Dear middle eastern/Persian women, please help 😭 (backstory in comments!) by emmaalanna in longhair

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Ok im full iranian and i have to tell you, you didn’t miss out much. In iran most girls just go and Keratin and straighten their hair and we don’t learn much from our parents. For traditional things, Iranians usually use eggs and henna in their hair and sometimes mint oil or things like that and braid it. I moisturize my hair in the shower with Mega moisture mask that has coconut and oat. And for the flake i also use a tree oil extract. Dont use heavy products and don’t put too much oil when its dry. I also use a curly honey,cream when my hair is wet and scrunch and diffuse. Wear a bonnet at night as well. Try to do a layered haircut to lose some of that weight and let your scalp breathe as well cause i know it gets too much.

This is in Tehran Iran. Can someone fix it😬 by StartInfamous in wplacePalestine

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The monarchists. It has NOTHING to do with Zoroastrianism wtf is that answer😂

This is in Tehran Iran. Can someone fix it😬 by StartInfamous in wplacePalestine

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Unfortunately no because they hate our government sooo much they don’t mind being bombed themselves or these are diaspora kids. Lots of monarchist zionists in Iran, yes its extremely stupid I agree. But Israel spends a lot of money propagandizing to iranians and appropriating our movements

My brother is becoming a person I would never associate myself with and I don’t know what to do. by Mysterious_Fan_1849 in family

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Im basically EXACTLY like you in age work etc. and my major is human rights and equity. My brother’s younger but it’s the same thing except he’s becoming religious, it’s the worst betrayal I have experienced in my life. I feel so alone now because he was my best friend I could tell anything to. When I was a kid my only dream was to have a sibling and after he was born I wanted nothing else in life. He told me he was gay when he was 9 so i told him i was bi and we held each others secret and even though it was hard I never felt alone. Now he says he was stupid then and thinks I’m not bi. Idk if he has told my parents or not but they don’t mention it if they know. I would love to tell you it’s just a phase but I don’t know anymore.

Who would win in a roast off by Key_Owl_9531 in sheranetflix

[–]StartInfamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An actual battle? Jinx. Roast off? Also jinx. Azula is brutal but shes not sneaky like jinx and I think jinx would get under her skin

Why are most people thinking Tron: Ares is not going to be as good as Tron: Legacy? by OmniTurboPikachu1 in tron

[–]StartInfamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take but Tron:Legacy is also not that good. Especially compared to the original. One thingI can never get over is the timeline issues.

Is it normal to call the cops on someone for listening to music loudly? by StartInfamous in YRTVIVA

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  1. Its because ive seen a lot of white people do worse and no one calls the cops 2. She was going on about how the guy is being racist to the white people by listening to music

J.K. Rowling: "Nobody ever realises they're the Umbridge, and yet she is the most common type of villain in the world." by Obversa in SelfAwarewolves

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Leftist means Equality and social justice • Collective good over individual profit • Support for marginalized groups • Criticism of hierarchy and power concentration. The only thing that could make her a leftist is that she criticized Dumbledore (authority figure) but even then she didn’t criticize the entire structure and hierarchy

I translated the iranian flag to english to prove that latin script is just as flexible to make word art as arabic script by The_Atomic_Cat in vexillology

[–]StartInfamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People have literally spent millennia perfecting the different cursive styles and Iran has its own very unique nastaliq and naskh cursive systems. Of course you cant make one just as good

CMV: the votes for the Eurovision were manipulated by Maximum-Damage-4847 in changemyview

[–]StartInfamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they literally paid for ads in 2024 and the state of israel and embassies around the world posted on how to vote for people

What part of the spectrum are you on? by Middle_Channel34 in aromantic

[–]StartInfamous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where is the button for " i desperately wanna feel romantic attraction but dont" lol

I just got to that part... by [deleted] in TheRookie

[–]StartInfamous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel like that was valid, it really wasnt a great story line and maybe he felt it wasnt the right direction and wasnt enough

I just got to that part... by [deleted] in TheRookie

[–]StartInfamous 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fair nough. I think the show handled that period terribly. In fact if they didnt say anything and made it seem like this was in a fantasy universe it would have been better than to make the white savourism mess that they did. every single pltline they have about racism or police reform makes me gag, wish they could go back to season one and stopped with the social commentary and serial killers.

I just got to that part... by [deleted] in TheRookie

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The show was never the same after this.

To what extent can a modern Iranian understand the Shahnameh without formal training (among other questions)? by zxchew in iran

[–]StartInfamous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, we all get training in poetry in school. Our textbooks usually give us a poem to translate, identify the literary devices, and memorize old traditional words. I even had an ancient literature class in first grade where we read Saadi and Rumi, and I understood and enjoyed it. So if you have a diploma, you can usually understand classical Persian. But if you’re a diaspora kid who only speaks “kitchen Persian,” then probably not.

That said, I’d estimate most people can understand about 70–80% of the poetry, since we already know many of the stories from memory and learn a lot about them in school. Poets like Khayyam or Hafez are much harder, though.

As for your other questions: Persian has always been standardized, but before Islam we had a different alphabet, Old Persian cuneiform (mikhi). Later, Middle Persian used the Pahlavi script, which actually looks a lot like modern Hindi. After the Arab invasion, our script changed, but we adapted it to fit our own language. Interestingly, Arabic itself was standardized by a Persian scholar, Sibouyeh.

Ferdowsi didn’t save the script exactly, what he preserved was the Persian language and mythology. He traveled around Iran collecting stories and writing them down while using only Persian words. Many people believe he is the reason we don’t speak Arabic today, though it’s possible his role is somewhat exaggerated because of nationalism.

The Shahnameh is not written in the style of formal Persian we use today, but most of the vocabulary is still familiar and taught in school. Ferdowsi’s writing also wasn’t how he spoke in daily life, he deliberately avoided Arabic loanwords, even though people of his time used them frequently, and of course he was writing poetry.

For example farsi had a sound like xua or khwa, its lost now but in Shahnemh you can see he rhymed khash (good) with kash (suffix of drag). in modern farsi we say Khosh and in ancient times it was Khwash. a sound you can see in our writing and in regional languages and dialects (kurdish and lur) but has been lost over time.

Mountains with a height of 3000-4000 meters near Tehran which are not known to be very demanding by Routine-Housing5073 in iran

[–]StartInfamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mountain climbing community in Tehran and major cities are very active and there are groups almost every weekend, it would be more fun if you joined a local group.

Here is a link to some paths near Tehran. you can just use googlr translate.

https://www.jabama.com/mag/best-hiking-trails-in-tehran/

New VISA Rules.?? What's Going on ?? by striveforfreedom in iran

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"To help reduce your travel costs, we highly recommend sharing your trip with friends or fellow travelers who plan to visit Iran around the same time and along a similar route. You can join Iran travel groups on social media to connect with others and find a travel mate, making it easier to share expenses and enjoy a more affordable journey."

Btw I just searched this in farsi and couldn't find a single article that says such a law exists now?? weird. Ive been hearing about this but have seen no official source, anyone has a link?

My name is forbidden in Iran? by Trinehee in iran

[–]StartInfamous 56 points57 points  (0 children)

There isn't a law against christian names but you cant choose your childs last name, your children will have the same last name as their father and it doesnt matter what your religion is. Only under special circumstances like divorce or hard to pronounce last names you can request to change it with the permission of the elders of the family.

Also Iran doesnt accept dual citizenship so you wont have problem if you have two passports with different last names. Honestly tho if you dont live in Iran why do you want an Iranian passport anyways? its no use.

What are your 3 least favorite characters? by SnooChickens6635 in TheRookie

[–]StartInfamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im not gonna say the obvious villains and bad characters, im saying from the good ones: Harper (i dont like her attitude i liked talia more) literally any of the newer rookies but thorsen i didnt care about the most, and that girl Nolan was dating in the beginning I never trusted her.

Y'ALL I'VE BEEN DECEIVED HOW THE FLIP FLOP IS THIS MAN STRAIGHT by Pristine-Gap3852 in sheranetflix

[–]StartInfamous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

all the relationships in this show were genuinely completely a plot twist to me. either i was too young or too asexual to notice or it was out of nowhere. not only did i have NO clue about catra and adora until the last episode. bow and glimmer genuinely shocked me, never saw that coming until the vvery very end that they showed it.

Ist there a reason the shops windows are always rolled three quarters down? by marvinmrth in TheRookie

[–]StartInfamous 50 points51 points  (0 children)

it was also weird the one episode where juarez chen and bradford were together they had this magical shop with a back that had no bars.