#the royal palace

[youngroyalsforever]

a. Portrait of French Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, founder of House of Bernadotte, royal family of Sweden

b. The portrait in the Cabinet Meeting Room at the Royal Palace, Stockholm

via Kungligaslotten

[postcard-from-the-past]

Gardens of the Royal Palace in Paris

French vintage postcard

[scoutingthetrooper]

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[lotus-pear]

on everyone's SOUL she's the least benched character in the entire game ‼️‼️

[grizouille]

Day 4 in Stockholm

Exploring History 🇸🇪🏰

Today I visited the Nobel museum, and honestly it was a bit disappointing. It feels like it's a museum that's better for school pupils. It was interesting to know more about the creator of the Nobel prize but it was too short. It is just a hall with things exhibited under glass. I was expecting more History about the creation of the prize.

In the afternoon I saw the Royal Palace. It was really pretty and big, but modest in a way. It's a beautiful palace and there are sooo many chandeliers. Beautiful. I want the same chairs at home 😂

I also visited the Three crowns museum, which is the gallery of the old castle, that was burnt at a moment. That's why they built the other castle, the one that still exists today.

[strialternatives]

bonus:

:inhales and slams hands on the desk: akechi. palace. pitch.

disclaimer: the setting for this is all about vibes and aesthetics, it kinda got away from me when i started hashing out the plot around it two months ago so now we're here. in hell. (i'll probably have to make a secondary post i made wayyy too many concepts,)

yes i made an ost for this idea, here is a youtube playlist of chill european jazz

AU details under the cut-

Akechi Goro's palace is "Ampitheatrum Doloris”.

KEYWORDS: Akechi Goro, Tokyo Highcourt, Amphitheater

Akechi's psyche is a massive collection of locked doors, puzzles, and contradictions. He wants to be seen but not understood—heard but never known, ect. This makes his palace infiltration a waking nightmare (affectionate).

His palace is made up of five main layers. They each mirror a stage of grief:

1) There is the outer layer of with the appearance of a Venice-esque water canal maze, there is a door that must be opened to reach the entrance to infiltrate the second layer underneath the amphitheater. The puzzle's actually pretty sentimental and revolves around Akechi's interest in literature.

(This layer is depression, Goro mourns what he lost and the fact that the choices he made for the sake of revenge ultimately led to nowhere. This is reflected in how desolate/meandering the outer layer feels, it is the largest and most time consuming part of the palace for this reason. It takes weeks to finish. AKA, Akira and Morgana have a terrible, no good, very bad month of May.) 

2) The Labyrinth under the amphitheater; it is full of shadows for the arena champion to use as fodder for the enjoyment of the masses. ‘Loki’ resides here—this layer’s theme loosely plays on the Minotaur myth. 

The only way to escape is through a pulley/elevator mechanism which leads to the surface after shattering the Champion’s chains by force. Loki taunts in Old Norse, but gives Akira (and the party by extension) genuine hints on how to escape.

(This layer is anger, Goro is always angry, about the hand he’s been dealt, the futility of his own actions, and the fact that his life has always been a dead end, written in the stars.)

3) The Audience Stands; full of human cognitions and Akechi’s former clients and fans, despite everything, like Sae, he sees them as ‘people’ and is disgusted by them. Their compliments are shallow and empty, surface level like Goro’s facade. Cognition Sae is delegated to a middle manager-type role, and leads Akira and Co. through puzzles.

Different cognitions from Akechi’s shitshow of a childhood throw riddles based around philosophy and the nature of justice at the party, if the answer is ‘wrong’, there’s a mini-boss fight. Answering everything correctly yields a prize—a key, this process is made difficult by all of Robin’s ‘hints’ (which the Thieves can directly ask for) being lies.

(Bargaining. Goro always thought he could still salvage his revenge despite his enemy being essentially invincible, even now deep down he thinks he can salvage all the effort and sacrifices he put in.)

4) The Stage; Robin Hood appears proper instead of in cameo appearances, this is the lead actor's stage. To earn the right to stand with him, Akira has to have to prove his worth in one-on-one combat while showing the crowd a rousing show. The goal is to use the key obtained in the bargaining layer to unlock the Performer's cuffs.

(Denial, Goro doesn’t believe he needs or deserves saving or a life outside of his revenge, he believes there is no other way forward.)

Hereward and the 'treasure' are in the Imperial box area, which I'll save for part 2 of this I think! The second half of this'll have less focus on the environments and more on general plot and character design.

EDIT: here's part two

[livesunique]

Herrenchiemsee, Herreninsel, Chiemsee lake, Bavaria, Germany

[coffeeandstrawberries]

Libraries of Frederick the Great at Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin and Neues Palais, Potsdam by Frank Burchert

[axoqiii]

another p5r art dump hiiiiieii 😢😢😢

[escapismsworld]

Charlottenburg Palace

1830

Christen Købke

[enhaflixer]

pjs - The Prince's Diaries - TEASER

💌 Synopsis: Jay Jongseong is a prince—refined, disciplined, and expected to marry a woman of his father’s choosing.

You, on the other hand, are just a college student struggling to keep up with rent—until a team of royal advisors shows up on your doorstep and tells you that you’re the lost princess of Genovia.

But royal life isn’t a fairytale, and duty doesn’t care about love.

Because when the clock strikes midnight on the constitutional deadline, you’ll have to choose: your country or your heart.

“If I were just Jay, not a prince, would you still choose me?”

Release Date: TBA

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The library is vast and silent, moonlight streaming through the tall windows, illuminating the spines of books older than either of you. A faint fire glows in the hearth, casting long shadows across the floor.

Jay locks the door behind you, turning the key slowly, deliberately.

When he turns back, there’s something different in his expression—something darker, something longing, something desperate.

“You locked the door,” he murmurs.

You nod, tilting your chin up as his fingers ghost over your waist. “It means I don’t want to waste a single second of the time we have left.”

Jay lets out a soft, wrecked sound. And then, suddenly—his lips are on yours.

It’s slow at first, like he’s memorizing the shape of you, but when your hands fist into his shirt, pulling him closer instead of pushing him away, something snaps.

His arms tighten around you, hands gripping your waist, pulling you against him as if he’s trying to imprint this moment into his bones. Because he knows this won’t last.

He presses you against the grand piano, the cool wood biting into your back, but you don’t care. Not when his breath is warm against your lips. Not when his fingers trace reverent lines down your spine.

“Tell me to leave,” he murmurs, voice wrecked with restraint.

“I won’t.”

And just like that, he’s yours.

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Reblog if you’d leave behind your entire life to be a secret princess (or if you’d fall for a prince who calls you “Your Highness” in private). 💌

[postcard-from-the-past]

Reception hall in the Royal Palace of Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[haliaiii]

yusuke doodle I colored in :)

[tippifunandprose]

every time I read about this Disney vs DeSantis thing and the bit about how the agreement doesn't end “until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England" all I can think about is some bumbling caper where the Florida government repeatedly tries to assassinate the entire royal family just to spite Disney

[lotus-pear]

11/20

[emmajh97]

He can dress up as professionally as he likes, he's still Takuto Maruki.