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apples-of-apples

I need to KILL Harold from “The Joy Luck Club”

Coffee was really bad

#ew

mtxyqmpsfqklt

薔薇の壮烈 Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

weirdass-hazard

I love reading how upper class Brahmins adapted the culture of so called dalit communities during the middle ages. I love how they bramhinized the culture of the people whom they discarded from their society to save their religion during the Islamic Invasion. The lower class communities created their own gods to fulfill their needs as they were not allowed to worship the gods of the upper class. They created god like Manasa(the godess of snakes), Chandi(a localised version of Durga), Dharma ,Annoda or Annapurna. Even the Radha whom the desiblr adores and worships was primarily a local goddess a local myth, she was not a part of the veda purana tradition of upper class Hindus. The only reason they decided to adopt these local, small deities is because the bramhins felt threatened by the rise of Islam in India . Therefore they decided to include these gods in their upper class stories by creating new tales so they could appeal to the common mass.

weirdass-hazard

Yes it's true...you can read few articles based on this. These articles touch upon this topics , but unfortunately most of the books that talks about this are in Bengali. As this phenomenon was mostly prominent in Bengal ,we have Bengali literature such as Mangalkavya , Srikrisha kirtan etc which were written to appeal to lower caste, by telling them that their gods which were created by them are very much part of the bramhanic religion. A lot of these are still worshipped in Bengal .

Ps: if anyone here reads Bengali , I would love to suggest them few books if they want. Keeping religion aside, this is a very interesting read , it shows how religion evolves with time and how no religion is absolutely pure in nature. It also gives us an idea about that contemporary period in Bengal .

The tradition in Bengal was to not bring out weapons to intimidate others, for none will believe that Bhagawan Ramachandra ever did so.

How local deities found their place in the pantheon

scribblesbyavi

In a dictatorship you will see this,

Karnataka's Biggest Sex Assault Exposed!

Prajwal Revanna, a sitting MP from BJP's alliance partner JDS from Karnataka's Haassana allegedly raped & sexually harassed Hundreds of women for years, and shot 2,970 videos of his acts.

After the videos got leaked he ran away to Germany right after the Elections from Bengaluru. His father who is an MLA, has also been named as another accused in a complaint filed by the victims.

No media coverage and no action taken by the central govt.

anqerr

For those who want sources:

Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna Suspended By JDS Amid Massive 'Sexual Abuse' Scandal That Rocked Karnataka

Prajwal Revanna: Karnataka MP's 'sex abuse' tapes spark outrage

2,976 sex videos, potential 'brahmastra': BJP leader warned party about JD(S) MP

Barely any news coverage on this in India from what I've seen as well. Some democracy we live in.

girlnumbersix

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

lizbethborden

my dad is reading mark fisher’s capitalist realism and we were talking about how “believing” capitalism is bad is considered Enough to continue participating in capitalism without real scruples otherwise, that belief/thought are considered a replacement for action… which made me think about the posts i made last night about how people on here use “gay” or “queer” as descriptions of emotional states, as descriptions of feeling like an outsider, rather than having any actual, you know, homosexual qualities… and of course the whole “”ace inclus” phenomenon… and it made me think about how really people use this sort of Identification With an oppressed group as a replacement for true class consciousness and political action. a person who considers themselves HECKA QUEER!! because they have 5 microidentities but is functionally cishet is not being honest w themselves about the position they occupy and the work they need to do around it, because it’s easier and more comfortable to imagine that your internal feelings suffice as replacement not just for political action (i.e. working to dismantle structural inequalities) but also for simple lived reality (i.e. literally not being a homosexual).

allthingswhumpyandangsty

Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.

As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.

littlemissihaveaquestion

Reminder that spring will always come back, music will never stop being created, and there are still so many books left to read! You’re alive! You’re alive! You’re alive!

monchursouls

🌾🌾🌾

Harvesting my wheat

rat-in-the-grain

Hehehehehe

monchursouls

Can I fucking help you?

sasuke-offical

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

monchursouls

What

rat-in-the-grain

What

theunfortunate-author

my daily affirmation as an author

savemosabfamily

I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and ignores us.

I am writing these words with tears streaming down my face. I can no longer bear this pain. My wife is suffering from a severe deficiency in vitamins, especially vitamin D, and she urgently needs surgery to save her life. Her body is growing weaker day by day, malnutrition is stealing her strength, and I stand helpless watching her suffer.

All I wish for is to see her alive and healthy. Please help us provide healthy food, her medications, and fund the surgery that could save her life.

Even if you cannot donate, please share this post. Every support, every word, could be the difference between her life and death.

Vetted by #520

existentialplasticextra

Please donate now and help Musab and his family!

His wife Ayaa is extremely sick and needs immediate surgery and medical treatments!!

Please donate now. Whether it's 50, 25, 10, 5, or just 1 dollar, it can help.

This could be the difference between life and death for Ayaa!

If you have the money to buy a coffee, you can donate.

Donate what you can.

Ayaa needs treatment urgently, and the longer the wait, the worse her condition gets!

If you are genuinely unable to donate, share their posts with someone who can donate and help them.

Make a post to raise awareness about their situation and share their story so more people can see and help!

Please do what you can and help now!!

Your donation could be the difference between her next breath and her last breath.

mosabahmad1

beg you with all my heart

Please don’t ignore us.

Your donation and sharing this post now could save a life—please, don’t let this plea fade away

tvarchive

COFFEE PRINCE 커피프린스 1호점 (2007) 1.07: Seventh Cup

woman-respecter

many such cases of this happening whenever someone makes the most basic feminist observation

hanakimi2000vs2025

Hanakimi vs homophobia

In case it's not blindingly obvious, all pics here are from HanaKimi by Hisaya Nakajo and not by me. In my dreams.

The 2000s were a different time (kind of). On Friends, queerness was played for laughs, and homophobia always seemed to win out.

Hanakimi was different. In Hanakimi, homophobia was played for laughs, and queer dignity always seemed to win out.

I watched Umeda roll his eyes at all the homophobes, completely nonplussed. I saw him drily nudge them into line after homophobic outbursts. I saw him razz them with their own homophobia to make a gentle point, or perhaps just for his own mild amusement.

He was a three-dimensional character. I saw him... have an actual personality of his own. His dry sense of humour, his mildly jaded manner, his love-avoidant dating style, his big brother/mentor role with the students, flashbacks to his high school days, his family relationships.

I saw camp cliches of westernised gay men on 2000s Queer Eye or Will & Grace: frivolous, unthreatening, comical, ditzy. "It's okay if we're gay," they seemed to say, "because we're only here to make your girlfriend look fabulous. And gay sex is funny." Perhaps I am wrong, totally wrong, but they sometimes came across to me as... self-deprecating.

I mean, hey, nothing wrong with gay guys having a few laughs. Nothing wrong with being camp or lighthearted. I'm just saying, I needed some broader representation beyond that.

Umeda was dignified and droll. He took himself seriously. He took space - then let go of it, cos he was more interested in getting on with other things.

Hell, he even seemed to satirise the campness that might have been expected of him. (I mean, I don't know. What would I know about stereotypes of gay men in 2000s Japan?)

There were a couple of other extracts I wanted to put in here, but I don't have them on me.

Also, I very much want to respect copyright. I figure this is well within fair use rules, but even so, if the publisher/copyright holder wants me to take this down, please just say the word! Just forgive me if I'm not on here very often.

I do also want to talk about Hanakimi, binders and Ashiya's cross-dressing being the best and closest thing I had to transmasc representation in the 2000s. I realise that Ashiya's character was very much a cis-het girl, and not at all a trans man. Transmasc representation was sparse in the 2000s, okay? Another time.