#just like selim

[riveluart]

@dearreader made me do it

I didn’t use all the same ideas though I kind of just started doodling and it took on a life of its own

[waitineedaname]

once again thinking about ling's very funny post-canon relationship with amestris as the guy who as a teenager tried to claw the president's eyes out with his bare hands multiple times but is now the emperor of an enormous neighboring country and nobody questions it, but like. there weren't many witnesses to his several attempts on bradley's life except a bunch of soldiers and mrs. bradley, which actually has even funnier potential once I start thinking about it. imagine ten years down the line there's some kind of diplomatic function happening, maybe there's a party or something, and mrs. bradley is there bc she's the wife of the former president, and she runs into emperor ling yao and is like "you seem really familiar, have i met you before?" and ling is just like [suddenly remembers when greed lost his fucking mind and decided to break into the president's house to attack bradley in front of his wife and son*] "haha well. that's a complicated question"

[milimeters-morales]

love how in the comics when someone sees Shift and is screaming and asking what that monster is, Miles is always like “that’s oomf 😭”

[scary-senpai]

speaking of giant meteors...

(not fandom-related by fandom adjacent, involves some writing stuff):

I'm in the writing program at Second City, and we're putting together our grad show (which is virtual! so in theory anybody can make it). The teacher selected the final sketches from all the work we've done over several terms. He selected two of my scenes:

one of my scenes was about a failed grocery shopping trip (which had unintentional but obvious OPM vibes), and that actually got used in our audition packet which was really cool

the second scene he selected was about a questionable medium and their "mystic fishbowl" that allegedly provided visions of the past and future. It has some Mob Psycho elements going, but it was mostly inspired by a Past Life Regressions workshop I attended with my mom. It was supposed to be about (white) people doing spiritualism badly, but the teacher really liked the idea of someone coming to a psychic for comfort and learning that all he's ever done was die in infancy, which was part of the original joke--assuming we did have accurate past life readings, most of them would be boring, and probably short. Anyway, I wrote the scene and I have mixed feelings about it, and also I needed a new ending (in the original version, the medium learns she can't actually communicate with ghosts, she just has co2 poisoning and the only message from beyond is 'check your fucking carbon monoxide detector!', but I think it would also be neat to do a reverse Scooby Doo, like 'you're right! I'm not a white, upper-class capitalist! I'm actually a ghost--and I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you meddling kids!') anyway it doesn't matter because I have a new running joke, and the joke is "this character keeps dying" and if that's the joke, well, there's really only one way to end the scene. Oh, and also, this 'fishbowl of misery' psychic reading is all being done over Zoom--

[bogreader]

turns out if you wanna get into reading history you gotta pick books that are specific. reading a generalized history book is just gonna throw too much information at you too fast and not go into detail about each event enough for you to remember it

[crafantale]

Marvel MCU movie (or is it tv series who cares) Secret Invasion uses AI for their intro trailer

That is the movie senior concept artist speaking up against it

The artists who worked on the movie have nothing to do with this

The intro trailer is outsourced to a different studio because the director Ali Selim think it's a cool thing to try and claim to know nothing about AI

ScreenRant of course missing the whole point and claim that the trailer is clever because it's like the skrulls disguising themselves as the real people just like AI disguising themselves as real art

Update: ScreenRant has since edited their title to remove the word "Clever"

This kinda thing doesn't just happen in the US

Korean game company Rayark let go some of their artists for AI to mix real art with AI

Indonesian movie production Falcon Pictures uses AI to create their movie posters also for a movie based on a Line Webtoon

Search on my blog for details on those two cases

[wizzard890]

Listen I know "iPhone face" is in common parlance now, but I think it's worth returning to what the phrase actually means, outside of TikTok trends. It's not that some people have faces that look like they "belong" in the 14th century, it's about how cosmetic procedures often recognizably alter actors' faces to such an extent that their looks are anachronistic.

(Strikingly beautiful people existed in all eras. The Ottoman court of Selim II had its own Zendaya; somewhere within the Aztec empire lived a man as gorgeous as Jacob Anderson, this isn't really about the hotness factor of celebrity.)

As cosmetic procedures become more common, we've gotten good at knowing when someone has had work done. Not because it's obvious, but because the result is a certain Look, particularly among people who live their lives in the public eye. And let's be real, particularly among older women. There's a ton to unpack in that as it touches pay equity and job opportunity and the freedom to do whatever you want with your own body, but that's not really what this post is about either.

I guess this post is about the first images we've gotten of Gladiator II, a movie I'm very excited about.

Has Denzel Washington had work done? Almost certainly. But he's a man, so he hasn't had to have nearly as much done, plus we're not as used to looking for cosmetic procedures in men; as a result, at age sixty-nine, he looks credibly historical in a sword-and-sandals setting.

Women actors, particularly actors of a certain age, aren't always so fortunate. And I'm not talking about botched procedures, or even visible procedures. I'm talking about the sameness of the result, the plumpness and smoothness demanded of older women.

I don't want to include the Vanity Fair photo of the lovely fifty year old Connie Nielsen, also in Gladiator II, because this shouldn't be a conversation about the appearance of a particular woman. But we all know what good filler looks like! And we also know that no women in ancient Rome or Georgian England or medieval France had that look.

There's no real conclusion here, it just bums me out how often I'm watching a historical drama and a sixty year old woman, an actor of presence and skill and experience, has a face that just pushes me right out of the scene. This is no actor's fault, and it doesn't undercut their talent or that of the filmmakers, but it's a damn shame.

[mossymandibles]

Had this guy in my head for months because I feel like I can’t just slap down a character on here without giving a page of context for them but I’ve been doing some art for an ask about Sylvaine so that motivated me.

Quick ref but this is Selim, he’s part of Sylvaine and Serkan’s storyline. He’s a Hox Stray species that evolved and developed seal traits. At first I had written him out as this background character and then I fell for him (This seems to keep happening to me).

Funnily enough apparently it was ‘seal day’ some time ago??? Always wanted to make some seal folk. He was meant to be.

[whencyclopedia]

Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman the Magnificent (aka Süleyman I or Suleiman I, r. 1520-1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Hailed as a skilled military commander, a just ruler, and a divinely anointed monarch during his lifetime, his realm extended from Hungary to Iran, and from Crimea to North Africa and the Indian Ocean. As he engaged in bitter rivalries with the Catholic Habsburgs and the Shiite Safavids, he presided over a multilingual and multireligious empire that promised peace and prosperity to its subjects.

Early Life

Suleiman was born in 1494 or 1495 in Trabzon, on the Black Sea coast. His father Selim served there as provincial governor, and his mother Hafsa was a concubine in his father's harem. Suleiman grew up in a multiethnic, multireligious town. While he led a privileged life, he also lived in a district where contagious diseases and food scarcity were rampant, even for the upper classes. He received an elite education under the supervision of tutors, including a strong poetic formation. He also received martial training, and he remained an avid and skilled horseman and hunter to the end of his life.

Suleiman's adolescence and youth were spent under the shadow of his father Selim, a violent, overbearing man. As he reached puberty, like other Ottoman princes, he became eligible for service as district governor. Following a tense negotiation between his father and the palace, he was appointed to Caffa, in the Crimean Peninsula. His father Selim subsequently used Caffa as a center of operations in his bid to replace the ruling sultan, Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512). After becoming sultan in 1512, Selim I (r. 1512-1520) killed his brothers and nephews, stopped the advance of the millenarian Safavid movement into the Ottoman territories by defeating its leader Ismail in 1514, and occupied the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt in 1516-17.

After his father Selim came to the throne, Suleiman was given another district governorship in western Anatolia. The resources at his disposal increased considerably, as he came to preside over a crowded household as the heir apparent. During Selim's campaigns, he acted as his father's proxy by relocating to Edirne, the gateway to the Balkan provinces, where he became acquainted with the management of the empire at the highest level.

These were the years during which Suleiman began stepping into the limelight of Ottoman political and cultural life. He began writing poetry, a sign of intellectual maturity as well cultural refinement. He also began having children with his concubines, securing the reproduction of the Ottoman dynasty, and transitioning from adolescence into fatherhood.

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[dragonofthestone]

Timaeus loved kids, had always gotten along well with them and over all found joy in interacting with them but there was something about this boy... he couldn't explain why but there was something about him he wasn't sure he could trust.

He hoped it was just the paranoia created knowing their father's job but he also knew better then to ignore when if his animal instinct was trying to tell him something.

"Ah no, I did learn a lot from him but never.. never quite got it like he did," Timaeus admitted truthfully, although he'd always admired his father he'd never quite had the knack for it not to mention the struggle trying to read any of the books. No instead music was where his heart lay.

"I play music, entertain people," He tried to explain

The Military

Hearing that caused a chill to run down his spine,

What..what could they want in a small town like this? There' weren't any bases nearby as far as he knew. Could he just be meeting up with a colleague? His mind reeled coming up with only the worst of outcomes.

First chance he got he'd have to give warning to the others to be on alert, Greed certainly would want to know. It was unlikely he could get any more useful information from a kid but he'd stick around a little longer just in case. At the very least perhaps he could learn something of the military officer in question.

"Oh really? Wow, my dad's a doctor so he doesn't travel much anymore." He told the kid, kids weren't stupid and he wasn't about to talk down to one no matter the age but Military could be a difficult topic so he wanted to find away to show interest without having to worry much about the complex issues (and feelings) that came about from their father's work.

"Do you get to travel often? I bet he gets pretty busy,"

[hunterxsleep]

rewatching fmab is the funniest thing because Bradley lets pride read out an essay he wrote about him at the dinner table and obviously if you know who they are, you know that selim is pride and bradleys wrath which is so funny because then prides really just choosing to glaze his brother and given pride is a higher up deadly sin its just..so weird?? Like he's just having fun pretending to be a 6 year old writing an essay at a 6 year old level despite being 200+ years old, or that he's just doing a bit of trolling to see if wrath will crack up or not but given what we know, pretty sure Bradley somewhat enjoys that sense of normality too.

[monobrobe]

So would the FMA fandom be interested in learning how dashboard osmosis impacted my first time reading the manga?

What I knew:

Nina

”It’s a terrible day for rain” (somehow forgot the context)

the homunculi die ironic deaths

Bradley is Wrath

GreedLing

Pride is a child

Father’s appearance (also knew that was what Ed and Al’s dad looked like)

The specifics of Envy’s death (the only Brotherhood episode I saw)

Grandma’s making stew

Misconceptions due to faulty memory:

I thought Ling died with Greed so when I decided he was my fav I spent the entire time dreading his death…

I thought Al died at the end but it turns out that was just a gif from Conqueror of Shamballa

I wasn’t sure if Bradley was a good guy or a bad guy

I wasn’t sure if Father and Hohenheim were two different people

Somehow didn’t connect Selim Bradley with Pride despite knowing Pride was a child and definitely having seen a gif of him

I knew there was a kid who somehow ended up with Ed’s arm and when he never showed up I looked it up and it turned out he was from the 2003 anime.

Thoroughly enjoyed myself. I also watched the first 20 episodes of the 2003 anime and affectionately call it Traumahood because dang did they make Ed suffer. The only thing preventing me from watching the rest of it is the fact Ling is not in it.

Can’t decide which misconception is my favorite between Pride and Ling. They’re both pretty hilarious.

[orphetoon]

Just asking bc I really like your au, do you have an idea for everyone's favorite dysfunctional villain family? I admittedly am an anime only Dungeon Meshi watcher but I can imagine Selim taking a Sissel like role.

i do have two different ideas im trying to decide between for our favorite terrible family but sadly,,,, it is Very spoilery for the later parts dungeon meshi. slides the manga ur way ig

but yes selim would be like thistle/sissel! just little guys. they did nothing wrong

[burningdreambanana]

The fallout with Hurrem was not Nurbanu's fault

Nurbanu had been loyal to Hurrem and did right by her : she stabilized Selim, she advised him to get closer to his mother and sought her advice which he did, she gave the dynasty a prince, she did her dirty work and killed Nazenin, she was upset when people were taking advantage of Hurrem's grief over Cihangir to undermine her.

But Nurbanu is not some moron. She knows being an Ottoman prince means win or die. When Hurrem groomed her to become Selim's concubine and the mother of his children, Nurbanu naturally believed Hurrem wanted Selim on the throne, and then Murad. That means Bayezid out of the picture. It seems cruel but put herself in the shoes of Nurbanu one second, Hurrem sends her to Selim, tells her she can reach the top, but then threatens her when she tries to put her man on the throne. From her POV, this is a huge betrayal. Because at this point it's not just ambition anymore, it's the survival of the man she loves and her dear boy. And Selim himself was disillusioned with his mother by this point.

Hurrem has always thought about the survival of her children and has tried to poison Mustafa when he was still a young teen (the actor looks adult but i'm pretty sure Mustafa is meant to be like 15 when he's with Efsun), but she cannot understand that Nurbanu is doing the same. Which I can get of course, since Bayezid is her son, but it's still annoying. Like she revealed Mustafa's wedding, but is pissed when Nurbanu does the same. It's not Nurbanu's fault Bayezid made the same dumb mistake as his brother.

Then the death of Huricihan. It was an accident and she left Nurbanu no choice. She was about to make false accusations about Nurbanu, which would led to her executions and most likely that of her children too, just because she was petty and jealousy. What was Nurbanu supposed to do? She did it for survival, like Hurrem many times. Not only was Hurrem hypocritical to reproach her (see how she almost murdered Hatice, her attempts to kill Isabella and Firuze), you also just don't condemn someone who you have had murder someone for you. The audacity is just too much and what Nurbanu did in retaliation was brilliant.

But I do also think that Hurrem was in impossible situation since she can't choose a son over another, and their interests were always going to differ in the end.

[lightfed]

hotd and magnificent century and their character parallels

hatice:helaena—both got married to a man they didn't love(hatice's first marriage was to a much older man, against her wish), both got cheated on by their husbands, both are treated as the nice innocent members by their families while the others also dismiss their opinions more often than not, helaena's prophecies and hatice's fear of ibrahim's statues and if u want to be insane her nightmare abt nigar even if both were her being paranoid she still turned out to be right and their tragic fates could also be compared to one another in a way. them both losing children in tragic ways as well.

ibrahim:daemon—so this one's pretty obvious to me. both are warriors and want(ed) to die in battle serving their rulers, both have ambitions(daemon wanting to be the king and ibrahim's im the tamer and lion is the sultan speech), both have their own insecurities, want a place to belong, both are ruthless, both had mistresses(daemon with mysaria and ibrahim with nigar) etc. its not a 100% correct comparison bc daemon is of the royal family and ibrahim came as a slave but still.

aemond:bayezid—men children playing war experts, short tempers, brother complex, overlooked, anger issues etc.

aegon:selim—so while aegon was portrayed so badly selim somehow came out looking like an amazing man in comparison they are both alcoholics who didn't want their duty but ended up accepting it after being pushed into it and even fighting to prove themselves capable for the challenge.

sah:rhaenys—both these women stand on business!! both married to powerful men(even if lutfi is the grossest nastiest man in the show and im forever his biggest hater). just how sah knew mihrimah was to blame for esmahan falling rhaenys blamed rhaenyra and daemon for their children dying and uhm that scene of sah killing hurrem's servant for writing a fake letter and rhaenys burning smallfolk who were rooting for aegon always comes to mind. both have that brilliant i see through your bullshit look and cunning energy also

rhaena:cihangir—both are overlooked by their families, one for a lack of a dragon and the other for his disability. it's not the perfect comparison obviously but just like rhaena might feel inadequate to her sister who actively participates in supporting rhaenyra's claim while she can't do much to help, cihangir feels inadequate to his brothers despite loving them greatly.

mehmed: daeron the daring—courteous and gentlest among all of their brothers and daeron was described as someone more likely to follow the orders than give them. and just like hotd forgot his existence 2 seasons in the show mc writers gave mehmed minimum character development and complex traits because why not.

baela: aybige hatun— baela was wild, willing and fearless and considered herself more boyish than lady like. just like aybige she loved riding AND they both got engaged/married to their relatives who happen to be brunettes.

alicent: mihrimah. okay but hear me out!! both are women of noble birth who got manipulated into marrying older nasty men, both rock that power walk, both are sort of binded to the tradition and serving the releam/empire, both tend to go to weird disgusting men when in need of an aid(alicent with larys i think and mihrimah with rustem. ugh). and they both prioritize their family above everything and there's alicents affair with criston and mihrimahs attraction to bali bey and pedro also.

at the same time, alicent has parallels with both hurrem(the knife scene, slaying in green sjjejdj, explaining to their children that they're the challenge for the throne etc) mahidevran(following the patriarchal system and getting shocked when it doesnt serve them tho for alicent i blame this more on the terrible writing and that sense of self righteousness) as well so it could be whichever.

hurrem: rhaenyra? again, im conflicted on this one. just like rhaenyra was named the first female ruler hurrem became the sultan's lawful wife, hurrem was called a witch and rhaenyra cruel, just like how hurrem is mistreated by valide rhaenyra IS mistreated by alicent, in a way both fight to change the system etc. i could also totally see hurrem and nyra bonding just over talking about their favorite foods.

that being said there's also one glaring similarity between her and mustafa and it's them both being heirs and therefore threats to their brothers lives/those brothers being threats to their own lives as well

i have no idea for nigar and nurbanu which is funny bc they are one of my faves from the show and idk abt sully either bc i wanna say viserys but somehow viserys is so lame he makes sully look amazing in comparison. well that and @desmoonl would probably find where i live and ensure my permanent disappearance off planet earth bc she doesn't play abt bearded rulers w a loyalty kink

[mc-critical]

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Peace has always been a constant, immense wish for Hatice. One that she always just barely reaches, but one she'd advocate for no matter what, whether in calm or in distress; whether in her first real grasp of peace in a life spent so long without it, in her first opened door not just to peace but to wholeness (so she's over the moon and doesn't want anyone or anything to stand in the way of that, rather content that they appear not to); whether in already knowing some semblance of peace that can't help but couple with more distress, the most recent of which brought about namely by that same person who had the way out (so he doesn't face her and neither does she - what's the point when he is drifting away from her anyway, refusing to elaborate on why? what's the point as whenever he tries getting close, it's only to paper over the whole matter and then he continues maintaining his distance anyway? - and she's devastated, not wanting any further trouble and scorning the people who dare cause it). Because that hope, that aim for peace is Hatice's only means to keep going, even when she dared to hope it mostly for others, hardly for herself.

It's understated how broad Hatice's idea of peace actually is. It ought to be, given how turbulent a life during Yavuz Selim's reign (as well as one of tragedies of Hatice's own) might have been - surely any calmer, more 'static' point in time should provide ease and relief. Early S01 Hatice is exactly in that kind of 'stasis': she's amidst the aftermath of her last bad marriage and the newness of SS becoming padişah, but even her brother being here and ruling safe and sound, her mother doing what she should, everything going as it should without any uncommon issue is a solace on its own, and there's finally that sense of quiet normalcy she's actually fine to keep. This is what peace entails for Hatice at that point and she's hesitant to go further than that, in spite of everything happening with Ibrahim, or rather, because of it even. What she goes through with Ibrahim is something so unbelievable, so indescribable, so ethereal, so blurred with feeling that she wants it badly, but knows she can't have it. It's about her not disappointing, betraying her closest, but it's also about that unknown both her and her closest will have to face, their surefire reactions breaking even the smallest piece of lit up hope Hatice has, the slightest comfort of that 'stasis' Hatice lives in (the hope is bound to go a little but not much outside the 'stasis'). It's as if it's not possible for the hope to be fully realized within what she's come to view as her normal. She wants happiness and fulfillment and of course she hopes, but that hope is often measured and internalized; it isn't part of the peace at first, but beyond it. Where she does openly express a wish for peace, is with others (Hatice worrying whether Mahidevran will do something reckless again after the beating, scolding Hürrem and Mahidevran in E12 etc). If she can't be fully fulfilled, at least others shouldn't make things even worse. If she can't be calm, barely managing all that flares up inside her, at least everyone else around her shouldn't act up, everything around her should be as needs be. And even when she's allowed to get fulfillment with Ibrahim at last against all odds, fully realizing her want to detach from the palace life and live her own instead, and this is what becomes peace (moving from one usual 'stasis' in newness to another filled with excitement), her own peace she aches for, externalizing her hope and keeping it lit, she still urges others to keep that peace (like in the E17 gif). Because Hatice cares about them a lot and she wants them to join in on her happiness, just like she usually joins in on theirs. And now, when she is fulfilled, she wants them to have the exact peace she has. Their tranquil, their harmony, their stability is also hers. Or for them to at least not get in the way while there're odds (like in the E57 gif), not to think about any possible (future) reason for rupture. Why would they when everything is okay in the present? And the present is influenced by the future, so the present would be tainted as well if the future doesn't deliver on the promise of peace (and it is tainted, but neither Hatice in both scenes or Hürrem in the first moment or Hafsa in the second scene realize that yet, how much impact the battle for the throne regarding the şehzades had even back then, but Mahi will make that reminder to Hü a little later in the E17 scene, and Hü and Mahi, as well as Mustafa, know it between themselves in E57; Hatice remains unaware of what's behind the scenes in both occasions and hope for peace lingers in both conversations... until something breaks it). That chance for peace that's never even been around so often should be embraced.

Peace is so elusive that there needs to be something tangible, something irrefutable to ensure it. So there's peace in order or rather, order is the one way to ensure peace, so it has to be adhered to for them all to be fine. This is why Hatice's pleas, demands for peace are often mixed with fulfilling order in some way — i.e. pretty directly in the E17 moment ("This is how you should be."), and more subtly in E57's where Hatice's lines resemble that one line of Mahidevran's during her E59 speech ("If you want to live together in peace, [you'll follow the rules]..."). {aside from upkeeping order, Hatice and Mahidevran's wishes for peace overlap in that both just want to be left alone, whether in experiencing peace or in peace having currently left them behind. While Mahidevran's peace narrows when she loses more, Hatice's widens when she gets more, and then attempts are made for the peace to be narrowed down in order to 'move forward', but Hatice wants to keep that procession line of what's established going, holding on to her lost peace like it was, like it was about to be.} But peace is more in knowing for certain what's in store for her. Peace is in being able to control it, nullifying any danger. Peace is in living up to her family and building one of her own, focusing on it entirely. Peace is also in loving her family, believing in them regardless, crossing them only when it's absolutely necessary, absolutely right to. Peace is in living in a fortress of security, in a home with her beloved and for them to share activities, lives together, getting close to the other's identity, becoming one with the other, never letting go. Peace is also in standing up for what she believes in, what she already holds in her hands (no more), and succeeding to keep it. Peace is in visiting her loved ones, seeing that everything is okay with them too. Peace is in her loved ones visiting her, everyone sharing happy memories together. Peace is in her loved ones always being next to her, never leaving her behind. Peace is Hatice letting her loved ones know she has achieved peace at last and play their part in maintaining it. Peace is in her sharing all that she feels at last to her loved ones, openly and unrestrained. And to get support in that for once (and she seems to get it a bit in the E17 and E57 instances by Hürrem and Valide, their clothing and Hatice's matching in color, with Hürrem attempting to keep the peace for Hatice and Hafsa hearing out her worries and doing something about them later on, though with that comes a separate tragedy). When Hatice says "peace", she really means all of these things deep down, yet monopolizes "peace" for her loved ones, as she genuinely believes that this is the peace they aim for, should aim for too. Because it's the only kind of peace Hatice has known.

[And peace is in remembering past experiences and honoring the past, enforcing and defending her perspective on what she's gone through. Peace is in letting the ideal of her loved ones go to seek justice, correct injustice and strive to find closure. Peace is to then entirely go against the initial 'stasis' once embraced and then forced upon her and commit one last act of agency. Peace is to stand on your own when no one else is on board. Though, does that last one really grant peace, given how much pain it brings? Hope is really gone now, isn't it?]