May 31
loved Spinning silver, need a sequel (spoilers ahead)
about Miriam’s fae descendants helping their human cousins in the Jewish quarter
I’m picturing a lot of back and forth haggling on what’s a fair bargain considering what family this is
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loved Spinning silver, need a sequel (spoilers ahead)
about Miriam’s fae descendants helping their human cousins in the Jewish quarter
I’m picturing a lot of back and forth haggling on what’s a fair bargain considering what family this is
FUCKING FINALLY A JEWISH ANTIHERO WHO WASNT RETCONNED AS JEWISH
Sorry Im really enjoying spinning silver
My rewrite for Sabra and Navid, because they both have a lot of potential to be really interesting characters.
Sabra / Ruth-Bat Seraph
So, to start off, Sabra’s calmed the fuck down. She supports a two-state solution and barely tolerates the right-wing assholes running her country. She’s about two minutes away from punching Bibi.
(Sometimes it seems Sabra’s supposed be to a criticism of Israeli policy, but the people writing her don’t have any clue what they’re doing, so it’s just misogynistic antisemitism. Delightful).
Now, her son Jacob, is still dead. I plan on focusing more on her grief and less on “Arab terrorists killed her son so now she’s racist”*. The reason I’m keeping this is because when the concept was first introduced in New Warriors, it helped make Ruth more a fleshed out character. Additionally, from the Sabra comics I’ve read, there’s a correlation between her and children/motherhood:
- Of course, there’s Sahad in her introductory comic, who she mourns.
- She and the Hulk have to team up to stop some guy named Achilles from assassinating a young boy who’s potentially Hitler 2.0. She knows this about the boy but is still concerned when he seemingly gets killed.
- She also saves a deaf American child from Israeli anarchists who kidnapped him, (that sounds like a 4Chan conspiracy), using her life force transferral to do so. It’s a rare of example of getting to see Sabra’s more compassionate side.
- And obviously there’s her dead son.
*While my version of Sabra does have racial biases, it’s more to do with her military experiences and she’s working to overcome them.
Side Note: I’m not sure if it’s ever stated, but I portray Ruth as Sephardic. There’s probably some implications with her dead son being portrayed as dark-skinned while Sabra’s had some of her Jewish features erased (less curly hair, blue/green eyes instead of brown).
Navid Hashim
Navid is reimagined as a Palestinian peace activist, no affiliation with the Saudi Arabian government. I *think* the writer was trying to make the Arabian Knight title not orientalist. I mean, it didn’t work, especially when Navid is portrayed as misogynistic for no reason except that he’s an Arab Muslim man. Unlike Sabra, who is a national superhero, Navid is considered a threat by Hamas due to his activism and connection to Sabra.
His parents were also peace activists that were executed by Hamas when he was fifteen. Navid was then sent to live with his maternal aunt and uncle, who are very pro-Hamas. Yeah, he’s had a less than ideal childhood. Generational trauma is something that he and Ruth have in common.
While Navid and Ruth share the same goal of a peaceful future and willing to work together to achieve it, they both have internalised biases. For Ruth, Navid contradicts her perception of Palestinians as either traumatised war victims or terrorists hellbent on the destruction of Israel. Navid has spent much of his life hearing that Israelis are violent oppressors who must be eliminated if Palestinians are to ever gain independence.
Core was procrastinating so I made them not procrastinate
Nerd has pronouns! shi / zir / zirs / zirself
Neopronouns are hard to write in but worth it if you know what you are doing
Don’t let them fool you they did this so the rep was right
Yes I googled how to use neopronouns so I didn’t misuse them! Sue me Protector!
It’s sweet they did all that just to make sure the community was represented properly
I wonder if this is true...
Source: https://frozen-fountain.tumblr.com/post/785490781603495936
💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 7 · Not to be an ignorant fake fan but isn't one of the themes of Legend of Korra is that new dictators will rise if you take A
You already asked this question and I already answered it here. Yes this is in character for the guy
AND EVEN IF IT WASN’T SOMEONE’S SHITTY OOC FANFIC IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY ANTISEMITIC
If in Mythos Magneto is a former American soldier dissillusioned by a wars in the middle east why is he killing people with barbed wire with this gleeful expression like it used to be a symbol to personally hurt him? like how can nail Claremont Magneto so well and then NOT give his canon backstory?!
I’ve been wondering why Jewish Holocaust survivors in literature are perfect little saints and in movies are nothing more than passive victims to be saved but in graphic novels they’re these morally complex individuals who did horrifying things to survive and are often kinda crazy and even a bit bigoted sometimes. Then I remember that the first graphic novel to popularized the graphic novel as genre that dared talk about the holocaust was Maus, and then it all slots into place.
The reason comics potray holocaust survivors as people was because the codifier was a memoir about a real and deeply flawed man.
The standard queer rom com book about a gentile woman falling for a Jewish girl on Christmas has some good scenes suprisingly