#punjabi quotes on love

[kaashni-words]

Tu milya, Rabb milya

تو ملا، رب ملا

(When I found you, I found God.)

Mere sabar da mainu sabab milya

میرے سبب کا مجھے سبب ملا

(I found the reason behind my existence.)

Aaj milya, bhave kal milya

آج ملا، بھاوی کل ملا

(Whether I found you today or tomorrow, it doesn’t matter.)

Siveyan tak teri rooh nal miln da haq milya

سیویاں تک تیری روح سے ملنے کا حق ملا

(Till the graveyard, I got the right to connect with your soul.)

Tu har haneri raat da chanan banke

تو ہر اندھیری رات کا چاند بن کے

(You became the light of every dark night.)

Meri rooh vich aa ke aiwe ral milya

میری روح میں آ کے یوں ہی گھل ملا

(You merged into my soul, blending seamlessly.)

[yoursarshiyan]

Jhooth kehte hai fakir -

Farishte, parinde, nahi ab iss duniya mein.

Lekin ye bhi sach hai,

Aap yahan ki lagti bhi nahi humein.

~ arshiyan

[lostandunlovedd]

ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਾਣ ਲਈ ਮੈਂ ਆਪਣਾ ਸਬ ਕੁਛ ਛਡ ਦਿੱਤਾ

ਤੇ ਤੇਰੀ ਖੁਸ਼ੀ ਲਈ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਛਡ ਦਿੱਤਾ

[spoken-memories]

Pyar naal bol.

my gma

[krrishnaofficial]

🍁|| Ab Hum Teri Shikayat Kisse Karein,

Har Shakhs Ko Kaha Tha

Tujhse Behtar Koi Nahin ||🍁

[jatinderanttal]

I am not always thinking about you

But when i do

Every inch, every fibre, every cell of me thinks about you

You just take over everything that i possess, i own, i contain

You are everywhere i see, every sound that i hear, anything that i touch

You come to me whenever the morning sun touches my face, or the cool gentle breeze brushes my skin

Or when i put on a warm cozy jacket in the chilling December night

Or when i am lost glancing at the sky full of stars

Whenever i see a flower outshine a whole bouquet

When i sit beside a gurgling river when no-one is around

When i see morning rays of sun fall on the hill top

That is when you come to me.

So yeah, i am not always thinking about you.

[im-here-4-u]

ਤੂੰ ਹੈਂ ਕਿਸੇ ਹੋਰ ਦੀ ,ਤੇਰੀ ਬਾਹ ਫ਼ੜ ਨੀ ਸਕਦੇ ,

ਝੂਠਾ ਪਿਆਰ ਤੇਰਾ , ਹੁਣ ਇਹ ਜਰ ਨੀ ਸਕਦੇ,

ਗੱਲਾਂ ਨੇ ਸੱਭ ਟੈਮ ਟਪਾਉਣ ਦੀਆਂ , ਮੇਰੇ ਸੱਜਣਾ,

ਜੋ ਕਹਿ ਨੀ ਸਕਦੇ , ਉਹ ਕਦੇ ਕਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਸਕਦੇ।

[aancientgypsy-blog]

[poetzainjameel]

Pov : No one is Coming as light in your Dark life

اِک مدت سے ہوں خشبو کے انتظار میں

جانے کیا ہے کہ کلی گلاب نہی ہو رہی

زین جمیل ✍️

[sukhdeepdhillon]

ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਇਮਰੋਜ਼ "ਇਕ ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਕਹਾਣੀ"

ਇਮਰੋਜ਼ ਨਾਲ ਰਹਿਣ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਇਕ ਜੋਤਸ਼ੀ ਕੋਲ਼ ਗਈ ਅਤੇ ਉਸਨੂੰ ਸਿੱਧਾ ਸਪਾਟ ਸੁਆਲ ਪੁੱਛਿਆ, “ਇਹ ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ ਬਣੂ ਜਾ ਨਹੀਂ।” ਜੋਤਸ਼ੀ ਨੇ ਕੁਝ ਲੀਕਾਂ ਵਾਹੀਆਂ, ਕੁਝ ਹਿਸਾਬ ਲਾਇਆ ਤੇ ਬੋਲਿਆ, “ਇਹ ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ ਸਿਰਫ਼ ਢਾਈ ਘੰਟੇ ਦਾ ਹੈ।” ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਨੇ ਹਰਖ ਕੇ ਕਿਹਾ, “ਨਹੀਂ, ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੋ ਸਕਦਾ।” ਜੋਤਸ਼ੀ ਨੇ ਮੁੜ ਹਿਸਾਬ ਲਾਇਆ ਤੇ ਇਸ ਵਾਰ ਦੱਸਿਆ, ਜੇ ਢਾਈ ਘੰਟਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਨਹੀਂ, ਤਾਂ ਫੇਰ ਇਹ ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ ਢਾਈ ਦਿਨ ਜਾਂ ਢਾਈ ਸਾਲ ਦਾ ਹੋ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ।” “ਜੇ ਢਾਈ ਦਾ ਹੀ ਹਿਸਾਬ…

[karanveer486]

ਤੇਰੀਆ ਅੱਖਾ ਨੇ ਜਾਦੂ ਜੇਹਾ ਪਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਮੇਰਾ ਦਿਲ ਨੂੰ ਪਾਗਲ ਬਣਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ।

ਦਿਨ ਚੜ੍ਹਦੇ ਤੇਰਾ ਦੀਦਾਰ ਹੋਇਆ, ਮੇਰਾ ਛੇੜਾ ਤੂੰ ਖਿਡਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ

ਥੱਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਸੀ ਲਾਂਬੇ ਏਸ ਸਫਰ ਤੋ, ਗੋਰਾ ਹੱਥ ਤੂੰ ਹੱਥ ਮੇਰਾ ਫੜਿਆ, ਦਿੱਤਾ

ਮੇਰਾ ਗੰਧਲਾ ਸੁਭਾਅ, ਨੂ ਤੂ ਆਪਨੇ ਪਿਆਰ ਨਾਲ ਖਿੜਿਆ, ਦੀਤਾ.

ਏਹ ਹੋਲੀ ਹੋਲੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਹਾਸੇ ਚ ਤੂ ਅਪਨੀ ਬੋਲਿ ਪਾ ਦਿਤੀ, ਮੇਰੇ ਕਠੋਰ ਜੇਹੇ ਏਹਨਾ ਲਫਸਾ ਚ ਤੂੰ ਆਪਣੀ ਮ���ਥੀ ਬੋਲੀ ਪਾ ਦਿਤੀ।

ਬਿਨ ਤੇਰੇ ਦਿਨ ਜੋ ਚਾਰ ਕੁ ਬੀਤੇ, ਐਸਬੀ ਆ ਕੇ ਕਰਜ਼ਾ ਅਦਾ ਕੀਤਾ।

ਮੇਰੀ ਨੀਂਦਰ ਨੂੰ ਤੂੰ ਸੋਹਣੀਏ, ਤੇਰੇ ਸੁੰਦਰ ਖਵਾਬਾਂ ਚ ਪਾ ਦਿੱਤਾ।

- Karanveer Singh

[feelingsthroughpen]

[evileyeamulet-moved]

SUMMARY OF ALL DAREDEVIL FANFICTION TYPES:

TYPE 1

foggy& karen: matt we are worried about you. also please stop being daredevil.

matt: no foggy & karen. im chronically and catholically guilty. quote from Stick.

TYPE 2

matt murdock fucks heterosexual style with y/n

TYPE 3

matt murdock fucks yaoi style. while catholic.

TYPE 4

matt: foggy I love my evil girlfriend elektra

foggy: matt we are in college and I take punjabi classes. i don't like ur evil girlfriend.

matts evil girlfriend elektra: I am matt's evil girlfriend elektra

TYPE 5

rare comic based fic

TYPE 6

matt: that's enough frank. please stop killing people. in catholic culture killing people is considered really wrong

frank castle: I love killing

TYPE 7

comic based fic that is not based on comics whatsoever

[lostandunlovedd]

Arjan really spoke my heart when he said,

“ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਚਾਹਾਂ ਕਿਸੇ ਨੇ ਵੀ ਕਿਸੇ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਚੌਹਨਾ ਏ”

[waitmyturtles]

Thinking About QL Fandoms and Markets For Indian Queer Media

Alright, ::rubs hands together::, let's see if this old auntie can get the link history of this thread straight first.

@impala124 originally wrote in an ask to dear @lurkingshan about Shan's thoughts on a developing fandom for Indian queer media.

Shan subsequently asked a few of us on the internet, brown Asian and/or otherwise, to weigh in, which @starryalpacasstuff did here. Starry's piece has a few great reblogs with media resources that everyone should scurry to check out.

The inimitable @neuroticbookworm then decided to show us her literary Tae Bo skills and dropped an absolute MONSTER of a must-read regional media and industry analysis here. (Let me emphasize that this is a MUST-READ PIECE if you're interested in Indian media.)

I'm going to use NBW's piece as a reference throughout my weak-ass response tea here, because she covered almost everything that needed to be said about why there ISN'T a robust or developed fandom on the internet for Indian queer media. So go read that first, and if you forget to click back here, it's all good, because I'm just gonna offer some unorganized macro-level thoughts at this point.

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I'd like to first amplify a number of themes that @neuroticbookworm made clear in her piece about the "media industry in India." I'm only putting that phrase in quotes not because NBW wrote it (she didn't), but because it's a wholly inaccurate phrase.

1) INDIA IS *NOT* A SINGLE, UNIFIED CULTURAL MONOLITH. Remember your early social studies classes on early civilizations? The Aryans, Harappa, Mohenjo Daro? Those specific civilizations arose in the north of the Indian sub-continent, and not a lot of social studies spaces outside of Indian classrooms give love to the other regional areas in India -- like, say, all of South India, hello -- that belong to other civilization definitions.

To be grossly overgeneral, ancient civilizations in the northern subcontinent were known as Aryan civilizations, while those of the southern subcontinent were known as Dravidian civilizations. We see these differences today in the food we brown people eat, and ESPECIALLY in the languages we speak. Tamil (a Dravidian South Indian language) couldn't be farther away from Hindi (a North Indian language emanating from Sanskrit).

2) While the prominent political nationalists of India (😐) would like to have you believe that all Indians are monolithically similar -- or rather, SHOULD be monolithically similar by way of all Indians speaking Hindi, consuming Hindi media, and erasing religious diversity (🤬) -- nothing could be farther from the truth of our incredibly diverse and complicated subcontinent. We Indians are regionally, and therefore culturally, diverse in a great myriad of ways, way beyond our food, language, and religious preferences.

[For my non-Indians and non-Asians reading this, think about the two dishes you see the most on Indian restaurant menus outside of India. Chicken tikka masala and tandoori chicken, right? That's typical "Indian" food to the untrained eye. CTM is a British dish borne from immigrant South Asian chefs; and tandoori chicken was created by North Indian Punjabis. My own Indian origins are half-half (lah), I'm half-South and half-North Indian (with some SE Asia thrown in there, boleh!). My brain fucking freezes when I speak to someone who thinks the extent of "Indian food" is CTM and TC, and I have to explain, for the millionth time, the basics of the incredible array of South Indian vegetarian food that I grew up eating and loving.]

Thus, what I'm trying to say is, when we say the word "INDIAN," there are some questions that a curious listener should be tuned into asking to get specifics about just what kind of "India" or "Indian" the speaker is speaking of. I'll often get the question, "but WHERE in India are your parents from," from tuned-in Asians, who want to know specifically about my regional background.

VERY SO OFTEN IN POPULAR DIALOGUE ABOUT "INDIAN MEDIA," THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION OF THE CONVERSATION IS THAT THE SPEAKER IS ONLY SPEAKING ABOUT HINDI-LANGUAGE MEDIA, WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THAT REGIONAL AND/OR NON-HINDI LANGUAGE MARKETS MIGHT BE MAKING MEDIA, EVEN POPULAR MEDIA, FOR THEIR SPECIFIC REGIONAL MARKETS AND AUDIENCES WITHOUT AS MUCH OF A GLANCE TO THE DOMINANT HINDI-SPEAKING NORTH.

NBW says this brilliantly in her incredible piece, which delineates the major differences in the MANY regional and even sub-regional media markets of India, that produce a VAST array of media in the languages of the regions, markets, and audiences that this media serves.

On a personal note, when I was a kid, I only watched old South Indian films subtitled in English that my South Indian dad found. My North Indian mom watched them with us happily. We didn't do Bollywood in my house because frankly, dad hated those films and wasn't into them. Now that I think about it, it's probably because those Hindi films didn't bear a single resemblance to the cultural and life he lived growing up in South India.

3) Alright, so we have established that in terms of media, to speak about "Indian media" as a monolith is utterly incorrect, and just, go back to NBW's piece to get an excellent analysis of the details of that situation.

NBW does a bang-up job highlighting important pieces of regional media throughout her post, and like I mentioned before, there are multiple lists of media in the reblogs Starry's piece linked above ( @silverquillsideas notes in her reblog of Starry's piece that two important films come out of the state of Bengal, a market that us Indians should certainly pay attention to in particular.)

I therefore might posit that there might not actually be a unified "fandom for Indian queer media."

IT IS CLEAR from the reblogs of the various pieces that we've written over the last few days, that us Indians who love QLs certainly don't INHERENTLY know, universally, about ALL the queer media, across the subcontinent, in the MANY languages we speak, that has been made.

We have a lot of learning to do across our own regional identities.

I'd argue that, instead, from an organic growth perspective, that regional media markets in India would respond to THEIR OWN AUDIENCE'S AND MARKET'S DEMANDS and create queer media WITHIN THEIR OWN REGIONS

a) if their market(s) demanded it, AND b) if there was either pre-production funding, or a guarantee of net revenue from the airing of such media.

A fandom doth not create media.

It is filmmakers that create media.

And those filmmakers need

✨ MONEY ✨

✨ MONEY ✨

✨ MONEY ✨

to make media.

Some regional markets will, by nature, be willing to take risks on a filmmaker's desire to make queer media. Those projects could succeed, or could fail. Badhaai Do is one of the best examples of a Bollywood breakout piece that gained even some international attention, and certainly attention ACROSS the subcontinent.

But I want to emphasize this point about

MONEY.

The question that we're pondering is, why isn't there a more prominent fandom for Indian queer media and/or QLs?

@twig-tea made note, in her reblog of Starry's original piece, about the importance of accessibility and subtitling, an important note not just for international audiences, but for regional Indian populations that don't speak the same language(s). Accessibility allows fans to watch the media of their own markets, and markets outside of their boundaries.

But even bigger than this is, before we even get into accessibility, is: the filmmakers need money to spend to MAKE projects, and in an ideal scenario for themselves and/or their studios, they then need to (hopefully) make a PROFIT to demonstrate a sustainable desire and demand for the media they're producing, a profit that could hopefully be re-invested into more and new queer media projects.

Let me not get into all the obstacles in which filmmakers, queer or otherwise, might run into issues with production fundraising for a queer-centered project. We Indians know about our conservative, often violent, obstacles.

NBW does a fabulous job in her piece discussing what COULD be made by way of queer media that COULD gain a stronger cultural foothold over time across the subcontinent.

4) A fandom, most often, develops as a response to media already created. A fandom, HOWEVER, *IS*, often, in today's digital age, often recruited to fundraise for projects they want to see! GoFundMe, right?

I think it was @impala124 in a reblog that mentioned that there's already a "market" for Indian QLs. But we've established now that there are actually many unconnected regional media markets in India that can't be assumed to be glommed together.

If a fandom WANTS to see a particular kind of media, in their own specific regional market, it's certainly well within its rights of speech to create internet buzz for it.

But I think we as fans also need to take responsibility for a better understanding of the economics of media creation, and to be patient as queer media is produced across the subcontinent, and to simply do our best to hype it up on the internet when we can, so that commercial sponsors and potential production funders can then pay attention to what us fans want -- and what we're willing to pay for.

And let me be honest, this is a *tremendously difficult proposition* for a field of media that's just really small against the giant, mainstream, well-funded media markets of India. And this field of queer media would be guaranteed to face crippling and disgusting conservative criticism as it gains more of a prominent cultural foothold -- as we are seeing in South Korea literally at this very second.

Looking on the economic bright side: we see in Thailand and in Japan that QLs make MONEY. Shit, not just Japan being into Japanese QLs, but also, Japan is so into Thai QLs that the major Thai channel and studio, GMMTV, has a distribution deal with the Japanese channel TV Asahi to air Thai QLs in Japan. MONEY, BABY! INTERNATIONAL DOLLAS. Great Sapol, of the QLs Manner of Death and Wandee Goodday, just wrapped a stint in a mainstream Japanese drama, and I'll assume that's because he's hotttt and talented gotten a lot of attention in Japan from his previous Thai QL work, as well as his lengthy resume in Thai mainstream media.

The hunger for QLs is there in these two major national markets, and the Thai and Japanese audience markets have proven that the demand for content for these countries can be economically fruitful. So the media markets of these two (much smaller than India) countries are pumping ever more money into production, and filmmakers are responding with more QL content than ever.

We have not even begun to contemplate reaching that tipping point in India, across our regional markets, yet. Again, NBW offers some creative paths forward that will take time to develop.

Fuck, I mean. Imagine Bollywood looking towards Thailand and its branded pair formula as an inspiration to develop queer media. (IMAGINE.) Get two super popular Bollywood actors together in a branded acting coupling/partnership. Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan doing India's version of What Did You Eat Yesterday?. In aprons! Making keema and rajma and chapatis. ShahSaif (SaifShah?!). KhanKhan. How would that go down?

It's a proven economic formula in Thailand. And that's just one example. We're well familiar, separately, with how Japanese QLs gain traction in bigger media spaces for its audiences, with media being adopted for the screen, as they mostly are, from popular yaoi and yuri mangas.

India and its regional media markets need some proven economic formulas within its regional markets to prove that queer media can gain culturally important footholds across the mindsets of various audiences -- and to prove that those footholds can produce profits.

The fandom element in this is that the regional fandoms, while creating buzz, could also prove to be important economic factors to a regional queer media industry being able to survive, and maybe even thrive.

Assuming that I am speaking to a mostly progressive group of fans here: we can only hope for this, and we must support the queer media that the subcontinent currently produces, IN *ALL* THE LANGUAGES (!!!!), to demonstrate to producers that Indians, wider South Asians, and even non-South Asians, WANT THIS MEDIA. We want it, we SHOULD want it, and damn it, we should SPEND OUR MONEY on it, to show our appreciate to the filmmakers taking risks to make this media.

I'm out! I need a chai and a samosa and a dosa.

[krrishnaofficial]

🍁|| Maine Karwat Badal Ke B Dekha Hai,

Us Taraf Bhi Tum Yaad Aaté Ho || 🍁