#(im Indian I can say that)

[victim-of-subtraction]

guys hear me out

in the ninjago movie Lloyd lost his arm right (he gets it back but Shh)

I just think it would be epic if he had a prosthetic or something

that’s just me tho so

[steakout-05]

being real for a second if i had an actual fictionkith/fictionhearted list, Fluttershy would absolutely be on there. like. she is so me. she is just like me. we both have a love of animals, we like having a cosy and relaxing atmosphere to stay in, we have really terrible social anxiety and deeply traumatising childhood social experiences, we have trouble being assertive because of those experiences, we probably both have a huge crush on pony Q (i know i do lol), it's all there. she's so me she's best pony <3

[misterradio]

hmmm i have my reservations abt the sexypedia... i think when the concept of the tumblr sexyman was formed into words, people became way too eager to classify things that way. one aspect of a sexyman is the cultural impact, you cant have a sexyman character who fits all the tropes yet doesnt have any cultural impact behind it. the sexypedia even has a class for characters like this which i think is flat out cheating. HOWEVER, it is funny as heck to see who is on that wiki. archibald the asparagus is on there for one

[thehealingsystem]

being biracial between white and poc will always be so alienating for me I don't relate to anyone. I don't quite fit in with whites but I don't quite fit in with people of color. been more white passing than the rest of my family doesn't help

[lokh]

hi. do u ever see someone so good looking in public u just die.

[nomaishuttle]

the way i balance staying true to my tumblrina nature while also having a job and bills and rent is that at work while cleaning a room ill think of something id like to post and then repeat it over and over in my head and refine it until it sounds right and then i either post it as soon as i get a second to Or i forget it bc i think of anew post to make. and they always get 0 notes but its ok

[parasolids]

i bought two tiny 1ml perfume samples. i got concrete by comme des garcons, which ive seen described as "like an art classroom" and like walking in a business district or under a mossy overpass, and then tam dao from diptyque, which is described as indian sandalwood, which isnt a scent i really like irl but we'll see how it goes

i've been wearing deathandfloral's art school dropout recently - the site describes it as wet clay, car exhaust, paint water, pencil shavings. it felt fitting, i don't draw anymore and i work in a car factory. when i tried it on at first i didn't like it bc it just felt waxy and sweet. but now after wearing it a few times i really like it - it starts off sweet and chemical and i definitely get the car exhaust note, which then turns more woody and mineral, which i guess is the clay/paint and pencil shavings. inexplicably it does smell strongly like lime after a while

i think i want a good death/graveyard/etc scent but a lot of the death related perfumes i see are WAIT LUSH BROUGHT BACK KERBSIDE VIOLET POST CANCELLED

[kn11ves]

people overestimate how much spices are put in mexican cooking. its truly not that many. maybe a few herbs for caldos here and there, salt pepper ......................... we genuinely dont use that much. i mean i use garlic salt but its garlic salt. its just garlic garlic isnt a spice. most of the heat comes from chiles. of which we only use like 5 types regularly. maybe for some special dishes we need different spices like cinnamon or smthn but thats if youre making mole sauce which most of us would just buy the glass container from the store. indians actually use a lot more spices than mexicans even tho our foods r usually called super spicy we get heat from different places

[cruelsister-moved2]

HDS lecture a while ago that i didnt agree with 100% btu the interesting point was how almost every like cultural appropriation trend in religion was disseminated basically as a sale between two culturally xtian white ppl. trends like yoga and sweat lodges are almost never arbitrated by people from the groups who originated them. i think its very different if you’re like interacting with a person/group of minority ethnic/religious people & experiencing their culture through them in which they have the power to define boundaries and tell their own story vs if youre trying to like laser-cut out culture and like take it for your own. its notable that a lot of the cultural appropriation that really makes us grimace the hardest is when its something which has been forcibly divorced from its cultural context. having ur culture taken from u and misrepresented and sold for someone elses profit is very different from feeling that its valuable and desirable and ppl are excited and grateful for u to give them the opportunity to experience it. ppl and culture are inseparable n trying to separate them is an inherently violent act <3 

[indian-kahani]

Handwritten Love

Dear Mom.

I’m sorry. I know I wasn’t the best child. I was trouble, I was angry, I was scared. I was, I was, I was. I was always so stuck in the past that I forgot to focus on the future, forgot to look around me in the present and see the colours in the sky. I’m sorry, mom. I know I wasn’t easy to raise. I always needed to ask so many questions. What is this sadness inside me? Am I okay, mom? I wish I could see past this into who I am, but where do put all this pain? Your hands were always there to guide me but now they’re gone I feel so alone. Tell me what to do, mom.

I need you.

I wish you were still here.

I know apologies can’t reverse what’s been said and done, and out of all of us I have the most blood on my hands, so to speak. If saying sorry could fix anything then sorry would be the only word I would speak for the rest of my life.  

But alas, apologies only mend what is there to be mended.

And you’ve been gone for years.

So instead of saying sorry I wanna say something different. The words I never said to you when you were still alive, I want to say to you now even though you’re not here to hear them.  

I love you, Mom.

And if you ever need me, I’m here for you. Forever and always.

-by Avani, [16.06.23]

taglist: @manujanolavu @morally-gayy (if you want to be added/removed pls tell me!)

[my-apollo-gies]

the thing about the tv show casting is that rrbis infamously bad on physical descriptions, especially on skin colour, where if its not specified, you're just expected to assume its white, so you can shut up about "inaccurate casting" even though very little of an actors appearance is relevant as long as they play the character well (you don't want a 60 yo playing percy for example but if the actor was ginger no one should really care). most of the time when people complain about inaccurate casting it really is just them looking for an excuse to be racist and have an all white cast

edit: looking back over this i realised i didn't clarify im talking specifically about characters who are either canonically white or racially ambiguous in the source material and im not talking about canon poc casting bc that's a whole bag of worms that i don't know enough about to make a comment and im not sure i should be the one making a comment there anyway

[cyberslam]

WHY DO PPL FIND TONY KHAN HOT.....HE LOOKS LIKE HALF THE SCRAWNY ASS BROWN KIDS I KNEW GROWN UP. He looks like he’s my 2nd cousin who no one wants to talk to, that all the aunties have been trying to marry off but none of the local girls want him so they’re looking at a bride for him in India. LITERALLY what is the appeal.

[urostakako]

i need more pakistani friends

[junebugzzz]

I made myself a meal today and it consisted of. White sauce spaghetti with toast and cheese & jalapeño sausages and peanut butter coffee. Maybe life isn't so bad

[justinefrischmanngf]

i made such a fucking stupid mistake when talking to my parents at dinner i literally want to die

[sanyu-thewitch05]

My parents want me to do the gold award for Girl Scouts so bad, even though I said I didn’t want to. If I literally did it I wouldn’t even look happy receiving it on stage.