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RIP Nesta Archeron

[fairycosmos]

god forbid a woman is boring and a low achiever and likes to drink

[bitterhalf]

im sorry it's so funny to me how aemond and aegon are having a telepathic argument about which of them was their mother's favorite child and all the while she literally traded them both in a heartbeat for helaena's life weeks ago

[kosmogrl]

we got august this week

[atsu-kinnie]

Doomed siblings have me on a chokehold in a way no trope can ever achieve. Something so gut wrenchingly beautiful about two kids going through unimaginable trauma and coming out damaged forever. I always eat it up. Maybe they stay together and find solace only in each other, used and kicked out by society! Maybe they end up on opposite sides of the war! Maybe they end up betraying one another! Maybe one of them dies haunting the narrative forever! Maybe one of them destroys the world for the other! So many endless tragic possibilities!

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Aegon: Do you think I'm a terrible man?

Tyland Lannister:

[targ4ryens]

we love little lord oscar tully...

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

[peachesssluv]

Rose snaps, “Loren told me to cool down by sticking my head into the freezer. He also said I should build my home there so I can rule over the ice cubes and frozen broccoli.”

[lucrecia-borja]

Hürrem Sultan | Muhtesem Yüzyil (2011–2014)

[magnificentcenturydaily]

Meryem Uzerli as Hürrem Sultan MAGNIFICENT CENTURY (2011–2014)

[anastasiasultana]

FAV FITS: HÜRREM'S WHITE HALVET DRESS

Featured → Magnificent Century: Episodes 1-2 Description → Hürrem's white silk halvet dress, with draped slashed sleeves and a matching buttoned bodice piece. Simple in design, the chest line has a unique twisted silk knot, similar to the turquoise gown worn later in the second episode. The gown is worn with a matching set of seed pearl jewellery, including a ring, necklace, earrings and hair piece.

requested by @cat-valntine

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent January 2026 + Week  1: Firsts Hürrem Sultan's 1st Son

Everything we know about Roxelana suggests she was a person of determination and self-control, but she could certainly be forgiven any turbulent emotions in the aftermath of Mehmed’s birth. Relief and happiness that she and the child had emerged from the epidemic healthy were natural. Moreover, Roxelana had rapidly accomplished her purpose—producing a child for the dynasty. In turn, Mehmed garnered for her what she presumably desired—a secure position within the royal household. The slave girl who had lost her natal family now had a new one: through her son she now had blood ties to his father and grandmother. Mehmed’s birth introduced a legal shift in Roxelana’s status. Islamic law recognized and protected the concubine’s role as mother: unlike an ordinary slave, she could not be sold or given away, and she would automatically be freed upon the death of her master. Her new status under the law as umm al-walad (mother of a child) signaled these rights and her identity. — Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire, Leslie Peirce

[hurremsultn]

"Suleiman’s love for Hurrem found powerful expression in his poetic letters to her. When both Navagero and Trevisano wrote in their 1553 and 1554 reports to Venice that she was “much loved by her master” (“tanto amata da sua maestà”), Roxolana was already in her fifties, long past her prime. After her death in April 1558, Suleiman remained inconsolable for a long time. She was the greatest love of his life, his soulmate and lawful wife, and a woman of extraordinary character. Suleiman’s great love for Roxolana was manifest in his exceptional treatment of his hasseki. To her benefit, the Sultan broke a series of very important traditions of the imperial harem. In 1533 or 1534 (the exact date is unknown), Suleiman married Hurrem in a magnificent formal ceremony, violating a 300-year-old custom of the Ottoman house according to which sultans were not to marry their concubines. Never before was a former slave elevated to the status of the sultan’s lawful spouse. Moreover, upon marrying hasseki Hurrem, the Sultan became practically monogamous, which was unheard of in Ottoman history. As Trevisano wrote in 1554, once Suleiman had known Roxolana, “not only did he want to have her as a legitimate wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had never been done by any of his predecessors, for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them, or for carnal pleasure.”

– Roxolana: “The Greatest Empresse of the East” by Galina Yermolenko (DeSales University Center Valley, Pennsylvania)

[palaceoftears]

Omg Nigar and Nurbanu parallel!!

[valyrianpoem]

Meryem Uzerli as HURREM SULTAN [59/?] Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century, 2011)

[magnificentcenturydaily]

Meryem Uzerli as Hürrem Sultan MAGNIFICENT CENTURY (2011–2014)

[torchwood-99]

Holy Fucking Shit

This comment on reddit has blown my mind a little bit, seriously.

Feyre, Elain, Nesta (golden child/scapegoat) : r/acotar

Basically, it points out that when Nesta was dealing with her trauma, everyone's solution was basically to do to her what was done to them.

Morrigan said to throw her out and leave her vulnerable to attack and abuse, just like Morrigan was.

Amren suggested locking Nesta in a dungeon, just as Amren was.

Cassian belittled her and made her feel small, just like Cassian was for being a bastard.

Rhys dangled her as a bait and pimped her out to Eris, just he like had to do to himself UTM with Amarantha.

Elain supported locking Nesta up in the House of Wind, just as Elain was after being Made.

Feyre was also locked up by Tamlin and did the same thing to Nesta.

It's like they've identified a "problem" in their little court, one in need of a "solution", and took advantage of that to get pay back for what they went through by doing it all to Nesta, who ugly and visible in her trauma, and is refusing to play happy families with the rest of them.

(I could theorise why Azriel isn't actively involved in doing this to Nesta, more passively allowing it, seeing as he went through extreme physical abuse from his family, and while I would like to assign benign motives, the fact is that as the court of torturer, if he wanted to take his trauma out on others, then he has plenty of opportunities to do so.)