AFTER SUNDOWN | ดับแสงรวี | Official Trailer
only taylor could write a song about being thankful for all the girls he’s loved before and then turn around and write this shit lol
OMAR RUDBERG & EDVIN RYDING Young Royals Season 2 | Behind The Scenes #1
These two are the cutest 🥹❤️
Yagi Yusei as KIYOI SOU 美しい彼2 (2023), dir. Sakai Mai
The original tsundere 😂
You know, it's true we never really get to see what Laurent's court is like, but we do get to see these little hints, here and there. And one of those little hints has to do with fort maintenance.
Throughout Prince's Gambit, Damen (being both an expert general and also extremely judgy) gives us these little reviews of all the forts they go to on their journey.
Ravenel? Well-supplied, well-garrisoned, in excellent repair. Intimidatingly so. Fortaine, likewise.
Chastillon? Remarkable for the strength of its size and architecture; its maintenance draws no complaints from Damen, so we can assume it's in acceptably good shape.
Nesson? Barely tolerable. Bailleux? Even worse; it's in such poor repair that Laurent's men and Laurent himself sleep in tents rather than its barracks.
Aquitart, the only fort they visit that's held directly by Laurent? It's under-garrisoned but well-maintained, as though the staff there must do much with few resources.
Aquitart is up in the mountains, on inhospitable ground unsuitable for hunting or farming. The provisions and goods needed to maintain the fort and its garrison must be shipped from elsewhere, and what with the rocky mountain terrain shipping them there must be a pain in the ass. That same rocky terrain makes Aquitart strategically useless--Laurent does not want it to be the place from which he stages his campaign. But the fort is provisioned and clean and under good repair nonetheless, and the steward of the fort loves Laurent.
It's a little window into Laurent's way of doing things, compared with the regent's. Laurent does the best he can--does an admirably thorough job--with the minimal resources he has. The regent, who has comparably unlimited resources, squanders them.
And sure, Nesson and Bailleux are far from the border, but part of their function is to serve troops moving south to fight. Sending garrisons south from Arles is normal, frequent enough that it's odd for Laurent to have not done it before. And Laurent's force is an unusually small one. And Bailleux cannot perform the bare minimum of providing a clean and sturdy barracks for soldiers to sleep in. Nesson barely can.
Laurent might not be taking the expected direct route south from Arles, but surely soldiers from other parts of Vere also need stops along their way to the border. If the regent really cared about supply chains, about defense, about readiness for the war with Akielos he is courting, he'd be maintaining forts throughout the country. Instead, the only well-maintained forts besides Aquitart are the border forts and Chastillon. It seems the regent only bothers to take care of the forts absolutely critical for Vere's defense and the one he enjoys visiting personally.
Laurent, though. Laurent, with few resources and fewer friends. Laurent takes good care of his isolated, strategically-meaningless, resource-poor speck.
Official poster and character promotional photos for My Beautiful Man (Utsukushii Kare) Season 2, premiering on February 7
I'm so used to giving and now I get to receive 😭🥹
Lo mucho que te amé
Hay un libro que siempre veo cuando paso por la librería que se llama “lo mucho que te amé” de Eduardo Sacheri, el escritor argentino. No sé de qué se trata, parte de mi quiere leerlo y enterarme pero la otra prefiere dejarlo como un misterio sin resolver, algo de lo que me puedo imaginar una trata que probablemente no tenga nada que ver con lo que es en realidad. Me imagino muchas cosas, pero creo que con un título así puede ser parecido a lo que siento hoy. Esas palabras se me quedaron dando vueltas una y otra vez, “lo mucho que te amé”, y me hace pensar en todo lo que probablemente no sepas sobre lo que te amé. Y eso si es culpa de alguien, es culpa mía. Yo sé que no te dije lo que te debería haber dicho, al contrario, siempre digo las peores cosas que podría pensar, no es que no tenga filtro, es que cuando hablamos te veo a vos, no veo tu historia, no veo lo que te pasó, te veo a vos y te quiero contar desde las cosas más superfluas hasta las más difíciles, pensando que siempre me vas a entender, y que nunca te va a molestar. Quizás eso si es culpa tuya, quizás si me hubieras dicho que ese nunca se iba a transformar en un “todo el tiempo” podría haber cambiado.
Ya pasé por las siete etapas del duelo por la negación, la negociación… y llegué a la aceptación, todo eso sin decírtelo, por supuesto. Nunca podría decirte a la cara todo lo que te amé y todo lo que me dolió el verte alejarte. Eso es un secreto para mí y las personas que lean esto, que probablemente no vas a ser vos pero que irracionalmente espero que sí. Y de nuevo vuelvo a la negación, y pienso que no, que si supieras todo lo que pienso entonces te acercarías y me dirías que todo fue una confusión, un malentendido, un momento en que no estuvimos en la misma frecuencia, pero que no importa, porque siempre podemos volver atrás, a lo que éramos. Y yo te creería, y me esforzaría en cambiar y te juro que sería todo lo que puedas llegar a necesitar. Y así de patético es mi círculo vicioso de esperar, creer, mentirme, y volver a esperar. Así fue lo mucho que te amé.