#bhai..

[seedhe-pahad-se]

Desi kid urge to choose a college away from home for the sake of mental peace.

[pineapplepond5]

But First, Tan ft. Hasan Minhaj | Patriot Act (2018)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

I knew that line in Across the Spider-Verse was a Hasan Minhaj reference. It turns out they consulted him for Pavitr's writing!

Bonus:

[misssclumsy]

Desi parents be like "tumne abhi duniya dekhi kanha hai" and won't let you see duniya as well.

[billi-mausi]

James and Sirius' animagus when they turned for the first time.

[orgasming-caterpillar]

50 notes and I make a Desi!F1 drivers crack au

[greektragedybitch]

desi fifth grade girlies naming a whatsapp group with three friends that they're gonna use from their mothers' phone:

“BFFS forever 🌸🥰💕😘💫”

[hum-suffer]

Not Wattpad girls romanticizing rape and molestation—

[iheartmonaco]

When he's Desi coded>>>>>>

[shutupbani]

the urge to send this to that one person-

[not-a-kaleshi-saanp]

Jab tumhe realise ho ki bhenchod ye to degree hi galat hai....but just in the 3 rd year 💀🤡😭

[zoobie-doobie]

'bhai' is such a gender neutral word..i even call my mum bhai

[h0bg0blin-meat]

I'm so honoured I'll cry-

[archiveofliterature]

thinking about how ramy says, “this is how the empire connects us,” in regards to opium and he’s so devastatingly right

but also:

ramy and robin find their lost languages in each other (cantonese is bold and sharp like ramy; bangla is sweet and soft like robin)

ramy and robin share cultural new years (chinese in jan/feb, bengali in april)

(while i’m not sure if these nicknames existed in the late 1830s) very common bengali endearments carry the same root word, pākhi, which means bird. bird, birdie.

and you will say – didn’t the empire start all this, too? didn’t the british take ramy and robin’s preferred languages away from them? didn’t they rip them from their homes where they would celebrate their new years? didn’t robin choose this name because the british wouldn’t let him have his chinese name?

the british started it, but they didn’t expect there to be this level of intimate solidarity. they wanted to pull the oppressed apart, pit them against each other, but the similarities are copious bc ramy and robin have much more in common with each other than they will ever with the empire

they take the cruelty, mould it into smth they can share and build together

the empire couldn’t have that. so they did what they knew best: they took them away from each other

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN VAMPIRES CAN'T EAT DRY COCONUT UNDER THE WINTER AFTERNOON SUN WITH THEIR MEEMAW? NO WONDER ARMAND WENT INSANE!

[chal-jeete-hai]

Kheto ❌ Oyo ✅

[thenotebookscribbler]

i remember telling @bandarrrrr "mera toota dil tum samhaloge"

bro sat on a call with me from 11 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

i-