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“Do not accept an evil you can change.”

— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars  (via quoted-books)

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I have thought about this and I was think that since it’s from Edwards point of view the characters could “look” how Edwards perceives them ... meaning they could make a new movie with all new actors 🤷‍♀️ but honestly I hope they don’t

Y'all do realize that even if they make Midnight Sun into a movie, they're not going to cast 34 year old Robert Pattinson and 30 year old Kristen Stewart to play high school students Edward and Bella, right? Like... you realize this, right?!?!?

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So I just had a thought

What if supernatural creatures don’t exist anymore? What if they did once, but through the years, they slowly mixed in with humans?

You can see the blood of fairies in the way a ballet dancer hovers in mid air before he or she hits the ground. You can see it in the way that middle school girl never forgets when someone makes her a promise. You can see it in how that one little boy in the kindergarten class seems more comfortable in the forest on that field trip than the others.

You can see the blood of dryads in hikers who never trip over roots. You can see it in that suburban grandmother never lets any of her garden die. You can see it in that one kid who climbs a tree faster than his friends, barely looking at the branches as he goes.

You can see the blood of naiads in the way a professional swimmer seems to command the water to help them. You can see it in how a cross country runner needs a water break more often than his teammates. You can see it in the way that one girl in your class always has a water bottle on her desk.

You can see the blood of mermaids in a surfer who can be tossed around underwater for a long time without drowning. You can see it in a teenage boy who doesn’t have to pretend to be unbothered by the pressure when he races his friends to the bottom of a swimming pool. You can see it in the little girl who wades into every stream she sees on a hike without quite knowing why.

You can see the blood of sirens in people who never have a problem with getting people to date them. You can see it in that soprano who can hit notes most of her fellows can only dream of. You can see it in the camp counselor who all the straight girls have a crush on, who can play guitar and sing better than any of the others.

You can see the blood of shapeshifters in the way an actor adjusts their personality to become their character with scary accuracy. You can see it in the subconscious, barely noticeable changes a tween girl’s eyes make to match her outfit better. You can see it in the way you always lose that one friend in a crowd if you’re not careful, because he’s just too good at blending in.

People who carry the blood of werewolves don’t change with the full moon anymore, but you can still see it in the way your best friend always knows something is wrong, though even they don’t know they’re smelling the changes in your body chemistry. You can see it in the way that one guy always seems to eat more than the reasonable amount of red meat at an all-you-can-eat buffet. You can see it in the way that one werido never has a problem when the teacher turns off the lights before a PowerPoint presentation because her eyes adjust quicker and better than yours.

The blood of supernatural creatures may have mostly faded away. But if you look closely, you can still see it.

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Watching One Tree Hill

And I feel like Peyton and Lindsay are going to hook up

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Wolf pup howling for the first time

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The Starklings: First and Last Appearances

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Dating Disney: Aladdin

With the live action movie releasing today, I thought it would be a good time to address the time period of the movie by examining the events and locations in the film to point out an era and setting for the movie. Full disclosure, while I did study some parts of Islamic history for my medieval history degree, I am still by no means an expert on the culture or history of Islam.

The first thing that must be made certain is that the characters are definitely Muslim. The sultan even says “Praise Allah” so the faith of Islam has been established. Jasmine also almost loses a hand for stealing. While looking up when such practices might have started, I found that this punishment is listed in the Quran, which was written between 609 and 632 AD. So we can assume that the movie takes place after 632 when the Islamic faith was fully formed.

After the “Whole New World” segment, Aladdin and Jasmine land on the roof of the Forbidden City in China. The building finished being constructed in 1420, meaning the movie cannot take place any sooner. 

During the song “A Whole New World”, Aladdin and Jasmine fly from Agrabah heading to the Great Sphinx of Giza, then to Greece, and finally to the Forbidden City in China. The merchant at the beginning of the movie mentions “This side of the River Jordan” which runs through modern day Israel, but doesn’t specify which side of the River he’s talking about.

According to Disney Wiki, Agrabah was based on Bagdad as well as the Abassid Calliphate (750 - 1258) and Medieval Persia (633-1219). While technically both continued past these points, these are when these powers were at their height. Interestingly, by 1420, Persia had been invaded and conquered by the mongols in 1219, and the forbidden city was built during the Timurid Empire (1370-1507).

However, the Timurid Empire was not led by a Sultan, but was ruled by an Emir. However, a powerful kingdom that was ruled by both Sultans and Grand Viziers was the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) On a side note, in the Aladdin television series, Aladdin’s enemy, Mozenrath, is the leader of the Mamluk people. The mamluk Sultinate ruled Cairo from 1250-1517. Since Mozenrath is a contemporary of Aladdin, this changes the world setting.

With Aladdin’s rival, Mozenrath ruling Cairo, this means that the film cannot take place any earlier than the decline of the Mamluk Sultinate in 1517, and based on the colorations of this map, takes place as early as 1451. However, considering Aladdin and Mozenrath were frequent adversaries, it’s more likely that the movie is set later, closer to 1481, and closer to the eventual downfall of Mozenrath’s sultanate.

Princess Jasmine

I am by no means an expert in Islamic fashions. However, knowing as little about Islamic beliefs as I do, I highly doubt that Princess Jasmine should be walking around in such revealing clothes. She is literally dressed the same as the concubines. While in more modern Islamic countries, women are not forced to wear Hijab, considering Jasmine is living in a medieval/renaissance Muslim country when religion held greater power and thieves lost hands instead of just going to prison, I don’t believe that the general consensus would react positively to a Muslim woman showing such immodesty. Now, I will give the movie slight credit in knowing that she couldn’t walk around outside dressed like a harlot, but it’s still wildly inappropriate and is an example of exoticizing and romanticizing another culture for Western consumption. While it’s true that some women, such as belly dancers, did dress something like this many centuries later, this is wildly out of place for the conservative era that Jasmine is living in. To be fair, this general look is not something I know the history behind. It is only something I have seen in old cartoons and movies from the 1930s and 40s as exotic Muslim women dressing this way was seen as erotic and tantalizing.

Final Verdict

With everything we have to go off of, Aladdin is set in the 15th century in the Ottoman Empire. With Agrabah seemingly being in a desert, I initially set this movie in 1521 after the conquest of Cairo and the areas of Arabia that bordered the Red Sea. But with Mozenrath ruling over Cairo, this means that the Ottoman empire hasn’t reached that far and the film is set between 1420 when the Forbidden City was built and 1517 when the Mamluk kingdom fell. Thus, I have to assume that Agrabah is a stand-in for Istanbul, despite Istanbul not being located in the middle of a desert. Based on the map above, I would have to finalize my findings by saying that Aladdin is set in 1481 when the Ottoman empire was expanding, and before the conquest of Mamluk territory along the Red Sea, with the assumption that during Aladdin’s eventual reign as Sultan, he would go on to defeat Mozenrath’s forces and conquer the Mamluk Sultanate for the Ottoman Empire in 1517, 36 years later.

Setting: “Agrabah” (Istanbul, Turkey) Kingdom: Ottoman Empire Year/Era: 1481 Language: Ottoman Turkish

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Robin Arryn out here looking like medieval Nathan Scott

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Oh MY gOD!!

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Jon + first reunions with his siblings

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