Long Way North (2015)

Cool Tip

If you are like me and always need to be working on something to keep your anxiety under control, during this quarentine why not helping scientists by looking at pictures of some neat penguins? or even galaxies?  There’s this site call Zooniverse, where you can help on scientific projects by analyzing pictures and data!  Right now my favorite project has returned, called Penguin Watch (where yeah, you get to watch penguins, it’s amazing)

you basically have to analyse photos looking for penguins, their chicks, eggs or even predators and human interaction But there are lots of interesting projects you can help in areas such as biology, physics, history or even art: 

Oh and the best part, some institutions even accept it as volunteering/service hour requirements for graduation and scholarships!! It’s helping me a lot during this time, so I thought it was worth sharing 

Don’t let the ignorance and censorship of the media allow you to turn a blind eye on what is happening to Palestinians.

And for the love of literally anything, do not even dare saying "oh there's always two sides to a story, the Israelis probably had a reas-".

No. They do not have a reason to do such atrocities, nor does the IDF have a shred of humanity within it.

A literal 16 year old boy was killed a while back.

Masjid-al-Aqsa, one of the holiest Muslim sites was attacked and more than 163 people have been injured.

Palestinians are forcibly being removed by the IDF from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood in Eastern Jerusalem, and giving them to Jewish settlers.

This is not only supported by the government, but was ordered by it in accordance to a law claiming that these houses belong to Jews and they have a right to them. Once these Palestinian families are removed from their houses, they will become homeless. 

Is there any reason behind this ethnic cleansing? The boy was Muslim? People in the Mosque were praying on the last Friday of Ramadan, a day of great esteem? Palestinians are just living in their homes after being forced out of their previous homeland?

If these are your reasons to defend Israel in its atrocities, you're welcome to escort yourself from my blog, and from the face of this Earth. Oh, and next time you're mentioning Muslims being terrorists, keep this in mind, will you?

The fact that this level of atrocity is even up for debate in 2021 is heinous and absolutely disgusting.

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

It still drives me crazy that this was written in 2014

Dark Academia for Brown People

 Most people, when they think of dark academia is books (that’s the whole point) and ancient languages such as Latin or Ancient Greek. I’m here to tell you that you all are SLEEPING on brown culture. Love that is conveyed in the languages of Persian and Urdu (my native language) crosses borders. Sure, Shakespeare and Sappho wrote great pieces of literature but the stories and poems of Rumi, Manto, Hafez and Iqbal have a special place in my heart. 

Some of my favourites are:- (all are translated)

Sit at my grave with wine and a minstrel in a trance, so your smell will raise me from the dead.

HAFEZ

My lover’s sadness lit a fire in my heart that burned my chest, there was a fire in his house that burned the nest.

HAFEZ

O the day turned night, what a shame, a gazelle of kindness a lion became, my partner and lover grew tired of my words and prayers too.

RUMI

These are my personal favourites. I can always make a longer post if you all want.

Female poets deserve a whole other post.

As someone who goes to an English-Medium school, we are always taught to converse in English, see the language as a part of yourself but deny a place to Urdu. As I grow older, I have come to appreciate my identity and so should all my fellow brown people. Take pride in your mother tongue.

Anti anxiety.

i drew Yato!!!! I was trying out a semi realism kind of style. what ya think?

カーテン(2021)

I just recently watched Red shoes and the seven dwarfs and AHHHHHH IT'S AMAZING !!!! Here's a drawing of Merlin I drew because we stan one (1) boi who gets amazing character development!!!!

this is a free website that lets you watch and stream anything. it’d be a shame if this website got around.