#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

[burningdreambanana]

As a Selim truther, every "you're our only hope Mustafa" "you're the future Mustafa" makes me even happier my boy got the throne in the end

[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.

[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.

[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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[burningdreambanana]

Things to ponder on : Selim and his relationships with his parents

Like all his brothers, Selim wants Suleiman’s approval and support, because he loves him as his father and because he respects him as his sultan, but also because unlike the others, he realizes that the key to survival is to never cross his father and remain on his good side. 

However, it seems to me that unlike Mustafa and Bayezid, Selim does not crave Suleiman’s approval and validation. His desire for approval never reaches the level of intensity displayed by Bayezid and Mustafa and in general, his relationship to his father is never really a capital part of his character as it is with his two brothers and rivals. It matters a lot, but it’s not one of the defining aspects of his arc. 

For Mustafa and Bayezid, the question of whether their father not just approves of them but distinguishes them as his favorite is never too far from their mind (especially for Mustafa) and is a true source of anguish that goes way beyond wanting to be the next sultan, in a way it doesn’t really seem to be with Selim. They also both seem to have a deep hidden desire to be perceived not just as a son by their father but, in a way and to a certain degree, as an equal. It’s why Mustafa strives so hard to be like his father despite being repeatedly told that this way of acting is alienating Suleiman more than anything. It also can partly explains why Bayezid thought he was entitled and could declare war on Selim (when only Suleiman had the right to condemn him) without destroying his relationship with his father. 

Meanwhile, while Selim does absolutely wants his father to be proud of him, there is also a big part of “pragmatism” in the way he seeks his approval that we don’t really observe with his brothers, where the bond to Suleiman is defined more by passion.

What's more interesting about Selim though is the way he seeks his mother's approval. Just looking at the gifs I posted yesterday we notice a few things : how happy Selim looks when his mother congratulates him, his smile when she tells him he will “never act against her word” (throwback to Mehmed looking annoyed when she said the same thing to him last season), him half-jokingly, half-interrogatively asserting that she’ll be the one scrutinizing him the most, which honestly seems to me like something he truly wants. I know it is said that Selim doesn't listen to her, but it really seems to me in their interactions that he wants her attention and advices, which is why I developed a theory that Selim was acting this way because he resented the fact that Bayezid was her favorite and sought her attention, in a way that evokes how his brothers seek their father's attention (though it manifests differently).

Indeed, I didn't include it in the gifs but in the scene where they are holding hands, Selim says he thought she would be disappointed since Bayezid was not chosen. Selim tends to talk about Hurrem favoring Bayezid in a fatalistic tone, like an obvious truth he cannot deny and has long accepted. However, knowing Selim's personality, I can't help but think that this a front to hide how much it hurts him, and when he mentions Bayezid in this scene, I believe he wished to be reassured by his mother that she does not favor his brother above him.

Honestly, to me, he appears more hurt by his belief that his mother prefers Bayezid, that by his belief that his father prefers Mustafa (“my father killed his favorite son”).

Fast-forward to some episodes later, we also have Selim immediately agreeing with Nurbanu that having Hurrem’s support is THE key to the throne, even more than Suleiman's, and working to win it. Of course Nurbanu's influence on Selim is strong, but the immediacy of it shows him that he was already convinced, and perhaps Nurbanu's counsel and support gave him the opportunity and confidence to do something he had wanted to do for a long time, but didn't dare for fear of rejection.

There’s also his smile when Nurbanu says that men sit on the throne but women direct them. It’s a smile of approval, since his later actions show that he agrees (well at least partly), and that’s something that was without a doubt informed by his relationship with his mother and the way he views and admires her.

I guess what my mind is going to is that the way Selim views his mother is more akin to the way Mustafa and Bayezid see their father?

It's just noteworthy I believe that while Mustafa and Bayezid have this whole thing about being "chosen" by their father, Selim has that dynamic with his mother instead

[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,"

[thespadecollective]

"I like the new color of your suit, Kimblee. Get up, you have to take me to Dairy Queen."

*gross choking sounds*

" .... what do you mean you're 'busy', get UP. I want an ice cream."

,,, i just think it'd be funny if Kimblee was Selim's babysitter-type person to keep up the fake life. It would be fun.

[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.

[j0jorocity]

names for my 2ps

hi I’m bored uh idk I’m gonna list out the names of the 2ps of my universe

the ones in italic my gf came up with, some are just the popular fanon names

not including countries I don’t have names for

2p Italy - Luciano Vargas

2p Germany - Luther Beilschidmt

2p Japan - Kuro Honda

2p America - Allen Fitzgerald Jones

2p England - Rochester Kirkland

2p France - Absolon, but I use Jacques Bonnefoy. I might switch between the two sometimes

2p Russia - Nicholas Braginsky

2p Canada - James Williams

2p Romano - Nero Vargas

2p Spain - Caín Hernández Carriedo

2p Switzerland - Koloman Zwingli

2p Liechtenstein - Adalaide Zwingli

2p Lithuania - Kęstutis Laurinaitis

2p Estonia - Maksim von Bock

2p Latvia - Aleksandr Galante

2p Poland - Czesław Łukasiewicz

2p Turkey - Selim Adnan

2p Philippines - Ramil Rizal

2p Thailand - Atid Charoensuk

2p Indonesia - Kebanggaan

2p Malaysia - Mahathir Kirkland

2p Singapore - Taufik Kuan Yew

2p Rome - Remus Vargas

2p Nyo Rome - Agrippina Vargas

2p Ancient Egypt - Amunet Hassan

2p Ancient Greece - Eris Aetos

2p Germania - Adalhard Beilschidmt

tbh for the SEAsians I seriously doubt I’ll really give them much attention like the other ones 😭😭😭 I’m so sorry they are just not my favourite characters and I know shit about them. They do have cards made by my gf so um if you wanna see those idk please do tell me

I have very obvious favourites you’ll find out soon I’m sorry guys 😭😭😭 I’ll make a list of names for my ancients next idk