#category: orientations

[revenant-coining]

Optorien

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Optorien/Optorientation; a term for one who has opted out of orientation.

etymology; ”opto” latin for opt, orien[taion]

for mikey!

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404

#🪼 creations #optorien #optorientation #orientation #liom #mogai #category: orientations

[vitamin-zeeth]

did you guys know ted nivison uploaded a video. He watched every Barbie movie.

#love you ted nivison <3 #this is exactly the type of video i fucking love im less than 5 minutes in and my little category oriented brain is giddy with joy #hes separated them into eras and come up with a system to rank them all out of 20 #each movie has 4 areas it gets ranked out of 5 on and they are Barbie herself; Story; Moral and Animal Companions #its a 1h48m video. lets fucking GOOOOOO #ted nivison

[meatrot-mogai]

Carnelian Flag Edit

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— Personal edit of the carnelian (link) flag, made to fit in with the traditional five-striped flags of other orientations such as lesbian and vincian, as well as have muted tones so it's easier to look at.

@radiomogai

#meatrotgrinding #carnelian #juvelic #category: orientation #category: juvelic #queer #lgbtq+ #lgbtq #liom #liom community #liom term #mogai #mogaisafe #mogai heaven #mogai community #mogai term #mogai flag #mogai friendly #pride #queer community #mogaireal #mogai coining #mogai blog #mogai safe #mogai identity #mogai label #liom coining #liom blog #liom safe

[tirednapentity]

Normally i don’t really feel like what little attraction i experience is really significant because it’s just so very in the background to everything else + barely happens anyways (there is a reason i never call myself a lesbian without disclosing that i’m only lesbian oriented) but sometimes. Sometimes it kinda. Hits. Like in that completely enamored and swooning (while still being aro as fuck) kind of way. 

In very much related news, Holga from Honor among thieves could throw me into a wall and i’d thank her

#holga the barbarian #holga kilgore #honor among thieves #category five gay moment in the theater #also i was NOT the only one #of the group i went with #lesbian oriented aroace #Jules being annoying on main

[triflesandparsnips]

Ask game: georg

With the understanding that all tumblr people are Insane to various degrees, a short and incomplete list of my beloved mutuals of long-standing, who I have followed Through the Wars and would in fact offer my shield and sword for, include the following (in alphabetical order):

@into-the-weeds @raisel-the-riveter @regala-electra @scienceandhandcuffs @stayoutofitnick @symbolicscreaming @vmohlere

#one of these people is my sister #one of these people is Not My Sister and there was a complicated series of messages necessary to confirm that #one of these people is the first person I ever spoke to (with a very brave little compliment!) on move-in day my freshman year of college #one of these people I met on my first day of orientation at the job that brought me to Massachusetts almost 15 years ago #one of these people embodies the mythical 'fic writer you admire who secretly admires YOU' meet-cute trope #one of these people is from Glee fandom (we were all Glee blogs once) #one or more of these people fit more than one of the above categories #ask game #answered asks

[synthient]

The bit in Transgender History where Stryker talks about feeling solidarity with everyone who's been "enfreaked" + the part where she's listing off spaces where trans socializiation and art and future-building are possible and she's like "furry cons. bdsm dungeons. fanfiction"

#love the concept of The Enfreaked as a category to orient a movement around rather than desperately try to distance yourself from

[the-coiner-prince]

Fenullplatonic

[ fe(mina) + null(um genus) + platonic (attraction) ~~ fenullplatonic ]

A label describing when one feels platonic attraction towards women and agender people , exclusively or not .

Etymology :

Femina means woman in Latin

Nullum genus means without gender in Latin

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Requested by @big-transfem-sister

Coined by the prince 👑

[ PT : Anyone can use the terms that the charming has coined , but ke asks to Please DNI if any of these aply to you: racist, sexist, ageist, antimogai, antiliom, BaB, ableist, transmed, transcum, fujoshi, radfem, terf, proshipper, anti-agere, antifurry, NSFW blogs, (NO)MAP, zoophile, necrophiliac, incestuous or supporter of those who act on these types of paraphilias. end PT ]

#fenullplatonic #~ requests #~ big transfem sister #coined by the prince #mogai #liom #mogai blog #liom blog #mogai coining #liom coining #mogai community #liom community #flag coining #label coining #mogai label #liom label #platonic attraction #category ~ orientation

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

That post about bisexuals faking being bisexual or whatever was crazy because like. Even if she was genuinely concerned about how some women are so deep in the closet and want to cling into the bi label for whatever reason, this is not the way to get lesbians to come out. 😭 Like I’m sorry but her bringing up comphet was also uncalled for, considering the controversy over that term + there’s loads of militant gold star lesbians and gays who made it a point that anybody who even looked at the genitals of the opposite sex cannot be homosexual period so like ofc there’s going to be people (esp women) who will laugh over jokes like “ohhh i just think women are so much hotter than men because of cleanliness lol but i am bi!” because of all of that mess. I hope I’m making sense but it’s also weird that people can’t believe that there are genuinely bi people out there who just strongly prefer the same sex and that doesn’t mean they’re faking being bi somehow like 💀

The two types of bisexuals: the attention seeking straights and the self-hating gays/lesbians.

But, on a serious note, this is why I actually hate microlabels/descriptors like 'bihet,' 'febfem,' 'het-partnered,' and 'osa/ssa women' for bisexuals - it obscures the similarities in our experiences, making people think there are different types of bisexual (when, in reality, there's only one category of bisexual - bisexual).

#we live in a society that exists on heterosexual terms #i'm glad if gay/lesbian people can make space for themselves in it #but it's silly to pretend that space for homosexual people in heterosexual society automatically covers all bisexuals #we're not half gay or half straight; we're an entirely different orientation and we need an entirely different way of understanding things #(not to say that heterosexual society is good to homosexual people - just that bisexuals aren't at the intersection of ssa and osa) #(we're our own category and if we need to take steps to define our own experiences) #i'm not sure i agree with 'monosexual' tbh but i get that you're not using that to offend #anon

[0xfc963f18dc21]

You know, OOP has the Visitor pattern where you define a separate object with logic for a family of classes that resolve down into one final result.

Functional programming uses the concept of catamorphisms from category theory to do the same (as catamorphisms are the generalisation of processes that fold together multiple values into one final result).

... Visitors are an encoding of catamorphisms.

As much as people say these two paradigms are separate, they can honestly live together perfectly well, as Visitors allow for some functionality that cannot be solved by plain old pattern matching, especially with maintaining return type information when folding generic structures or double dispatch.

One could mix both to obtain a really flexible and extensible folding process for complex class hierarchies.

#object oriented programming #functional programming #category theory

[relative-dimension]

“Five Hundred Eyes”

Season 1, episode 16 - 7th March 1964

[id: French orientalist Paul Pelliot examining a manuscript in the Library Cave of the Mogao Caves (the Caves of a Thousand Buddahs). He is sat on the floor, and around him are stacked many other manuscripts and books. /end id]

Okay, this review was going to be the part where I talked enthusiastically about the genuine attempt to depict Chinese culture in this serial, maybe talk about the lovely sets, and centre the entire discussion around Ping-Cho’s story in the middle of the episode. Fortunately, I decided to do some research around that story before writing it. You will see why I needed to do research and this may end up being a bit long and a bit of a rant but hey, I’m a history nerd and I don’t want to misrepresent anything, and I now have a lot of opinions about how John Lucarotti went about crafting a historical story. We’ll get there.

Is it an entertaining watch: 3/5, yeah, not much happens but I love the production and while watching it this was the point where I started to like this serial. Upon further research, I don’t any more.

Does the production hold up: 2/5, again, yellowface, but some of the sets in this serial are really nice, althought the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes itself really looks like shit from what I can tell.

Does it use its time well: 3/5, the first half drags a bit in a way that feels like it’s trying its hardest to move on, but by the middle it’s settled into a slow pace that feels deliberate, with time for Ping-Cho’s story (we get there when we GET there, I’m saying nice things at the moment) and the slow build-up of the threat at the end leading to the cliffhanger (more on that side of the story tomorrow).

Are the characters consistent and well-used: 4/5, yeah, they all get something to do, and there’s at least one fun or interesting scene for each of them. I saw some reviewers complain that Ian giving out fun facts about etymology

Is there anything actually going on under the surface: 1/5, as will become apparent, I suddenly don’t have much faith that John Lucarotti put any thought at all into this serial, and just wanted to put to screen as many things that Marco Polo said happened as possible.

Does it avoid being a bit dodge with its politics: 1/5, ah, and now we get to the good stuff. And by that I mean that bad stuff. I’m gonna have to actually organise this into paragraphs to properly explain what I mean.

As I mentioned earlier, in roughly the middle of the story, Ping-Cho tells a story about the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes, in which “Ala-eddin, the Old Man of the Mountains” uses “devious schemes” and the hashish drug to trick his soldiers into believing they were in paradise, then using that faith to convince them to give their lives for him, or else they would never see that paradise again, as only he had the power to take them there. Then, “mighty Hulagu” besieged their “lair” for three years, before killing them.

In my initial outline for this review, I praised the writing and production for giving the only actually Asian actor the monologue in which she tells a story from her culture and history. Unfortunately, upon even the smallest amount of research (I only had a day to write this, but I spent several hours reading various wikipedia articles and their sources to confirm this), I learned that this story isn’t a traditional Chinese legend about the Hashshashin, nor is it an accurate historical source. It is something that Marco Polo and other European scholars believed, as Marco Polo himself documented the story himself and is one of the original sources, but its authenticity has been thoroughly debunked.

The real history is that of the conflict between the Mongol empire, under Möngke Khan and Hülegü Khan, and the Nizari state of Alamut, ruled by Alā ad-Dīn Muḥammad, in which 100,000 Nizaris were massacred by the Mongols. However, this part is not the focus of Ping-Cho’s story, more of an afterthought and an explanation for why they aren’t around any more. The  bulk of the story revolves around the story of The Old Man of the Mountains, which has a complicated history too. The real “Old Man” was Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Isma'ili state in c.1090 and its fida'i military group, who would eventually gain the name “Assassins”. The origin of this name for the group is disputed, but it’s not because of the hashish drug, Ian.

The most compelling piece of evidence I found against this story of the Nizari fida’i was that of Peter Willey, who argues that according to the esoteric doctrine of the Nizari, the Isma’ili understanding of paradise was spiritual, not simply physical. Therefore, they would not have been fooled by a pretty garden and hot women into believing they were in paradise, or that only Hassan-i Sabbah was able to get them there again. Willey also points out that Juvayni, courtier of Hulagu Khan, surveyed the Alamut castle where the Nizari were, and found no evidence of any garden - and given how Juvayni destroyed texts in the library he deemed heretical, it would be surprising if he saw the drug use and temptation of this supposed garden and didn’t make note of it.

So if, even in contemporary non-Ismaili Muslim sources which were hostile to the Ismailis, there is no evidence of this story or any link of hashish to the Assassins, where did this come from, and why did John Lucarotti put it here? Well, that’s part of a long history of orientalism that I don’t have the time, energy, or knowledge to get too deep into, but I’ll give it my best shot.

The Nizari fida’i soldiers were known for not fearing injury or death, and the Crusaders, being the Crusaders, didn’t understand how they could be so loyal to their cause as to throw their own lives away (one story of similarly dubious origin describes them literally throwing themselves off cliffs at the order of their commander, as proof to an enemy leader that they were more loyal and therefore dangerous than the other larger army).

The term “hashishi” was used by 1122, with derogatory connotations of outcasts and rabble, to refer to the Nizaris, by their enemies, the term having its origin describing criminals who were mentally absent, and therefore similar to the effects of the hashish drug. However, no evidence points to the drug being used by the Assassins, or there being a link to the word being used for them and the taking of the drug, not even from the anti-Isma’ili Muslim sources at the time. However, the Crusaders and other Europeans at the time didn’t know this, which is why Marco Polo describes a legend involving the drug.

The fear of the Isma’ili as deadly, radical, and bloodthirsty assassins was linked to the hashishi term and therefore the hashish drug, and also to William of Tyre’s “Old Man of the Mountain” description of the Isma’ili leader at Alamut, and was filtered through various orientalist tropes around the secret practices of the Nizaris created by Crusaders ignorant of Islam, and through the 12th and 13th centuries this combination become a legend similar to that which Ping-Cho describes. These stories were popularised in the 19th century by orientalists such as Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, and presumably through these sources, along with translations of Marco Polo’s writings, eventually reached John Lucarotti.

Now, my first instinct after learning all of that was to think “ah, but it was the 1960s! The main book that you looked at was published in 1995, there just wasn’t much research put into this by the 1960s.” And while yes, there wasn’t as much research, there was still some. Modern Isma'ili scholarship, pioneered by historians such as Vladimir Ivanov at the Islamic Research Association in the 1930s and 40s, laid the groundwork for disproving these legends, and all of that could have been researched by Lucarotti when writing this. Now, maybe he didn’t think to check that Marco Polo wasn’t 100% right about everything, or maybe the intention was to provide a depiction of Marco Polo’s perspective on ancient China, or maybe Lucarotti thought that since this legend was around at the time, telling it in the story was historically accurate. However, I think all of this is giving Lucarotti too much credit. I think what happened is he read Marco Polo’s diaries, and adapted stories into this Doctor Who serial, and then, despite this being a supposedly educational show, didn’t think any more of it, resulting in an uncritical regurgitation of orientalist tropes and etymological misnomers that had me fooled into thinking he was providing an accurate depiction of this culture and time period. Ugh.

Overall Score (oh yeah this is a Dr Who review not a history essay) - 14/30

#i would like to apologise for any innacuracies i end up with trying to correct this 60 year old episode #i am just one woman and sourced most of this from wikipedia in one day. sorry im bound to get things wrong but im trying here #and i have already found a book on the subject i wanna read now 👀 #anyway we'll see if i have enough energy to do this much thinking about the aztecs in a few weeks. we'll see. #doctor who #dw #first doctor #orientalism #dw review #ian chesterton #barbara wright #susan foreman #historical #marco polo #over a thousand words on one scene from one episode. god. autism. #11-15 #was tempted to give it a zero in the last category but im not breaking my system for comic effect THIS early its week 3 ffs #season 1

[revenant-coining]

Liom 4 Liom

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Liom 4 Liom, Liomogai 4 Liomgai, & Mogai 4 Mogai Flags

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404

[id: a blue-to-light blue-to blue rounded line divider with a break in the center, with a "blue raindrop" magikarp from magikarp jump in said break. /end id]

#🪼 creations #liom 4 liom #liomogai 4 liomogai #mogai 4 mogai #orientation #liom #mogai #category: orientations

[ziracona]

Every one of the main 4 in Tomorrow were great but Mr. Park and Mr. Lim were 13/10 because they were both loyal, feral (unhinged), and justice oriented, which as far as I am concerned are the most 3 important traits a character can have.

#tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #Park Joong-Gil #Mr Park especially because he ranks up over 100% in all 3 categories /constantly/ like yes baby murder people for your wife I fucking lvoe #you. burn that rapist to death in a car while monologung to him. rip apart the Chinese reapers trying to take your people to their hell #afterlife instead of their home’s Jumadeung yes baby go ape shit and solo the king of hell #I’d die for him #tomorrow #Mr Park #But Lim has it too he snapped with the rapist too and he’s lost it several times. any time assault comes up his chill goes from 100 to 1% #and I love it so much #Koo and Joon-Woong bae too but she’s only Justice oriented and snapped not loyal #and he’s only loyal and justice oriented not unhinged. only park and Lim meet all 3 #Lim Ryung-Gu

[harshebmmako]

"x want to be oppressed so bad" uh i wonder how much that has to do with capital's universal subjugation of all who live under it no matter how much they may benefit from it, and the predominance of moralistic identity oppression categories as the only way of articulating this subjugation

#i can't help but notice the connection between the petty bourgeois orientation of oppression larping #and the petty bourgeois nature of moralistic identity oppression categories

[sixzeroes]

i will never understand the “nct dream is sm’s weakest group” statement like where.. how are they the weakest when they have some of the best rappers and arguably one of the strongest dance lines in not just sm but kpop overall ,,,,

#nabitxt #sorry i had to rant after seeing that one yt channel fuel hate on dream’s skills #like markno are easily in top5 of nct’s rappers and top5 of nct = top5 of sm LMFAO #and bros maybe this is a personal opinion but nct dream literally has the strongest dance line compared to the other nct units ;; #and nct is sm’s best dance-orientated group ;;;; #like aside from jisung there’s mark renjun jeno haechan who are probably like in the upper half of nct’s dance rank #ntm jaemin is honestly rly good despite his injury and chenle is able to hold his ground rly well #so silly like vocal-wise yeah dream is the weakest but overall ?? dream checks off every other category idk how that’s weak to u

[kefnut-the-gweilologist]

at some point the asian diaspora of the west is gonna have to sit down have a deep think abt the term asian

#whites dont interact #like lets be honest #like asia and europe r connected so saying asian like its an identity based rooted in ebing from a seperate continent doesn't make sense #so then we have to acknowledge that the seperation of asia from europe is rooted in racism #ergo asian is a fundamentally racialized identity #but its also true that the various ppls from beyond the urals and caucasus look very different and r racialized differently #so asian as a unfied raical category doesn't make sense #imo i think asian works best an identity more rooted in collective opposition to white supremacy and orientalism and western imperialism #like idk solidarity building or something #like as far a yt folks r concerned we're all strange and dirty foreigners who'll infect the west with our strange cultures and values #tldr: if ur asian and trying to say __ type of asian isn't asian what are u even trying to do

[the-coiner-prince]

Flag coining post !

Demicaedqueerplatonic

[ demi + caed + queerplatonic ~~ demicaedqueerplatonic ]

An orientation where one is demiqueerplatonic due to trauma .

[ flag ID : a rectangular flag with seven horizontal stripes , the stripes thickness from top to bottom are : two thin , one thick , one thin , one thick , and two thin . the stripe colours from top to bottom are : bright pink , light pink , pastel pink , pastel yellow , light pastel yellow , an even lighter shade of pastel yellow , and yellowish white . on the left side of the flag theres a triangle divided onto three horizontal sections , the section colours from top to bottom are : gray , white , gray . end ID ]

Requested by anon Eris

Coined by the prince 👑

[ PT : Anyone can use the terms that the charming has coined , but ke asks to Please DNI if any of these aply to you: racist, sexist, ageist, antimogai, antiliom, BaB, ableist, transmed, transcum, fujoshi, radfem, terf, proshipper, anti-agere, antifurry, NSFW blogs, (NO)MAP, zoophile, necrophiliac, incestuous or supporter of those who act on these types of paraphilias. end PT ]

#demicaedqueerplatonic #coined by the prince #mogai #liom #mogai blog #liom blog #mogai coining #liom coining #mogai community #liom community #flag coining #mogai flag #liom flag #category ~ orientation #~ requests #~ anon #~ eris