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“A soft woman is simply a wolf caught in meditation.”

— Pavana पवन (via maza-dohta)

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yesterday i was talking to my therapist about how much growing up with a mother who went out of her way to never compliment my appearance or say anything positive about how i looked impacted my self-worth in a way i still carry around with me and i've been dwelling on that conversation ever since. i feel like it kind of goes hard in either direction and most mothers are either really effusive or just never say anything kind to their daughters at all in this regard and i'm curious about other people's experiences.

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Everyone warns you agaist going to the supermarket hungry, but nobody tells you about the dangers of going there too full: I do not want any of these things, for I will never require any food again at all!

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What is this new trend of stealing traditional Desi cultural food, clothes, ornaments, etc., and rebranding it as if they invented it? It's just disgusting.

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there is no proof of this. not a single news report of indians lining up outside the israeli embassy to join the idf. the only news regarding the embassy are the pro-palestine protests outside of it. this is a random woman spreading a lie that hindus are trying to kill palestinians and you’re all eating it up.

I thought the video excerpt is interesting. Sharing it here

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what is up with self-hating desi ppl who live in the subcontinent coming online encouraging racial hate against desis in the diaspora

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middleeastimages:

Portraits of dog owners and their dogs in neighborhoods. Owning dogs in Iran is illegal, dogs are considered “unclean” in Islam hence the anti-dog rules. It is frowned upon in public to keep dogs inside apartments . These laws have been criticized by dog owners but so far changing the laws has been a true struggle.

The relationship between these pets and their owners is mutual love, but yet the owners tolerate the criticism and objection that comes with keeping an animal companion.

Dog owners specifically are being attacked, blamed and shunned by local authorities with their animals being taken away from them.

Photos by :

Azad Amin / Middle East Images

@azadamin

this happened only two weeks ago:

I can’t bear reading in depth about this, though I’m aware of the situation…it’s too much for my heart. my dog was everything in the world to me, and it’s unimaginable what they go through just trying to keep their dogs safe, how much joy that we take for granted every day is stolen from them by the regime.

gd bless the Iranian people and their precious four legged companions, may they all soon be free. ❤️🤍💚

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Pussy havers, do you enjoy the smell of your own pussy?

1.yes

2.no

3.maybe

4.nuance

5.dick haver

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watching copycat and the very first scene of the entire face of the killer was the camera just passing by and i thought he was soooo cute ��� lol guess that’s the point of the movie

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please add trigger warnings for l*nkedin, j*bs, empl*yment etc..im literally shaking on the verge of a panic attack rn this is fucking seruious

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This might be a controversial headcanon I have about Merope and Tom Riddle Snr, because - although Merope is talked about with pity in the HP series - outside of it, within the fandom, she is very much a villain and Tom Riddle Snr her victim.

And I understand why - because she, according to Dumbledore's best guess, gave a love potion to (roofied) Tom Riddle snr and got him to marry and sleep with her against his will. In doing so she not only violated his body and mind but destroyed his actual relationship with the muggle girl, Celia, and created scandal in his hometown, making him a subject of mockery - when he was very much a victim.

And its distasteful (at best) to victim blame.

But... I think about how Dumbledore wasn't there and is only guessing, and how he is a man and sees the world through men's eyes, and I think about what the world (and men) are really like.

When Tom Riddle snr returns to Little Hangleton, he talks about having been "hoodwinked" and the people of the village assume Merope lied to him about being pregnant in order to get him to marry her.

Which means the people of the village are happy to accept that Tom Riddle snr was sleeping with Merope before they ran away together. They certainly don't think he was in love with her (hence why he was hoodwinked) but they accept without question that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with her.

And I don't think that's unlikely.

Maybe even before Morfin and Marvolo were arrested, but definitely afterwards. I just don't think it's unlikely - men being as they are, and sorry to be crude - that a man like Tom Riddle snr wasn't perfectly happy to use Merope as a warm hole to get his dick wet.

I don't think he loved her, or was even attracted to her.

But would he have sex with her?

Yes!

Especially if Celia is holding out for her wedding night.

Higher class man having sexual relationships with lower class women, which mean nothing to them, and not caring one jot how this can ruin the lower class woman's life is as old as time.

Merope is "in love" with him, she is unprotected by people who will look out for her, she has no friends, no education and little experience of the world. She is unloved and desperate for kindness.

She is a sitting duck for a callous man who wants to get his end away.

The problem for Tom Riddle snr is that she is not, actually, as powerless as other lower class girls. She has magic.

And when poor, silly, in love Merope tells Tom she is pregnant and he tries to cast her aside, unlike her muggle sisters she is able to do something about it. When he refuses to do "the honourable thing" as she believed he would (because she believed he loved her), she uses magic to get him to marry her.

Dumbledore says he thinks Merope must have somehow found a way to trick Tom Riddle snr into drinking a love potion; that she got him to stop his horse by her house on a hot day and offered him water. That she eventually stopped giving him the love potions because she thought he might have really fallen in love with her by this point, or would stay for the baby, or just didn't want to lie anymore. But he is only guessing. That is, in fact, his headcanon.

Mine is that Tom Riddle snr was using Merope for sex, that she was already pregnant when they ran away (like the villagers thought), and that she only used magic to ensnare him after he rejected her when she told him about the baby. I think she did grab her wand and confund him, as she was reacting to his rejection - and had not been planning to kidnap him before this moment. I think it makes more sense than Dumbledore's explanation for why Tom regains his own mind and leaves, that Tom began to fight a confundus charm applied by an inexpert witch and broke free. And, if it was Merope who stopped using magic on Tom, I think it makes more sense than Dumbledore's theory for her to do so if she had a concrete reason to believe that he had ever loved her in the first place (no matter how misguided that belief was and how much the concrete was actually sand). Whichever version is true, I think Dumbledore's explanations are vague and patchy at best.

I also think it makes the pain of his leaving her more real, than if it was all a fantasy she cooked up in her head, and explains better why she just gave up after he left. She was not only desperate and alone and genuinely heartbroken, because she had been part of an actual relationship (if under false pretences on his side) but was also having to come to terms with the fact that she had been tricked and made a fool of and not only did Tom not love her, the Tom she loved never existed and the real Tom thought she was so worthless he was happy to use her, discard her and didn't care if she lived or died.

I just think that - using a sex class analysis of behaviour - my headcanon is far more realistic than Dumbledore's, because men really are that awful.

Now, the fact that they were sleeping together and Tom was doing so under false pretences doesn't stop Merope's using magic on him from being wrong. But it does even things out between them a bit, Tom is no longer a hapless victim of Merope's, but his being enchanted somehow is a consequence of his own poor behaviour. It is arguably deserved. And I see why that is a controversial take because it removes Tom from being a totally innocent victim of Merope's while making Merope a victim of his and finding an excuse for her bad behaviour. It is - arguably - victim blaming.

But I'm afraid the whole story just makes more sense if Tom and Merope were sleeping together before they eloped.