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Bharatnātyam - Classical Dance If you opened the Shāstras and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find a lady doing Bharatnātyam.

As the resistance swelled, Churchill announced: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits”. At other times, he said the plague was “merrily” culling the population.  Skeletal, half-dead people were streaming into the cities and dying on the streets, but Churchill – to the astonishment of his staff – had only jeers for them. “If food is so scarce, why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?”

This is allyship. This is how you do solidarity.

Report from early 1990s about the persecution of Kashmiri Hindus that led to their exodus from the Kashmir valley.

Stuart Sutcliffe was the original tumblr cool boy and get ready kids because you are going to fall in love with him.

This is Stuart:

he was the original bass player for the beatles and was in the band for a year and a half before leaving. In case you are wondering, he left because HE GOT IN AN ARGUMENT WITH PAUL BECAUSE HE GOT MORE APPLAUSE WHEN HE SANG LOVE ME TENDER (which is on spotify fyi) THAN THE OTHER MEMBERS DID WHEN THEY SANG.

stuart became very popular among the bands orignal fans because he wore TIGHT PANTS AND RAYBANS

ok so thats irrelevant buuuttt

ok so if he already wasnt cool enough, when the beatles traveled to Hamburg, Germany for the first time (which was long before their first record deal or anything of that sort), Stuart meet Astrid Kirchherr. and oh boy were they adorable together. she was a german photographer and most of the first photos of the beatles were taken by her.

example:

but you know it gets better.

SHE IS THE COOLEST PERSON AND WAS WAY BEFORE HER TIME.

I MEAN, SHE INVENTED THE ARTSY SELFIE

LOOK AT HER WINGED EYELINER

she was beautiful and was a talented photographer and was so cool it is upsetting to me.

tbh to me she has a real glossier-esque feel with the cute hair and the eyeliner.

she was so cool and i wish she was more famous than she actually is now because she and stuart are the biggest otp hipster couple i have ever laid eyes on and i wish THAT I HAD A STUART

ok so anyway, they were the cutest couple i have ever seen in my life except for when anna ferris and chris pratt were still together.

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the aesthetic that these two are giving off is literally so modern and cool and amazing that is makes me mad like WHY CAN’T I BE THIS COOL WHAT THE HECK

but back to stuart… he was an artist and when he left the beatles, he went to art school to pursue his dream of painting. he was described by a fellow student when he was young as his art being dark and moody (me) but if that doesn’t match his aesthetic than idk what does

he was always said as being one of the top students in his art classes. He tried to become an art teacher, but when he wasn’t accepted, he left the bealtes (after the argument) and art school to be with astrid. 

he never sold many peices and there are very few surviving pieces of art of his left but there are a couple. 

here is some of his art:

the fact that it says “elvis mccarthey” is my absolute favorite thing ever because HIS HHHAAAIIIIIRRRR

i wish i was as good as him oh my gosh

ok so i know what you are thinking,

how have i never heard of this dude before?

well i tell you…

when stuart sutcliffe was 21, he died of a brain ruptured aneurysm and died after he collapsed in one of his art classes.

astrid and the other members of the beatles were not able to attend his funeral and his father was not informed of his death for 3 weeks.

in a letter to stuarts mother, astrid said “Oh, Mum, he (Lennon) is in a terrible mood now, he just can’t believe that darling Stuart never comes back. [He’s] just crying his eyes out … John is marvelous to me, he says that he knows Stuart so much and he loves him so much that he can understand me”

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

EMILY BRONTË, Wuthering Heights

That’s pride alright lmfao