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empirearchives · 1 year ago

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Napoleon as a rallying cry during the revolutions in France during the 19th century

July Revolution (French Revolution of 1830):

French Revolution of 1848:

Source: The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, Richard J. Evans

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spaceistheplaceart · 4 months ago

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once again thinking about @void-dude's static ford. ough.

check this out

#gravity falls #billford #bill cipher #stanford pines #the book of bill #flashing lights cw #scopophobia cw #just. the idea that bill has all these galaxies and worlds at his command. that he parties constantly and should be happy #but isnt #hes not happy. hes fucking miserable. but he has so much power.#and so many grand things. cosmos. stars. galaxies. so much.#but ford. who settled down with his family. is happy?#and that bill could have had that happiness but let his delusions of grandeur blind him? that bill finally found someone that understood hi #someone that when asked to look at the stars didnt blind him but instead admired him?#and he FUMBLED IT SO HARD?#in pursuit of a goal that ultimately would never make him happy but he thought it would and he destroyed any CHANCE of having that happines #(ford) back ever again?#augh #and him having to come to terms with the fact that he fumbled it so bad and that ford actually meant something to him?#oh man.#anyway.#sorry to @ u void dude but ur static ford is legit so goooood #okay anyway #animatic #tbob #op art #song is image of black me from evangelion #ill add id later. once i make sure this thing actually uploads #eye strain cw

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vitaminkenjoyer · 2 months ago

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maybe im just not enough of a cerseihead to see the vision but ive never gotten the vibe that if she was just given a sword and lessons like jaime everything would be fine or she would be not as bad as she is in adulthood and thats mostly cause sword training is uncomfortable n sweaty and physically demanding and i just dont think cersei gets down with all that

#her n tyrion are far more interested in social/intellectual pursuits like yes the sword represents masculine power etc #that she was withheld from i know but still she'd be happier as a statesman than a swordsman #being a knight isnt the height of power u still gotta take orders for who u kill with that sword

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gummi-ships · 6 months ago

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Kingdom Hearts 3 - Rage Form

#kingdom hearts 3 #kh3 #sora #rage form #arendelle #formchange #my gif #rage form is so intriguing #sora still behaves in a wild animalistic fashion similar to his anti form but it's different #anti form felt as if he relinquished all self control and acted strictly on instinct just like a heartless #he used to run around hunched over on all fours and fight tooth and claw with reckless abandon #but here you can at least see SOME semblance of who he is. he's able to wield his keyblade while in this form which is pretty major #he still fights in an absolutely chaotic and primal manner but it feels evolved #the big difference is you call upon rage form at will. he channels his rage and darkness in a desperate last resort to stay alive #which is very significant but he still loses some control like the ability to use of magic; items; shotlocks; etc #it's cool to see darkness used in this way but i really want sora to able to explore themes of darkness within himself in future games #i want these to be more than cool forms with fun gameplay. i want them to have implications that something dark is brewing and needs to be-#brought to the surface and tackled head on because we've never seen anyone capable of cloaking themselves in darkness in such a way #take riku's dark form for example. he's in control and he's very much still himself. it's entirely different #on another note i'm now thinking about how hp is fully restored when activating rage form but you have the choice to give it up again-#when using risk charge. it'll increase attack damage but you're still walking a dangerous line in the pursuit of power

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maesonc-artistic-adventures · 1 year ago

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Daughter of the Red Moon.

#my art #artist of tumblr #tumblr artist #fanart #art #critical role fanart #cr fanart #critical role #watercolor painting #colored pencils #imogen temult #cr imogen #bells hells #cr 3 #traditional artist #love this gal and her character arc #love her pursuit of mastery over her abilities and the power growth that comes with that #love how powerful she is while engaging with debates about power #was gonna name this “’daughter of a god eater’ but that felt spoilery so instead I’m burying it in the tags

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group-dynamic · 4 months ago

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Very Minor Spoiler for Episode 7 (S2) of Rings of Power

Thinking casually about Galadriel's declaration earlier this season that caring for that which is most fragile and most dear is the duty entrusted to all elves and how Celebrimbor's gentle care in noticing and greeting that little mouse is what allowed him to see past Sauron's deception. :)

#the rings of power #trop season 2 #trop spoilers #celebrimbor #“hello mister mouse” what if I weep?#The way that caring for even the most fragile or insignificant of things is how you defeat darkness #the mouse is the message of the entire show #this whole season #galadriel was wrong when she asked elrond to put defeating sauron above all other goals: even her life #because abandoning your friends to peril or death in the pursuit of the destruction of evil is never the message #and we're going to see that play out with nori and the stranger the way we saw it play out with elrond and galadriel the way it played #out with miriel and elendil the way it played out with galadriel and celebrimbor the way it played out with new southlands girl and isildur #the way it played out with gil galad and elrond the way it played out with arondir and theo the way it played out with berek and isildur #the way it will play out with elrond and durin the same way it has always played out from sam and frodo to aragorn legolas and gimli #with merry and pippin or in standing by those in need like bilbo with thorin and company like #this is the story <3

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mcytegg · 1 month ago

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can jumper please please do some terrible horrible things to keep rek and ro safe before the season ends. can she be put into a situation where she makes an incredibly selfish and hurtful decision so she can better protect her team. can her sworn loyalty be put to the test.

#lifesteal #the sticklers #jumperwho #give her a 4c situation where she helps someone like the bfb #have her agree to help ban people or smt to garuntee that rek and ro will be spared. or at least the last to be killed #i want her to do smt Fun and Interesting w her promise to do everything in her power to remain loyal to ro and rek #last season she was unable to protect those who mattered most to her in her pursuit to save EVERYONE #itd only be fitting if this time around she helped doom everyone else to KEEP the people she cares abt most by her side ^-^#sorry im bored and i miss sticklers and i was thinking abt jumpers s5 lore #shes rly good at lore when she tries tbh #lifesteal spoilers #i considered not tagging it as that but reconsidered LOL #this should absolutely be out of sight of any prying cc eyes #🫵🫵🫵

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kavalyera · 3 months ago

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prince stop fucking ur primogen challenge

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mammalsofaction · 11 months ago

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The fact that the Doof had been paired and proved most compatible with Perry, canonically and repeatedly proclaimed to be one of OWCA's best agents in the field, is curious to me.

Some fics have a throwaway line or two talking referring to his compatibility with other agents. I think, also, about the canonical fact that he remains as third most dangerous evil scientist in OWCA's ledger.

I also like thinking about the fact that we have been proven, multiple times, in VARIOUS dimensions and fluctuations to the time space continuem, that were he not continuously thwarted throughout his career, he would not only have achieved tyrannical rule, he would have EXCELLED in it, and perfectly undefeated, EVEN BY HIS EVIL PEERS that people loved to pretend were always more competent than him.

Like. I think about that. Why? What makes Heinz so dangerous? What made everyone else incompatible to a point OWCA realized they needed to send their best, and he needed to be on call ALL THE TIME?

Curious

#I turn the concept around in my head a lot #why not put him in jail? in OWCATraz?#the answer has to be the fact that you couldnt put him down that way. Either by political influence (his brother is a famous politician)#legal loopholes (his ex wife is a highly successful lawyer with old money)#or straight up ingenuity #Jail wouldnt have been able to stop him #arguably #such was the case with most evil scientists who are given a permaneng nemesis #like there must be somekind of prevalent circumstance that can't make them one and done #its such an interesting worldbuilding pursuit of thought #i really like they always make him a very powerful and malevolent villain in so many canon AUs #I love it when canon acknowledges his dangerous potential #i love villains #but exploring Heinz's specific type of villainy is so interesting and fun and new #heinz doofenshmirtz #perry the platypus #phineas and ferb #OWCA

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staab · 5 months ago

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Trying new styles with queen bee

#miraculous ladybug #my art #fanart #ladybug and chat noir #ml ladybug #redesign #chloe bourgeois #queen bee ml #the ponytail is different every time #instead of venom #(which I do still like)#I think her main power would be some sort of mind control akin to hawkmoth #BUT where HM (in my hc) is immobile while controlling a single person #queen bee calls out to her ‘subjects’ while they enter a trance like state #maybe in the past they had loyal followers that would offer themselves up in the pursuit of good #idk I’m still thinking about her but I’m tired

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bonefall · 1 year ago

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Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.

#I just wish people could be more critical of this #And im not entirely anti-retcon. Mind you #But I am here because i think these retcons make them WORSE characters. It's BAD for a character to GET a book with a redemption arc and--#Then they don't change at all and act like totally different people later in the timeline #And Leopardstar is the worse one between her and Blackstar BECAUSE she has sooo many active choices here #Im confident in my choice for BB the more I think about it. Leopardstar's dismantling of the bonehill was good #But it works better as a tragedy imo with the rest of the series in mind #That for a brief moment. A fleeting whim. She could have changed.#But she never did.#And Blackstar who was FAR less repentant at the time DID eventually turn around.#At the end of the day one of them appointed Hawkfrost as codebreaking deputy.#And the other did not.#And I think it's fucking bullshit the way that Leopardstar's retcondemption implies that Hawkfrost was just so tricky he mislead her #The old and experienced leader who had been fooled by a tiger before and was soso sorry for it. Just got tricked.#Like fuck off. She never had a redemption. Stop trying to tell me she did 15 years later #She's a girlboss who empires too close to the sun in pursuit of power and drags everyone down with her #Not a sad weepy smolbean #Bone babble #Warrior cats analysis

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empirearchives · 2 years ago

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Some of the Napoleonic reforms undone by the Pope was vaccination against smallpox and street lighting.

Source: Richard J. Evans, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914

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sleepyorchidmonster · 1 year ago

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What about a genshin event where Furina and Neuvillette go to Sumeru? Maybe as a way to improve diplomatic relations, since both Sumeru and Fontaine had a change in their governments?

Just Furina having fun, meeting Nilou and Nahida while thinking of enrolling in the Akademiya (she can be classmates with Hatguy in Vahumana), almost getting adopted by Faruzan, going shopping with Dehya and Candace....

As for the diplomatic meetings, it was just Nahida and Neuvillette drinking tea while Wanderer, Cyno and Clorinde acted as bodyguards. Neuvillette decided that Nahida did nothing wrong and gave up on judging her. The sages are being drowned, though.

They also take a detour and meet Apep, who is much nicer this time around. Mostly because she finally found another dragon sovereign. And that's how we get more dragon lore!

Apep decided that Focalors is the only archon that she likes.

Also Neuvillette has a new target: Dottore. He talked a bit with Wanderer and Collei and Sumeru almost flooded.

#genshin impact #neuvillette #furina #nahida #wanderer #apep #don't know how neuvillette would visit without causing a blackout in Fontaine...#maybe he powers up the oratrice to run for a few days #nahida is seriously thinking of doing the same thing Focalors did #so much that even apep is like “no. you'll die AGAIN”#furina and kaveh vibing about how their pursuit of the arts broke them #4.2 spoilers

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ryuusei-boi · 28 days ago

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Inazuma Eleven Ending 7 - "Mata ne... no Kisetsu"

Taken from TODOS LOS ENDINGS del ANIME de INAZUMA ELEVEN 4K by Angelico

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cult-of-the-eye · 9 months ago

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The OIAR is literally just middle management between eldritch creatures like they're the morally grey clipboard people standing behind the monster and telling it who to maul

#that is actually such a cool premise #and its always the clipboard people that get eaten in pursuit of too much #too much power #or knowledge #or just hubris #this is so fucking exciting #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp 13 #tmagp spoilers

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paarthursass · 8 months ago

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The thing that's so incredibly tragic about Hades killing Heron (and dooming not just himself, but everyone else in the process) is that, if he had just talked to Heron about what was going on, Heron would probably been amenable to finding a different solution. Heron had just actively aided Seraphim (who killed his mother) and spared and forgave Hera (who made his life a living hell and directed Seraphim to kill his mother). Heron is, all things considered, a pretty reasonable guy! But Hades is so used to the mindset of the gods - stubborn, never changing - and to being isolated and abandoned for so long that it probably never even occurred to him to ask for help.

#sophie.txt #blood of zeus #boz spoilers #like. this whole season really was about the gods cannibalizing themselves in their pursuit of power and it was FASCINATING

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