part—but otherwise, I don't mind talking still 👍

[overheardgorkhon]

Bachelor: The listening comprehension and overall common sense among the Town youth is piss poor.

Notkin: How dare you say we piss on the poor.

[mayormimii]

Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization (2022)

[mayormimii]

I’m sorry you all have to hear about a new fic idea each day but. Post-timeskip Sticky becoming the doctor Danko and Burakh saw in him & applying it by looking after a pregnant Capella

[pathologic-2006]

Oh no, not Karminskiy... The Inquisitor - vampire!

— Victor Kain, to Bachelor, Pathologic (2006)

[antell13]

Свой? Чужой? Вернулся ли соединить или разрушить?

[autheatrecesoir]

Isabel Marant, RTW Fall/Winter 2025

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long

[mayormimii]

True Confessions’s fictitious pope and his darling accountant are word-for-word Miranda Priestly and Andy

دلوع البابا

[cinema-archives]

"True Confessions" (Ulu Grosbard, 1981)

[konesertwyriny]

my weird uncle has this steppe talisman that makes it impossible for me to put him in a trance ughh.

[mayormimii]

I’m so flattered by the revived interest in one of my DanMaria pieces since a mutual kindly reblogged it, but I wonder whether the pet cage imagery I chose (before encountering these lines of dialogue

& generally seeing their relationship to the end of the Route) reinforces the idea Maria is a shrew with any sort of absolute power over Dankovsky, or that he doesn’t put himself in that position willingly? I’m curious because one of the tags said I’d been correct about their dynamic, and…I really wasn’t. Though I can see why it would seem so on the surface until one digs into these exchanges

[liquid-pirarucu]

ãn venci

[sephirothhh]

In my hour of need, grant me the light to banish evil!

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006) dev. Nintendo

[chthonic-cassandra]

“When Dracula preys on Mina and takes her blood, he is ripping out her agency, her ability to make choices for herself. With each feeding Mina loses more and more of her ability to make her own choices. Does this mean that in some way Dracula is gaining the agency Mina is losing? Dracula is ingesting blood, but he is also taking her essence - what makes her fully alive, what makes her human. Their minds become interconnected in the transfer, enough that he can know her thoughts and so much that she floats in and out of a harrowing trance. There was something in Mina’s spirit that Dracula wanted, craved, desired - he seems especially drawn and determined to be with her. Perhaps it was her spirit, her strength, and self-sufficiency - her ability to give her own life meaning - that drew Dracula to her. He sought Mina’s agency, perhaps because in their unicity, he could know true freedom to choose his own meaning. When Dracula takes in Mina’s essence, and forces her to gorge herself on his death, she becomes one with the damned. This is where Plotinus’ view that a person should be united with The One comes in. The One to Plotinus is totally transcendent and indivisible, beyond all human ability to categorize or understand. Dracula, though, in his imperfection, demonstrates how this unification can go awry. The ever-increasing trance that nearly overtakes Mina’s mind and body ultimately leads to Dracula’s true death at the hands of Van Helsing [sic]. When this happens, Mina is free from being cursed. But when Mina is finally free, she takes back her agency and her own meaning. She must wonder, though “Is he finally dead? Is he really gone?” You see, unicity now becomes a problem…Much like a human understanding of death as “going” somewhere, what happens to the macabre essence of Dracula? Perhaps the final terror of Dracula’s death is not that he is permanently “removed” from life, but that he continues on, both in Mina’s essence as well as in the deepest fears of all who encounter this character because of their connectedness.”

— James E. Willis, III and Viktoria A. Strunk, “They Shall Become One Flesh” in Dracula and Philosophy: Dying to Know, Nicolas Michaud and Janelle Potzsch, eds.

[mayormimii]

By popular demand (mine) I just finished BULLSHIT (my first draft of a Classic Eva x P3 Karminsky one-shot). Who could I possibly discuss this with

[mayormimii]

When Miffy falls asleep on me, she sometimes makes sucking sounds at the air as if she thinks she’s with her mama again & it makes me want to die