Sophia Babai
@swingingstorm
Author | Activist | Somatic therapist | Sufi mystic 🇮🇷 🇹🇿 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇵🇸 🇦🇿 (my ancestors really got around) Writes gay ghost stories about families breaking and rebuilding through war and grief. Posts about food, fiction, folklore, and fighting fascism.
My favorite convention of the year is @readercon.org, and this year they're letting me talk about tea!! Also horror and Megan Whalen Turner and a group reading with the wondrous @andreahairston.bsky.social and @benjaminrosenbaum.com, but: tea!!!
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Oh wow I have 9.3k followers, I guess I should say hi again! I'm Sophia, mostly. I write books, design games, run embodiment workshops on healing from burnout / grief and recovering energy / creativity. I worked in politics for many years and still yell about politics a lot. I like haunted things.
I'm so grumpy that the lion and the sun flag (the original flag of Iran, if you live anywhere near any Iranians you have seen it) has been co-opted by Pahlavists. It's such a good flag! Look! There's a lion on it!!
I am 7% of the way into this book and I am dying already if you never hear from me again plz direct your blame (or gratitude depending how much I annoy you) to @isabel.kim
On one hand, excellent if true. (Emphasis on "if" -- the US, like its favorite vassal state, cannot be trusted with negotiations or ceasefires.) On the other hand, lord I am so tired of having the world's collective mental health wrenched to and fro by this man's tweets.
Exhibit A: doggy not receiving attention Exhibit B: doggy sensing the approach of attention
I was worried this would be terrible smell or texture wise but it’s honestly pretty chill? Also it’s fully glued my hair together which is kind of convenient.
Exhibit B: mayonnaise. You can tell it’s Ramadan because my mind is absolutely convinced it looks like cream cheese frosting.
Exhibit A: my sad confused hair, which does not understand California. I swear to you it’s curly everywhere else.
buT wE Are LIBERatiNG thE PeoPLE WHY don't thEY RISE UP to HELP their LIBERATORS
It certainly LOOKS like brownies? (Sophia why are you baking brownies in a springform cake tin) (Because my friend’s filthy cheating ex got most of the kitchen equipment in the divorce and I do what I can with the tools I have available)
Next time a white guy pretends that Buddhism is all love-and-light spirituality that is magically free of normal religion things like "consumerism" and "hypocrisy" I'm just gonna show them the fact that they made an image of their spiritual leader spiritually starving and COVERED IT IN GOLD.
Last day in the Caribbean, do you think we bought enough fruit to last until our flights? 😂
Also I have finally managed to visit Volcano Arenal in Costa Rica after three full years of wanting to and holy shit this was the prettiest kayak ride ever.
Meanwhile Hani’s daughter Rawan, who is barely in her twenties and yet responsible for her entire family, sends me messages like this each day:
I do not have the hubris to judge the hair of a bear, they’re literally just hair, do we judge the wetness of the ocean, do we judge the woodiness of a log. Seems to have a generous butt though, as bears generally do!
Kuzco: no butt, bad hair Kronk: solid hair but continuing the tragic Disney trend of men who are super jacked and have no booty Pacha: I can’t even tell. I have no clue. He refuses to be objectified by anyone except his wife and the strange gay teenager they’ve accidentally adopted.
Tarzan’s hair is delightful in a never-met-a-comb way, but they make it REAL clear that despite all that muscle, his loincloth is hangin’ FLAT in the back
Not Disney but this thread would be REMISS without including Dimitri, our floppy-haired beloved, who actually has more going on bum-wise than I expected. Flynn Ryder whomst
Prince Naveen has great hair (and WHAT a smolder) but they were afraid giving him a good butt would be racist and the world is poorer for it
The Beast probs has a great butt but Prince Beast definitely doesn’t. Honestly I like Prince Beast’s hair but it’s outweighed by everything else about him. Belle was robbed.
Shang: Devastatingly, the hottest man in all of Disney (sorry David) does not let his hair down, but you just KNOW he’s got the best butt of them all.
Aladdin: EXCELLENT hair, 20/10, witness how it flops, witness how it artistically ruffles, but also fully flat back there (in his defense, he’s literally starving, he has time!) Jasmine definitely carrying the booty game for both of them.
Okay when it comes to the OG boys I don’t remember their names but Ariel’s prince has GREAT hair and also it’s clear Ariel, being a mermaid, has no taste in human rear ends