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i feel like "objectively bad" as a descriptor for media was supposed to be a joke term. wasn't it? because, you know, there's nothing "objective" about an opinion on a piece of art. but somehow that jokeyness has gotten lost in translation and now people just seem to believe that it constitutes real media criticism. like they'll sound smarter if they use it to qualify every opinion they have. "yeah, it's objectively bad, but I love it" how can you love something that is objectively bad? how can a piece of media truly fail if it is loved by someone? how can something created for the purpose of entertainment be "objectively bad" despite its ability to entertain? why are you so ashamed to love something?

#this so much #'objective' with any piece of media #🤡 #using this wrt to any art does not make your smart or 'right' #it makes you look dumb #periodt

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directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.

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I am not going to defend myself, Your Majesty. Whatever I say, your decision will not change anyway. I could calm you by denying it, but I don't intend to do it. Throw me into the fire like you did with your family and other people you loved. [...] So this is [absolute loyalty] why you killed them all? Hatice, Ibrahim, Mustafa, Çihangir...I remember how our father Selim Han died. He didn't die easily. God did not let him leave this world without suffering first. The same fate awaits you!

Fatma + roasting Suleiman to his face (and to others)

Happy (belated) Birthday Plami! @mc-critical

#mcedit #muhteşem yüzyıl #magnificent century #fatma sultan #perioddramaedit #weloveperioddrama #perioddramasource #muhtesem yuzyil #yay the series continues #I had to give you a tumblr gift as well love <3 #I love how in the last meeting she just goes for it all and does not mince her words anymore #it was bubbling for a long time #now she had nothing to lose she did not give a f*uck whatever he does #contrast with how despite hating him already she hushed nisa that dynasty cannot be talked about like that #since she knows nisa should not have any more problems to the multitude she does already :((and even sumbul was spying on them) #but quietly adds Suly ass will pay #how people were forbidden to (openly) criticize the padisah and keep quiet #and then fatma saying she won't be silent after his order to do so in their last convo.. #amazing #such underrated character #*mine #and the clown telling her he never killed an innocent person #like what could a 6 year old ever do 🤡

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Byzantine mosaics, assorted locations

#art #byzantine

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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us. For example, when Captain Bartolus saw Orlando’s skirt, he had an awning stretched for her immediately, pressed her to take another slice of beef, and invited her to go ashore with him in the long-boat. These compliments would certainly not have been paid her had her skirts, instead of flowing, been cut tight to her legs in the fashion of breeches. And when we are paid compliments, it behoves us to make some return. Orlando curtseyed; she complied; she flattered the good man’s humours as she would not have done had his neat breeches been a woman’s skirts, and his braided coat a woman’s satin bodice. Thus, there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. So, having now worn skirts for a considerable time, a certain change was visible in Orlando, which is to be found if the reader will look at above, even in her face. If we compare the picture of Orlando as a man with that of Orlando as a woman we shall see that though both are undoubtedly one and the same person, there are certain changes. The man has his hand free to seize his sword, the woman must use hers to keep the satins from slipping from her shoulders. The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion. Had they both worn the same clothes, it is possible that their outlook might have been the same.

-Orlando, Virginia Woolf

#amazing work sol #orlando #virginia woolf

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the queen in chains | house of the dragon (2022-) | poem

#sooo gorgeous #alicent hightower #hotd

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Someone on Reddit keeps getting recommended the Jane Austen subreddit despite knowing nothing about Jane Austen, so they posted an Ask Me Anything. Best response so far:

Sorry JA, no longer a truth universally acknowledged.

#ahamshsmsh

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No more "updating" old lit to modern day in new productions, gonna start backdating instead. Dorian Grey is now a Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. Pride and Prejudice is set in Restoran England. William Shakespeare's Henry VIII now takes place in the 1200s, and Marley's ghost is gonna haunt Ceaser till he lets Bobitis Crachitus have Saturnalia off work

#pls gimme

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Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

#northanger abbey #quote

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Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard The Tudors | 3x02 "Sister"

#the tudors

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Minor Ladies Month - Beyhan Sultan × Quote

My mourning is over, sure, time has swept it away. But the heart can't forget some things, the heart can't forget even if you want to. I still do not have a husband, my children still don't have a father. Sometimes, they ask me "Why did our father die? Who killed him?". I become speechless, your majesty, I can not say a word. I can not say that my brother killed him.

#was supposed to reblog this also to personal but stuff again hit me in 2023 with my dog landing in hospital /he is alright and thankfully 20 #the hell year is over now #such masterpiece! #and the choice of quotes #+commentary in tags #perfection #beyhan is another example of the show's theme to give voice to those usually denied so in historical accounts/books #on paper everything was fine after all - her husband truly committed horrible suff and continued to do so even after he was discovered #yet for her it was personal hell as she created home as expected when ordered by her fam #and then the head of this fam kills her husband and uproots her life again #and she still needs to meet with him because he is not only her ruler but also sovereign #she still accepts him as her ruler but not brother #here we see how SS can sacrifice family member for the state but we get for state decision was good #later it switches and becomes dubious once his own personal agenda and ego clouds his judgment also with respect of state and who is traito #he later makes decision that affect negatively both spheres: his fam and the state #and justice #here his decision was understandable with ferhabd #BUT beyhan's feelings are still valid and understandable #beyhan sultan #magnificent century

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS costumes appreciation: ― Eowyn’s fur trimmed coat (costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)

#eowyn #lotr

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1670 1.04. Equality March

Poland is a tolerant country, so you're most welcome in our community. But I have a duty to inform you that after you die, you'll rot in hell because you're bad people.

#this show <3 #best Polish thing I've seen this year #1670

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Alize Gördüm as Nergisşah Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl for #MinorLadiesMonth (with special dedication for @palaceoftears ♥️)

#nergissah sultan #magnificent century #gifs #stuff from my other blog #*mine

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the portrait of a lady #by henry james

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Still-life - tea set, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1781-83.

#art #aesthetic