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Currently obsessed with belly dancing cause of one tiktok that's just so satisfying to watch so.. does anyone know any bls where at least one of the guys is a belly dancer? Anyways hope you have a wonderful day/night.
Um... actually in the history of belly dancing in the Ottoman Empire, there were male versions of belly dancers, but their history is not exactly happy or beautiful. They were sexually abused as minors, and their lives were pretty miserable because the men watching them were pedos. Most people think that women doing belly dancing is the sexiest thing, but historically, the men who saw the male dancers would often prefer them to the female dancers. The female dancers would hate the male dancers and be very jealous lmfao:
"Köçeks were much more sought after than the çengi ('belly dancers'), their female counterparts. Some youths were known to have been killed by the çengi, who were extremely jealous of men's attention toward the boys." - Wikipedia
bro gave us a history lesson
lmfao sorry but this topic has been bothering me since I keep seeing belly dancing shorts on YouTube pop up to annoy me constantly... YouTube knows I like watching ballet, ice skating and hip-hop so it also thinks I like belly dancing, but it actually annoys me since I read that Wikipedia article randomly a while ago. I'd personally rather see some male versions of belly dancing myself hmph but that's because I'm a woman maybe?
So i remember the story starting like this: two friends, kids, running away from idk who and one of them fell off the cliff. His friend thought he died and continued to run. Then there's a time skip and we see him(the one who didn't fall) as a young adult(i think he was in college?) and if i remember correctly he was helping an old woman with some boxes??? Or the old lady was giving him some food??? Idk but i think there was an old woman there. And this story wasn't finished back then so the chapter finished with us, the readers, seeing this guy's friend in the background very much alive(surprise, surprise). And i'm not 100% sure(ik i'm not being very helpful) but i believe one of them had red hair and the other dark blue hair?
PLEASE if anyone knows the title i will forever be grateful. I know i fell in love with the story at first sight and i was devastated realising it wasn't finished yet and idk how but it seems i didn't add it to my 'to read' list(although i could have sworn i did, i mean i LOVED it)
My memory is really bad, but do you have any details for the cover? Or the characters?(I probably won't have an answer, but others might.)
Sadly no. That's all i can remember from a few years ago.
I always find myself coming back to this. Such a beautiful story.