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YELLOWJACKETS | 2.08 "It Chooses"

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YELLOWJACKETS | 2.08 "It Chooses"

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every week people are like 'yeah coach ben is next :/' AND HE SURVIVES EVERY WEEK i love it. king who refuses to die no matter how hard the narrative tries to kill him <3

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Promise, if we meet again, that we’ll be friends. ANN RIZUNA and HIKARI KUINA in ALICE IN BORDERLAND (2020 - 2022)

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each of us would be forever connected by our shared experience, and each would have to rejoin the world as best he could. 

@hbowardaily secret santa happy holidays @currahee (@pechesenboite)!! ♡ {insp.}

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#and NOTHING for that other bitch tyler #bye!!

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The human heart is a beautiful thing. Human life is precious. I believe that, truly. And when I look at my life, I know I've been able to survive because of those ideals.

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asphyxiate 

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Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors

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If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away.

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Daemon Targaryen and his braid

↳ House of the Dragon || 1.03 Second of His Name

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Xiao Chuo, Empress Dowager Chengtian

Xiao Chuo, 953– 1009 (Liao dynasty), was empress to Emperor Jingzong (Yelü Xian) of the northern Liao dynasty.  Xiao Chuo is often known by her childhood name, Yanyan, and in some sources by her posthumous title, Empress Ruizhi. Most commonly known as Empress Dowager Chengtian (Chengtian taihou), after the death of her husband she served as regent for her son Yelü Longxu (Emperor Shengzong) until her death, fought alongside him on the battlefield, and is credited with brokering the influential Treaty of Shanyuan (1005) with the Northern Song dynasty.

During Jingzong’s reign, Chengtian aided the emperor in managing government affairs, accompanied him to the front on occasion, and handled affairs of state during his many absences. The Kitan guozhi adds that his officials and generals all went to Chengtian to discuss important matters, and once a decision had been reached, they informed Jingzong so that it could be promulgated in his name. The emperor was often ill and sometimes unable to direct the sporadic warfare along the border in which the Liao were often engaged. Even in matters concerning wars with the Song, Chengtian was “the actual ruler of the Kitan and decided all matters.” When the Kitan made war in “Yi, Ding, You, and Yan prefectures, it was the empress who made the decisions and sent out the signals.”

Chengtian excelled in administration, which required competency in both Chinese and the Kitan written language as well as organizational skills. As noted by modern scholars, “while Chengtian was alive, there was no question of who was ultimately in control; these great ministers of state were the empress dowager’s men.” Furthermore Chengtian “was no capricious tyrant, but a ruler who deeply understood the realities of power and the art of governance and who was always willing to listen to advice. She won the deep loyalty of Liao officials, Kitan and Chinese alike.”

Sources: Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications), Linda C. Johnson; Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China

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the biological, adopted and known foster children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of Austria 

The King and Queen generally fostered the siblings of their adopted children, who were systematically taken care of on the Queen’s expense. They included at least the three siblings of Armand Gagné, two siblings of Ernestine Lambriquet, and the two eldest sisters of Zoé. It’s possible more children were fostered with no specific ties to the adopted ones, though only Armand, Ernestine and Zoé lived at Court with the Royal Family.

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favorite i medici costumes | francesco’s dramatic Villain Cape™

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SIENA ROSSO + operas performed in BRIDGERTON season one