if i see any of you fuckers make poppy and ians love confession romantic im shooting you with an aromantic laser beam /j but also like hj
asking a chutiya “chutiya hai kya?” is so satisfying like han bc h ye chutiya
the desi urge to call your love nicknames from your native language and not tell them the meaning, dance in random baraats with your friends, travel in autos instead of booking an uber, chase your sibling barefoot on the road despite it being sweltering hot and burning your feet, enjoy the monsoon by either eating pakoras and filter coffee or dancing in the rain in a salwar kameez, make rangolis for every festival, choose cooler over ac cause the Mitti Ki Khushbu™, be the best at kite flying, add small jhoomars to all your chunnis, use jaanam to address small kids, keep telling bhayiya to add spice to the pani puri water even if your eyes start watering and wear brown lipstick and thick kajal to look like the kind of women elders warn children against
I need people to understand that the fucked up shit people write on Ao3 is harming nobody actually. They did not film a real person doing something or do something themselves. They typed words on a document. That’s it! Then they tag it so you don’t have to read if you do not want to! It’s not complicated! Dead dove do not eat! If you didn’t want the dead dove, why are you in the dead dove store?!
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licherally cannot explain to adults these days that im actually so cool with the idea of being "just an employee" somewhere as long as i am paid enough to live comfortably and i also like the job. "but dont you want to be rich?? dont you want to always be striving for more???" like that sounds EXHAUSTING and i like having friends so
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my friends are going out abroad for college, to live their lives the european/american way and sometimes i want to go too, but, no. i want to live my life like my grandmother did, i want to wear suits and saarees and jhumkas and bindis only to go out on a crowded street to have samosas. i want to go to gurudwaras, mandirs, masjids, churches. i want to be able to speak my first language without hesitation and i want to be able to listen to baaraats on roads and jagratas at 4 am. i want to be woken up by the cry of the kabaadi wala in the morning. i dont want to go to the grocery store, instead want the sabji vala to come with his thela. i want to be able to go to purani dilli just so i can admire the old houses and jama masjid and laal qila. i want to visit monuments so that i can marvel at the architecture which was made so long ago but feels so familiar. i want to have chai at the tapri. i want to travel in rickshaws and dance at bollywood bangers playing on loudspeakers. i want to fall in love with a boy in a kurta. i want him to fall in love with me while i sway my georgette dupatta. i want to talk to all the dada jis reading newspapers in the morning. i want to spread achaar on my terrace. i want to do all of that. i want to live life the indian way. because that's where home is.
john mulaney and kanan gill are the only comedians to exist like wow so true 🤩
Har desi kid ki life mein ek over achiver cousin zarur hota hai. Jiski achivements hume din raat khaane ki tarah sunne ko milti hai
mera bhai hai woh overachiever. maa-baap se toh sunti hi hu, aur baaki cousins bhi apni frustrations mujh par hi nikaalte hain
when abeds trying to explain why he did the my dinner with andre thing after jeff accuses him of being selfish and its like. i felt like we were drifting apart and i didnt know what to do. i practiced how to act in a fancy restaurant like you used to like and i practiced what to say to open up to you and let you open up to me. i bought this weird jacket. i love you.
Also when Klaus and Stan were in the hotel room and Stan was stashing stuff in his pockets and then Klaus revealed that not only did he know he was doing it the whole time but he even knew what specific items he had picked up. Small nods to the fact that Klaus is still a highly trained crime fighter my beloved.
Indian WLW/NBLW movies/series
Let's start with the oldest wlw indian movie (i know of)
1. FIRE (Movie - 1996) : By Deepa Mehta; Sita and Radha are young Indian women whose husbands choose celibacy or mistresses over their wives. This leads them to form an intimate, passionate relationship amidst a close-minded society.
2. The Married Woman (Series - 2021- Zee5 and AltBalaji) : Astha sets out on a journey of self-discovery and meets Peeplika on the route. Astha sets herself free from the society pressures and boundaries when she finds an intense connection with Peeplika, something that she always longed for.
3. Ajeeb Daastaans (Short Film - 2021 - Netflix) : Geeli Puchi; The short film on Netflix anthology ‘Ajeeb Dastaan’ talks about caste, sexuality, privilege and patriarchy in a powerful way.
4. Sheer Qorma (Short Film - 2021) : This film by a Non - Binary director, Faraz Arif Ansari and starring a Non-binary character as a lead, is a romantic drama that showcases how love is judged in society based on gender and how people have preconceived notions about sexuality. It has Swara playing the role of a Pakistani-Canadian citizen who travels to India with her lover (Divya Dutta). But Dutta’s mother, played by Shabana Azmi, finds it difficult to come to terms with her daughter’s choices.
5. Margarita with a straw (Film - JioCinema - 2014) : A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.
6. Ek Ladkhi Ko Dekha Tho Aisa Laga (Movie - Netflix- 2019) : Sweety hides a secret about her true love and decides to marry a writer to please her father, Balbir Chaudhary. However, chaos ensues when she decides to fight her family and society to win her love.
7. Firsts Season 3 (FilterCopy - YouTube- 2020) : Ritu and Lavanya are two women in their twenties who start living together after their second date, finding themselves in a series of firsts as they navigate life, love and more during the lockdown.
8. The Other Love Story (Web series - 12 episodes - YouTube - 2016) : The plot, set in the late 1990s/early 2000s, revolves around the relationship between two girls in an era when there were no cell phones or internet.
9. Mismatched (Netflix - Series - 2020) : Has a plotline with a wlw character. Set in a college/university summer coding program.
10. Feels like Ishq - She loves me She loves me not (Netflix - 1 episode - 2021) : A closeted advertising associate falls for an out-and-proud colleague, but her subtle efforts to confess her feelings don't go quite as planned.
note : I copied the descriptions cause i was too tired and embarrassed to write my own, sorry.
totally biased and unhinged wlw book recomendations list
Happy Pride! I have over 80 books in my “sapphic” goodreads list and these are my personal favs…I don’t have the energy to type actual descriptions but here are the first things that came to my mind with some of them. enjoy. or don’t. to be clear most of these are NOT romances. that’s a different genre and I feel like sometimes ppl get annoyed that the queer sci fi book had more sci fi than romance…but it’s just how it is. ** **
Literature/misc
Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
- REQUIRED READING FOR ALL
- fictionalized history of a working class jewish queer person and their experiences with lesbian bars, transitioning, unions, and more!
- extremely heart breaking but I learned a lot of history I didn’t realize I didn’t know* **Last Night at the Telegraph Club-Malinda Lo **
- main character is a chinese-american lesbian coming of age in the 1950′s in san francisco
- she forms a sort of relationship with a girl in class and they go to a lesbian bar secretly
- can’t recommend enough!
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
- Carmen Maria Machado is the GOAT. Her writing is just incredible and some of these stories are haunting.
- single handedly made me like short stories.
- both Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers listed it as one of their favs. I Know the End is based on a story from this book.
- contains a Law and Order: SVU fanfic which HAUNTS me*
In The Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
- a genuinely heartbreaking book about abuse in queer relationships
- semi autobiographical/looking at histories of abuse
Everyone in this room will someday be dead - Emily Austin
- if you struggle with anxiety or/and depression and a fixation on death and/or illness, boy do I have the book for you.
- Painfully relatable but also very funny. in a laugh at your own pain kinda way. and the main character is a lesbian in a relationship. I truly love this book and highly recommend.
- I had it on my tbr for a year and when I finally started I finished it in one sitting.
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
- definitely an acquired taste but one of my favorite books of all time.
- a bunch of short stories focusing on loneliness
- many queer characters in the stories
monsoon moodboard for the rainy days
"and the earth itself.... its loveliest fragrance is known only when it receives a shower of rain. and the scent of wet earth rises as though it were giving something beautiful back to the clouds." // ruskin bond, rain in the mountains
desi wlw dark academia aesthetic
//if I lived a million lives, I would have felt a million feelings and still would have fallen a million times for you//
- R.M.Drake
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This seasons unexpected duo was Lila and five like yeah!! Go be snarky!!! Have parental trauma!! Discover why the world is ending!!! Maybe even witness your future self die who knows!!!
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