#kusum

[sam1772]

Kusum: I don't have tinder. I like to meet girls the old-fashioned way.

*chants*

BLOODY MARY

BLOODY MARY

BLOODY MARY

[rosetta-stoned-bitch]

Mutuals as smzs characters

Okay here we go!

@sam1772 is Aman (don't even @ I won't take criticism for this y'all know I'm right)

@holding-infinity-and-a-book is Devika in the most badass way possible!

@secrets-ill-take-to-my-grave is Sunaina

@folkwh0res is Kusum (you both are ✨)

@el-profe-is-ace is Keshav (idk man you just seem like a keshav in the adorablest way possible)

@crowleyisactuallyanasexualsname is Kartik (no questions here. Softie.)

@didyouputyournameinthegobi is Chaman

[yfukuoka]

【3137目】2021-08-19 神戸の異人街と邦人街の隙間にひっそりたたずむ、静かなインドの生活。 本場家庭料理クスム Kusum＠神戸・北野 ‪____________________________________ 北インドの家庭料理を味わえる隠れ家的名店。むかしはマンションの一室で営業されていたという伝説的な空間へ。日本語が通じない感が半端ない。英語で伝えても無言で厨房へ消えていく……インドあるあるです。笑 ＊Samosa けっして揚げたてではないサモサ。ところがどっこい、めっちゃおいしい。無言で置かれた蜂蜜容器のグリーンチャトニとタマリンドソースを付けて、、、う、うまい。 . “Paratha Sabji” ＊Curry ＊Paratha パロタやポロタなどと呼ばれる南インドで有名なデニッシュパンは、インド北部や東部でもパラタと名を変えて食べられます。 しっとりパラタ。これは作りたてではなさそう。もしかしたら、地下の食材屋のパラタかもしれない。家庭料理ですし。 . 特質すべきは、パラタよりカレーです。名もなきtoday’s curryは、家庭料理と言うにはちょっと贅沢なクリーミーなグレイビー。 カリフラワーやインゲンなど、インドらしい野菜がチョイスされていました。パニールも入っていたかな。地味深い味わいは、食べれば食べまるほど、どこか懐かしさを感じます。 じわじわ美味しい。 じわじわ美味しい料理こそ、家庭料理のなせる技。 . “Lunch(A)” ＊Curry ＊Curry ＊Dal ＊Chapati ＊Rice カレー２種と豆カレーのセット。大根の入ったカレーの方はどんな味か忘れてしまいましたが、ダルは好みだったと記憶しています。 チャイは意外に甘くない。 . それにしても、この静寂はなんだろう。 BGMも無く、ただただ無言でカレーを運ばれる場所。見えないけれど、ここにはインドの風が吹いているようです。 北インドには行ったことがありませんが、デリーの雑踏から離れれば、きっと静かで穏やかなインドのもう一つの顔が見られるのでしょう。 . 修学旅行ぶりの神戸でしたが、大人になってからの方が学びは多いようです。欧米列強が建てた自慢げな街並みの中に、インドやパキスタンのレストラン・食材屋が点在している特異な街、北野。神戸が開港した頃の想像が膨らみます。 ‪____________________________________ 🇮🇳 #India #indianfood‪ ‬#asianfood #asia #kobe #kusum #foodpic #foodstagram #tasty #homestyle #curry #spice #インド #神戸 #クスム #カレー #カレー部 #カレー好きな人と繋がりたい #フクドローン #ふくすたぐらむ (クスム本場家庭料理) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTZyV-qFztd/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dil-e-zaar]

kusum living the best life.

(yes i wanted to connect bts and my desi gays in some sort of way, we have desires)

[hackedbyawriter]

TAG YOUR MUTUALS AS SMZS CHARACTERS!!

lmao I've had this one here for ages. I forgot most of everyone I'm close to on here’s urls. So I'm going to tag the ones I remember. 

@thisissab you are Rajini, because you are absolutely a force of nature, powerful, beautiful, talented and will take no shit from no one. I love talking to you so much.

@legendarilymessedup and @your-villainous-neighbour y’all are kartik, bc ur fun af and hilarious and amazing. and I love you both. I would also like to be a Leo and say that Kartik is the most me character I’ve seen/read (other than Apollo from the Trials of Apollo) but i’m willing to share him with you guys (its a testament of my love).

@dhyanshiva to me you are a Keshav. You are smart, informative, sweet and wonderful. Sometimes I'm just awed by your brilliance and I suspect you have your own iPad hiding in your brain somewhere. (Also you are Aman because YOUR EYES HOLY FUCK)

@butterflywithwritersblock you are Kusum because you are so fucking sweet and beautiful. but also I know your not afraid to cut a bitch if it comes down to it. hence why kusum is perfect.

@yass-rani idk why but I see you as an Aman. like you seem small and unassuming but really I know you can fuck shit up when you want to (you nearly fucking destroyed me with THE SONNET FIC FUCK YOU)

[kartik-tripathi]

What do you think of Sunaina ji’s decision to give the jewels (streedhan) back to Kusum? I’m kinda unhappy about that incident. 😔

Hey anon! It’s been a few days since you asked me this, sorry I took a while to reply, I was thinking of how to word my answer. 

So, firstly, personally I loved that she gave away the streedhan. I can see why you’re unhappy though. I do get it. She stole it, and then she got the boys almost arrested, but like. To me, the streedhan thing wasn’t so much about kusum as it was about what it represented to Sunaina. 

Like, we see her care so much about that and the Kangan from the start. From the “i only have one son, and one kangan”. She gives that kangan away to her as a promise to her that she’ll marry Aman. That is where it’s intrinsically linked for the first time. 

Later on, we see her reference it again and again. When she thinks Aman is entangled with a Delhi girl, she goes “damn it looks like I’ve lost my kangan”. She places more value in that kangan than in her son’s love life. She’s more worried about not getting the kangan back then about who her son loves. 

In a way I see it as her hopes and dreams of Aman marrying Kusum (a girl) is represented in that kangan and the streedhan. Even Kusum places more value on that then her and Aman’s love. She is like, “if i run away, how will i get the streedhan”. The streedhan here is given value to it, by both Sunaina and kusum. 

so when i watched sunaina give away the streedhan to kusum for the first time, i felt so happy! Because, she looked at kartik before she did it. She looked at the boy that her son loves, the one that he was about to marry in front of everyone and finally decided to put Aman and HIS LOVE above anything else. 

from the start the streedhan had represented this idea/dream that she was holding on to, that she’d get aman married to a girl, that she’d get a bahu to give the streedhan to, that it will stay “within the family” etc. but at that moment, when she gave it away, i felt like she was finally accepting that that dream would never happen. She finally accepted, Aman and his love. She finally accepted kartik. Looking at kartik, she sees him and Aman being happy and she realizes that the streedhan she cared about so much was nothing compared to how much her son’s happiness means to her. 

in a way it’s also symbolically saying that to her, Kartik means so much more than the very thing that she was so worried about/valued from the start. She never cared about the marriage much apart from the streedhan, until that part when she realized that it’s insignificant when related to kartik. 

yes, she could have held on to it and gave it to kartik. But i think it made more sense to show her letting it go. To symbolically say that she’s letting go of her previous dreams/ideals. 

Personally, i feel like if she had held on to it, it wouldn’t actually be a full acceptance of kartik and aman. By letting it go, the thing she values more than her own son’s love, she’s finally able to fully start appreciating what she has. Her son and his happiness that is Kartik SIngh. 

[relativelyjilly]

Are we collectively as a fandom going to ignore the fact that Kusum's boyfriend probably did an actual murder what the hell was that

[areyaar2]

One of the extremely rare cases of positive female bonding on Indian TV. 

Kusum-Preeti are adorable together ❤️