شي خيالي

30 something She/Her

[sobcat]

when things have to change...

[wallowtoday]

You wound me.

[wallowtoday]

It’s so embarrassing being in love with someone that doesn’t love you back in your 30s. Especially when you’re just “dating”.

[achillesinhighheels]

[depsidase]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[aidashakur]

The most romantic thing you can do when you’re in love with someone is giving them room to just exist, they do not belong to you.

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[smsomah]

looking at bedouin life from decades ago, or really any tribal / semi-nomadic communities, and noticing the same thing over and over:

the women are always working. carrying, building, tending, raising, sustaining everything.

[smsomah]

On The Move: Women of the Desert | حياة الترحال من منظور جديد: نساء الصحراء

i remember reading about it in bedouins of qatar; women still doing the hardest labor while pregnant, while fasting

there's this one scene where the camp is being moved: the men sit down, exhausted, and the women just keep going. building the tents and holding everything together

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[smsomah]

The shibgat, only worn by bedouin women of central Oman, was not worn round the neck, but hung from a loop of leather which was worn around the ears. The diamond-shaped motifs frequently represent figures from Hindu mythology, suggesting the piece was likely crafted by Indian goldsmiths who had settled in Oman.

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

[smsomah]

Silver nose ring worn with two D-shaped halka/dufuf earrings, and through the mid ear cartilage a ma'gel earring (1). Up to eight of these light halka earrings were worn by some Dhofari women.

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

[weepingwidar]

Tianshu Zhang (Chinese, 1992) - Just Before the Light Touched (2025)

[zegalba]

Oman Cat Stamp Collection (1973)

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[themakeupbrush]

Aleen Sabbagh