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redbreastedbird · 1 month

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Hi again!! What's your opinion of people drawing/writing Amina (and her mother and sisters, for that matter) wearing a hijab? Thanks :)

Oh this is interesting!!

Okay, so I have two answers. One is that as a fan, you can interact with a character however you want. If you want to imagine a hijabi Amina, you are so welcome to do so - that version of her is yours, and it belongs to you. She stopped being my character alone when I published a book about her - we all share her now!

My second answer, though, is that in terms of historical accuracy, no, she most likely wouldn’t have worn the hijab. This was something that came up in my research, and that I found super fascinating. Obviously fashions were very different then, but also (as far as I understand, please know that I am not an expert on this) the way people expressed their faith was quite different. It wasn’t as usual for wealthy Egyptian Muslim women to wear the hijab - instead they tended to wear (among other things) this devastatingly cool little hat/scarf combo:

I actually went into creating Amina’s character intending her to be a hijabi and came out of it realising that she wouldn’t have worn the hijab! (NB - again, please note that I’m sure some wealthy women did, and also that I think it was more common for working class women to do so. I’m not making any absolute statements here!)

While I’m on the subject of Egyptian women in the 1930s, I remember that I had to cut out a scene where Amina’s mother ran a women’s poetry/writing group. There was a real literary scene in Cairo in the 1930s, loads of women were published poets and writers and thinkers - it was really such an interesting time and I wish I’d been able to include more about that!

#death sets sail #amina el maghrabi #historical research #murder most unladylike #1930s egypt

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detective-society · 8 months

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hey, remember when lavinia wasn’t in AFT? because i do. how dare she not be invited

#lavinia temple #murder most unladylike #alexander arcady #hazel wong #daisy wells #george mukherjee #robin stevens #mmu #amina el maghrabi #reading #arsenic for tea #school

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mmufanatic · 1 month

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2 random people talking about the MMU detectives (including George and Alexander)

Person A: Which one's Daisy?

Person B: The gay one

Person A: Narrow it down

Person B: The neurodivergent one

Person A: Narrow it down

Person B: The one who really needs therapy

Person A: NARROW IT DOWN

#murder most unladylike #mmu #alexander arcady #george mukherjee #daisy wells #hazel wong #beanie martineau #kitty freebody #lavinia temple #amina el maghrabi

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anxiouslygay · 1 year

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I drew Amina and Daisy from Murder Most Unladylike how i imagined them when i read the books. It's not the best, but I quite like it :]] @redbreastedbird

#daisy wells #hazel wong #murder most unladylike #alexander arcady #lavinia temple #george mukherjee #beanie #mmu #top marks for murder #death set sail #amina el maghrabi #the detective society #the junior pinkertons

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deepdean-detectives · 7 months

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dancing in the dark

#damina #daisy wells #amina el maghrabi #mmu #R #robin stevens #murder most unladylike #mmu art #mmu fanart #my art #fanart

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julilovesmmu · 8 months

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what perfume i think some of the mmu girlies would wear:

(based mainly off perfumes i have tried or looked at online)

hazel: i think she would wear quite a sweet but more tangy kind of perfume. for example: juliette has a gun vanilla vibes. tbh i have no idea who its by but it smells so good

daisy: i think she would wear a more musky perfume with more of a floral hint. as an example, do son by dipteque. or maybe chanel no.5

kitty: would have a whole collection of so sprays, but also maybe an ariana grande perfume such as cloud or rem

amina: she would wear a light and floral perfume, for example: miss dior blooming bouquet (one of my personal favs lol) or the roses version.

beanie: would probably borrow one of kitty's perfumes, but i think she would wear daisy dream by marc jacobs most of the time!

#murder most unladylike #hazel wong #daisy wells #kitty freebody #amina el maghrabi #beanie martineau #purely self indulgent #juli drops more mmu headcanons #mmu headcanons

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detectivesocietyfan · 8 months

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so i am currently waiting for Robin Stevens ro answer my question,

so i'll ask u all as well!

Who do u think is most likely to have been head girl out of Daisy and Hazels year?

Edit: she replied my question and said... (drumroll pleaseee)...

DAISYYYYYYYYYYYY WELLSSSS 🎉

#murder most unladylike #mmu #robin stevens #hazel wong #daisy wells #kitty freebody #amina el maghrabi #lavinia temple #beanie martineau

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pazoo-underscore · 7 months

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I just finished BITB and it was sooooooo good. I loved how everyone from the old gang was there (except kitty? What happened to kitty?) and how even inspector Priestley turned up.

I accually cried when Amina turned up though, and I'm not sure why but it just made me so happy that the MMU group were back together

#murder most unladylike #mmu #robin stevens #daisy wells #hazel wong #alexander arcady #bitb #the body in the blitz #amina el maghrabi #george mukherjee #harold mukherjee #paz.

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random-deepdeanite · 1 year

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modern!hazel has too many notebooks and never writes in them. modern!daisy has dyed hair and a pixie cut. modern!alexander loses his glasses all the time. modern!george is a crossdresser. modern!amina wears a hijab and does not let anyone give her shit about it. modern!kitty collects crystals. modern!beanie wears charm bracelets. modern!lavinia has a shitton of piercings and tattoos. modern!bertie listens to hozier. modern!harold loves bowties. modern!amanda plays afl. modern!henry almost always wears a scarf. modern!alfred has headphones in or around their neck 24/7. modern!felix never shines his shoes. modern!lucy loves dangly earrings. modern!may hates skirts and socks and stockings, but likes dresses. modern!nuala never uses normal hairties and uses scrunchies instead. modern!eric volunteers at the animal shelter on weekends despite being (mildly) allergic to fur.

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deepdeanvsweston · 5 months

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Amina and Daisy would have done numbers for me had it been a slowburn rivals to lovers (note I say rivals and not enemies because I wouldn't want them to be completely against each other, but just trying to outdo each other). In my opinion it went too quickly and like absolutely everyone had to be paired off and because of this Amina's personality in DSS (it felt to me) changed slightly???

#i can FEEL damina potential in tmfm #that potential i feel needed to be drawn out #murder most unladylike #mmu #daisy wells #amina el maghrabi #top marks for murder #death sets sail #damina

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cardboardbox-fly · 6 months

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Bitb spoiler, be warned

THE AMINA AMD DAISY KISS AAAAAAAAAAAA

IT MADE ME SO HAPPY OMG

EEEEEEEE EEEEHEHEHEHEHHEEEEEEEEE

#bitb #bitb spoilers #the body in the blitz spoilers #the body in the blitz #Daisy wells #amina el maghrabi #Daisy x amina #MY FAVOURITE FUCKING LESBIANS

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redbreastedbird · 10 months

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@hlwvyn asked for characters’ birthdays. SO!

Daisy: 13th April (coincidentally also Neil Banging Out the Tunes day. I did not do this on purpose)

Hazel: 30th July

Alexander: 9th November

George: 1st February

Nuala: 15th September (Agatha Christie’s birthday! I did do this on purpose)

Eric: 24th November

May: 4th May (may the fourth be with her)

Kitty: 28th March

Beanie: 23rd August

Lavinia: 14th January

Bertie: 13th February

Harold: 12th June

Amina: 7th August

Rose: 8th December

#murder most unladylike #robin stevens #ministry of unladylike activity #daisy wells #hazel wong #lavinia temple #george mukherjee #beanie martineau #amina el maghrabi #bertie wells #harold mukherjee #alexander arcady #Kitty Freebody #may wong #nuala o’malley #Eric Schlossbauer #rose wong #birthdays

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detective-society · 6 months

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MMU TV?!? IM PROBABLY REACHING BUT OMG I WANNA KNOW WHAT IT IS

#murder most unladylike #hazel wong #daisy wells #robin stevens #alexander arcady #george mukherjee #amina el maghrabi #mmu #mmu tv

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mmufanatic · 3 months

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MMU Clothes Headcanons

Daisy

- Often wears leggings under skirts because she climbs stuff a lot.

-Likes Dr Martens

-Has a favourite denim jacket that's absolutely covered in badges.

- Always wears night dresses , hates pyjamas.

- Prefers skirts or dresses to trousers

- Sticks random things into her hair- flowers, sparkly pipe cleaners through her plaits, pretty tissue paper...

- Likes hair clips.

- Likes jewellery ( wears SO MUCH jewellery) and makeup (also helps her to fit in ).

Hazel

- Wears hair pins or clips a lot.

- Prefers jeans but wears skirts sometimes.

- Doesn't wear makeup because of the texture.

- Has a mac that she thinks looks really grown up and loves it.

- Has a pair of heeled boots but everyone teases her because she's still shorter.

- Doesn't wear jewellery (except for bracelets made by Beanie of course)

- Prefers dark colours but will wear bright colours occasionally.

Kitty

- Wears skirts, leggings or jeans, no preference.

- Likes shiny or sparkly hair clips.

- Loves jewellery ( Beanie makes her a lot of bracelets).

- Especially loves earrings, has her ears pierced.

- Loves makeup.

- Often wears pastel colours.

- Likes ballet flats except if it comes off her foot George or Lavinia will kick it so she has to hop to get it ( Beanie goes and gets it anyway).

Beanie

- Doesn't wear makeup ( Kitty tried to do it for her once and it didn't end well).

- Wears stuff with cute animals on it.

- Prefers skirts but likes leggings with oversized jumpers.

- Loves anything woolly or fluffy.

- Has a pair of boots that are fluffy on the inside and LOVES them.

- Wears a lot of bracelets because she loves making them.

- Her and Kitty sometimes add bits onto plain hair clips like paper flowers, so she wears them too.

- Wears dungarees.

- Definitely has a fluffy onesie.

Lavinia

- Wears Dr Martens

- Likes dark colours.

- HATES skirts and dresses.

- Wears cargo pants.

- Doesn't wear jewellery, except for a friendship bracelet that Beanie made for her.

- Has a lot of band t-shirts.

- No one is allowed to borrow her stuff. No one.

- Doesn't have that many clothes. George and Kitty have made it their mission to get her to go clothes shopping with them.

Amina

- Wears a lot of hoodies.

- Likes skirts and dresses.

- Wears leggings and fluffy boots a lot.

- Always wearing sandals or flip flops in the summer.

- Likes earrings but otherwise doesn't really wear jewellery.

- Has a pair of heels that Daisy keeps stealing.

- Only lets Daisy borrow her hoodies.

- She regrets this afterwards because Daisy will inevitably get ink on it or something.

- Daisy will desperately try to get the stain off before she gives it back ( while Hazel laughs at her) but Amina will always notice.

Alexander

- Wears jumpers and hoodies all the time but the sleeves are always too short.

- Daisy thinks that this is hilarious.

- Has too many beanie hats because he makes another one if he gets bored ( his gran taught him to knit and crochet).

- He makes a lot of them for Beanie purely because it's called a beanie and she thinks it's really funny.

- Has a lot of pyjamas with cute animals on or patterned- George makes fun of him for this.

- Has a lot of stuff knitted for him from his gran.

George

- His wardrobe is VERY full.

- His dad and Harold keep trying to persuade him to have a clear out but he never does.

- Often doesn't wear what's suitable for the weather ( wears a thin jacket in December).

- Makes impulsive fashion choices that he regrets later ( Daisy has a lot of pictures).

- Has a lot of stuff knitted for him by Alexander.

- Wears bracelets from Beanie.

- Let Daisy paint his nails once and is now trying to get up the courage to ask to borrow her eyeliner.

#george mukherjee #mmu #murder most unladylike #alexander arcady #hazel wong #daisy wells #kitty freebody #beanie martineau #lavinia temple #amina el maghrabi

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anxiouslygay · 10 months

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So I made a thing...

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deepdean-detectives · 6 months

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I have school tomorrow

Amina El Maghrabi be upon ye

#mmu #murder most unladylike #amina el maghrabi #mmu art #mmu fanart #my art #fanart #z draws #robin stevens

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