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Hiya! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

Thank you

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Zhen Huan saying "I'm getting old, I need a nap" at the very end is so funny like girlie you're not even 30. But I hope she abuses the hell out of her "official" age being ten years older combined with sexist ageism. Just take naps whenever. Who's gonna question the fragile aging (28-year-old) empress dowager? She deserves all the rest in the world

#I love that ending for her #zhen huan #legend of zhen huan

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I see your point and as mahi fan there's definetly a lot of aspects I would've liked to see more fleshed out in Magnificent Century, like Mahidevran's past before meeting Suleyman & some relationships like her friendship with Fidan, with Taslicali, with Ibrahim! or any other lady in Amasya, especially since apparently her historical counterpart befriended a female poet.

That being said, I don't think Mahidevran is that much of written in opposition to Hurrem here, they have their differences but these are not about playing the victim/victimizer roles, that both of them share because they finally got to be three-dimensional characters (with many writting flaws sometimes, but still). The show makes it pretty clear that the thing that made their paths different was Suleyman's love (& lack of), for which both sultanas were ready to get bloody, so not black & white morals either. They also don't play into the madonna/whore complex at all to me. And while I think there's some moments in which Mahidevran's character is sacrificed for Hurrem to shine, especially in their s1&2's fights, it still isn't enough to say she's just a character in her rival's story. Mahidevran is a protagonist of her own story in most of the series & I'd say she stops being it in s4 & part of s3, when she's mostly a part of Mustafa's story, her development & relationships that have nothing to do with Hurrem are a proof of this.

Of course, Mahidevran isn't as central for MC as Hurrem but well, we have to keep in mind this is a show about Suleyman's reign with a focus in his love story with his wife, the plots coming from the harem & later the war for the throne, so I think the screentime they gave her is fair. Would I have liked more? Absolutly, so I agree I'd love to see a story where she is the protagonist! I just think that didn't happen (outside of some fanfics) because she's just not as much of an outstanding & controversial historical figure as Hurrem is. You still can do lot of things with her as a part of the main cast or as a secondary character, and I think MC did a good work with it, Hurrem 2003 tried to do something but as Plami said, they didn't even get to explore their main character properly, and well... Roksolana's Mahidevran is there. I still have to check other Mahis, but yeah, to the moment no one made a version of her that's impactful enough as Nur's Mahi, and to me the very fact I still think about how cool it would be to know more about her means they -at least- created a very interesting character from an historical woman very little is known of.

head empty except the all consuming thoughts on how Mahidevran is done dirty in every single adaptation

#sorry for getting involved #it's just I have been imagining many many relationships & facts about her past & just especific interests for mahi #but the base has always been mc's mahi! #they did so much with her! #and I personally don't think someone that was meant to be just hurrem's rival would end giving the 'sultanate?' & 'fate?' iconic speeches #that have nothing to do w hurrem and everything to do with her own developed awareness #mahidevran sultan #magnificent century #muhtesem yuzyil

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Watch

c.1900

Indianapolis Museum of Art (Accession Number: 73.70.38)

#omg i need it #fashion #i guess

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#kdkenwkk #anti taylor swift

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Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1883) // Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011 - 2014)

#sehzade mustafa #sultan suleyman #art #magnificent century #muhtesem yuzyil

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Legend of Ruyi + Bai Ruiji

#bai ruiji #ruyi's royal love in the palace

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Dong Jie as Fuca Langhua Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace 如懿传 Episode 8

#fuca langhua #ruyi's royal love in the palace

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‘and after all this time that you still owe

you’re still a good-for-nothing—, i don’t know

[…]

i don’t love you like i loved you yesterday.’

#katherine parr #and that other guy... #the tudors #becoming elizabeth

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Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

#joanna of castile #art

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On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

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"To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure"

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self

For Fati's @empressofkabukicho belated birthday ❤️

#magnificent century #muhtesem yuzyil #perioddramaedit #my edits #hurrem sultan #mc edit #meryem uzerli #vahide percin #period drama #graphics #graphic edit #filter by crownedfilters

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— Though honestly, this palace isn’t new to you. You lived there for years. — That’s right. It’s where I spent the most beautiful days of my life.

#mahidevran sultan #magnificent century #muhtesem yuzyil

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sara mrad

#fashion

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| POLLY'S WARDROBE | S1 | S2 | S3 |

Polly's presentation feels more powerful in this season, where S1 was mostly a few core suits and outits that established her as a stoic voice of reason, now we have more colour introduced, her hair is less controlled, you can feel there's been a change. There's also a lot going on behind the scenes - like the small children's toys Helen bought simply to keep the moment she found out Polly had lost children. The switch back to a suit reminiscent of her ones in S1 the moment Michael is taken feels significant to me, like her defences are being put up again. The reclamation of power in the finale is amplfiied by that outfit, the way it also looks like a wound inflcited on her, one so blatant against the white and yet nobody around her seems to notice. It's poetic.

#polly gray #peaky blinders

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The age of delicately asserting Mary as a survivor is over we need to start making her chew on babies again

#mary i

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I know you have been inactive for years but do you watch the new Mehmed series by TRT?

Nope, I do not touch any historical show made by TRT by default and do not intend to change it as long as E*rdogan is in power.

#I really hope they don't get to adapt suleyman's reign #I don't think I could survive the takes that would bring #anyways fuck trt shows