#empress of raw

[wrathofasukacity]

Photos: Asuka's new look

#wwe #photos #asuka #asuka wwe #wwe asuka #kana #kanako urai #asuka city #the empress #the empress of tomorrow #empress of tomrrow #the empress of raw #empress of raw

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Asuka don't care. She says she's going home with someone's arm, doesn't matter who's

#wwe #tawny's watchin raw #Asuka #My funky murder Empress

[josefavomjaaga]

Napoleon, Joseph and the Tascher marriage

Just when I start to feel sympathy for Joseph, he keeps reminding me that the arseholey trait runs in the family…

As I mentioned earlier, Napoleon was peeved because a certain Jean Henri Robert Tascher de la Pagerie, one of the many cousins of discarded empress Josephine, had passed from his, Napoleon’s, service, to that of Joseph without Napoleon’s permission. Either because Tascher really was so madly in love with one Marcelle Clary, niece to Joseph’s wife Julie, as Napoleon seems to think, or maybe for other reasons (according to a footnote, Tascher had already attached himself to Joseph in 1806, i.e., in Naples). In any case Napoleon is not happy with him, as he writes to Eugène already in April 1810, after having told him details of yet another marriage of yet another Tascher boy (Pierre Claude Louis Robert).

Compiègne, 26 April 1810

[…] As to the other Tascher, I take no interest in him; he has failed me too badly for me to concern myself with him. This little rascal abandoned the French cockade in Madrid without notifying me, obeying an impulse of love, and forgetting all the duties he had towards me, especially before this circumstance. I am indifferent to what he does, to whom he marries, and I don't want to interfere at all. I do not speak of this to the Empress; but you know my principles on this matter; I shall never change them. I believe this young man to be frivolous and of a bad character. I send you back the letter from the King of Spain [Joseph]; I approve of what the Empress will do, but I do not want to give any sign of interest to an individual who has failed me.

He writes to Josephine in the same vein two days later:

Compiègne, 28 April 1810

[…] As to the other [Tascher], don’t talk to me about him, he has taken the red cockade [i.e., Joseph’s] without my order, I shall not receive him again.

So, seems like Monsieur l’Empereur feels slighted because this young man preferred Joseph over him. He also makes it clear that he is the one who gets to decide if somebody can join Joseph’s entourage or not. This is clearly a brother thing between Napoleon and Joseph.

(Did I mention that I get strong sibling rivalry vibes from everybody’s 1810 correspondence?)

Anyway, on to Joseph and how he felt about this matter. Obviously, he already had sounded out the Beauharnais side of the family about it at an earlier date, as Napoleon above writes about sending back one of Joseph’s letters that Eugène must have forwarded on to Napoleon. In July, Joseph writes to Julie:

Madrid, 16 July 1810

My dear friend, I have received your letter, brought by Tascher. His cousin [i.e., Joséphine] writes to me that the Emperor authorises him to marry your niece Marcelle; she agrees, according to what his brothers tell me. Tascher today has 50,000 livres of income in property, he has a position, he is honour itself: you must not hesitate to give him your niece; he is better than the option proposed to you.

I note that “honour” apparently has a lot to do with “income”, according to one Joseph Bonaparte. Also, there was apparently another marriage option that Julie may have preferred.

I therefore intend that Mademoiselle Marcelle should marry Monsieur Tascher, if she finds him suitable. I commit myself to him and his cousin [Josephine], to whom I do not want to break my word, less so today than at any other time [reference to the fact that Josephine has just gotten the boot by Napoleon]. Answer me in a precise manner, and Tascher will return to Paris.

Joseph repeats his explicit wish to make this marriage happen in a letter three weeks later, again to Julie:

Madrid, 8 August 1810

[…] I have written to you that I wish for Marcelle to marry Monsieur Tascher, who has just bought 40- to 50-thousand livres of income in biens nationaux [national assets, i.e., property seized by the state, most often from the clergy].

I think I want to introduce Joseph to Mrs Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. They should get along perfectly fine.

But let’s not be too harsh. After all, money is not Joseph’s only motivation. As he mentioned above, he also wants to show some support to poor Josephine in arranging this marriage for one of her relatives. Unless...

Madrid, 7 September 1810, again to Julie:

[…] If you felt that the Emperor did not want Tascher's marriage, no doubt against his will, it must not happen; in this case, he [i.e., Tascher] himself is too reasonable to enter into such a marriage: but the Empress Josephine has assured him otherwise.

Dear Julie, if it looks as if Napoleon is not happy with this, here’s your line of conduct: Tascher and Joseph are totally innocent. Just blame everything on Josephine.

Edit: Just so we know who the young lady in question is:

Marcelle Clary

#napoleon's family #joseph bonaparte #eugène beauharnais #empress josephine #tascher de la pagerie #spain 1810 #this whole family sucks raw eggs #can i blame laetitia for her sons' lack of moral education?

[phantoms-rain]

AND FUCKING NEW…

SHE WILL BRING PEACE FREEDOM JUSTICE AND SECURITY TO HER NEW EMPIRE

#FINALLY THE REIGN OF TERROR IS OVER #THE UNIVERSE WILL KNOW PEACE #LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS #wwe #wwe asuka #Asuka #wwe raw #monday night raw #night of champions

[rachelkiiid]

Rlly into pretty wrestling women rn

#asuka #the empress #the empress of tomorrow #asuka wwe #wwe #wwe raw #asuka empress of tomorrow #lesbian

[christinered]

I have decided to let my shy female carrot live.

The others that arrived in the bag with her have suffered under my blade...

~Red

#christinered #sub for dom domme for all #wisdom of a redhead #aggressive redhead #wiseass smartass badass #easily amused #raw carrots #making stew #wielding the tools #prep work #the empress #my decision #shy #funny things I seem to find #only me

[theopalempress]

Original video - The Opal Empress

#The Opal Empress #Tokyo #living in tokyo #tokyo life #tokyo vlog #Japan vlog #vlog #yakiniku #bbq #japanese bbq #barbecue #japanese food #japanese restaurant #restaurant #tokyo destinations #japan food #food #raw meat #diner aesthetic #tokyo aesthetic #japan aesthetic

[doyouknowthemuffinmaam]

I’m a simple person…

If my Empress is upset, so am I.

Rhea and Dom got to go.

Along with anyone else in her way.

#wwe #wwe raw #wwe asuka #the empress of tomorrow #we stan a legend #erin watching wrestling

[chaoticizz]

no but bianca making sure Zelina was OK was such a great moment to have in there. like that just absolutely solidifies Bianca as a massive baby face and it was so subtle and FIT with her character. i love it. and the way she KNEW to duck the mist. if anyone dares to say anything bad about bianca belair i might fight them

#wwe #friday night smackdown #bianca belair #zelina vega #raw women's champion #asuka #empress of tomorrow #EST of WWE

[rk-bromance]

#i missed her so much #she did not disappoint #asuka #empress of tomorrow #becky lynch #the man #big time becks #wrestling memes #drake meme #wwe #wwe raw

[wrathofasukacity]

Photos: Behind the scenes of Royal Rumble

#wwe #royal rumble #royal rumble 2023 #behind the scenes #photos #asuka #asuka wwe #wwe asuka #kana #kanako urai #asuka city #the empress #the empress of tomorrow #empress of tomorrow #the empress of raw #empress of raw

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Asuka is the most precious/chaotic soul on the planet.

Protect her at all costs

#wwe #tawny's watchin raw #Asuka #My funky murder empress

[scarysob]

My dumbass after realizing last week when I missed Monday Night Raw I missed the return of Asuka:

#monday night raw #wwe #what?! #the return of the empress #my goddess is back?!

[phantoms-rain]

Yo if she’s going back to her Dark Kana roots I am ACTIVELY going to lose my fucking shit

#this is where her genius lies #please give us the empress of darkness #asuka #kana #wwe Asuka #wwe raw #wwe smackdown #monday night raw #wwe friday night smackdown

[j-psilas]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows. [EDIT: Several people have pointed out his other lead writing credits to me. So I misread Wikipedia—sue me. I maintain that this guy is a better episode writer than he is a lead writer.]

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

#code geass #anime #lelouch vi britannia #rolo lamperouge #nina einstein #kallen kozuki #lelouch lamperouge #clamp manga #lloyd asplund

[pugpugpusheen]

Alexa vs asuka is very autumn rights

#personal post #bayley and her girls interrupting is okay because all 3 are favs #also i got to see the empress live i can die happy #raw live