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faintingheroine · 4 hours

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Ibrahim with Nigar 90 percent of the time: 😐😐😒

Ibrahim with Nigar 5 percent of the time: 😡🤬🤬

Ibrahim with Nigar 4 percent of the time: 🙂☺️

Ibrahim with Nigar 1 percent of the time: 🥵🥵🥵🥵

A Nibrahim shipper just has to endure 95 percent of their scenes for the 5 percent. Are those 5 percent of their scenes worth being a shipper? Kind of. You get why Nigar gets so fixated on him. She never can be sure of what treatment she will get that day.

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #nigar x ibrahim

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faintingheroine · 6 hours

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Ibrahim not loving her is evidence that sometimes beauty and charisma are not enough. You also have to be a princess.

Ibrahim is an idiot

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #nigar kalfa

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faintingheroine · 6 hours

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Şakire is interesting for being a former slave who arrived at the mansion with Nihal’s mother, for representing the conservative values encircling Bihter and for being a sort-of mother figure to Nihal.

Şayeste and Nesrin are distinguishable from one another in that Şayeste has seniority over Nesrin and frequently scolds the latter, generally Şayeste comes off as more unlikable. Unlike Şakire who is genuinely conservative, these girls’ opposition to Bihter seems to come from jealousy. Nihal seems to not regard them that highly and actually at one point is ashamed that they praise her actions against Bihter.

Cemile is a very minor character but she is interesting in representing the life path of a normal Ottoman girl of Nihal’s age.

Kette is a sort of transition point between Bihter and Nihal for Behlül. She has Bihter’s “loose” morals and shady mother but Nihal’s blonde looks and young age.

Nihal’s great aunt at the Island is another enforcer of the gender roles in her prejudiced rejection of Adnan’s marriage to Bihter and in her pressuring Nihal to feel something for Behlül.

Nihat Bey is interesting for being the only middle class character in the novel, for being a social climber and for his marriage to Peyker representing the path Bihter had not taken. He is seemingly the key to the normal peaceful family life of Peyker, but it might all be an illusion. Nihat is implied to be a bit creepy towards Bihter. No simple dichotomy between marrying for love vs marrying for money here.

People at the wedding they go to in Chapter 13 are interesting for showcasing both the larger culture of the country and how the society at large views Bihter and Nihal’s families. They also introduce Nihal to the world of marriage, sexuality and gossip.

Katina is interesting for being a Greek maid, it is said that Bihter learned a bit of Greek from the maids.

Peyker’s son Feridun is interesting in that he represents Peyker’s distinction from the rest of the Melih Bey Set: It is said in the text that the members of the Melih Bey Set tend to have daughters, Peyker has a son.

Please tell why you picked the option you picked.

All of these characters are fairly interesting in their implications and what they symbolize for the main characters rather than in who they are as people themselves. I myself am undecided in who to pick.

@pileofsith

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #kette #cemile #minor characters

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faintingheroine · 8 hours

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Heathcliff is so smart and aware even as a child.

the chapters where they're still children are so interesting... i love how heathcliff shows from the start an ability to correctly understand how the people of wuthering heights feel about each other and him and how to use that to his advantage, and the resilience and patience to get what he wants in the end. i also love how none of that ever applies to catherine because from second 1 he will do whatever she says forever

#wuthering heights #heathcliff

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faintingheroine · 9 hours

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The first four options are options mentioned within the novel. Him being Black or Irish are common speculations in the critical literature on the novel. “Him being from Gondal” is a jokey stand-in for all the speculations regarding Heathcliff being some sort of a supernatural creature or from being an imaginary land.

I made a similar poll last year but I am doing it again.

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #polls #wh polls

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faintingheroine · 11 hours

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look at this stamp a postcrosser sent to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#wow I am so jealous!!#wuthering heights #stamps

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faintingheroine · 12 hours

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Please tell why you picked the option you picked.

All of these characters are fairly interesting in their implications and what they symbolize for the main characters rather than in who they are as people themselves. I myself am undecided in who to pick.

@pileofsith

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #cemile #kette #polls #aşk ı memnu polls

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faintingheroine · 12 hours

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This same friend is now rereading Aşk-ı Memnu for a course, and told me that Adnan Bey too can be read as neurodivergent.

I have been headcanoning Nihal as autistic for some years now and thought that she took after her “introverted” father, and now I have someone agreeing with me.

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #nihal

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faintingheroine · 12 hours

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People in real life question me because of my Aşk-ı Memnu obsession. They ask me why I am not obsessing over a better novel. And I can’t say anything.

The thing about this obsession of mine is that it sits uncomfortably between a guilty pleasure and a legitimate respectable interest. It is too good and canonical to be just a guilty pleasure that I too can make fun of, I can pursue (and am pursuing) this interest academically. But it is also too frivolous and not quite “high” enough that people can be a bit baffled about my interest in it. The problem is that I don’t want to be apologetic about my interest in it, I think it is legitimately a good novel, and a novel about which I can make valuable contributions to the literature.

But of course my interest in it is fannish and it is incredibly intense. And most people probably hide their intense fandom interests in their real lives. But in this case I am both an obsessed fan in every sense of the word and a person who wants to study this. Do you see the problem? I made my guilty pleasure hobby and what I want to write about academically the same thing. I put all my eggs in one basket. I confused work and play.

Edit: And there is also the dumbness of writing my observations that I want to write academically about on social media.

#💜💜💜#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu

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faintingheroine · 13 hours

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@hurremshiv

I mean he did have an affair with her at great risk to his life, but it is not enough for me. He also should have admitted that his only motivation for the affair was Nigar being great.

Ibrahim is an idiot

#nigar kalfa #magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl

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faintingheroine · 1 day

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And also Aşk-ı Memnu is a legitimately very good and (despite its name recognition and adaptations in Turkey) a very underrated novel actually. There being greater novels in this universe does not make Aşk-ı Memnu not good.

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu

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faintingheroine · 1 day

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People in real life question me because of my Aşk-ı Memnu obsession. They ask me why I am not obsessing over a better novel. And I can’t say anything.

The thing about this obsession of mine is that it sits uncomfortably between a guilty pleasure and a legitimate respectable interest. It is too good and canonical to be just a guilty pleasure that I too can make fun of, I can pursue (and am pursuing) this interest academically. But it is also too frivolous and not quite “high” enough that people can be a bit baffled about my interest in it. The problem is that I don’t want to be apologetic about my interest in it, I think it is legitimately a good novel, and a novel about which I can make valuable contributions to the literature.

But of course my interest in it is fannish and it is incredibly intense. And most people probably hide their intense fandom interests in their real lives. But in this case I am both an obsessed fan in every sense of the word and a person who wants to study this. Do you see the problem? I made my guilty pleasure hobby and what I want to write about academically the same thing. I put all my eggs in one basket. I confused work and play.

Edit: And there is also the dumbness of writing my observations that I want to write academically about on social media.

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu

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faintingheroine · 1 day

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People really can’t make sense of any worldbuilding that is unfamiliar, whether it is historical fiction, fantasy or historical fantasy.

Hürrem is not a “homewrecker” in any conceivable way. I love homewreckers and sorry but Hürrem doesn’t have the honor of that title.

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #hürrem sultan

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faintingheroine · 1 day

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He is an upstart politician who was born elsewhere from the country he wants to rule. He marries into a rich family. He courts through letters and eventually marries the younger naive sister, but the older ambitious smart sister is also in love with him. He has a homoerotic relationship with one of his male friends. During his marriage he has an affair with a lowly seemingly cunning woman and this affair almost kills his career. His wife is angry but forgives him after a while, but he dies a short time after that in his forties. His quick tongue, impulsivity and ambition are his tragic flaws. He often pities himself by reminding himself of his tragic past in a monologue.

Am I talking about Alexander Hamilton from “Hamilton the Musical” or Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha from “Magnificent Century”?

#hamilton the musical #alexander hamilton #magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #ibrahim pasha #ibrahim paşa

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faintingheroine · 1 day

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Ibrahim is an idiot

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #nigar kalfa

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