Alternate reality where janissaries get really big in American pop culture instead of samurai

Mais il n'y a rien là pour la Science. Editor, New York Review of Wasps.
Alternate reality where janissaries get really big in American pop culture instead of samurai
Going into my friend's bedroom to work on a school project and seeing a wall full of blunted scimitars and orange-tipped muskets
As soon as I found out about janissaries from adult swim I made my mom drive me to the mall so I could buy a shirt with one on it
Conning over the display of börks at the Party City to find the one for my favorite character, a boy who wants to become the ağa of his janissary village. "İnanın!" I shout as I find it, shoving it over my lank hair and jannisary-running down the aisles as my mother resignedly heads to the front of the store, checkbook in hand.