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dragonflight203 · 8 months

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Mass Effect 1 replay, wrapping up Artemis Tau and Hawking Eta:

Sparta:

-Antalya once had an atmosphere and liquid. Now the atmosphere is stripped and the liquid is frozen. No one's sure why. Could it have been the Reapers?

-There's a bio-dome in an asteroid with a Prothean disc. Were they possibly hiding from the Reapers?

-Why can't the distress beacon be disabled? Yes, I killed the Thresher Maw, but that's optional. Maybe we should turn it off so no one else gets lured into Thresher Maw territory?

-What's up with that burning Mako? If it's from the team that got killed, why is it on fire? It's no where near the Thresher Maw

-Why do I need to travel to the Citadel to inform Kahoku? He's been on the phone this whole time. Can't I call him?

-Cerberus is Alliance black ops in ME1, only recently went rogue, and is cartoonishly evil. ME2 retcons a hell of a lot.

Macedon

-Patavig is suitable for Volus colonization. So the Alliance is negotiating it with their patrons, the Hierarchy.

I was not expecting that. You'd think the Volus, the setting's merchant race, could handle their own negotiations about planet rights.

If they can't - no wonder they don't have a Council seat. If they can't even handle negotiations for their own species, how can they make decisions for others?

-Shepard to Dahlia: You should have trusted me.

Dahlia to Shepard: We have trust issues in my family.

That got a cackle. I wish Dahlia had come back, I quite like her.

Athens

-What were the original plans for this system? It's the only that has no planet to land on or ship to explore. Surely something must have been intended for it. What was that, and why was it left in as it is?

Century:

-According to Hackett, Kyle convinced his followers that the Alliance is the source of all their problems.

I don't think he's entirely wrong. Kaidan suspects that several element zero exposures were intentional. The early amp implants cause all kinds of problems. Brain camp killed several kids and traumatized the hell out of the rest.

The only place that will reliably welcome biotics is the military. That's not the Alliance's fault, but are they making any steps to improve the perception of biotics to the rest of humanity?

-Hackett wants Kyle brought back for treatment. How accurate is that? He's responsible for the death of two Alliance negotiators.

The wiki doesn't specify what happens if Kyle is persuaded to surrender. Is he actually treated for PTSD, or thrown in a cell?

-Klendagon's Great Rift is from a Mass Accelerator 37 million years ago.

I think the general assumption is that this from whatever killed the Derelict Reaper. Is that confirmed anywhere?

-Gotta love Shepard. (Fine, me, but it's not like the game gave me renegade points.) Finds prefab buildings and loots them before finding out the status of the inhabitants. Hope they didn't need those supplies!

-I think the game in general doesn't do enough to convey how charismatic Shepard must be. The blue paragon options just don't seem special enough, for example, to talk Kyle around when the negotiators weren't able to.

Squad Talks

-I think something is bugged. Garrus, Wrex, and Tali all talk as if we're near the end game. I've done one main mission!

-Garrus: Will we ever find Saren?

Good question, since I haven't actually been trying to do that. Sorry Garrus, there are a lot more UNC worlds to visit.

-Garrus seems to take Saren's actions very personally. He wants Saren dead. Is this really just because Saren's a rogue spectre? It feels like they have a history, but the games never indicate such.

-Why is Garrus's dialogue handled so differently than the others? Wrex and Tali have investigate options you can always check. They update through the game. With Garrus, it's always a new conversation or just "Shepard".

-Wrex is so burned out at this point. He's given up on everything. Despite what he says, he clearly doesn't like killing Krogan mercenaries when they're numbers are so low. But he's so depressed he'll do it anyway.

-Tali: "Near the end with Saren"??? Tali, we haven't even seen him yet. All we've done is find Liara, and that was a dead end.

Citadel:

-Using Conrad's wife to talk him out of becoming a spectre is amusing, given that in ME3 his wife isn't real. No wonder he's so confused when you bring her up.

-There aren't any human merchants on the Citadel except Dr. Michel. Intentional, to show how new humanity is?

-The armor humans and Asari can wear is called human armor. Is that just a human convention?

The Asari have been around much longer than humanity. Does everyone else call it Asari armor, and think it's weird that it just happens to fit humans too?

Or is Shepard just too cheap to buy Liara proper armor? :) You have Barrier, Liara! My old armor is close enough, put it on and throw barrier up. You'll be fine.

-The inventory micromanaging in ME1 is exhausting. I dislike how ME2 eliminates nearly all of it, but ME1 had so much room for improvement. There were so many small tweaks they could have made to improve the experience.

#mass effect #mass effect 1 #mass effect 1 replay

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saltkissed · 1 year

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[ oktay cubuk, he/him, nonbinary ] — was that NADIR GULSE? the TWENTY-SIX year old is a GENTLEMAN & SHIP CAPTAIN, how exciting to see them this season! rumors have it they are EQUABLE and INTUITIVE, but i’ve heard they are BRAZEN and APATHETIC as well — maybe that’s why they’ve been called the MAVERICK. I have even heard that HE ARRIVED IN LONDON AN ASSASSIN IN DISGUISE —only time will tell.

— penned by karin.

⤷ &. INTRO

character summary: a gentleman (debatable) hailing all the way from antalya, turkey. just arrived in england a few months before the season started after his aunt and uncle wrote to his parents about opportunities aplenty in the country. sailed with his sibling(s) on his ship and is presently wishing that he could return to said ship and sail away again. his entire life is defined by the sea and his affinity for it. more sea beast than human, honestly. does not care for polite english society and wishes he could go swimming with sharks, but alas. here to stir some trouble because he's bored. also definitely not an assassin in disguise, but does nothing to quell any rumors.

inspiration: nikolai lantsov (if he was unhinged) — shadow & bone trilogy, house greyjoy — a song of ice and fire, this quote (in the context of wanting to go out with a bang) — the ghost bride.

aesthetic: eyes glittering in sunlight, the taste of sea salt, sharp teeth bared, a broken compass.

⤷ &. BASICS

full name: nadir gulse.

age: twenty-six.

place of birth: antalya, turkey.

gender: nonbinary.

pronouns: he/him.

sexual orientation: bisexual.

religion: born muslim; atheist.

family: arda & jale gulse (parents). three unnamed siblings.

languages: turkish (native), arabic (fluent), english (conversational), persian (rudimentary).

profession: captain of the iron kiss & rich kid. not an assassin despite what lady whistledown says.

label: the maverick.

⤷ &. STORY

the water beat against the shoreline just outside of the window when nadir was born—tide high on that one late summer night. the third gulse child, welcomed by his father, mother, and the sea.

he was no older than four when his eldest sibling taught him how to swim, and he has yet to look back at the shore ever since then. the day he almost drowned was the day he fell in love with the violence of the ocean.

nadir grew strong and brutal—almost wild. it matters not that the gulses are members of antalya's high society, arda's merchant background and jale's military roots will not dictate nadir how he must behave. and who is there to stop him? he is but a third child, with an elder sister and brother to bear the brunt of responsibilities while he spent his days swimming and sailing, seabound and shipbound.

on his 14th birthday his father gifted him a boat. it was small, no bigger than a fisherman's boat, but it was his pride and joy. until the day he was granted his ship. he called it the iron kiss and named himself captain. it was his many voyages across the ottoman empire and beyond that filled most of his days.

it's one day not long after his 25th birthday that his parents received a letter. from an aunt, and uncle, and cousins nadir have never met. they're in england, he knows. his father's younger sister, who married another wealthy merchant seeking to grow his business on foreign lands. my dearest brother, the letter read. send your children to england.

and so arda had. nadir was tasked to take his siblings on the iron kiss, to bring them safely to the shores of england. they were to meet his aunt in a quaint town called brighton.

it was the preparations for the social season that awaited them there. his aunt and uncle were so sure that the gulse siblings would find opportunities in the capitol city of london. riches and maybe even love, they said. the mysterious new arrivals would surely do wonders for nadir's own cousins.

so nadir docked his ship. he let himself be led by his aunt and uncle all the way to london, already dreaming of the season's end. but for now, without the ocean at his window— what better way can he entertain himself than to bare his teeth and play with fire?

⤷ &. WANTED CONNECTIONS

his family! in my mind nadir has three siblings, two older and one younger. some of them would've came with him from antalya. also his cousins, who likely grew up in england.

proper gentlemen and ladies. they probably would find nadir distasteful and he Does Not Care. it would be very funny.

fellow menaces. people who he is on good terms with because they too are an acquired taste.

admirers...? i don't think anyone should admire nadir but i imagine that his free spirit would have attracted some attention. he would also probably be bad influence.

people he kisses. not saying nadir's a hoe but well... it doesn't really take much to convince him to kiss someone, honestly.

anything and everything! he's not very kind or friendly but he is outgoing and sociable.

#wdintro #biography.

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atinyliliflower · 9 months

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I'm lazy today do just a little drabble today, might be a series.

𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅

🄱🄸🄻🄻🅈 🅇 🄾🄲

The OCS name is Antalya Eloise.

No tw reader is fem tho

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Billy sat in class, his legs spread open at his desk, bored as hell. The teacher was announcing partners for a project. "Billy hargrove and Antalya Eloise.. Hopefully, shell help you fix your grades...and possibly your attitude" the teacher told him, and he looked around the room."where is miss eloise?" Tommy sat up "she went to the music room. She said she was bored." The teacher nocked his head towards the door and billy huffed and went to find whoever "Antalya eloise" is. Obviously a girl, maybe he could get laid. He stepped in the music room, and a girl layed draped over the piano, long blonde curls of hair sprawled across the floor."why the hell is her hair so damn long??? Does she not know what a haircut is???" He thought this to himself. The giro was saying something, singing to herself in some language he didn't understand. "Hey!" He shouted. She jumped, and sat up on the piano, definitely different looking. Her eyes were to different colors, a warm brown autumn, and a light snowy grey. She wore a half shirt, that only really covered her boobs over a sports bra, and this little black skirt, with suspenders that connected to her shoulders. She had those church shoe things on, the ones with buckles.billy looked her over, she was unamused. She opened her mouth to speak, a thick French accent filling the room "what do you want????? Your disturbing me, you ivogne" billy hargrove had no idea what that meant, but he was sure it was an insult. He sat on a chair, turning it so he sat with his legs spread and arms resting in the back of the chair." Sorry madame curie but we have to work together." He was definitely 𝒏𝒐𝒕 sorry. This is gonna be fun.

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mobscene-london · 2 years

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BASIC INFORMATION:

NAME: Berat Yalaz. AGE: 32. PLACE OF BIRTH: Antalya, Türkiye. AFFILIATION: The Rutherford Family. The Turkish gangs based in Haringey. OCCUPATION: Enforcer. Owner of The Circle gym. FACE CLAIM: Çağatay Ulusoy. AVAILABILITY: TAKEN.

BIOGRAPHY:

(Warning: Okay, this ended up way longer than Ayaz’s, so sorry about that, first and foremost. Secondly, I’ll be real, this one is pretty rough. It briefly mentions abuse. Pretty explicitly deals with depression/suicide, drug use and addiction, and all kinds of other awful shit. It was difficult to write. So yeah, if any of those things bother you, particularly the depression/suicide/drugs, better give it a miss.)

"Don’t do this to him.” To me. “It’s not too late to come back. You know that. We’re still here.”

And in spite of all that followed, Berat realised he always would be.

When he’d eventually sought out the woman he’d called a friend for all of his best years, it’d been with the sole intention of lambasting her for her callous abandonment. It’d been such a savage and surprising blow, it’d taken him so long to process, she’d already gone and started her fancy new life as a lapdog for their oppressors before he’d even found her. But whilst he’d very much meant to make his feelings on the matter known—perhaps earning a bit of personal closure in the process—when Berat finally came face-to-face with her, the anger had melted away in an instant.

He’d never begged a soul for anything in his damn life until Nevra.

In that moment, she would be both the first and last.

Everybody had assumed the British put him in the hospital as punishment for his attempts to coax their friend back to her real home. Whilst he didn’t doubt that’d played some part in stoking their ire, though, there was more to the altercation than he was willing to admit. What he hadn’t shared with his friends was that the Rutherfords had approached him with the same damn offer they’d made Nevra…and not for the first time. Abandon his family for a chance at a better life with them. Whatever the fuck that meant. It wasn’t as though he planned on finding out…

They'd almost murdered him that night for saying no.

Given what followed, he spent a lot of time wishing they had succeeded.

If the choice had been up to him, Berat never would’ve come to London at all, and maybe that would’ve been kinder. Life back in Türkiye wasn’t easy by any stretch, but it was still his home. His family had a small house, and an olive grove that was all their own, and on the days when his father would go to work in the city, Berat would spend his time helping his mother tend to their garden. The setting was idyllic. As a young boy, he should’ve been happy. But things were rarely as simple as they seemed from the outside, and for him and his mother, that was no different.

Berat envied those who remembered little from their earliest years. Whilst his mother was a kind soul he adored with all his heart, his father was the polar opposite; often aggressive toward his wife, but even more so to the son he despised without reason. The two had endured the man’s physical and emotional abuse for almost seven years until one day, he hadn’t bothered coming back from the city at all. It was more of a relief than he could’ve imagined: being without fear. To be able to leave home without worrying about the state his mother would be in when he returned. To a naïve seven year old, he’d imagined that they could just go about their lives as if nothing was different. Just the two of them, enjoying all the things he’d tried to take away from them…

But reality hit hard, because life didn’t work like that.

It hadn’t dawned on him until much later that moving to London was less of a choice and more of an escape. That she was scared one day he would come back.

Perhaps that was why he’d been so angry with her for it in the beginning. Berat loved his mother, but he couldn’t understand why she’d dragged him to a foreign country—away from his friends, away from his family—without giving him any choice in the matter. Even though she tried to assure him that they were moving to a Turkish community, it didn’t help. Berat had struggled to learn English, and that made making new friends more difficult than anticipated. School was a constant source of anxiety because he never understood what was going on, and the other kids mocked him for that, and his education suffered terribly as a result. He just couldn’t adjust. Maybe a stubborn part of him didn’t want to. His mother had been so worried for him—her son becoming more and more withdrawn by the day—until something finally changed.

Berat met her.

It’d been the day they’d moved into their second flat. It was a shitty little place in Wood Green that he’d despised on sight until their neighbours came to greet them. Berat had spent so many nights crying himself to sleep because he missed home. His happy place. His grandparents. The dogs they had to leave with his aunt. He cried because he felt like he had nobody. He cried out of frustration. He cried for not being able to understand the other kids when they made jokes at his expense. He cried because his dad had ruined his life in so many ways he would never care about...

When she’d walked through his door, though—wearing the most beautiful smile in the whole world, he was sure—for the first time since leaving Antalya, he knew something good was finally happening.

To describe her, what she meant to him, he would never find the words. Ceren had been the kindest person he’d ever met. A blessing he hadn’t deserved, but absolutely needed. That afternoon, as their mothers got to know each other, she’d taken him by the hand and excitedly shown him all her favourite places to visit within the small distance they were allowed to venture. Her Turkish wasn’t very good, but he didn’t care, because somehow they seemed to be able to communicate as if there was no language barrier at all. Berat had realised quickly that kids were cruel. But never her.

When she’d gone home that evening, he’d never felt so deflated.

It was okay, though. Almost every day after that one, they found each other again.

Ceren spent her school lunchtimes helping him to understand his work. They practiced his English, and he helped her with Turkish. Most importantly of all, though, she’d unknowingly given him back the confidence he’d been missing since he stepped off that plane. The confidence to stand up for himself. To put himself out there, and find the will to make other friends.

Long before Nazli had saved him from his addiction, Ceren had saved him from himself.

Life had seemed a lot less daunting with her at his side, and as the years passed, each became easier than the last. Berat had eventually found his own group of friends; Kerem, Nevra, and Azra all helping to make London finally feel less hostile. Much like Kerem and Azra had gravitated toward each other, though, it had been Nazli who’d stolen his heart. The two were utterly inseparable. Twin flames, and connoisseurs of absolute fucking chaos, and for the first time in years, he finally felt as though he belonged. They’d all played their part in that, and he was grateful for it. But there was somebody else who would prove to be the most important of all.

Never could he have imagined falling as hard for someone as he did Ayda.

She was beautiful, and kind, and felt like home. Like the others, Berat had since found his footing in the Turkish gang—the very same one that her terrifying father happened to co-lead—but the fear of him finding out he was dating his daughter wasn’t even close to enough to discourage him. How could it be? Ceren had been the one to make him realise that life was what you made of it. That if you found something wonderful, you had to embrace it instead of being scared to lose it. And that was exactly what he did when it came to Ayda.

With the exception of Ceren moving to Porto Velho—though the two were so incapable of being without each other, even distance proved no match—life was perfect.

Though Kerem was the leader of their sub-crew in the Turkish gang, Berat had absolutely proven himself the poster boy for what a dedicated member looked like. There was nothing he wouldn’t do for a family that’d embraced him as if he was their own. Mehmet, in particular, had been the first and only true father figure in his life. Berat worked hard, did as he was told, and made sure to look out for the people who mattered. Most importantly of all, though, his stature was so fucking imposing that despite the fact those closest to him knew he was a gentle giant, his mere presence was daunting enough that he became the go-to accompaniment to any meeting where things were expected to go south.

Handy, really, when he loved nothing more than a good fight…

The more time he spent with Ayda, though—particularly when she made the decision to leave gang life behind—the more he wondered how things would be without it all. It wasn’t as though he ever really planned to be a gangster. It kind of just happened, and he had happily rolled with the tide. They spoke extensively about starting a family of their own, opening a business that could support them without continuing to be a part of a dangerous lifestyle, and eventually, the two even moved in together. Berat’s mother hated his choice of work. Ayda craved the normalcy and security. So what else was there to consider?

Berat had taken her home to Antalya to propose.

Not only marriage, but that he finally take his permanent leave from the gang.

It would be the beginning of the rest of their lives. All they’d ever wanted...

An unfortunate phone call before he got the chance, however, would unknowingly pull on a thread that would unravel everything in the blink of an eye.

Neither of them could even begin to understand what was to come.

For all that followed—for the many things he would regret until he met his own grave—there was nothing that haunted him more than the decision to go to Nevra that night. The physical toll of the beating that followed was worse than anybody understood, but it was the emotional toll, the mental one, that solidified his devastating downfall. The head injury he’d suffered was so severe that initially, his doctors weren’t even sure he’d be able to speak again, and maybe that was why when Ceren had visited his bedside, the first he remembered after waking from the coma, his inability to communicate had him feeling like he was back at square one. The same kid who had arrived in London; lost and alone. The pain in her expression was so genuine it’d broken his heart right then. Hurt him in ways he didn’t know he was capable of feeling.

Berat wondered if she would have come at all had she known her husband was one of the men who’d put him there…

God, he’d fucking hated himself for the anger he felt toward her. Ceren had never been a part of that life. Never considered herself one of the Rutherfords. She’d just chosen to be with someone who was. In his heart he knew she had nothing to be sorry for, and yet for the first time since she’d walked through his door all those years ago, he didn’t even want to look at her. The two had always had their way of communicating, even when they couldn’t… Berat didn’t need to tell her he was angry. He didn’t need to tell her that he didn’t want to see her. He didn’t need to tell her to leave.

Ceren knew.

Even now, he tortures himself with all the ways he would have done it differently if he’d known. Should have. After everything they’d been through, he’d pushed away the biggest light in his life, and he could never forgive himself for that.

Neither of them knew it would be the last time they’d see each other.

In one fell swoop he’d lost Nevra, Ceren, and his entire sense of identity. The only thing he hadn’t lost was Ayda, and even he knew that was inevitable.

Berat was hurting more than anybody knew because the idea of sharing it made him feel like even more of a burden than his injuries had turned him into. He could no longer contribute to the gang, or look after the people he swore to protect. He couldn’t work to help support Ayda and the future they had planned together. He was in near constant physical pain. Kerem was suffering, and he was too fucking incapacitated to be there for his brother. Then there was losing Ceren; the one thing that had cut him so deeply, the only way he could mask the pain was to bury it under his hate for the Rutherfords who had done this to them in the first place.

In all the years he’d spent around the drugs the Turks pushed out of Haringey, never once had he been tempted. But he just didn’t know how to cope anymore.

It was the easy way out, and he’d hate himself for that forever.

And maybe, just maybe, he would’ve been strong enough to pull himself back from the brink if he hadn’t lost her.

But he had.

This time it wasn’t distance, and it wasn’t pain. And no matter how many times he kept telling himself that they never got to say goodbye so she had to come back, he knew that one of the very best parts of his life—one of the few reasons he had left to keep breathing—was gone forever. Over and over again, he replayed the memory of her leaving his hospital room; hurting because of him. Over and over again, he replayed the very first time he’d seen that smile…

The last time they’d met, Ceren thought he blamed her for what’d happened.

What if she’d died feeling the same way?

Berat had been so fucking high he hadn’t even made it to the funeral.

When he’d picked up the needle that night, sick to the stomach knowing he couldn’t even get his shit together long enough to say goodbye, he’d muttered only one thing before it hit:

“I’ll be there soon.”

Some people turned to drugs as a way to cope with their problems, and maybe he’d been one of them at the start. But this was something else, now. Attempting to help seemed so utterly futile because he didn’t want to get better. The drugs weren’t there to dull the pain. They weren’t there to curb his guilt. They weren’t a means to avoid his problems…

Berat was hoping they’d do what he was too much of a coward to do himself.

It was impossible to blame Ayda for eventually walking away from him, no matter how much it hurt. Trying to destroy his life was destroying hers, too.

The distance he’d put between himself and the people he cared about should have made it easier. By that point, not only was Ayda gone, but he’d even stopped talking to his own mother. Emine. But Nazli was so fucking persistent—adamant, above all else, that she would not lose another friend—that no matter how brutal his cycle of self destruction became, she refused to let it take him away. God, she was so stubborn. It was the toughest love he’d ever received, and there were days where the only person he despised more than her was himself. All he wanted to do was go. All he wanted was to feel nothing at all. He’d lost everything, and she would see him suffer through it? After everything? What reason did he have left to try?

“You have me!”

So rare was it she showed emotion like that, he almost didn’t know how to process it at all.

When she’d finally broken down in front of him—the first and only time he’d ever seen his best friend cry—Berat was finally hit with the realisation of what he’d become. For all his agony, he’d lost sight of the fact he wasn’t the only person in this equation. That he didn’t get to decide what he was worth to the people around him. Others were hurting, too, and this time, he was the one to blame.

Nazli had left him that night, and he’d been so sure she wasn’t coming back, just like Ayda, that it had sent him into a spiral. Whether she’d intended it or not, that had finally been the turning point he’d needed. The wakeup call that brought him back to a reality he’d been detached from for so fucking long he barely recognised it anymore. It was the first and only time someone had managed to break through to him since his descent into misery; not because Nazli had meant more to him than Ayda had, but because he realised he couldn’t be the reason she lost someone she cared about. Not when he knew what it was like to suffer through that pain first-hand.

Berat loved her too much to put her through that.

It had been him that’d found her, instead of waiting for her to come back.

Maybe Nazli hadn’t been expecting that, but fuck, she hadn’t even hesitated to embrace him instead cutting him off entirely like he damn well deserved. When she smiled at him, he knew. Berat was ready. And so began the long and arduous road to his recovery.

It took months to make any progress at all, but she’d been at his side for every moment of it; never discouraged by his struggles, not even by the times it felt like they were moving backwards. There had been relapses, of course, but Nazli always focused on finding momentum again instead of condemning him for the days where he just couldn’t fight it anymore. His best friend was no saint, but with him, she’d had the patience of one, and he knows that for as long as he lives, he’ll never be able to repay her for it. All he can do is vow never to disappoint her. And truthfully, healthy or not, that was a better driving force behind his sobriety than doing it for himself ever was.

Stepping back into gang life had come last, because Nazli knew that being around drugs again, even in passing, was a dangerous situation to put him in. But now that Ayda was gone and all semblance of the future he’d planned for had followed, he had nothing else. Dangerous it might have been, so was having no purpose in life at all.

Berat had been eight months sober when he finally re-joined his family.

Then it had been twelve.

And now it’s been eighteen.

Life will never be the same for him, and coming to terms with that was a large part of the recovery process. In spite of the progress he’s made, the itch, the desire, it never really leaves. But he’s made positive changes to avoid challenging himself. He doesn’t drink so much, he doesn’t party, and he doesn’t do anything that threatens the self-control he’s worked so fucking hard to maintain. One wrong move and years of work is gone and he can’t do that to himself. Or her. And even though there are many days where he wakes up and sits with the fact life would’ve been easier if Nazli had just let him go, he knows that the struggle was worth it for his best friend.

For all of them.

Berat can’t fix all the mistakes he’s made. Some of the things he’s done aren’t even worthy of forgiveness from himself. But for the first time since losing Ceren, the clarity has made him realise he has to try. And that’s a start.

SOCIAL CONNECTIONS:

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single. Ayda Demir (ex-girlfriend) FAMILY: Fatma Yalaz (mother, unplayable), Emine Yalaz (maternal cousin) CONNECTIONS:

tba

#woof #taken #takenm #rutherford #beratyalaz #now you know why he hates the ruthas so bad #:)

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thisandthat-whatever · 1 year

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So, Mr. D gave a concert in Antalya, Turkey tonight (I am still mad at him for a few reasons (🤓) so I haven’t mentioned the concert here before). But this I gotta mention, because I want to roast this baby’s parents. His fans know he loves kids (I mean most people like kids but some of his fans like seeing him with kids, especially their kids. 😬)

Anyway, I was watching the Instagram live of the concert which someone was streaming from the front of the stage, and some woman acted cuckoo and brought her motherfucking baby to a loud ass concert 😲🥱. And she gave the baby to him from the front of the stage. It was almost like a weird way of saying to a man “have my baby”. 😂😂

What is he gonna do? Not take the baby? Like she was literally holding the baby up in the air to hand it to him, so he took the baby and sang a couple of notes and raised him up like the scene in Lion King and then said a few nice words about how he wishes the baby will grow up to be a great person yada yada yada and handed the baby back to the mother.

Mind you, the concert was four hours long so I don’t know if the woman left before the end of the concert but when this happened it was already 10 pm local time. So, it was late for the baby and also it was a loud ass concert, wtf! I wanna give the “deranged stan who happens to be a mother” award to her. 🏆

Oh, and he also is donating parts of the proceeds of his tour to the Turkey earthquake victims. And during the show tonight he wanted for everyone to have a minute of silence for the victims. This below was from that minute of silence moment. .. I guess it was nice that he did that. (But I am still mad at him for my other reasons. 😬🤪).

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printyourdesire · 23 days

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Web Design Antalya: Elevate Your Online Presence

Introduction

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Key Considerations

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Conclusion

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FAQs

What is the average cost of web design in Antalya?

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How long does it take to design a website in Antalya?

The timeline for designing a website in Antalya depends on the scope of the project. A basic website can take 4-6 weeks, while more complex sites with custom features may take several months.

What are the latest trends in web design?

Some of the latest trends in web design include mobile-first design, minimalistic aesthetics, and the use of AI and automation to enhance user experience and personalize content.

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pilawturkey · 25 days

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Turkish Real Estate Law

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where: antalya, turkey who: @keremdogulu when: 1st of august, 2024

There was no way in hell that Emine was going to be in London for her birthday. She was not going to relive the experience that came, the joy she felt for being engaged to the man of her dreams, to a party she was excited for, then to the drama that ensued and knowing that the people she cared about wished to be elsewhere; more so knowing that her brother wasn't there to wish her happy birthday. That is why she packed her bags and flew back home a couple days before the big day, not that turning twenty-six held any significance.

That evening, a few friends pulled her out for her actual birthday, taking her to one of the clubs to have some fun, and not remain at her actual parents home sulking. It wasn't sulking, she wasn't in the mood, but after a few shoots and music she couldn't resister, Emine was on the dance floor shaking what her momma gave her. She was forgetting all the shit happening back in London and living for the moment. Eyes closed, moving to the beat of the music, she felt a body bump into her from behind.

"Why did you have to ruin...." Her words trailing off when she turned around, ready to tear a strip out of whoever it was, where she was shocked, stunned, standing there looking up at the last person she was expecting to see. "Kerem? What are you doing here?"

#thread: kerem dogulu #flashback

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istanbullocalguides · 2 months

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