Ahmed Zaki

27 | Polyglot |  🇱🇰 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 Playing catch up with life, romanticised

[aspoiltyouth]

Flavours of love

[awed-frog]

This is both amazing and profoundly irritating - the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do - you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.

[50shadesofsun-deactivated202001]

She makes the bass drop in my heart.

[nocontextgoodplace]

[aspoiltyouth]

sabesh bharathi’s experiments with tamil dialogue aesthetics are everything (source)

[quaelearns]

South Asian Language Aesthetic 

Bengali reserved, always protesting against prejudice, loving literature, sitting by a lake with feet in the water, idle afternoons, romanticizing everyday life 

Hindi renovation, new ideas, hustling, going to movies/shopping with friends, going with the flow, curious and interactive with the rest of world

Tamil traditional music and dance, religion/culture, ambition, living/loving disciplined and organized lifestyle, scented candles, nighttime ceremonies 

Punjabi lively, hospitality, loving music and dance, family and friends, optimism, taking pride in one’s identity, always coming back to one’s community

Urdu focused, opinionated, pushing oneself to reach the goal, caffeine dependent lifestyle, rewarding oneself with luxury 

Farsi valuing nature and humanity, self-discovery, people-watching, star gazing, sipping tea and writing, deep meaningful lyrics

[tugoslavija-deactivated20161215]

Goethe-Institut did a web series a while back aimed at new arrivals in Germany and I like how it make sure to teach people that a lot of Germans are rude af

like, this is a genuine scene from an ep:

[involverad]

#Ok but for a second there I was like #this is a bit exaggerated #it’s not that rude to say hi to strangers #just a bit weird #but then I realised #the rude person is probably meant to be the one ignoring the ‘hi' 

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Well she’s obviously doing it wrong. You got to mumble “Guten Tag” in no one’s actual direction upon entering the waiting room. Then you don’t speak a word (you gotta grab a magazine though, because if you’re on your mobile people will find that asocial) until the doctor calls you and when you get back to retrieve your jacket you mumble “Auf Wiedersehen”.

If you say “Guten Tag” while sitting down it’s either because you’re passive-aggressively shaming the person you’re talking to for not saying “Guten Tag” (which is of course highly respectable, but weird if they did say it) or worse: 

You’re trying to make small-talk.

[relyabittooheavily]

See also: when entering a crowded bus, tram, subway or train, you do not say a single word. You look for an empty bench. If there are none, you will have a neighbour. You stop at an empty spot and mumble something like “tschulli-ng” or “s-nch-frei?” to the person occupying the other spot on the bench. You nod in an upward direction. They reply a mumbled “türlich” while vaguely looking somewhere near your face and moving their bag if neccessary. You sit down, nod gratefully, and keep your mouth shut for the rest of the ride. Neither of you wanted this. You wanted freedom. Don’t bother each other.

If an entire bench in front of you becomes available at the next stop, though, it is not the polite thing to free your neighbour and yourself up. No, you stay right where you are. The silent stranger next to you is your silent stranger now.

Welcome to Germany. This is how we express love.

[rohamburger]

None of these people are joking.

[cranberrybogmummy]

Horrible joke

I met a German cannibal, he was pretty depressing. He just saw the wurst in everyone.

[imloveyousuggestions-blog]

no offense but i cant stop daydreaming about being able to hug you and hold your hand whenever i want

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still can’t recognize the differences between platonic, romantic, sexual, mentor-student, and familial relationships, both in fiction and reality, and it really shows

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still think there’s only one type of love and it really shows

[aspoiltyouth]

even more beautiful and haunting than the original

[aspoiltyouth]

I don’t even know if I have active followers, so now I’m using my tumblr as an archive for future me who ends up stalking my own blog every 3 months anyway. Hi future me!

[radiqueer]

unfriendly reminder that dehumanizing people - even the worst people - is a shitty tactic and you should employ it basically never. 

[radiqueer]

look I’m too tired to explain this properly but when you erase the humanity of the scummiest people on the planet you erase the fact that the all those shitty, shitty things were done by a person. a real human chose to do those things. you erase humanity’s capacity for evil. you misrepresent reality. that’s…really not good. at all. and in addition to that dehumanization as a tactic has always been used against marginalized people - to harm and kill us in vast numbers - and turning it against bad people is also just pushing the idea that it’s an okay rhetorical tool to use, and that will always end up harming marginalized groups

[aspoiltyouth]

not to mention that it pushes the perpetrators past the point of recovery. 

Hate to empathise with villains, but dehumanising people who do something wrong will only push them further away from any chance of redemption. 

There was a person behind that drug abuser, behind that terrorist, behind that murderer. Everyone has a complicated history, nobody was born evil. You and I, we are all capable of doing the exact same evil. 

Identifying what led them there could be the most vital step towards preventing them from happening in the future, and for that they must be relatable to the average person. An us vs. them is never the way to go.

not the most relevant, but an interesting ted talk

[wigglyflippingout]

is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES

[grand-duc]

In the same vein:

Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, they’re basically adults, right?

Me at 28: Oh my Gods you’re babies who left you in charge?!

[rcmclachlan]

Ariel: Daddy, I love him! Me at 14: Yeah, girl, you tell him! Me at 30:

[imagitory]

Marnie in Halloweentown: I’m thirteen, okay? I’m practically grown up! I’m certainly old enough to make my own choices – right?

Me at 7: Right!

Me at 13: Right! …Well, okay, maybe not practically grown up, but still, right!

Me at 28:

[chiaroscar]

You either die young or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[the-cosmic-goddess-deactivated2]

This is so true

[twodotsknowwhy]

Me as teenager: Yeah, girl, you hook up with that older guy, this is super hot!

Me as an adult: all of these men should be arrested

[supremequeenofthenerds]

Me age 24 re-reading Harry Potter

[jhaernyl]

This, a thousand times this.

[somecutething]

[silentauroriamthereal]

I love how the second lick drags the kitty right across the floor, lol

[tinymiblog]

I so loves this 

[coooooooooooooulson]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[aspoiltyouth]

having a boundaries problem is the literal worst

-you don’t know when you should’ve stopped -you don’t know when you should stop -you don’t know when they should stop -you say no when you shouldn’t -you don’t say no when you should