#Germany Host

[ask-world-academys-host-club]

Would you guys tell me what drinks and snacks you offer?

Ludwig: We have our own drink bar, it's nothing special but, we can make practically anything, just as long as it's alcohol-free. The legal drinking age is very different here than back home, it's rather a shock to a lot of us

[lexd]

pls rb ^_^

[scarefox]

Japan really has anything for every subculture. I admire that about them

We Went to an FTM Trans Bar in Tokyo

I spent the day with a Japanese Transgender (FTM) Gogo boy!

[divingsave]

i don't care who wins the whole thing now, just don't let it be england

[whosyourfavevoicedby-polls]

[nohtora]

eurovision was completely rigged for the abba anniversary wtf ... cha cha cha real winners in my heart

[leonsliga]

Mentally I’m here

[helv-ete]

Netherlands Rarepair Week day 7- then to now

I could try to sum this up myself in a comedical way but I honestly don’t think the netherlands-germany football rivalry can be described in a funnier way than in this wikipedia article.

[minecrafthost]

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[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we present Paul Frees & Peggy Webber in the Escape thriller "Passage To Berlin"!

[ask-world-academys-host-club]

Would Ludwig like a little bag of cheese puffs?

[archtroop]

I am SORRY, what the hell is this? Why was it even qualified?!

Not one Palestinian found int he Palestinian Olympic "team". It's all fake.

[lavenderlyncis]

Now that the euros are over can we all go back to being normal?..... please.... pleak

[prigorie]

prayer circle for a turkey win today

[fumblingmusings]

ONE MORE THING regarding late 19th Century Anglo-German relations... Okay. It's a little paternalistic but I imagine each European nation gets a bit touchy when it comes to these poor girls being plopped in a place they aren't prepared well enough for being asked to carry out diplomacy at a time when personal politics don't matter as much anymore. And I think Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky, the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, kind of shows this phenomena in a nutshell.

Also I do imagine that Arthur would be incredibly uncomfortable with how Princess Vicky was treated by the Prussians (then Germans) which would really colour his interactions with Gilbert and Ludwig in the second half of the 19th Century. It's a narrow scope example of why relations between the two just crumble so badly by the 1880s on.

Bear with me. I have a point.

Okay so, Queen Victoria's girls were very much trained for politics. Prince Albert was like here have all the philosophy and theory you could ever need. So Vicky, Alice, Louise, Helena and Beatrice all would be ready to be good Queens. Or, at least, trained to be good British Queens, which doesn't really fly in the German states. Especially for eldest daughter Vicky.

Sidenote: They all have chubby cheeks and I want to squeeze them.

So you have a Princess who yes has a nice like-minded husband, but her in-laws dislike her, and her eldest son rebels against his liberal mum by going full on authoritarian and creates a rival court so extensive that by the time she becomes German Empress this other faction frequently raids her home for anything that would excuse her exile or worse... you know. Typical royal family stuff.

But she is also a woman who reads and supports Karl Marx (what the...) and Charles Darwin, builds hospitals during the Franco-Prussian war, founds girls schools and nursing colleges, visits Synagogues, openly calls antisemites lunatics, encourages a free press... and the German court hate her for it. Largely because she refuses to be quiet.

So it's not just a case of 'the mean Germans think my perfect Princess is annoying' for Arthur; it's that conflict between Liberalism and Conservatism which is the very crux of why Germany and England are incapable of having friendly relations. Arthur watches the soft power and these (somewhat bullshit/hypocritical) liberal ideas and principles he has set himself up as representing on the international stage get completely and utterly rejected by another nation. One that he cannot exert control over. And I bet that infuriated him. His way absolutely is the right way what is Ludwig's damage you know? And I guess after WWI he feels mighty vindicated but until then... what a frustration.

Arthur and Ludwig (or Gilbert, depending on how you interpret who's actually in charge at this time) have such very different ideas on power and ruling and what a monarch is even there to do. It's just a very personalised example of why Arthur cannot get along with Ludwig. A British Princess (friendship) was a very precious thing to have, and the Germans squandered her (it). At least in Arthur's eyes.

[wbdiene]

In 2 weeks I'm going to Germany and my German level is literally "Hallo, wie geht es dir?"