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Lorraine | 21 | boston | actor | poet| literally just trying her best millennial james baldwin

[limsjaebeom]

Normani Kordei for The Fader and clicked by Luke Gilford

[stillhand]

the moon & venus

[fashionkilladaya]

Can you believe the Cheetah Girls invented feminism? 😂

[madamslayyy]

That song was (and still is) my mfn JAM

[stcrkly-deactivated20210125]

Avengers as Greek Gods

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[lukeshm]

5 Seconds of Summer Radio Tour

[tenu-ki]

I feel terrible whenever I hear my parents talking to each other about our household’s income. We only own a South Asian store, where we sell like spices, henna, frozen Desi foods, hair products, skin products, daal, etc (typical Desi store stuff). That’s our only source of income. It used to be okay-ish back in elementary and middle school, but ever since these American stores started to sell some of these things (at prices higher than their worth), less people have been shopping at our store, hence our income declining.

Please, I’m begging y'all, support your local South Asian stores, and shop there if you need any of those “South Asian” items (if there is a South Asian store near you). At least 60% of the owners are likely going through the same as my parents. Also, I can almost guarantee you’ll save money shopping at the local Desi stores as opposed to stores like Safeway, Vons, Krogers, etc.

[ap-sa-ra]

for those that may be unfamiliar, here are some neat products you can usually find super cheap at SA stores:

- coconut oil in massive bottles. get that stuff in bulk, it’s exactly the same as the overpriced shit from whole foods or w/e

- cool unique drinks like mango and lychee juice and coconut water with jelly. also limca and thums up, which are soooooo good. trust me.

- super cheap pretty jewelry. maybe not real gold and silver, but you’ll find the same types of bangles and chains that UO constantly rips off for muuuuch cheaper

- sometimes super cheap designer knockoff bags, if that’s your thing lol

- henna! I know there’s a lot of debate over whether this product can be used by non-brown people, but if for whatever reason you’re going to use it (please avoid traditional designs if ur not from a culture that uses it), do yourself a favor and buy yourself tubes of the paste from south asian markets. they’re usually really precise and easy to use, and unless you have an allergy to the plant, better for your skin than those sketchy artificial stick-on stencil messes they sell at hobby lobby or w/e

- henna hair dye too! and other nice hair products like neem oil

- maybe this is just our old local store, but ive seen many pirated (and non-pirated) copies of Bollywood movies on their shelves

- incense!! they usually have nice varieties and also cute holders and candles too

- obviously, there is also lots of great food and produce typically available. Asian desserts and snacks are really unique and fun to try, so check those out too

support local businesses owned by POC and immigrants!!

[lord-kitschener]

Also, the people running these little shops are usually much more knowledgeable and interested in their products, which is especially useful if you’re not very sure what it is you’re needing (like which spice for a food, or what to do with an unfamiliar fruit or vegetable) or how to use it properly (things like henna or cookware, for example). And the posters above are right, it’s almost always either the same quality stuff or even better, and for much cheaper. You can do a big favor for your own wallet and for the wallet of a local family and their business.

[elidyce]

I buy many of my spices and ALL of my curry powders from one very specific stall at the local weekend markets, run by a nice South Asian family. They’re always willing to discuss what you want to cook, they know everything that’s in every single mix, and they are very understanding about things like ‘I am allergic to chilli please do you have anything that does not have chilli in it’. (They do. They have not one but FOUR mixes that have curry leaf or galangal in them to give heat, not chilli. I CAN EAT CURRY AGAIN.)

[thejusticethatissocial]

I work at a large retail store that sells most of this stuff and it’s not only priced far higher than it should be, the quality isn’t even that great. Everybody wins when you shop local.

[waitinforthebus-deactivated2020]

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this is the sword of good fortune, may it aid you in your travels. 

[jvlianbashir]

fuckign… did i tell you guys i went to an advertising conference a few weeks ago for extra credit in one of my classes and one of the guest speakers was the team that runs the wendy’s twitter

[jvlianbashir]

when these people talk very deliberately about how they work to make people think of the wendy’s brand as both a) a person and b) their friend

[jvlianbashir]

when they put one of those pieces of “anime waifu” wendy’s fan art up on the screen and some degenerate in the audience wolf-whistles

[ohcoolaslug]

People be tryin to find loopholes to give a shit about these corporate run twitter accounts as if its one sad lonely underpaid intern helplessly posting against their will and bettet judgement to appeal to the unpredictable masses. It’s literally Teams of people who went to school to purposefully understand how to manipulate masses of people. They deserve our hostility in abundance

[heythatsmyleg]

[diddi-p]

this gets funnier with each passing year

[catchymemes]

Mildly Interesting Dump #5

I have a hereditary gap in my eyebrow

These three ceiling fans run off of one motor

The picture of the Japanese movie advertisement is printed on two sides of the newspaper, so the full picture could be seen under light 

The perfect symmetry of this plant 

Shadow and slope makes it look like he’s floating

This tiny ceiling tile at my house

My broken antenna on my car looks like a half sunken boat.

The shower in my hotel has a little cutout so you can turn it on before getting in.

I drew poppy outlines for my class to cut out - they look like they overlap but don’t.

The golf balls at the mini golf on this pier are biodegradable and fall into the sea at the 18th hole 

Our refrigerator has revolving levels so you can reach everything easily

This window that makes my back yard look like it’s in 4 different seasons 

This one dude in the crowd in a neon shirt. 

The way this picture of a frozen puddle in my backyard looks like a landscape from the perspective of a plane.

Modern tomato vs one grown from 150yo seeds 

My neighbors are moving their entire house back 200ft.

This door in my hotel bathroom can close off either of 2 doorways.

Our dog’s paw looks like a mini-version of him 

This dead straight line of bubbles in my beer 

This “where are you from” map at The Aurora Museum in Reykjavík Iceland 

You can see the number eight between the diamonds on this 8 card.

I made a piano shelf

This purely golden bee landed on my car today 

[ringwaldhaze]

This was so satisfying 

[theweirdwideweb]

[hydro-homies]

The long game

[bathtimeboy]

What do you guys think of this chart I found. Considering I am a gemini

[inkskinned]

i think the moon would like you

[mjalti]

why? did she say something to you? tell me word for word

[funnypicsdept]

[sistertaxon]

colour-code your infants so strangers know what their genitals look like

[fozby]

this is THE WORST idea anyone has ever had on this site. ever.

[sistertaxon]

yeah you’re right……haha……..imagine some sort of dystopia where newborns were dressed in certain colours according to their genitals……….jeez……..how fucked up would that be……..how could I have ever come up with something so silly