#indian girls winter ideas

[sunthyme]

LAST PART!!! WE'RE IN THE HOME STRETCH, BOIS! Thank y'all so much, I know I keep saying it but I really appreciate y'all sm. The next post I do will feature my Yuusona or Prefect design and some headcanons featuring it. After that, I'll give y'all some options to see whatcha'll want. Now for...

🌹Diasomnia🌹

The disclaimer from Ignihyde is still in effect here, most of my headcanons are either because it looked cool or sounded cool lmao.

First up is...

🐉Malleus Draconia🐉

(he/she/they/it any basically) Agender - Panromantic Asexual

*giggles, kicks feet, twirls hair* Mal... Anyways! Some of y'all probably been waiting for this one! My silly fae prince, whose identity may or may not be based on my own. Sue me, this bitch is hella relatable.

- So, onto the headcanons, I felt like Mal wasn't all that intimidating when he first popped up outside our house. Idk, I see a cat-type personality and all my self preservation is thrown out the nearest window. She's just a big meow. But I wanted them to actually look rather intimidating, making his bangs cover his eyes a bit more, darker makeup, whatnot.

- I know Mal is canonically taller than the rest of the cast but Imma make her even taller. Its 6'6" without the horns and like 6'11 or 7' with them. I want them to be a cryptid!! Also the height difference with Lilia bout to be crazy.

- I like the idea that my prefect made her some lil Howl's Moving Castle earrings, even though it obvious doesn't exist in their world. Or maybe it does??? Who knows.

- *scientist voice* The autism is this subject is astronomical. *cough* Yeah, it's also not up for debate. The gargoyles, the general demeanour. Yuu is their favoured person.

- Malleus and my prefect would probably interact a little differently than Yuu does canonically, as we're both silly little autistic people, but I'll save that for my Yuusona post lol.

- Really tempted to throw in that it has a forked tongue. Does have fangs but Mal and Jamil probably both have forked tongues, j st for funsies.

- Loves to read sappy romance novels, is giggling and kicking her feet at soulmate stuff in particular. Has a whole list of little date ideas in a notebook (totally not saying this because /I/ have one or anything)...

Not mush else to say give I've only canonically interacted with her like three times but now for everyone's favourite grandpa!

🦇Lilia Vanrouge🦇

(he/she) - Bisexual

- Teehee! So I saw someone headcanons Lilia as Indian and I was SO here for it, though I think he's be half Indian, half Mexican or smth.

- Gave this girl SO many piercing. I feel like she got them 'cause she was bored. Idk, 500 years is pretty old, ya gotta spice things up some how.

- Some scars from 'ye old days'(tm) and I made his hair a bit wavy and added a green gradient to the ends, just to mimick Malleus' hair. Also, this bitch stands a proud 5'3" on a good day (aka with heels).

- He's the kind of dad that makes his kids wear matching pjs during the winter holidays and while he knows his kids like the back of his hand, chooses to give them silly gifts most of the time. Also, he spoils Mal and Silver rotten.

- Absolutely tries to get Malleus to properly flirt with MC but it never works out like he plans. Silver just watches with mild amusement.

Speaking of Silver,

🗡️Silver Vanrouge🗡️

(he/they) Demiboy - Achillic Asexual

- Yes, I was mad he doesn't canonically have a last name. I figured that Lilia would have officially adopted him at some point or another and typically you need a last name for a lot of things so I just gave them Lilia's.

- I think that Silver's gray hair is natural and once it gets to be a certain length, it just becomes gray. Additionally, Lilia's a cool dad so Silver got dyed ends and piercings too.

- I actually headcanon that Silver's blind and has narcolepsy (though that's pretty much canon). It was likely from birth or manifested early on and as a result, Malleus is a bit protective of Silver (and Sebek is too but he'd never admit it lol). He has a service dog, which is probably a cute golden retriever named Aurora, and records lectures to listen back to. He, Kalim, and Ruggie have little study groups as second years. Also, Silver's autistic. Lilia really out here collecting autistic children lmaooo.

- He really likes to knit. Don't ask why but I think he'd enjoy the rhythym of it. (He's made Ruggie and Kalim scarves and both treasure them a ton) He likes to make blankets for Malleus and Lilia as well as himself. He loves to work with the chunkier and softer yarns, especially because it makes keeping track of the stitches easier.

- Owes SO MANY plushies. His bed is half dedicated to them, most probably give to him by Lilia for birthdays and holidays. He loves soft things so all the plushies are like squishmellows and stuff.

Ah, I love Silver. Onto our last canon character,

🐊Sebek Zigvolt🐊

(he/him) - Achillic

Oh boy, this design was such a pain. I literally had to redo it because I didn't like it. Though, in the end, I think it turned out pretty neat.

- On with the physical stuff, I fucked around with his skin tone a bit because it did not look right with his hair in my og design which had a more lime, yellowy green instead of the mint. I made it warmer and ditched the yellow green for the original design's mint, just darker. Finally, I thought I needed a kick of something so I gave him some violet streaks and eyes and BOOM! A Sebek!

- I gave him a bit of a rounder face, I feel like he wouldn't have outgrown his baby chub yet, and a single dimple. I thought it'd be super cute, sue me. Cute lil freckles, the works.

- One thing I am super proud of was his Lichtenburg scar (I believe that's what it's called, I've only really heard in in TMA oops). While I certainly didn't do it justice here, I'll be fleshing it out at some point. I think it's a cool addition to the character based on lighting, maybe his magic accidentally hit him or damaged him at some point idk.

- He is, wait for it... also autistic. Shocker, pun intended. He's actually AuDHD to me and has issues with volume regulation, which is real idk. Would actually also be sensitive to loud noise, as backwards as that sounds. Has noise-cancelling headphones courtesy of Idia. Malleus is his favoured person and he looks up to him a lot.

- Grew up loving dragons and thinking they were like the coolest fcuking things then met Mal and was in awe. Was a totally nerd about dragons as a kid and still has figures and posters and whatnot.

God, I love the Diasomnia characters sm omgggg. It's time for my ocs!

🪡Thumbelina Souster🪡

Third Year - (they/she) Genderqueer - Pansexual

She looks like Zelda. I know... but she's pretty!

- Thumbelina is 'twisted' from the loom in the story of Sleeping Beauty. IF EPEL IS LITERALLY AN APPLE, she can be a loom. Anyhow, I made her a fae as well, likely one of the craft fairies, just taking on a more human-sized form. She takes a ton of inspo from the og story of Thumbelina, as a tiny little fae she got separated from her kin and raised by human parents. That's why she doesn't have the 'ick' about humans that most fae have.

- When she got accepted to NRC, Crowley gave her access to a potion that changes her size so she'd be able to attend school easier. Her parents were tailors and so she grew up around sewing but could never do it because of how tiny she was. When she changed sizes, she immediately wanted to try her hand at sewing, official joining (or maybe founding) the sewing club.

- After intially joining Diasomnia and seeing Lilia's piercings, they piqued her curiosity and she got some.

- As a fae, she loves to be outdoors and tends to a garden outside of the dorm. She also rather oblivious when some expresses interest in her as she's not familiar with human courting. Lilia adopts yet another autistic child lmao.

For another character based on something mildly abstract...

🥀Munkh Sarnai🥀

Second Year - (they/he/she) Genderfluid - Asexual Aromantic

- Munkh is my character for the thorns that encircled Aurora's castle. Minorly abstract but hey, cool ass character design.

- They're Mongolian and I wanted the spikey aspect to really shine through, giving them liberty spikes thanks to my friend's suggestion! Wanted to go really punk especially because I haven't really done so in a character design before and I LOVE IT!

- She was originally going to have a Maleficent colour palette for the spikes but it was getting too close to some of the other designs so I made it black and red to emulate roses.

- He's a part of the music club as well, likely a vocalist or drummer. He loves the energy and the people are really cool, plus obviously his vice housewarden's there.

- They're also on the athletic side and enjoy various sports, namely Spelldrive. Also, she does own her own blastcycle and immediately bonds with Deuce over a shared love of them. Deuce and Munkh like this 🤞.

Last but not least...

⏰Kyra Delano⏰

First Year - (she/her) - Sapphic

Pspsps... TMA fandom... pspsps Delano...

- Kyra's my oc twisted from Tick Tock, the alligator(?) from Peter Pan. I gave her the yellow-green from my original Sebek design and it looks way better here.

- I think as a reference to the clock and like 'ticking', she'd have Tourette's. It sometimes flares up more than others so she has an agreement with the teachers about class times where it's acting up.

- I think she'd have like mild beef with Josephina because they met on a wrong foot during orientation but it's not a huge deal. Probably sleep-deprived Josephina said something insulting Diasomnia and Kyra was like, "What the hell?". They have a friendly competition going on now, every gym class.

- She's a part of the track and field club and is one of the fastest on the team. That being said, she's not a huge fan of physical activity and prefer to read in the library or study.

Head's up, I lied. This isn't the last post. I have to do the staff and extra character like Neige, Che'nya, and Cheka. Plus Grim. I tricked you >:). Mayhaps it'll be up tomorrow... love y'all!🩷🩷🩷

[dwellordream]

“The story of the Cherokee illustrates how the lives of Indian people were drastically altered by American expansion. The Cherokees were one of the Five Civilized Tribes, so named because they had proved much more adept at integrating white culture into their own than had other tribes. In the eyes of white Americans, the Cherokees were perhaps the most ‘civilized’ of the five.

…Although the Cherokees were willing to adopt some Anglo-American traditions, they held onto other parts of their culture. Within Cherokee culture, women were responsible for almost all agricultural production. They worked the soil, seeded and weeded the land, harvested the results, collected the firewood, cooked the food, and processed the leftovers for winter. Cherokee women also made clothing, pottery, and baskets for use by the tribe and for trade. Cherokee men were responsible for hunting, fishing, and warfare.

…For a Cherokee woman, power in the community meant more power in her marriage. After marriage, a husband would come to live among his wife’s relations. If the marriage ended in separation, the man was expected to return to his mother’s house to live. Any children born during the marriage would remain in the mother’s house and would be cared for by the mother’s extended family. Any shuffling of marriage partners took place while the core extended family remained constant, thus giving children a safe harbor from the usual problems of ‘broken homes.’

To missionaries and other reformers, such arrangements made no sense, and they struggled mightily to instill the ideals of European domesticity into the tribe. Reformers hoped that the Cherokees and other tribes would embrace the ideal of separate spheres, so that husbands worked in the fields, wives in the home, and both knew their place. …Missionaries then teamed up with a number of Cherokee leaders--women as well as men--to try to persuade the Cherokees to accept Anglo-American ideas about the roles of men and women. The leadership supported the establishment of schools, run by missionaries, that would teach young Cherokees about Anglo-American culture. Missionaries were especially concerned with ‘domesticating’ Cherokee girls.

…Cherokee leaders had hoped that acculturation would lead to acceptance by whites. But while missionaries and reformers were concerned with the Cherokees’ cultural transformation, most whites in the South merely wanted the tribe’s land. These whites were supported by President Andrew Jackson, who had never hidden his prejudice against Indians. The state of Georgia nullified the Cherokee constitution in 1829 and demanded that the Cherokees sell their land to the state for $30,000.

…When most Cherokees refused to move in 1838, President Marshall Van Buren--who had been Jackson’s Vice President--ordered the army to round up those who resisted. The Cherokees, after being forced into detention camps, were then herded toward Indian Territory. More than a quarter of the Cherokee marchers perished along the way. For Cherokee women, the ideal of domesticity did not bring peace and harmony, as the missionaries and Cherokee leaders had hoped. The ideal of domesticity had given northern middle-class women the opportunity to use the home as a jump-off point to political activity. For Cherokee women, however, domesticity meant the loss of their economic and political power.

…The Indians of California were first conquered not by Americans, but by Hispanics from the Spanish colony of Mexico. These Californos, as the Spanish came to be called, were eager to convert the local Indian tribes to the Catholic faith. Unlike the American missionaries, however, the Californos established elaborate missions for the purpose of utilizing Indian labor while at the same time teaching Catholic beliefs.

The mission system called for Indians to pledge their souls to Catholicism, and to hand over control of their lives to the Catholic padres, or fathers, who led the missions. After a number of years of training, and vigorous tests to prove that these converted Catholics had been civilized, the transformed Indians would be freed from the mission’s control and given their own land. They could then become independent small farmers and loyal subjects of Spain. Like most missionaries’ visions, the Californos’ system was fatally flawed. Few Indians seemed to have become sufficiently civilized in the eyes of the padres to be released from the missions.

…In order to attract new converts to the missions, the padres specifically recruited Indian women. The missions had a number of advantages to offer them. Unlike many other Indian cultures, California Indian tribes were extremely patriarchal--power belonged to the men; women had little control either over the community’s affairs or within their families. Thus, the material conditions at the missions were much improved for women.

…Although the soldiers were ultimately responsible for the destruction of the California Indians, their chief weapons were not the sword and the gun. Rather, the soldiers decimated the Indian population by spreading syphilis among them. This deadly sexually transmitted disease had been unknown to California Indians before the arrival of the Spaniards, and it wreaked havoc among the native population. The Spaniards most often infected Indians by raping Indian women caught in raids.”

- Michael Goldberg, “Conquerors and Conquered.” in Breaking New Ground: American Women, 1800-1848

[egipci]

Vertigo, 1999

(for @wincestwednesdays)

What they have in common is they're loud, and they talk too much. That's what Dad used to say. Nine out of ten hunters have no fucking idea what they’re doing. You put four of them in a room together and you get twelve tall tales and intel that’ll set you back three days. Not that he spent much time with any one of them. There was a time, back in the beginning, he'd take on a job with a guy, say, someone Bobby knew, or he'd just run into a random dude on the scene, and they'd try to crack it together, talk theories, or they'd do interviews, bad-cop-good-cop, that sort of thing, and right in the middle of it, no matter how it was going, he'd turn to that other guy and suddenly remember he hated all of them. He'd tell me about that stuff. That's why he roped me in soon as he could. He didn't like anybody else. I don’t know how he stayed friends with Pastor Jim as long as he did. There was a fight once after Jim offered to take his confession, but they got over it eventually. Sometimes I wonder what the two of them would say about your praying. I still can’t do it. I couldn’t do it the first time you died, and I can’t do it now. I try to meditate, for Lisa. She says you can think of anything or nothing at all. So I close my eyes and I think about Wyoming that one winter.

There were hunters there too, and they warned us. You were in the car, and I was with Dad in a convenience store on the edge of Indian country. We were questioning the cashier. Mostly Dad was doing the talking. It was a two-stall restroom kind of joint and he'd backed me up against the sink and put his hands under my shirt so I was still in that warm stupid daze I could never tell you about. He was asking about the missing girls, if any of them had stopped by before they'd disappeared, and these two guys who knew him from somewhere came up. Right away he couldn’t stand them. They asked what we were there for. You could tell they were really freaked. They said there was something out there. A god, maybe. They could feel its strength and nothing else. Of course Dad didn't believe them, and that was all that mattered. 

Anyway, here is the part I keep replaying: he's walking ahead of us and it’s getting dark fast. It hasn't snowed yet but it's cold enough he let me wear his jacket. You and I are about the same height, so I got my arm around your shoulder, your neck in the crook of my elbow, and I'm dragging you along, and you're squirming and being a bitch, so we're lagging way behind, and I'm saying stupid shit to make you laugh, trying to make you feel better, and you’re trying hard not to crack up. Then you elbow me in the gut and you stop walking, so I stop, and I turn to look at you. The trees are humming around us, all the way down to their roots. At least that’s the sense I had. We never found anything out there, so I never brought it up again. I never asked you. But the way you looked at me. You said my name, and you looked into my eyes then at the bottom half of my face, and when we finally set up camp you slept outside the tent. I slept with my head sticking out so you wouldn’t be alone. Something bit you first and then bit me. That night we stayed up staring at the sky. What I wouldn’t give to feel us so small again, to hear you naming the constellations.

[fishrpg]

2024-10-28: Area 28 (Cribline)

Regency Sweets isn't the only brothel in the Indian Acre. The cribline isn't a brothel in a traditional sense. It's a collection of shacks and tents where the girls (not always, but usually) who aren't able to secure an arrangement with a reputable business or madam are forced to ply their trade in a much riskier environment. Vagrants, addicts, and all sorts of other people the law ceases to protect after dark engage in a delicate dance of violence, threats, politics, and commerce. A typical encounter here usually runs less than $0.75 (yes, that is less than a dollar, but such an amount had at least a little more buying power back then), less than half of what the minimum charge is for Regency Sweets.

If you are working in the cribline, you probably won't live beyond a winter or two without making an alliance with the other residents. The worst monsters are drunk and entitled men, but the second worst are the thieves. Knives and hat pins are the pillars of protection against the threats lurking in the darkness, but a few folks here have pistols available, so it's always a good idea to be careful.

Currently, there's a somewhat new girl in the cribline named Ida McClure. She ended up here from a morphine addiction that eventually got her divorced. With no place to live, she found accommodations in a shack that used to be inhabited by another girl who died a few weeks ago from alcohol poisoning. Unfortunately, this new home was not obtained with the blessing of one of the longer-term residents, a woman in in her early 40s named Mae Hensley. Mae is the glue that holds together the little amount of order and safety that exists in the cribline. Now much of the cribline has turned on Ida and made her the most vulnerable person in the Acre.

[letlizsayfuck]

Can the Gallagher Girls cook?

Bex: Oh lord, where to start? As the only child of two highly active field agents, Bex is everything a good spy must be. Stunning, wickedly smart, charismatic, etc. She's also painfully British. Her kitchen skills are limited to boiling potatoes and putting the kettle on for tea. Sure, she knows what good cooking tastes like. She's surrounded by it all year long. But when she's not at school or tagging along with her parents on international ops, Bex sustains herself primarily through protein shakes and Indian takeaway.

Cammie: Cooking abilities (or lack thereof) run matrilineally in her family. No further explanation needed.

Liz: She's a chemistry genius. Liz can take any household item and turn it into an improvised explosive. She's worked out how to transform the entire contents of Macey's makeup bag into a lethal poison. What she can't figure out is how to make a decent pot of rice. See, cooking is an art and Liz is a scientist. Recipe instructions like "cook until just right" or "season to taste" just don't make sense to her. How is she supposed to "add a pinch" of salt when there's no precise metric measurement for a pinch? How can she cook something over "medium heat" when she has no idea exactly how many kelvins "medium heat" is? Her poor, sweet Alabama Nana has firmly banned Liz from the kitchen after her last attempt at chicken casserole resulted in a hole melted straight through the stovetop.

Macey: No way the mid-2000s, "I only eat 800 calories a day" heiress would know her way around a kitchen, right? Wrong. For the first 15 years of her life, Macey McHenry would not be caught dead in a kitchen. Starving socialites had no business hanging around "unnecessary calories". Her relationship with cooking develops over the first winter break back from Gallagher. A desire for coffee after pulling an all-nighter puts her in the kitchen at the exact same time as the family chef. Her newfound interest in learning keeps her perched on a barstool, observing as the chef starts to prepare their breakfasts. It becomes a routine, and soon enough she's dicing onions and flipping omelets right next to them. By the time she returns for the spring semester, Macey not only enjoys eating but knows how to make most of her favorite foods without help.

[catholickedd]

hello!!! um so i had an idea the other day. if you've read my pinned post you know that i'm an aspiring author, and i wanted to practice some short story writing just to get the hang of the setup-payoff cycles. so here's the idea i had - i'm going to write 94 short stories over the next couple of months. one inspired by each song on my spotify playlist. this is going to be the masterpost. here we go

amount completed: 3 of 94

wasteland, baby by hozier - here

autumn by wylder - here

velvet ring by big thief - here

thérèse by maya hawke -

sea, swallow me by cocteau twins -

paint by the paper kites -

sedona by sir chloe -

kyoto by phoebe bridgers -

strawberry blond by mitski -

bloom by the paper kites -

would that i by hozier -

swan upon leda by hozier -

in a week by hozier -

nfwmb by hozier -

fool by frankie cosmos -

evergreen by richy mitch & the coal miners -

candles by daughter -

september by sparky deathcap -

alrighty aphrodite by peach pit -

caroline by lowertown -

jaded by near tears -

poison tree by grouper -

haunt me (x 3) by teen suicide -

the way her hair falls by grouper -

the bug collector by haley heynderickx -

the perfect girl by mareux -

dark beach by pastel ghost -

faerie soiree by melanie martinez -

downtown by majical cloudz -

all your yeahs by beach house -

i don't know by whatever, dad -

gwan by rostam -

the loxian gate by enya -

ophelia by the lumineers -

eat your young (bekon's choral version) by hozier -

francesca by hozier -

no face by haley heynderickx -

rises the moon by liana flores -

washing machine heart by mitski -

all things end by hozier -

through me (the flood) by hozier -

nobody by hozier -

manta rays by chloe moriondo -

unknown / nth by hozier -

like real people do by hozier -

jackie and wilson by hozier -

from eden by hozier -

work song by hozier -

foreigner's god by hozier -

run by hozier -

shrike by hozier -

as it was by hozier -

sunlight by hozier -

dandelion wine by gregory alan isakov -

meet me in the woods by lord huron -

make your own kind of music by cass elliot -

where is my mind by pixies -

pool house by the backseat lovers -

mclean's baby boy by neighbor susan -

space song by beach house -

garden song by phoebe bridgers -

motion sickness by phoebe bridgers -

grandiose by pomme -

je sais pas danser by pomme -

better views by yellow house -

même robe qu'hier by pomme -

ghosting by mother mother -

lent by autoheart -

bron-yr-aur by led zeppelin -

adieu mon homme by pomme -

cause for concern by lovejoy -

willow by taylor swift -

feathered indians by tyler childers -

the last of the honeybees by sam burchfield -

de selby (part 2) by hozier -

the last thing on my mind by tom paxton -

the night we met by lord huron -

ends of the earth by lord huron -

the yawning grave by lord huron -

the moon doesn't mind by lord huron -

sex sells by lovejoy -

perfume by lovejoy -

maine by noah kahan -

white winter hymnal by fleet foxes -

anchor by novo amor -

pale blue eyes by the velvet underground -

i'll be your mirror by the velvet underground -

dinner and diatribes by hozier -

wildflower by beach house -

good old-fashioned lover boy by queen -

bright eyes by art garfunkel -

[ramayantika]

Letter to God

P.S: I have no idea what how why I got this idea, it struck me randomly while reading a book I no longer can remember, and I am not telling you what I am going to do with this writing piece, but yeah we might (if I pick my pen up after my entrances) get more stories sorta things with our beloved Indian gods writing to us 👀🌸

Dear God,

In this timeline, I may not pray as much as I think about you. Sometimes I refuse to believe that you exist when I see so much pain and suffering around me. I often think that if some God does exist up there and if he indeed has created us, could this Creator create pain and suffering in your most beloved creation?

If you love us so much, then why let that lone child on the dusty street go to sleep on an empty stomach? If you love us so much why did you take away the little girl who hadn't even learnt to walk and play?

But then when I come across your other marvellous form whom we humans call Mother Nature, I think that you indeed love us truly to soothe our eyes and souls with these beautiful blooms, lush trees and thick forests. Sometimes I come across you on the busy street while heading to work when I see a young man helping an old woman to cross the street.

I think I felt you around me on a cold winter night as I stared at the ceiling, wondering what to do ahead in life when every opportunity had shut its doors on my face. I felt a hand and heard a voice to not let that last flame of hope go away. The next week, I was called for an interview by my dream company.

Then God, a deep slumber after a tiring day at work took me to a very weird dream. I saw you there on a table. An ink bottle, a feather quill and thick parchment papers lay scattered on your table as you filled parchment after parchment with your writing. I saw how a whole range of emotions flicked through your eyes, how your face would glow as bright as the sun and after a while diminish. I saw how your lips curled into a childlike smile and how a lone tear fell on the wooden surface. You would look wistfully at the wall for a while, and then immerse yourself in writing another page without letting your hand stop even for a moment.

Somewhere that felt like my writer friend who lives an hour away from my home. When I read stories about you, I wonder have you written stories like us? Sages say that you write our fate and each story you write is how our lives are led.

Are you writing this letter to yourself or is it a human writing a letter to God?

We humans love stories. Some of us write while some of us hear and some love to read them. We have written plenty of stories about you. Centuries have passed by that some stories are now taken as the word of truth.

Can I read stories by you, God? No, not your writings about our lives. I anyway have a 9-5 job, a cute dog and a rented apartment. Maybe, I will meet the love of my life in the next five years. And truthfully speaking, this in no way would be an interesting story.

I want to know about your story, written by your hand. If you reside in us then do some of our mortal shades colour your life? Do your eyes sparkle when you look at a baby? Did your heart flutter when you saw your wife, the Goddess for the first time? Did you scratch your head deciding how to tackle a wicked demon who had asked a boon for immortality after deceiving another God?

I think I have left too many questions for you to answer and I have no idea when I will get an answer. If I am not wrong, just two days ago, I had asked you if I will get my promotion this year or not? Well, I hope you answer these questions in the letter first, my promotion can wait for some time.

And if you feel too generous to reveal some of your stories and secrets, you can send your stories to me, I would be happy to read them. Maybe, I can find some similarities in you? I hope that doesn't sound offensive to you because some people reading this letter might.

Anyway, God, I need to get back to the kitchen. My dinner is ready and my favourite show is going to come up on the television in five minutes.

I am hoping to receive a letter from you in this lifetime, rather than to visit you in your abode and know about you only to forget them after taking a new birth.

Good bye!

Yours,

Human

[rockislandadultreads]

Libby Spotlight: eAudiobook Hallow-Reads

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (read by August Ross)

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

Yet she spares Cas's life.

This is the first volume of the "Anna" series.

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates (read by Adam Verner)

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares.

“The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Taken by an older girl from her school who has told two friends in her thrall of the Indian legend of the Corn Maiden, in which a girl is sacrificed to ensure a good crop, Marissa is kept in a secluded basement and convinced that the world has ended. Marissa’s seemingly inevitable fate becomes ever more terrifying as the older girl relishes her power, giving the tale unbearable tension with a shocking conclusion.

In “Helping Hands,” published here for the first time, a lonely woman meets a man in the unlikely clutter of a dingy charity shop and extends friendship. She has no idea what kinds of doors she may be opening.

The powerful stories in this extraordinary collection further enhance Joyce Carol Oates’s standing as one of the world’s greatest writers of suspense.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (read by Simon Vance)

A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls. But worse-much worse - the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (read by Cassandra Campbell)

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.

Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she's not the only person looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.

[world-cinema-research]

"THE SHINING" Stanley Kubrick, 1980

Nicole Daniels

Re-watching "The Shining," produced by Stanley Kubrick and initially written by Steven King left me as chilled to the bone as Jack Torrance in the final scene. The beginning of the film shows Jack, played by Jack Nicholson on his way to his interview to be the winter keeper of The Overlook hotel. One thing I didn't pick up on before is the menacing music in the opening scene, setting the tone for the film. There are films today that are similar to The Shining, but it paved the way for the horror and frightening idea of a parent or place being able to take control of someone enough to hurt their family. It reminded me of the newer show "American Horror Story, Hotel". The Washington post mentions that the film may not be Kubrick's "best," but that it Kubrick had the intention of appealing to a larger demographic. Stating "The Shining" is not Kubrick's greatest film or his greatest gamble, but it is his most ambitious attempt to connect with a mass audience (Washington Post, 1980). This quote was written before the movie was released however. With big names, such as Jack Nicholson it would be considered a conventional film, but the interesting way that Kubrick segments the movie into days of the weeks, or one scene, for instance, being titled, "the interview" did give it an unconventional feel as well, as well as the mystic and lack of resolution. Below is the Washington Post article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/06/01/the-shining/2f44872d-260b-4ec9-8384-74b7bae90303/

The Shining was not the largest hit that year in terms of box office but as stated by Yardbarker "... it was enough of a success to be a hit. Kubrick made the film for $19 million, and its worldwide box office was $47 million". Which seemed to be the intention behind the film from Kubrick's perspective. This Yardbarker quote is in the link below, as well as an interesting list of facts about "The Shining".

Below is a clip of Jacks initial interview with Mr. Ullman. In this scene Jack is told of the caretaker of The Overlook before him, a man by the name of Mr. Charles Grady. Mr. Grady lost his mind, (for unknown reasons,) possibly isolation Ullman states. He candidly tells Jack that Mr. Grady ended up murdering his wife and two girls and then taking his own life. Jack seems unfazed and certain that will not happen to him. The candor and calm of Ullman and Jack struck me, almost as if there is something that we don't know as the viewer.

Another thing that stood out to me that I missed when I saw the film in the past was that Danny spoke to his finger, or as he called him "Tony" from the beginning of the film, before entering the hotel. There is a scene in which Danny's therapist asks his mother about Tony. Wendy, Jacks wife and Danny's mom, (played by Shelley Duvall,) says that Tony is an imaginary friend. Wendy does however tell a story of Jack dislocating Danny's arm while he was drunk, also stating that it lead to Jack to become sober. Although Danny merely refers to Tony as the "boy that lives in [his] mouth." This can be foreshadowing into Jack's demons that he may possess and Danny's trauma and potential mental instability as well. The photo below is of Danny talking to Tony in their home while Jack is in the interview. Danny from the beginning seems hesitant and afraid of the hotel, even having a vision of blood and gore before they get there.

Once they are at the hotel, they are shown around by a man named Mr. Hallorann, played by Scatman" Crothers. While in the pantry the camera zooms in on a can of baking powder adorned with a picture of a Native American in a headdress. I found this interesting because upon the Torrance's arrival they are told that the hotel was built on Indian land and that battles actually ensued during its construction, possibly alluding to a haunting for this reason. While taking a tour of the hotel Mr. Hallorann has a talk with just Danny, telling Danny that he has a gift which his own grandmother called "the shine". Holloran also claims to have this gift and it changes the dynamic of the film for me. The ability to see these things may be something that Jack himself possessed, but his own demons may have created a dark embracing of the visions rather than the fear that Danny had in the film. One 1980 critic perfectly described the feel and questions that I have surrounding the mystic or reasons for this hotels power. Stating that, "The Shining, the now-iconic horror film about isolation, domestic violence, and the bad places in the world that call to broken people."

In one scene Jack falls off the wagon, begging to drink again, this seems to be the point where his real unraveling begins. He begins drinking with a bartender in the hotel named Lloyd, although He, Wendy and Danny are the only ones in the hotel. At another point Jack is in a room filled with people drinking and partying in the gold room, all in period pieces. Their clothing looks to date at around the time the hotel was built, around 1907 give or take. In another scene Jack spills a drink on himself and what seems like a butler or bathroom attendant, helps to clean him up. We find that this butler is the "apparition" of Mr. Grady, the man who killed his wife and daughters. Grady eerily tells Jack that in order to control his family that they may "perhaps need a good talking to...perhaps a bit more". This seems to be the moment that Jack feels validated, or influenced to hurting his family. below is a clip of this haunting scene.

After many visions, ranging form Danny and the infamous twins in the hallway scene, to Jack embracing a nude woman in a bathtub who frighteningly turns into an old woman who looks like she has burns on her skin the film comes to a disturbing head. Danny is taken over by "Tony" and Jack is on a mission to kill Wendy and Danny, chasing them throughout the hotel then through the hotels maze. Wendy and Danny finally escape in the snow tracker, leaving Jack mumbling in a non-verbal rant to freeze. Once Danny leaves the hotel he is no longer in the "Tony trance". The end of the film zooms in on an old photo of the hotel dated 1921, but illogical to time and dates it leaves you wondering does this hotel trap people in time? It even poses the question, was Jack really ever there, or could he have even been a figment of Wendy and Danny's imagination?

[ireadyabooks]

Spring your Shelves into Warmer Weather! 📚

See ya, winter! ✌️ Bring on the beach reads. 

We’ve pulled together some page-turning book recs, perfect for the beach, plane, or staycation all spring long!🌷🌻🌼

This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang 

When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Desperate to hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with the famous actor in her class, the charming but aloof Caz Song. She’ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. Caz is a dream boyfriend. But when her relationship with Caz starts feeling a little too convincing, all of Eliza’s carefully laid plans are threatened. Can she still follow her dreams if it means breaking her own heart?

Rosewood by Sayantani DasGupta

Eila Das is used to following her head, rather than her heart. When she meets Rahul at Rosewood, a summer camp where campers are being scouted for the hit Bridgerton-like TV show, she experiences…feelings. Between the drama of the show and the drama of the camp, Eila will have to keep her wits about her to make it through the summer. But when she has to choose between her head and her heart, what will she do?

The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne

Flint Larsen has known exactly when he’s going to die since he was eight years old and half-lifed, a small twinge that tells a person when they’ve lived half their life. He plans to spend his final days back in his hometown with his parents, quietly waiting to die. But then he meets September Harrington, an utter explosion of brilliance and fun, and all his plans fly out the window. September has dedicated herself to curing the half-life, landing a coveted internship at the world-renowned Half-Life Institute. When their worlds collide, it feels like the start of an epic, once-in-a-lifetime love. Only Flint can’t bring himself to tell September he’s dying, and September’s keeping secrets too. 

The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver 

Just days before spring break, Neil Kearney is set to fly across the country with his childhood friend (and current friend-with-benefits) Josh, to attend his brother's wedding—until Josh tells Neil that he's in love with him and Neil doesn't return the sentiment. With Josh still attending the wedding, Neil needs to find a new date to bring along. And, almost against his will, roommate Wyatt is drafted.At first, Wyatt (correctly) thinks Neil is acting like a jerk. But when they get to LA, Wyatt sees a little more of where it's coming from. Slowly, Neil and Wyatt begin to understand one another… and maybe, just maybe, fall in love for the first time…

A Girl’s Guide to Love & Magic by Debbie Rigaud

Cicely Destin lives for the West Indian Day Parade, the joyous celebration of Caribbean culture that takes over the streets of her neighborhood. She’ll get to hang with her stylish aunt, an influencer known for dabbling in Haitian Vodou.And maybe spot her dreamy crush, Kwame, in the crowd. But fate has other ideas. Before the parade, a rogue, mischievous spirit seems to take possession of Cicely's aunt during a spiritual reading. Cicely hardly knows anything about Vodou, or how to get someone un-possessed. But it’s up to her to set things right--and the clock is ticking. She'll have to enlist the help of her quick-thinking best friend, Renee, and, as luck would have it...Kwame.

[nykraaapparels]

Nykraa Apparels

Here you will find a wide variety of bedtime related and athleisure products. Each item has been looked after and designed in a way which ensures that there is no scope compromising on quality. We hope you enjoy your shopping experience with us!

When we talk about comfortable and breathable fits and skin friendly fabrics are a given. With Nykraa you get all that plus clothes whose fashion quotient is at max!

The most popular Indian apparel brand, known for superior quality, style, comfort, and longevity. Go-ahead and try our full range of apparel for their comfort, style and functionality.

Nykraa, a popular women’s and girls’ nightwear brand, came into being in 2021 and was founded in 2020. It is a Ghaziabad-based Indian company, which is inspired by the vision of Niti Jain and Aaditya Jain who are the founders. Our journey began in 2021 with the first launch of women’s loungewear and has since then expanded to full-scale worthy products which are budget-friendly. Today, it’s been 2 years since the inception of our brand and our team has expanded to include a dedicated and creative set of designers who have a keen understanding of trending nightwear fashion, never settle for less, and source the highest quality of raw materials.

Nykraa is a brand that continues to be a successful family-run business. The brand connects with its customers and captures the Indian local markets directly through Nykraa’s recently launched online website as of now. We plan on diversifying and expanding the scope of our business each and every day.

We believe that women’s and girls’ nightwear should no longer be boring or restricted to old and worn-out tees and kurtas. Inspired by this thought, we have consistently brought this underestimated garment category to life through a wide range of high-quality, fashionable products and we are soon coming up with athleisure and workout wear. With our experience in the nightwear and loungewear industry, we have been able to craft a brand that is for everyone. Whatever your idea of sleepwear is, Nykraa is for you. In the summers, choose from our lighter, softer, comfortable, and most importantly breathable cotton and rayon fabrics, in the winters, pick from our fleece fabric.

Mission Nkyraa has one mission: to help you sleep better in exquisite nightwear. It is specially designed to be worn while sleeping. We have created the Nykraa nightwear to help you enhance your sleep with comfort and help you feel empowered. Our brand promises the highest quality material to help you sleep in style and we ought to create new designs keeping in view the customers’ requirements.

Visit to buy now!

[dishashah]

How to Style Your Kids' Sweatshirts in Winter

Winter Is Upon Us, And It's Time To Not Only Keep Our Little Ones Warm But Also Stylish. Kids' Fashion Is All About Comfort And Creativity, Especially When It Comes To Winter Wear. In This Blog, We'll Explore The Art Of Styling Your Girls And Boys Hoodies For The Chilly Season. From Choosing The Right Sweatshirt To Incorporating Layering Techniques And Adding Accessories For Added Warmth, We've Got You Covered. Get Ready To Transform Your Kids' Winter Wardrobe With These Tips And Tricks! We’re Sure Your Child Would Look Forward To The Winters When They Dress Up Well For It, Allowing Them To Run, Jump And Play Without Getting Bothered By The Intense Cold.

Choosing the Right Sweatshirt

When It Comes To Winter Wear For Kids, The First Step Is Selecting The Right Sweatshirt. Though There Is A Deluge Of Options Available Online, Not All Of Them Are Tailored To Suit Your Requirements.  They May Look And Feel Stylish But Aren’t Practical Enough For Our Unique Indian Winters. Here Are Some Boys And Girls Sweatshirts We’ve Created Based On Unique Indian Needs.

Girls Red Fleece Hooded Neck Sweatshirt

When It Comes To Utmost Comfort, The Cotton Fleece Material Is Everyone’s Favourite. We’ve Used This To Create A Girl’s Sweatshirt In Red That Your Little Daughter Can Wear Every Morning To School. It Comes In A Size That Suits Every Body Shape And Can Be Easily Cleaned And Cared For. Your Daughter Would Surely Love This One.

Boys Yellow Poly Cotton Fleece Hooded Neck Sweatshirt

Bright Colours Never Fail To Impress Little Boys. This Comfortable Yellow Sweatshirt Comes With A Witty Quote And Can Be Paired With Any Outfit. Your Son Doesn’t Need To Think Twice Before Wearing This One On A Chilly Winter Morning. This One’s Sure To Be His Go-To Sweatshirt For The Winter.

Boys Black Fleece Hooded Neck Sweatshirt

If You’d Like A Colour That Represents Winter, Nothing Beats Black In That Regard. This One’s Designed For Boys Of All Body Shapes, Who Can Wear It Whenever They Need To. You Can Also Consider This A Great Gift For Your Growing Pre-Teen Boy. What’s More, It Can Match Any Jeans Or Bottoms Your Son Would Like To Wear.

Boys Sky Fleece Hooded Neck Sweatshirt

The Light Blue Colour Never Fails To Impress. This Simple Designer Sweatshirt Comes With A Size That Matches All Boy’s Body Types. It Can Go With Any Light Coloured Jeans Or Tees, Ideal For Any Use Case. Crafted With Soft Cotton Fleece, This Sweatshirt Can Be Worn Both On Top Of An Existing Tee Or As It Is.

Layering Techniques

Layering Is A Game-Changer When It Comes To Keeping Your Kids Warm In Winter. Layering Helps Trap Heat To Provide Maximum Insulation. In Extremely Chilly Conditions, Parents Can Layer Girls And Boys Sweatshirts With Other Clothing Items Like Thermals, Turtlenecks, And Jackets. This Is Incredibly Important Especially In North India, Where Temperatures Can Plummet Up To 0 Degrees Celsius In December Or January.

Accessories for Added Warmth

Accessories Can Elevate Both Warmth And Style In Kids' Winter Outfits. Discuss Options Like Scarves, Hats, Gloves, And Earmuffs To Complement Their Sweatshirts. Offer Tips On Coordinating Accessories With Sweatshirt Colours And Patterns, Encouraging Parents To Mix And Match For A Fashionable Ensemble.

Styling Sweatshirts for Different Occasions

Every Occasion Calls For A Different Style, Even For Kids. Let Your Son And Daughter Choose A Sweatshirt For Various Situations Such As School, Playdates, And Family Outings. Suggest Appropriate Bottoms Like Jeans, Leggings, Or Skirts To Complete The Look. Highlight The Importance Of Matching Colours And Patterns For A Cohesive And Put-Together Appearance.

Creative DIY Ideas

Bring Out The Inner Fashion Designer In Your Kids With Creative DIY Ideas. Share Simple Techniques To Personalize And Customize Kids' Sweatshirts, Making Them Unique And Special. Provide Step-By-Step Instructions For Adding Embellishments, Patches, Or Appliques. Encourage Creativity And Imagination, Emphasizing That The Best Outfits Are Often The Ones Created With Love And Personal Flair.

Let Them Experiment With Their Style While Remaining Closely Under Your Watch. Based On The Occasion, Buy Hoodies Online That Are Soft And Warm While Allowing Your Kids Greater Freedom Of Movement.  To Start With, You Can Always Add A Hoodie From Fashion Dream To Your Cart And Get Amazing Discounts For It.

Conclusion

In Conclusion, Styling Your Kids' Sweatshirts For Winter Is Not Just About Warmth But Also About Expressing Their Unique Personalities. Selecting Warm, Comfortable, And Durable Sweatshirts Is Necessary For Their Health And Well-Being Too. Remind Readers Of The Versatility Of Layering, The Impact Of Accessories, And The Joy Of Experimenting With Different Styles. Encourage Them To Have Fun With Their Kids' Hoodie Outfits, Creating Memorable Winter Looks That Will Keep Them Cozy And Fashionable Throughout The Season.

[chansitrendz]

How to Pick the Best Designer Bridal Lehenga for Wedding?

After the wedding date is fixed, the first thing that always arises in every Indian bride’s mind is how to get the out-of-the-world designer bridal lehenga for wedding. A wedding is the biggest and most important event that ever happens in anyone’s life, so anyone obviously wants to look her best by wearing some super alluring outfit.

Thus, picking the right bridal lehenga online is essential. With limitless varieties of designs, colors, fabrics and styles to choose from, it is the biggest struggle to shortlist the best designer bridal lehenga for wedding. But if you read this blog, you can get some ideas how to find out your dream bridal lehenga online. We are giving some best tips that will guide you to get the best lehenga.

Follow These Easy Steps to Select the Best Designer Bridal Lehenga for Wedding 

Girls begin to plan their weddings as early as childhood. From choosing the ideal theme for wedding to select the best designer bridal lehenga for wedding they have lots of hectics for their marriage. Among all the tasks, choosing designer bridal lehenga for wedding is the toughest but most important task as only a lehenga can make or break your entire bridal lehenga. But don’t worry, now your lehenga choosing task can be hassle-free if you follow these below-mentioned tips.

1. Select A Bridal Lehenga According to the Time of Event

Designer bridal lehenga for wedding are available in a huge variety of colors, designs, styles. But to get a picture-perfect look, you have to buy your bridal lehenga choli keeping the event time in your mind. For example, if your wedding is going to be happen in daytime, a light-shaded and minimal embroidered and wedding lehenga for women is no doubt the perfect choice. While evening wedding or reception night typically need more gorgeous  heavily designed and vibrant shaded lehenga. It is so important to remember the event time while buying wedding lehenga for ladies if you want picture-perfect look.

2. Know Your Body Type before Buying Lehenga

It is so normal that every lehenga cannot suit on all body types. Everyone has different body shapes and it is so crucial to know the exact body type before doing your shopping for designer bridal lehenga for wedding. If you have an hourglass body type, any style of lehenga can easily fit on you. A-line lehenga is the finest option for pear-shaped body. If you have a slim body, a flared lehenga will be a beautiful choice for you but if you have chubbiness, don’t go for flared one as it will make you look overwhelmed and fat.

3. Buy It from Only A Trusted Wholesaler

There might be enormous lehenga wholesalers and manufacturers in the market. But you have to buy your designer bridal lehenga for wedding from a well-reputed and trusted lehenga wholesaler if you want to have an exceptional quality and most luxurious lehenga design for wedding.  

4. Choose the Fabrics Wisely

Selecting the fabric of your lehenga choli wisely is another important step to get the perfect designer bridal lehenga. Fabric always plays a major role in keeping you comfortable all day long. If you are getting hitched at summer, go for some super light and breezy fabrics like net, georgette, chiffon etc to stay comfortable during the hectic marriage day. On the other hand, if it is going to be held in winter, you should choose some thick and warm fabric like velvet, silk etc to get a cozy feeling. 

Get the Perfect Designer Bridal Lehenga for Wedding at Best Deals from Chansi Trendz 

Get a princess-feel on your biggest day of life with Chansi Trendz’s ultra gorgeous and impeccable designer bridal lehenga collection. Every bride who visits our website, will certainly find out the ideal Indian lehenga for Wedding that exceeds all of her expectations.

We provide bridal lehengas for women in a variety of colors and designs that are fashionable yet traditional enough. Come to Chansi Trendz for the best wholesale bridal lehenga at best price that will make you glow on your special day.

[priyaaguptaa]

How to Style Bamboo Bodysuits: Create Cute and Comfy Outfits for Your Baby

Bamboo bodysuits are a staple in any baby’s wardrobe, and for good reason. They’re soft, comfortable, and breathable, making them perfect for India’s hot and humid climate. But bamboo bodysuits can also be stylish, and there are many ways to dress them up or down.

Here are a few tips on how to style bamboo bodysuits for your baby:

Consider the occasion. Are you dressing your baby for a special event or just for everyday wear? If you’re dressing them up, you can choose a bodysuit with a fun pattern or design. For everyday wear, you can choose a more basic bodysuit in a solid color.

Layer it up. Bamboo bodysuits are a great layering piece. You can layer them under a dress, skirt, or pants. This is a great way to keep your baby warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Add accessories. You can accessorize your baby’s bamboo bodysuit with a headband, hat, or socks. This is a great way to add a touch of personality to their outfit.

Here are a few specific outfit ideas for Indian babies:

For a special event:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a lehenga or salwar kameez. You can also add a dupatta or scarf.

For boys, you can pair a bamboo bodysuit with a dhoti kurta or a sherwani.

For everyday wear:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a pair of jeans or shorts. You can also add a T-shirt or jacket.

For girls, you can pair a bamboo bodysuit with a skirt or a pair of leggings. You can also add a kurti or a top.

For summer:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a pair of shorts or a skirt. You can also add a sun hat and sunglasses.

For winter:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a pair of pants or leggings. You can also add a sweater or a jacket.

No matter how you style it, a bamboo bodysuit is a comfortable and stylish option for your Indian baby.

Here are some additional tips for Indian parents:

Look for bamboo bodysuits that are made with organic bamboo. Organic bamboo is grown without the use of pesticides or herbicides, making it a safer choice for your baby.

Wash bamboo bodysuits in cold water and air dry them. This will help to preserve the fabric and keep your baby’s bodysuit looking its best.

Here are some more specific outfit ideas for Indian babies:

For a baby girl:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a lightweight cotton skirt or a pair of leggings and a kurti.

For a more festive look, you can pair a bamboo bodysuit with a lehenga or a salwar kameez.

Add a headband or a pair of socks to complete the look.

For a baby boy:

Pair a bamboo bodysuit with a pair of jeans or shorts and a T-shirt.

For a more traditional look, you can pair a bamboo bodysuit with a dhoti kurta or a sherwani.

Add a hat or a pair of socks to complete the look.

No matter what outfit you choose, make sure that your baby is comfortable and that they have enough room to move and play.

[karahalloway]

20 Questions

Thanks so much for the tag @bebepac! I love stuff like this!  🤩

Nickname: Kati (Kara is a pen name). Alternatively, I go by ‘Bunny’ (husband) and ‘Mommy’ (my son).

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius and proud! 😊

Height: 170cm, which is approx. 5′ 6′’ (I used to be 168cm but I ended up grown 2cm while I was pregnant... weird, huh)

Last Movie I saw: Erm... I think it was Snatch. We definitely watched Snatch last weekend, but I can’t remember if we’ve watched another movie since then... Unless it’s to do with my fics, my memory is terrible... 😅

Last thing I Googled: Italian swearwords (you will understand when I post Chapter 2 of Sleepless in New York!)

Favourite Musician: Eugh... I have no idea! What music I listen to depends on what mood I’m in. But at the moment it’s a bit of a four-way tie between Luke Bryan, Jeremy Renner and Ed Sheeran (previously it was Chris Stapleton and Mikolas Josef).

Song Stuck in my head: Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran (my new favourite song!) Did I mention I like Ed Sheeran at the moment...? 😅

Other Blogs: https://yycwalkies.wordpress.com/ Haven’t updated it since I started writing fanfic though...

Blogs Following: Mostly TRR writers, but some art, photography and movies/TV shows as well

Sleep Patterns: A lot 😆 I love sleep! I got to bed between 9:30pm and 10:00pm usually as I need to be up by 7:00am to take my son to pre-school and I need at least 9 hours of sleep a night to be functional the next day.

Lucky Numbers: 2, 7, 14, 72

What am I wearing: Cosy sweatpants, t-shirt and an oversized cardigan (it’s winter where I am - as in cold + snow). When I’m at home, I wear ‘home’ clothes.

What would I do if capitalism didn’t exist: Guess it kind of depends on what we’d have instead... Would it be communism (in which case I’d probably be writing for some kind of underground anti-establishment publication), or something more idealistic like a hippie commune (in which case I’d be reconnecting with nature and doing a lot of yoga)

Dream Trip: Oh, my God... so many! I want to go see the Pyramids, Machu Pichu, the Great Wall of China, Japan, New Zealand, Yellowstone, go on safari in Kenya, cruise around the Med, Istanbul, Ireland, Scotland, Montana, Texas, explore all of Canada... The list goes on!

Favourite Food: Again... This is a hard question. Depends on what mood I’m in. But I will very rarely turn down Asian-fusion, sushi, Indian, burgers, Italian- or New York-style pizza (I like the thin crust). And cake. I love cake! 🍰

Instruments I play: None at the moment... I used to play the piano in elementary school and flute in middle school, but I’ve totally forgotten these skills now!

Languages I speak: English, Hungarian and some French. I used to be able to speak Danish (spent a year abroad there and took a month-long Danish language course). I can also read and get the gist of Spanish based on French. Just don’t ask me to say anything!

Favourite Songs: Oh, so many! Some of them include: 

Ed Sheeran - Shivers, Bad Habits, Stop the Rain, Sing, Shape of You, Galway Girl

Luke Bryan - Move, My Kind of Night, Driving This Thing, Knockin’ Boots, Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

Jeremy Renner - Nomad, Just My Type, She’s a Fire, Main Attraction

Chris Stapleton - Parachute, Tennessee Whiskey

Bryan Adams - Open Road, Run to You, The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me is You

Mikolas Jozef - Lie to Me, Colorado, Me Gusta

Other - Good Times Roll (Jimmie Allen & Brad Plaisley), Old Town Road (Lil Nas X & Bill Ray Cyrus), Honky Tonk On (Hayden Haddock), All Eyes on Us (Jon Langston), Must Be the Whiskey (Cody Jinks), High Horse (Nelly, Breland & Blanco Brown), Throw it Back (Breland & Keith Urban), Hard to Leave (Riley Green), Lit in the Sticks (Ryan Langdon), Chasing After You (Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris), She Drives Me Crazy (Brad Kissel), Take My Breath (The Weeknd)

Random facts about me: I’ve lived in 7 countries so far; when I was young (like a toddler) I was ambidextrous and really good a drawing (according to my mom, at any rate!); I’ve been writing since high school; I’ve loved reading since elementary school; I’m a total introvert and need to spend some alone time each day, or I get massively grouchy; we have two doggos and a catto; I love horse riding and hiking; I love chocolate!

Tagging @aussiegurl1234 @angelasscribbles @nestledonthaveone @petiteboheme @walkerdrakewalker @kingliam2019 @lovingchoices14 @peonierose​ and anyone else who wants to share some info about themselves!

[womenofwonder]

RWBY characters races for AUs set in our world.

How I’m going to do this: three things. The first, the city they live in Remnant. This is the least important because that leaves us with only five…maybe six places compared to our world’s hundreds of countries.

The second will be the original of their names, which they’ll have to keep in the AUs, meaning that they need some culture background for them.

The third will be their fairy tale origins.

So to start, Ruby Rose:

She lives in Vale, which is similar to France (I’ll explain why in another post maybe), but technically grew up in patch, a small island off the coast of Vale. I have no idea about Patch’s culture as we hardly ever see it, so I’m going to skip this one. We also don’t know if either Summer or Taiyang was originally from Vale.

We know Taiyang is Chinese from his name, so I’m going to say she’s half Chinese. I also wrote a western au once and really love the idea of Taiyang being an Asian Redneck…so I think I’m going to say Ruby is very, very southern just because that would be adorable.

But if you don’t want that idea I generally see Taiyang being either Asian-American or Asian-French, or Asian-British if your doing a HP AU. Summer is harder to pin down, but Red Riding Hood was originally an Italian fable, so I’m going to have her be Italian or Italian-American.

Weiss:

Weiss is German, although making her simply white America/British would work. I could see her being Russian too in some AU because Atlas fits well as Russia. For American works, Pennsylvania has quite the German population and coal mines, so that works pretty well for her.

Blake is really complicated. From Remment Australia which is culturally SEA (south East Asian), has an English name but parents with a Hindu-inspired names, but neither looking vaguely Indian. I’m going to assume her family are immigrants (as they are in cannon I think) to Australia, maybe even changed their name to help them fit in. Immigrants from where? Well, India is an option, but I like to think Malaysia. They have a large Indian and Chinese population, and I like to think Blake is a mixture of Chinese, Malay, and Indian ethnicities, from Malaysia and immigrated to Australia. And if you think this is crazy or unrealistic, you haven’t seen anything yet. The sheer mix of cultures I’ve seen growing up as an ex-pat is insane. This isn’t too crazy.

For Yang, we already have Taiyang as an Asian red-neck. Or at least I do. Raven and Qrow are going to be a little harder to pin down, but I’m think bandits getting replaced by mafia. Which mafia? I don’t know, take you’re pick. Branwen is Welsh, but I can’t think of a Welsh mafia. Coming from Mistral I would see them as being Triad, not Yakuza because Raven’s gang is famous for being less than coordinated.

If you need a logical reason for Yang having blonde hair, Taiyang could be only half Chinese, half blonde (blonde is race right?).

Either way I see Raven operating in an American city like New York or Detroit.

This would mean Yang is fully Chinese ethnically.

JNPR:

Jaune’s name and inspiration are all French. However his mother does come from Mistral (I think), so I do see him being half Chinese, but nationally French. It’s also funny to imagine him with a French accent.

Pyrrha: she’s Greek or maybe Greek-American with her parents being recent immigrants. Argus seems to Remnent-Greece and her name and fairy tale are greek.

Nora: she should be Scandinavian. I feel like in a MCU AU she’s Thor’s daughter. But she also grew up as a street rat in Mistral, which is hard to fit in our world. Therefore I’m going to have her in America, the great melting pot (and also America seems to be more like Mistral than any other Remnent king with our state system), and she going to ethically Scandinavian but knowing nothing of her culture due to her upbringing.

Ren: obviously Chinese, but I might have him be American-Chinese to fit his story nicely in with Nora’s.

Others:

Coco: we’re all ignoring that she’s based off Coco Channel, so let’s make her a LA girl

Velvet: Australia, because of the accent. Or maybe English because that is her story origin

Fox: he’s difficult, because tribes are pretty rare in modern AUs. But his story could work for various things. He’s one of the few black characters so he could come from practically any African tribe (I’m currently going with Hausa because it’s one of the few I know anything about). His name is based off ‘the fox and the hound’ which is a rare American story, so he could also be from a Native American tribe if you want the AU to be more American-based.

Yatsuhashi: Japanese, this one is thankfully easy.

Sun: Chinese. He comes from a tribe as well, but I can’t think of any nomadic Chinese tribes except the Uyghurs. Making Sun a Uyghur doesn’t make much sense but it will serve to piss off certain people on the internet. And now this is going to be taken down, isn’t it? Oh wait, this is tumbrl. This is anarchy. It won’t. Forgot why I liked this place for a second.

Scarlet: sorry for the rambling there. Anyway, Scarlet is definitely English. “I hope I don’t get sand in my shoes.”

Sage: well, he’s black, but other then that we have nothing to go one. He’s also from Mistral but that doesn’t really work? If Mistral is America as well as China I guess we can make him African American. Or whatever else works best for the AU. He might be Indian too now that I think of it. Or even Maori. Really options are limitless here.

Neptune: Yeah, so probably just American, but does have both a French last name and an Italian first name. So probably ethically American (aka white mutt). Also he lives near a port, I think I’m gonna gone with him being from Tacoma Washington because I am.

Flynt: African American

Neon: Japanese-American because of her meme (it started as part of Japanese pop song on YouTube, the latter of which is America summed up in one invention)

Oscar: Hispanic-American, he just looks it. And I’m guessing he lives in Kansas for obvious reasons. His last name isn’t Hispanic but their could be a lot of reasons for that. Or he could be Native American (Pawnee, Cheyenne, and Osage are all Native American tribes in Kansas).

Penny: well if she’s still a robot she probably stays white, but if you want her human in this AU she might end up being half black as Pietro is, although she also could just be adopted. I guess the later makes more sense, huh? I figure she’s American, with her dad working with a ‘well meaning’ but ultimately corrupt government. Probably living in DC, as that has both the government and the poverty issues.

Emerald: oohh, boy. This is hard. Sustrai is Basque, and Aladdin is a French addition to an Arabian story, she herself is dark skinned with anime features that are super unhelpful for this sorta thing.

I have three ideas. Brazilian, mostly as there’s no South American themed RWBY characters I can think of, and it’s diverse enough that someone looking like Emerald would fit. Secondly, for American centered stories she’s just an orphan with no idea of her ethnicity. Or she could be African, Indian, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic or some mixture between those four. It’s honestly really hard to tell. In my fanfic she’s from Suriname and ethnically 1/4 Indian, 1/2 Creole, and 1/4 Javanese.

Ilia: Sioux (Native American). Ilia means a lot of things in a lot of different languages, and Amitola mean rainbow in Sioux, so I decided to just stick with that.

Mercury: American, white mutt American. I’m guessing New York or Philli for where he grew up, it seems like a place where he’d be comfortable

Neo: the new novel reveals her father lived in vale (btw I haven’t read it, I’m just getting this off the internet) and her mother was a assassin who’s origins aren’t known. She doesn’t really have a fairy tale. So I’m going to go with British or French (thank RWBY thoughts for the first one) although in an American AU she works as just a white American.

Robyn: depends on what Atlas is in this AU, but probably German or American.

Qrow: I already mentioned he’s probably Chinese due to being from Mistral. It’s a bit weird to think of him as Asian, but not as weird as it to think of Raven as white, so I’ll take it. Although I do like the idea of him being American Irish, that’s fun.

Winter: whatever Atlas is in this AU, German or American, although British and Russian would work well too.

Maria: Mexican

Salem: If you want a AU where she’s just a normal person then New England or Italian for her story origin

Watts: British

Tyrian: uh…I have no idea, but he looks white. And he kinda has a British accent? I want him to be southern for the accent tho. Probably just another crazy American

Cinder: her fairy tale is French but her origin is Chinese. Also, Cinderella doesn’t really have an origin, it’s an ancient story with every culture having at least one Cinderella story. So I’m going to say Chinese.

Hazel: American, from the Midwest. He’s darkish so maybe he’s a POC? Part Native American or Hispanic? Idk or really care I can’t stand Hazel

Roman Torchwick: American-Italian, he runs/works for the mafia

Ozpin: American because of the whole wizard-of-Oz-thing or French, because he seems to have come from Vale.

Glynda: American or French for the same reasons Ozpin is

Oobleck: Jewish American (because Dr. Seuss was)

Professor Port: Russian, due to his fairy tale, or English, due to his style

Taiyang: already said he’s a red-neck Asian.

Raven: depending on whether you want her to be white or not, either Chinese or Irish American, like I already said.

Cordovin: Karen

Ironwood: again, depends on Atlas in the AU. Either American or German…maybe Russian

Clover: Irish-American (or German, obviously the ace-ops depend on where Atlas is. I’m just going to do the rest of them assuming Atlas is American because Germany isn’t that diverse)

Harriet: African-American, I guess. It kinda messes with the story because Harriet is supposed to be privileged, which doesn’t really work in this AU, but she’s also obviously black.

Elm: Just normal American, maybe greek-American because of the Aesop fable themes

Vine: Tibetan based on his design

Marrow: either African-American or Pakistani/Indian-American. (I’m personally going for Pakistani)

Klein: english. All butlers are English. It’s a rule.

Pietro: African-American

Johanna: Pakistani or Indian American

Fiona: Jewish-American (kinda random but while she’s obviously white she also needs to be a minority for the Faunus thing to work)

May: normal upper glass American/German

Ghira: Half Malay, Half Indian, from Malaysia but immigrated to Australia later in life

Kali: half Chinese, half Indian, but also from Malaysia

Adam: much like Fiona I’m going to assume he’s Jewish due to him being white but still needing to be a minority. German or American, again, depending on where Atlas is. Or he could be Chinese, even though it doesn’t work with his name, due to the theory that he was trafficked much like Cinder. I’m going with ethically Jewish though

Sienna Khan: Indian

Huh, I actually finished that. I’m pretty sure I was accidentally racist multiple times and apologize in advance,

I’m exhausted and starving and not thinking straight. But anyway, here it is. Your very messy guide to modern RWBY AUs. I swear this was insane to sort out.