#the winter palace

[hoiist]

[gravedigg]

Representatives of the Inquisition, tucked away from the din at the Winter Palace.

[apoemaday]

The Winter Palace

by Philip Larkin

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university.

And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints,

And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I’ve never been in certain places.

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.

Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.

[vladimirka]

old Dragon Age Inquisition x BKDK

[wolfwhisperertf]

These two have me giggling and kicking my feet!

[animezinglife]

"I thought you didn't dance." "For you, I'll try."

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

my girl's out here playing her own fucken game

she DOES NOT like gaspard, but DOES like the idea of briala having official power to help the elves when leliana brings it up.

she thinks about the locket she found: celene obviously still loves briala, and briala definitely still has feeling for celene, even after all *gestures widely at 'the masked empire'*

the wheels in her head start turning, and she's certain she can make this work out how she wants.

emmaera's not really a big manipulator, but it's really only celene that's getting it, and orlesian nobles are fair game tbh

[moonlightheretic]

"Don't tell me.... Are you jealous of this frock?" "Most certainly. I would rather see layers of such...outspoken fabrics festooning at your ankles, a pity it must only remain a thought."

[cansofbees]

halamshiral

[worker-and-soldier]

Two portraits of Alexander Kerensky painted in 1917 by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, along with a photograph of Kerensky in the same year and location (the former Tsar's library in the Winter Palace).

Source, with more interesting information.

[hotcocoandmarshmallows]

If I had a nickle for every European palace that was stormed by revolutionaries and then turned into an art museum (in this chapter of my textbook) I would have three nickles. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened 3 times.

[thedreadfulwolf]

going for a public truce in wewh because I just know Mharaven doesn't give a damn who's on the throne has long as the worried about the world ending threat

like "idk you're all assholes just focus for a moment"

[starshiningsirius]

FROM ANASTASIA! 🤔😫🫠😩

The Winter Palace / The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg; photo by @memory-of-the-romanovs

[postcard-from-the-past]

Russian Imperial Romanov family arriving to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia

Russian vintage postcard

[grimweaver]

🎊 Oh, yeah! Tal-Vashoth Inquisitor is slaying it!! 🎊