...keep Your Enemies Closer

I‘m sorry

slightly older giorno with his hair down… 

‘the young prince, they began calling him. not the one-year-old heir to the throne in kyoto—but him. the rumours that overran the shogun’s retinue were wild and breathless; he was barely two or three centuries old, how could he be anything but an infant? wasn’t this all ridiculous, some of them hissed, being cowed and threatened by a child. but no—it was clear when i came face to face with him for the first time, in the shadow of the ships intruding in uraga harbour; tall and strong and already a man, forged in steel and gunpowder.’ 

1850s 

“Ah — Good thing my siblings aren’t around to hear that. I’d never live it down if they did,”

end of american isolationism 

OMAR RUDBERG & EDVIN RYDING via Lisa Ambjörn on TikTok (x)

Austria, Prussia, and Russia – Europe’s REAL bad trio

inspired by a post made by @kisamesfacioplegia tbh

Napoleon I … Finally

night at the museum is a franchise I wouldn’t have gotten sick of. they could have tried shoving 8 sequels and an animated series down my throat and I would have ate that shit up

Nightfall: A study in eyes