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[reggieblck]

Filius Flitwick : "I suppose you are aware that nothing we do can indefinitely prevent You - Know - Who to enter the school, right? 

—"Sprout: "But we can delay it."

Minerva McGonagall: "Thank you, Pomona."

[marauuders]

Autumn was the Weasleys’ favorite time of the year: for Percy because he would go back to school, for Molly because she could cook a lot of biscuits, and for the rest because they would eat a lot of Molly’s biscuits. But there was one more secret reason for this special affection: autumn was red headed, like them.

The Weasleys for @thoseofgreatambition

Happy late Bday LeeAnn!

[ottomanladies]

hiya! i just wanted to thank you for all your work on this blog - i've been following both your accounts for a while and your edits keep on getting more and more amazing! i love the new style, and the information is so helpful. i'm sorry you have to deal with certain people who bombard you with ridiculous theories, or who keep on bugging you with the same questions. but i'm getting off topic - i just wanted to say thank you for what you do!

thank you so much oh my god! i’m so happy that you like my edits

[jaimeslanniste]

1, 6 + 10 ♡

thank u

1. favourite place in your country?

from the ones i have been, i think lençóis maranhenses!!!! look how beautiful it is omg

6. most hated song in your native language?

answered here!

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

eita porra!!!!!1 (idk how to translate it lmao)

[ginnyeweasley]

✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and out 💛✨

@damierons​ said: ✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and outside 💛✨

@flevrdelacour said: 🌼~BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but its sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out.~🌼

I am a terrible person cause I just noticed I have so many unanswered messages ghgh i’m so sorry ;__;

thank you so much guys ilysm and hope you’re all having a fab time :’) right back at you you’re all so wonderful asdfgh bless u!! 💕

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👻 + izzy

hihi izzy ��� hope youre having a good day, lov !!

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[haticesultanas]

hi honey! i wasn't sure which of your blogs to send this to, but could you tell me a bit about hurrem's son sehzade mehmed? thanks ♡

Hello and sure!! 

Şehzade Mehmed was the eldest child of Hürrem Sultan and the first child of Süleyman I to be born after his accession. Only the year of his birth is recorded: 927 in the Islamic calendar, which ended on 30 November 1521. Mehmed was born while his father was away at war (he had left Istanbul in May 1521 and returned only in late October 1521), so possibly in the second half of 1521. His name may have been chosen by Valide Sultan Ayşe Hafsa, since Süleyman was absent.

In 1530, Mehmed was circumcised with his brothers Mustafa and Selim during a 40-day festival, the most lavish the Ottoman empire had ever seen: 

“Despite being the object of the whole celebration, the princes appeared for the first time only on the fourteenth day […]. An escort of court officials and army officers ushered them from the Old Palace to the Hippodrome. Venetian envoy Pietro Zen thought they looked like angels. The princes’ steeds were probably as lavishly outfitted as they were themselves. The horses’ trappings, like the robes and turbans worn by Ottoman royalty and the thrones and tents they occupied, created a living tapestry of imperial splendor. To the crowds along the way, for whom a parade of princes was a very rare occasion, it must have been a thrilling sight. Once arrived at the Hippodrome, the brothers were received by the assembled viziers, who approached them on foot, a sign of deference, and led them to their father’s tent.” -- Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

Mehmed was educated in military arts, religion and history since an early age. He also studied Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and probably Italian as well as, in 1532, he wrote to his father that he was reading the second volume of Giovanni Antonio Menavino's The Five Books of the Laws, Religion, and Life of the Turks. According to Venetian ambassador Trevisano, he was ���loved by anyone who had known him […] not only for his looks but for his manners as well…”. Historian Mustafa Ali said that Mehmed’s parents felt “an exceptional love for him in their hearts”. He was indicated as the only son of Hürrem's to show a real aptitude for war.

During the Iranian campaign of 1534, Mehmed was left in Istanbul as the sultan's deputy, supervised by his mother. The prince then joined Süleyman for the 1537 campaign, as Hürrem included in her letters "thousands and thousands of prayers and praises" for her sons Mehmed and Selim. He accompanied his father again in 1538, when he left to subdue Moldavia, and in June 1541 too to Hungary, where the Ottoman empire claimed a decisive victory against the Hapsburgs (Archduke Ferdinand had brought his own two sons too, maybe as an answer to Süleyman displaying his eldest three sons on the field).

Finally, at the age of 21, in November 1542, Mehmed was appointed governor of an Anatolian province, Manisa: “Sultan Mehmed son of Sultan Suleyman arrived in Manisa and acceded to the throne. Recorded on 3 Sha`ban 949 [12 November 1542]. In the same year Sultan Selim acceded to the throne in Karaman [at Konya]", recorded the judge of the city in the official register. Contrary to tradition, both Mehmed and Selim were dispatched without their mother, who stayed behind in Istanbul with Süleyman and their younger children. Nevertheless, Hürrem visited Manisa in the summer of 1543, accompanied by Mihrimah and Şehzade Cihangir, her youngest son. Mehmed's only child, Hümâ-Şâh Sultan, was born before late fall of that year so it may have possibly happened during Hürrem's visit.

While Hürrem was travelling back to Istanbul, she received news of Mehmed's death, which happened on 6 November 1543. Manisa official registers recorded the event:

"At the start of the month of Sha`ban in the year 950, on the day when the agha who came bringing glad tidings of the conquest of Usturgun-Belgrade and many other fortresses arrived [in Manisa] and a fireworks celebration ensued, the fortune-blessed prince Sultan Mehmed fell ill. He took to his bed for six days. During the night before the seventh he died. Following a brief mourning period, the Lala Pasha, Ibrahim Chelebi the treasurer, and many aghas departed for Istanbul with [the dead prince and] his suite, on the aforesaid month’s ninth day, a Wednesday. By this reckoning, the prince lived one year and two days in Manisa."

Mehmed was carried in state to the mosque of Bayezid II where prayers were held, a breach of protocol as princes were usually buried in Bursa and not in Istanbul. He was buried in the centre of the capital, near the Old Barracks of the Janissaries; Süleyman wept for more than two hours, refusing to let the body be interred. The sultan's grief over Mehmed's death was "legendary": he wore black for forty days and attended prayers for the dead also for forty days instead of the customary three. He also composed a chronogram to mark the prince's death: “My Sultan Mehmed, distinguished among princes."

In 1544, the contruction of the mosque in his memory began. He was the first prince buried in Istanbul and the first to have a mosque in his name. Mustafa Ali noted that Mehmed’s complex looked like a sultan’s and not a prince’s.// source: Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

[reggieblck]

Harry glanced down, and felt another dull blow to his stomach: Colin Creevey, though underage, must have sneaked back just as Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had done. He was tiny in death.“ — Oliver Wood carrying Colin’s dead body into the Great Hall

[reggieblck]

Every hp character ever: ariana dumbledore

It destroyed her, what they did: She was never right again. She wouldn't use magic, but she couldn't get rid of it; it turned inward and drove her mad, it exploded out of her when she couldn't control it, and at times she was strange and dangerous. But mostly she was sweet and scared and harmless.

[ottomanladies]

hey hun ♡, in your opinion, who were the ten most efficient/best rulers (including kosem and turhan - best rulers not best people if that makes sense)

Hi! Rulers in general, like men as well?

In no particular order because I honestly wouldn’t know how to order them:

Süleyman I

Mehmed II

Selim I

Turhan Hatice Sultan

Murad IV

Mahmud II - Abdülmecid I (I always keep them together because what father started, son finished)

Kösem Sultan (I love Kösem but I think Turhan was a better politician. Still, she did her best considering the empire was in ruins and she was like 29?)

And I wouldn’t know who else to add, to be honest. I admit I don’t know much about sultans between Ahmed III and Selim III but I don’t think any of them were particular exceptional.

[ottomanladies]

hey! i was just wondering, it doesn't seem like that many concubines died in childbirth, would you know why? is it that they were young/didn't undergo many pregnancies, because from what i understand that seems a bit odd for the time period.

Hi! It is true that it doesn’t seem like many concubines died in childbirth, but we also don’t have the complete records from the harem so it is possible that they weren’t recorded or something?

Two of Murad IV’s daughters died in childbirth, so it happened in the dynasty. It’s possible that it wasn’t recorded for lowly concubines, especially if they lost the child as well

[jaimeslanniste]

congrats on 1.5k, lovely! ✨ izzy. "the brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." richard papen, annabeth chase, or regulus black, pls ♡

thank you, my darling

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[jaimeslanniste]

chaotic neutral ✧ infj ✧ ravenclaw ✧ leo

i think of rivers, of tides. forests and water gushing out. rain and lightning. rocks and shadows. all of these are in me.

i was tagged by @jaimclannister to make a personal moodboard, tysm ♡

i tag @casterlyrcck, @damierons, @flevrdelacour, @poppypomfrey, @mollywecsley

[ottomanladies]

hi, do you know what the approximate value of an asper is? just to gain perspective of the value of the concubine's allowances.

Hi! A Venetian ducat, the leading currency in Europe, exchanged for 60 akçes, or aspers in Western sources, from 1540 till the end of the 18th century. The akçe was a small silver coin which was considered the basic unit of account.

Even though the Ottomans had a gold coin, the sultani, minted for the first time by Mehmed II the Conqueror, the importance of the akçe can be seen in inheritance inventories or imperial budgets, which were expresses in hundreds of millions of akçes, instead of using the sultani.

source: A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire by Sevket Pamuk