اریبہ

[chezmeh]

she's pakistani 🇵🇰

[soulandwine]

[heavenorlas]

nooo your poetry about cannibalism as a metaphor for love and pomegranates and fig trees and deers and religion is so good and original babe

[notoriousbrowngirl]

جانان

dir's khan & karachi's shehzadi

[teetheater333]

some ethel cain fans: I expect my favorite trans artist that is constantly combatting sexual shame in her art to not be trans or an artist or combat sexual shame

[crispy-ghee]

There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

[chezmeh]

to my beautiful, misunderstood watan

نثار میں تری گلیوں کے اے وطن

i am sacrificed to your alleyways, o beloved homeland

– Faiz Ahmed Faiz

[dollieheartt]

antique wooden toy rifle

[divinum-pacis]

April 5, 2025: Lahore, Pakistan

Pakistani Christians attend a mass on Easter Sunday at Lahore Cathedral

Photograph: A Hussain/EPA

[enyafans4communism]

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

[lionofchaeronea]

Forgive me, but I'm going to make one more political post before moving on to other things.

Our "illustrious" President has announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, preparatory to discussing a ten-point peace agreement. I have no doubt that he and his team will take credit for this, much like an arsonist who soaks a house in gasoline and then demands a medal for blowing out the match. But you know whom I'd actually like to thank? Pakistan. Seriously. By all accounts, it was their government's feverish efforts at mediation that helped keep this whole thing from spiraling into WWIII. So, if anyone from Pakistan happens to read this: thank you. Your country may have saved us all.

[chezmeh]

I LOVE PAKISTAN I WILL SACRIFICE MY LIFE FOR PAKISTAAAAAAN

[ceruleanheaven]

how to become good at everything no practice no effort no motivation no passion no talent fast free

[ezuzi]

no, the bombing and deaths of thousands of palestinians, lebanese, yemenis, iranians, iraqis and people in west asia and africa are not 'distractions' for the epstein files. we get it you see our lives as less but it's just not. we matter.

[chezmeh]

kashmir: iran-e-sagheer, heaven on earth, valley of gardens, the poet's muse, the land of saints and martyrs

گر فردوس بر روی زمین است همین است و همین است و همین است

“if there is heaven on earth

it's here, it's here, it's here”

— Amir Khusrau

[chezmeh]

i will always be mad that pakistan is no longer a persianate culture. i wish we were still taught persian and embraced it the way our ancestors did. i genuinely think it would've been much better culturally to maintain that indo-persian fusion.

[ninakaina]

"civilians" in white countries: ex-military, military contractors, weapons manufacturers, fascist vigilantes, active duty military

"legitimate targets" in nonwhite countries: children in elementary school

[albertserra]

The us and israel and, to a lesser extent now, Britain and France and other colonial powers, can just push a button and kill you or completely upend your way of life. And 20 New York Times “journalists” get deployed immediately to explain why that needed to happen