for you, what were the most beautiful aspects of SoSoo?
ah, i love this ask and honestly there is so much i love about SoSoo but these 4 are the things that literally make my heart hurt:
Soo picking up So’s handwriting: The drama really didn’t do this aspect enough justice, and it felt like a minor throw in for drama. But to me it was so much more than that. She loved him so much that she ended up having the exact same handwriting. For years on end, she would write out his words to her because even if he wasn’t there physically, his words became ingrained in her soul and part of her being. And I just find it beautiful.
Soo imagining So’s presence: This completely shattered me. She literally went about her last days pretending he was there with her. And if an outsider saw her smiling they’d think she’s happy and has moved on, when in reality the only way she can cope is by pretending that he’s there with her.
So’s unfaltering loyalty: Once he started trusting her, he never truly stopped. Not when she didn’t trust him, not when she lied to him and not even when she wrote in an unknown language. He was completely and utterly devoted to her.
So’s determination to reincarnate and find her: This man has literally gone through hell, and will live his in complete loneliness, but its the thought of meeting Soo again in the next life that keeps him going through the pain.
I want to experience this ATLEAST ONCE IN MY LIFETIME😭😭
©Rune Guneriussen
Jessica Chastain in CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
Wtff iam cryingg😭😭
Mike looks up to Will. Literally, and most of the time?? I looked through seasons 2-4 and this happens during most of their scenes together. Mike, who's several inches taller than Will, somehow always arranges himself to look at Will from a lower angle, or at almost equal height.
The boy has bad posture in an effort to... what? To be able to see Will's face better? To make sure Will knows that Mike doesn't figuratively look down on him, doesn't baby him? To make sure Will knows they're equals? To close the distance between them? To not seem bigger or taller than Will? To make sure Will knows he's seen and understood? All of the above?
Mike leans down to look Will in the face:
And he sits down so he can be on Will's level or look at Will from below:
Notably for the above pictures from the hospital in s2, we see that Will and Mike look fairly level in the second picture, but in the first, it's shot so that Mike is looking from such a lower angle. So this seems to be intentional.
Here are some of Mike and El to compare. Mike has much straighter posture in scenes with El, leaving him taller, further away from El, resulting in him not looking El in the face as often. We see this exacerbated in s4, as Mike is even taller, the distance is further, and he also isn't looking at El much with good eye contact or without sunglasses or the sensory deprivation glasses. When seeing Will and Mike at the same height, it feels like an equal relationship, but seeing Mike towering over El makes their relationship feel less equal. He's not looking her in the face as often in an effort to understand her.
We see a lot of Mike and Lucas together in s3, and Mike also stands fairly tall compared to Lucas in their shots together, making any height difference obvious. In the picture set below, we see that, but also some side by sides of how Mike stands when talking with Lucas, and then how Mike talks with Will just seconds later. You can see how different it is: Mike adjusts for the height difference with Will in a way we don't see him do for anyone else.
So I don't think it's just that Finn Wolfhard is too tall and he's made to lean over to make it easier to film multiple people of varying heights. It's a Mike and Will thing.
Another couple comparisons:
The rain fight: Mike stands taller in their rain fight at the beginning when he's on the defensive, but he gets lower and closer to Will the further into the fight they get, when they're saying the more important things to each other.
The phone booth: We can also see Mike bending over to look at Will in the phone booth, but standing straight and further away when Jonathan is listening to the phone.
The movie theater: when they're first sitting down in the theater, maybe when people are still looking at them, Mike sits tall, but he sits lower once the movie has started and he wants to talk with Will.
On that note, Mike stands taller around Will when in public or around others he doesn't feel as comfortable around. This might be to hide aspects of his relationship with Will, or to be protective towards Will. I didn't include these shots, but Mike also stands tall when protecting Will from Dart in s2, when he's with Will in the field after Will is possesed in s2, and in the gunfight in s4.
But one on one with Will, talking with Will, listening to Will, having heart to hearts with Will, he scrunches his back so much so that he can be at equal height or lower than Will to look Will in the face or to look up to him.
They hired Noah and Finn knowing that Noah was younger and shorter, so I don't think they meant for Will to be a taller character.
This is just their dynamic. Mike is the tall one but he wants Will to be able to feel like the tall one.
Lmaoo yess!!😭
#same ship different font
caminimm.
Thanks for your last answer. I have seen many times that you are calling "hurrem" as queen, u also said that hurrem is the only queen the ottoman had. Can please refer some qoutation for it except pierce"s book? thanks in advance.
That's because Hürrem is the only Ottoman consort similar to a European queen consort.
Sultan Süleyman promoted one of his concubine wives (Hürrem) to the position of married wife (sultan = queen) by freeing her. It is an unprecedented situation in the history of the dynasty that Hürrem received a "certificate of freedom" from Süleyman, married him, and became a "haseki sultan" (queen). — Sakaoğlu, Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları
This is how Sakaoğlu presents Hürrem before talking about her:
The only queen of the Ottoman dynasty, married wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, mother of Selim II (1566-1574). Since she died before her son Selim's sultanate, she is not mentioned as "mehd-i ulya-ı saltanat" (Valide Sultan). On the other hand, she was "Hürrem Haseki" during her husband's reign; she became famous with the titles of "Haseki Sultan" and "Hürrem-Shah" after obtaining the sultanate (queenhood).
Sakaoğlu uses the term kraliçe when talking about her (and only about her), which means queen, and is never used for Ottoman consorts (in Turkish)... except for Hürrem.
She's different from the other haseki sultans:
In the 16th-18th centuries, the honorary title "haseki" was given to the concubines of the sultans who gave birth to princes and who were at the top of the sultan's wives.
While I don't necessarily agree with the giving birth to princes thing, I understand what he means when he says that: the following haseki sultans were not like Hürrem and would never be. The most similar to her could be Nurbanu — because Selim II married her with the clear goal of repeating what his father had done — but she too is not like Hürrem: during Süleyman and Hürrem's times you actually see a monogamous marriage. They're like a European royal couple and this would never be repeated (Selim II had other children after Nurbanu's, Murad III stopped being monogamous after some time, Ahmed I too had a lot of minor — and unknown — consorts and children).
This is why Hürrem is the only queen that the Ottomans ever had.
THIS!!
I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.
Finally, it’s just the two of us, away from the palace. Just you and I. Me and you. Now I can forget the truth and lies, misunderstandings and jealousy, the precarious fight for the throne and, death. And just devote my time on loving you.
evikholin:
brain: u gotta be… The Best™
me: ok so we’ll work hard then?
brain: no work… only Best.
Honestly that's so fuckinggg annoyinggg ughhh
whenever i click the cc button on a youtube video that clearly has a high budget and is made by a fucking studio and i see “english - auto generated” i spit daggers from my eyes and mouth at whoever decided to not pay someone to make actual captions