#salsabil

I’m going to be That Twat who makes a post featuring photos from a movie she hasn‘t seen just to talk about her OC, so bear with me. I only just grabbed Return to Oz and haven‘t had time to watch it yet (for some reason, that’s one of the few 80s fantasy movies that I wasn’t traumatised by as a child during that decade, because it--or the original Oz--was never on the telly--it’s always seemed more of an American-only thing to me), but it’s confirmed:

BABY FAIRUZA *IS* SALSABIL, holy shit.

I mean, it’s not just the precociousness, but also the way the light hits her big, pale eyes (yes, I know her dad named her after the Persian word for that colour) and... well, it’s not difficult to imagine her being the daughter of Conrad Veidt and June Duprez, right?

“Fow a menn vith suzh kwazy eyezz, und a vomann vith suzh luzzkiousz leppz undt a hertz-shayped fayzz, ve kould hef ze pwettiezt tschillldwenn in ze kalliphate! Allzo, thei vould bee kweepy littel zhitz becoz ov zeir intelligunz undt magickz, butt zat vill bee inevitabullz. Vat doo youw sey?”

(Grouse already spreading net outside ship because Yassamin looks ready to leap overboard about... now, unless her fate is diverted by a determined fanficcer ready to reboot her brain into realising she’s being courted by the greatest, hottest, amazingmost perfect wizard husband imaginable)

And the latest doodlebatch!

1. Strictly speaking, the art of furūsiyya wasn't yet codified to its known form during the time this is set, c. 825 CE (or then the Mongol barbarians burned all the pre-1200s books on it, like they did with many subjects), but that would be the knight-type thing little Salsabil is setting out to practice here.

2. Jaffar spies on Ze Pwinzezz in her garden and sees her wearing... what pwinzezzez wear. I was too distracted by Jaffar in the blue rose scene to even notice she had a train on her dress, so I made up for it with this one.

3. I don't need to tell you which equine body part Fadl is jealous of. You can figure it out perfectly well for yourselves, I'm sure.

!!!!!

There's a painting called The Favorite by Omar Rayyan that reminds me a lot of this particular Salsabil