#Samarqand

[unteriors]

Samarqand (Uzbekistan).

[kostasphotos]

Samarqand

8/2/23

[hippography]

Title: Na Saliuktinskikh kopiakh. V okrestnostiakh Samarkanda

Title Translation: At the Saliuktin mines. On the outskirts of Samarkand

Creator(s): Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1863-1944, photographer

Date Created/Published: [between 1905 and 1915]

Medium: 1 negative (3 frames): glass, b&w, three-color separation; 24 x 9 cm.

Summary: Horse-drawn cart in front of snow-covered cliff.

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For additional information on commercial use, see "Prokudin-Gorskii...,"(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.237.prok)

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 168.

Digital color rendering and retouching by Walt Frankhauser, WalterStudio, 2005-2020.

Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004.

General information about the Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.prok

Source.

[6ghassan]

Samarcanda by Filippo Bianchi Via Flickr: Samarkand, Registan by night

[sagarikagolder]

Uzbekistan Diaries 7

[avetruth]

Murat Koca. Batı Karahanlılar'da (1042-1212)Tamgaç Buğra İbrahim Han (1052-1068)dönemi ve faaliyetleri. Yüksek lisans tezi (2015)

Murat Koca. Batı Karahanlılar'da (1042-1212)Tamgaç Buğra İbrahim Han (1052-1068)dönemi ve faaliyetleri. Yüksek lisans tezi (2015) https://www.avetruthbooks.com/2023/01/murat-koca-bati-karahanlilarda-1042-1212tamgac-bugra-ibrahim-han-1052-1068donemi-ve-faaliyetleri-yuksek-lisans-tezi-2015.html?feed_id=10533

[mrmamur]

Musofirlar addushi qoʼllimiz ✊ #podpischiki #ouzbekistan #baht #statuslar #uzvine #dostlar #imovie #ibratlisozlar #konsert #andijon #islom #sevgim #islomuz #uzbekistan #uzb #million #uzbekfilm #filmuz #samarqand #dard1sarim #uzbekkino #dunyayimsen #shukurullohdomla #abdullohdomla #abdulazizdomla #music (at Moscow) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmgyEKWNseJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unteriors]

Ulitsa Amira Temura, Charhin, Samarqand Region (Uzbekistan).

[kostasphotos]

Samarqand, Uzbekistan

8/2/23

[upennmanuscripts]

Manuscript Monday: LJS 408 - [Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah]. (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 408, a commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th century by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī. Numerous marginal annotations by the copyist. Written in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, dated A.H. 830 (end of Ramadan; July 1427) (f. 64v-65r). Video orientation for…

[maedhrosdefender]

~LONG~ POST

this has been so long coming but here is my aralas fic recs masterlist bc i love them so much and there’s too little good aralas fanfiction on ao3

hawthorn by aeolianharps https://archiveofourown.org/works/39137910/chapters/97913703

my favourite fic of all time. 50K, from pre-fellowship first-meeting in mirkwood to post-rotk angst. the most heart-curdlingly beautiful thing i have ever read. will make you sob but also be so glad to be alive

of men by aeolianharps https://archiveofourown.org/works/21775381/chapters/51957199

can you tell i love aeolianharps?? i do. 25K, from fellowship to post-rotk angst but with a happy ending. so hauntingly beautiful oh god.

a ghost story by samarqand https://archiveofourown.org/works/24366931

almost 10K oneshot that goes from pre-fellowship to post-rotk. the most harrowingly forestial sort of love story god i love it so much

the language of the birds by samarqand https://archiveofourown.org/works/25388575/chapters/61564924

exactly 20K from pre-fellowship mirkwood to mid-rotk one of my fav fics of all time, just the most gorgeous portrayal of love and longing and yes.

how the heart approaches what it yearns (series) by sakurashakedown https://archiveofourown.org/series/2827483

38K overall and ongoing, the first fic is 7K, the second 3K and the third 27K, the most wonderful pre-fellowship questing with aragorn portrayal of neurodivergent legolas and just fluff fluff to heal your soul

Now to rapid fire from one of my fav fic writers ever, Nanethoiithil: Rivers of Starlight https://archiveofourown.org/works/41660493 More Lovely and More Temperate https://archiveofourown.org/works/39477444

Whispers in the Dark https://archiveofourown.org/works/39273417/chapters/98273073

A Brief Respite https://archiveofourown.org/works/38184877

Beware of the Sea https://archiveofourown.org/works/37798204/chapters/94374856

Earth https://archiveofourown.org/works/37143091

All by Nanethoiithil, all <15K wonderful established relationship aralas, mid-fellowship questing with the most wonderful fluff and fellowship dynamics and hurt/comfort, except for Beware of the Sea which is post-rotk wrong person wrong time. all so lovely it takes my breath away

In Fading Light by milgarion https://archiveofourown.org/works/822388/chapters/1558852

been a hot second since i’ve read but a full-on 63K developing relationship aralas, great if you’re in the mood for something more ~classic~ with more traditional angst. absolutely fell in love with this and it’ll always have a place in my heart

those are the fics that left a wordless void in my soul once i finished them, that have had such an impact on my life it feels as though they never leave my mind, now here are a few that are less so, definitely i don’t think about them every waking hour of every day, but are still really really good:

elf ears are just ears by yerimheart https://archiveofourown.org/works/43091700 (1500 words first kiss adorableness)

the moon will sing a song for me (i loved you like the sun) by eirvosol https://archiveofourown.org/works/42569739 (1300 words declarations of love, established-relationship, a lil cliché but it’s ok)

Dead on Your Feet by LuvAtFirstRead https://archiveofourown.org/works/42147552 (6K injury/recovery trope, established relationship, also lil cliché but it’s good)

This Realm of Ours by Living_City https://archiveofourown.org/works/41136546 (1700 word established relationship injury/recovery fluff so well written agh)

in dreams i can hear your name by osamugiris https://archiveofourown.org/works/40875900 (4K classic immortal dying bc mortal doesn’t love him back fluff, SO well done)

aaaaaaand of course everything by one of my favs again: himboredfield

burdens of war and love’s embrace https://archiveofourown.org/works/31518371

i had been lost to you, sunlight https://archiveofourown.org/works/25743196

give me how it was, our place under the sun https://archiveofourown.org/works/24639829/chapters/59532244

all by himboredfield, (1400 words, 4K and 20K respectively) all are pre or mid-fellowship super fluffy aralas love confessions, with an AMAZING grasp on archaic language, so tolkien-esque and lovely.

aaaaaand to finish off with some shameless self advo, here’s my fic: at the impasse of the age, we lie in oblivion by u_wear_fine_things_well (me :D) https://archiveofourown.org/works/42924453/chapters/107839779

my 75K word magnum opus, angsty yet bantery lotr rewrite except gayer and sadder and, yk, aralas-er with a bittersweet ending

this post is for everyone who had to wade thru hundreds of not super well written fics just to find some good gd fluffshots of our fav twink archer and his punk, perpetually tired bf!! there are good ones out there (and ones that will rip your whole entire heart out of your chest like the first 4) i promise

[sagarikagolder]

Uzbekistan diaries 6

[avetruth]

Osman Aydınlı. Fethinden Samaniler'in yıkılışına kadar (93-389/711-999) Semerkant tarihi. Doktora tezi (2001)

Osman Aydınlı. Fethinden Samaniler'in yıkılışına kadar (93-389/711-999) Semerkant tarihi. Doktora tezi (2001) https://www.avetruthbooks.com/2023/01/osman-aydinli-fethinden-samanilerin-yikilisina-kadar-93-389-711-999-semerkant-tarihi-doktora-tezi-2001.html?feed_id=7966

[khusnora]

#Samarqand

[symphonyofsilence]

Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "symphonyofsilence "?

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Last of Our Kind by Shiome (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

2. Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowner's Association by Ariaste (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

3. Asunder by Alessandriana (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

4. Between These Echoes by Remux (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

5. Don't Burn the Milk by Dirgewithoutmusic (Jujutsu Kaisen)

6. Carry Me Home by Valleykey (Jujutsu Kaisen)

7. Daughter of Air: A Cane and A Conch Shell by Dirgewithoutmusic (Little Mermaid)

8. Low Water by Samarqand (The Silmarillion)

9. Deep Roots Are Not Touched By The Frost by Dirgewithoutmusic (The Lord of the Rings)

10. 5 times a conversation between Minerva McGonagall and Remus Lupin Ended in Thanks, and One Time It Didn't Have To by Realmer06 (Harry Potter)

And nah, there's nothing special behind my username I'm afraid. It's just me having an occasional kink for paradoxical deep™️ nonsense when it comes to picking names and writing but especially in picking names, lol. I was thinking that most of the time silence carries more words than what is said, and that silence holds only truth, and what is said cannot cover or convey half of what is left unsaid, and sometimes some things can't even be put into words. And how sometimes hearing the "silence" might be our way to finding the answers and meaning, and some meanings are "whispered in the sound of silence". I had something like that in my mind when I came up with "symphony of silence" (not in that order. Actually iirc I wasn't specifically thinking about this concept but rather of a paradoxical name when the name just kinda occurred to me) which I thought also has a nice ring to it as a string of words.