#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

[redxluna]

"Of the several ways in which Nurbanu's career broke tradition, her burial in the tomb of Selim II had perhaps the greatest symbolic import. [...] By linking his mother with his father in this manner, Murad emphasized his mother's place within the dynastic family and suggested that his legitimacy was derived from her as well as from his father." —The Imperial Harem, by Leslie Peirce

[palaceoftears]

Magnificent Century Rewatch: One Picspam per Episode

Episode 17: The Double Joy

-My dear mother used to say "walk barefoot on earth and it shall take away all your troubles and sorrows, earth shall give you happiness and joy"

-Your mother spoke well, one can only find peace in earth. But I'm not sure if it is on earth or in it.

[flameleadsarc]

Selim: "Maybe you can give me a demonstration some time." Roy internally:

[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 😭”

[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"

[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--

[tipsy-scales]

Follow-me eyes are cute ONLY IN THEORY

[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.

[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,"

[palaceoftears]

Mahidevran Sultan + Belief in fortune and destiny

What is this you call the Sultanate? Wealth and property, land and territory? To have power over the destinies of others? Was it worth it, Süleyman?

for my dear bday girl @mc-critical <3

[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

[myk-elric]

My fiance and i just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 all the way through. It was his first ever watch and it had been YEARS since i last sat down to watch it. Rly glad i own it on dvd. Now we just gotta watch conquerer of Shamballa someday soon!! Unpopular opinion but i like the movie a lot.

Spoilers and discussion points abt 2003 while its fresh on my mind below cut! Feel free to reblog, quote reblog, or comment/reply with any thoughts/responses!! I love fma so much

envy is just pure evil in this version holy fuck

Envy is also *gender envy* this version, his voice in the dub even is gayer

Holy fucking shit did bradley just snap little selim's neck in front of dying and traumatized Roy!?! (Tyler and i both gasped a little in this scene. I had completely forgot abt it)

The ending feels rushed. I wonder why after an ok pacing the rest of the 59ish episodes

WinryxSheska forever in 2003 they so cute

This version really drove home and reminded u in so many (often times painful) ways and often: Ed and Al are CHILDREN

Nina :-: Alexander ;_; 03 is so fucking tragic so many times and ways

I wish tucker had died a brutal death as he deserved

With how tragic the tone and story was, some of the funny bits or typical boob shots felt a little awkward and out of place sometimes

Our world Ed dying under that blimp and Edward grasping he accidentally just killed another life to somehow save his own- i near choked up on eds small soft voice of true sadness

Ed dying to Envy. That was actually haunting to watch and see

I actually rly appreciate that the gore blood and traumatic shit wasnt hidden or blurred or cleaned up for tv. It would have felt wrong if blood didnt appear and ooze somewhat realistically after someone got stabbed in the heart or sliced up by bradley or shot in the arm etc

I want to watch more anime that dont shy from gore like fma doesnt

I want to give rose a hug. Im glad the rockbell house gave her and her baby a home and people to love her post al return

I hated Archer. What actual purpose did he rly serve other than being super evil and feeling like a kimblee clone?

Actually liked that scar killed kimblee for revenge of his brother in 03. It fit.

Oh also about the ending- it was so dialogue heavy! Opinion not meant to be a negative one but just a surprising observation i guess

Izumi, Sig, pinako, plz adopt me u kind and stern souls

Al losing his entire memory and the whole gate jumping was confusing. Especially to my partner since its his first watch

Like I understood the explanations they gave right at the end they are speculating to be tru but man. 03 leaves a lot of open narratives and storylines unfinished

Even in shamballa i remember there even still being a lack of answers for a lot of story lines

Ok im done for now im v tired

[waitineedaname]

the prize goes to selim, the oldest little boy!

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