#palace coup

[culturevulturette]

I do!

[commonsensecommentary]

Was Joe Biden stabbed in the back by Kamala Harris? Seems a bit suspicious that Anita Dunn convinced Biden to do an early debate, which sank his re-election, and now she’s taking a top campaign job with Harris. Cackling Kamala will, as a result, grab the Democratic nomination without having to enter (much less win) a single Presidential primary. If we actually had journalists in America anymore, they would be asking questions about this palace coup.

[culturevulturette]

In a sane world, it would be in the top 3, and widely trumpeted by a a free mainstream press. But we're not in a sane world, and there is no free mainstream press.

[tomorrowusa]

This war will end when Russia has understood it was a mistake.

Historian, journalist, and analyst Anne Applebaum on MSNBC.

Before long Russia is going to run out of convicts forced to take part in suicidal human wave attacks against Ukrainian forces.

The latest estimate of Russian losses via Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence. Russia almost has to try to end up losing a combination of 10,235 main battle tanks and armored personnel carriers in just over a year. That’s an average of roughly 27 such vehicles per day. It is currently dusting off old tanks which were built when The Beatles were together.

People in Russia can agitate to convince at least some in the leadership that the war is a mistake. It takes just a few people near the top and some cojones to conduct a palace coup.

Russian wives and mothers call on Putin to stop sending mobilized men ‘to the slaughter’

[petricorah]

meeting on the fire nation stairs [ids in alt]

[ciderbird]

It was Pahlen who announced the sinister news to Alexander, and when the young man burst into tears, he thrust him forward with “That’s enough of being a child! Go reign. Show yourself to the guards!”

“The Death of Paul Announced to Alexander”, 1881 black and white wood engraving

[illustratus]

The Coup d'État of 18-19 Brumaire - General Bonaparte in the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) at Saint-Cloud, 10th November 1799

by François Bouchot

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Mega betrayed by everyone 😞😭

Putin betrayed him, Iran betrayed him, because he refused to make any concessions with Turkey

[sexygayvampire]

thinking about archon dorian/mae yet again but i haven’t been at that point in the game on a save minrathous run in a minute so i can’t recall the specific dialogues about it. i know radonis’s heir fled to nevarra but like. how the hell could we just pick the new archon again. doesn’t the magisterium hold a vote in the event of an archon not having an heir. you know what i shouldn’t think about it too hard

sorry i am going to keep thinking about it actually. so if i’m reading this right a magister isn’t eligible to become archon at all. then why does dorian—no i can’t do this it’s 3 in the morning. i need to get my hands on a copy of the world of thedas vol 1 (and vol 2 while i’m at it) it would make me so much worse

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

I'm going to need writers of period dramas and pseudohistorical fantasy shows to tell me how heavily guarded they think a palace/castle is.

I've seen far too many "easily infiltrating a palace" plots recently that hinge on these basically being big houses that you can walk into instead of fortresses.

[dullahandyke]

Reading the Canterbury tales like Wow she needs to kill her husband Wow she also needs to kill her husband Wow she also happens to need to k

[swordmaid]

still thinking about the haikaveh 13 going on 30 inspired au .. like imagine kaveh going home drunk and upset after a bad meeting with a client. he’s presented his 8th draft of the project and there’s still something wrong with it. kaveh doesn’t want to compromise his own vision, and the client is adamant with his own, so they ended up just arguing instead of working on a compromise. then he goes to the tavern to cheer himself up but after a few drinks the bartender refused to serve him anymore since he still hasn’t paid his last tab and the bartender had been putting his current one under alhaitham’s. so kaveh goes home, drunk and upset at his client and also at the thought that he’ll owe alhaitham even more.

and when kaveh goes home alhaitham is lounging on a sofa and the books kaveh asked for him to clean isn’t put away yet. that little detail ticked him off - here’s alhaitham who doesn’t have any work to do at home and yet he doesn’t even bother to do the one thing kaveh asks him for. meanwhile kaveh has to go home late from a meeting that didn’t earn him anything and he’s even more in debt after alhaitham finds out about his tab. so, kaveh’s already drunk and upset and NOW annoyed he starts to argue with alhaitham. first it’s the fact that alhaitham hasn’t cleared away his books yet. then, alhaitham points out that he’s over-exerting himself for a client that’s not even paying him (he doesn’t need to be reminded of that!) then, kaveh argues that instead of trying to point out his failings why can’t he just console his clearly upset and stressed roommate like everyone else and if he was more compassionate about other people, maybe he’ll get along with other people better!! then cue the petty argument exploding into something bitter. kaveh is upset, drunk, and rambling, going on and on about how he doesn’t want to keep sacrificing his artistic integrity, and why can’t people just appreciate his art, and it would’ve been better if he never met alhaitham to begin with so he won’t be indebted to him and maybe his life wouldn’t turn out so badly. the argument only ends after alhaitham goes into his room clearly upset – the kind of upset kaveh was all too familiar with all those years ago — and now kaveh feels shitty and hurt and drunk and he wants to vomit so he passes out on the couch.

then, he wakes up in a room clearly different from their house.

the architectural style of the room is a marriage between the tumbling vines and glass windows of sumeru and the rigid structures and flow of fontaine’s. the couch he’s sleeping on isn’t the green divan alhaitham is fond of ; it’s a blue chaise with velour fabric that’s half as soft.

kaveh panics, looks around the room, then finds achievements displayed on the wall: articles and papers praising his name, pictures with the liyue qixing infront of a renovated and expanded golden house, one next to the fontaine archon besides an opulent theatre. there are articles of his latest creations, interviews with the man himself headlining the steambird, written papers and thesis about architecture published in the akademiya. kaveh learns that he’s not the light of kreshrarewar anymore ; he’s the most famous and accomplished architect in all of teyvat.

but alhaitham is not here anymore.

[planetofaesthetics]

Childhood & Teen Crushes (aka “Boys I Loved Before”) Aesthetic | Peter II 

[nickysfacts]

Well at least he lived up to his name!😂

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[fhear]

'PALACE COUP': Trump reacts to Biden's 'terrible' Oval Office address

[liberty1776]

Bush Crime Family: The... Saint John Hunt, Roger... Best Price: $3.40 Buy New $5.99 (as of 05:30 UTC - Details) At 7:16 pm on 20 July, the Joe Biden Twitter account posted that the upcoming election “is the most important … of our lifetimes” and said “I will win it.” According to the New York Times, this tweet went up hours after Biden had already resolved to leave the presidential race. That article tells us the ageing president spent the afternoon and evening of Saturday with his close adviser Steve Richetti and his speechwriter and strategist Mike Donilon drafting a resignation … Continue reading →