#like i dont see maaike as a hateful person

[gothoffspring]

who wants to help me characterize maaike and ulrike!? like ive put a lot of thought into it already but id love some ppl to riff with about it. what do their traits make u think abt their personality? do u think they have any quirks? who likes the other more?

the only concrete fucking thing i have is that maaike has been pining after ulrike for almost their entire friendship and ulrike is like i love u my best gal pal :') and maaike is like,,, oh. okay :))))

ulrike is sleeping w marcus flex, maaike hates this man more than anything and wants him to Perish (they actually end up becoming rly good friends eventually tho once maaike and ulrike become a Thing yknow)

[qalma-e-azadi]

WOA WOAH WOAH OK OK SO RANT COMING THROUGH AND ITS ABOUT NORTH INDIAN SOAPS AND IMMA PUT UP A READ MORE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE SSOOOOOO LONG PLEASE PLEASE READ IT IF YOU CAN.

so recently, my mom is having some free time to herself so she's been catching up on her habit of watching north-indian soaps and since i want to spend some mom-daughter time with her, i was like, why not? so i watch them with her. and there are so many thing that left me feeling like, "2021?!!!! THIS???? IN THE 21ST DECADE OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY????"

impromptu dulha/dulhan badalna? marriages for the sake of revenge?????: bro, is it literally janamo janamo ka saath ya ghaas katai???? AREY SHAADI KAR RAHE HO LADDU NAHI BAT RAHE HAIN KI HAA JO MANDAP PE BAITHEGA USKO DO MOTI CHOOR EXTRA and fucking imagine what the dulha/dulhan feels like after this???? nahi what? unka to kat gaya na! arey yaar IMAGINE THEY HAVE TO SPEND THEIR ENTIRE LIFE WITH THIS PERSON!!!! AUR USS PERSON KO SWAP KAR DIYA USKE BHAI/BEHEN SE??? accha chalo ab ho bhi gayi shaadi theek hai talaq kara do na that's the sensible next step BUT NAHI SHAADI EK PAVITRA RISHTA HAI ISKA MAAN KARNA CHAIYE AREY TO YEH PAVITRATA SONE GAYI THI JAB TUMNE EK DUSRI AURAT KO MANDAP PE BITHA DIYA??? KUCH SENSE BANTA HAI ISS BAAT KA??

no other religion/culture except the one that has the lead: ni matlab christianity hota hi kya hai???? exist hi nahi karta hai bhai islam kya hota hai?? arey allah hu allah hu qawali na haina? bas na? like imagine it's marwari or pretends to be (pss pss ye rishta kya kehlata hai) to behen ke pakodo bas hindu hote hain rajasthan me hain?? aisa hai to main jiss school jaati hu woh to exist hi nahi karta ha fir yaa to main khud hi catfish hu ya main bhi exist nahi karti bhoot se baat karte ho tum log yaha par?? aur aisa nahi hai ki accha delhi me set hai show EK AUR RELIGION/CULTURE DIKHA DO NAHI NAHI NAHI delhi is so diverse you would loose your shit figuring out kitne religions/cultures hain udhar ek yusuf ya joseph sunayi de jaaye mere kaano se shehed behne lag jaaye maa kasam bata rahi hu AUR JAB MAJOR MINORITIES LIKE MUSLIM AUR CHRISTIANS KO HI REP NAHI MILTA TO GHANTA AFGHANS KO YA JEWS KO YA SYRAIN CHRISTIANS KO YA IMMIGRANTS KO YA SCHEDULED CASTES KO MILEGA??

AUR JANAAB AGAR REP DE BHI RAHEIN HAIN TO ITNI WAHIYAAT ULTI EW: let me explain, there was this show jisme romantic interest was from Chennai ok. HAR TIME USKI MUMMY AIYYO BOLTI REHTI THI AND LIKE— NOT ONE HINT OF AN ACCENT PERFECT STEREOTYPE (and i used to die each time she said that) AND EK MUSLIM CHARACTER JISKA NAAM THA "BENAZEER-BANU-MUMTAZ" NAHI MUGHAL HI BANA DETE EK KAAM KARO MUJRA KARWAO AB ISSE AND LIKE— *goes to cry in a corner* *comes back* SHE DIDN'T LIKE HER PARENTS AT ALL HER ABBA FORCED HER TO WEAR THE NIQAB— LIKE— ILL CRY OH OH WAIT ITS GETS BETTER SHES IN LOVE WITH A HINDU WHO TREATS HER LIKE SHIT AND HATES HER RELIGION AND MEAT OH OH AND GUESS WHAT SHES GETTING FORCED MARRIED TO AN OLD GUY A MULLAH TO BE SPECIFIC EK MUSLIM KO CONSULT NAHI KIYA HOGA YE SHOW BANATE HUE NOT ONE EK YUN IKKA.

sexism??? itna jyaada?? aur harrasment like this is illegal wala harrasment: bahu ho tameez me raho. bado se aise baat karte hain kya? saas ka hukum chalane uska haq hai. zuban kainchi ki tarah chal rahi hai. jangli murgi (yea ifkr). and in the old saath nibhana saathiya her mother-in-law literally tried to kill her, made her work in the kitchen like a slave, her husband emotionally abused her like out of nowhere, made her sleep on the floor, calls her uneducated "not worth being his wife" and like people went along with it?? also another subtle thing the guys in the show wear westernised outfits like pants and shirts and with decades those changed pants and shirts became tees and jeans and tees and jeans became shorts and hoodies BUT if the woman steps out of her bold red saari and mangalsutr or a suit/anarkali that i wouldn't even wear at my brother's wedding she is a "chudail" "par aagaye hain" "not sanskari anymore" and unconventional beauty and behavioral standards??? behen sola shringaar karke sone kaun jaata hai?? stalking is normalised, harassing normalised, domestic abuse normalised, trashy behaviour from in-laws and husband normalised and the list goes on.

pettiest of problems istg: ek rasam nahi maani, ladki wale humari ghulami nahi karte, she isn't a p*rnstar, ladka ameer nahi hai, bahu ne chalees jano ke liye khana time pe nahi banaya, bahu maaike se aadhe ghante me nahi aayi, bahu ke ladke dost hain, THE BAHU HAS TO BE PERFECT BUT LEAST SHOULD BE EXPECTED FROM THE BETA BECAUSE MEN WILL BE MEN.

classism, casteism at its finest: life is fun until you understand that "woh sanskaari hai, acche khaandaan ki hai" and "woh sundar, susheel aur sanskari hai" just means that she is patriarchal/admits to patriarchy and is rich, a virgin, uppercaste and is beautiful according to european beauty standards.

toxic relationships: "maa kabhi galat nahi chaahti hai" "baapuji kabhi galat nahi hote hain" "bhabhi ka kehna patthar ki lakeer hai" "bhaiyya ko bhagwan ki tarah maano" "tum sirf aur sirf meri ho" "usko to main wapis le kar rahungi" "iss ka to main jeena haraam kar dungi" you're lying if you've never heard at least one of them.

LIKE Y'ALL DONT REALISE I HATE THIS CULTURE SO BAD. LIKE I WANT A SOAP WITH A DALIT, AN AFGHAN, A JEW, A MUSLIM AS A LEAD. A LESBIAN PERSON, AN ARO-ACE PERSON, A DEMIROMANTIC PERSON, A BISEXUAL PERSON, A HIJRA, AN INTERSEX PERSON AS A LEAD.

IM SO TIRED OF SEEING THE NARRATIVE THAT OH! THIS RICH PRIVILEGED UPPERCASTE LITTLE SHIT DOESNT HAVE LOVE IN HIS LIFE HAWW DESPITE BEING ABUSIVE, HAVING A CONTROLLING MOTHER, OBSESSIVE AND UNFAITHFUL HAWWWWW AND WANTS A GIRL WHO'S A VIRGIN NEVER HAS TALKED TO A MAN ONCE AND SUBMITS TO HIM LIKE A SLAVE SO SAD BOOHOO.

I WANT YOU TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHATS WRONG WITH INDIA CAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH. TOO MUCH.