#mayri

[badedramay]

How is mayri doing so well on social media and with the masses? I can't believe a show which was supposed to create awareness on child marriage has the most amount of romantic edits on ig....are people ok?

i mean.. have you seen the kids? They cute. and they do have chemistry (as in they carry their scenes well together and have a comfort between them that translates nicely on screen). what more does a show in Pakistan need to become a success? Take almost all the big hits of the country and none of them will be without a solid pairing at the center of it. Mayri just happens to have a younger pairing by the usual standards.

I haven't watched the show so i don't know if the show's narrative is pointing out the negative impacts of child marriage or glorifying it. i have only read comments that says its the latter. however, my mother who watches the show, hasn't confirmed that to me and she says the drama paints a sorry picture of the young people who have been married against their will and before their time. so really..i don't have enough facts with me to call the show as it is bad or not.

EDITED TO ADD: i confirmed with Mumma and she told me the show repeatedly in every episode calls out the practice of early marriage as a severe act of injustice to both the boy and the girl. both Aini and Fakhir are shown as deeply unhappy and unsatisfied with the turn their lives have taken with their marriage. them compromising on their marital status doesn't mean their relationship is in any way glorified in the narrative.

based on the edits and comments i have seen on ig, it only becomes clearer that our audience wants to watch a good looking pairing with a balanced relationship of light heartedness and conflict that's engaging and realistic. which is what the Mayri couple is giving them. Fakhir and Aini had the friction of hating each other initially to them gradually becoming, if not lovers, then at least partners who lend each other support through their troubles. is theirs an idealistic, inspiring relationship? it's not. but from what i have seen in edits and comments it's not full of the usual toxic bs as well. to the drama's audience it's fun to watch and engage with.

look..i had my cable and starone and channel v etc when i was in my teens which gave me plenty of youth shows with romance and drama that kept me hooked. what does the current generation of teenagers audience have in local content??? they aren't interested in watching the saas bahu saazish. that's for the older generation of audience to indulge in. you think it's the adults making edits on ig? not really. It's the younger audience which has enough free time to churn out edits after edits without real life pulling them in other directions. i remember spending HOURS on forums and with my basic Photoshop skills making gifs daily for shows i was hooked to when i was in that age. were those shows narratively the best? Heck no! Ek se ek badhkar kachra tha but hey i had FUN. i learned things from it that helped in developing my taste. I didn't watch the shows and nikal padi main college mein romance karne. the point i am trying to make is that even one show can have different sets of audience if the show has multiple enough elements to cater to them. Mayri clearly does.

[miss0atae]

Beauties from The Sign the series.

I'm in love with all of them 😍

[spookyshape]

Nemu and Mayuri sketches i don't like enough to post separately

[blue-grama]

Bad news: I now ship it.

[vossprime]

real yearners know about the polycule AU

[theflagscene]

I really wanna know what Mayris’ deal is, with the headphones and classical music constantly playing. Is she supposed to be neurodivergent, having to keep sounds down to due sensory issues. Given how brilliant she is and her ability to read lips and remember things on cue, they could be leaning into the whole ASD thing that media likes to do, making anyone on the spectrum like Sheldon.

But given the mystical side of the series, I wonder if there’s something more to her that’s a bit less human 🤔🤔 Like she can hear thoughts or something, so she’s constantly trying to block it out with music. She’s a rather interesting character, I hope they show more of her and explore a bit more about her. I know it’s unlikely though since we are on episode 6, meaning we only have 6 more episodes to go and there’s still a lot of other players to add to the board and backstory to explore. Makes me wish this was a cdrama, hello 36 episodes! Lol.

Also, who wants to put money now on the fact that Inspector Tam and Inspector Akk were lovers? 🤚

Just me?

[vossn]

Is Mayrie free on Saturday?

For Rana? Always.

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Tom Speight & The Mayries - Coastline

Peaceful

[asongperday]

Song of the Day — “everything i wanted (acoustic version)” by The Mayries

I had a dream I got everything I wanted Not what you’d think And if I’m being honest It might’ve been a nightmare

[badedramay]

Idk why anyone is surprised Mayri is doing well. People cling to romance, and unfortunately, toxic couples are stanned the most. It’s true in anime, tellywood, Hollywood, and pretty much every other big media dynasty.

If we’re specifically talking about pakistan, people lost it when the ending to Gul e Rana was changed so that Sajal didn’t end up with toxic ass Feroze in that drama. People seriously wanted her with a dude who was high key implied to have raped her. Actually, nearly every FK drama fits this narrative. Tere Bin is another shining example of what you said — as long as there’s a love story, the problems are forgiven (will never forget the diatribes people wrote excusing Murtasim’s rape before that was retconned into it being mutual).

And as I said earlier, this problem isn’t unique to pakistan, but you can’t entirely blame the audience for wanting to see hope in even the most hopeless situations. It’s how most of us are living our day to day lives, yo.

okay but is the Mayri couple actually TOXIC though?? this word is used loosely for literally anything that isn't immediately perceived as a healthy, green flag-y representation of a character/relationship. whereas the actual implications of the word need to be a little more drastic than a young, teenage couple that got married way before their age having a child. is it wrong? yeah, it's a solid topic to discuss. is it TOXIC? ummmm...no? I don't think so?

the thing in, not just Pakistan, but a functioning patriarchal society is that toxicity in marriages is not seen as anything worth breaking the relationship off. the sanctity of marriage >>>>> everything. literally ALL the problems and all forms of abuse are seen as minor "inconveniences" when happening within the relationship of marriage. and it will take a LOT of generational unlearning for people to realize that marriage as a relationship can never be more important than the individual safety of a person, physical and mental. in Pakistan toh some scholars have twisted the whole meaning of marriage from being a partnership to being a master-slave relationship by completely misinterpreting the teachings of the Prophet and the religion. because agaiinnn the country where this religion originated from and the country that is STILL the most powerful center of it IS a patriarchal society. yeah, the Prophet prohibited the burying of newborn girls but over the 14+ centuries since His time, the men of that nation have found new ways to smother and suffocate women to death without directly getting their hands dirty. if this is up your alley then look for the sources of the teachings that have shaped the mindset of our nation regarding specific gender issues and you'll get your answer ke chal kya raha hain yahan pe.

i am not trying to take this answer to another tangent. it's just that when you realize what specific mindset led to the angry outbursts at the ending of Gul e Rana or the passionate defense of Murtasim's rape comes from..they become very understandable. i don't have to support them but being part of the same society and living with these people, i get why it happens. it's great that social media now has the power to change such otherwise normally accepted wrong behavior like it did in the case of Tere Bin but it will take a LOT of time for the on-ground reality to change. iss generation mein toh hone se raha.

100% agree with your last point of audience wanting to get some respite from their already exhausting daily lives. if a fiction drama, under the wrappings of all the torture and melodrama, can give them a glimmer of hope to cling to for like 2 months in a year toh I see nothing wrong in it. at the end of the day the audience is the most blameless of the lot. they only react to what they are given. none of the audience went out on the streets DEMANDING they be given only a certain kind of fictional entertainment. the makers brought us here slowly and steadily over the course of last decade. ab audience pe kya blame daalna? grab the collars of the makers who hare raking in crores by making this kind of content.

[icouldhyperfixatehim]

starting to feel a little bad for the inspector at this point. his whole thing was basically 1) follow concrete evidence 2) do as you're told and be professional that's literally it and instantly he got

tharn [sticking his hand up]: i have psychic crime visions :)

phaya: and we're all fucking eachother :)

yai [also sticking his hand up]: not me inspector, i love my hot wife :)

mayris: [earbuds in, sick violin solo]

[ningauinerd]

Wonderful news from the Cyclops Mountains of West Papua today with the rediscovery of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi)!

(Image credit: Expedition Cyclops)

Previously known a single specimen collected in 1961, Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has long been one of the world's most elusive mammals. Recognised as a distinct species in 1998, an expedition to the Cyclops Mountains in 2007 failed to observe the echidna but found evidence of recent diggings and foraging activity which, alongside local knowledge, implied that the species still survived in those remote mountain forests.

Finally, just a few months ago, a new expedition into its remote mountain home by Expedition Cyclops caught the first ever footage of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna in the wild, which is also the first time it has been seen by scientists in over 60 years. In a remarkable stroke of luck, the echidna was captured on the last of over 80 camera traps on the final day of the trip!

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is the most distinctive of the three species of long-beaked echidna thanks to its smaller size, shorter, straighter beak and reddish-brown fur. Its habits are virtually unknown, but its differently shaped beak may suggest that it differs in diet and feeding habits from the other two long-beaked echidna species. It appears to be endemic to the highest elevations of the Cyclops Mountains, which are steep, extremely rainy and treacherous to explore, hence why it remained hidden for so long.

(Image credit: Expedition Cyclops)

There are only five species of monotreme alive today, the sole living custodians of a lineage stretching back some 200 million years, and this makes each species extraordinarily valuable. Unfortunately, all three species of long-beaked echidna are threatened with extinction, with Attenborough's long-beaked echidna being classed as critically endangered. Losing any species is a tragedy, but for a group as small and precious as monotremes, any extinction would be especially disastrous.

Alongside the rediscovery of the echidna, Expedition Cyclops also made the first record of Mayr's honeyeater (Ptiloprora mayri) in 16 years and discovered dozens of new species of insects, arachnids, shrimp and frogs. Their work documenting the hidden biodiversity of the Cyclops Mountains is ongoing, so if you'd like to follow and support the expedition make sure to visit their website! https://www.expeditioncyclops.org/

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[respectthepetty]

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