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Unraveling India’s BRICS and BRI Conundrum
In a world where geopolitics often resembles a complex game of 3D chess, India finds itself pondering its next move on a board set by two ambitious projects – the expansion of BRICS and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Imagine a chessboard, not with mere black and white squares, but a vibrant mosaic of global interests, strategic rivalries, and the occasional pawn aspiring to be a queen.…
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#2023#BRICS expansion#China&039;s Belt and Road Initiative#diplomatic challenges#economic alliances#economic corridors#emerging economies#geopolitical chess game#geopolitical irony#Geopolitics#global power dynamics#Global-Strategy#India&039;s-Foreign-Policy#India-BRICS relations#India-China rivalry#Indo-Pacific affairs#infrastructure development#international diplomacy#multipolar world order#Pakistan-BRICS membership#regional influence#sovereignty concerns#strategic-partnerships#Youtube
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Of course post-canon odysseus and penelope love each other (they are a little bit insane about the other. Neither is allowed to leave the others side for months after odysseus gets back. They cycle between sobbing on one and another and aggressively making out. ) but it's true that they have both changed. It's been twenty hard years after all. So
Odypen courting each other again just for the fun of it. Odypen deciding to act like teenagers again and make elaborate plans pretending to sneak into the others room.
Odysseus sending penelopes 90 year old dad a letter challenging him to a race for penelopes hand in marriage. (This does not go over well but penelope though it was hilarious)
Odysseus begging Athena to help him win penelopes heart/hand again. (Athena: What no why you're already married I don't understand you ) (she helps anyways)
Penelope weaving all of odysseus's clothes. Penelope hauling out every tapestry she made of telemachus's childhood (she made one for every year. To gift odysseus on his birthday when he returned.)
Odypen leaving telemachus incharge while they go off on dates (to harssass, cause problems, and badger other people into giving them things). It should be fine Athena has been sticking close to the house lately. And it's only for an afternoon anyways (at first. Headcanon that penelope came with odysseus when he had to go plant the oar and call it a windmill quest.)
#The odyssey#Post-canon my beloved#An important part of the heros journey is that even though you've changed irrevocably the home still loves you#Odysseus#Penelope#Telemachus#Athena#Odypen#Odysseus and penelope being 🥰🤝 rat bastards in love#Odypen mutually obsessed and possessive and insane about the other#Odypen age 50 deciding to act like teenagers for fun#Yes penelopes father did show up to the challenge odysseus set and then promptly beat his ass in a foot race#Yes this did cause a major diplomatic incident when he demanded penelope come back with him#(Hes never ever warmed up to odysseus and every day he mutters about his sweet penelope could have been athenas priestess instead)#(It took telemachus weeping at his grandpa about how he just got both parents for him to change his mind)#Odysseus: athenaaaa I've met the girl of my dreams and I need her to be mineeee#Athena: having flashbacks to odysseus at 17 and the complete distracted mess he was: what the fuck is happening#Athena: like obviously I'm going to help but I am also going to lay on telemachus's floor#And mutter about how this is just like last time? How could it be just like last time when they're already married#Not quite falling back in love but something close to it#Relearning perhaps#As always I'm having post odypen reunion thoughts#Odypen showing of diomedes doorstep in Italy and he just closes the door immediately he's not dealing with two odysseus not today
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whyyyyy did he make that face after she said that it's been haunting me since i first saw the movie. and the tiny sigh. what does it mean. hello can anyone hear me it's so dark in here
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i haven't been able to stop thinking about how these two are parallel variations of the guinevere archetype that complement and contrast each other so, so perfectly: tashi is a woman who above all else wants to be a champion. fate cruelly takes her dream away from her, so she opts to marry and live vicariously through the (blond) man who loves her (named arthur). she molds him in her image and helps him rise to greatness in her stead but it's not enough, he's never good enough. gwen is a woman who never truly expects to have power but it is thrust upon her through the (blond) man she marries for love (named arthur). she, too, uses her wisdom and leadership to mold her husband and help him rise to greatness. she believes in him, but fate and the world outside their bubble do not. he is not good enough for them. fate wants her. both women and their husbands set aside their desires to focus on the bigger picture (said desires partially exemplified by brunettes who may be exceptional but don't quite fit into the high-stakes social structure), and yet, despite everything they've sacrificed, despite navigating their lives with the utmost grace and caution, in the end both women lose the things they worked hardest for. but they do, however, gain the things they've needed the most: gwen loses her soulmates/family but gains immeasurable independence and the power to use her wisdom and talent on an enormous scale (the sort of thing tashi would've killed for). tashi loses her dream and her claim to power but she gains a family of two soulmates who adore each other and her (the sort of family unit gwen would surely have preferred more than anything). HOWEVER. crucially. although they'd never admit it and the story never quite spells it out. their respective fates align perfectly with who they truly are, deep down.
#A LEADER AND A LOVER!!!!#challengers#bbcm#bbc merlin#gwen#guinevere#arwen#analysis#its crazy. their true selves are revealed entirely because of the men they gravitated towards in the first place#like yes gwen marries for love but there ISSS an undercurrent of ambition and Knowing What's Right. shes a natural leader#so of course she fell in love with a prince and married a king#while tashi is competent and she tries to be diplomatic and cold but she gravitates towards the man/men that make her feel coocoo bananas#do you understand. their hidden depths. theyre revealed in the end#im so glad i connected these dots tashi is such a well-crafted character she makes for an incredibly helpful lens to peer at gwen through#also yes i sure did say brunettes (gender neutral) theres like 3 of them that fit the bill for gwen and theyre not all men :)
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Ayreontasiatober day 31: Fall-themed free space!
I am NOT immune to wholesome coffee shop AU. My poor Source children have so much trauma let’s let them chill at a cafe okay. This was originally going to be another sketch of just Astro because your honor I love him and then I thought. What if I drew Captain too. And also Biologist and Prophet chilling and why not draw everybody’s blorbo???? So here’s all twelve (12) Source characters. I fit them in one ink sketch and they’re chilling at a cafe!!
Since it’s a free space I also decided to invoke some Mid-Autumn Festival imagery (that was the week I drew this) with the lanterns and mooncakes :) (and also Historian reading a book about the moon). I am not going to render that much foliage again for a very long time.
Foreground, left to right: Historian, Astronomer, Captain, Preacher, Counselor, Prophet
Background, left to right: TH-1, Chemist, Biologist, Diplomat, President, and Opposition Leader
Chemist is indeed the barista, and out of Politician Trio in the back, Pres spilled his drink :(, OL is facepalming at him, and Fundip is grabbing the mop (2-for-1 with the Favorite Character Dynamic prompt haha). Counselor and Prophet (and Preacher I guess) are fanonically besties so they’re yapping. Cap is indeed distracting Astro. I have more deets under the cut
Prophet: something obscure nobody’s heard of like an espresso con panna. (It is literally a shot of espresso topped with whipped cream) Captain: cold brew with a cursed combination of flavors. Asked for his drink to be spiked. Chemist refused. Diplomat: a hot choccy :) Chemist: the unwilling barista. Everybody lost him after “arabica beans” and “siphon brew” and “strawberry infusion”. Counselor: a cherry blossom matcha :) Biologist: a double cappuccino. Usually opts for black coffee but it’s a special occasion. Astronomer: a latte with brown sugar and cinnamon? I genuinely don’t know President: he needed a caramel frappe. He didn’t get it Historian: green tea (his favorite) Opposition Leader: only drinks straight espresso shots to assert dominance TH-1: windex Preacher: strawberry milk tea with boba (iykyk)
#ayreon#the source#ayreontasia inktober#ayreontasia inktober 2024#my art#inktober#art challenge#the prophet#the captain#the diplomat#the chemist#the counselor#the biologist#the astronomer#the president#the historian#the opposition leader#TH-1#the preacher
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Well! My eyes are about to spontaneously combust!
I probably should’ve gone to sleep instead of finishing this but look how they turned out! Various character designs and ocs that I don’t often get a chance to draw.
#art#fanart#original character#oc#oc art#project wingman#project wingman art#pw#project wingman fanart#ace combat#ace combat art#ace combat fanart#prez#monarch#diplomat#crimson 1#comic#sulejmani#milosz sulejmani#Tolya Kiriakov#Daniel Oruma#Faryd Gaviria#space folks#transformers#transformers art#transformers fanart#transformers oc#expression challenge#expression chart
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i really need to sit down and take some time to outline valerius' relationship with sosiel and seelah because god. he has such an interesting dynamic with both of them, especially as he and seelah somehow managed to stay on decent terms despite everything and sosiel ended up being one of valerius' biggest oppositions amongst the companions.
#harper.txt#i will always think about how sosiel told him at the beginning of act 5 that he's near beyond redemption but if he rejects lichdom he might#- have a chance at it. and i could just. feel the disgust in his words. he's had a front row seat to the atrocities and he's had ENOUGH.#w/ sosiel in particular: he was there at iz. he Knows what happens. and while there was nothing he could do about it at the time he spent -#a significant time of act 5 despising him. challenging him. he knew he couldn't make him a better person if he tried on the battlefield#ironically on the diplomatic council sosiel was actually valerius' most favoured advisor though#anyway their relationship is fascinating to me. heart.
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Mike Faist, the diplomat.
#mike faist#so diplomatic#jack twist#brokeback mountain#lucas hedges#ennis del mar#west side story 2021#connor murphy#dear even hanson#panic amazon#riff west side story#morris delancey#newsies#the atlantic city story#challengers
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Daily excerpt from chapter 40 of The Nascent Diplomat:
'Can you feed from Gwyn now?' 'I always could – just a little – from the both of you. I do not need touchspeak to feed, only intimacy. It is not the same quality of food as with the vench, it is like the shell of the food rather than the food itself. But with Gwyn it is now more like a food of its own. Something new. I suspect he feeds from me too, in his own way.' Gwyn looked ahead and didn’t react. 'I think Gwyn's healing can be accelerated now,' Temsen said, sighing softly, 'and the timing is auspicious, for Odayi and the others do not want you here much longer.' 'The vench want us gone?' Gwyn said. 'No, not all the vench. Some would have you stay longer. Radula Enris. Kithkalkith Kimerrin. Even myself, though I am of two minds. We all agree your magic must be healed to at least what it was before, if not to a better state.' 'Will you... Will you please teach me how to hold energy like you do?' Gwyn said.
#daily excerpt#the nascent diplomat#the lone wolf#fae tales au#augus each uisge#gwyn ap nudd#slowburn#mm romance#mostly nonsexual though#ohlo ohlo temsen#hurt/comfort#healing#trauma recovery#fantasy romance#this chapter was challenging in some ways#it was when i realised in a really concrete way that#we are much closer to the end than i realised
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you know, I think that all the murder business in aknh-morpork would once again plummet if vetinari let downey and his people do their job again. he initially made the assassins' guild and thieves' guild legal for crime prevention and let them deal with people who performed unlicensed inhumation/theft. and then he got a new favourite toy in vimes and was like "actually no guys, let him do it, it's funny" "people are dying, dog-botherer."
Right??
Downey and Boggis are all about crime prevention. Cops aren't, by their very nature. They're reactive.
If the Assassins and Thieves' approach to prevention is colourful and florid—especially if you like the colour red—it is hardly their fault that this is what works best.
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Vetinari: To be fair, Downey, under your methodology people still die.
Downey: Correct, but it's a lot less of them and it's all far more efficient. Plus, I make more money.
Vetinari: I'm not sure I can put "Lord Downey makes more money" into my cost-benefit-analysis chart on how to better approach crime prevention and reduction.
Downey: Look, if you do it my way, the city saves money! There's less murder, since everyone knows who will come for them in the dark of night if they're a little too knife happy. Or the bright of the day, I like shaking it up. With less murder the city spends less on the police budget, less on food and board for prisoners, and the hang-man might need a second job. It's a win-win, really.
Vetinari: I think some people might contest that point.
Downey: Just. Think about it, babe.
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Downey argues that fine, fine, if they can't get regular-degular murderers, can they at least get serial killers. He had so much fun hunting down that guy the last time! It was a highlight in his recent life!
Vetinari says he'll think about it. He wants to know what Downey constitutes as a serial killer. Downey is like, 'anyone who has killed, in a sequential manner, more than two people. If it's a mass killing, I'll leave that to the Watch. Unless it happens more than once. Then it drops into serial killer bucket.'
Vetinari points out that this is a very low bar. The scope is wider than the ocean. The Assassins' Guild could lump so many people into that category. Really, if it's so broad, Vetinari isn't sure the definition is entirely useful. Downey beams at him.
#downey is a mischievous sort when he wants to be#comes out every few years#the inner Elf that's like 'what if we had more chaos and i watched things burn'#and Vetinari is like: no.#he hauls out the file he has of people he needs Taken Care Of But It's Not Pressing and takes out a hit on a couple of them#to keep Downey entertained#Vetinari is like: have you thought about giving yourself an insanely intense research project?#Downey is like: great idea. Weapons Design! The Gunne But Better And More Artful#Vetinari: HALT THAT THOUGHT. NO. NOPE. PUT THE IDEA BACK IN THE BOX DOWNEY#Downey: but what if I made it aesthetically pleasing and not so easy to kill people with. we do need to keep it challenging.#vetinari: I'm sending you on fifteen diplomatic and / or assassin missions over the next twelve months. that should calm you down.#Downey is a cat. sometimes he likes to knock things off the table because he is bored and it entertains him to do so.#discworld#lord downey#vetinari#ask#reply
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I love the pair dork ass mfs that are like "we would rather talk our way out of this peacefully but we are not beyond beating you into paste"
#LIKE#the amount of times he's like so satisfied w her being all honorable and kind and wanting to do what's right and shit#but then you have moments on gorgon where he's like#how diplomatic :] I would rather beat the shit out of them then have to do that again#rambling#aly shut the fuck up and be productive challenge#sometimes someone just deserves to get beat up okay. couples enrichment activities. bringing justice via their fists
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Just saw a bunch of atrocious wonder woman takes and I hate everything
Someone google nearest bridge to jump off of im so done w this
#people dont fucking understand the warrior culture thing and it pisses me off so much#wonder woman does no glorify violence. she does not aspire to combat or violence. peace and respect are the bedrock of amazon philosophy#the amazons are warriors for DEFENSE. specifically in that they are the reincarnated souls of victims of gender violence. who were brought#back as warriors to defend other women in the ancient world from gender violence. violence they were AGAIN subjected to when they were#captured and assaulted by heracles and his men. then the themyscirans split from the rest of the amazons bc they dont want to answer this#violence with more violence. and then they listen to the call of the gods who bring them to themyscira#and ok this part is pretty victim blamey and awful in terms of their whole assault generally but anyways on themyscira they are specifically#tasked with protecting dooms doorway and keeping the monsters there locked up. they stayed warriors to defend people#like it is ALWAYS about finding peace and doing the least harm possible. do not maim if you can subdue dont subdue if you can pacify dont#raise your hand at all until youve first extended it ET CETERA (probly mangled the quote there but you get it)#like she will always take the most peaceful option and the one that does harm. BUT if she is left with a choice between her doing harm to a#villain and the villain harming someone shell fuck whoever up. and if theres really NO other way she will kill a bitch. no regrets either#wonder woman didnt even intent to be a superhero!!! at her core shes literally an AMBASSADOR it just so happens that her culture sees#defending others from harm as a duty. so in doing that she is doing her job as an ambassador and themysciran and ofc a person#but SHE IS NOT VIOLENT. she only uses violence in the last resort to prevent violence. for defense. this is something she does bc she thinks#its right but its also an aspect of her job. which is living by themysciran culture and increasing understanding of it in mans world#shes a diplomat for christssake 😭#anyways ppl stop misinterpreting wondy and saying stupid shit abt her challenge#istg its like most people think shes like the 90s bana mighdall or artemis or something aka HER NARRATIVE FOILS like guys. please be serious#rant over i guess. why do i always do these in the tags ugh#blah#gonna make these tags a new post gimme a sec
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i can be trusted on a nature walk i promise. i promise i will walk at normal human speeds and you won't need a crowbar or anything to get me to move on from one particular bug or turtle
#brother today heard me pining for turtles and was like how about we stop by the pond and look for turtles#and there were turtles#and brother wanted to continue with his day#and i wanted to watch turtles until the heat death of the universe#this family is awash in diplomatic challenges.#suz yells
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#youtube#news#defense#usmilitary#Multilateralism#International Partnerships#Peacebuilding#ANTONY BLINKEN#Diplomatic Relations#Global Development#Global Cooperation#U.S. Secretary of State#Global Inclusion#Human Rights#Global Challenges#Soft Power#International Relations#Foreign Policy#International Diplomacy#Global Governance#Conflict Resolution#United Nations#Diplomacy#Political Leadership#cultural diplomacy#multilateralism#peacebuilding#Antony Blinken#diplomacy strategies
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2nd Meeting, UN International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East 2024.
At a time of alarmingly escalated crisis, this year's event will bring together journalists, media professionals, scholars and diplomats from Israel, the State of Palestine, Switzerland, and other parts of the world to examine two very pertinent themes: "Freedom of the Press and Safety of Journalists in a Time of War" and "Behind the Headlines of Gaza: Media Challenges and Perspectives."
Watch the 2nd Meeting, UN International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East 2024!
#Freedom of the Press#media perspectives#media challenges#safety of journalists#Behind the Headlines#media professional#journalists#Palestinian question#scholars#diplomats#peace in the middle east#seminars#in a time of war
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