Chaotic Academia

Infj-Paris is the ultimate dream-Muslim academia-Tea

[mahoganyamore]

a calm, quiet detour from this world

[the-honey-dukes]

That’s what I do. I read books, drink tea and know unimportant things.

[melaninenthusiast]

In Arabic we don't say I love you.

We say instead Yaqburnee,

Maybe you bury me before I bury you.

Because there is no place for me in this world without you.

Yaqburnee,

May I never experience a life without you in it.

And I think that is really beautiful

[melaninenthusiast]

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[melaninenthusiast]

In Arabic we don't say I love you.

We say instead Yaqburnee,

Maybe you bury me before I bury you.

Because there is no place for me in this world without you.

Yaqburnee,

May I never experience a life without you in it.

And I think that is really beautiful

[melaninenthusiast]

If God gave the sun the weekend off people would know how you shine all the time even though I am the only one who notices.

Excerpt from At the door of a lonely heart by Abboud al Jabiri//Translated from Arabic.

[melaninenthusiast]

“Enough for me to die on her earth be buried in her to melt and vanish into her soil then sprout forth as a flower played with by a child from my country. Enough for me to remain in my country's embrace to be in her close as a handful of dust a sprig of grass a flower.”

Enough for me by Fadwa Tuqan //translated from Arabic 

[melaninenthusiast]

“Do not fill postcards with memories. Between my heart and the luxury of passion stretches a desert where ropes of fire blaze and smolder, where snakes coil and recoil, swallowing blossoms with poison and flame.”

Excerpt from ‘Face lost in the wilderness’ by Fadwa Tuqan//Translated from Arabic 

[ask-bait]

⭐ 30 favourites asks

favourite…

1 - season?

2 - classic film?

3 - nostalgia-inducing possession?

4 - shade of green?

5 - gemstone?

6 - hour of the night?

7 - quote?

8 - type of dream?

9 - happy song?

10 - sad song?

11 - character from a book?

12 - creative medium?

13 - memory?

14 - aspect of a person’s face?

15 - decade before the 2020s?

16 - band?

17 - animated film/tv show?

18 - constellation?

19 - poem?

20 - album?

21 - ending in fictional media?

22 - shade of blue?

23 - part of being alive?

24 - holiday?

25 - kind of candy?

26 - person you know?

27 - musical movie?

28 - superhero?

29 - book longer than 500 pages?

30 - book shorter than 300 pages?

[melaninenthusiast]

1. Summer

2. Titanic/Breakfast and Tiffany’s

3.This empty perfume bottle i have and it wasn’t even mine. I am nostalgic for a time i did not know..

4. Emerald 

5. Ruby/Amythest

6. 11?

7. i recently read this so this is my new fav one although i have a million

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world”

8. Day dreams

9. You make me feel like a natural woman-Aretha franklin or La vie en rose

10. My usual sad songs are in Arabic or Turkish/ I don’t listen to music much so i guess i wldnt know of any English ones

11. Will Herondale from infernal devices

12. Watercolours

13. My brain said: No x (i can’t remember a thing that is)

14. Eyes-Ocean eyes, honey eyes, coal eyes, EYESSSSSS

15. The 1980s not that i was alive or anything

16. The romantics (i’m not really a huge music person)

17. Mulan/Ratatouille 

18. Apus, Pisces, Orion

19. Anabelle lee, a dream within a dream by Edgar Allan Poe and anything by Nizar Qabbani (i have aothers but if i start, i won’t stop

20. N/A

21. i hate endings

22. Ocean blue/ Turquoise 

23. Flowers, flower fields, bees on flowers, flower shops, plants, literally any dessert, SUNDAY MORNINGSSSSSS etc

24. Don’t know

25. Licorice, Sour candy and caramels 

26. I can’t pick...

27. Les mis, La la land, Mamma mia, Literally anything disney

28. Ironman 

29. THE NIGHTINGALE-Kristin Hannah (please read it if you haven’t)

30. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

[ask-bait]

🏮 shades of red asks

crimson: if you could have only one photo or poster on your wall, what would it be?

maroon: what role do you play in your group of friends?

ruby: favourite pre-2000 song?

brick red: have you ever been in an abandoned building?

merlot: do you have any unusual fears?

vermilion: have you ever pulled an all-nighter? if so, tell us about the first time.

carnelian: at what point did your life change without you realising?

burgundy: how often do you make your bed? what do your favourite bedsheets look like?

red ochre: are you inclined to watch a tv series if a lot of people on the internet are talking about it?

garnet: what’s the most expensive thing you own?

sangria: to what extent do you enjoy sour candy?

cardinal: what is the first song that made you cry?

blood: which of your family members is your favourite?

rosewood: have you ever had a penpal? would you like one now?

scarlet: think of your favourite genre. what kind of media in that genre do you prefer - books, films, or tv series?

carmine: do you prefer having or not having a schedule?

persian red: answer with a picture of your dream holiday destination.

strawberry: what album would you love to have on vinyl?

claret: talk about a memorable experience on public transport.

mahogany: what is your favourite musical instrument, in terms of sound?

lipstick red: if you could live one day with no one recognising you, what would you do?

wine: tell us about your first experience with alcohol.

cherry: thoughts on mainstream music?

pomegranate: favourite and least favourite fruits?

imperial: what film, in your opinion, has the best cinematography and/or special effects?

[melaninenthusiast]

Crimson: My horrible version of starry nights because i am a proud shitty artist 

Maroon: I’m the “oh ffs sake move aside, I’ll ask” but also the mom friend i guess

Ruby: Anything by The Romantics

Brick red: No

Merlot: I don’t think so

Vermillion: Never, maybe i’ll try it some time

Carnelian: August 2019 when i had a falling out with a few friends, i didn’t know it then but my life did change dramatically

Burgundy: I make it everyday. my fav sheets are completely white with tiny silk-silver stars

Red ochre: Not really. CEO of “i’ve never watched single episode of GOT”

Garnet: I wouldn’t know and i don’t really splurge 

Sangria: YESSSSS BURN OFF MY TASTE BUDSSSSSSSS

Cardinal: Its an Arabic song called  Sa'Aet El Foraaby Amr Diab

Blood: I would say my mom 

Rosewood: I would deffo want a penpal now, always wanted one-lmk if anyones interested like fr :)

Scarlet: Fav genre: Historical fiction(or non fiction either or), i think books

Carmine: I like to have a schedule because i feel organized but at the same time i feel like not having one gives me freedom to change my day however i want to

Persian red: I can’t insert all the 200 pictures on my pinterest but ideal location would be Positano/Greece/Prague/Barcelona 

Strawberry: I don’t know

Claret: Never had any pleasant public transport encounters 

Mahogany: Violin/ Oud/Daf

Lipstick red: I would rob a bank ngl

Wine: don’t drink

Cherry: I don’t have any thoughts 

Pomegranate: Fav-Mangoes, Plums, Pomegranates, Figs, Grapes, Green apples, Least fav: Bananas

Imperial: La la land, 1917, Memoirs of a geisha, Emma

[melaninenthusiast]

thus you

would stay in my heart

while I lived;

and at my death

you too would die in the

entrails of my core, 

in the shadow of my tomb.

Excerpt from my heart by-Ibn Hazm [translated from Arabic]

[melaninenthusiast]

Your love has taught me… how to be sad. And I have needed, for ages A woman to make me sad A woman in whose arms I could weep Like a sparrow, A woman— to gather up my pieces— Like shards of shattered crystal

Excerpt from an ode to silence-by Nizar Qabbani [translated from Arabic]

[melaninenthusiast]

Out of jasmine the night's blood streams white. 

Your perfume,

my weakness and your secret, 

follows me like a snakebite. 

And your hair is a tent of wind autumn in color.

Excerpt from sonnet V-by Mahmoud Darwish//translated from Arabic

[melaninenthusiast]

She said: My Love .. You will forget me

And you will forget that I, one day,

Have granted you my heart  

And you will adore another wave

And you will leave my beaches warmth

And you will sit, as we used to

To listen to some of my tones

And you will not care for my sorrows

And my name will fall as hope

And my address will get lost

So, my Love, will you say

That you (once) loved me!?

So, I said: Your love is my faith

My forgiveness and my disobedience  

I met you with hope

Remaining in my arms  

Like spring without a bird.

On the ruins of a garden,

The winds of sadness squeeze me

And laugh in my chest.

I Love You .. like an oasis  

On which all my sorrows have calmed down

I Love You, like an aura that tells

My songs to people’s silence

I Love You ..  like ecstasy that runs

And fires my volcano.  

I Love You .. you, Hope

That like morning light meets me.

Love has killed many lovers,  

And your love has given life to me.

And if I were to choose a home,

I would say; my home is your Love.

And if I were to forget you,

My heart would forget me.

If I lost my way,

I would live in your eyes.

(i wanted to translate only an excerpt but which part do i even chooooooose)

[I would live in your eyes]-by Farouq Jwaydeh//translated from Arabic

[melaninenthusiast]

Confused and drenched,

My hands torn attempting to embrace mountains, valleys, plains.

And the sea that I loved drowned me over and over.

This lover’s body has become a corpse

Floating on the water Confused and drenched

My corpse too,

Stretching out its arms,

Dying,

To embrace the sea that drowns it.

Embrace-by Najwan Darwish//translated from Arabic

[melaninenthusiast]

There is a woman in your life, my son Her eyes are so beautiful Glory to God Her mouth and her laughter Are full of roses and melodies

[excerpt from The fortune teller]-by Nizar Qabbani//translated from Arabic

[melaninenthusiast]

I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady should another give you a cloud I give you rain Should he give you a lantern, I will give you the moon Should he give you a branch I will give you the trees And if another gives you a ship I shall give you the journey.

[Love compared]-by Nizar Qabbani//translated from Arabic

[melaninenthusiast]

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.

[Excerpt from the gift by Hafez]-Translated from Persian