#sharma shitposting?

[vellhighbandi]

Lil girl (me) picking flowers (studying) sees a butterfly (checks phone) and follows it to wonderland (and falls into the scrolling trap)

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"Then why...did you tell me?"

us to the cursedblr creators

@kulfi-waala @shanti-ashant-hai

Please accept nominations.

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Women so gorgeous. Why suffer. Periods. Bras. Pimples. No legal stabby stabby. The wrong kind of blood drippy drippy. Bhery bad

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Desi girls have some kind of special talent having four conversations with different or the same people in five different apps simultaneously.

[vellhighbandi]

Where's mine?

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

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Random question...

Ye MacBook itna patla kyu hota hai.

Nahi flex nahi kar rhe. I don't own one. But someone has one and I needed to do something so they let me do it on their Laptop. And it's .. IT'S SO PATLU SA.

Ekto itna mehenga galti se kuch ho gya merko khudko bechna padgega

[vellhighbandi]

Guys Desiblr dheere dheere Coupleblr nhi hote ja rha?

Hum singles kaha jaye???

[vellhighbandi]

I got more content

funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

i'm going to kill god

i'm going to delete my blog

i'm going to explode

i'm going to blow up this entire website

i'm going to become the joker

this is going to be my villain origin story

i'm being so brave about it

fuck it we ball

god had to nerf me because i was too powerful

i'm too pretty for this

all according to plan

feel free to add on

[crossedwithblue]

The Sharmas, and vegetarianism in India

I just finished the books and this stood out to me. One side of my family is Jain, a small religion philosophically very similar to Buddhism, with a similar emphasis on nonviolence and the complete avoidance of harm to any human being. This includes:

No meat, obviously. Eggs are also excluded (as in the more general Indian definition of vegetarianism) No root vegetables, even, because you have to kill the whole plant to get them. Interestingly, non-lethal animal products are fine - milk, honey, wool - so it's not the same as veganism. I'm not sure what the position is on the hidden life-cost of milk i.e. the death of male calves because it's a waste to keep most around. This is common enough that retaurants will have 'Jain options' on their menu/allow you to request a Jain version of a dish, and it's a widely understood dietary requirement (though most people in India seen to think Jainism is a branch of Hinduism. It's not, it's a completly splintered-off heterodoxy, but we don't need to get into that).

They also don't use leather or silk since that does require death to produce, though my granny does have a 'peace silk' sari that's made without boiling the cocoons.

No eating after sunset and no eating food kept overnight, because they had some concept of germ theory and knew that bacteria bred more after dark. Pre-fridges, this is generally a pretty good idea in a hot country, anyway.

A yearly ritual where you meditate and ask forgiveness from any creature of any kind that you might have injured, deliberately or not. It's meant to be an acknowledgement that you've done wrong and a meditation on forgiving other people because everyone's fallible. You also exchange this with anyone you can - friends, family etc. I have very very mixed feelings about this one, how valid and meaningful it usually is in-practice and its actual effect on most people's mental health, but I'll leave that out of this post LOL

In the same vein, a prayer ritual you do at the temple where you repeat the same request for forgivness while repeatedly moving from a standing position to kneeling and prostrated with your head on the floor, the gradual standing - kneeling upright - kneeling fully - completely prostrate timed to the lines of the request. As my mum pointed out, it's also pretty good exercise, like a slowed-down bungee squat that's also gentler on your joints. I can picture El doing it for mana.

If you thought this was intense enough, the monks and nuns take it to another level. They eat nothing but boiled vegetables, lentils and grains, and I believe are not allowed to wear any clothing but what is purely plant derived, so they are closer to veganism in that sense. They have little brooms they use to sweep the path ahead of them to avoid stepping on insects (which, since they spend a lot of time on the road physically walking from place to place, presumably slows them down as much as you might imagine. They wear masks over their face to avoid inhaling small insects and keep out bacteria as much as possible (presumably the tiny insects are more of a concern if, again, you're pretty much sleeping out in the open in a rural area).

Not Jain any more, but upper-caste Hindus from some regions, essentially the priest caste, are also pretty strict vegetarians to the point that they're quite snobby about it. They are vegetarian because they consider it necessary to ritual purity, and look down on people who aren't - according to my mum, who went to uni with a lot of people like that, the reason why they accepted her relatively easily was because she was also a very strict vegetarian. I'm not sure if those guys avoid root vegetables too - mum had to start eating them at uni, anyway, because she would have struggled for food otherwise.

The Sharma family's insistence on strict mana reminded me of these practices a lot. They won't use any malia because you cannot get it without deliberately causing harm to another living being, even if that's just a blade of grass. I don't know if Novik was aware of this but it's pretty plausible and if she was, it adds a lot of context to her making El half-Indian and giving her paternal family similar beliefs. My headcanon is that they are indeed Jain - there's a pretty big community in Maharashtra/of Marathi origin.

[vellhighbandi]

जब कोई कीमती चीज़ टूटती हैं आवाज़ मीलों तक सुनाई दे ज़रूरी नहीं होता। कभी कभी कुछ बेशकीमती रिश्ते अंधेरे सन्नाटों में हमेशा के लिए शांत हो जाते हैं और किसीको कानों कान ख़बर भी नहीं होती। इसका मतलब ये नही होता की वो रिश्ता सालों प्यार से संजोया नहीं था, बस कुछ कारणों से या गलतियों से, वो बस अब तुम्हारा नहीं होता।

[mydeepestsecrects]

I need a man like Anthony Bridgerton

[vellhighbandi]

Any minute now guys

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Being a girl be wild sometimes... You be existing and boom

Objectified

Sexualised

Threatened

...for the grand old crime of existing...

[vics-chick]

Hey guys,, I haven’t been on here much these last few days and that’s because of Hurricane Helene. Thankfully we are okay physically after the storm but I am not okay mentally. I live on a dirt road and we couldn’t even see the dirt because of all the trees, limbs, powerlines, and debris covering the road. We were trapped on our dirt road for 3 days before we, as a road, got together with chainsaws to open up one side for us to get through. All of our gas stations have ran out of gas, no stores open. Multiple tornadoes hit around my house but thankfully didn’t hit my house. I’m from Georgia and came here to South Carolina to stay at my mom’s house so I am okay! I’m safe I finally got to eat after eating nothing but a handful of crackers for 3 days. I am not mentally okay after this but just wanted to pop on here to give an update. I know im leaving out some of the effects from the hurricane but it is just too much. Thank you for your patience and support, I’ll hopefully be back on here a lot more in the next few days ! 🤍 everyone stay safe !!

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

never has a song been more loumand coded.

[vellhighbandi]

Unfortunately it ain't seeing it's conclusion then.

enemies to lovers but with myself