Karen Ramos

When a tragedy forces Sunmi’s family to join that religion, it becomes a race against time for her classmates to save her and her mother from them. An emotional roller coaster of historical events that led to the Ottoman Empire, Ertrügrul is a strong protagonist, who saves the niece of Sultan Aladdin, but in doing so, he puts his tribe in a dangerous war not only against the crusaders but also against their own ambitious goals. A war of intellects, loyalties questioned, political intrigue, family feuds and rancorous intentions go along with romance, ideals, beliefs and unbreakable friendships. We all are wishing for this situation to come to an end as soon as possible, but in the mean time let’s keep the positive attitude and enjoy some of these Netflix hidden jewels to help us go through this circumstances in the best way possible.

shows love is represented as this sudden realization of wanting to spend the rest of their lives together that the main characters have the first moment they stare into each other’s eyes, or in some other stories, the realization happens when the love interest in falling for another character; this last circumstance is what we know as the “love triangle” in which the winner love interest is heavily exalted while the losing love interest is usually not well developed into the story, or on the contrary, is way too perfect for the liking of the main character, making the main couple seem obvious from the very beginning of the plot. Most of the relationships in these stories are filled with damaging actions and attitudes that are presented as romantic and “sweet” such as the main character extremely depending on the love interest for almost everything, even for simple tasks like opening doors or picking up items from the floor; sometimes the abusive behavior is not only tolerated but applauded and incited like a guy aggressively manhandling a girl and repeatedly yelling at her that he “owns” her. Lately, memes about crazy girlfriends show a disheartening reality, that many boys and girls are enduring relationships in which jealousy and fights are usual, possessive boyfriends and girlfriends are more and more common and that children in social networks are constantly yearning for partners who are clearly not role models. We can’t deny that fictional stories do shape our way of defining love, but it’s important that we clarify that all these are fiction, and shouldn’t be trespassing on to reality, they give a story the conflict that it needs to evolve and advance, but it’s not a guideline for love and relationships.

And an important part of the fandom belongs to this collective, and just like many people, we like to be represented in the objects of our admiration; sadly, our favorite groups, books, TV shows, and cartoons have fallen into a vicious cycle where they either relegate us to the comic relief of the work, or straight out leave us out of it. Whether because they are not sure how to represent the collective appropriately or because of the backlash that a character like this unchains, representation of LGBT has been poorly done in pop culture, or just not done at all. Having a queer character being the Mary Sue/Gary Stu of the story, without any flaws and being always the perfect voice of reason and wisdom is not a good representation, and is not even considered a good character development at all in any way; is pretentious for any character you have with all those traits. ’s throats, we need it because making LGBT representation a thing could save many lives in places where being like us is not only frowned upon, is even illegal and punished with death.

And more often than not, those pairings come from our favorite stuff: characters in a book, movie, cartoon, TV show, or even our favorite artists. To answer that question, let’s analyze the common shipping habits: Let’s remember we are in the fandom we are because we want to have fun and get away from our monotonous lives, not to prove anything to anybody. There’s nothing wrong with shipping and pairing up characters you love, but let’s also be kind and allow others to enjoy this hobby too, even if they don’t share our opinions or way of thinking.