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Someone who makes me incecure about my art:

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For the Tumblr game: Character 1- Sacrifice Character 4 and 7- Friendship Character 11 and 13- Milestones

[Rukmini], sacrifice

This is what Rukmini leaves behind her:

Rukmamaali, who, as the youngest, enjoys the best of everything, whether it be food or jewels or silks. He might be loathed for it by his siblings, were it not for his willingness to share, and his eagerness to show his prizes to his sister.

Rukmabaahu, who loves his sports and challenges. Rukmini attends every one and cheers him along, even on those rare occasions when he loses, and always he credits her with his success.

Rukmakesha, who loves to sing. Rukmini can hear him practicing from her chambers, and it is the sound of his voice, so very dear, that lulls her to sleep every night.

Rukmaratha, who has a sweet tooth to rival any she’s known since. He lures her along on trips to the palace kitchens, and shakes with silent laughter as they hide from the servants.

Rukmi, who is nearest her in age and cleverness, with whom she need only exchange a single look to share a silent joke, whose loss weighs heaviest upon her, for all it came years ago when first he fell under Jarasandha’s influence.

Rukmini knows this, and gives it all up without a second thought; dear though she holds them in her heart, her brothers can never, will never compare to what she treasures above all else: her freedom.

[Sudeshna and Ulupi], friendship

Sudeshna meets Ulupi first as yet another of the puzzling parade of in-laws the Pandavas bring to the wedding: after a hotheaded Panchalan contingent, a demon-born cousin, and the inscrutable house of Dwaraka, a naga princess who twists her way out of the waters is almost mundane.

Ulupi is ever at her elbow those first few days, offering quiet suggestions ever. Sudeshna resents the implications that all might not be arranged to perfection, as every mother of the bride must; but the words are soft and relayed to her ears alone, and gradually Sudeshna realizes they are always intended to avert some unforeseen disaster, however small. Rumor says, after all, that the naga-folk are blessed with prescience, and clearly Ulupi has no qualms about sharing her gifts. Sudeshna’s anger turns to gratitude, slowly but surely, and she sees an answering glint in Ulupi’s great green eyes.

When at last it comes time for the farewell, Sudeshna’s eyes catch on her son’s face instead, with terrible grief—and why should they? Uttara is the daughter she loses today, after all; her boys will remain with her forever.

But Ulupi’s eyes echo her grief, her hand finds Sudeshna’s own, and oh, that is all the prophecy Sudheshna wants or needs.

[Jodhaa and Hamida], milestones

There are challenges every Empress must overcome if she is to be successful, and she must do so alone. Hamida knows this, all too well, but it does not stop her heart from going out to Princess Jodhaa as she walks her unsteady path.

First will come the hesitation, the refusal to leave the inner apartments. There at least the Princess might be surrounded by the maids she knows—and, in Hamida’s case, be left alone with the memories of the man she might have (would rather have) wed in Humayan’s stead.

Next comes the curiosity, insidious and implacable—one can only follow the flight of birds so long without wondering where they will go. In Hamida’s case it was interesting herself in the plight of the people of the outer provinces; in Jodhaa’s it is as simple as agreeing to join Jalal at the hunt.

Then the challenge—the most direct part, and the most dangerous. Hamida does not blame Jodhaa for her refusal to return to Agra except on her own terms; years before, she had warned her husband that if he could not hold onto his own throne, he must safeguard it for their son. It comes, of course, of every risk of being deemed too unruly, and therefore divorced or otherwise disposed of. But Hamida has always thought, and plainly her daughter-in-law agrees, that no household can be lived in without respect.

Finally, finally, for those very fortunate, comes the moment of knowing one’s empire for one’s own, and Hamida is blessed twice over: to know the sensation herself, and see it mirrored in another’s face. Watching Jodhaa Bai look out upon her court, Hamida beans with satisfaction, and the new Empress dips her head in silent thanks.

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@allegoriesinmediasres wanted a Jodhaa Akbar greatest-impact soulmark AU; I think Jodhaa and Jalal would still be each other’s, and so, instead, have the mothers of Jodhaa-Akbar and their respective soulmarks!

Maham Anga bears her charge’s name on her very skin, across a cheekbone where the world can see the signs of her devotion. Can anyone doubt that she loves Jalal first and foremost in the world, that his wellbeing means more to her than her own? Can anyone cast aspersions on how she takes it upon herself to take a very few of his many responsibilities upon her own shoulders, how she vows to do away with anyone who might separate them?

She sacrifices her life, her happiness, her son for Jalal; and in return he banishes her nonetheless. 

Her tears sting against her soul-mark, and Maham Anga does not bother to wipe them away. 

Padmavati loves all her children, even Sujamal--for all she watches him with the wariness due a wild thing--but doubtless Jodhaa is her favorite. There is no use hiding it, not when her own soul-mark betrays her partiality. Always she had yearned for a daughter, to laugh and cry with, to follow in her footsteps; and how fittingly the gods had answered her plea. For years she exults in this, until the news of the Mughal alliance comes to Amer--and all too soon, it all goes wrong. 

Jodhaa’s doli rises off the ground, and it is as though her soul is being torn away. 

For the first time, Padmavati finds it in herself to curse the gods, for giving Jodhaa only to take her away.

Whenever Hamida is asked about her soul-mark, she only smiles and deflects the question, and fortunately none must know of the name curled around the Empress’ knee. 

It should not, strictly speaking, excite so much dismay: the prince Hindal was known to be friendly with the young Hamida Banu, and there had been a time when he--when she--when they had hoped to be something far more. Hamida’s reluctance to speak on the matter says more than it should, as does her secrecy.

When the Princess of Amer comes to the palace, Hamida does not see a woman bound to another, no matter what Jalal might take into his foolish young head months later; instead she sees only another reluctant bride, and can only smile in sad sisterhood. 

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Slight review of the Midaq Alley:

I'm mainly writing this post bc I had a rather unsatisfying discussion about it in this new book club I'm attending, and if anyone knows the book and would like to offer some insights I'm all ears.

So, I found the book very hard to read because most of the characters treat each other horribly, and think about each other even worse.

There is the coffee house owner, who screams at his wife all the time, their son who is disgusted by their poverty but feels superior bc he's in the army, the bakeress who hits her husband, the single mother who disdains her friend and landlord, the illegal dentist who liles to cause pain, the girl that can only think about materialistic wealth etc. etc.

Every single one seems to be unable of seeing a situation from anyone else's perspective, and their actions often seem very alien to me.

A lot of that is explained by the cultural difference, of course - I think I don't have a particular good understanding of the socioeconomic situation in late 40s Cairo, and knowing that makes expressing my thoughts difficult.

But sometimes it seems that Machfus just wrote a book about a bunch of people he really did not like at all.

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