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• She was a real person who lived in Central Asia around 1260 - 1300. 
• She and her dad (#dreamteam) terrorised Kubilai Khan’s empire, the Golden Horde, AND the Il-Khanate of Persia
• literally, these ppl controlled central for HALF A CENTURY and THREE OF THE BIGGEST EMPIRES ON EARTH couldn’t stop them
• marco polo was so fucken impressed by Khutulun’s fighting skills, he described her as a “superb warrior” who snatched men “like a hawk”
• she refused to marry dudes unless they could beat her in wrestling, AND THEY COULDN’T
• she asked each dude to wager 100 horses before they fought her, and she grew THE LARGEST HORSE HERD in asia at the time doing it
• literally, thousands of horses
• accurately - 10,000 horses
• thats a lot of goddamn horses
• all from dudes she beat at wrestling
• her dad once sat her down like, “listen baby you’re my favourite child but i gotta get you married or shit will be said about me. listen. please. khutulun. please. stop beating up all your suitors”
• and khutulun was like, “okay. okay, i’ll try”
• and in the middle of the fight with this new guy (who bet 1000 horses that he could beat her, what a dumbass), she was so incensed by his shoddy fighting skills that she basically went “okay i canNOT NOT FIGHT WHAT THE SHIT MY DUDE” and beat his ass into the ground
• “Marco Polo” lied cuz khutulun’s eventual husband never could beat her at wrestling
• she was described as “powerfully built” and my poor lil queer heart cant handle it ok just imagine this mongolian goddess
• she had FOURTEEN BROTHERS and listen, im not saying she beat all of them but listen, she beat all of them
• her dad almost got her to be the next khan
• after her death, she was considered the last nomadic warrior princess
• where is my biopic about her
• KHUTULUN

Marco Polo + Season 2 costumes (12/27)

and now i really come to see, that life would be much better once you’re gone

Mahesh Jadu as Ahmad Fanākatī in Marco Polo (2014-2015)

“I wrote this scene in my first draft years ago, inspired by the true story of the concubine who betrayed Jia Sidao and was therefore instructed to commit suicide. I wanted it to be a powerful, operatic death dance in the style of Tai Chi sword forms.” John Fusco

gif meme: @vanessagecko requested kokachin + night & day

War is easy. The waiting will kill you.