#The Peepulation

[wisteriasymphony]

I sure hope that you realize you're the one being psychologically abused in this relationship. btw I loved Imagine(1971)

Being a writer is like being in a sadomasochistic relationship with oneself, just with Lovecraftian mind torture instead of spanking.

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

I look at beauty in our world and think: in a world where Cliopher Mdang runs the mundial government, I could enjoy this beauty the way I want to.

And I'm aware I am romanticising things a bit, but also, the universal stipend was... It chokes me up whenever I think of it: it's sheer impossibility in this world. It makes me brimful... It makes me grieve the way no fantasy book has.

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

I decided on not reading 'The Pale King' and then Wallace comes at me with such lines and the universe expects my resilience! I bemoan this to my mother and she calmly forwards me critical praise for the book! I am surrounded by ill-intent, is all.

— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

Someone write a Liang Bu Yi (No Doubt in Us) appreciation post, I'm begging you.

[feyd-meowtha]

Just realised I missed the one year anniversary of me posting my first MOTA fic on ao3!! So happy Birthday Extinct Animals and happy birthday to me (and all the lovely peepul I have met in this fandom 💖)

It was Rosie who took Gale's severed arm away in the end, vanishing it into the kitchen area before it returned as a collection of scrawny cuts that looked sort of like chicken and sort of like pieces of a human arm. Once Gale was safely installed in his new room, a store room that Kenny had cleared out while they were otherwise engaged, Bucky emerged to claim his share. He skewered it on a fork and roasted it over the fire, watching it curl up pink and juicy, and when he put a piece in his mouth it was the best thing he had tasted in years.  Then he raised a toast to Buck before walking outside and sticking his fingers down his throat until he threw it up onto the sand.

[wisteriasymphony]

JOHN LENNON’S TWIN 😝

imagine aul the peepul

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

you mentioned harivansha and from what i know of scholarly stuffs it's much older than bhagavata purana so why do you think it isn't prominently considered for krishna's life? and what translations of harivansha do you use for your studies? i'm sorry if this seems too eager lololol

I'm answering this ask a year late, so I suppose that offsets your zeal (in a really horrible way)? This has been in my drafts, I just forgot about it entirely, thank you for coming to my inbox to remind me again. <3

Yes, Harivamsha was written much prior to Srimad Bhagavata Purana, and is considered some sort of appendix to the Mahabharata, which again is of greater antiquity. We can only speculate as to its relative lack of popularity, and I would like to mull over my own thoughts on this a bit more. I'll make a separate post, possibly. Let me just give a small introduction on the Harivamsha instead.

A Guide to Harivamsha

REFERENCES I USE IN MY STUDIES: (in no particular order)

1. Harivamsha Critical Edition (as edited by BORI, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), EN-translated by Bibek Debroy.

Above-average translation quality. Compared to the others, the only benefit of this reference is that it lets one know what sections BORI cleaved—regarding which one must keep in mind that, as Debroy himself noted and as I observed in the course of reading as well, the editing of Harivamsha Critical Edition was in no way as well and expertly done as that of the Mahabharata Critical Edition (BORI).

2. Harivamsha Purana, Gita Press

The only complete and accessible translation (Hindi) of HV that there is. Great translation quality. You usually don't have to second-guess each line (like I have to, with No. 1).

3. Chitrashala Press edition of Harivamsa, Online EN translation by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao, A. Purushothaman & A. Harindranath. https://www.dvaipayana.net/harivamsa/harivamsa-cs-index.html

Very helpful, as you get the Sanskrit verses alongside the translated English ones, for comparison/tallying purposes.

4. Harivamsha Purana, EN-translated by M. N. Dutt (https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/harivamsha-purana-dutt)

Most accessible translation; no big differences from No. 3 in interpretations. (I will take this opportunity to recommend Wisdomlib to practically everyone in this fandom.)

5. Krishna’s Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyāsa’s Mahābhārata. EN translation by Simon P. Brodbeck.

Good translation, good language, immensely well-organised. Has family trees in a genealogical appendix.

GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF HARIVAMSHA'S STRUCTURE:

The text is divided into 3 parvas, as follows -

Harivamsha Parva - This contains a lot of background information through the genealogies and stories interspersed in all the lineage talk. We get some important backstory for MBh, and we get some stories which you may find in most other Puranas. (Interestingly, this contains the Syamantaka incident. It was a really big deal, is all.)

Vishnu Parva - The main section of Krishna's non-MBh life-story, starting from his birth, the Mathura-era exploits (Kamsavadh, Jarāsandha's attacks), Rukmini-harana (my beloved), the Pārijāta story, and dealing with Pradyumna (his firstborn) and Aniruddha's (Pradyumna's son) lives as well.

Bhavishya Parva - The first chapters of this section are indeed about "bhavishya" (things that happen or "will happen" post-Swargārohana, prophecies about Kali Yuga, etc). Then there's a set of chapters that go into some of Vishnu's avatars (Varāha, Narasimha, Vāmana, in particular). These two sets of chapters are translated in almost all versions. Then comes the dicey part, the set of chapters translated only in Gita Press Harivamsha, and ironically, the most important part of Bhavishya Parva in my opinion (because it has major portions of Krishna's life-story. This section contains Paundraka's (and Ekalavya's) siege on Dwāraka, the killing of Hamsa-Dimbaka (Jarāsandha's closest allies that Krishna speaks of to Yudhisthira in MBh's Sabhā parva) etc. Invaluable for better understanding of Yādava politics, and kind of ties up some loose ends from MBh.

Lovers and collectors of obscure Krishna-katha (or even just Purana-katha in general), Harivamsha is the place for you! <3

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

Throwing the Hindu fandom some bones of my choice before I come back and go gently rabid about them:

Mohini/Lakshmi

Rukmini/Satyabhama

Kalingasena/Somaprabha (go if you haven't read of them from Kathasaritsagar, you'll not have to bemoan not having ancient Indian wlw romances anymore)

Bhagiratha's unnamed (?) mothers from Krittivasi Ramayana

And others I can't recall right now (I've an exam, sorry)!

lets make this the year of yuri

[codylambertdanafoster]

Sql code for selecting names

or select where you=happy

Or happy in .gore .pomme .peepul

not and haiku, travel

[eclipsecrowned]

From now on I am no longer holding back from posting about the muse on my brain. No more 🥺 pwease intewact w my muses fwom not popuwar fandoms im sowwy its not what peepull wam so no pwessure. Now I’m just coming in hot with ‘ship these bitches.’ It’s working. Ego in spaceship mode. Cheat unlocked. I’m having the time of my life.

[scarletmilkfrancis]

guuod night yuo crazy peepul

ich hav class tmrw D:

[raat-jaaga-paakhi]

Ali Trotta, Six of Swords Becomes The Emperor

good poetry makes me want to kill myself by staying alive

[figmoomoo-da-bizzy]

Peepul seem to dink imma chaild

Jus' howl old do ya dink eye am⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

[hieronymousposhe]

how does it feel being the funniest man alive

Didnt now dat i was. Dont talk to peepul muc exept spooke and sinesrto and thay dont think im funy. Then agen thay dont hav any sensog hyumor so. Mostle im just lonle but uf yu ar righrt i feel beter todey. Ill think about dat alot. I am good at alot of things.

[nastyacitrus]

"But it is hard to tear a village from its moorings. They stayed on as long as any summer food was left to them, and they tried to gather nuts in the Jungle, but shadows with glaring eyes watched them, and rolled before them even at mid-day; and when they ran back afraid to their walls, on the tree-trunks they had passed not five minutes before the bark would be stripped and chiselled with the stroke of some great taloned paw. The more they kept to their village, the bolder grew the wild things that gambolled and bellowed on the grazing-grounds by the Waingunga. They had no time to patch and plaster the rear walls of the empty byres that backed on to the Jungle; the wild pig trampled them down, and the knotty-rooted vines hurried after and threw their elbows over the new-won ground, and the coarse grass bristled behind the vines like the lances of a goblin army following a retreat. The unmarried men ran away first, and carried the news far and near that the village was doomed. Who could fight, they said, against the Jungle, or the Gods of the Jungle, when the very village cobra had left his hole in the platform under the peepul-tree? So their little commerce with the outside world shrunk as the trodden paths across the open grew fewer and fainter. At last the nightly trumpetings of Hathi and his three sons ceased to trouble them; for they had no more to be robbed of. The crop on the ground and the seed in the ground had been taken. The outlying fields were already losing their shape, and it was time to throw themselves on the charity of the English at Khanhiwara. Native fashion, they delayed their departure from one day to another till the first Rains caught them and the unmended roofs let in a flood, and the grazing-ground stood ankle deep, and all life came on with a rush after the heat of the summer. Then they waded out--men, women, and children--through the blinding hot rain of the morning, but turned naturally for one farewell look at their homes. They heard, as the last burdened family filed through the gate, a crash of falling beams and thatch behind the walls. They saw a shiny, snaky black trunk lifted for an instant, scattering sodden thatch. It disappeared, and there was another crash, followed by a squeal. Hathi had been plucking off the roofs of the huts as you pluck water-lilies, and a rebounding beam had pricked him. He needed only this to unchain his full strength, for of all things in the Jungle the wild elephant enraged is the most wantonly destructive. He kicked backward at a mud wall that crumbled at the stroke, and, crumbling, melted to yellow mud under the torrent of rain. Then he wheeled and squealed, and tore through the narrow streets, leaning against the huts right and left, shivering the crazy doors, and crumpling up the caves; while his three sons raged behind as they had raged at the Sack of the Fields of Bhurtpore. "The Jungle will swallow these shells," said a quiet voice in the wreckage. "It is the outer wall that must lie down," and Mowgli, with the rain sluicing over his bare shoulders and arms, leaped back from a wall that was settling like a tired buffalo. "All in good time," panted Hathi. "Oh, but my tusks were red at Bhurtpore; To the outer wall, children! With the head! Together! Now!" The four pushed side by side; the outer wall bulged, split, and fell, and the villagers, dumb with horror, saw the savage, clay-streaked heads of the wreckers in the ragged gap. Then they fled, houseless and foodless, down the valley, as their village, shredded and tossed and trampled, melted behind them. A month later the place was a dimpled mound, covered with soft, green young stuff; and by the end of the Rains there was the roaring jungle in full blast on the spot that had been under plough not six months before".

- "The Jungle Book", by Rudyard Kipling

[dreamybasil]

Omori actors au.

I watched a lot of TheStoryPainter vids...and I feel like I want to make this AU of the characters being actors-

Though the main and headspace crew are literal different peepul because they are actors hehe

When will be the omori movie released