hiba (babar azam love bot)

babar azam you are SO loved (by me)

Babar Azam’s first ever T20 title as captain. In a season where he also scored record 588 runs and hit two centuries. It is fitting that it happened in Lahore where he grew up playing cricket and made his journey from ball boy to champion.

i have five hours to write 2,000 words because this chapter is actually due today and the only thing making me work is ... tutti frutti ... by ayesha omar ... help?

he should be playing cassian andor and turn every conversation to the injustice of the system under which the tangled characters live

finally caved and cited arjun appadurai in my dissertation.

@_hal33m i remember humsafar and maybe zgh were def on netflix at one point but were removed but yes, i think if pakistan argued to be in included in netflix’s mena dept instead of south asia, the indian hegemony would break tremendously.

@imaancipation none of our dramas are available on any streaming service besides YouTube either, and netflix Pakistan is literally controlled by India so I doubt anything from our side will ever be put on there 🙃

i don’t understand the mishandling of maula jutt’s streaming. why is not available anywhere, even to buy? surely pakistan’s highest-grossing film (domestically and overseas) of all time deserves a better reception. FOUR years later, and it’s had a measly tv premiere on geo.

sometimes i remember i have braincells and i care deeply about pakistan’s film & drama industry 💗💗💗 my hatred for all things thesis right now should not be taken to mean i don’t care anymore.

idk i’m blaming india. don’t ask me why, but seems right. but also, given pakistan’s soft power prowess in the subcontinent via dramas/music now, it seems silly for international markets to not bank on lollywood’s singular coherent release as of late lol.

TILF (thesis I’d like to finish)

we got BixCassian to The One That Got Away…

smth so uniquely depressing about watching the women around you succumb to and eventually perpetrate patriarchal values and traditions, give up their dreams and resent it, yet tell the everyone that it was the only choice. and equally haunting is the idea that this could be you.

REMINDER FOR YOU. Misogyny and “misandry” are not two sides of the same coin. One is a systemic issue that harms and kills women globally. The other is men being upset someone was mean to them online. These are not comparable. Be serious you morons.

with all the ramsha khan discourse happening, i thought it would be fun to have a little history lesson to remind everyone that this is a not a new problem. pakistani men especially in lollywood and their hypocrisy is a partition legacy at this point. (eastern film mag, jan 1968)

after may 18th i will be the most unstoppable person on the planet and maybe submitting my thesis will help me realize that i indeed go to oxford. because like, it still doesn’t register in my head.

Zayn Malik graces the cover of Elle India.

has anyone else noticed no one can suspend their disbelief for movies anymore? everything has to be realistic with you guys.

these mullahs are the biggest hurdle to pakistan’s progress, the way all these evil men tried to physically & psychologically corner her with absurd points of view yet she casually destroyed all of them with simple logic, this lot needs to unlearn their inner misogyny and dogma.

islamaBADDIE …

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.