shy fawkes
@butterbooter
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noter to self. earnestposter and dilettante. as killer mike once said, I am a beautiful wonderful thing
a kingdom far away
Joined January 2011
i think this is one of the best things i have ever seen
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i think it’s really beautiful that every species knows a baby when it sees one.
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grown ass man pointing at the chawal right in front of him to demand more goo goo ga ga ass bitch ugly bobblehead motherfucker.
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try as they might, the israelis will never capture the feeling of this video — humanity recognizes true freedom fighting for what it is.
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they’re gonna hate me for this but i’ll tell you. all you have to do to become the person you want to be is mimic your idea of that person. all the world’s a stage baby. start acting.
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do you all have any idea how forgiving children are? any idea at all? you’re throwing them under the bus yelling at beating them and they’re clinging to your arm telling you they love you. you will answer to God for how you treat these kids man.
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look at that small thing. she can barely comprehend the beauty of this life but she can feel the warmth of its love and cannot contain it. she cannot speak cannot walk can barely hold her head up but she knows that something about this gorgeous feeling is finite,.
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when my dad was a kid he wrote letters to the soviet union and received boxes of books in return, all translated to urdu. he said that the soviet union was a fact — it was unimaginable that it might fall, that it might ever cease to exist. because then what would be in its place?.
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and then she’s smiling at him like he did something while the neanderthal is scrolling ignoring her completely.
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almost like every day has the potential for life-changing beauty.
it's crazy how you meet the love of your life on some random day.
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me, in the belly of the whale: maybe I should start thinking about grad school. maybe that would help.
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priyanka chopra is a dumb, self-exoticizing dickhead who gaslights people with legitimate questions regarding her support of a religious fundamentalist hate preacher and whose biggest claim to fame is marrying a washed up white boy — hope her downfall is swift and public.
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big fan of my husband. love it when he calls. it’s like ooo a pretty boy is calling. nice.
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i promise you it is fine if you leave no impact other than a gentle memory in the minds of those you love.
don’t let your legacy be “over-educated former gifted kid who ended up leaving no impact”.
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a lesson I have learned from my father that I hold close to my chest: if you can help somebody with anything at all, even if you don’t know them, even if you don’t care for them, you must do it. if you can bring even a little ease into a world so unforgiving, it is your duty to.
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scaring them, disappointing them, making them your slaves, and they’re trying their best to forgive you and find the fault in themselves.
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the “human rights” based world order. the american empire. capitalist promises. the ground we live on. the air we breathe. i predict that the next few decades will change everything forever. and the world as it is will be like it never existed at all.
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as soon as you’re done with something you forget the texture of what it was like in the middle of it. childhood, school, a trip. it all gets so foggy, far away, as if it were easy, as if it was barely you doing it.
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up until the moment it collapsed it was unfathomable that it would. when I heard that I started thinking about the things we consider infallible, what feel like basic foundational structures for our world. and now I see all of them crumbling steadily one by one. everywhere i look.
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I need people to understand that torrenting just requires the internet navigational ability of an 8 year old.
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do you remember how even specks of dust looked magnificent in the sunlight when you were a child and the world was still a quiet mystery to solve.
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got a hair removal treatment done in jakarta and the lady doing it told me she used to pray for hairy legs because body hair is sexy for indonesian people. she was bullied for not being hairy. this world is so large and full of all sorts of beauty standards bro.
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what’s keeping me going is this indian influencer who puts a bowl on his head and pretends to be akshaye khanna
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when my mom died I think I ghosted like a million people without any explanation and to this day I haven’t gotten back to any of them out of shame. it’s been two years.
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our lady moon really has no competition out there. we have the best moon in the universe and I believe we are born knowing it.
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idk who needs to hear this but you will always have options. you will never be so stuck that a good shake won’t tear you out of it. there will always be multiple paths forward; some scary, some uncomfortable, some easy. all available to you.
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brown women as soon as they get married to a foreigner: we should start an instagram account together. I bet everyone will want to see that.
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a lone watermelon sticks out, defiant, amidst the militaristic colors of the colonizer’s genocide march. this world reminds hopeful, for the courageous refuse to waver in the face of naked power.
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@Martinlibby @sydneycantrel10 of course two girls named libby and sydney can’t understand “why people care so much” about their heritage :) yay white solidarity!!!.
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this is how I feel in the middle of something beautiful. in the immediacy of it, something in my gut tells me to cry, because it will never be the same again.
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being a girl in pakistan has its perks. nobody takes you seriously so you can kinda get away with stuff by playing dumb. went to a government office and they asked me to open my hood. i said i don’t know how. they looked at each other and let me go inside like 🤷🏻♀️.
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sometimes when my husband is gone I inhale the scent of his shirts like I used to with my mother’s dupattas after she prayed. love looks the same to me as it did when I was a child.
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if i ever have to say what kind of person might be at the forefront of the things that require immense bravery, i would place my bets on a pakistani woman.
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It's #notokay that kids don't even know how to express the fact that they've been molested to their parents. That they take that burden.
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the reason desis complain so much about moving abroad and having to do their own chores is that to them, labor is meant for the lower classes. rather than seeing labor as a tool for empowerment, humility, and discipline, they see it as constant degradation.
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what do you mean you don’t like coffee? who doesn’t like heart palpitations (zoomies) and a general feeling of unease (vibes).
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pakistani men will believe that there's a jinn living in their house but when it comes to harassment stories they always need proof.
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in urdu we don’t say “don’t worry” we say “befikar hojao” which means “become unbothered” and i think that’s beautiful.
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while my mother was a diplomat in the US she told me that one of the most prominent american psychosocial disorders was their idea that they were disconnected from the rest of the world. that what happened to the rest of us had nothing to do with them, and would not reach them.
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@hecubian_devil my uncle used to not only ignore my aunt but then he would use her clothes as a napkin and wipe his disgusting mouth with it.
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omg are they using watermelons because the palestinian flag is illegal to protest with? amazing. ingenious. there are good people everywhere.
Die Polizei hat die Demo am Auswärtigen Amt mittlerweile beendet. Die Demonstranten sitzen nun auf der Straße und werden von den Beamten weggetragen. #Gaza #Israel #Palaestine
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too many pakistani women have PCOS. has to be some sort of public health crisis. literally every third woman i meet has PCOS. is it environmental, hereditary?? this has to have been studied.
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my mother passed away. please pray for her peace. she did not have enough of it in this life.
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i hate people who talk like this. “stopped entertaining mediocrity” whole time their favorite show is friends and their dream is to live in new york city. your entire personality borrowed from the internet.
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kids running around the school yelling THEY ARRESTED IMRAN KHAN and parents frantically picking up their children with an ominous feeling tickling their hearts a feeling that the next decade of their lives is visibly going down the drain.
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i love pakistan because my dealer has Quranic verses as his profile picture on whatsapp.
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have any of u actually ever been in a relationship with somebody that loves u.
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fuck karachi for having the best food and the most fun people and the least conservative society and the fucking beach on top of all that.
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my brothers friend’s older sister came back from london despite knowing she had corona and infected her entire family ha ha i hate rich lahoris.
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God likes it when you are chill and cool and nice.
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when u get sick u yearn for your body back. you promise never to forget what it was like to be sick. and then u get better and by day three you’ve forgotten your gratefulness completely . we are like this with everything that matters.
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it is so hard for me to find people physically ugly. most people are just so nice looking to me. faces all seem so well-composed. I have to rely on other people’s opinions to know who is conventionally beautiful and who is not.
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the chips mafia in pakistan (pepsi cola and coca cola — usual suspects) really make sure that no local chips/snack brand can do well. what happened to oye hoye??? they were everywhere for a second.
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people don’t have hobbies or interests anymore because the boredom that was required for most of humanity to engage in something new has been replaced by an endless scroll of nothing.
Guys I actually saw something so egregious on TikTok the other day that it solidified my belief that at the very coreeee, people are struggling to form basic personalities. Forget being unique they can’t even be normal.
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my baby cousin who I love very much had cancer when he was a kid and it took years for him to recover and it left him with white hair in his teens and now he’s in his early twenties doing shots out of european belly buttons.
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for my husband’s breakfast i fried some of yesterday’s naan in desi ghee and served it with some honey
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went from pakistan, where twitter is banned, to indonesia, where reddit (!!!) is banned. cant wait to go back to the place where nothing is banned: saudi arabia.
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are desi men really out here complaining about body hair while walking around like sentient fur coats.
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me at day 1 preganant: omg the baby is craving the end of military rule in pakistan.
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men are so gross. they can’t let women do anything, not even watch a football match, without getting ogled. she’s just living her life and hassan cheema from gujranwala has taken it upon himself to post several pictures of her to an audience of horny men
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PSA girls in islamabad pretty sure i just avoided some sort of kidnapping attempt. was on the expressway and some guy in a van kept honking at me, pointing to my front tire. tried to ignore him but he was following me and honking. i stopped next to a bus stop. locked my doors.
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there’s a post on r/pakistan written by a lady from an average family who was coerced into marrying some loser overseas pakistani. she’s disgusted by him, thinks he agreed to this bec no american woman would touch him. arranged marriage really gives these incels access to women.
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if you have any power, you must justify it. even if you get nothing in return. even if you are inconvenienced. any time you can help, you need to help.
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you can fake a lotta things. happiness. pride. strength. but you cannot fake warmth. that is in your eyes. you might fool a few people. but your aura will be tainted. i see this a lot with narcissists. everything is technically right, but something is off. people can tell.
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now try with balochistan.
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you don’t know drama until you’ve met my cat trying to hide at the vet
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GUYS. I GOT A JOB WRITING FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES. ALHAMDULLILAH.
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the owner of this animal rescue service died recently, leaving behind a ton of sick and injured animals who have no one else. please, i beg you, donate to them — they are exhausted and without any support. my heart is breaking
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@annakhachiyan you are so annoying and you know you’re annoying. no matter what these loser yes men say to you i hope you know that you are a truly grating presence on this planet and your constant anxiety is your body telling you to find God.
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why is no one talking about the sheer pleasure of coming home from vacation and using your own bathroom.
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ali zafar signs his name like i did in third grade.
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pakistani women this is not for u don’t smile at these men they will stalk u for the rest of your life.
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pakistani fashion + clothes are really some of the best in the world. the technique, craft, material — and at such low prices. every second housewife knows the ins and outs of tailoring. really something special. should be highlighted and studied anthropologically.
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when ur mom starts bargaining with the cashier even tho they’ve got fixed prices
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God i love beautiful couples in love. i am a big fan of their mushy gushy adorable obsessed-with-each-other attitudes. it really gives me hope that we won’t be as miserable as the generation before us. that we value love over obligation. that there is no shortage of joy here.
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my mom, in her infinite and endearing paranoia, used to say that a part of the reason there was such a powerful global push to demonize smoking was because it gave you a moment to think and an independence of spirit that didn’t serve the capitalist machine.
The great thing about a cigarette is it organizes a moment.
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what the fuck was up with all the men there. why were they standing so close to my little sister. why did they grope my friend. why were they laughing & taking videos of us. why were there so many fucking men everywhere. u are the worst and don’t deserve to be in fucking public.
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you are in awe of somebody’s career trajectory and then you learn who their parents are and it all goes kaput.
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my mother died before she could see the world cry for palestine. she died angry about this; when i was a teenager & a “libertarian” i thought she was radical and needed to tone down her rhetoric. you are a diplomat, i said, be reasonable. but in all things amma is now vindicated.
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cant even begin to explain how the love of good people changes you on a molecular level.
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hello pls follow my poetry page if u are so inclined: eliapocalypse on ig (i write haikus every day)
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therapy: expensive. drugs: expensive. watching that video of that dad n baby lip syncing to that one song in their towels on repeat for all eternity: free.
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remember when u used to be able to read an entire book. in one sitting. remember falling asleep with the book on your face? remember when you could think beyond tiny snippets of thought.
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woman: dances. man: strips her naked, shaves her head, physically tortures her. jahil pakistanis: BoTh aRe aT fAuLt.
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