etherthief: (hdu | fuck off | frustrated)
Iman Asadi ([personal profile] etherthief) wrote in [community profile] bigapplesauce 2014-10-02 03:56 pm (UTC)

"Ummm, excuse you?" Iman gives him a spectacularly unimpressed look. Devastating to mere mortals. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

She's pretty sure she's offended, or something. Allah is not what anyone in their right mind would consider 'pagan', and even if he were, she's nowhere close to being religious - the headcovering and periodic bursts of 'daily' prayer are more habit and affectation than anything else - and anyway, where she comes from, religion is on about par with a favored sports team, you're raised into it, tend to stick with it, you'll report dutifully to the meetings where able, you'll even defend it aggressively when the time comes, and once in a while, if you're especially invested, you'll do something stupid and violent on its behalf. But nobody takes that seriously. Not like political parties or modes of scientific thought.

But she doesn't need to be her grandmother's sort of Muslim to get offended about that. Grandiose, obnoxiously vague generalizations put her off better than almost anything.

"So let me apply a little method, here: going by your obstreperous reaction I can only assume pagan gods are actually literally real where you're from, which, don't even get me started - but not only have you acknowledged that, in the same breath you've also swept the whooole massive diaspora right under a rug of 'oooh, they're just a bunch of shitty fakers'." This with a fairly childish but no less devastating impression of Nick and his grumpass shittiness, which is visible from metaphoric space. "I mean assuming it's anything close to where I come from, massive diaspora. Also, not that it's important or anything, but I'm a pretty good judge of character, and you, my trashdrunk friend, are both the pettiest and most arrogant prick I've ever met, and that's going some. So you're gonna have to do one better than that."

Feeling pretty pleased with herself, she drops her chin onto her hand and fixes him with an arched eyebrow of justice. And then for good measure she pops off a mental text to Daniel.

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