#sabha

excerpt from an audio-translation I worked on with a colleague of mine; we translated Draupadī's imposing speech as rendered in modern Mahābhārat retellings. Draupadī utters this speech after she is dragged to the royal hall by her hair, and is assaulted & sexually harassed by the men of the Kuru dynasty. she renounces her status as a wife; in the Sanskrit Mbh, symbolically, by refusing to tie her hair again, while in modern renderings, explicitly, by directly renouncing her husbands who passively watched her humiliation.

in this sequence, Draupadī curses the Kurus. the curse bears similarities across the Sanskrit & modern tellings; that just as she bled in the sabhā (royal court / hall), so will all the men bleed on the battlefield, and just as she wept with her hair untied, so will their women cry before their corpses with their hair dishevelled (tied hair was the marking of a wife / bride, untied hair, of a widow).

Taylor: either wearing the most boring, bland clothes you can imagine or the most elegant dresses, no in-between. trends towards the former 9 times out of 10 Lisa: actively competing for drippest, with styles that are in this strange area between preppy and indie but somehow look great-except in the morning. in the morning you're lucky to see her wearing more then an oversized shirt and some pjs. Brian: a good mix of practicality and style. leather jackets with slacks and a touch of goth here and there. wondering how many times he can wear band tshirts and get away with it before Aisha notices. Rachel: almost exclusively jeans, tanktops and jackets. tried a long-sleeved shirt once and it ripped from her biceps. Aisha: practically the icon for emo punk girls everywhere. she does not own a single pair of pants that haven't been strategically ripped, and if an accessory doesn't have spikes, she's not wearing it.

>>>Continues spamming with Signalis AU

This is emmm... Aspity? She's gestalt with kinda weak bio resonance abilities. The last remaining human history teacher, and she's literally fighting with eules to keep working. She hates damned replicas and wants them all dead, bc they're fucking mistakes of the nature. The ugly combination of the dead and the living. And she's not the only one who thinks so...

صباح [SABAH]

"عندي بستان يا سعدى / دقي الكف"

(7". Voice Of Libanon. 1973) [LB]