#family retreat

[toyastales]

The bold choice of the color green is the focal point of this space.

[theyeartochange]

Rustic Bedroom Boston

Ideas for a sizable, rustic master bedroom renovation with a dark wood floor

[planetbabel]

Bathroom - Rustic Bathroom a medium-sized master bathroom with a dark wood floor and white walls in the mountain style.

[bishopillustration]

An illustration of a medium-sized, gray, two-story, wood exterior home design Example of a mid-sized mountain style gray two-story wood exterior home design

[klllerwithin]

Basement Milwaukee Large beach style walk-out porcelain tile, beige floor and tray ceiling basement game room photo with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

[flavorsims]

Rustic Bedroom Boston Ideas for a sizable, rustic master bedroom renovation with a dark wood floor

[charlunday]

it's okay to be sad. 💛

[luckyreds]

Hmmm yuri webgott…

[uncanny-tranny]

I think what might actually help the families of trans loved ones is to actually engage with where the trans person is at - especially if the family isn't quite understanding yet. When I came out, I was completely alone in figuring out my manhood. I had peers and I had exposed myself to so many trans people who explored gender, and while it was amazing, it isn't quite the same at times. I grieve quietly, sometimes, about all the missed opportunities that might have just made it easier for my family to have seen how utterly happy I was. It took them a very long time to actually notice that I was happy, especially once I got on testosterone. I'm lucky that they saw that happiness eventually, and slowly accepted it. My manhood is completely detached from their influence, both to my relief and chagrin. It's sad to me that I learned to shave from a kind online stranger, somebody who didn't even have a father and yet, I do. I have a father. I grieve at the loss of a potential shared experience. I grieve about the pain I went through when I was in that stage of transition, especially because it was raw and vulnerable. I grieve that many trans people today are traversing the path I had to, because it's sometimes lonely (even when you do have other forms of support).

It's hard to know that I will never have gotten my sense of being from my family. In many ways, it has severed a lot of connection with them because there were so many times that I was begging them to see happiness when they were focused on the idea that I was almost in a state of purgatory - flesh which felt warm but held no familiarity to them. I don't harbor ill-will toward them, I hope I don't leave the impression that I despise them. I understand what they felt, even if I can't conceptualize it myself. However, it's a raw wound in my heart, and I don't want to leave anybody else feeling that way, either.

[borgialucrezia]

"One thing that I've always said about Juan is that every action that he does is heartfelt and genuine. When it was the war against the French, he was there and he was going to go to war, even though he knew he was going to die. He saw them getting ripped apart, but he was there and he was going to do it. I believe if Lucrezia hadn't come over, he would have led all his troops into death. I don't think there's anything that he's done which was through general cowardice. In terms of his survival, he died how he lived, and that's laudable, in itself." — David Oakes.

[josefavomjaaga]

Battle of Vyazma (3 Nov 1812)

as told in the book "Die Deutschen in Russland 1812", by Paul Holzhausen, Berlin 1912. This French defeat is reported mostly from the perspective of Bavarian cavalry officers, as their regiments had been attached to Eugène de Beauharnais’ Fourth Corps. Holzhausen explains the situation and the context:

The 8th Army Corps marched in front with the guards.

(That’s pretty much confirmed by this letter from Junot to Laure, showing that 8th Corps on 9 November was already at Smolensk.)

Both troop units and the Emperor had already passed the town of Vyazma, occupied by Ney and being approached by the 4th and 5th Corps (Eugène and Poniatowski). Davout, who was leading the rearguard until then, was still behind. In this critical situation, the French were attacked on the left flank by Miloradovich, the most enterprising of the Russian leaders alongside Wittgenstein. The Russians' intention was to cut off the 1st Corps. If they had carried out this plan in the defile of Zarevo-Saimiche, which lay somewhat to the rear (towards Gjatsk), Davout stood exposed. But even as things stood, he was in the most precarious position and only managed to push through with heavy losses.

Here he was helped by Eugène, who - like Napoleon himself later at Krasnoi - returned to support his beleaguered brother-in-arms. The engagement at Vyazma was characterised by four different moments, in the last of which the French managed to enter the town itself, around which they camped under difficult circumstances. As always in the Emperor's absence, command of the French was not homogeneous; but, as with Malo-Jaroslawetz, the glory of the day belongs primarily to Eugène. Accounts of the tactical evolutions again differ widely. How differently the individual events are narrated may be shown by the interesting fact that the Bavarians standing with the viceroy's corps do not even agree among themselves about the position taken by the individual regiments, whether on the right or left of the Moscow road. On the other hand, it is certain that they held their ground very well, and since several of their regiments are making their last united appearance here, we will follow up with a few special reports. [...]

Of which I’ll only translate one:

Major v. Bieber describes the attack of his regiment as follows: ‘Our fourth regiment, still about 130 horses strong, was that day on the tête of Fourth Corps, having just entered into direct communication with the third under Ney, which had already occupied the defile beyond Vyazma a day earlier. It had scarcely advanced within half an hour of Vyazma, when suddenly an extremely violent cannonade, accompanied by small-arms fire, arose in the rear, and in a moment had spread forward even to Fourth Corps. The viceroy, very close to the fourth regiment, ordered Colonel Seyssel to march up on the left of the road, while he endeavoured to occupy the heights on either side of the road, slightly to the rear, with his infantry. General Preysing had to move with the three other regiments to the right of the road, where the enemy had the most cavalry. When the viceroy had organised his line of battle and the corps of Davout and Poniatowski, particularly heavily attacked by the enemy, began to move through it, and when an enemy dragoon regiment en ligne approached the large road, presumably to attack a square of Poles still retreating in the hollow of the position, he ordered the fourth regiment to move up a hill, in order to support this square. Once in the valley, a hill was soon discovered which made it possible to set up behind it, as if in hiding. The fourth regiment must have been about an hour behind this hiding place when the aforementioned enemy dragoon regiment, about 300 horses strong, really did advance en fronte across the road at a trot to attack the square of Polish infantry. The enemy cavalry advanced in good order to within 300 paces of the square, without having any idea of the hiding place of the fourth regiment, when suddenly, after the enemy had reached the same height, the latter burst from its ambush with its usual vigour, striking first at the enemy's right flank and causing such confusion that each of the enemy sought his salvation in a quick flight. As chance would have it, a trench running parallel to the enemy artillery, several feet deep and wide, over which only a bridge about six feet wide allowed passage, stopped the enemy cavalry on their flight and thus completed the defeat. . . . The defeat of the enemy was considerable, and about 40 horsemen with as many horses fell into captivity. The loss on this side consisted of a few dead, wounded and prisoners’. Sadly, the report on this brilliant and, under the circumstances, particularly honourable act of war concludes: ‘This was the last affair in which the 4th Regiment took part as a regiment’.

[chevaliermalfets]

any other autistic people out there who just hate the movie elf???

[angsttronaut]

absolutely nuts that tigerheartstar took over riverclan for a while and there were no deaths.

[dazeddoodles]

An Au I might plan on doing something with later on. Human Au where Eda and Raine meet at a religous music camp.

(This idea came from me joking about Terra Snapdragon being that woman at a 90's Catholic music summer camp who gets suspicious at the two girls who become VERY close. Except in this case it's a girl and an nb)

After getting caught doing one too many pranks at school. Eda is given the option of either suspension or being forced to spend that summer at a religous camp to "learn moral values" (but it's basically to punish her). While there she meets Raine who has been coming to this camp every year.

Because Eda and Raine would have been teenagers in the 90's. Raine has been lying and saying they're a girl for safety reasons, and therefore sleeps in the girls cabin with Eda. (You can INTERPRET Raine as bring AFAB in this Au. But either way they're still lying about being a girl since they identify as nonbinary.)

Eda and Raine end up sleeping in the beds next to each other. Because Raine has been coming there every year, they know how to sneak in snacks and offers Eda juice. They recognize that Eda is a rulebreaker and therefore not a snitch.

Because of this, once they quickly become friends, Raine let's Eda in on their secret that they are actually nonbinary. Meaning that they are neither girl nor boy. This is the first time Eda has heard that term (again 90's) but still understands and agrees to keep their secret.

Terra is the homophobic camp counselor as well as the chaperone for Raine and Eda's specific cabin, and is awfully suspicious as why these two "girls" are so close with each other.

She had always been had her eye on, and was suspicious of Raine because she thought they "looked like a lesbian". (They were a "girl" with a "boy's haircut" and "dressed like a boy".) And is even more so now that they're constantly hanging out with the new girl, when previous years they kept to themselves.

Eda overhears Terra tell this to another counsler and brings it up to Raine to make fun of Terra for making assumptions about people. Only for Raine to confirm that do actually like girls.

That night Eda realizes that she might have a crush on Raine. And contemplates if that means she's gay, since before now she's only had crushes on boys.

Eda does think Raine is SO cool. For one thing, they know they're nonbinary, they know they're gay, and are confident with that. While Eda herself is struggling to accept that she's bi.

Meanwhile Raine thinks Eda is so cool because she's a rulebreaker, in more ways than one in the specific scenario, that doesn't care what others think about her. But in reality they're BOTH afraid of being found out.

Eda is more so afraid because she has to come to terms that she IS gay and everyone else knowing too. While Raine is more afraid because of the consequences that come from not only being gay but trans as well. If anything, they're more afraid than Eda, since they're under more suspicion than her.

Over the summer both Eda and Raine come to accept they have feelings for each other. And on the last day of camp they both have their first kiss in secret in one of the girls bathroom stalls, thinking they would never see each other again. Only for them to end up going to the same highschool...