The Black Brothers 👑

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.

two broooos

chillin' in a bus stoooop

5 feet apart cause they're not gay ᶜᵒᵘᵍʰ

i can’t fathom that ben barnes is taller than andrew garfield. you’re telling me that they’re the wolfstar fancasts, and yet ben barnes is 6’1 and andrew garfield is 5’10?! how dare they not be 3’2 and 9’7, respectively? absolutely ridiculous, and downright homophobic!

Friendly reminder: Shipping m/f ships does not invalidate someone’s queer identity.

And in the case of aroaces, shipping anything doesn’t invalidate them. 

Let people enjoy fiction. 

The ✨needs therapy group✨

What I love is that even though we didn’t get a good storyline for Elu after S3 we got all the fluffy fanfic material confirmed, like. Someone writes Eliott squealing at the sight of Lucas? It’s canon, we know it would happen, we saw it in S4. Lucas talking about his mec/boyfriend constantly? Also canon, we saw it in S4. Elu moving in together? Canon. Elu talking about marriage already? Canon. Elu wanting to adopt a pet together, especially Eliott? F*cking canon. We saw all that in S5. Elu clinging to each other at every given opportunity? Confirmed. Eliott working at a videoshop and Lucas visiting him and distracting him at work? Why yes, confirmed in S6.

Alt er love.

i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it

and on the eighth day, God created the beaten-up scraggly brown-haired man, just to shiver my timbers.

Disney+, Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, New Writers— A list of bare minimums that should be in the new Daredevil show:

1. Proper representation of Matt's disability

Hammer home the idea that Matt IS blind. Don't leave any room for ambiguity regarding his blindness. Show him using visual impairment assistive technology. And good detailed touches like the Braille labels on clothes like seen on the Netflix show.

2. Maintain the good fight choreography

I'd say adopt the iconic hallway fight sequence tradition from the Netflix show but idk if you all can actually pull it off (lol). But at least put as much effort like the Netflix crew did on the action scenes. And bring back Charlie's trusty stunt double, Chris Brewster.

3. Do not be skimpy on portraying Matt's Catholicism and religiosity

One of the best parts of the Netflix show was Matt and Father Lantom (RIP 😢)'s introspective talks about God and faith. We better still see Matt on confessional booths every other episode and not just have his religion mentioned or alluded to in passing.

4. Don't butcher Matt's character and personality

These new writers better maintain the complexity of Matt's psyche. And do justice to both his lawyer and vigilante side. Definitely not hold back on his patent good guy assholeness, and most importantly to not forget his whoreness. This man better be written as a slut or else!

5. ALWAYS BE HORNY

Probably the most important part to y'all horny AF people on here including me. But yeah, these new writers/directors better be as down bad as the ones over on Netflix that managed to write in as much shirtless scenes as they can that at one point Charlie had to strike down some of them lol 💀

Y'all will actually have a point over the Netflix show if you let Charlie keep his chest hair, but I think that's expecting too much 🤷