#pakistani dance

[dspd]

You know what we don't see a lot of in TMA'verse? The exploration of Jon's brownness. It's widely accepted that Jon is some flavor of brown in fanon but we never see him with a bindi or read that he always smells faintly of sandalwood from morning prayer to his parents and grandmother. I'd love to see fanart of a young Jon next to his tiny dadi (paternal grandmother), both wearing traditional white clothes as they pray during Narayan Bali Yagya (Hindu funeral rites for unusual deaths) for his father. Or a background picture on his desk of him and dadi, in a beautiful saffron orange and deep red sari, posing and serious at his high school graduation ceremony, his olive green dhoti peeking from behind his unzipped gown and NEHS stole, cap held carefully in his hands.

What if Martin finds out that he's more successful in getting his workaholic boss to take a meal break if he brings in Kerala food, particularly Idiyappam with Curry.

What is, once Jon has been sufficiently traumatized so like s3, he searches for comfort in childhood memories and Jon pulls out some stuff he remembers his mom and dad wearing around home when he was small, including a rather small mango mala necklace his mother wore and a couple gold bangles that match his father's heirloom ring passed down for 4 generations.

Like, he doesn't have to be Hindu (approx. 1.6% of UK identifies as Indian) but the point is we should fully embrace him being brown.

[golzar]

Jannat Mian

[manwalksintobar]

If They Should Come for Us  // Fatimah Asghar

these are my people & I find them on the street & shadow through any wild all wild my people my people a dance of strangers in my blood the old woman’s sari dissolving to wind bindi a new moon on her forehead I claim her my kin & sew the star of her to my breast the toddler dangling from stroller hair a fountain of dandelion seed at the bakery I claim them too the sikh uncle at the airport who apologizes for the pat down the muslim man who abandons his car at the traffic light drops to his knees at the call of the azan & the muslim man who sips good whiskey at the start of maghrib the lone khala at the park pairing her kurta with crocs my people my people I can’t be lost when I see you my compass is brown & gold & blood my compass a muslim teenager snapback & high-tops gracing the subway platform mashallah I claim them all my country is made in my people’s image if they come for you they come for me too in the dead of winter a flock of aunties step out on the sand their dupattas turn to ocean a colony of uncles grind their palms & a thousand jasmines bell the air my people I follow you like constellations we hear the glass smashing the street & the nights opening their dark our names this country’s wood for the fire my people my people the long years we’ve survived the long years yet to come I see you map my sky the light your lantern long ahead & I follow I follow

[cokestudiopakistan]

just wait for the beat to drop.

[uglyandtraveling]

Maha Onam 2024 - Toronto Canada Experience the Culture of Kerala South India

Join me as I dive into the vibrant and colorful celebrations of Maha Onam right here in Toronto! This festival, hailing from Kerala in South India, marks the Malayalam New Year and celebrates the legendary King Mahabali’s homecoming. It’s a time of joy, unity, and cultural pride, filled with spectacular traditions and lively performances.

Enjoy the vibes of this biggest Onam celebration in North America, held at Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Ontario Canada.

[tabileaks]

Punjabi Fetival | Charda te Lehnda Punjab Lahore ich | Songs | Bhangra | Tabi in Punjabi

[paulpingminho]

[golzar]

Jannat Mian

[themousefromfantasyland]

Why are people not talking about this:

In the Little Mermaid 2023 remake, they changed the setting of the story.

Despite what many believe, the original 1989 animated movie wasn't set in Denmark. Judging by the architecture of Prince Eric's castle, the animals present during Kiss the Girl, and the landscape of the land itself, the movie is set in the European Mediterranean. Disney all but confirmed this in latter years. There were actual theories about Eric's kingdom being in Italy.

In the remake, Eric's kingdom is an island heavily implied to be on the Caribbean sea.

Eric is adopted and his mother, the Queen is super alive in this, and she is black. Grimsby here is portrayed by a Pakistani-British actor, making him ambiguously brown. Carlotta was replaced by a character named Lashana, and she is portrayed by a Trinidadian actress.

The island population is super diverse, with black and brown people everywhere.

They have a tropical climate and the only trees seen are palm trees.

Instead of waltzing when they visit the kingdom, Ariel and Eric dance Caribbean music.

When Eric shows several maps to Ariel, he suspiciously cites the names of a lot of South America countries, like Venezuela and Colombia, implying that the kingdom is closer to these countries than it is to Europe. He even cites my country, Brazil, referred as the Brazilian Empire, which dates the movie from anywhere between 1822 and 1889, when Brazil was indeed an Empire.

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @thelittlehansy

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

“The best things / happen while you’re dancing”

Just a little Ari-Roger piece while we had our Christmas tradition of watching White Christmas (and Muppet’s Christmas Carol)!

I didn’t want to copy-paste Ari’s outfit, so her hair is in a Khopa (traditional Bengali hair bun), with clay earrings, and shoes inspired by juttis (Pakistani-Indian shoes), as well as a few alterations to the dress.

[libdeminomenon]

2025 Predictions:

- Rachel Reeves gone by the end of the year.

- The Rest Is Politics interview Kamala Harris and / or Michelle Obama.

- Peter Mandelson / other important Labour Party figure is exposed in a leak slagging off Trump. Outrage.

- Keir Starmer hugs Ed Davey and they play FIFA for charity.

- Lee Anderson pornography scandal.

- George Osborne randomly admits he did a fuck load of cocaine at one point in his political career and no one is surprised.

- Right-wing media starts panicking that Keir Starmer is going to make us join the Euro currency, based on absolutely zero evidence.

- Ian Hislop / other big pundit goes viral slagging off Brigit Phillipson’s education policies and she is forced to fight for her job.

- It is revealed that the Tory sleaze was even worse than originally thought. Boris Johnson makes a Nick Clegg-style apology video and it is immediately remixed into a chart-topping banger.

- Wes Streeting cries publicly. He is also accused of bullying within the Labour Party but that is unrelated.

- Kemi Badenoch has an Ed Miliband bacon sandwich moment.

- Israel win the judge’s vote in Eurovision.

- House of Lords reform becomes The Big Thing. Keir Starmer faces rebellion from his own party as some of them quite like being lords. Lib Dems win more public support through this.

- Sir Sadiq Khan scandal. Labour Party refuse to acknowledge it and bring up Tory COVID parties whenever it’s mentioned.

- Someone makes a Rory Stewart documentary and suggests that he *was* a spy.

- Nigel Farage is videoed saying he doesn’t care about how much the British people are suffering so long as they continue to vote for him. His supporters either defend him and accuse the Left of not being about to take a joke or defect to another far-right party.

- Daisy Cooper dabs / flosses / does a TikTok dance.

- A petition to ban Donald Trump from the UK reaches five million signatures. It fails to change anything, but the Liberal Democrats and the Greens lead a protest of over a million people through the streets of London.

- Trump says he loves the English people but he’s not so keen on the Pakistanis and the Welsh.

- Ed Balls has a massive argument with Rachel Reeves on Good Morning Britain. He is accused by Centrists in the Labour Party of being “a traitor” and “a bad husband”.

- Someone shits themselves in the House of Commons.

- Tony Blair says something about trans people again / is photographed with JK Rowling. In response, Gordon Brown comes out with his unequivocal support for trans people everywhere.

- Ed Miliband paints his nails.

Feel free to add your own predictions !! I’d love to hear what everyone thinks :)

[fallen5t4r]

How I Perceive James Potter + Headcanons

Appearance:

ೃ࿔₊• | The most defined dimples ever

ೃ࿔₊• | Has a beauty spot under his eye (it’s one of his favourite features abt him)

ೃ࿔₊• | Hit his growth spurt before most of the other guys and gradually became one of the tallest guys but then the others hit their growth spurt and was no longer the tallest

ೃ࿔₊• | Smiles so big you see his gums

ೃ࿔₊• | Has the fullest eyebrows - his mum taught him how to thread and shape them

ೃ࿔₊• | His hair is long enough to touch his neck - he went through a phase where his parents would buzz his hair bc it was so hard to manage so now that they don’t he’s really attached to it

Personality

ೃ࿔₊• | The kind of popular kid you just can’t hate - teachers hate him only bc he distracts the class but they genuinely love him as a person

ೃ࿔₊• | He’s just happy to be here tbh

ೃ࿔₊• | Peacekeeper who puts so much unnecessary stress on himself trying to solve everyone else’s problems

ೃ࿔₊• | Can not say no to somebody for the life of him

ೃ࿔₊• | Has a super strong moral compass which sometimes overrules his logical thinking - thinks before he acts

ೃ࿔₊• | The most hopeless romantic

ೃ࿔₊• | Believes in soul mates

Music Taste

70s

ೃ࿔₊• | The Clash - lives for Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I Go (it’s popular for a reason)

ೃ࿔₊• | The Beatles

ೃ࿔₊• | Cher - he’s a sucker for soul bearing songs and pop in general, the dark lady album is his shit

Modern

ೃ࿔₊• | Boyz 2 Men

ೃ࿔₊• | One Direction - he was a WRECK when Zayn left

ೃ࿔₊• | The Strokes

ೃ࿔₊• | Backstreet Boys - I want it That Way is his go to karaoke song, black and blue is his favourite album but millennium is a close second he’ll say he loves every album if you ask him to pick a fav

Style

70s

ೃ࿔₊• | Lived in one specific pair of jeans because lily taught him how to embroider a small sun at the bottom of the left leg

ೃ࿔₊• | Beatle boots during the school year- he loved how platform boots looked but realistically he would’ve broken his ankles trying to walk in them, he’d never admit that last part publicly tho

ೃ࿔₊• | Polo shirts

Modern

ೃ࿔₊• | Jorts that go past his knees

ೃ࿔₊• | Was against socks showing out of shoes but now he loves it and feels weird when you can’t see his socks

ೃ࿔₊• | Because of the above he wears the randomest socks that say stuff like “dino-myte” with a bunch of dinosaurs and just random colours

ೃ࿔₊• | Lives eats breathes the sandwich method

ೃ࿔₊• | Does daily fit checks

Relationships

Romantic

ೃ࿔₊• | Lily - is the Agape type of love meaning it is unconditional, the purest form of love based off mutual care and compassion, it is a love that makes you want to put this person before yourself it is selfless and goes beyond physical wants

ೃ࿔₊• | Regulus - is the Pragma type of love meaning practical in greek, a long lasting love that has been built and will continue on patience and understanding, a willingness to grow both as a pair and an individual, less like a blind love and more conscious.

Platonic

ೃ࿔₊• | Sirius - Philia and Storge type of love, a combination of admiration between friends harboured over the years and the unconditional love of family, both born from consistent presence in one’s life overcoming the joys, sorrows, failures and successes and still remaining a life buoy in one’s grand ses of life

More Headcanons

ೃ࿔₊• | His mum is guatemalan and his dad is pakistani and they speak a combination of spanish and punjabi at home

ೃ࿔₊• | At some point went to sleep under the invisibility cloak and his parents almost tore the house apart trying to find him in the morning

ೃ࿔₊• | He cried when iron man died in avengers end game and still hasn’t moved on

ೃ࿔₊• | Posts everything on instagram for memories

ೃ࿔₊• | Goated at fortnite

ೃ࿔₊• | Keep this guy away from a dance floor because he is about to out serve everyone

ೃ࿔₊• | Whenever he got a question wrong in class he’d whip out the “english isn’t my first language” card knowing full well all languages he speaks are equally fucked

ೃ࿔₊• | stopped doing the above, when a teacher proceeded to ask a follow up question in spanish, which he also answered wrong

[uglyandtraveling]

Toronto Canada | Indonesian Food Festival 2024 at Yonge-Dundas Square

Experience the taste of Indonesia in the heart of Toronto, Canada. My walk takes us to the lively Yonge-Dundas Square, a hub of entertainment and culture, where the city's energy is palpable.

See the unique blend of nature and urban life that makes Toronto special. The festival aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Indonesian culture through food, music, dance, art, and more.

In this vlog I will walk you through the live performances on the Yonge-Dundas Square stage, featuring traditional and contemporary music and dance, and line dancing.

Whether you're a local or a visitor, this tour offers a fresh perspective on Toronto's vibrant urban landscape. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more exciting travel vlogs showcasing the best of Toronto and beyond!