“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ― Frank Herbert It has been three weeks since my favorite show has ended and as some of my friends on Twitter who know me well know, I always need some kind of closure after my…

“Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?” -Love’s Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley We all grew up with fairy tales. Although I don’t remember my parents reading them to me in bed like I’ve seen…

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. …

There is a misconception about the Anatolian man (Anadolu erkeği) in Turkey. He is considered to be a stereotype, almost an opposite to the metropolitan man. First let me ask, do you know where Anatolia is? Anatolia is the name of the Asian part of Turkey, referred to also as…

I have tried not to write this. You know me, I prefer writing about things I enjoy. Besides, the last thing I need in my life right now is angry messages from fans of popular dizis. Needless to say 2022 was not a good year for dizis. At least for…

“If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning.” -Harvey Milk I really really wanted to write about Heartstopper the minute I finished watching it for the first time. But…

“There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.” ― Emilie Autumn The first season of Son Yaz showed us time and time again that vengeance never brings fulfillment to anyone. What started as Akgün’s attempt at getting revenge from Selim ended…

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club Let this be an homage to an underrated episode of my favorite dizi, Son Yaz. Episode 9 is called Si Sorti: Sen Nerdeydin (Where Were You?). Some of the building…

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena There are two ways in which you can lose someone. You can lose them terminally to an irreversible event such as death or you can lose them because of a conflict or…