Never Gonna Be Over Tear Era

Never gonna be over Tear era💗💗💗

My parents left us for a week during school so we could learn how to be grateful- long story short extreme punishments- no matter what motive- IS NOT NORMAL! If parents can’t take care of their kids then they don’t deserve to have them; don’t be afraid to report what happens at home. If you feel like you will be severely punished, make sure you say so to whatever authority you report to, you will get protection. 

good parents dont hit their children. good parents dont touch their children inappropriately. good parents dont scream at their children. good parents dont manipulate their children. good parents dont imprison their children at home. good parents dont threaten their children. good parents dont starve their children. good parents dont harass their children.

good parents do not abuse their children.

Arabic dark academia

Having tea first thing in the morning, the afternoon, evening, night and whenever you have nothing to do and whenever you have everything to do

Practicing calligraphy, hoarding calligraphy pens and quills like a dragon hoards its jewels

Youre now a calligragon btw

Pretentious hand written letters

Fragments of poetry and prose on the wall

In Egypt you can buy a vintage gramophone (as far as I remember)

Wrinkling your nose at orientalists who have clearly never been anywhere near the culture they're trying to portray.

Appreciating the orientalists who have in fact been there and paint like it. (Sorry to disappoint but there were never sexy slave babes roaming the streets)

Mourning for the scholars of Al Andaluas and times when Arabic was the language of science

Arguing over e'arab (the value of a word with regard to others in the sentence) and balagha (it translates to "eloquence" but is more like a complex version of figures of speech) of words

Arabic being such a complex language you get carried away sometimes

Passing the allotted wordcount so you start going over your paper and compressing a whole sentence, consisting of a conjunction, a subject, a verb and two objects into a word in desperation

Words like فأسقيناكموه (faa'skainakumooh) meaning "and so we have let you drink it" being an example.

Tea over burning coal. Over logs (hatab) tea over bokhour/oud hits different and you know it.

Brewing coffee over low heat and humming to Layali Al Ouns

"No offense but I like real coffee" when someone mentions starbucks

Um Kulthoum and Asmahan are superior you cant change my mind.

NO I DID NOT FORGET ABDUL HALIM HAFEZ I WANTED HIM A BULLET OF HIS OWN.

Fareed al atrash concerts at 3 am.

Nothing you ever cook will be under seasoned.

Reciting poetry to yourself in the mirror

Big chunks of jewelry (usually gold) engraved or woven through with intricate patterns and swirls. Wearing four bracelets in one hand is absolutely fine and under dressing is a myth

Owning swords is not out of fashion (ancient arabs were well known for their swordsmanship) but using them is, unfortunately <3

Wondering how they won wars with these swords. I couldn't even lift it enough to stab myself if I wanted

Extra names. People called شهد honey (shahd), جمال beauty (jamal), زهرة flower (zahra), ليلى night (laila), سماء sky (samaa), مهند/سيف sword (mohanad/saif) and صفاء purity (safaa) like it's the most normal thing in the world (which it should be, along with names of ancient gods)

Poetry from the abbasid era describing palaces and fountains and music so eloquently your heart skips several beats and you wonder how it is still beating at all and if, after all, you have been born in the wrong era.

Classic poetry from the school of Apollo brimming with romance and yearning you have never seen matched.

Poems that tear at your heart and stitch it whole with every bayt (verse? The equivalent for it) and you keep coming back for more.

Stories so well told that you swear you can see the princes and charmers and musicians and dancers all flicker to life in the flames before you

Historical masjids and churches.

Going to the palaces and shrines and towers from the ancient days of yore

Not exclusively (as neither is anything on this list) arabic but BRAIDS and braid jewellery that clinks when you shake your head

The unwavering belief that poetry is meant to be sung.

Singing poetry because it is meant to be sung

Thick eyebrows

Lining already lash lined eyes with kohl.

Beautiful brown eyes. Honey eyes. Chocolate eyes. Freshly turned earth eyes. Eyes that hold all the ethereal beauty of the world.

Hair styled in dark, thick curls or braids

Savouring the way the words move around from your throat to your chest to the tip of your tongue, like liquid gold,

The sweet music from the strings of a qitharah (string instrument)

Scented candles are cute, but have you ever heard of oud (perfume infused wood)? Anyhow one of my Sudanese friends make it AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL.

Wanting to study with the scholars of baghdad and azhar so bad

Recognizing that for all your culture, some of it is inspired by others and that's okay.

Please add what you can to this list. It is far from complete.

Lmfao, if you’ve watched barbie, you’d know the scene when they were reawakening the barbies, and one of the barbies said they felt they were in the Zack Snyder cut of Justice league….

I WAS THE ONLY FUCKING BITCH THAT LOL’ed IN THE WHOLE CINEMA OMFG IM GONNA DIE

I was bopping to The Man by Taylor Swift; singing and dancing my heart out while getting ready.

I go to put on my shoes while singing and see a spider, any manliness I was singing about disappeared as I screamed and threw the shoes…and ran to the other room near tearing up.

Prompt List

Derived from @a-cure-for-writers-block, their blog is a life saver.

1. “You look like you’re going to punch me.”

2. “Do you think things would be different?”

3. “You’re bleeding.”

4. “Can we start over?”

5. “This isn’t a conversation we should be having.”

6. “Don’t act like this doesn’t hurt you.”

8. “How many times has it come to this?”

9. “Your attitude in this situation is extremely inappropriate.”

10. “Are you going to leave me?”

11. “How are you doing?”

12. “Don’t kiss me.”

13. “I miss you.”

14. “You look like you’ve been through hell and back.”

15. “We should get you home.”

16. “You should think things through before you say them aloud.”

17. “You could’ve just told me.”

18. “Stop being seductive.”

19. “I would honestly rather do anything other than that again.”

20. “You need to stop yelling at inanimate objects.”

21. “You look like you’re going to cry.”

22. “Just calm down, everythings going to be fine.”

23. “I think you're going to end up getting hurt.”

24. “I’m just tired.”

25. “This isn’t something urgent, but please know that I love you and always will, okay?”

26. “This will be the last time you lie to me.”

27. “You know it’s not like that.”

28. “How could you think this wouldn’t hurt me?”

29. “Don’t underestimate me, I’m more powerful than you remember”

30. “Don’t pretend like you’re not happy to see me like this.”

31. “Your mind must be a horrible place.”

32. “How is it that we always end up in this predicament?”

33. “Hand me the gun and I’ll kill him myself.”

35. “I shouldn’t care for your life, but I’m starting to and it’s becoming an inconvenience.”

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I write for BTS, Avengers and Criminal Minds, although I haven't finished Criminal Minds yet please understand if I cant write for certain characters I haven't met yet, I'm on season 4!

As you can tell this is a fluff/angst list (mostly angst who am I kidding) but I'll be posting another prompt list soon.

Happy days xx