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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

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Marie Antoinette's Private Chambers at Versailles

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My “Old Century Manor Painting Set for TS4″ has been released, Download @ Regal Sims

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Homo Sapiens boy together again with his Neanderthal girl on the first warm day of Spring

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The fifth cellar and the lake under the Opera house

The fifth cellar under the stage of the Opera Garnier still features the original stage machinery which was used to move trapdoors, set pieces and elevators. The entrance to the underground lake is located here, but access to the lake is extremely restricted.

The entrance to the lake is rather inconspicuous. There is a cage around it to make sure no unauthorized person can access it.

The ladder that descends into the lake. The lake itself holds ground water in a concrete basin. The water is fairly clean, it smells a bit like a fish tank. It is not a part of the sewer system! There apparently used to be a couple of fish living in the lake, but they are no longer there.

The water level was quite high when we visited, but when it is lower, it would be very much possible to use a boat down there. As the ceiling is low and curved, it probably makes sense that in the novel, Erik sits down and rows the boat, instead of standing up with the risk of hitting his head on the ceiling.

The (now modern) door to the fifth cellar

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1754 Jean Valade - Louis de Silvestre

(Louvre Museum)

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Fortune

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Why do you like birds so much ?

b o i

HAVE YOU SEEN BIRDS.

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The First Sight of Moscow by Laslett John Pott

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Napoleon’s first meeting with Junot 😢💘

I don’t really like how it turned out, but I also don’t care anymore so I went with watercolour 😖 Please please please ignore my horrible handwriting. Also, I’m still not sure what Junot actually looks like. What’s his hair colour or eye colour? I guess he powdered his hair or something

Anyways, I reallyyyy don’t wanna go running today. I’m so tired, I could sleep and sleep and sleep forever! 😮‍💨

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why do you think it's so common for writers to insert themselves into their stories?

I don't know.

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Another day goes by, another sulking Napoleon pic

Or he might be sleeping. Idk

Chez la Vieille, Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq

Location: Musée Napoléon at Brienne-le-Château

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORYYYYYY

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

VSSSSS

THE FUCKIJG COLD

BEGIN

Napoleon: I’m the emperor of Europe, my name is Napoleon-

*the cold interrupts*

*his entire army fucking dies*

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Napoleon: dude what the fuck

WHO WON

WHOS NEXT

YOU DECIIIIIIIDEEEEE

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A French Blue Silk Habit de Ville Complete Frock Coat - Napoleonic Period, 1805

Provenance from the Mallet-Oberkampf family, Protestant ruling elites and close to Emperor Napoleon I, who awarded the Legion of Honour to Oberkampf in 1806. This ensemble by its quality materializes the technological advances of the industry at the service of the Fashion of the Empire, advocated by the famous fashion merchant of the empress, Louis Hippolyte Leroy.

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I’m not sure exactly how to articulate it but—there is this bizarre base assumption i see from people discoursing about children’s media, and that’s the assumption that children are somehow unfamiliar with negative emotions. Like, maybe you’ve managed to completely forget your entire life before you turned eighteen, but kids spend a lot of time being hurt, and scared, and angry. A lot of people had terrible fucking childhoods, and a lot of kids are having terrible fucking childhoods right now. When i was a child, and i read books where bad things happened to kids, that was in no way shocking to me, i already knew bad things happened to children. It made me feel more connected to those stories, not less, and it made it more impactful when those child characters overcame it all in the end. That’s important for children. A lot of them are in desperate need of a little hope, and they aren’t going to get it from nothing stories with no conflict. They put conflict in children’s media for a reason

Also i see some of you handwringing over child protagonists going through, like, the most basic hero’s journey. Please, for the love of god, realize that you as an adult are going to understand children’s media differently than the actual kids it’s intended for. Because you’re all grown up now, you aren’t going to be able to relate to a child protagonist. You’re going to see a child in danger. The children the story is meant for are going to see a kid like them who is able to face hardship and triumph