u/_pleiades__

As you guys have already seen the power of our black magic (Mera, Kaex, Alarmy) in itr 2 through the sacrifice of u/Western-Highway-5044 and u/MoreMongoose2850

Abb humlog harr iteration mein do mods ka sacrifice karenge (change in plans). Pehle toh socha tha sirf pre-existing BITSian mods ka sacrifice hoga, but number kam pad raha hai so I will volunteer as well. Hopefully mere fellow new mods bhi mera saath denge💔

For this round we're gonna sacrifice 3 mods due to public demand: u/Icy_Ad3564, u/Dull_Artist1409 and u/BitStormRyder_1, hopefully Msc walo ko sabse zyada benefit mile because last time upper branches mein zyada drop hua tha (correct me if I am wrong tho) and bohot log withdraw karenge after itr 3 TRUST.

Anyways, itr 4 mein u/Charming-Ad6094 and u/HeroAadmi 😈😈😈😈 AND 3 mods in itr 3 will also act as catalyst for itr 4, so have faith🙏

ALL DA BESTTT, CHILL KROW HUM SAB HAI NA🧙🥰

Watch the next version update be a multi banner with a house upgrade (the first floor) and some widgets lmao. If we don't get any Orbit or Battle updates soon, I'm genuinely quitting this bs. If I wanted to play house, I would've just downloaded The Sims. Not even gonna mention MS update or Sy/Leb's missing content because Inflop does not care bruh At least we used to get 9000+ or 16000 dias to unlock in the past version updates (even if it was behind a wall and would take a long time to acquire). Now we have 6000 dias only to unlock by grinding in the kitchen, they even forgot about the journal thing, the choco shop🥀

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I love Hunter as an actress, but Jules did NOT need to do Rue like that, especially after how their last interaction went 😭😭. I literally laughed out loud seeing that painting of Rue in a "euphoric" state because it looked more like she was burning in hell 🥀.

Bas bhai samajh gaye hum sab, B pharm ki cutoff bhi 300+ jayegi aur kitna discuss karoge??

Kuch din baad toh actual idea lag hi jayega na abhi se dimaag kharab karke thori cutoff kam hojayega. I get it sabne mehnat kari hai isliye anxiety bhi zyada ho rahi hai. But yaar, roz yaha aake cutoff increase/decrease ka rona dhona karne se tumhara hi time waste ho raha hai aur kuch nahi.

And jo zyada bak rahe hai, agar cutoff badh gaya toh zyada se zyada tum ek "I told you so" type ki post bana dena, bas abhi ke liye muh bandh rakho. Isse accha go touch some grass with your friends (agar hai toh), indulge in your hobbies, sojao etc.

Baki toh aap log khud samajhdar ho. All the best bitsatards🥀

This really has been a roller coaster lol. A lot of people have asked me about my drop year, and very honestly speaking, I don’t regret taking it at all (even if BITS nahi hota), but I definitely wouldn’t do it again. I already lost a lot because of it, was physically bedridden for months because I pulled some bs. But somehow, it’s ending on a really good note, so I’m not gonna complain.

Exams se pehle kisi ne SRK ka ek video dala tha is subreddit pe:
“...humari zindagi mein bhi end mein sab theek ho jaata hai. Aur agar theek na ho, toh woh the end nahi hai dosto, picture abhi baaki hai.”

Cheesy hai, but it turned out to be true for me. And I believe it’ll be true for all of you too, chahe BITS ho ya na ho.

Jinka nahi hua, unko abhi lag raha hoga ki life pause pe aa gayi hai. But trust me, one exam is never going to decide whether you’ll achieve great things in life or not. End mein score nahi aata toh lagta hai saari mehnat invisible ho gayi, like nobody will ever acknowledge what you went through.

But I’d beg to differ. At the very least, you and I are witnesses to our struggles. Dusre kya bolte hai, ek kaan se suno aur dusre se nikal do.

Aisi bohot si cheeze maine apni previous posts mein bhi mention ki hai. I just hope that everyone giving BITSAT next year, whether you’re a 12thie or a dropper, learns from my mistakes and gets the college they want without going through the unnecessary stress I created for myself.

Be consistent from the start, baaki detail mein toh mongoose bhaiya samjha hi denge gmeet mein.

I thought I couldn’t get happier after my own comeback, but recently kuch logo ne bola ki unka score improve hua in S2 after reading my guide post, that gave me even more satisfaction. After feeling worthless for months, it felt nice knowing ki chalo, life mein dusro ke liye bhi kuch chotu sa contribute kar payi.

Aur jitne bhi logo se maine yaha interact kiya hai since March end, chahe dost bane ho, ya bas kisi random comment section mein saath mein larp kiya ho, thank you, genuinely. I’m in a much better place mentally now because of y’all.🥰

I’ll still be active on this subreddit, so agar kabhi baat karni ho ya kuch puchna ho, DM kar dena. Stay in touch. I genuinely hope tum sab aage jaake woh sab achieve karo jo tumne aim kiya hai.

Signing off as an aspirant,
Pleiades. (and stop butchering my cute sa username btw /j)

I don't know where else to vent about this, and this has been bothering me since childhood. I don't even have a proper name for it, but every time I look at these paintings, I feel this deep sense of nostalgia wash over me. Honestly, the devotees who painted these beautiful artworks deserve way more appreciation.

The first time I came across these paintings, I was probably around 6–7 years old. I was born into a non-devotee family, but we lived right next to an ISKCON temple, literally just a ten-minute walk away. Since there weren’t many places to explore in my city, I used to go there almost regularly with my father as a kid. Things weren't that great between my parents, hence I'd spend a lot of my time running around in the temple's campus or dancing in Sandhya arati with matajis.

I still remember the multiple book stalls near the entrance gates. The devotees working there were always very kind. They’d indulge my curiosity and let me look through all the art even though I barely understood what was being depicted. I loved flipping through the pages of Srila Prabhupada’s books just to find those paintings.

Seeing how fascinated I was, my mother bought me the Little Krishna CD. It might sound silly, but that series was honestly one of the biggest reasons I even became interested in spirituality. It was the first time I had seen all the lilas from the paintings come to life. I genuinely can’t count how many times I watched it.

But every time I finished it, I used to feel this strange emptiness afterward, which is probably why I kept rewatching it so much. It never got old or boring to me.

The thing is, that series only showed the Vrindavan lilas, and kid me had no idea Krishna eventually leaves Vrindavan. I genuinely thought he probably stayed there forever. A happy ending basically 😭

I developed this strong desire to someday witness those pastimes with my own eyes. I was a very naive kid.

Those things also influenced me to start painting, or at least try to 😭 I wasn't that good back then but I have improved (Last image is my own art)

Then came Krishna and Kans, which was again beautifully animated, but lowkey traumatized me because that’s when I found out Krishna leaves Vrindavan and goes to Mathura. I cried a lot that day lol. Maybe it was the realization that even Krishna’s bhauma lilas had ended at one point, and there’s no way to go back in time and witness Vrindavan lila with my own eyes, at least that's what I knew back then.

I think I had been overthinking these things so much that I ended up getting the biggest nightmare of my life. In that dream, I saw myself entering galaxies again and again, dying, taking birth repeatedly, and a bunch of other things I barely remember now. But I woke up crying and shaking. My mom still remembers it and never forgets to tease me about it 😭

Though that made my interest in Vaishnavism and reincarnation only stronger, even if it started through animated cartoons and random Wikipedia searches about Vishnu avatars. Though after a point, I lost touch with spirituality because of school, and losing my dad made things much harder financially for my mom. Our apartment was on loan, and we still couldn’t pay it properly back then (honestly still can’t fully now, idk how we haven’t been thrown out yet).

Then in class 9, I became interested in spirituality again after a YouTube video of Srila Prabhupada randomly appeared on my feed:
https://youtu.be/8Lpc_RWcif0?si=RWLk5hb_AryATDER

At that time, I still hadn’t connected the dots that the man in the video was the same person whose books and paintings had influenced my fascination with Krishna as a child. I was just deeply shocked seeing someone on his deathbed still speaking about scriptures with so much conviction and passion. It made me wonder what exactly he had written in his books that he cared about them so deeply even at that stage of life.

So I bought the Bhagavad Gita and the Krishna Book. Soon after, I gave up meat, onion, garlic, etc. Honestly, none of that would’ve been possible without my mother being so supportive. She never personally cared much for meat anyway, so it wasn’t as difficult for her.

Now it’s been around four years since then. My mother is an initiated devotee now, while I’m still practicing Krishna consciousness myself (hopefully I’ll complete IDC this year or next year 😭).

Okay, back to the nostalgia thing. I wanted to ask how I’m supposed to deal with this feeling.

Every time I look at paintings of Vrindavan Krishna with His associates, instead of peacefully appreciating or meditating on them, my mind immediately jumps to: “I’ll never get to see this,” and it genuinely hurts.

I know every devotee is striving to go back home, back to Godhead, but that goal feels so enormous compared to my tiny efforts. Sometimes I genuinely feel anxious about it. Like yes, I’ve gotten a human birth now, but what if I fail? What if I don’t get this opportunity again for an unimaginably long time?

And the thing is I really, really want to see Him. These thoughts have been with me for more than 10 years now. They motivate me, but they also make me anxious sometimes. I just want to know if there are other people who feel this way too.

Sometimes I also get excited wondering about things like: What kind of svarupa would I have there? What do Radha Madhav actually look like? Would I recognize my Guru Maharaj in his Goloka svarupa? Would I have friends there too? Would I meet my mother up there? idk it'd be pretty cool ig

Don't get me wrong I don't try to prematurely indulge in the topics of svarup siddhi etc, I know I have a looonggg way to go, but these topics really interest me.

Also, Aindra Prabhu’s kirtans give me this exact same nostalgic feeling, especially this one:
https://youtu.be/ikrhFQhoU4c?si=j1QKD39t-JHZCLj5

Damn, I yapped a lot, sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

I see some shippers online saying Maddy is pining over Nate again and I am really against that tbh.

Like I understand people can still think about "what could've been" when your first love from high school is getting married to your ex best friend, but he is not just any ex boyfriend.... he also did play Russian roulette with her... and also abused her mentally, physically. Plus that dance was so not romantic😭, the choreography was laughable and Cassie-Nate both were stressed out the entire time. Why tf would someone look at that and be like, 'Oh, how I wish I was in that place'. ?

I do not want to believe that Maddy is hung up on Nate or smtg, maybe it was a 'in the moment' kinda thing? In the previous season, she was more affected by Cassie's betrayal than Nate's. Even during the vows/kiss, Maddy was seemingly chill about the wedding (Img 1), only after Nate's mom shaded her during the reception and indirectly compared her to Cassie did she get that weird look on her face (Img 2). Even when we see the couple from Maddy's pov (Img 3), Cassie is the focus not Nate.

So imo her wistfulness is still more about Cassie taking her place and getting that trophy wife life that she had wanted as a high schooler than Cassie getting Nate.

Correct me if I am wrong though. Am I being too delulu? It's just that I really don't want the same redundant 'two girls fighting over a man' story again🥀

Maddy can get her revenge for HERSELF, because she was wronged by her best friend, not bc she's jealous for a psycho ex who has gotten lobotomized this season.