u/Confident_Art_4594

Asak ladies! Something happened today and I'm fairly certain I did nothing wrong but it's been bothering me since. Just wanted to get some perspective from my Muslim sisters. Also, I've never posted here before. It's so nice that there's a community for Muslimahs.

Anyway, I'm doing a trivia contest for school and there's 6 people in my group, including me. 2 boys and 4 girls (all Muslim btw). We were going to library after school to study, 2 people canceled, so it's just me, my friend, another girl, and a guy. The library is literally right beside my school. Barely a 5 minute walk. Well, my friend and I are chatting to another friend in front of the school, about to set off towards the library, when the guy calls my friend (they're in a club together) and asks if we are on are way to the library. Then he offers us a ride, to which my friend says yes. She hangs up and tells me he's giving us a ride, and I point-blank say "No." Because, um, non-mehram hello?

And she was like "It's not that serious, we'll sit in the back, I'll be with you" whatever. And you know when you can tell someone doesn't agree with your reaction, so you kinda dial it back? I was like, reluctantly agreeing (while internally panicking) because my friend clearly thought I was overreacting. But I think she finally picked up on how adverse I was to this, because she said "don't worry, I'll call him back and tell him we'll walk."

Then we set off towards the library with our friend and the other girl on our team, my friend tells them the story, and all 3 of them are basically telling me I overreacted and it was only a 2 minute ride.

I didn't do anything wrong, did I? If anything, I thought I was doing us all a favour. I've always known I'm slightly more conservative then my friends, but I don't think THEY knew that. And now, I feel like they're gonna label me as extremist. Because I don't talk to guys. At all. They don't have such qualms, but they always assumed it was coincidence that I had no guy friends, not an actual effort.

I don't know, it's just been bothering me since. All 3 girls were Muslim, and they ALL said I freaked out. But I don't think what I did was wrong? I'd love to hear some other Muslim girl perspectives on this. And thanks for reading. I don't think any of my Muslim friends would actually understand this debacle.

Hey guys, have y'all read any horror books with Muslim characters? As a Muslim myself, I like finding representation, but it's recently occurred to me I've never seen a Muslim character in a horror novel. Like, ever. I might have to write one myself, but until then - have you read or heard or any horror books with Muslim characters? Thanks!

Hey guys! I love slasher novels, and I've never read one with a setting/motif as oddly specific as a corn field. If you have any recs similar to Clown in a Cornfield, I'd love to know. Bonus points if the main character is a PoC. Thanks!

Btw, I've already read You're not Supposed to Die Tonight and There's Someone Inside your House.

Basically, there's this teen of color, can't remember if she's black or hispanic, but pretty sure she's black. She comes from a magical family, or at least SHE has magic. Something happens, I think her family disappears, and she has to go into this very funky alternate dimension with crazy plants and predators to save them. She's accompanied by a male stranger too, who ends up betraying her somehow? There's only 2 details I know for sure are right. The FMC has an Indian best friend named Rishi, and she kisses the FMC at the end of the book, can't remember if they actually end up together. Rishi doesn't go into the dimension with the FMC and MMC, but she enters later and kinda finds them in the middle of the book. Second thing, I remember watching Encanto with my cousins a while later and thinking "WOW, Encanto is a lot like this book!" But I'm not sure how accurate that statement is. Any help would be much appreciated!