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sysy-studyblr · 10 months
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thursday 06/07/23
officially got my IB diploma!!!! thank you to every single one of you who followed my journey and stayed here w me watching me post! i’m extremely proud of myself and how far i’ve come. from failing many classes to passing everything, graduating and getting my diploma. it was less than easy but i wanted to thank everyone who followed my studyblr 🤍. i’m going to keep posting as theres more for me in the academic world. i never post my grades, but i did well- so if anyone has any questions about ib feel free to message me!
learning (&studying) never ends (affectionate).
♫ congratulations - post malone ♫
[thank you everyone in the replies for your kind comments <3]
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rachelraygifs · 1 year
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As someone who has seen (almost) every Gundam series, I’m kind of annoyed that people who pass themselves off as ‘long time fans’ act like the series is inherently a downer and always ends in tragedy and saying “that’s how Gundam is.” Most gundam endings are bittersweet, in that there was a lot lost to get to the end, but have positive, if not happy endings for the main cast that are still around. Most main couples survive and pair at the very end; the times a canon pairing has a member die is actually pretty low. 
Off the top of my head, the canon pairings that explicitly end up together:
Shiro and Aina
Amuro and Fraw / Sayla (depending on your continuity, though by the time Char’s Counterattack rolled around those got reversed)
Seabook and Cecillia
Garrod and Tiffa
Judau and Roux 
Loran and Diana
Heero and Relena
Kira and Lacus
Shinn and Lunamaria
Athrun and Cagali
(to be fair the last three are from SEED)
I sort of feel like people watched IBO as their entry to Gundam and just assumed that’s what the series is like, when it’s really, relatively, an outlier. 
That’s not to say that Gwitch will necessarily have a happy ending, or that Sulemio will be the end game, or that all Gundams have happy endings or whatever. But it’s kind of wild to see people be like “lol these idiots think there could possibly be a happy ending, never seen gundam” when it’s like, have *you* seen Gundam?? Because what people are hoping for is, actually, pretty standard for the franchise.
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kurozu501 · 1 year
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i can sort of understand why people started calling the grassley group “shaddiq’s harem” bc gundam certainly isnt above that trope, the last gundam anime literally had a guy whose crew was entirely his harem of cool ladies, but after ep9 it really doesnt feel like that at all. I think people assumed it bc shaddiq had a rep as a playboy and then we see his group and they are all beautiful girls so of course right? But seeing more of them their relationship feels more like close friends or even sibling-ish. 
They clearly respect him and are loyal to him but none of them seem interested in him romantically. They all have their own fanclubs and admirers. Renee even has 12 backup boyfriends lol so clearly she’s actively out there dating ppl. Shaddiq himself never flirts with any of them or has eyes for anyone other then Miorine. The gals themselves are aware of his feelings towards her and support him in it with zero jealousy or resentment. It just doesn’t really come off as any kind of harem thing. 
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rozeydeg3n · 4 months
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⚔️THE SQUAD ARRIVED!⚔️
Seriously, what would you even call this team?
🌹I dunno what kind of team I’m building…but I assure you, they’ll be nothing but hitters.🌹
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filthyneverdie · 1 year
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HG 1/144 GUNDAM BAEL
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2022.09.24 Maxi Hughes vs Kid Galahad IBO légers
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wordsandrobots · 7 months
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I finished IBO recently, and I don't think I fully get why people call Mika and Orga's relationship one of "toxic codependence". That they depend on each other is obvious, but I feel like I'm missing out on why people think their relationship is unhealthy.
(Thank you for giving me a reason to procrastinate on the chapter I have nearly finished but my brain has gone 'nah' over.)
The way I look at it, there are two key levels on which it's unhealthy. These are related but I think it's worth distinguishing them, because one plays into wider problems within Tekkadan, while the other is a deeply personal matter between Orga and Mika.
But first of all, I think it's important to be clear: Orga and Mika's relationship is rooted in genuine care and affection. This is not apparent friendship built on a lie. These two really are together for life and there are many positive aspects to that. We see them joking about early on, Mika making sure Orga eats (whether he wants to or not), the ease with which they operate as a double-act -- and there's a real sense each would be dead before the series began if not for the other.
However, there is also a profound imbalance at the heart of their relationship. I've written before about how that imbalance is inverted compared to what it looks like at first glance; that is, Mika is the dominant personality, with Orga twisting to follow his wishes. At the same time, yes, Mika has absolutely outsourced his decision-making to Orga. No question. It might be Mika's desires and dreams that ultimately shape their path, but Orga is still the one making choices about where to go and who to shoot.
And it's the absolute degree of Mika's surrender that fucks Orga up. Because, to a very specific point, Mika will do exactly what Orga tells him without question. Period. Everybody else's opinions and orders are secondary to the man he's picked as his guiding star in life. I say 'man'; I mean 'boy'. This started when they were kids, after all, which is why Orga's sense of responsibility is quite so thoroughly warped.
As far as Orga is concerned, being in charge means working everything out on his own. Because Mika does not help him. Mika, at most, offers gut feelings for why something should be done; he never provides useful input on how to get from A to B. So Orga internalises that the buck stops with him, that he always has to be the decisive one, always has to have a plan.
It's masked to begin with because Biscuit is there as the angel on his other shoulder, offering useful advice and acting his second-in-command. However -- Orga never actually listens to what Biscuit has to say about the direction Tekkadan should go. That's the central tension in their relationship, in fact. Orga actively expects Biscuit to go along with what he chooses because that's what Mika does.
With Biscuit gone, there's nobody left to make even a token attempt at calling him on this tendency. Eugene utterly fails to, despite having a good set of instincts, because he's too committed to Tekkadan and too easily swayed by other people who seem to know better. Merribit gives it her best shot, but lacks the tools to approach the boys convincingly. Kudelia doesn't see it as her place. And the rest of Tekkadan fall in line over and over, reinforcing Orga's bad habits.
They trust him, is the thing. They trust him to deliver on the dreams he weaves, enough to offer up their lives on his say-so. None more than Mika himself, who literally gives an arm and a leg to make sure Orga's plans come through.
There is a point where this commitment slips out of Orga's control. I'm not sure where to pin it generally but the battle with the mobile armour is when Mikazuki makes it clear he isn't going to back down on the idea of becoming kings of Mars. He's seen Orga latch on to McGillis' offer as *the* destination, their place, where they can all be together and happy. And because he's always done whatever is necessary to see Orga's plans come through, he . . . does precisely that. Even knowing it's going to injure him further. Even with Orga literally telling him not to.
Making sure Orga gets his victory is more important.
I should stress how much this fucks Mikazuki up as well. I tend to focus a lot on Orga, but Mikazuki reduces himself down to a weapon for Orga's sake. To the point of breathing a sigh of relief once he's been sufficiently disabled he thinks he won't have a life outside Barbatos any more. Atra says at one point that Mikazuki is lazy over things that don't interest him -- that includes conceptualising an existence beyond fighting and following Orga. He does have his own dreams (being a farmer, seeing interesting sights) but actually working out how to achieve them after he's given away so much to Orga is beyond him. In the end, he simply gives them away too and chooses to keep following what he imagines Orga's orders would be.
Neither of these boys intended to do this to each other. That's the tragic part. Orga uses Mika as a weapon because it's the smart choice but it tears him up inside to see what that does to Mika as a person. Meanwhile, Mika insists what happens to him comes from his own choices and isn't something Orga should feel guilty over or see as a reason to give up.
And . . . here's where we move from the first level (Orga's no-middle-gear sense of responsibility coupled to Mika's unconditional loyalty) to the level on which Mika personally scares Orga into escalating over and over again.
It's that scene in the Montag Company ship. Or, no, it's not just that: Orga talks earlier about how he constantly feels Mika's eyes on him. Yet it's following Biscuit's death that this aspect of their relationship is laid bare.
I love this scene so much. It has the form of a triumphal rescue from grief, complete with swelling musical score, in much the way Mika often has the form of being the daring protagonist. But the content is Mika being the most blatantly scary he ever is in the entire show. The way he looks at Orga -- the way he always looks at Orga, his unblinking, uncompromising stare -- is at last framed as an overt threat. Mika is not going to let Orga give up because Orga promised to take him to the better place. What Orga wants is irrelevant.
Ah, screw it, I'm transcribing the dub script because it is so, so good.
"Tell me. What do you want me to do next, Orga?" "Hey give me a break. I'm just -" "Look I'm sorry. But I can't stop yet." "That's enough." "Now I wanna know -" "I SAID THAT'S ENOUGH -" Mika grabs Orga by the shirt, dragging him close. "Is this the place you told me about? 'Cos I won't stop. Not 'til we're there. I can't. On that day, Orga, I decided. So. How many should I kill? How many more until we get there? Because I need to know. Tell me, Orga Itsuka! You're gonna take me, aren't you? That's what you told me! What should I do next -?” "GET OFF ME! Orga throws Mika at the locker in the corner and stands up. "Yeah, alright, fine. I'll get you there. Can't turn around now anyway. That's what you want, RIGHT? No matter want kind of hell might be waiting for us. OK? Then I'll do it. And I'm bringing everyone with me." "Yeah. That's right. Take us there. So who do you need me to take out then? And what d'you want me to destroy? 'Cos if I finally get to reach that place someday, there's nothing that I won't do." SFX: lightning and thunder
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This is not Mika pulling Orga out of the darkness. It's Mika driving Orga further into it, into a battle that kills dozens and very nearly ends with every single named character dead (in the real world, the commissioning of a second season saved them; in universe, it's stubbornness and pure fluke).
What would it be like to have someone so committed to what you've promised them, they would do anything for you, up to and including refusing to let you break your word? What would that be like if said person was the most dangerous individual you had ever met in your life, because there is a point past having no sense of self-preservation where no line is 'too far'?
That's Orga living with Mika as his shadow. That's not healthy. That's not sane. Orga comes loose at the seams attempting to be what Mika expects of him, and I think he's genuinely terrified of what might happen if he can't.
It goes the other way too. The scene in the ship is one of two times I'd say, yeah, that's what Mika looks like when he's scared. The other is immediately prior, when it seems Carta is going to kill Orga. 'That's what you told me' isn't just a reminder for Orga; it's the closest Mika gets to a crisis of faith. Seeing the one you believe in waver is its own form of terror and Mika has committed everything he's got to Orga. He can't conceive of stopping now.
[I should say, I primarily watched the dub and the vocal performances vary somewhat here even if the underlying intent doesn't. I love what Kyle McCarley does, injecting a note of increasing franticness into Mika's speech, but Kengo Kawanishi hits the volume rise hard on 'What should I do next?', hammering home just how much he needs an answer. Of course, they then both give Mika this deliciously bloodthirsty joy when he gets the one he's looking for.]
I don't know if there's anything Orga could do that would truly break Mika's faith or push Mika to turn that prodigious strength against him. I don't get the feeling Mika is the kind of person who'd ever hurt a friend for real. He isn't cruel and we see how much friendship matters to him (woe betide anyone who hurts the people close to him).
But what these two are actually capable of is beside the point. What matters is what they think of one another and they each think the other is the most amazing thing in existence. Orga sees Mika as near superhuman and Mika sees Orga as fantastically brilliant, and they're both afraid of being proved wrong, so they aim for an impossibility imposed by their mutual expectations.
The further they head down the shortest path to their goals, the more Mika crumbles physically and the more Orga crumbles emotionally. Like an engine shaking itself to pieces as it turns faster and faster. Love, hope, faith, determination -- and no brakes. A mad charge towards destruction.
I don't tend to describe things as 'toxic'. For whatever reason, it's not a word with much presence in my vocabulary. Still, I think it fits here. Mika and Orga's relationship might have been healthy, in a kinder world. It's undeniably the most important aspect of their lives. There's no intention on either on part to cause hurt. But the combination of who they are and the circumstances they are trapped in means they're ultimately toxic to each other.
No matter how much they care or want what's best, the very form of their relationship impedes their ability to grow, cuts them off from those who might be able to help with that, and eventually leads them to their deaths.
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Well, that's how I see it anyway. I hope this helped? I think Iron-Blooded Orphans does some pretty brilliant things in terms of presenting fucked-up relationships that have positive aspects while at the same time dooming the participants, so I'm always happy to ramble about that aspect of the show. Or indeed, any aspect of it at all!
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beeffilledshark · 3 months
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Had shower thoughts about IBO in a hotel bathroom so I need to have a quick rant about all the dipshits who hate season 2 because they think Orga “just got stupid” or whatever the fuck.
So I decided to make a compilation of all the adults that tried to deceive/use/betray Tekkadan throughout the show
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(Note: i didn’t include Nobliss Gordon because I forgot and the app only lets you include 10 images. Also including McGillis because he’s an adult even tho I consider him an Iron Blooded Orphan (but that’s a rant for another time))
Like, is it REALLY that much of a surprise for an orphan child soldier who gets involved with the mob at 16 to want to financially set his family for life by taking the shortest avenue possible? Growing up, he never met a single adult who didn’t view him as sub-human trash or a literal tool, other than Nadi (the mechanic). His first actual role model was a fucking mobster that commanded a ship full of wives. It’s an absolute wonder he lasted as long as he did as an interplanetary political figure.
In his experience, adults will always try to take advantage of him and his family because that’s just how the world works. It’s only a matter of time before the next adult that works with them will try to screw them over and get them killed. He wants to protect those he loves, and to an orphaned child soldier, the only way people won’t fuck with you is if you’re the literal King of Mars.
This poor kid had the weight of an entire family resting on his shoulders and the pressure to give Mika a place he belongs. AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING AT SIXTEEN BECAUSE MY BIGGEST CONCERNS WERE OVERWATCH COSMETICS AND AO3 FICS (I know he’s 18 in season 2 but that mfer did not have the chance to mature between the rapidly expanding Tekkadan responsibilities and the Half-metal trade moving to Teiwaz and, by extension, them).
Also, it’s made painfully obvious that Biscuit fulfills a crucial part in Tekkadan’s decision making. He’s the voice in Orga’s head that tells him he’s going too far or he’s forgetting the rest of the family. It makes his death and the inertia they build towards the fatal endgame all the more tragic.
I’m sure there’s other reasons people dislike season 2, but this is, by far, the point I’ve seen stressed the most when people sight their preference of season 1. I, personally, LOVE season 2 BECAUSE of Orga’s failures. He and Mika easily take the spot of my favorite shonen protagonists because it’s so easy to be swept up in the genre of being the scrappy underdogs that always come out on top by sheer force of will and a LOT of luck. But this is the first Shonen I’ve seen that ends with the protagonists getting utterly fucked because of their inability to not push on and move forward. In a way, it feels like a subversion of the genre and it makes it so much more gripping.
But that’s just my two cents. I’m not denying that Orga is an imbecile, by the way. Look, he says it right here.
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It's always interesting seeing the tug o war between Bandai and the people doing the creative heavy lifting with their IPs.
Witch from Mercury was just in the wrong place at a "different era". They made the tactical oopsies of making it super explicit at episode 1 before anybody who would complain about The Gays being casual secondary NPCs to their pure wholesome toy commercial had the chance to drop it and let everyone else have their fun under the radar. So that...happened.
But I do still find it funny how much IBO slipped by. Polyamory/Polygamy ends up being a thing pretty early, Tragic Gays are somehow even more spelled out than Char's Counterattack, and the series just ends with anime girlbesties raising a kid together and no one in any position to officially 'Russian Taunt' it noticed until too late for it to matter slightly more.
And yeah, I know, it was obviously gay as hell from the get go with 0079.
There's a million other cases with other plastic pushing assholes, especially if you're into looking up the history of Transformers, but I'm less familiar with the overall franchise on that one.
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desmoonl · 8 months
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Okay, pair characters from Shameless and MC
Okay this is genuinely difficult
Fiona is pretty messy, but very capable and alone took care of her four siblings since she was a kid herself soo hm.. and she usually picks pretty awful men so maybe with Ibo.. he might idealize her just like Jimmy Steve idealized Fiona in the first season, even though she is too 'free spirited' for Ibo, lets put it like that. But they would definitely not last, like I am reaching here lmao
Okay not a romantic pair but.. Mickey and Hürrem lmaoo i just need them in a room together like my fav characters from both shows and they are actually pretty similar.. I could make a post abt parallels between them, but I'm not going back to that show .
Lip and Huricihan lowkey, he is rlly smart but has pretty bad taste in women and Huricihan kinda reminds me in a way of his girlfriends in the show..
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“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything. What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them. Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to. A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys. But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man. When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this: “You are not enough people!” I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family. They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome. Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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cantarella · 11 months
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ibo and gwitch are sister shows to me bc of how they both have a main cast of mostly children, and how adults or the absence of them in the story influences them. like in ibo the protagonists are orphans left on the streets, they have no adults to look up to or guide them except those who try to exploit and abuse them. which makes them either latch onto dubiously morally upstanding people just bc they can help them or go by trial and error in an environment that will kill them for it. all this leads them into treading in the world of adults and being treated as such even when they're not prepared for it. in gwitch however the protagonists while from more varied and comfortable backgrounds they bear the oppressive presence of adults, they influence every thing about their lives and personalities, most of the kids have little to no automony where it matters. they're either sheltered from the reality of the world and can access to it only if and when the adults will allow it or forced to see it before they're ready to
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fantasyinvader · 11 months
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So now that G-Witch is over (and I finally ordered a HG Aerial), is it a step up from Gundam IBO? I feel like G-Witch is the better show, but IBO is the more important one. I’ve been saying this since the first season, so much of G-Witch felt like it was done in response to IBO. IBO, on the other hand, felt like it was taking the hypocrisies of the Gundam franchise to their absolute limit.
The franchise wants to say “war is hell,” but also wants to market model kits of cool robots. We occasionally get bits on how war can mess kids up, but at the same time the franchise uses the war as a means to mature it’s protagonists. It usually wants to use a grey vs grey war setting, but at the same time the narrative wants us to support one side over the other. The enemy must be stopped, but it’s meant to be grey because the other side are just guys fighting for what they believe in and some of their commanders aren’t complete shitheads (though the upper echelons are another story). So while the “bad guys” are defeated, the good guys will talk about the need for “understanding” despite them having unstoppable killing machines. Violence is okay when the good guys do it, especially if they don’t kill the enemy pilots. It’s okay for the good guys to use illegal weapons, even if we condemn the enemy for using the same weapons. Worldbuilding fluff is often left out of the show, told in side-materials, despite how it could help us better understand the conflict (though that gets in the way of the narrative). And the whole not repeating the past thing is a joke considering we either base events on real wars or reuse the Universal Century timeline.
I mean, you can look at something like SEED and see how these things can be problematic. Old interviews with Fukuda have him saying things like he wanted to make it like super robot shows of the 70’s, the mold Gundam tried to break out of, or how things were done simply because they were cool. That got to a point where SEED was being deconstructed in crossover games and 00 was made with the intent, according to it’s director, to examine what happens when you fight to end fighting, something that was a major part of SEED’s morality later on (though Fukuda himself has dismissed this, saying that Kira fights during Destiny for a world where there will be conflict because that’s needed for people to grow and the Destiny plan would have eliminated conflict). Yet people believe SEED is emblematic of Gundam, and that 00 deconstructed the entire franchise in it’s first half.
IBO intentionally cranked the hypocrisy up to 11, made it’s main characters the villains in the eyes of history and punished them for their crimes while saying more people needed to question them (the creators backed this up0. It’s lost on a lot of people, but damn, that takes some balls. You really can’t go back to Gundam as normal afterwards, you need to be conscious of what messages you are sending out.
IBO sounded the alarm on what Gundam had become, G-Witch fought for the franchise’s soul. That's the way I see it.
Still would rather rewatch Witch though, because it doesn't drag like IBO did and the animation is way better.
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kurozu501 · 7 months
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biggest proof to me that gwitch had something really incredible going is that i learned the names of every single one of the earth house kids by the end and on the other hand i couldnt tell you the names of like half of the gundam ibo tekkadan lads. they all just kind of blend together into one big sad war boy blur. meanwhile earth house barely gets any screentime but each of them feel like real people with personalities.
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hurremshiv · 2 months
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Things that can be argued to have happened in 1535 according to the timeline of MC
or, why 1535 is a serious contender for being one of Hürrem's Personal Worst Years
Death of Iskender Celebi (approximately a year before Ibo's death, making this take place in March/the spring of 1535)
Most of the Firuze arc happens
She discovers that one of her most trusted servants and someone who she trusts with her kids is an enemy
She lost Nigar as a friend and an ally
Cihangir is sick again Fatma is not only Mustafa's favourite but has a son named Süleyman
The Hürrem Crying Alone In Her Room incident from episode 69
The poison plot in episode 72 (she was ready to kill herself, although she gained a new ally in Afife)
Mehmet almost died (got shot with an arrow while protecting Mustafa)
Süleyman almost married Firuze (Hürrem was waiting with a vial of poison)
Süleyman almost died
Ibrahim tricked her into thinking he'd killed Mehmet and then gaslit her
Ibrahim stayed as Grand Vizier and supported even more strongly by Hatice, who blamed Hürrem
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catroidvania · 5 months
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hiya hey guys!!1!
im catroidvania, or just cat for short. i go by any pronouns and cant be bothered to figure out my gender right now lol. also im canadian! also i have adhd. beware.
i usually just reblog stuff i like, which happens to be a lot. i get my laughs in while i can.
i tend to theme my blog around whatever interests me currently, so it might change often!
not really active on other sites but you can find me terminally online on discord also as catroidvania.
heres some stuff i think you should experience at least once:
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cave story
yuki4p
katawa shoujo
k6bd
swordcraft story
flcl
dungeon meshi
cassiopeia quinn
star impact
homestuck
nethack
dune
dwarf fortress
myhouse.wad
revolutionary girl utena
scott pilgrim takes off
made in abyss
oneshot
minecraft
cowboy bebop
fullmetal alchemist
paswg
girls last tour
garupan
she ra and the princesses of power
transformers mtme
ena
gundam ibo
toki pona
va 11 hall a kids
roomba quest 3
dunno what else to say here so thats the end of it!
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