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[bookwormdeen]

Hi do you know where Sinan lives, or what the name of the sea in front of his house is? In so jealous. I'd love to visit whichever part of Istanbul that is.

Hello!

I am back from the dead to answer you this. A year ago I did an extensive research and I know even the name of the street where the house is. It’s front is the same as showed in the TV show. Huge house by the way. I won’t tell the name of the street beacuse it seems wrong some way. Stalker vibes yay.

In reality, Sinan’s house is located in Beykoz, 12 minutes by car from Beylerbeyi. Also, is near the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü (bridge), coast side. While the Bosphorus has many bridges, this one appear every time in the background of the house frames. (It took a while to discover which bridge was hehe).

This bridge is a high one and Sinan’s house (in reality) is in the right side of it, near a road. In the show is in another location for plot purporses. I explained that in another post. Check that out!

Can yous see Sinan’s house very far way? This is a photo from the other side of the Bospherus (the European side). The name of the sea is Black Sea, since the Bosphorus specifically connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and others seas later.  Is quite a view, right? 

I am always happy to answer questions about this show. VERY HAPPY. AM I a Google Maps hacker? Yes! And I never have set foot in Istambul.  Keep in mind that September, 30th, we will see more of this in Netflix. Season 2!

Sad times till it comes out...

Kisses, Bea Deen <3

[bookwormdeen]

Your blog is like a treasure, I am literally checking the love 101 tag everyday just to check if I can find something new and it’s mostly gifsets that I’m still greatful for but I was literally SEARCHING for these theories, anyways I love your blog! And thank you for all the research you did and shared with us

Hii! Thank you so much for your love. I was seeing a lot of repeated theory and some of them in a closer look can not be so sure as we think. 

I really like the gifsets too haha. Here is one for you <3 (not mine haha).

If you are interested I did posts about timeline, curiosities, questions.

Also, you made me review my theories post, somethings were a bit off and I corrected it. Thank you.

With love, Bea Deen. 

[bookwormdeen]

LOVE 101 (Aşk 101) QUESTIONS

Babies, Sherlock here is more Watson that Holmes. Sorry. I have doubts after watching Love 101

I did a playlist to you listen while reads my crazy text.

The playlist 

I put there some 1990-2000′s songs + covers + songs from the show

I don’t know turkish songs, if you know share.

1. Why Kerem and Eda were not a good marriage match?

Kerem’s family is rich and despite of his bad behavior, he could appear good in Eda’s family eyes. They wanted her to marriage thinking about money. So, why not? I guess is that Eda runs away from her romance with fight boy, which is a shame. Or maybe her family forbids it, what would be a bit plot hole becase her family want her to marry with advantage (or she got pregnant 0.0, delete this).

We can see that older Eda end up with money. I just felt weird when she were with a lot of kids (3) in the kitchen, then super stylist and with her eating disorder. Is her but it felt out of place?

2. How the old couple painting end up with Eda?

Sinan’s father took it. Is a fact. But how Eda, 20 years later comes with it as a present, if till the moment the only one who knows is Işık and Sinan? Maybe they talk about it anytime since the girls are friends and Eda likes to talk with Sinan.

 My guess is that the woman that marry Sinan’s father deals with art. Because he is always taking something from the house and it is in a artistic way: porcelain, paintings. (Also, where is Sinan’s mother? TELL ME HUH).

Then, you will scream: She cried with the painting!  A-ha. No. Sinan is not dead (is my opinion). She is, differently from Eda, missing them and Sinan the most. They were lovers (yay Taylor haha).

Cute. Cute

We will see their bond go deeper. They will broke up (oh,no). She loved him. You don’t forget this easily. Do you forget something you lost? No, never, especially if you have hope of finding it again.

I am becoming Mind 101. 

3. The gold bracelet 

Is nice. Is beautiful, but no one wants it. In the end of the season is with Kerem. But it end up with Işık. It is part of Kerem-Eda story so it will pop around again.

4. Why, WHY Işık wants to talk again?

I know. You will talk about the “promise” they made in her birthday. Except that it was more important to her that to them. She is calling them. And is because the house is falling apart. How she would know? My guess: she kept coming there to fed the dog and keep people outside. But now she entered it. Is sad. Seems like she can’t let go the past and really didn’t make a life for herself.

Also, how does she know the person that is in prison address? Maybe they fell apart by consent and knew a bit along the years about each other lives. This is unlikely. She asks them if they are happy. If she knew them, she would know.

Maybe the majority of it can be plot holes haha, the show likes to be aesthetic sometimes and get lost in logic.

Annnnd she is getting by the minute upset (she threw the bottle of wine in the wall!). If they don’t show up, she will fall apart, not really the house. I guess she arrived in the house early, made lunch and snacks. She is waiting for them and slowly tells a story.

They all will come because of Işık. They always wanted to please her somehow. Be less a villain and more sweet. Time heals folks. Whatever happened between them will be solved in this meeting (20 years later, nice emotional intelligence).

She seems to be asking to them save the house and memories: meeting + save the house (literally). I can see she ending up there with Sinan (Kerem said that hope is fucked up but here I am). Or ending up there happy to solve her past memories. It would be nice too. 

Nostalgia is a two way street = nice but you feel like you lost something in the past (your youth, chances, love, time) she herself said: “births (kids).. funerals, all without each other”. 

Sit down and listen to an old song, see what happens.

I would start with High School Musical but maybe you are more classic haha.

5. Who is in the door?

Man that cliffhanger! Left me angry. Sinan is not the person in the door. Why? He is the big mystery of the plot (TA-DAN) We love him, we want him to be happy most of all. Sinan was the closest person of the group to Işık, in my opinion, he will be the last. And he would not knock in his own house, thanks.

My bet is that the person that was eating by the sea is the next. Is a geography thinking: the sea is near Sinan’s house. What made no sense was him eat before getting there (if it was a lunch). But, hey! If you think that the fancy guy is Osman, it makes sense: he is always eating; low blood sugar. This only works if you think that Osman is the fancy one.

My second bet: Osman, the group leader will appear. He always knocked (I know that Kerem did too, but hold that). He is the one that has less problems with the girls and will buy time to the plot of the past grew up.

Conclusion: Osman is the next either way. Then, we can guess about the others.

Then we are left with 2 things: Kerem or Sinan were the most affected by their story? Who was really the person that got hurt so bad like prison?

6. Where, in time, are they?

Middle 2018 (narrator). Middle 1998 (my bet is that it goes till 1999).

7. Group not united after all?

Did you felt like Osman was a group glue? He proposed they unite in first place. So Osman is good with everyone and I don’t see him changing. 

They have inner friendships. Eda-Sinan, Eda- Işık e Kerem-Osman. This is important. Is their safe place. The couples and Kerem-Sinan are the bit of conflict there. There is the plot folks! Only love problems will tear they apart.

8. What happened to Sinan and what made them fall apart?

SEE MY THEORIES.

Tell me what you think about this questions. I would love to hear them.

Stay safe, do Sinan/Isik edits, XOXO.

[bookwormdeen]

LOVE 101 (Aşk 101) TIMELINE

My thinking goes far, so timeline! Is based on 1998′s calendar. Let’s go. 

April 

17th (Friday)

Rock Show

23th (Thursday) 

They fight

24th (Friday) 

Sinan sees Işık but also sees Kemal and Burcu. He says sorry to the boys. 

 27th (Monday) 

They talk to the girls and discover that Burcu has a boyfriend. 

28th (Tuesday) 

Sinan  tries to prove that Burcu’s boyfriend is an idiot in the first time by the rain.

29th (Wednesday) 

Second try in the rain.

30th (Thursday) 

Sinan is sick, they discover the Burcu’s engagement. 

MAY 

(I am lazy to put the days, sorry not sorry)

 1st   

First day of rehearsals, Osman makes his moves, Sinan comes back.

If you consider that Sinan didn’t use his 10 days sick note

 4th  

More rehearsals, Burcu and Kemal talk.

 5th 

Burcu and Kemal play basketball; the group talks about love

 6th 

Osman sees that he was wrong;  Kemal jacket got back. Osman thinks.

7th 

 Kemal and Burcu are in the Theater.

8th 

 Kemal learns about the engagement. Sinan and Eda talk.

11th 

 Kemal treats Burcu badly.  Işık says that her birthday is in 3 days.

12th 

Burcu’s guy fall to Osman revenge, he travels for two days. Sinan and Eda talk again.

14th

 Işık birthday arrives. The bosphorus kiss and Burcu ends her engagement.

15th 

They fight in the laboratory.

18th 

They go to class. Işık does not. Burcu prepares herself to defend them.

If you consider that  Işık didn’t stayed 10 days in home and the council met in 3 days (next).

19th 

Council decides to make them say sorry. They decide to say sorry after parents talking.

20th 

Public sorry day. They burn their clothes. Burcu almost leaves.

I think that Burcu receive her transfer notice by Abril 10th or something. I guess I couldn't complete 2 months.

THAT’S IT FELLAS (I think that is somehow wrong but, well, it fits quite well). 

I did this to support one of my theories (the one about the college and summertime)

Stay safe and be happy!

[bookwormdeen]

LOVE 101 (Aşk 101) CURIOSITIES

hi again!

--------------The playlist -------------  

I put there some 1990-2000′s songs + covers + songs from the show

I don’t know turkish songs, if you know share.

Letting the speculation aside (uff, finally). Is a little thing only. Here is some curious facts:

# 1 -  Işık talks about a Kevin Costner movie. It is Tin Cup (1997).

Kevin Costner did so many athlete movies. Because of the year, my bet is this one.

#2 - The book she is reading is Love in Chains by Dominic Bendel

Who? I didn’t find this book anywhere really. Original title: Tutsak Aşk - Dominik Bendel. I think it was made to give a romantic look to Işık.

#3 - In Eda’s room you have a plate saying: I love Ladybug.

I love her too. Where is Cat Noir? I like him too. 

#4 -  Sinan was abandoned since 14 years old. 

Bad, bad curiosity, skip this. So he is like 3-4 years alone? This world is lost.(jumps at the sea....-wait, quarentine honey)

#5 - Sinan’s bird poem is famous in Turkey.

Was made by Lale Müldür.

Saatler/Geyikler (Clocks, Deers)

“Aşık olduğumuz zaman Yürek denen ormanda Ya da orman boşluğunda Bir kuş anormal bir hızla döner. Ve kaçmamız gerektiğini söyler bize Çünkü her şey çok fazladır…”

“When we fall in love in a forest called Heart, or in a forest cavity, a bird turns at an abnormal rate. And he tells us to run away because everything is so much ... ”

Sinan says more and in a different way, but I couldn’t find the rest.

#6 - In the first EP Işık plays with a toy. Kerem is always with it in hand.

Magic cube too. This shows that they were only teen after all.

#7 - Turkish persons like to ask about your life

Is what I know, feel free to correct me. So, the meaning is not be cruel when they ask about Sina’s parents or ask to Burcu if she is closer to Kemal. Is simple curiosity. In some cultures (like mine) this is intruding. 

I mean, if you ask my fav colour you will have problems haha.

#8 - Sinan’s surname name maybe is Aryol or Aksoy.

From what I saw. Is no scientific proof. 

#9 - They were close for a short time (1 month and half only).

I did a timeline, see here. There is much more to happen yet.

#10 - Sinan is sweet to take Işık home after the rock show

Nothing new... HA! They were walking in the Kadıköy district in the Asian side of Istambul. Is a place of shopping and many walking space! While it is strange because my bet is that Işık lives in the other side, it is sweet. Sinan’s neighborhood is away from there and he has to take like (I don’t have an idea) to get home. See my geography findings HERE.

#11 - Sinan makes reference to a novel, The Paul Street Boys

He says: “Are you reading too many novels? We are, what, the Paul street boys now?” 

The book was written by Ferenc Molnár in 1906.

He talks about Schrödinger's cat too, but I am lazy. Google it.or stick out with Sinan’s explanation.

Live happy! Do you know any more?

See my first edit here (Sinan x Isik). With HALSEY’S SONG, BE KIND.

XOXO.

[bookwormdeen]

Love 101 (Aşk 101) Theories and Connections

Hi! I am back again! This time I have theories. I was reading some theories about the TV show and guess what? I played Sherlock and investigated some of them. Follow me! 

I did a playlist to you listen while reads my crazy text.

--------------The playlist -------------  

I put there some 1990-2000′s songs + covers + songs from the show

I don’t know turkish songs, if you know share.

SOME FINDINGS AND OBSERVATIONS

1. Eda is the source of problems

Don’t judge me. Eda is a good person and character, I love her draws and attitude. I want to prove another thing here. Let’s focus in three big confusions that happened: the debate one (EP1), the broke up of their early friendship (EP3) and the laboratory fight (EP7). All of them had Eda involved in the first moment or as a catalyst that only made things worse. 

In the debate she messed with lights and threw a sticker in Kerem’s face. When Sinan panicked with Işık act, Eda said “We were not friends anyway” and she hurt Kerem’s feelings too. She burst and everyone went sideways. And she played with Burak, that later provoked that huge fight in the laboratory. 

“Troublemaker is you middle nameeeeee” - Olly Murs song. 

I think that Eda is a match to where is the fire. This can explain why she feels guilt of something. She was the center of another problem. 

Also, the older Eda feels sorry for what she became: what her parents wanted. She lost her attitude, angry and fire. Something happened to her prefer marriage and children. Remember when Sinan told her that she prefers someone making her decisions? This happened because she was running away of something, a problem that hurt her feelings. She ran away from who she was. Heavy.

2. Something surely happened to Sinan

Now don’t cry thinking he is dead. I will present some things to push that away. First: Love 101 is a comedy-romance. Meaning: they don’t go really deep into mind problems, they make it a trait (like eating disorder, depression, mania). So, Sinan did not commit suicide or died, because is too heavy to let the story proceed.

Second: Is love 101. How to love. How love create, ruin and heal. Is admiration, passion, entertainment.  If he dies the episode will be named after what: Lost, Hurt? I will not even come closer to it.

Third: Is a kid’s show (PG-13 rated). Do something big as a death will hurt the plot’s drama quality. And, suicide can’t be portrayed, so chill out kids. A thing that is possible is accidental death (Sinan, the guy that was hospitalized in the fight, Kemal or Burcu). 

Fourth: He is the narrator big love. Sinan appears a lot because Işık likes him the most and wanted to know him more deeply. Even if something really bad happens to him (STOP), we will not know now but very later in the show. She would crash with his death and she seems quite calm now, not crying or grief, just nervous to see them and not lose the house. She even sits in his bed, upstairs. So they were quite a romance. 

YES. I AM HOPEFUL. Stop saying that Sian dies because I will not take it. I will hate Netflix and the world.

Sinan is a good person reader. Is impressive actually. He hides his emotions but read it very well. He has scars. They eventually will come between him and Işık. Surely.  

If he is not dead, then what?

Something, maybe his grandfather’s death or university mixed with group fight and love problems will make him go away and never look back (that house for him is a sad place guys). Maybe he left without talking to anyone and Işık couldn’t contact him, but, for love, she stayed looking his house. Or maybe they were not a thing anymore (runs away).

Oh, and the prison choice (cringes). Seriously? He spend all his life alone and then, maybe, more 20 years alone? Unacceptable. 

People told me that his name appears in the prison scene but I really couldn’t see it. Does anyone have it? In my opinion, would be unfair make a person so lonely like this all his life. The show wants to end it with hapiness, how it would be possible after all this pain? If Sinan was in prison, no one visited him? that hurts.

The thing is, we will know what happened to him slowly because it is a result of what made the group went sideways and don’t talk for 20 years. What I mean: big huge separation situation --> Sinan leaves or dies.(no,no,no). 

So his abandoned house is a proof that something surely happened.

3. The show may have a format to keep interest

Cliffhanger = More seasons, more public. Smart move. The show is simple but want it to get attached emotionally and mentally. I learned with Sinan, yay.

The plot may go: (counting 8 episodes)

Take in count that the house is dangerous to stay in. So, they might take it to another place and see each other’s lives closer. This is excellent to the plot. I don’t think they will cry and hug in front of the door. 

We will also supose that is 5 people. 2 we already know.

1 --> More story, solve some mysteries (who is at the door); things get good at first moment (love and self acceptance); 

2 --> Things get bittersweet (love but parents and more problems). For me is by the end of the Ep 2 and on. 

3 --> (if only one more season, a forth person appears by S2E4, then a fifth by the end or S2E7). This person (for me not Sinan yet), will clarify somethings and contribute to the story with more details. Problems that start to hurt them. So, EP 5 - Ep7 will hurt.

4 --> Things get really bad; if they have a third season, we will not have the forth person, will end up just like S1E8 or, as I said, he will appear in the S2E7. 

If only a second season, EP 7 - EP8 the fifth person appears and they finish the story together, end.

Following all my theory it will go like this: Osman - Kerem or Sinan. I am not sure who will take up all the heavy stuff and end up being the last. For now they put this weight in Sinan and maybe is to play with us. 

4. What bound them, can destroy them

The thing is, they are a thigh fit as a group. Emotional and explosive. They lash at each other and have some friction along the way. Osman is more neutral. In the episode 3, where they cry and do crazy things after their fight, Osman is simply not there. He is simple, only said: You got what you wanted Sinan. Done. 

So, they can fall apart actually without big evens like death and murder. Somethings hurt deeper, like words, misunderstandings and separation. Their parents evil powers for example. I mean, in their first fight they were arguing about a test. Simple things + emotion = BOOM

5. Character development 

Here we go. Remember I said that Osman doesn’t have emotional outbursts? 

He goes on with his business and things. We see him crying with his father and being upset about his business fail but he always get over with using a plan. Unfortunately, his leadership will not keep the group bonded but he is the healing remedy, surely. I hope he open up more. Be more more emotional besides his carisma and soft friendship. He is a good boss, good son, good friend, bad student; what else more? He is such a good leader. Will he sacrifice himself for all them?

And, who is Kemal really? He is a sweetheart with an armor but what happened to him, besides being an ex-basketball player? Will his romance really last? The characters in the show are deep, they have personality. Kemal seems simple to me sometimes. His relationship with Sinan can develop and we can see more of his demons (besides his attitude) and story.

All they got better but we have a way to go. Kerem has to be less violent, Eda has to try being herself again; Işık has to be more mature because Sinan will need her a lot and if she can’t stand up her mother it can go really wrong. Sinan has to confront his parents more, get less lonely somehow. He is the only one that is slowly healing himself but nothing changed: he still lives alone, this still hurts. 

We will see they get much better, but, again, they end up not really good 20 years later. We will see a regression in so many points.

 6. They maybe can be students still

Words matter. A lot. Before the boarding Karakis (the principal) said that a friend of his would call the Minister and make that a majority board. Maybe he rushed it to grab the teens and the expulsion is not valid. Also, for me, Işık was only suspended. Why burn her uniform? (Her mother will kill her, I would too).

The scholar year in Turkey ends around June. Why expel them so close to the end? And, I think that are finishing the 2 year of High School, not the third. If not, they lose the hole Burcu-Kemal arc and their common place.

Maybe they can all move to a nearby school, even with bad records, and have another challenges. This is unlikely, even if I think that school conflicts got saturated. 

The other part of this theory is my home-made timeline. In 19th May, the would have an event that is important in Turkey (the red umbrella ones). They were close to finish the year and go to summer time (I want this really, would be fun).

7. No earthquake okay!

I saw some theories about it. Nobody will die in the 1998 and 1999 earthquakes. They were far away from Istanbul and the only one that got to the city were far away (geographically) from the school and Sinan’s house. I made a post about the locations, see here.

I received more of Burcu dying in a earthquake. In my CURIOSITIES post I said that Sinan was taking Işık home after being in Eda’s house. Eda lives in   Kadıköy in my opinion, so Burcu does too. This neighborhood is in the Asian side, while the earthquake affected the European side. Very far away. For me is kinda impossible to make this a bid thing. Why Burcu would be so far away from her house, the school that she teaches? Strange.

8. New challenges

Burak told Eda: You don’t get to play with people lives. Ouch. Is true. Not only him had his chance being the “villain”. We have...  The english teacher that likes Kemal; the professors; the parents being mad about the speech thing and even a few classmates (if they come back). 

Their parents seems to be in a contest of who is the worse, maybe not Osman’s father, that’s why I think that he is more calm and centered, despite being money drived. Society pressure (college, money, marriage) will get to them too.

9. The true always comes out

Well, well, well. When one makes a plan, in the movies and TV, they always confess it, but in Love 101, this moment is not entirely solved. Sinan told the group that now Kemal knows about the set up? Probably no. Eda finds Burcu’s behavior strange but it ends there. Oh-ohh. Ops.

 Maybe their teacher now will not stick out for them anymore. She was afraid of deciding their lives but they were deciding hers. If they come back to school and do something wrong again it will be worse. 

What if Karakis discover about Burcu’s bold move with the fire alarm? He is pissed more than never now. No laboratory; he didn’t get to humiliate the group. He will be worse than ever if they come back;.

10. Yes. 5 plates, cups and chairs. 

The camera angle wants to play but if you pause, you can see two times the same thing, inside and outside the house.

11. The guy in the farm is Osman. End.

Now, Sinan may be in prison or a successful person (the one that is eating). If you consider that the one that has his letter in the pocket is Osman again, Sinan is the only one that is hidden. He did not appear yet. Pick one and Kerem is the other.

If you have questions like me, see HERE.

Leave comments so I can investigate your theories, haha!

See my first edit here (Sinan x Isik). With HALSEY’S SONG, BE KIND.

XOXO. 

[bookwormdeen]

Love 101 Scenarios

Recently I watched Love 101 (Aşk 101) and loved it. One of the things that I liked the most was Turkey’s landscape. I have seen Turkish TV shows before but none was quite simple and sea-like. Since I am writing a fanfic, I did some research. I am expert in Google Maps, thanks. If you want to use the GIFs I made is okay but credit me or tag me!  Let’s go babies!

Istanbul, the historical heart of Turkey is divided by the Bosphorus (or bosporus). The Bosporus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It has 19 miles (31 km) of extension. Işık spend her birthday there (aesthetic);.

Sinan’s house

In the first scene, when older Işık arrives Sinan’s house we can see it’s front.

 And in some scenes we can see that the house is located by the sea, which is really beautiful (or depressing when he jumps in it).

In the TV show, Sinan’s house is near the Beylerbeyi ferry terminal. His dog is always there waiting for him. There are many restaurants and even a palace near! (Istambul is a historical city, so many places to visit, many palaces too ah).

 But, in reality, Sinan’s house is located in Beykoz, 12 minutes by car from Beylerbeyi. Also, is near the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü (bridge), coast side. While the Bosphorus has many bridges, this one appear every time in the background of the house frames. Is quite breathtaking. Look:

I think that his house is aesthetic haha, was made to represent the abandonment that he lives; he is in such beautiful place put feels so cold.

The intention is to make Sinan live in a good and well located place (read: nearest way to school) of the Bosphorus (Asian side) and make the series scenario appear old (1998).

To be fair, the ferry terminal that Sinan goes actually does not have a root straight to where he is supposed to be, that’s why it seems that the ferry is going sideways instead of cross the bosphorus. 

The school is really far away from where the TV show put. Sinan would walk a lot if it was true. In the GIF you can see that the ferry name is Beşiktaş which can be more near to his school (like he has to take two ferries to get to school and walk a lot too, seems like a travel, nice).

Ortaköy Camii 

In the second episode, after the meeting, the group drinks and have fun in a car (Kerem’s car). While passing a bridge, Eda says that when the two towers of the Ortaköy Camii align and you make a wish, they can come true.

Sinan lives in the Asian part of Turkey. The Ortaköy Camii is in the European side. Is strange that they pass in the bosphorus bridge (Temmuz Şehitleri Köprüsü) to the Asian side after having been in Sinan’s house. I guess it was just for the looks. 

I made my wish, did you too? No? Do it now! 

I recommend: Love 101 season 2! But you can ask for a happy life too. 

The School

Also, the school is in the European side as well, the name is: Maçka Vocational and Technical High School (Maçka Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi) and located in the Maçka neighborhood. All the scenes inside and outside the school was settled there. Is a nice building. 

Surroundings

After school they wander around the city and talk about the rock concert. This neighborhood is Ortaköy. It is located near the Bosporus bridge and the space near the water is reserved to pedestrians. That’s why the place is colorful and crowded.

Foods

When the group reunites for the first time, without Işık, Osman orders döner kebap that is like meat with wrapped in a thin flatbread, there’s many ways to do it. Also there is ayran, that is a drink based on iogurte. Lahmacum that’s like a turkish pizza. Every time they are visiting someone they accept or ask for a Ckolatali Sut that it is like chocolate milk; normally they offer a type of tea to visitors (is a way of being polite) And many others. Işık and Osman are to blame, they eat or do food all the time. 

Habits

They have special shoes to the visitors use in home, the Terlik. When they are in Işık home you can see they using it (that’s maybe can mean that Sinan have a house not a home, because the normal habits don’t apply there or , maybe, is their free-society space).

Normally the laundry is done inside the bathroom, that’s why Sinan colapses near it when he got sick.

Turkey has a gold tradition. Woman like to be gifted gold things. Everyone really. That’s why the gold wristlet that Osman bought is passed hand by hand and everybody is like: oh, precious, let me give that to my future gf.

Are you hungry like me, now? 

So, you liked it? I hope you enjoyed Love 101 and is waiting for more like me! Also, if you are Turkish or travelled to Turkey leave your thoughts here. Is really an amazing country and my quick research barely grasped it! Cheers <3

[bookwormdeen]

To All the Boys: PS. I Still Love You Soundtrack

Hi!! Before you read this post, consider looking into my Requests page for fanfics.

I am not a very fan of the movie but the soundtrack is very nice. I selected the best songs on the soundtrack (for me kinda).  I put the songs + scene description. Enjoy!

1)  Lift Me from the Ground (feat. Sofie Winterson) - San Holo

Lara Jean and Peter are going to the Lantern Festival

2)  Lovers - Anna of the North

Lara Jean remembers the Hot Tub video in the Korean New’s Year Eve party.

3) Midway -  Bad Bad Hats

Lara opens John Ambrose’s letter.

*This song was my favorite way before the movie. Check out the band! They are like 4 songs of them in the soundtrack.

4)  Ocean Eyes - Movie Version

Acapella group sings to a girl

*We may not have this version but Billie’s is good enough

5)  Moral Of The Story - Ashe

Lara is walking in the school. She mouths the song. 

*moral of story babe. A Taylor Swift’s The Story of Us but harsh. Anyway, where is Taylor in this soundtrack? tsk.

 6)  Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Charlotte Lawrence, Nina Nesbitt, Sasha Sloan

Lara Jean wakes up in the ground.

* This version of the classic made by this super trio was also featured in Supergirl TV Show. Check out their song “Psychopath” They fit so well together! Secret: Sasha Sloan’s music would really fit well in the soundtrack too.

7)  Crashing (feat. Bahari) - Illenium

Stormy offers to help Lara Jean get ready for the ball and give her a dress. She walks down the stairs.

* The Illenium’s music is consistent and emotional. Crashing is amazing. Check out his “Good Things Fall Apart” with Jon Bellion. 

8) About Love - Marina

End scene. Peter and Lara kiss in the early morning.

*Need I say something? Marina is good for breakup, for love, to dance, to be feminist. Listen to her. Everything.

9) Like me Better - LAUV

The iconic song for the final. This became very famous after last movie. If you like this song I suggest looking a bit in the past Lauv’s songs, he changed the style a bit. Songs like Reforget,Easy Love... And see the video of him doing this song. Amazing producer talent. 

If you want to see ALL SONGS, check it ou here.

[bookwormdeen]

Ragnarok - Fjor Jutul

Profile:  Rich boy. Bad boy. Good looks and charm.

He is part of the fourth most rich Norwegian family. 

He hates Isolde (which is a crime, Isolde is super nice)

He is obsessive with the way he looks.

Saxa commands him (even if I guess they are not family-related really)

He is a Giant like 10000 years old.

He is popular in school.

Likes Metal Rock

Laurits definitely has a crush on him, but he has a crush in Gry. (how sad, why would he stay with Gry while Laurits is so much more interesting. This bad boy x good girl don’t convince me, sorry)

He uses clothing in the last 2 episodes that have his family name on it (Jutul).

I kinda felt he went from super bad (doing pee in dead’s memorial) to trying to be good (giving Magne the tip), but okay, I guess he is like the soft or weak part of the family.

I wished he actually had more talking and the hole bad boy act in a more complex way. I think Hermans Tommeraas’s good looks helped a bit but not enough, was too easy, his love was not “oh my god” to make him kinda betray his family. 

I think Season 2 wil brink more: He will help? Stay with Gry? He will side with his family?

Look in my Request page… if you request, you may gain a Fjor Jutul one shot. Just saying…

[bookwormdeen]

Prompts

Just something to help ya with requests.

1. "I don't love you anymore" 2. "Love is madness. Don't you agree?" 3. "Oh. I didn't know, sorry" 4. "You could show that you love me sometimes" 5. "You really like bad boys, don't you" 6. "Life is not hard. People that make it be" 7. "If you could go back in time, would you still choose me?" 8. "You need to stay quiet" 9. "I am doing nothing" 10. "Good. Is my birthday" 11. "Smile for the picture" 12. "Say goodbye to your brother" 13. "Intelligence is not showing off, is being classy" 14. "We don't have to take our clothes off" 15. "Someone called you last night" 16. "Dangerous is my middle name" 17. "This is the right time... to run" 18. "Look at that" 19. "Do you wanna dance?" 20. "I missed you" 21. "Sorry not sorry" 22. "I trusted you. Not anymore" 23. "This is delicious" 24. "Thank you. Thanks for saving me" 25. "Where were you yesterday?" 26. "Hush now. Don't cry" 27. "Say something" 28. "Love is blind" 29. "Red lipstick. I am going out" 30. "You can't drive" 31. "Hello? I am in a bad mood. Don't talk" 32. "I am not here" 33. "Stop ignoring me!" 34. "Do you like to read?" 35. "I am telling the truth. Not all of us are liars" 36. "Open it" 37. "When this will stop?" 38. "Think about it" 39. "You will always be my hero" 40. "It's raining outside" 41. "Lately I have been pushing you away" 42. "Any tricks in mind?" 43. "Now who is the fool?" 44. "I am sick" 45. "Ladies and gentlemen. The show is over" 46. "All I can feel is cold" 47. "Look into my eyes" 48. "Do you like boys or girls? 49. "You got save your reputation" 50. "Dressed like a princess. Heart like a stone" 51. "Go there and make your best" 52. "I wished I could make this right" 53. "At least you have a family" 54. "Revenge is not the best or right way" 55. "Can you stay?" 56. "I am gone" 57. "I just can't believe" 58. "Help me!" 59. "When this city became so dark?" 60. "Go on and save us all. Again"

[bookwormdeen]

And I am saving this!

How to Not Start a Story

(With some information from @belles-library)

I remember back in grade 5, in the classroom, practicing story intros. “You need to hook the reader,” my teacher said. “Maybe use an onomatopoeia. A good amount of information. Questions work well!” My teacher, however, was teaching us very primitive writing skills.

So, here’s a brief list on

✨How to Not Start a Story✨!

Onomatopoeia: this is especially if it’s an obscure sound or a ring-ring. It doesn’t have the punch or magnitude you’re looking for.

Full names: it might seem like a smart way to drop the main character’s name, but it’s a tired cliché and belongs in 2013 where it came from.

Mirror-scene: this was one of the most over-used clichés in writing female YA characters from around 2007-15. It’s where she stands (usually naked, for some reason) in front of a mirror and starts listing off what she looks like. Bonus points if, after the vivid description of how gorgeous she is, she claims to be the ugliest monster on the face of the Earth.

Over-descriptions: we don’t need a vivid description of the rainclouds unless it’s going to be integral later. Make the beginning more fast-pace to keep attention.

Info-dump: as we all know, info-dumps are to be avoided completely if it’s possible, so why would you put it at the beginning of the story where the reader wants to get in fast? Don’t overwhelm them. Start it quick.

Characters: don’t introduce anywhere more than 3-5 characters in the first scenes. Introducing just 3 new characters we know next to nothing about is pretty hard. Any more and the reader’s going to be confused and stop reading.

Death: although it’s a hooking strategy, I still don’t recommend it. If your plan has been to make the character die from before, try to do it sometime later in the story. Although it has some punch to it, the reader won’t care much about their death because they haven’t formed a connection with them yet. The later they die, the stronger the hurt.

If you manage to avoid these openings, there’s a good chance your introduction will be a nice, hooking one and live up to the great ideas you have for your WIP.

~Nyx

[bookwormdeen]

Requests Open

Requests Open

Hello!

These can be pairing with Reader, OC (fanfic or one-shot) or just one-shot without pairing (just the character).

I do dates special (b-days, Christmas, etc)

Smut (Only in some cases), Dark themes: Allowed.  I like polemic, yes! Feminism, Gender questions, Politic, Health. All of it. The world is a lot of things, writing has to be too. Plus, art is here to help.

I value things that run from stereotypes or cliche. So your character can be LGBTQI +, Black... Anything really. I don’t wanna just white perfect characters. I want different.  Because different is far more challenging and fun to write.

I am taking requests with the following characters:

TV Shows

Daredevil: Foggy Nelson; Benjamin Poindexter, Matt Murdock, Vladimir Ranskahov

The Originals: Kol, Klaus, Elijah

Vampire Diaries: Damon, Kai Parker

Vienna Blood: Max Liebermann

The Punisher: Billy Russo.

The Witcher: Jaskier, Cahir, Lazlo

The Order:Hamish Duke, Randall 

Justified: Tim Gutterson

Limitless: Bryan Flinch

Ragnarok: Fjor Jutul, Laurentis

Dark: Jonas, Magnus Nielsen

Peaky Blinders: Thomas Shelby, Michael Gray

Amazing Spider-Man: Ben Reilly (Scarlet Spider), Peter Parker, Alistair Smyte, Miles Morales

A Discovery of Witches: Marcus Whitmore 

Merlin: Merlin, Arthur, Mordred, Gwaine, Lancelot

Grimm: Nick Burkhardt

Good Wife: Cary Agos, Finn Polmar

Star Trek: Spock, Khan, James Kirk, *Data

Dusk Till Dawn: Richard Geko, Seth Gecko

Glee: Sam Evans

Scream: Noah Foster, Gustavo Acosta, Eli Hudson, Will Belmont

Hannibal: Hannibal Lecter

Money Heist (La Casa de Papel): Berlim

The Good Doctor: Shaun Murphy, Neil Melendez, Alex Park

Castlevania: Adrian Tepes, Trevor Belmont

Clone Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker

Sex Education: Otis, Adam Groff, Eric

Movies

Marvel: Loki, Bucky (Winter Soldier), Peter Parker, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner, Doctor Strange, Quicksilver, Black Panther, Harry Osborn

DC: Bruce Wayne, Scarecrow, Joker

Ex Machina: Caleb Smith

Riot Club: Miles Richards, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Guy Bellingfield, James Leighton

1917: Blake, Scholfield

Narnia: Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Caspian 

Hobbit: Legolas, Thorin, Thranduil 

Fantastic Beasts: Newt Scamander, Theseus Scamander

6 Underground: 4, 6, 7

HP: Draco Malfoy

Game of Thrones: Robb Stark

Maze Runner: Newt, Gally

Characters 

Iron Fist Austen: Mr Darcy, Mr Tilney, Sidney Park, Frederick Wentworth

Noah Centineo

PS: Here are listed only man but you can ask woman too (I don’t know which ones to put, there are much more than these ones).

Ships

Crossover ships are accepted too!

Davina x Kol

Mr Darcy x Elizabeth

Mr Tilney x Catherine Morland

Anne x Gilbert

Sidney Park x Charlotte

Matt Murdock x Karen Page

Billy Russo x Krista Dumont

Amy March x Laurie

Rich Gecko x Kate Fuller

Anastasia x Dimitri

I love AUs and crossovers: like HP meets Narnia, or something like that. Ask about Actors are good too. 

Free Stories 

These ones I pretend to write more of it or remake it. These will be long fanfics. Feel free to share ideas. If you want a one-shot involving these TV shows or movies is good too. 

Obs: Some of them may be only in my Wattpad account. * @lucy_beau

The Alienist; Dirk Gently; Northanger Abbey; Sherlock, Sanditon; The Adventures of Tintin; Chained; Fallet; Ripper Street; Byzantium, Jumanji; Carrie Pilby; Vallerian; The Name of The Rose, Crimpson Peak; Revenge; Red Sparrow; Hookup Plan; The Ottoman Lieutnant

Free Ask:

Saw a thing and want a fanfic? Send me the idea. The movie is bad but could be good? Let’s write it. Want a prompt but can’t write? Maybe I can do it. Send it to me!

Free fanfics or stories have a limited number of chapters: 20.

Obs: I don’t do terror. Horror? Yes. 

SEND!!!!

If you want to be in my TAGLIST, say.

Need some help getting ideas? Look here: Prompts

[bookwormdeen]

Always and forever.

[bookwormdeen]

So you want to read something like Jane Austen?

I see lots of posts where people answer this question with recommendations for classic historical romance authors like Georgette Heyer or more modern bodice-rippers like Julia Quinn or Tessa Dare. But to me that’s never quite the appropriate answer. Sure, if what you want is romance with country dancing and breeches, that’s fine, but surely if you want to read more things similar to Jane Austen, the best way to do that is to delve into her lesser known contemporaries. People Austen admired and people who admired her. People writing on similar themes and using similar language. 

So this is my list of 10 novels from the 18th and early 19th century that you might like to try if you’ve read Austen and want to branch out more. These are just personal recommendations and based off what I’ve read; I’m very happy to hear other suggestions!

Worth noting as well that all of these are available online or free for kindle download. :)

Continuar lendo

[bookwormdeen]

When I started watching it, this is what came up in my mind 😂.

Mr Darcy = Bernard Black

Brooding 

Haughty 

Grumpy 

Hates everyone

[bookwormdeen]

Black Books: Bernard Black [INTP]

UNOFFICIAL TYPING BY: thedarkmonarch

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Bernard is shown to be highly intelligent, if ill-disposed to use his intelligence to any positive end. He’s well-read with a very strong understanding of the psychology of his friends. Bernard shows a great appreciation for literature and higher learning in general, to the point where he refuses to serve customers who want books for aesthetic purposes. 

Extraverted Intuition (Ne): In spite of his lack of social skills and general hygiene, Bernard has a wide variety of skills and interests. He’s witty and sarcastic, frequently making comments that cut straight to the core of any given argument. At one point, Bernard is able to write a detailed, complex and lengthy novel involving a number of themes in the course of one evening.

Introverted Sensing (Si): Bernard has a set routine that he likes to follow. He’s a very heavy drinker and smoker out of habit, wakes up at roughly the same time every day and doesn’t like having his schedule interrupted. At the series finale, it’s revealed that a large part of Bernard’s sour attitude towards life is the result of his fiancee faking her death to get out of their engagement.

Extraverted Feeling (Fe): Bernard’s Fe is rather unhealthy. He’s quick to get angry whenever he’s inconvenienced and takes it out in rather destructive ways. Typically, it demonstrates a severe lack of maturity on his part.

[bookwormdeen]

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia