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-General Headcanons: Mehmed II- 1st Addendum

No Spoilers… for anything, really

Foreword: So… The Romance Headcanons are fighting me along with a Big Thing I want to write concerning Mehmed, so that’s Great™. Plus my inspiration is waning, Even Better™. So…do forgive me for going a biiiiiit out of order and adding an addendum to Mehmed II’s GHC while I sort those three things out.

One may think that Mehmed II would be more than happy to try and conquer another planet, but in actuality he couldn’t care less about what’s beyond the stratosphere. Not to say he doesn’t find space interesting or anything, but everything he dreamed of having in life was right here on earth. You can’t conquer Europe on Mars because there is nothing like Europe on Mars. No history, no human civilization, no culture, no nothing—just flat land for miles and miles, waiting for someone to live there. It doesn’t feel the same and it doesn’t feel earned either. So what if he just landed on another planet and stuck a flag in the ground and called it his? That’s not conquering. That’s claiming and it’s lame! Now conquering Europe on the other hand… That’s awesome. The strife of fighting country after country as well as keeping his own together and thriving is some tough shit to manage, which to his credit he did pull off in his lifetime, but on a scale bigger than that? Tough doesn’t even begin to describe it, but if and when he does pull it off in this hypothetical, then he’d feel like he was on top of the world. And rightfully so! The amount of work that had to go into just conquering Europe would’ve been insane and this achievement would, if I am not mistaken, pretty much outshine his predecessors and successors achievements. But then you look at planets like Mars and, well, he’d just say ‘eh’ to that. Really, the only scenario where Mehmed II would go and ‘conquer’ a planet would be if he really needed to.

Masters who aren’t exactly…the most forceful in imposing their will or lack the strength to keep their servants under control will find the sultan to be a big help. He’s got plenty of experience getting people together under his banner to get shit done and he can be pretty terrifying when he needs to be to keep people in line. And if that doesn’t work… Well, Mehmed has never been afraid to get his hands dirty nor was he the type to hide such a thing anyways. This is all cool and good on paper, but there is something you’d need to be wary of. Mehmed II has always been an opportunist and that hasn’t changed one bit since he died. Which is why I strongly advise that you make sure you learn to put your foot down sometime and you find some way to keep him in check. Lest he take your role from you and start calling the shots on his own without your input while framing himself as your mouthpiece still. Some servants will be fooled and some won’t, but the fact of the matter is that it’s generally a better idea to not let this happen in the first place. Vlad III, Constantine XI, Martha and Astraea are good servants to make sure he doesn’t pull anything, but the best solution is to improve yourself since the Mehmed does enjoy self improvement a teeny tiny bit more than power. Just a tiny bit though.

Mehmed II’s music taste is indescribable. Not because the genres are so obscure and experimental that they don’t even have names yet, he just listens to everything from everywhere. Putting his library on shuffle is definitely an Experience™ because you never know what the next song is going to be like. You could start off with a 50s swing classic like Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by The Four Lads and the next song could be a Finnish Rockabilly song like Vaeltaja by Pääestiintyjät with next being a Russian Phonk song like Dead Inside by адлин and by the end of it, you’ll somehow end up finding at least five new songs that were way outside of your music taste that you could get behind. That’s just how big and varied it is, so there isn’t much out there that he can say he doesn’t like. Just… keep some of Sabbaton’s songs and the like off the stereo and you won’t end up with it mysteriously breaking when you’re not looking.

If you are the kind of master who is afraid or grossed out by insects and need assistance in removing them from your area to feel peace… Then Mehmed is one of the very last people you should think of calling for aid. Don’t get me wrong, he will provide you succor when you ask. But the way he does it is fucking awful. He will pick the thing up with his bare hands and quickly close the distance between the two of you to show you why there’s nothing to be afraid of. The thing’s thrashing about between his fingers, potentially screaming too, and he’s attempting to hand it over to you whilst rattling off about how it’s virtually harmless. He’ll eventually set you and the bug free by placing the damn thing outside or murdering it and throwing it away if he can’t, but do be prepared for this same song and dance the next time you ask. Why? One: it’s for your own good and growth as a person, two: he finds your terrified expression to be very interesting and kinda funny at the same time. The only way you could get him to stop is if you faint, that’s when he’ll wise up to the fact that you’re definitely not messing around and he’ll apologize.

Speaking of fears, while Mehmed would rather die than admit that he’s afraid of something, he does have two fears. Vlad III and…flying. It makes sense that the only other thing he’d be afraid of in his second life would be something that he’d never have the chance of experiencing the first time around. He can look over a cliff just fine and not feel anything, he can walk on a tightrope high off the ground without breaking a sweat, but being in an airplane? That’s where he draws the line. There’s something incredibly unnerving to him about not being connected to the ground in any way shape or form and the more he thinks on it, the more terrifying it becomes for him. He can’t seem to logic his way out of being afraid and he absolutely hates it. Hence while on an aircraft you’ll find that he’s not chatting your ear off like usual, he’s just sitting there reading. A keen eyed master will note that he’s white knuckling the book in his hands and isn’t turning the page as often as usual. While he would never outwardly clue anyone in onto how he’s doing, if you are closer to him than most then he’ll reach for your hand to hold as he reads. That’s the most you’ll get in terms of a signal that he’s scared, so be sure not to take that lightly when it happens. He wouldn’t forgive you for teasing him on this.

If you somehow manage to summon his older self from during the late stage of his life (he died at 49) then you will find yourself regretting it immediately. They will not stop bickering and they will drag you into their arguments to settle it for them since neither will back down. A whole twenty year gap is a lot of time to change and grow as a person, which leaves both Mehmeds cringing very hard at the other. The younger one thinks that the older one has given up on living for himself and has resigned himself to being trapped in his duties to never find joy outside of it ever again. While the older one thinks that his younger self is being too selfish and that there is no greater honor nor joy than serving the people and nurturing the empire. Needless to say, you’ll be hearing a lot of ‘you sound just like our father’ and ‘you know nothing about what it means to have responsibility of this magnitude.’ They both think that they’re the superior one and that you should desummon the other. The only thing they’ll work together on is getting Chaldea to make more rules and enforce them accordingly since his straitlaced mindset towards crime hasn’t changed a bit across his lifetime. Speaking of…

If a master lacks any proper judges like Gramps or Astraea, then the sultan will not only be a decent pick, but he’ll be more than happy to do it. He’ll be glad that you’re taking steps to improve the system and he’ll promise to do his utmost with the position that he’s been given. And he does just that, and really well too! …Too well, actually. He’s a decent pick because he gets the job done, but the way he goes about it is the problem. See, Mehmed believes that a crime must be punished accordingly no matter the motive. Now, the word accordingly can have different meanings in this regard, but Mehmed tends to lean towards the more ruthless end of the spectrum. Meaning that, while random incidents involving stolen grails and general disturbances have decreased significantly, the atmosphere in Chaldea has become much darker as a result. So, really, it’s recommended that you only go through with this idea if things are getting out of your control. …And if you don’t mind some people going missing, of course.

Endnote: And that’s that! Addendums are nice because I can make them short without feeling too bad, hehe.

Whew. My plans are to get his RHCs done and work on the Big Thing I’ve been planning for him for a while now. Anyone who’s been on this blog long enough may already have an idea as to what that is, but I’m keeping it under wraps for now. If the writing process for the latter gets to be troublesome, I might put that on the back burner and tie up a loose end for Constantine. That being… The multiple endings of “What It Means to Protect You.” Ah, thought I forgot, didn’t you? I have not! I have an outline for it, but I need to write down the baseline context before writing the endings themselves plus I suck ass at writing the beginnings to things. Maybe I should take Featherine’s advice and write the whole thing backwards… But those are my plans! Once I get Mehmed sorted out, then I’ll get Sannan the love he deserves and then I can finally declare that my portfolio is finished and I can confidently open my requests. Speaking of…

To the person who sent me a request in my inbox, I regret to inform you that requests are not open. So you’re going to have to wait until I finish with all that schtuff first. It’s a good request, but the rules are the rules. But do not worry! I have it safely stowed away and cryogenically frozen until the day comes.

Anywho, in Redline news, I got Romulus! I had to fight tooth and nail to get him, speedrunning rank ups and interludes to claw my way to him with a singular pull. It was awful, but worth it. I even got NP2 Caenis out of my endeavors as well as well. So now I can have two Roma supports (Nero Bride and Constantine) and have Romulus blow everything up to high hell and back! Before that I had incurred a bit of gacha salt with being unable to get Odysseus, but I will be awaiting spooks with open arms and potentially using that 5 star ticket JP got recently if need be when it rolls around. But for now, I’ll be saving for Johanna and if I survive that, then Takasugi next. I don’t think I’ll be able to save enough for any of Lostbelt 7’s servants, much to my chagrin. But they’ll come around again after that.

But that’s all from me, I hope you enjoyed and I’ll be seeing you all later.

Have a good day.

—Redline, over and out!

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Mietin mitä reissumies lukee ja aloin selata vanhoja länkkäreitä, ja näiden nimet on vaan kaikki liian hyviä: Metsien mies, Erämaan vaeltaja, Yksinäisen tähden harhailija, Salaperäinen ratsastaja, kaikki samalta kirjoittajalta Zane Grey 1900-luvun alkupuoliskolta.

ja näistä reissari sitten tietysti ottaa mallia että mites sitä ollaan mahdollisimman cooleja ja yksinäisiä ja ei varmasti tarvita yhtään ketään muuta vaan yksin on paras ratsastaa auringonlaskuun

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan

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SOME LEGENDS NEVER DIE. JEKKU AJ’ERE can see everything from the start of time to the end, and it’s an agonizing curse. His only chance to bargain for freedom is to find the Oracle Stone, a magic artifact that was split into four pieces and hidden centuries ago. LILYA NOOR wants to forget her past and be immortal, so she agrees to a blood oath that will grant her eternal life if she delivers the Oracle Stone to her Master of Magic. Failure is not an option, but what if the stone offers a better deal than simple immortality? VAELTAJA IEVISIN has one chance for redemption: the Second Savior. Presenting the Savior and the lost Oracle Stone to his gods will end his banishment, but the Savior isn’t at all what Taja expected, and neither is the stone. And how much is forgiveness worth, anyway, when the gods are never satisfied? There are higher powers at play, and Jekku, Lilya, and Taja must pull themselves together or risk losing everything to the vengeful spirits trapped in the stone. But it’s hard to save the world when you can’t trust anyone, including yourself, and certainly not the gods.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this epic fantasy yet, but it sounds quite interesting.

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Vaeltaja

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Varjoissa vaeltaja - Finland

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Joel Slotte, Vaeltaja ("Wanderer"), 2021.

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I also just remembered the Finnish version of the Aragorn poem and it’s... well it annoys me a bit.

The Finnish edition had a different translator specifically for the poems, Panu Pekkanen, while everything else was translated by Kersti Juva and Eila Pennanen. Which sounds like a decent decision: make sure that the poetry gets the attention it deserves. But I get the sense that Pekkanen was probably focusing more on making the poetry sound good in Finnish than making sure the meaning behind it came across properly.

So this is how it goes in Finnish:

Ei kaikki kiiltävä kultaa lie,

vaeltaja ei eksy jokainen,

ei vahvalta vanhuus voimia vie,

syviin juuriin ei ulotu pakkanen.

Tuli tuhkasta jälleen pilkahtaa,

valo varjoista syttyvä on;

terä miekan murtunut yhteen saa,

ja kruunataan kruunuton. 

Most of this is great actually, it sounds good and it captures the essense of the original... but the first line translates to “all that glitters may not be gold”, which is just the opposite of Strider who does not glitter but is gold (metaphorically). The direct translation of the original line would be “kaikki mikä on kultaa ei kiillä“ or more fluently “ei kaikki kultainen kiillä”, although that obviously doesn’t fit the meter or the rhyme scheme. You could go with ei kaikki kulta kiiltävää lie, which sounds a bit clunky but I guess it works as the counter to the idiom, which is known in Finland too. I think people would catch that it’s an inversion.

I also don’t like vaeltaja ei eksy jokainen (roughly: “not all wanderers get lost”), for one thing I think it should be ei vaeltaja eksy jokainen, which is just a change in word order but it sounds so much better and matches better with the first line. Also I feel like the verb vaeltaa in Finnish does not have the same connotations as the verb wander in English. I do like how they sort of sound similar, it’s very satisfying, but vaeltaa is much more like “roam“ or “hike“. It doesn’t really have the connotation of straying from your course? at least not in my mind.

And especially so in this case with the derived term vaeltaja, as the agent noun, in particular. Like why are you telling me not all hikers get lost, I never assumed they would! I assume most of them probably know what they’re doing!

I mean I’m exaggerating a bit, you could interpret vaeltaa as having somewhat of a sense of meandering or something like that, and you can say anna mielesi vaeltaa to mean "let your mind wander" and you CAN translate vaeltaja as “wanderer”, but still. When I hear vaeltaja, the first impression I have is closer to “hiker”. For wandering without quite knowing where you are or where you’re going I would use harhailla, but that doesn’t work for Strider. Vaeltaja IS the right word for Strider, it just doesn’t have as much ambiguity as wanderer so the wordplay doesn’t quite work.

That said I don’t know if there’s a better way to translate that one. Maybe something more like “ei erämaassa eksy jokainen“ which would be like “not everyone gets lost in the wilderness“. idk. It has alliteration at least!

Ei kaikki kulta kiiltävää lie

ei erämaassa eksy jokainen

Those match nicely, both have triple alliteration and both start with ei. It appeals to me.

But I would be fine with ei vaeltaja eksy jokainen too, it’s close enough. Just change the word order, please. It makes so much sense that I always say it that way by accident anyway, whenever I try to recite the poem.

If there are any other Finnish speakers around, feel free to comment. xD

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SAARA TIKKA

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[leah-yasmin-writes]

WIP Intro: Their Illuminating Voices

Excerpt

The last thing Ava heard as she began to lose consciousness was Michael shouting her name, the sound echoing as she slipped into darkness.

She woke up to the white room and the bright fluorescent light, and for a moment she thought she was in the hospital, a sense of relief washing over her at the idea of being somewhere safe. The feeling was short-lived as the memories of the day came back to her, dread settling in the pit of her stomach as she remembered where she really was.

Basic Info

Title: Their Illuminating Voices

Series Title: The Circular Centuries

Genre: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, New Adult

Status: Zero draft complete

Synopsis: A young woman, Ava, discovers her family might be part of a prophecy, and learns that she's being targeted by a ruthless intergalactic dictator, known only as the Woman, who doesn't want that prophecy to come true. After undergoing a serious trauma that reawakens old wounds, she must learn how to readjust to her marital and family life, and cope with the stress of a rewarding but dangerous job, all while trying to figure out a way to stop the Woman and keep herself and her family safe.

POV Characters

Ava Lorien: A 23-year-old mixed-race woman who is trying desperately to protect her family from a merciless dictator, while learning how to process the difficult emotions stirred up by a recent traumatic experience. She works for an organization called the Intergalactic Association for Peace and Protection (IAPP) that is attempting to end oppression across the galaxies. She is also newly married and struggling to deal with the changes that has created in her family life. 

Michael: A 305-year-old humanoid alien from a planet called Vaeltaja, and Ava's husband. Like Ava, he is trying to protect his family from the Woman, but he also wants revenge. The Woman was responsible for the near extinction of his species, including the deaths of many of his closest loved ones. He works with Ava at IAPP. He struggles to be supportive of Ava after her recent trauma because of how much it reminds him of his own painful past. 

Tess: A 47-year-old South Asian woman and mother to Ava and Ava's two sisters. Her husband, Jack, died nine years ago, and she still hasn't dealt with her grief. She overworks herself to avoid her emotions, and now must face the fact that she has unintentionally neglected her daughters. She struggles to help Ava process her trauma, while also coping with the new struggles of her other daughters as they deal with Ava's reduced presence in their lives and discover a long-held family secret. 

Athena: A 321-year-old Vaeltaja woman and Michael's sister. She practically raised Michael due to their largely absent parents and is Michael and Ava's boss at IAPP. She works very hard at her job, while also working on taking down the Woman to avenge her lost loved ones and protect the only family she has left. 

Dani: A seventeen-year-old mixed-race girl and Ava's sister. She has a very difficult relationship with her mother, while idolizing her late father, and keeping her sisters at a distance. The tension only grows as she discovers that her mother has been keeping a secret about her father from her for her whole life, and she decides she's willing to do anything to learn more about her father's past.

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Update Time

9/2/2021

Hiya All

Thank you to the wonderful people who helped out with the last money situation. Right now I'm not actually in the negative, which is happily weird, though I am sure when I get my laptop back that will change, as my laptop is currently in the shop, so I am using my old one, which doesn't work that well cause age but hey!

I've been in a lot of pain and exhausted more often then not.

Also having a depressive flare up, that's not helped matters much.

One advantage of being on my old laptop is I have gotten some writing done, so when I get my other laptop back, and the art already done for it available, I'll be doing some posting. A'course, working on some of those WIPs has me moping about the lack of comments recently. I know that over all they shouldn't be that big a deal, and last week I got a lovely one on Different Paths, but sometimes I just wish that I'd get random ones occasionally on the older stuff.

I originally started this update on 8/25/2021 but ended up passing out, and then getting easily distracted between pain flares.

Hopefully I will get my laptop back tomorrow, would have had it back on Tuesday, but luck wasn't with me, and the repairman accidentally got the wrong battery to replace my fried one.

I can't remember if I managed to pay last months electric or not, I know that I have got my internet paid up.

I hope you all are well,

Jaimi

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Moon in december por Vaeltaja