hey um queer desi people if you think you’re alone, i promise you’re not. i’m here, we’re here, and we exist. i love you.
you’ve also not been “brainwashed by the West” or whatever bullshit I’ve heard over and over. queer people have existed in the Indian subcontinent and its neighbours for as long as humans have. you’re not something Other and you don’t deserve to be alienated from the aspects of your culture that you love. you have as much right to your history as anyone else.
you are free to reject it or choose not to associate with it for various reasons, of course, but you make that choice. they don’t get to make it for you.
so yeah.
you’re so valid, and so loved.
yeah please reblog/share this even if you’re not desi or queer, because i need it to find as many of them as possible, because it’s so, so easy for us to forget that we do have a community and that we aren’t alone.
our cultures are generally extremely social, with large families and communities for every single tiny thing, and that’s how we were raised. to feel alienated, and to feel alone, is a horrifying feeling for anyone, but it’s so different when you grow up in a society where everyone else has so much security and support and belongs. because then you start to wonder if you’re the one who’s wrong, whether there really is no one else like you, because everyone seems to have a community except for you.
so yes. please share this. i want us to know, that we aren’t fucking alone. and we deserve that sense of community just as much as anyone else.
you've also not been "brainwashed by the West" or whatever bullshit I've heard over and over. queer people have existed in the Indian subcontinent and its neighbours for as long as humans have. you're not something Other and you don't deserve to be alienated from the aspects of your culture that you love. you have as much right to your history as anyone else.
you are free to reject it or choose not to associate with it for various reasons, of course, but you make that choice. they don't get to make it for you.
yeah please reblog/share this even if you're not desi or queer, because i need it to find as many of them as possible, because it's so, so easy for us to forget that we do have a community and that we aren't alone.
our cultures are generally extremely social, with large families and communities for every single tiny thing, and that's how we were raised. to feel alienated, and to feel alone, is a horrifying feeling for anyone, but it's so different when you grow up in a society where everyone else has so much security and support and belongs. because then you start to wonder if you're the one who's wrong, whether there really is no one else like you, because everyone seems to have a community except for you.
so yes. please share this. i want us to know, that we aren't fucking alone. and we deserve that sense of community just as much as anyone else.
I’m not sure. Hey lovely people who have taken me over half way to a cool million! If you’d like to reblog again, I’d love that, if not, I still love you, and hope you’re having a great day. I’m gonna go do some stand up tonight.
god come on we’re so close. this is like the only meaningful thing that this website could ever achieve
And we’re still reblogging it. Because we can. Because this picture of a guy holding a Family-Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios meant something, even if we’re never going to be sure of what.
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as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan
and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.
yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones
fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time
fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected
(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)
drag them, wales!
Go Wales
the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:
W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.
We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.
as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan
yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones
fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time
fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected
the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:
W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.
We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.
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