Here you go: some useful notes for The Guardians of Samarkand.To those of you who are just tuning in, this alternative history AU has had the Barmakids openly ruling the Caliphate after Jaffar seized the throne from Ahmad (supposedly Harun al-Rashid's grandson) in the film. Currently, it's Jaffar's sister, Dunya, who is regent over the Caliphate in ( Read more... )

So I was updating my annotations posts and this damned disclaimer became so long and ranty that it no longer fit the tone of the first post, which was meant to be informative in general. But because there's so much wank around about this kind of thing--all Western interest and interaction with non-Western cultures being branded as automatically ( Read more... )

Defy Not the Stars features so many OCs I'm just going to drop a Dramatis Personae here so it'll be easier to keep track of who's who. (Look! A cast list! Like in a proper historical novel and stuff!) Some of the characters don't have more than a couple of lines, but like with movies and TV, I'm sticking to characters with speaking parts.

( Cast of Characters )

At last! Ladies and gentlebeings, let me present you with my annotations for The King's White Falcon.


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Here, have some annotations for Gardens Beyond Byzantium.

Other annotations for the series, as well as general medieval Persia annotations (highly recommended so you'll know WTF I'm going on about):

Of Roses Unfurling
The Pricking of Thorns
The Secret Orchard

( Here we go )

Here, have some annotations for The Secret Orchard.

Other annotations for the series, as well as general medieval Persia annotations here (Of Roses Unfurling) and here (The Pricking of Thorns). Annotations for the next part, Gardens Beyond Byzantium, can be found here.

( Sexy love letters ahoy )

Annotations for The Pricking of Thorns, AKA That Really Kinky One Everyone's Read.

See my previous annotations post for notes on the Roses series and medieval Persia in general.

( To sodomy! )

Guess what, guys? Here it is. The first part of those medieval Persian annotations I threatened you with. These are mostly to do with my Jaffar/Princess fics, but since a lot of this stuff is historical information about medieval Persia, many things here also apply to Ghazal as well. Even if you haven't read any of the stories, this stuff should be ( Read more... )