#the making of a tsar

[nidstiniens]

it's like a million o'clock and no one will see this but i finally got scales working and i'm freaking oUT

next step will be glowing scars and recoloring the scales... and then i think his entire upper body will be done??

[loyyvie]

bilip bilip bilip

@nopanamaman

[elvencantation]

russian childhood movies: the tale of tsar saltan

[myffithealienn]

Pafltober day 18 theme was normal world and i went into a thought process that made a lot of sense in my head but then i realized i went super off track so now its dasha and tsar yuri

[ciderbird]

Alexander’s message to Napoleon to start peace negotiations is so funny like

‘was constantly the object of my desire’ oh really Alex? Was it the object of your desires when you refused the peace talks for the upteenth time for no reason? Or when you went out of your way to go to Berlin to make a cringefail pact with Frederick William III where you promised him Hanover only for him to sue for separate peace with Napoleon like two weeks later? Or when you could back out of Austerlitz disaster but decided to send your resident shit talker francophobe Prince Dolgoruki to Napoleon’s camp instead?

I am going to throw a brick at this man!

Oh but also ‘I flatter myself that Emperor Napoleon and I will understand each other easily provided that we talk without intermediaries’

You can’t tell me he wasn’t fully planning to go to Tilsit to seduce his way out of this war

[lactodebillus-bulgaricus]

little bulgaria: hugs the nikephoros I skull cup while sleeping

teen bulgaria: hugs the baldwin I skull cup while sleeping

adult bulgaria: hugs a jar with tsar boris III's heart in it while sleeping

[77ngiez-archive]

anya dima and tsar need to team up to create the worlds shittiest fucking music

[sketchyspudley]

um so what if i

[moonshynecybin]

i really do need to write rosquez whitewater kayaking au don’t i. like actually and for real.

[doolallymagpie]

been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

[nedlittle]

[tarot-the-silly-one]

angy little guys communication

they'd be friends i think :)

[mixedupmysteries]

Headcanon that Tsar has begged Ivan to teach him how to drive, only to start screaming and freaking out whenever he tries to do anything in the car. He still really wants to learn but he can’t go for 5 seconds without panicking

[zanderbobs]

Kerensky publishing his memoir about the Russian Revolution in 1965 is so fucking funny bc he's beefing so hard with specific Bolsheviks that had been dead for YEARS at this point. Like Lenin had been dead for 41 years, Trotsky for 25. It's not like any of them are gonna fight back.

[ciderbird]

Treaty of Tilsit moodboard

[deborahpluckely]

The painting portrays the anguish and remorse on the face of the elder Ivan and the gentleness of the dying Tsarevich, forgiving his father with his tears.

To date, the painting has been targeted by vandals twice. 1913 was the first instance of this - when 29-year-old Abram Balashov, a well-to-do icon painter, stabbed the part of the canvas showing the faces of Ivan and his son with a knife, leaving three long slashes. As he did this, he screamed: “Enough of death, enough of bloodshed!” After learning about the incident, the Tretyakov’s gallery curator Georgy Khruslov took his own life by jumping under a train – ashamed that his staff didn’t keep the painting safe.