#the jinn

[whyishekinda]

ARRANGED HUSBAND!SP ASLAM headcanons

@marlena-marlena is to blame for my sudden interest in Chaudhary Aslam sahab💀

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, absolutely based on the fictionalised version of SP Aslam from the Dhurandhar universe and is not intended to glorify the real people or the events linked with them.

Anyway, here's some basic ah hcs for arranged Husband SP Aslam.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who spends the first few months of your marriage treating you like something fragile. Not because he doesn't want you, but because he does, far more than he should. But he's thirty seven, married to a woman who is barely twenty five, and the last thing he wants is for you to feel trapped with a man like him.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who leaves the room whenever you enter it at first. Who mistakes distance for kindness, who thinks giving you space is the same thing as making you comfortable.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who tells you, "Don't feel obligated to spend time with me." And then spends the entire evening wondering why the house feels so empty.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who starts bringing home little gifts. A book from a roadside bookstore, your favorite mithai from a shop in Lyari Bazaar, a pashmina shawl, a tin of imported tea. Just random things he saw and thought you'd like, but he dare not say that.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who places them on your desk without a word. Then immediately says,"Don't expect this often." As though he isn't already planning the next gift to bring you.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who genuinely tells you he's not husband material. Who thinks he's too old, too busy and too damaged by the job. And that you absolutely deserve better.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who spends most nights away working cases. Who leaves before sunrise and comes home long after midnight. Who is married to his work almost as much as he's married to you.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who always comes home for breakfast anyway. No matter how late he slept, no matter how exhausting the case, he comes home and sits across from you, eats whatever you've made in silence, softly thanks you. And then disappears again.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who never realizes those breakfasts become your favorite part of the day. Because they're the only moments that actually feel like normal marriage.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who maintains a careful distance in bed. Always at an entire arm's length, to make you feel comfortable.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who wakes up every morning horrified to discover he's somehow crossed the gap anyway. One arm around your waist, your head tucked against his shoulder, your fingers tangled in his shirt.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who immediately moves away before you wake up. As though he committed a crime.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who is so restrained that sometimes you wonder if he even cares. Whether you're simply another responsibility or another duty and nothing more.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who accidentally destroys that theory the day you bring lunch to his task force headquarters.Because one of his officers gets a little too comfortable, a little too chatty, a little too interested in making you laugh. And suddenly the room temperature drops.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who doesn't say a word. He doesn't need to. His men are aware enough of what that stare means.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam whose men immediately begin finding very urgent reasons to be somewhere else.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who spends the rest of the afternoon glued to your side without even realizing it.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who compliments you by accident all the time. Who looks up from a file and casually says,"You look beautiful today." And then freezes, because he hadn't meant to say it out loud.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who becomes visibly embarrassed when you smile. Who suddenly finds the paperwork in front of him fascinating. Who clears his throat and refuses to make eye contact.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who never says "I love you." But he remembers your tea order, makes sure your side of the bed is warm during winter, checks whether you've locked the balcony door before sleeping, he's not a religious man but when he does pray he keeps you in it.

Arranged Husband!SP Aslam who claims he doesn't do love but still falls hopelessly in love with his wife.

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[astro-alana]

Najara and The Jinn

[learnorneverrealize1888000888]

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Ship Tournament 2024

Salim/The Jinn - American Gods

Silas Bell/Daphne Luckenbill - The Spirit Bares its Teeth

Charlie Braxton/Reid Giordano - Fire Season

Lewis/Jason Lu - Proficiency Bonus

Voting ended onJun 22, 2024

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Salim/The Jinn - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Silas Bell/Daphne Luckenbill - The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Charlie Braxton/Reid Giordano - Fire Season by KD Casey

Lewis/Jason Lu - Proficiency Bonus by Charlie Novak

[raggedy-spaceman]

I see all your posts about having Two Nickels because of The Corinthian and Crowley but you know what:

It’s actually Three Nickels.

And yes they’re all Queer.

Neil Gaiman definitely has a type.

[liketwoswansinbalance]

A Ramble

The idea of a Black Swan event in relation to Rise’s ending is so poetic. Because, the ending and revelation are unforeseen like a black swan once was.

Also, from the iconic Rock Scene, the creation of the symbol, their School crest, was perfect! The duality. It was just purely beautiful and fascinating. And, the concept was so clever! I was so ridiculously proud of Rafal then!

And, that reminds me of something from an interview from the bonus content at the back of book 1 where Soman said he liked to ask which is more beautiful: the black swan or the white swan? The white swan is classic, like Good. But, the black swan is rare and mysterious. So, is it beautiful as well, or is the white swan more beautiful because it represents the standard of beauty? Is it more beautiful to fit an ideal, or to be uncommon and thus beautiful because of that quality? It was an interesting line of thought as it reminded me of Rise’s plot twist.

The prose in the final scenes was beautiful, if I recall correctly. I love the comparison of Rafal being summoned by Rhian "like a genie out of the bottle." (This is paraphrasing.) This brings up the idea of opening a can of worms. They can't be replaced. The truth is out. It’s like a Pandora’s Box, or the invention of the atomic bomb that transformed modern warfare. There’s no going back from that. You regret you ever probed further and made the decision to open it. But, it's too late and always will be. It's an incredible discovery, yes, but so damaging to the world.

We’ve already seen Aladdin’s sinister genie, and originally, the concept of genies (the jinn) was that they were evil spirits, demons, known to have a reputation for manipulation, mischief, and malevolence. I wonder if a genie related to the monkey’s paw idea will possess one of the brothers in Fall?

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Context and other resonant ideas:

"While jinn could be known to be friendly, or at least reclusive, the beings also have vampiric abilities. In addition to absorbing the essence of food, or eating while in human form, they derive nourishment by sucking energy from living things. That can include draining a human soul. According to lore, some jinn want to do their own thing, and have no interest in humans. Others get their kicks by hanging around humans. But it can be dicey to be around a jinn considering some want to toy with us, and choose to torment us or exact revenge for being cast out. They are also said to be able to bring about illness and bad luck. 'While some through the ages have tried to bargain with them, to do so is always a dangerous gamble since they are notorious tricksters who, for the most part, do not like humans,’ said Weatherly. ‘They can dwell in abandoned buildings, in the deserts and forests, even in rocks, statues, jewelry and other physical items'" ("A History of Genies in Folklore and Pop Culture").

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"A Black Swan event is an event in human history that was unprecedented and unexpected at the point in time it occurred. However, after evaluating the surrounding context, domain experts (and in some cases even laymen) can usually conclude: 'it was bound to happen.'" ("What are Black Swan events?").

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"black swan event, high-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but that in retrospect appears to have been inevitable. A black swan event is unexpected and therefore difficult to prepare for but is often rationalized with the benefit of hindsight as having been unavoidable.

"[...] All swans were presumed to be white because all historical records of swans showed them with white feathers. The term black swan was thus used to describe any impossible event or circumstance. But in 1697 the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh encountered swans with dark plumage in Australia, a land largely unexplored by Europeans at that time. The black swan thus came to be a metaphor for the reality that just because something has not happened does not mean that it cannot occur in the future. The metaphor is analogous to the fragility of any system of thought and a testament to the fallacy of assumption. A set of conclusions can be undone once any of its fundamentals is proved false. In this case, the observation of a single black swan negated the long-held presumption about the species. Any logic that followed the assumption that swans must be white was also invalidated by the discovery.

"[...] while human beings are good at turning environmental stimuli into meaningful information, they tend to be narrow-minded in their beliefs about the world. Being dogmatic about beliefs makes humans blind to concepts that fall outside what is accepted as true. This creates a vulnerability to surprise events called black swans, which necessitate a change in worldview" (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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What an understatement. I'm sure the brothers will have to do more than just change their worldviews. Their world and potentially every perception they've ever had has been turned upside-down. And, their fallacy of assumption about their souls—it could all be construed as the Storian's fault for not correcting them.

[nkp1981]

Salim and The Jinn

[hattedhedgehog]

In which Good Omens and American Gods take place in the same universe and Salim and The Jinn end up in London at a specific bookshop...