#sid pakam

[nyahbobina]

grand army

[xthefandomequestrianx]

My thoughts on each of the Grand Army characters

Because I binged the show in a day so here’s my garbage thoughts.

Dom: She’s literally the best character and the least problematic in the entire show. 10/10, I’d die for her. She also reminds me of my friend and I love that.

Sid: I know he hung out with the swimmy boys and contributed to some of their dumbfuckery but overall he was a good dude. He spent the whole season just trying to work out who he was inside and we respect him for that. The “Remind me not to get in a cab with you guys,” line made me scream on the inside it was so good.

Joey: My precious child who deserves so much better. Watching her progress from Free the Titties to only wearing sweats and not dancing anymore was heart crushing. But when she had her moments of finding herself again I was internally cheering so loud for her.

Leila: We all know someone like Leila who we’d like to punch in the face with a lamp. The only thing she had was the audacity. Every time I felt a shred of sympathy for her, she’d instantly kill it in one sentence. Also, I may have been watching too much Criminal Minds, but that journal does not look good, fam. The bomb threat was just the beginning and I have a feeling that in season 2 she’s gonna escalate.

George: In the very beginning it was clear that he had his flaws, but he was so cute and looked like a nice friend so I held onto hope that he’d turn out alright. He did not and now he can promptly go die. I’m still slightly attracted to him though and I hate it.

Luke: Never liked him. He can die.

Jayson: He was really doing his best to help his friend. It doesn’t work out for him very well, but he’s certainly trying. I hope his concert protest goes well.

John: He is perfection. Mwah. Him and Dom are the cutest couple there and I love them together. He was a little misguided with the $300, but boy only wanted to help his crush out.

Anna: ohhhhhhhh she messed UP. It was so gratifying but painful to watch her realize this towards the end. She should’ve at least talked to Joey, but her misplaced loyalty to her brother turned her into the WORST friend. I’m really curious to see what happens with her later.

Tim: ugggggggghhhhhhhhh another anemic white boy trash fire baby. Like I need another one. He’s made mistakes and arguably is a terrible person, but he’s finally coming around. It looks like he’s gotten himself a lil drug problem now though so that should be fun. I don’t like him but also I like him a lot and when he is being cute or making good choices he’s one of my favs.

If Netflix cancels this one, I WILL kill somebody.

[grxndxrmy]

the fact that people still simp for tim delaney even after what happened to joey proves that pretty privilege is very much in fact real and it says a lot about how people would react to situations like these in real life. had tim’s actor/character been conventionally unattractive, everyone and i mean everyone would be hating him for the garbage he truly is. for the people who still ship him with joey or think he’s hot or cute or whatever, i can only come to the conclusion that you’re okay with rapist enablers (and might even be one yourself) so long as they fit your standards of the conventionally attractive white male. next season the only person, let alone thing i see tim being with is an orange jumpsuit. and some of yall really need to get mental help if you watched grand army in its entirety of season one and still thought tim was cute or that he still deserves to be with joey.

[greyblaq]

This was true for too many characters on Grand Army

[crazyrichxplainr]

Amir Bageria in Grand Army

[larkace]

MUTUALLLLSSSS

fuck. help.

i just finished Grand Army on Netflix and LO AND FUCKIN BEHOLD. its cancelled after one brilliant season. this show made me cry and laugh and its genuinely real? like the characters are realistic and the acting is SO GOOD

so yeah. recommend! because if it doesn't get magically renewed i will cry a lot. (you'll probably cry too but its good sad tears y'know? like when you cry watching a show its because you can connect to it)

please watch this!

[jar3]

Just finished Grand Army and it wasn’t something I was super into but stuck with it and that last episode, woah. Sid and Victor, I’m here for it. Joey dancing to freedom, the acting, her face, her emotions - fuck yes. And Jay at the end, the silence from the crowd, the emotions playing across his face. Wow.

[naazaif327]

I watched Grand Army this weekend and there's this subplot about a gay indian teenager named Sid, and he talks in one scene about visiting India, meeting all the aunties and uncles and seeing his culture and his roots, but the whole time he was there, he couldn't stop thinking about the fact that until very very recently, gay sex was illegal in India. Its something that I’ve directly experienced but never talked about IRL, nor have I ever seen a depiction of it onscreen before.

I’ve been to Pakistan to visit family multiple times and have gone through that exact thing, where I'm surrounded by these pieces of my culture and my heritage, but there's an expiry date hanging over my head for after I've come out and potentially have a boyfriend/husband, where trips to Pakistan become too dangerous since its still illegal to be gay there.

Everytime we go to Pakstan, I’ll be sitting with my grandparents in Karachi, listening to their stories and eating their food, wearing Pakistani clothes and trying speak Urdu; but the whole time there’s a part of my mind thinking about how one day I won’t be able to come back here, one day there will be big parts of my family who will not want me in their lives, and even if they did, it wouldn’t be safe for me to bring a partner there to meet them anyways. 

Any culture I want to hold onto or pass down will have to be whatever I have here in Canada. My grandmother's recipes, my kurtas and shalwar kameez (at least the ones that still fit me lol), the lullabys my mom used to sing to me in urdu, the Islamic values and traditions that will always be ingrained in me; these are things I can keep, that can’t be taken away. There was a time when I was a bit ashamed of those parts of me, but I'm proud of them now, and I want to keep them in my life.