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Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

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Ayo this is how I imagined the cast while reading A Deadly Education

Top: El Higgins and Orion Lake

Bottom: (left to right) Aadhya, Liu, and Chloe

Someone who read the book PLEASE slide into my DMs bcz that cliffhanger had me dead

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I just found out what a period belt is and I do not appreciate it

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if you c*nsor anything in a post you are l*gally required to put all of the omitted v*wels at the end as a footn*te

*eeoo

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I never saw Hitchcock’s Rebecca or read the book. I watched Rebecca 2020 with zero context and a completely open mind, and I just...

What in the fucking hell was that mess?

There was a total of exactly three (3) good things in it: the aesthetics, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Sam Riley. That’s it.

I mean, it says a lot about a movie when the “greedy shadowy villain” who’s only there for like 7 minutes is much more interesting than your lead hunk.

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Ok, listen, I know he’s just super buff, but watching Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, all I could think was, this is absolutely ridiculous but if I boop his chest will it go poof?

And I can’t be the only one who thought that

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So, I always see people referring to Dorne as Indian, or in reference to Indian culture, and I must admit that it had been quite a surprise for me, bcz I had never thought of them in that way, then I realized why. (P.S. this is in no way to say any culture is less than the other or better, this is simply my interpretation, which I admit could be faulty)

The thing is, and I think this started from the name, that I’ve always imagined Westeros as Europe, considering they’re both “west”, (we always refer to Europe as the west where I live), while I saw Essos as the rest of the world, which is why it never occurred to me to link Dorne with India.

Instead, I imagined the Kingdoms as I would the Holy Roman Empire, the Balkans, the Norsemen, and the Taifas that arose after the fall of the Umayyad Empire.

So, Dorne, in my head, was the Taifa of Córdoba. The North were Norsemen. The Crownlands and Westerlands were the Holy Roman Empire. And the Stormlands were Balkans.

Tbh, Idk what the point of this post is. I’m just rambling about a thought that occurred to me, but I mean, I always find it interesting how others interpret the story.

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I love to marvel at how the same word could have different yet similar meanings in different languages, and how that came to be.

The word Bukharan essentially means an Uzbek Jew in English because most of the Jewish Uzbek moved to the States and other English speaking countries. Meanwhile, the word Bukhari, which is the same word but in Arabic, means an Uzbek Muslim because most of the Muslim Uzbeks moved to the Middle East and other Arabic speaking countries.

Also, as mentioned above, Bukharan derives from the State of Bukhara, where most of the Jews lived. On the other hand, Bukhari is derived from the religious scholar Al-Bukhari, who was very popular in the Arabian Gulf and so it was easier for the Uzbeks immigrating there to group themselves with him than to give a lesson in geography.

What I think is most interesting however is the fact that seemingly neither group knows about the other even though they basically have the same history, save a difference in location.

The Jewish people of Uzbekistan photographed by Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“The term Bukharan was coined by European travelers who visited Central Asia around the 16th century. Since most of the Jewish community at the time lived under the Emirate of Bukhara, they came to be known as Bukharan Jews. The name by which the community called itself is “Isro'il” (Israelites). 

The appellative Bukharian was adopted by Bukharan Jews who moved to English-speaking countries, in an anglicisation of the Hebrew Bukhari. However, Bukharan was the term used historically by English writers, as it was for other aspects of Bukhara. 

Bukharan Jews used the Persian language to communicate among themselves and later developed Bukhori, a Tajik dialect of the Persian language with small linguistic traces of Hebrew. This language provided easier communication with their neighboring communities and was used for all cultural and educational life among the Jews. It was used widely until the area was “Russified” by the Russians and the dissemination of “religious” information was halted. The elderly Bukharan generation use Bukhori as their primary language but speak Russian with a slight Bukharan accent. The younger generation use Russian as their primary language, but do understand or speak Bukhori.

The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews and have been introduced to and practice Sephardic Judaism. 

The first primary written account of Jews in Central Asia dates to the beginning of the 4th century CE. It is recalled in the Talmud by Rabbi Shmuel bar Bisna, a member of the Talmudic academy in Pumbeditha, who traveled to Margiana (present-day Merv in Turkmenistan) and feared that the wine and alcohol produced by local Jews was not kosher. The presence of Jewish communities in Merv is also proven by Jewish writings on ossuaries from the 5th and 6th centuries, uncovered between 1954 and 1956.”

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I’m just going to sit over here and pretend I’m not in a tin foil hat and chilling in rarepair hell shipping Javert/Cosette bcz LSN THE OPPOSITES ATTRACT DYNAMIC IS MY WEAKNESS AND THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH AGE DIFFERENCES AND ALSO CAN U JUST IMAGINE HOW CUTE IT WOULD BE IF MR STONE HEART JAVERT JUST COMPLETELY MELTS AND IS WRAPPED AROUND SOFT COSETTE’S LITTLE FINGER

Hey Les Mis fandom,

I'm new here, are there any ships n stuff I need to know about?

I wanna get into ur fandom

Ur musical made me cry.

Help.

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Part 2 of Modern!AU

Ned Stark does not want to be here

He rarely posts and when he does it’s usually landscapes or the people he loves

He never posts pictures of himself

Cersei takes it upon herself to post a picture of himself for him every once in a while

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Ok but like, can someone plz plz plz give me any good Nedsei fics? Bcz like I’m dying and I need more content for these two 😫

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Uk what pisses me off about Fandom and Rhaegar? The fact that everyone seems to think of him as this amazing guy who had a great romance with Lyanna and was all around awesome guy...

But like, do y’all forget that he already had a wife and two children who he left to be with Lyanna? Like, Idc if Elia was alright with it and they agreed to it. They were living through difficult times, and Rhaegar knew it. He knew the King was not stable, he knew the whole country was on edge, and still he decided to run away, pretending to kidnap his lover, disregarding ALL his responsibilities as crown prince for it, and abandoned his two children.

Like man, a real good man would never, and I insist NEVER, act the way Rhaegar did. He can pretend to be all soft and nice and romantic, but Rhaegar is actually nothing but a selfish ass.

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Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it’s not just a fear of commitment or that I’m incapable of caring or loving because… I can. It’s just that, if I’m totally honest with myself I think I’d rather die knowing that I was really good at something. That I had excelled in some way than that I’d just been in a nice, caring relationship. Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise (1995) dir. Richard Linklater

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Ok, this is gonna come out completely wrong but I’m still gonna say it... I blame my high school teacher for my high expectations in men because, like, he was the absolute dream man...

Like, hear me out...

He had multiple Masters, comes from a rich family but he’s so down to earth, an intellectual, zero toxic masculinity, funny and friendly, played the lute (A FUCKING LUTE), and like, get this, “women should be able to do everything, but they’re queens, and so should not have to do anything”. And this man was so absolutely devoted to his family, like he was literally so in love with his wife and so proud of his children. And as if all that wasn’t enough, he put so much effort into ensuring his students were doing great.

Too bad he had a lot of heath issues... man, it was literally so sad when he left the school...

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Kinsey is the worst, most selfish character in the whole show. She literally cares for nothing but her whims. Change my mind...

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That awkward moment when you realize that you are literally so friendless that if you didn’t have a roommate, you’d probably be one of those “been dead for a few years but no one knew” cases...

Fuck