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greyjadeexpert · 8 months

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New Book!

So, I actually(accidentally) outlined a novel in the last two days. I actually had this idea back in the summer(April-May) and it was initially set somewhere in West Asia. Then I remembered I didn't know anything about their culture. So, I've set it in my fantasy world, in a kingdom that shares my culture. I think it's supposed to be a South Indian Dark Academia book, so yeah. Actually, it mainly revolves around Tamil Nadu I guess.

I've actually been thinking of this short snippet all day, so here it is!

Kannagi

It was like I imagined when I rushed to my balcony. My capital was the mythical city of Madurai, where Kannagi chanted a curse to engulf the Pandiya capital in flames, fires roaring, demolishing everything in sight. The only difference was that Goddess Meenakshi wasn’t there to calm her raging spirit.

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filtercoffeeonsteroids · 1 year

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why do I relate to every line

author: @jing-le-bells

#desi academia #desi things #south asian #desi dark academia #desi memes #indian aesthetic #desi aesthetic #desiblr #desi tumblr #spotify #eldest daughter #family #. darkacademia darkcottagecoreaesthetic desicottagecore cottagecoreaesthetic brownaesthetics tumblraesthetic tumblrquotes #writers on tumblr #tumblr memes #artists on tumblr

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janaknandini-singh999 · 7 months

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Lakshmi & Parvati core

In my eyes, Lakshmi is this soft, compassionate and lively girl who loves flowers, jewellery and the ocean and Parvati is a wild, carefree and fierce spirit who loves animals, the hills and rains.

Parvati and Lakshmi often go out together and on double date picnics with their husbands. All of them are besties. Parvati braids Shiva's hair as Lakshmi puts makeup and shringaar on her beloved Vishnu.

"Whenever you and your husband dance, it's the tandav of destruction. Whenever me and my husband dance, it's raas ~ the dance of pleasure. And the universe celebrates!" Lakshmi teased

Parvati pouted, "Let me show you REAL tandav and raas. Come HEREE" and chased Lakshmi all around the forest, giggling and catching her then swirling her around in her arms.

Shiva deep in meditation, sneakily opened an eye and whispered "What are they doing?"

"Ahh, nothing. Just enjoy the show! Want some?" Vishnu passed over some popcorn to him, "Oh, look! They're dancing now."

A playful innocence danced in Shiva's eyes "I also want to.." as he suddenly leapt up and started playing his damru, jogging towards them.

Vishnu ran after him, joining them as they all danced together and laughed.

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ji-jii-visha · 1 year

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I love hozier's "I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door" BUT "banke maala preet ki tere tan pe jhar jhar jaun" I'd become a garland of love and fall on your body and "tu hi toh jannat meri, tu hi mera junoon, tu hi toh mannat meri, tu rooh ka sukoon" you are the heaven for me, you're my passion, you are my prayers, you are my soul's bliss and "tere naam se ji lu, tere naam se mar jaaun" I'd live by your name, I'd die by your name and "hawaoon mein lipta hua main, guzar jaunga tumko chu ke, agar man ho toh rok lena, thahar jaunga inn labon pe" I'm tangled with the breeze, I'll pass away after touching you, if your heart wants it, then I'll stay with you on your lips

Hindi is the language of love and longing

#india #desi dark academia #indian academia #sanskrit #indian aesthetic #indian poets #desi women #indian girl #south asian #scholary academia #desi aesthetic #desiblr #desi tag #desi tumblr #desi academia #bollywood aesthetic

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angelopium · 5 months

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in the deep blue

#south asian moodboard #south asian aesthetic #desi <3 #desi women #desi girl #desi tag #desiblr #desi tumblr #brown culture #brown women #blue aesthetic #dark blue #indian aesthetic #indian academia #royalcore

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premikaunderthemoon · 1 year

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Wtf is Netflix and chill let's listen to ghazals at 3 am in our own candle-lit balcony while writing poetry in Urdu

#all the feels #desiblr #desi tumblr #lyrics #desi dark academia #poetry #bollywood #south asian #dark acadamia aesthetic #desi humor #bollywood lyrics #desithing #indian poetry #urdu stuff

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nainawithspecs · 1 year

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is it sapphic? is it royal? idk. All ik is that its pink

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thestral-queen-rules · 2 years

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Pov: you are spending your summer in India

//she was a curious girl, a wanderer, who spent her summers chasing fluttering pieces of prose and eating mangoes.// - Michael Faudet

{pov's pt[1/¿]}

Some people who might like this one:@suvarnarekha @seekerbrave @psycho-mocha @kajukatliontop @wowyoufeelorphic @pitipossum @jugn00-fangirl @smr-the-tired-crackhead @metalvenomludens7 @cipher-dorito @bookishmuggleborn @bookishmuggleborn @tonicaballos @curious-fruitcake @shirodumbclownwolf @justalonelywriter @chaoticaindica @sr1nika @mrdyketator @adoginthemanger @shilabalika @ya-boi-leto @paadhee @silky-moon @rainbowsnowflake @pluvialhearts @one-happy-silent-geek-girl @hanisishus @inexhaustible-sources-of-magic @king-of-knives @aayatunnisa @stolenkissesinthe-rain @navaratna @evarukadu @vaanvaruvaan @lemon-ooruga @i-wanna-b-yours

#aesthetic #aesthetic moodboard #moodboard #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #desi #desi aesthetic #desi moodboard #desi aesthetic moodboard #desiblr #summer #summer aesthetic #summer moodboard #summer aesthetic moodboard #summer fashion #india #indian food #south indian

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sarositara · 15 days

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#indian poetry #indian dark academia #indian aesthetic #indian #tamilnadu #tamil #desi dark academia #desi academia #desi aesthetic #sea #beachlife #candid beach #love poem #longing #web weave #web weaving #south india #sarositara

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navaratna · 2 years

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Desi Academia Mood board

POV: You are a desi girl who dreams owning a large library filled with books from all around the world, wanting to dressing up in Sabyasachi couture but since you are broke, you dress up in your mom’s clothes and jewellery along with your girlfriends. Finding a lot of bangles of different styles and colours in your possession and never having remembered wearing them since you just brought them as you found them attractive and they piled up. Wanting to run across the streets of Delhi with your best friend but you have never visited. Waking up early to witness the sunrise and its glow on lotuses as they come to bloom. Going to Tamil temples and being in awe of the architecture and wanting to know its significance and myths.

#desi #desi dark academia #just desi things #south indian academia #desi academia #desi light academia #desi moodboard #navaratna #ratnarchive #desi clothing #desi jewellery #academia #academia moodboard

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imperfectorange · 1 year

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Paranthe and Punjabis: the brewing breakfast conversations.

Time and again, I've denied the dollops of ghee that are shoved on my paranthas ever since I was a child. Yet, my grandmother, always, somehow, has the upper hand. Her puppy eyes, pleas, and “kasmein” (oaths) have always melted my resolve in a moment's time. Ironic, how I always have found myself making oats, pancakes, and different types of sandwiches in my aesthetic fervor of matching Pinterest standards, yet, somehow, always come home to food,my grandmother makes on days I'm exhausted.

It goes without saying that every Sunday in a busy and bustling Punjabi household would always have an assortment of different kinds of stuffed breads, or paranthe. Especially when the entire family was home during summer vacations the kitchen would be crowded with ladies around the stove and the gents around the other one. While bade papa would make different kinds of omelettes, the ladies would work on the breads and the youngsters would always be going to and fro with teacups,serving food to others in shifts. Conversations would brew over green tea, tea and coffee about a bazillion things ranging from politics to annual family trips to careers, and to that one time someone got lost in Haridwar.

As I grow older, I reminisce and cherish these memories a little extra, as I see the elders falling prey to age and getting slower. A wistfulness of sort seeps in, but I know that every annual summer and winter meet up, something won't change, and those will be our beloved paranthe with the same people going about the same conversations. Nor would any of us refuse that extra spoon of ghee, kyuki bade kehte hain sehat banti hai. (The elders say it's good for your health)

Aloo, gobhi, gajar, muli, besan, pyaaz. The list may go on and on.

- Gehna.

Picture Credits : Playful Cooking on Pinterest.

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filtercoffeeonsteroids · 1 year

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It's "oh fuck why didn't I study throughout the semester" season

#desi academia #desi things #south asian #desi dark academia #desi memes #indian aesthetic #desi aesthetic #desiblr #desi tumblr #spotify #exam dates #exam season #exam #college #ugh fuck

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janaknandini-singh999 · 3 months

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When the non binary planet fell in love with a gender fluid deity <3

part 1

part 2 here

Ila/Sudyumna: she/him

Budh: they/them

source: the Hindu mythology tales according to which Ila gave birth to Chandravanshis (the lunar dynasty) and Budh was the Mercury planet

"Do I know you?" the prince batted his long eyelashes, furrowing his eyebrows

Budh sighed. Their heart broke every time their lover didn't even recognize them.

Budh had been cursed by their maharishi (sage) father to be born as a gender neuter when he had come to know that Budh was an illegitimate child.

"You have betrayed me!" He had shouted at his wife "May your child be born neither as male or female. Be it be outside just as you're neither here nor there!"

Budh had been often made fun of because of that. It used to hurt them all the time but their mother used to say "Don't worry, child. You will find your purpose, too." gently patting and kissing their forehead

They weren't as convinced of that, though

Not until they met Sudyumna

As soon as they laid eyes on him, they knew their destiny had come walking right to them. As soon as he had entered that forest, Budh had hid behind a tree, biting their lips and frantically thinking of calling out to Sudyumna to warn him that this was no ordinary forest but a magical one woven by Shiva himself called Shravana. Any being who'd enter this forest of Shravana would be turned into a female. It was a special place where Shiva and Parvati made love but Parvati was furious one day when males used to enter and intrude them so Shiva granted the forest the ability to turn anyone who'd enter it, to a female

"Prince- !" Budh started

Too late

Sudyumna had already started transforming into a woman. He looked around at his body slowly changing but before he could react, it was done

Budh's eyes had widened. Sudyumna had turned into the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. The jewels and clothes were still the same but now a female body inhabited the prince's attire.

"Who am I?" Sudyumna had been confused after having forgotten everything about when he was a male

Suddenly Sudyumna's gaze had fallen upon Budh

She had blinked her long eyelashes "Please help me. I think I'm lost" she had whispered in broken tones, afraid that she was all alone in this vast forest and she didn't even remember who she was "I know it sounds absurd but I- I don't.. Do you know who I am?"

Budh had been so pained to see Sudyumna this way but they still couldn't just help but fall for Sudyumna even more

"Ila" Budh said the first name that came to them

"Ila" she echoed, relishing the sound of the name, making it settle in her heart.

At last, she had smiled

And Budh had smiled back

A month went by and both had grown deeper in love with each other, living happily in the forest together

Budh had told Ila about what happened to Sudyumna, about who she really was. They didn't want to hide anything from her. And Ila listened in awe. It was hard to believe at first but as soon as Budh showed her other male creatures entering the forest instantly turning into females, she was dumbfounded

On the last day before the next month, Budh told Ila that now she'd change again into the male body as Sudyumna, losing memories of everything during when she was Ila. And this is how it would go on. One month as Ila, one as Sudyumna and so on.

That is the law of Shivshakti's Shravana

Ila closed her eyes and nodded slowly. When she opened them again, there were tears in them

"I will forget you, too?"

Budh nodded, unable to form any words because of the grief. Grief of losing the only one who had understood them, who felt so connected to them. Gender had rolled a dice and played a game with both of them so they were similar but Budh didn't fall for their lover just because of that. Gender was never the determinant because Budh loved regardless of when their lover's body was of a man's or woman's, whether it was this birth or any other

They loved Sudyumna/Ila. Always

"I don't want to," Ila continued, lowering her eyes, averting them away from Budh. Suddenly, she looked up, a wistful glint in her eyes "Make me remember again. Like you did. Please, I can't afford to forget you" she held Budh's hands tightly, as if clutching an anchor of her memories with them. She caressed Budh's face, as if to memorize each atom of their skin, their soul. So reverently, praying that nothing would be ever able to forget her of this. "Make me remember us. Every time. Promise me, please."

"I do" Budh kissed her eyes

Ila smiled and dissolved into a light as her body started transforming again. Budh stood back

And there he was

Sudyumna

Budh turned around and started walking away, seeking shelter behind the trees as he did before Sudyumna came in their life. They will always keep a protective eye over their lover from there

"Hey!"

Budh stopped in their tracks, heart banging against the chest. Maybe Sudyumna did still remember them, after all! Budh turned around

"Do I know you?" The prince batted his long eyelashes, furrowing his eyebrows

Budh sighed now "I am Budh"

"Nice to meet you, Budh!" Sudyumna held out his hand

Budh smiled politely and shook it, their eyes falling on the scar visible on his palm

"Oh, that's just another battle mark. Badges of honour, ya know? I have many!" Sudyumna beamed

Budh nodded "I know"

They remembered tracing and kissing all scars on Ila's body. There were actually a lot of them. And Budh knew exactly where each one was

"Maybe someday as Sudyumna I could tell you the stories behind each one of them" Ila had whispered, kissing Budh back

"You know about my scars?" Sudyumna said now "Isn't it the first time of us meeting.. umm? OH, where are my manners!? I didn't even introduce myself. My name is Sudyumna and-" He suddenly looked around at the forest "Wait, how much time exactly have I been HERE? I'm sorry but I really need to rush back to my kingdom right now. Again, it was a pleasure to meet you, Budh."

Budh looked at his silhouette going away

Neither here nor there

So, somewhere in the midst of it all

Meet me again?

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ji-jii-visha · 7 months

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I love Taylor's "Can I go where you go? Can we always be this close?" BUT these are ✨ DIVINE✨"hothon se chu lo tum, mera geet amar kar do, ban jao preet meri, meri jeet amar kar do" touch my soul (me) with your lips, make my song immortal, become my love, make my victory immortal and "bin puche mera naam aur pata, rasmon ko rakh ke pare, char kadam bas char kadam, chaldo na saath mere" without asking me my name or my address, keeping the customs and traditions away, four steps, just four steps, walk with me please and "janam janam janam saath chalna yuhi, kasam tumhe kasam aake milna yahin, ek jaan hai bhale do badan ho juda, meri hoke hamesha hi rehna, kabhi na kehna alvida" lives, all my lives, walk with me like this, give me your promise to come and meet me like this, there's one soul among us even if our bodies are apart, stay mine forever, don't ever say goodbye and "barkha, bijli, baadal jhoothe, jhoothi phoolon ki saugatein, sacchi tu hai, sachha main huin, sacchi apne dil ki baatein" the rain, the thunder, the clouds are all liars, there are lies in the gifts of all the flowers, only you are true, and so are the conversations of our hearts

Hindi is the language of love and promise (2)

#india #desi dark academia #indian academia #sanskrit #indian aesthetic #indian poets #desi women #indian girl #south asian #scholary academia #desi music #desi academia #desi aesthetic #love language #Hindi #hindi academia #हिन्दी #Hindi is the language of love

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muslimah-in-academia · 2 years

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I've been hit by a sudden stroke of inspiration, so here's some more Muslim dark academia aesthetics:

Drawing the curtains at dusk and lighting oud incense all over the house

Inhaling the scent of jasmine in a moonlit garden while waiting for the mehendi to dry

Discarding Camus for Fanon and debating fiercely about the Algerian independence movement

Reading up on the Jadidists

Dreaming up scenarios of leading new revolutions to unite the ummah

Letting the chilled droplets of Roohafza fall onto a fresh page of Arabic calligraphy

Sketching the courtyard design of the Alhambra and dreaming of birds singing under long-gone orange trees.

Reading up on Islamic influences in the works of Borges.

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premikaunderthemoon · 1 year

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Types of grief/rage stored in me :

1) That of a Victorian woman sick of patriarchal society and its absurd customs

2) That of an old Indian man who has seen too much of the world, sitting on his terrace at the crack of dawn sipping chai and even sighing in Urdu (ye waqt bhi guzar jaayega is my mantra)

3) That of a 14 year old boy with hormones clogging his nerves

4) That of the 2nd child born to a poor couple when China followed its 'One Child Policy'

5) That of a single Mother and the eldest daughter

6) That of the only breadwinner in an Indian family of 16 people

7) That of the youngest daughter-in-law of an Indian family

8) That of a 9 year old girl from the 1600s accused of performing witchcraft about to be hanged in Salem

9) That of an overburdened student hiding their tears in a public library

10) That of the least popular member of a music band

#desiblr #desi tumblr #lyrics #poetry #desi dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #bollywood #south asian #desi humor #bollywood lyrics #indian dark academia #chaotic academia #deep poetry #salem witch trials #jane eyre #english literature #hindi literature #indian families #desi family

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