“Oh, you know, you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this, to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. And so, you know, it's– really, her absence is felt every day.
“And ever since I lost her, I felt that my life has been lived in only two days, if that makes any sense. You know, there’s the today, where she is not here, and then the vast and endless yesterday where she was, even though it’s been three years since. How many months and days? But I only see it in — with one demarcation. Two days — today without my mother, and yesterday, when she was alive. That’s all I see. That’s how I see my life now.”
listen… I am going to propose we stop taking “culture appropriation” seriously for anything South Asia related. Casteism, segregation and gatekeeping is entrenched in South Asian cultures. Every time you hear outrage akin to the Emma Chamberlain controversy you start suspecting why and how has the South Asian narrative so strongly created around ~appropriation~ it’s because gatekeeping comes naturally to them lmao
Your customs and traditions are not untouchable or do they have a deeper meaning that grants them some inherent value. Stop clutching your pearls over nothing
Last summer my friend’s mom discovered hundreds of teeny tiny toad tadpoles in a puddle in her driveway. It was drying up, so she asked me about moving them to a nearby pond. I told her not to, because moving amphibians unnaturally between water bodies can spread disease.
So she filled up a watering can every morning and every evening and replenished the puddle, adding dechlorinator drops she uses for her fish tank to make sure the water was safe.
The tadpoles survived and grew up into little toads who eventually hopped out of the puddle.
I think about the tenderness and compassion of this a lot.
It’s like at some point, a lot of the 20+ year olds who hold onto YA and teen shows with a death grip and want it so badly to cater to them and their interests (especially with explicit content) are like… living vicariously thru the narratives of 16/17 year olds as told by someone over the age of 30. And they can reason that adult media is boring or a lot of it is trash, but then they turn around and glamorize everything wrong about adult media in the setting of a high school because they’re so fixated on teenagedom and youth. Like bruh, you grown. The “realism” y’all want is a shallow representation of what teens are today, and back when we were teens too.
Like yeah there’s an over saturation of teen media with shallow outlooks on drugs/partying/sex/social media/risqué melodrama, but they only see ratings. They only see y’all fixating on youth as a concept that you wanna mold it into. Nobody’s putting forth New Adult and good Adult media because everyone for some reason becomes obsessed with “capturing” adolescence in a way they fantasized it in their heads. It’s weird, I say.
the hypocrisy of being human; the constant tug between solitude and company, the desire to love so desperately and simultaneously be detached from it all, of wanting everything and wanting nothing.
idk if i’ve mentioned it before but hindutva fascists really are the most unhinged currently existing, from what i’ve seen. like they don’t have an endgoal too different from the “regular” western fascists but they’ll speak completely mask-off in public with their real names attached in a way you wouldn’t see here. like politicians in india speak the way nazis do on 8chan. shit really sucks
the distortion of “there is potential profit we did not earn” as “there is money we lost” is fascinating and disgusting to me. “megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year” is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it’s an infuriating perversion of the truth
cant believe i lost $1000 when i told some guy at walmart to give it to me and he said no
