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Hi, I'm Priyanka! (You can call me Priya for short) I'm 22 and live in the Windy City. I am a writer, musician, ballet lover, art freak, and shakespeare enthusiast.

The Princess and the Peacoat is my inspiration tumblr. Pretty pictures go there. Gifs, edits, memes, cute animals, and fandom freakouts live here! (fyi, nowadays this blog is 95% Qubool Hai, 2.5% Bollywood, and 2.5% everything else)

I can also be found at: Fat Birds!

khalishh:

inautumn-inkashmir:

“In pop culture, girls who crush hopelessly on guys they can’t have are painted as just that – hopeless. Over and over again, we’re taught that girls who openly express sexual or romantic interest in guys who don’t want them are pitiable, stalkerish, desperate, crazy bitches. More often than not, they’re also portrayed as ugly – whether physically, emotionally or both – in order to further establish their undesirability as an objective fact. Both narratively and, as a consequence, in real life, men are given free reign to snub, abuse, mislead and talk down to such women: we’re raised to believe that female desire is unseemly, so that any consequent shaming is therefore deserved. There is no female-equivalent Friend Zone terminology because, in the language of our culture, a man’s romantic choices are considered sacrosanct and inviolable.

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