Okay so a friend of mine was getting rid of some books and she offered up a book called The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
I had never heard of it, so I looked it up, and discovered that it was a fantasy book written by an Indian author which heavily draws from South Asia for its worldbuilding
Needless to say, as an Indian, my interest was piqued, so I told my friend I would indeed like to have it
When I picked it up from her, she mentioned that it wasn't all that great of a book but that she really liked the worldbuilding, and so I went into it with pretty low expectations
What I didn't consider was that my friend is white.
To be fair, I'm not saying she doesn't have a point. Maybe this isn't the most beautiful prose or most intricate plot I've ever read
To be perfectly honest, I don't really care
You see, to her, the cool worldbuilding that she liked was just that: worldbuilding. (No hate to her whatsoever I adore her)
But this is my culture. I didn't even know how much it meant to me to see my culture in my favorite genre of book until it was right in front of me
I couldn't get enough of it
At every chance I got, I was reading
I was in the middle of a vacation and all I wanted to do was keep reading
And then
This happened (mild spoilers for the book):
And I was like ",,, oh??"
I read it again
Then I kept reading
And then a few pages later, this:
OH??????
I just kind of sat there and I processed what I'd just read
And then I took pictures
And then I read it again
And again
And again and again and again
And now I'm just sitting here
I can't
I can't handle this
I'm just sitting here, in the middle of a hotel room, unable to read another page of this book or look away or do anything at all other than stare in wonder
Because it's GAY
I can't handle this
I don't know what to do
I want to cry
I want to scream
I want to curl up into a ball
I want to track down the author and,,, I don't know? Hug her? Kiss her? Thank her? Ask for her autograph? Stand there grinning like an idiot? Offer her my services as a court jester? Kneel at her feet and swear fealty? Those last two probably go hand in hand tbh
Regardless, it doesn't matter what I want to do
Because I can't do anything at all
It's not just South Asian fantasy
It's GAY South Asian fantasy
This,,,
This means so much to me
Thank you, Tasha Suri.
From the bottom of my heart,
Thank you.
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one of the only coherent thoughts I had while watching The (season sex six) Kitchen Scene was they’ve done this before. Like there was no what are you guys playing from Buck and no thanks so much for dinner from Eddie because this shit has been happening on the goddamn regular. They are so used to each other’s bullshit. The whole thing was just so comfortable I could not in any way handle it. What The Shit Is Going On I Am So Excited.
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lu guang and xiaoshi are so riddled with tragedies, you have xiaoshi just trying to vibe, doing his best, wanting to save everyone but won't go back in time even if it meant losing someone he fucking loves, yet here he is lu guang, who no one can convince otherwise, would have the thought "i don't care how many times i have to do this (break the very rule he was adamant about xiaoshi to never break), i will bring him back." he would deadass break his very own rule for ONE person when xiaoshi would just suffer through the loss because he believed that lu guang wouldn't be fond of his decision, even if it has to do with him.
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EVERYONE SHUT RHE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW THEYRE DOING IT THEYRE DOING MHW2 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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