Zia Rashid - Tumblr Posts
Sadie: you guys are clogging up my motifs and it’s kinda hard to ignore you :/
Carter: sorry :(
Zia: why do you want to ignore us :/
Leo with Carter Kane. I can deal with crossover. And nerds in love. This fanfic might even be good. I never shipped Caleo anyway.
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I love being on riordan hate tumblr. I love all his series growing up, and as I’ve gotten older it feels more and more like he took something we loved and shit on it. When in reality we’re just better able to analyze the shitty writing/author that was already there. Similar to Harry Potter with JK the authors of these books no longer have claims to their stories.
being egyptian and reading the kane chronicles is so wild because it says that the egyptian gods migrate to wherever the center of western civilization is, implying that ancient egypt was a western civilization or that egypt's a was, and not an is. like why is this non-white civilization which manifests today in a real life country supposedly a western civilization but the actual people whose heritage is tied to that civilization are excluded from it? why is a white british woman (a WHITE BRITISH WOMAN!) the living incarnation of isis - the mother of egypt? there's no cultural nuance. there's no consideration. the image of the egyptian mother, through isis or otherwise, is something so fucking important in egyptian culture, and to have it represented by a british woman - a descendant of those who bastardized and stole our heritage- is just insane to me. perhaps an interesting analysis of post colonial egypt in a meta sense, but that's for egyptian artists to dissect, not riordan. and that's only one thing. egypt - the actual egypt from which everything in the series originates) in that series is so mocked. i remember at some point sadie and walt are walking through egypt and mock the fact that since the arabic language has no "p", they pronounce pepsi as bebsi. no respect. the very foundation of this series is based in racism, in colonial thinking, and, ultimately, white supremacy. why is zia, the only actual egyptian in the main cast, so irrelevant? so quiet and without agency? in a meta way, she's like egypt itself. i just wanted to bring this to light since a lot of rr crit focuses on the racism and homophobia present in pjo and hoo and mcga and toa- perfectly valid criticisms that are well deserved - but barely anyone talks about the inherent colonialist and racist foundations of the entirety of the kane chronicles, which is why i wanted to bring it to light. enjoy the series if you want, i'm not saying you're not allowed, but as long as we're criticizing riordan, let's criticize everything.
I love being on riordan hate tumblr. I love all his series growing up, and as I’ve gotten older it feels more and more like he took something we loved and shit on it. When in reality we’re just better able to analyze the shitty writing/author that was already there. Similar to Harry Potter with JK the authors of these books no longer have claims to their stories.
being egyptian and reading the kane chronicles is so wild because it says that the egyptian gods migrate to wherever the center of western civilization is, implying that ancient egypt was a western civilization or that egypt's a was, and not an is. like why is this non-white civilization which manifests today in a real life country supposedly a western civilization but the actual people whose heritage is tied to that civilization are excluded from it? why is a white british woman (a WHITE BRITISH WOMAN!) the living incarnation of isis - the mother of egypt? there's no cultural nuance. there's no consideration. the image of the egyptian mother, through isis or otherwise, is something so fucking important in egyptian culture, and to have it represented by a british woman - a descendant of those who bastardized and stole our heritage- is just insane to me. perhaps an interesting analysis of post colonial egypt in a meta sense, but that's for egyptian artists to dissect, not riordan. and that's only one thing. egypt - the actual egypt from which everything in the series originates) in that series is so mocked. i remember at some point sadie and walt are walking through egypt and mock the fact that since the arabic language has no "p", they pronounce pepsi as bebsi. no respect. the very foundation of this series is based in racism, in colonial thinking, and, ultimately, white supremacy. why is zia, the only actual egyptian in the main cast, so irrelevant? so quiet and without agency? in a meta way, she's like egypt itself. i just wanted to bring this to light since a lot of rr crit focuses on the racism and homophobia present in pjo and hoo and mcga and toa- perfectly valid criticisms that are well deserved - but barely anyone talks about the inherent colonialist and racist foundations of the entirety of the kane chronicles, which is why i wanted to bring it to light. enjoy the series if you want, i'm not saying you're not allowed, but as long as we're criticizing riordan, let's criticize everything.
Random Zia x Carter headcannons let's go
They spend a lot of time in the library. Like a lot. Everyone thinks they're making out but they're just having really long conversations about books and life and everything else.
They love walking around the mall together. Carter shows her his favourite spots and tells her stories of travelling around the world and she just listens and loves it.
Carter falls asleep in Zia's lap.
At first he finds it really embarrassing and Sadie teases him about it for weeks but eventually he just goes with it. Zia secretly loves it too.
Carter always talks a lot on their dates. He's a nerd so he knows something about everything and he just can't stop talking, because Zia actually listens.
Zia loves listening to Carter talk. He will start rambling about anything and everything and most of the time she has no idea what's going on but she just loves listening to his voice.
Sometimes they also just have quiet moments. They just sit together for hours sometimes in the silence, and they don't have to say anything because being together is enough.
They love eating ice cream together. Zia's favourite flavour is mint choc chip, Carter's favourite flavour is dark chocolate.
They both love dark chocolate (unlike sadie who says that anything over 60% isn't chocolate, it's cocoa)
Despite this, they also both have a sweet tooth and often get donuts together.
Zia and Carter both love tea. They always get tea wherever they go. It'll be flaming hot in the middle of summer and Sadie is sipping on an iced coffee while they're drinking tea.
Neither of them like coffee much.
They like to work or study together. They'll go to the Brooklyn house library and they have their own reserved spot where no-one else sits, even when they're gone.
Contrary to most people's expectations, they never go on museum dates. For Carter, they remind him too much of his years travelling the world with his father, and for Zia, they feel like a reminder of her childhood and the normal life she could've had.
Zia can't really cook, but she tries. Carter can't cook anything other than basic travel foods, but he tries for his girlfriend
Carter and Zia make fun of fast food. Then they go eat fast food. Sadie calls them hypocrites and they agree.
They also make fun of american tv shows and movies. Mostly they watch nature documentaries together.
Anyways they're adorable together and everyone at Brooklyn House ships them (as they should)
How much you wanna bet Zia Rashid, Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, and Samirah Al-Abbas would be BFFS and would kick ass together?
Zia: I spy with my little eye something beginning with 's'.
Sadie: Sunshine?
Zia: Nope.
Sadie: *looks over at Carter and Percy arguing* Sexual tension?
Alternative AU, My AU Egyptians
Hello, good morning, I'm Seven and English is not my first language, so I'm sorry if I have grammatical mistakes, here is the third list of the changes in my AU with but with the Egyptians, continuing with the same explanation, Carter and Sadie in the original are Egyptian magicians and Horus eh Isis are Egyptian gods well in my AU it's the other way around, Carter and Sadie are Egyptian gods and Horus eh Isis are Egyptian magicians and so with everyone, I clarify that this mythology is still under construction so things may be changing or adding things over time but if you have ideas I can listen
Gods:
Carter: he takes the role of Horus as pharaoh of the gods in the duat
Sadie: she takes the role of Isis, in the original Isis is the mother of Horus but here Sadie is still Carter's sister
Walt: he takes the role of Anubis as god of funerals
Zia: Zia's role was one of the most complicated for me, here I didn't know who to change her with with Ra was not an option so I was between Nephthys oh Hathor, but I decided to change her with Hathor because in the original and in mythology Horus and Hathor are a couple just like Carter and Zia
Now let's go with those who will be the magicians, they will have the surnames of the originals although there are not many
Horus Kane: He takes the role of Carter but not his personality obviously, he is the son of Julius Kane and in this AU he is the eye of Carter, he also has 2 friends, one Greek and the other Einherjar
Isis Kane: She takes the role of Sadie but not her personality obviously, between her and Horus, Isis is the older sister in this case, she is the one who stayed with the Faust grandparents and felt a bit of resentment towards her father who in this case is still Julius Kane
Anubis Stone: he takes the role of Walt, and here I find it difficult because I don't know how to make Sadie (who is a goddess in this AU), Walt and Anubis a couple
Amos kane: Amos is still the same obvious only that I included him to say that here he is the uncle of Horus eh Isis
Bast: she's here just to say that instead of being with Sadie she's with Isis and that's it
Hathor Rashid: she takes the role of Zia, since as I explained before, Horus and Hathor are a couple just like Zia and Carter, but obviously she is going to have Zia's story and the same thing that happened the first time she met will happen. they met
My first fanfic in AO3 about my AU
The second Chapter of my fanfic of my Egyptian AU
yes, the third chapter was already published but I didn't post it here and I realized it now that I just uploaded the fourth chapter.