IdeaSmith

Rescue your humanity from human beings. Tend to your own garden.

October is an unreliable, nasty month (so Libra). 2009, I dealt with 2 effbois. 2010 started NaNoWriMo, caught malaria on day3. Last year was a surgery gone wrong. This time, it's 2 visits to the ER & hospital stays in 10 days. Libra & its month is a dick.

When I was little, I thought lipstick was a maroon crayon that only aunties were allowed to eat. I remember being so surprised when I saw a magazine cover model in pink lipstick.

Had an Amit laugh in my face and tell me I was joking when I told him it was Kozhikode (do not say it a ‘z’) and it even had an IIM so stop calling it some random tiny town.

Hospital stay to attend to a family member. I’ve had to watch my food intake since I’m still in recovery. Had poha in the canteen today, hoping for safe. It was liberally coated with red chilli powder. Stomach still hurts.

The ongoing harassment of the victim of Cornell 7. It’s happening in privileged white America (most powerful country) and it’s happening in the most fanatic, toxic state in India (largest population). This is what human society is. newyorker.com/news/american-…

I frequently eat Quaker’s oats and my annoying cousin calls it “tavudu” or cattle food.

This should be the defining aspect of modern Indian womanhood. My peers and the generations were spiteful, spineless, pick-me POS and continue to be monster mothers. But this generation stood up to cops during the CAA-NRC protests and now. These are the girls I aspire to be like.

International fashion is trying to make 'tired eyes' the fall 2026 makeup trend. I am too tired to roll my eyes, let alone spend money on that shit.

Rewatching S1 of 'Nobody Wants This'. Hoo boy the gaslighting of someone who doesn't have strong religious beliefs being 'bad'. As compared to what? An upholder of the religion responsible for the longest running genocide on the planet? Wow.

Why is enthusiasm mocked to the point of cruelty?

It is still weird to me that Americans call attending college ‘going to school’. You already have school (the way the rest of the world understands it) broken up into three.

So many of my good manners (always respond in timely manner, say no if at all politely and apologetically) were indoctrination to be subservient to trash people. Asking myself each time if I’m responding from fear or intention.

Well-meaning (by which I mean sincerely trying to be woke) Indian youngsters using ‘bro’ & laughing it off as “just a thing we young people say” is the reason woke describes a classist, tone deaf creep in this country. Look up the origins of this term, don’t just ask ChatGPT.

Try being the person who never got the dedh-dhai thingamajig.