#thirty years' war

[solnunquamoccidit]

La rendición de Breda

by Diego Velázquez (Sevillian, 1599 - 1660) oil on canvas (367 × 307 cm), c. 1935

Real Sitio del Buen Retiro / Museo del Prado

[james-vi-stan-blog]

When was war sent as a blessing, or peace as a punishment?

— Thomas Middleton in The Peace-maker, a propaganda work in favor of James I's peace policy, 1618

[risingmoonyue]

Star Wars AU where the council time travels back to when Obi-Wan was still an itty-bitty baby initiate. Including, you know. Council Member Obi-Wan Kenobi. So they’re all in their younger bodies and talking with the current non-time traveling members of the council, and they’re like “hold on, we got one more coming in”

And in walks in like. Nine year old Initiate Obi-Wan, all chubby-cheeked with fluffy bright red hair, and giant blue eyes.

Just. Their faces, okay?

Now keep in mind I want the council to always be Up To Shenanigans. I’m talking like 2015 Avengers tower found family era fics okay, they’re one big family and Obi-Wan is now super officially The Baby and literally nothing he does will ever stop that again. And despite everything, every single council member is, at heart, incredibly petty in that special Jedi family way and are so ready to not be dealing with a war Right This Very Minute.

What I keep picturing is Baby-Wan wiggling his way into a chair, situating himself Very Regally, then clasping his hands in classic Negotiator style, then speaking up with the Most Serious Of Tiny Baby Voices as the main spokesperson on the Council Of Petty Time Travelers

I just want to see people not in the know

I want Jedi of all ages witnessing Jedi masters, councilmen and women, long lived and wisest of the Jedi, coming to the crèche to visit tiny lil Baby-Wan about his opinions on current events and how they should handle this treaty and also when are you free I want to test my soresu

I just think it’d be funny

[ominouspuff]

just wanna say your art is PHENOMENAL! omfg your Commander Fox art has me screaming with how badass it is!

There’ll be no living with him now

Thank you so much!! This is sweet of you to reach out to say; I’m glad you’re enjoying!!

[mapsontheweb]

Germany in 1618-1648

[leonanette]

"Two ways to view the world so similar at times

Two ways to rule the world to justify their crimes

By kings and queens young men are sent to die in war

Their propaganda speaks those words been heard before

Two ways to view the world brought Europe Westeros down in flames

Two ways to rule

Has man gone insane?

A few will remain

Who’ll find a way

To live one more day

Through decades long years of war

It spreads like disease,

There’s no sign of peace

Religion Succession and greed

Cause millions to bleed

Three decades long years of war

From dawn to dawn they’re fighting,

Die where they stand

The fog of war lies thick

When armies scorch the land.

When all of Europe’s Westeros's burning

What can be done?

They’ve been to war a decade long year,

Two more to come

Long way from home

Döpas och dö I strid

Lifetime at war

Has man gone insane?

A few will remain

Who’ll find a way

To live one more day

Through decades long years of war.

It spreads like disease,

There’s no sign of peace.

Religion Succession and greed

Cause millions to bleed.

Three decades long years of war.

When they face death they’re all alike

No right or wrong, rich or poor

No matter who they served before

Good or bad, they’re all the same

Rest side by side now

Has man gone insane?

A few will remain

Who'll find a way

To live one more day

Through decades long years of war?

It spreads like disease

There's no sign of peace

Religion Succession and greed

Cause millions to bleed

Three decades long years of war..."

Lyrics: A Lifetime of War by Sabaton (slightly altered - to fit House of the Dragon - by me)

I'm not trying to be deep with this. I just have this song stuck in my head and, now, so do you.

[illustratus]

Alatriste (2006) by Agustín Díaz Yanes | The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez

[bantarleton]

French soldiers of the Thirty Years War by Giorgio Albertini, for the forthcoming Helion book “French Armies of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648” by Stéphane Thion. The upper figure is a musketeer c. 1628 - 1635, and the lower an ensign of the Gardes Françaises between 1620 and 1630.

[bestworstcase]

looks up. i regret to inform you all that i’ve seen another post today. the faunus woman who led vacuo during the great war was not a queen and almost certainly not of royal descent as the asturias family claims to be: it is stated repeatedly in the CFVY novels that the last time vacuo had any kings or queens was centuries ago and that very little of the historical record has been preserved (with 9.11 reiterating the novels’ point that this is a consequence of colonial occupation in the intervening centuries).

and from the world of remnant episodes pertaining to vacuo and the great war, we know that modern-day vacuo did not have a formal government until after the great war; it was not a state, it was an occupied territory under mistrali control. the faunus woman who led vacuo’s forces was the leader of the vacuan movement for independent statehood and likely became a member of the ruling council established after the war—which is now defunct and has been de facto replaced by shade academy.

please. BLEASE. the great war began about ninety years ago it has not even been a century. the vacuan monarchy is “ancient history.” finn talks about his mother—who would have been a contemporary of nicholas schnee, who was born right after the great war—and her mother, who would have lived through the great war, and his grandmother’s father, and his grandmother’s grandfather, and his grandmother’s grandfather’s mother. rumpole—who is an actual historian—flat out states that it was so long ago, and war and colonization so thoroughly degraded the historical record, that all that remains is legends and uncertain guesswork.

the asturiases having no blood relation to the faunus woman who led vacuo in the great war doesn’t prove or disprove anything because even if she did style herself a queen and claim royal descent the vacuan monarchy ended so long ago that her claim would have been unverifiable mythmaking too.

[swordmaid]

have this very specific post canon au jb in mind and it’s essentially jaime trying to woo and court her but respectfully chastely and in a way that’s befitting a noble lady but brienne thinks they’re just hanging out

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

During the Great War:

Ulfric Stormcloak: *strapped to a table, gagged, helpless*

Spy!Leara: *boops his nose*

[fictionadventurer]

Imagine what it must have been like for Mark Twain to see Ulysses S. Grant write his memoirs. Twain's a successful career author, who, like all writers, knows firsthand the struggle of getting words on a page, knows how painstakingly slow and frustrating the writing process can be. And here's Grant, with no literary training whatsoever, dying of cancer, barely sleeping or eating because of the excruciating pain, regularly writing 10,000 words a day. And it's good.

I'd be tempted to give up writing right there. How do you compete with that? You can't be jealous of the guy, because of the whole "dying of cancer" thing, and yet...it's gotta just about drive you nuts. It just about drives me nuts. In good health, I can work for hours to get a few sentences on a page. And then this guy's showing us all up. It's maddening.

[g4rdensofb4bylon]

if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???

[saym0-0]

headcanon all the bots and the ais all have access to the spg social media accounts straight from their brains and dont have their own personal accounts so the spg twitter is extremely active from like 8 robots all browsing at the same time. they have to sign off with their initial/name,, sometimes you get massively long threads thats just them talking to each other on the same account from literally 4 rooms apart

[mapsontheweb]

Population loss in the area of modern-day Germany during the 30 Years War.

by Arminius1871

[0mega-x]

Studying History for school ❌️

Studying History for a Hetalia fanfiction ✔️