#Arzu Okay

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DECEMBER 2024 WRAP UP

[ loved liked okay nope dnf (reread) ]

(The Warrior of the Third Veil) • Labyrinth's Heart • Graveyard Shift • Haunt Sweet Home • Dear Bartleby • The Weaver of the Middle Desert • (Jackaby) • Jamaica Inn • The Hallowed Hunt • The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol 1 • (Beastly Bones) • These Old Shades • (Ghostly Echoes) • Balancing Stone • (The Dire King) • Bestiary • The Agony House • The Bone Maker • Siddartha • The Morningside • Why We Sleep

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It's the final month with this picture format because Goodreads has decided to f*ck their page format entirely! Only managed to do this month through some miracle and a bookmarked page on my phone.

The Warrior of the Third Veil & The Weaver of the Middle Desert - wonderful! I'm so glad that Victoria was finally able to finish Weaver, what with it being almost 6 years since it's original mentioned release date. It was really nice getting to see more of Arzu, since she's not one of the Red Company and we don't know much about her. Jack and the beanstalk is not the fairy tale I'd have expected to be incorporated here, but it was neat! I feel like I should have thoughts about how this series is the 'Sisters' Avramapul but still always end up being about Sardeet at the heart of the story, but I still kind of wish we could fit in a fourth book about her third husband? She has such terrible taste in husbands, I want to see how the last one screws up.

Labyrinth's Heart - mixed feelings! In reality I read this series in quick enough succession that I didn't have much time to build up expectations, and I did like and enjoy this and think it was a good ending to the series. I was a little meh on the beginning, mostly - the whole favor/marriage tournament felt a little weird, and it was over so quickly (comparatively - it's a long book!) and went out with a whimper. This was the book where Ren's house of cards was going to start falling, and bringing back mother dearest (whose name I've forgotten again) was a genius move that was well supported - she just ended up feeling very underutilized because Ren was being pulled in ten directions and she played her trump card so early in the story, which left her feeling more of a petty villain rather than anything more significant. It also felt like after the authors killed off a major character at the end of book one, they weren't willing to take such a swing again? Which really dropped the tension for me, unfortunately. I think book 2 will live on as my favorite in the series, but I still had a great time with this one. Would highly recommend the series!

Graveyard Shift - the author may have abandoned tumblr years ago, but some part of me still feels compelled to support her books lol. This was interesting! Another one for the mycological horror section. I don't really have much more to say - I saw people saying it should have been longer, but I don't know that I would have stayed interested for much longer, and thought the structure of telling the story of this one 8 hr period was clever. I wonder if a series of single-shift novellas would be something feasible?

Haunt Sweet Home - meh. I think I was hoping for something a little funnier? But this really didn't leave me feeling much. A pass from me. Maybe try the Haunted Home Renovation series by Juliet Blackwell.

Dear Bartleby - 4th book in the series, and in this one we are back to epistolary, romance, and a full novel length! My speculations were correct that I'd find epistolary + romance more enjoyable, and contrary to my usual tastes I do think the author writes better in 1st person. It unfortunately doesn't hide the fact that the author can't create any kind of personality for the secondary characters. Everyone can be boiled down to "X personality trait and interested in Y thing." As the novel got further into romance territory it definitely started to annoy me more - the romantic interest was nice, but I couldn't really tell you why they were in love. idk! Hoopla doesn't have the next book on audiobook so I've been forced to stop with the series, which is probably for the best.

Jackaby - look, I didn't *mean* to reread this entire series, but here we are. I picked up the first one because my print copies were on the potential chopping block, and I had positive memories of reading them (and the covers are so lovely). They were okay! I had a pleasant enough time, but I think that was in part because I'd read them before, and I kept picking them up because I was struggling to find other books to read (see: my dnf list for the month). I don't know if I'd have liked them if this was my first time through, but they're also in an odd spot where they were published as YA, but Abigail is treated as an (young) adult, and there are no other teenage characters. Who knows! The fourth book was a bit meh, not on its own necessarily, but as part of the series a lot of it came out of nowhere - I think this really could have used a book 3.5 to help in the transition to the endgame. Interesting, but leave this one to the teens, I think.

Jamaica Inn - I had mixed results reading du Maurier's Rebecca a few years ago, but found this at the library sale and decided to give her another shot. "Liked" is perhaps too strong of a word, but it kept my interest and I didn't speed the audiobook up to 2x, so I'd call it a success!

The Hallowed Hunt - so sad to be done with the Chalion novels! I still have the Penric & Desdemona novellas to work through at least, which I hope to do in 2025. I feel like I saw reviews saying this wasn't as good as the other two, and while I do think Paladin reigns supreme, this one didn't quite yuck me in some of the ways Curse did (and also was less confusing for not being the first book, lol), so I think I enjoyed the reading experience more. Did the weird, forbidden animal magic remind me fondly of the Farseer trilogy? Maybe. My only real wish is that Bujould would have let Lady Ijada say her own part.

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol 1 - this was so cute!!! I've never read a manga before, so I can't compare it to other books. I struggled a bit to follow the text because there were multiple speech bubbles following different conversation threads, but! The characters were SO expressive, it was pretty easy to muddle along. The art is so great, and I loved the side characters of the overly-invested uncle and the classmate who totally ships it. Also maybe very obsessed with the gender of it all :D So glad my library had at least one copy of this for me to try, I think I'll probably end up buying my own copy and Vol 2 when it comes out in 2025.

These Old Shades - I've been wanting to try Georgette Heyer's work ever since I saw KJ Charles describe some of her own books as being "Heyer but gayer." This one I found at the thrift store and just happened to be one of the half-dozen my library has as an unabridged audiobook (library, why are so many abridged???), so here we are. I wish I'd liked it. It's no fault of the writing, and I certainly enjoyed the dramatic twists and reveals. My dislike largely lies with the main pairing of Leonie and the Duke, which starts out as servant & master, then guardian & ward and seems somewhat paternal, but inexplicably shifts to romantic, with much support from the other characters. I suppose it may have been considered within norms for the time period? But it really hit some of my squick points and yucked me out. I don't think you'll find me recommending this one, but I'm still willing to give Heyer another chance or two.

Balancing Stone - a brand new short story in the Greenwing & Dart series, starring Hope! Victoria still doesn't have many stories with female protagonists, so it's always nice to get a new one, and Hope is such a lovely person. Not much in the way of plot, but definitely provoking some thoughts about the old Alinorel religions (an ongoing theme) as well as a new outsider perspective on Jemis, which is always entertaining.

DNF

Bestiary (4%) - Picked this up entirely on a whim at the library book sale. I was intrigued by the magical realism of the description and the lgbtq tag, but the opening was very odd and I wasn't into it.

The Agony House (15%) - one of my four unread Cherie Priest books! This one was YA, which was already a point against it; the mc was a senior in high school but the tone of the writing was almost more middle-grade, which is not bad in itself; and the way the family was going about renovating their house annoyed me lol. I decided it probably wasn't going to be one I really liked and wasn't invested enough to keep going.

The Bone Maker (55%) - Very sad about this one! I read a number of Sarah Beth Durst's YA titles as a teen and was excited to see her put out her first adult title. It took me a while to get to this because I was waiting for my library to get the audiobook, and unfortunately I think I got around to it too late. I wanted to like this but the characters and story just never quite gripped me, and by the halfway point it was starting to feel like a slog. Since I also dnf'd Durst's more recent adult title The Spellshop the other month, I think it might be time for me to say goodbye to her work.

Siddartha (4%) - a paperback copy of this was gifted to me by a friend in college, and while unfortunately her track record has not been good so far, this is the first one I had to dnf! The audiobook version I picked had a nice introduction about the author, which I did like, but unfortunately the actual book just went in one ear and out the other and wasn't working. Me being tired, the language being poetic, and my unfamiliarity with the place and culture were a bad combination. Maybe I'll keep the print version on my shelf for another attempt.

The Morningside (35%) - I started this at work on a Friday and got along well enough, but come Monday I'd forgotten what I'd been reading and felt kind of meh about starting it back up. Story-wise it reminded me somewhat of 2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas (which I didn't like) and some worldbuilding/vibes of The Saint of Bright Doors (which I did). Not something I'd be opposed to trying again someday, but maybe I'll start with one of the author's other books first.

Why We Sleep (31%) - I wanted to read this, really! I think the subject is interesting and I also know that my sleep schedule is very, very bad, so personally it felt very relevant. Unfortunately listening to this on audio was putting me to sleep - the author actually took time to note, if this puts you to sleep, let it, he'd be pleased! Unfortunately I was listening at work, and that's a no-go lol. Maybe one I'll purchase in print and keep on my shelf to try again "someday".

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Merhabalar Hasan kardeşim ben Arzu beni tanıyan herkes ismim ile aynı olan Arzu okay a benzediğimi söyler gerçekten Arzu okay ya çok benziyorum ben şuan 39 yaşımdayım size anlatmak istediğim hatıram başımdan geçeli tahmini 17 yıl kadar oldu 22 yada 23 yaşımdaydım 16 yaşımda amca oğlum ile nikahsız olarak zorla evlendirildim. Ne o beni ne ben onu istiyorduk amca oğlum ile bir anlaşma yaptık aynı odayı paylaşacak fakat cinsel ilişkiye asla girmek dahi istemeyecektik ilk amcam vefat etti ardından annem kocam olacak amcaoğlu askere gidene kadar annem ve amcam vefat etmişti Vahit diye bir amcamız daha var o da kocam askerdeyken öldü diyeceksiniz ki neden nasıl bu kadar ölüm birden oldu Rusya ya çok yakın bir yerde oturuyorduk Çernobil nükleer santrali patladığında etkilenmişler ben dahil bütün köy halkı kanser kocam askerlik görevini tamamlamış eve geri dönmemişti bana artık başının çaresine bak ben İstanbul a gidiyorum diye mesaj attı babama mesajı gösterdim babam çok kızdı benim bakire olduğumu bilmiyordu belliydi bu şerefsizin seni yarı yolda bırakacağı keşke evlendirmeseydim seni bu şerfsizle dedi İstanbul da bulunan bütün akrabaları aradı gelirse vurun şerefsizi dedi o sırada yaşım 21 felandı babam iş kurmak için şehre gitti o zamana kadar pek evden çıkmayan ben köyde dolaşmak için dışarı çıktım gezerken çok yakışıklı uzun boylu esmer bir adam bana burası neresi diye sordu bende Artvin Hopa bilmem ne köyü dedim adam Gürcistan da yaşayan bir Türkmüş ismi Hasan Hüseyin miş adam nasıl buraya geldiğini hatırlamıyordu koluma girdi biraz aksıyordu demek ki ya dövmüşler yada düşmüştü evimize götürdüm adamın bütün cepleri parayla doluydu balya balya paralar çıkıyordu akşam üzeri babam geldi Hasan Hüseyin ile tanıştılar o gece sabaha kadar sohbet ettik babam başımıza gelenleri tek tek anlattı ertesi gün uyandığımda babam yoktu kahvaltı hazırladım Hasan Hüseyin i kaldırmak için odasına gittim aman Allahım adam 31 çekiyordu çok uzun ve çok kalın bir siki vardı beni görünce saklamaya çalışıyordu kahvaltı hazır banyo yapıp gel dedim aklımdan siki çıkmıyordu utanmıştı ama benim aklım oradaydı babam evde yoktu ama heran gelebilirdi hayvanları otlatmam lazımdı ve geç bile kalmıştım kahvaltı yapıp çıktım Hasan Hüseyin de peşimden geldi 2 inek 1 dana 4 te keçimiz vardı suyun kenarında yeşilliği uzandım o sabah gördüğüm siki düşünerek hayellere dalmıştım ki Hasan Hüseyin yanıma geldi öpmeye başladı karşılık veriyordum bir çırpıda soyunduk sevişmeye başladık o kadar güzel yalıyordu ki kendimi ona bıraktım altında kollarımı yana açıp onun yapacaklarını bekliyordum bacak arama başını soktu yok böyle bir zevk resmen zevkten dört köşe olmuştum doğruldu sikini amıma sürtüp birden yüklendi ahhhh diye bir ses çıkarttım hızlı girip çıkıyordu ben zevkin en üst noktasındaydım bir ara sikini çıkardı önüne baktı sen bakiremiydin dedi evet dedim devam etti girmeye o girdikçe zevkin ne olduğunu anlamaya başladım artık kadındım hava kararana kadar seviştik hayvanları ahıra koyduk eve girdik babam gelmişti TV izliyordu Hasan Hüseyin babama 300 milyon para vereyim bu kızı bana ver nikahlı karım yapayım dedi babam bana hiç sormadan kabul etti o gece sabaha kadar yine seks yaptık 6 gün daha köyde kaldık sonra önce Gürcistan Batum a gittik oradan İstanbul a gittik nikah kıydı babam göremedi nikahımı ama . Şunuda belirteyim o ilk kocam salak amcaoğlu şimdi kocamın şoförü şimdilerde çok lüks bir hayat sürüyorum iyi ki adamla karsılaşmışım.

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Attention~

Hello, everyone! There have been a few posts going around in the DP and Danny Phantom tags that need to be addressed.

There is an artist called @mysticalcrowthings who has been posting Danny Phantom AI art to the tag without tagging it as such. Instead, they have been tagging it as their own personal work.

Here are a couple examples:

Original links:

Picture 1

Picture 2

Please note the many extra fingers, weird hand shapes, as well as proportions.

But ARZU! Danny is a ghost! He could be doing weird eldritch stuff!

Okay! I'll give you that. But I have further proof!

If you go into Crow's archive you will find these posts from June and July of this year 2023:

Link to original

and

Link to Original

Here is a screencap of the archive as I saw it at the time:

Then in October, 2-3 months later. They are posting art like this:

Link to Original

(BTW look at that weird ass birb placement in the middle)

Link to Original

The screencap of the archive as of this current moment:

That is an insane amount of improvement for only 2-3 months between those examples. Not to mention, each piece is drastically different. I'm sorry to say that this is AI-generated and should be tagged as such.

Now, @mysticalcrowthings I don't like doing this but what you are doing is wrong. AI art takes from art all over the web to make those images meaning it is STEALING art from other artists and using their resources without their permission. AI isn't talent. Anyone can put a word or image into AI and hit the button enough times to get something halfway decent. AI is a tool that should be used to learn from or to be like "Hey look what the bot did! Isn't that neat how it did that?"

Making AI art does not make you an artist. You did nothing.

Ai art is its own thing and should be tagged as such.

This may sound a bit harsh but I just want to think that this is from a young mind who lost their way a bit and tried to go for a quick grab at fame.

Listen. I highly doubt you will read this but I do not want you to give up on your art because it didn't get a lot of notice initially and a bot could do it better. You have a great foundation and a wonderful start on both traditional and digital pieces! The best thing you can do as an artist is practice and keep LEARNING. We all start somewhere!

There are tutorials for everything everywhere! I want you to be as good as that someday! So I hope you realize your mistake and get back on the right path because this one is just going to end in you giving up art for good, from being discouraged and outcasted by the fandom spaces you love to frequent.

And that saddens me to no end.

[kleinerfunkenseele]

wirst es nie lesen

die gedanken, meine gedanken

das tagebuch, mein tagebuch

neu

wirst es nie lesen, versprochen

so viele texte

die ich schrieb

wirst keins davon lesen

geheim

wie mein anderer tumblr account

das hier wirst du auch nie lesen

warum auch?

einmal verliebt

nur ein einziges mal

nie wieder

safe haven

habs nicht ohne grund gestochen

bedeutung

werds dir nie sagen

meine gedanken, mein geheimnis

werds nie jemanden erzählen

mein lieblingslied

werds dir nie zeigen

besser jetzt

als später

lieber jetzt

2 wochen

gelöscht

versprochen

einkaufsliste

geschenke

überraschungen

alles

gelöscht

von heute auf morgen

grün

passend zu meinem sternzeichen

die kette

4 klasse

da war sie

hab geleuchtet

mich gleich verliebt

so viel geld für eine kette

4 klasse

konnte nicht anders

war bei so vielem dabei

so viele ging in erfüllung

wegen der grünen kette

laura

frank

meine erste liebe

die flucht aus der klinik

der kampf gegen meine eltern

gegen meine gefühle

mein erstes mal

mein erstes mal als sich jemand sich in mich verliebt

lisa "du nimmst alle so wie sie sind, bin gerne mit dir"

hab nächte geheult wegen deinem geschenk

im auto, neues heim

durfte dich nicht sehen

keinen von euch

werde diesen brief nie wieder vergessen

".. mach was aus dem neuanfang und pass auf dich auf"

nie wieder vergessen als du sagtest das du mich liebst

4 jahre später sah ich dich

mitten in der stadt, hunderte personen

"lisa?"

ich hörte nie wieder etwas von dir

dabei war ich dein halt

3 monate

4 monate

6 monate

svenja, die versunken ist in depression

bis ich etwas mit ihr machte

nahmst mich mit

zeigtest mir alles was du liebtest

stundenlang sind wir durch die pampa gelaufen

bis ich gehen musste

mein erster liebesbrief

bei ihm

er sagte es mir, schickte ein foto

vor 2 wochen

nach all den jahren hatte er es immer noch behalten

er sagte:

"seit letzten jahr herbst kann ich nicht auf hören an dich zu denken"

bat mich

es zum 10 mal zu beenden

ich sagte ihm:

"mach dir lieber mal gedanken warum du so fühlst dann können wir gerne nochmal sprechen"

hab gezögert

bleibt mein geheimnis warum

"liegts an mir oder warum hast du mich diesen einen tag so grob behandelt, mir einfach die hose ausgezogen"

"ja, arzu es lag an dir"

hab nichts getan, wollte gar nicht

"warte"

hast geheult wie ein mädchen

hab dir gesagt das ich geh, meine letzten worte

"such dir hilfe, du endest wie dein vater"

hab dir nie deine worte verziehen

die du anderen erzähltest

"ich kann sie nehmen wann ich will"

"gehört ganz mir"

"die hure"

alles gelogen, hast mich nie gefragt warum ich mich ständig trennen wollte

hast mich bedrängt

hätte dich am liebsten zerstört

hab es

100 mal

immer wieder

ständig

betrogen

warst immer noch da

hast dennoch andere über mich gestellt

hab gegen dich gekämpft

ständig

2 jahre

bis leo kam

mich vor dir beschützte

dein bester freund

wurde mein bester freund

selbst letztes jahr als ich ihn sah

hat sich nichts geändert

deine kette trag ich immer noch

neues zuhause

psychiatrie

1 mal

2 mal

3 mal

4 mal

"wäre es möglich würdest du hier wohnen"

kampf gegen meine betreuerin

gab mir die schuld

kampf gegen die schulleiterin

"wirst es nie schaffen"

frau lang, als wäre es gestern:

"nicht okay das du entlassen wirst"

sie sagte tage vorher, icj solle dinge mehr genießen

diagnose

es stand drin

fehlende genussfähigkeit

stille

sie isst ihren joghurt

wäre am liebsten aufgestanden

habs bemerkt

war 13

oder 14

"warum?"

"du wirst das nicht überleben"

habs versucht

1 mal

2 mal

3 mal

pulsadern

tabletten

gleisen

notruf

irgendwer rief den notruf

alle suchten

außer du

war 14

"hab einen laden zuführen"

bin mit dem zug gefahren

polizei "willst du mit in die klinik?"

mein erstes konzert

mein erstes mal

alkohol

gras

drogen

nächster tag

"ich möchte mich umbringen, die gedanken sind so laut. "

war nicht alleine

sie wollte es auch

hab im krankenhaus geschrien

im betreuerzimmee

marvin

frank

laura

therapie stunde mit ihrem hund

"das hat der noch nie gemacht"

hab mich besonders gefühlt

meine ehemalige jugendamts tante

"du brauchst mehr unterstützung"

1 heim

2 heim

3 heim

4 heim

eine qual

franz-stock haus

erstes mal zuhause angekommen

in der schule

anderer schulleiter

wie oft weinte ich vor ihm

meine erste eins

"du bist eine der besten"

war so verwirrt

hab nur noch den unterricht geschwänzt

geschlafen

nicht zugehört

geträumt

"selbst unser autist merkt dass etwas nicht mit dir stimmt"

hab mich so unendlich einsam gefühlt

in der wohnung

in der gegend

war nicht bereit

habs abgebrochen

schule

bin nachhause

war da

dann da

immer wieder

besten freund

chris

entfernung

noel

wochenlang bei ihm geschlafen

geliebt im beim zocken zu zuschauen

ständig seine wohnung aufgeräumt

die nachtwanderungen

mit der ganzen truppe

fühlte mich angekommen

"luis, wir sind hier allein und es ist 3 uhr WO MÜSSEN WIR LANG"

es war unfassbar lustig

bis du dich verliebtes

"was hättest du getan wenn ich dich geküsst hätte?"

ich sagte dir

"bitte hör auf zu reden, lass mich in ruhe"

verlor einen freund

du fandest jedoch jemanden neuen der dich wertschätz

oder chris

"lass mal auf den berg morgens wenn die sonne auf geht"

2 std normalerweise

wegen mir waren es 3

trafen die anderen

besoffen

sie sind mit

wir beide gingen die hälfte alleine

ich sagte dir lass uns da lang gehen

"das ist keine abkürzung"

du bist trotzdem mit

und wie oft flogen wie hin

7 uhr morgens

wir schliefen einfach alle auf dem berg

du verliebtest dich auch, sagtes es nie

wollte es nicht sehen

verlor wieder einen freund

mein erstes mal

als ich merkte, dass es ihm spaß machte

als es mir gefiel

war so überfordert

habs abgebrochen

wäre am liebsten weg gelaufen

mein erstes mal dass ich alleine in die klinik wollte

2024

mich einweisen, ganz alleine

"dir gehts zwar schlecht, du schaffst das"

tagesklinik

hab jeden anruf ignoriert

julian

der mich mochte

wochenlang

hast du mich nicht berührt

bis zu unserem ersten kuss

werds nie vergessen

hast mich so genommen wie ich war

still

so unfassbar schüchtern

launisch

selbst deine mitbewohner waren nie unangenehm

manchmal so lustig

und

und

und

so viel glück

wegen der kette

so viel unglück

brauch sie wieder

panik

hab mich nie alleine damit gefühlt

will schreien

so sehr

muss mich zurückhalten

nichts unüberlegtes sagen

oder tun

großer fehler

weiß es

habs geträumt

[distilled-prose]

"Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room."

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar from Dr. Arzu Ates on LinkedIn 2/5/23

how do you survive Valentine's day

without the one you love?

the one that left months ago

and hasn't returned yet.

man, I could've sworn we were soulmates.

but what did they always tell me?

nothing good lasts forever.

but why couldn't it at least last a little longer than it did?

eight months.

...

– IČ

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Turkish actress Arzu Okay, 1970s

[mankenkiz]

Arzu Okay film benimle sevişirmisin

Benimle sevişirmisin Arzu Okan oynadığı 1972 yılında sinemda yayınlandı. Filmde Salih Güney, Arzu Okay, Feri Cansel ve Seyyal Taner birlikte oynadılar.  Benimle sevişirmisin adlı sinema filmi yönetmenleri Nazmi Özer ve Bülen Öner yaptılar.

Arzu Okay film benimle sevişirmisin

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I can't believe you guys bamboozled me like this! I was so sure Arzu will win and was like okay I can do lil lore drops and now I'm bit sweating of how much foreshadowing will be too foreshadowing... :D;;

An illustration of our crown prince Erukian coming later today~ !

Celebrating... 30 followers!

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Ekrem Bora, Arzu Okay & Sadri Alışık

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So for matchups thingy

My names Arzu i use he/him and they/them pronouns. I am A genderfluid Bisexual. a few of my hoobies are reading, Drums, Archery And my imtrest is watching documentarys about marine animals, genuinely anything thats to do with animals and or water.

In a relationship i want someone who cuddles with me, forhead kisses and cute stuff like that someone who understand me and doesn't pressure me into stuff. I want someone with the same love language as me(Quality time, Physical touch)

In a relationship dont want them to pressure me into sex, eating if im not hungry and someone who doesn't push they're intrest onto me. (Like force me to watch football with them for example).

Little things that attract me are tattoos, from behind cuddles, a beard, babyface(absolutely adorable on men), ACCENT, Russian, spanish, German, french etc.

Im not very talkative but when i do start talking about something i will never stop, i switch topics fairly easy. I cant sit down and watch a movue without talking, i have to comment everything. If im bored i follow my friends/family around like a lost puppy and watch what they're doing. Im a total Motorcycle freak, i love them over anything. But cars are also cool. I hate hiking and i love the beach.

Romantic: Timur ‘Glaz’ Glazkov

By the end of the second paragraph, Glaz stood out for some reason as a good pick for you. And by the end of reading your submission, I’m pretty sure he fits really well. He’s always got his heart in the right place and he’s very good at reading people. He’d love to watch you practice your archery skills sometime! He’ll definitely sketch you as well, always saying things along the lines of, “How could I not? You look gorgeous with a bow.” Being someone with great patience, he’ll watch whatever documentaries you want, even if he has no interest in the topics they’re covering. There weren’t many beaches where he’s from, so whenever he can he likes to go to them, trips with you are the best of course. He likes to see you happy and will always encourage you to do the best things for yourself but he knows how to do this without pressuring you. <3

Platonic: Dominic ‘Bandit’ Brunsmeier

Hear me out, Dominic would be a great friend to someone! It takes him a while to open up to anyone, let alone become their friend, but starting a conversation about cars would probably get his attention. Maybe you’d get him to ramble a bit about them as well. He’s interested in hearing you play the drums and has a knack for rock music so if you play anything like that on the drums, he’s impressed. Hopefully, you’re okay with some dry or dirty humor because that’s one of his specialties!

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Sinf E Ahan Episode 1 initial thoughts

Okay, so for a brief summary, the show is about 5? girls from different backgrounds trying to step ahead in their career, prove themselves to family, or improve their family's financial situations, by joining the army. Because clearly that's the only way to achieve glory :) jk jk.

spoilers ahead for the entire premise in the first episode.

Yeah so. I plan on doing this similarly to how I did my ehd e wafa posts so let's just start with my reactions to the leads. Please note that I still do not remember any of their names because clearly ISPR has sworn to make everyone's work harder, including their own by having way too many plot lines.

First we have Islamabadi girl # 1

She's a nice kid. She's throwing a surprise party for her older brother who's been away for quite some time as most military brothers are. She's also very mad because she thinks getting admitted to MIT is conquering the world and since she isn't the one getting admitted and also acts like a habitual topper this added to the fact that she's on a gap year is clearly the end of the world. Matters are only made worse because of general annoying nature of rishta searching and being constricted because of it being on going. And thus decides to go through a rebel phase and join the army.

Y'know. She sounds like pretty sound rep for an upper middle class Islamabadi what could possibly go wro-

Yeah she thinks screaming into the phone to trick her brother into coming home earlier is a completely reasonable thing to do. Excellent. That was actually so random I just stared at the screen for a full 2 minutes not registering what else happened because bro what.

Anyway next we have Islamabadi girl # 2

Her parents fight a lot. She would very much spend her time in her very expensive closet room (which I am jealous of) instead and post pictures online and occasionally go on dates with? her friend? her boyfriend? her cousin? i don't even know? so they can have a roasting match. After her mother tells her she can't ever possibly be as cool as General Nigar, she decides she is going to go through a proper rebel phase and join the forces as a lawyer.

How much of that was because she just wanted to get away from home again I don't know but that was probably a factor. Understandable tbf. She is a little off but that's fine. Or maybe not because she's an influencer which automatically makes her unrelatable I'm sorry <:')

Then we have the resident Pashtun from Peshawar:

She would probably kill her fiance and her brother if murder wasn't illegal. Her hobbies include shaming her brother for not getting maths at the dinner table during revision in place of her dad, sketching herself as a soldier, and feeling mad she isn't allowed to work or accept money for the tutions she's been giving kids in her entire extended family and her mahala. Very understandable.

Her sister is extremely sly, a skill developed from trying to keep a vague sense of peace in the household since her childhood, probably, and makes a deal with their mother to let the elder take the entrance exam in exchange for her accepting her mangetar. Bad plan. It results in shoes flying. As they should.

And then we have Arzu (I think?) who is a Lahori and a Christian:

She's a teacher, is probably underpaid, and struggles to make ends meet for her and her family, which includes her parents and two younger siblings. They live in a rented apartment owned by her boyfriends father (an unnecessarily huge red flag), and financial issues regularly make it so she has to get said boyfriend to talk to his father and get them extra time to pay. To fix this, she decides she wants to try out for the entrance exam, and is immediately met with ridicule from her boyfriend, who probably deserves to get tied onto a raft and dropped into one of Lahore's various ganda naalas. I may change my mind about him later but so far. Well.

Either way she deserves a better neighborhood, a house of her own, and a better boyfriend.

Last but not least, we have our baloch rep:

She comes from a small village and her father has lost his right to his land because of debt to the villages sardar. She's also the only educated girl in her village due to her fathers support, knows how to use a rifle, and is pretty straightforward. She appears to want to build a career of her own and looks so heartbroken at hearing that there's potential rishtas I wanted to give her a hug.

She was the first character introduced but I feel like we didn't see enough of her to be completely honest. Or maybe I was starting to zone out at the end of the episode ahaha. She's definitely the more interesting out of the five, and I'd put Arzu after her. Also her father gets the role of the kind, witty elder man this time around. No ISPR drama is complete without that clearly.

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All in all I'm not sure why we needed two Islamabadis, not that I have anything against them but like. Still. The cast seems fine and all but I am really concerned with how they're going to handle all 5 plot lines, given how that played out with ehd e wafa.

This is only one episode in though, hopefully this one will be better idk.

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is arzu okay??

yessss!! my sweet babe needed a break to work on school, she’ll be back in a couple of weeks! <3

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Arzu Okay