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#shaun stan club

#i loooveee him #doctor who #dw specials #dw special 1 #dw spoilers

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‘israel is targeting hamas’

Israeli jets have targeted the family of the head of surgery in the Indonesian Hospital, Mohammad Al Rann, killing them all.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent Wael Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter and infant grandson killed.

Israeli warplanes have killed journalist Dua' Sharf and her child in a strike on her house in Gaza.

While she was working, doctor Sana'a Nour was informed that an Israeli airstrike killed her brother.

A Residential block is completely destroyed after being heavily bombed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

A mother lost her 6 children by an Israeli air strike that bombed Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

Palestinian elderly woman stuck amidst the rubble of her house bombed by lsraeli warplanes.

"We were a family of eight, four of us were killed and the other four were injured."

this was not over days, or weeks. this was all within 24 hours.

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Okay then, what Rasputin facts have you got for me?

BUCKLE UP, BUDDY, HERE WE GO, IT'S RASPUTIN-O-CLOCK

Rasputin had a wife and several children. Here he is with his kids in Siberia:

You think your dad is embarrassing? Imagine this guy rollin' into the PTA meeting, solemnly proclaiming that it's perfectly fine if he whips his ding-dang-doodle-dong out in public, because the tsar lets him do it.

One of his children, Maria Rasputin, became a circus performer and wrote multiple books attempting to rehabilitate her father's name. She died in 1977 in Los Angeles. Here she is with some co-stars:

In costume:

With a photo of dear old dad:

It was said she inherited his intense eyes, but other than that, she seemed way more, um...grounded than her father.

Rasputin was rumored to be member of the Khlysty, an underground religious sect with a foundational belief that in order to become closer to God, one needed to sin as outrageously as possible (translation: they had a bunch of orgies), and then in the process of praying for penance, they could directly commune with the Holy Spirit.

Don't you want to party with this completely fun and normal man? For God purposes?

He was investigated for potential ties to the Khlysts, but no concrete evidence was found of his involvement. Later, his daughter, Maria, mentioned in one of her books that he'd been in the sect for a while but eventually left because all those orgies weren't exactly his style...he preferred regular orgies, thank you. (Probably).

Most people who met Rasputin immediately commented on his bad personal hygiene and foul smell.

Surprising no one, people said Rasputin smelled at turns like a goat, a yak, livestock in general, and just...so much poo.

He often set off on various pilgrimages to holy places and was apparently quite proud of the fact that, during one of these voyages, he did not change his underwear for six months.

Another person said his breath was unreal levels of awful, and that his teeth were like "blackened stumps."

Could some of this have been anti-Rasputin propaganda, as he was mythologized even before he died? Probably. But also, does this guy look like a fan of Dove soap to you?

Rasputin was most famous for his ability to "heal" the tsarevich's hemophilia, but was also beloved by Alexei's sisters, the Grand Duchesses, who called him, "our friend, Father Grigori."

Rasputin with the royal family. Things were tricky due to Alexei's illness, I get it, but can I just say with the stoic objectivism of a true historian that I would not let this man near my children with a 20-foot pole.

Some of the letters the Grand Duchesses exchanged with Rasputin still survive. In 1908, he sent a telegram to then nine-year-old Maria saying:

My Dear Pearl M! Tell me how you talked with the sea, with nature! I miss your simple soul. We will see each other soon! A big kiss.

Understandably, those in the royal household outside of the immediate royal family, were horrified at Rasputin's proximity to the children. One of their governesses petitioned the tsar for Rasputin's removal from the household when she found out he was allowed inside the girls' nursery. In response, Tsar Nicholas had Rasputin banned from the nursery, but it was clear the girls were already attached.

In a letter to Maria, her sister, 12-year-old Tatiana, wrote:

I am so afr(aid) that [our governness] can speak ... about our friend something bad [...] hope our nurse will be nice to our friend now."

Tsarina Alexandra eventually fired the governess; at this point, Alexandra was wholly convinced Rasputin was a holy man and gave him full access to the household.

Rasputin's familiarity with the entire family, particularly the children, was "all quite unbelievable and beyond understanding," wrote Nicolas' sister, Xenia, echoing literally everyone else's thoughts more than a century later.

Someone attempted to assassinate Rasputin once before--a 33 year-old noseless sex worker named Khioniya Guseva. Yes, you read that right.

(She's pictured here in 1914. It's not clear exactly why Khioniya Guseva's nose collapsed, though modern scientists are fairly certain it was syphilis. She claimed it wasn't syphilis, but rather, "bad medicines" that had caused the bridge to cave in.)

In 1914, Rasputin was visiting his family in his home village of Pokrovskoye when Guseva approached him and stabbed him in the abdomen, screaming, "I have killed the Antichrist!"

But because Rasputin was like a cockroach in regrettably more ways than one, he did not die--although he may have been the Antichrist at that point, why not?--and instead, he stumbled through the streets holding his intestines, which were spooling out of the stab wound. He eventually made his way to a hospital after a mob subdued Guseva. It took him seven weeks to recover after he stuffed his intestines, which were hanging out, did I mention that???? they were all out all over the place, like cursed noodles back into his abdominal cavity.

Guseva was later declared mentally ill and placed in an asylum, from which she was later released. She then tried unsuccessfully to assassinate a Russian Orthodox church official in 1919, after which she disappears from the history; we don't know what happened to her, what her life was like after that, or when she died, but kudos to her for trying to disembowel Rasputin--rookie mistake, that, as the guy was basically unkill-able.

Rasputin was...kind of into it when Prince Felix Yusupov was actively trying to kill him.

According to Yusupov, at least.

In 1916, Yusupov and a group of conspirators famously murdered Rasputin (after poisoning, stabbing, shooting, and then drowning him because again...unkill-able). Yusupov was deliciously proud of his involvement in this, and went on to write multiple accounts of the murder in the following decades.

The basement of the Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin was poisoned...and shot...and stabbed...and didn't actually die until the conspirators chased him out into the backyard and shot him a final time, after which he fell into the frozen river and was STILL trying to claw his way back to the surface...allegedly.

It's difficult to know exactly what happened during Rasputin's death, as all accounts of the murder were written by Yusupov and his fellows, who had everything to gain from exaggerating how difficult it was to kill the mystical holy man who was widely believed by many at that point to actually possess supernatural powers.

But in one account of the murder, Yusupov wrote that after being poisoned (or stabbed...the account varies. Hello, unreliable narrator!), Rasputin collapsed to the floor, apparently dead.

Except, surprise! Nope! He wasn't dead! Because as Yusupov and his buddies were congratulating themselves on a job well-done, Rasputin sprang back up, terrifying everyone, and leaned right into Yusupov's face with a slow, wolfish smile, and purred, "You're a naughty boy, aren't you?" As in, "Ooh, daddy, do it again."

The naughty boy in question and Rasputin Killer, Prince Felix Yusupov.

Now, let's be real--Rasputin could have said this, sure. He was absolutely enough of a freak to enjoy being murdered.

But Yusupov could only have benefitted from describing Rasputin as some sort of deranged sexual sadist who enjoyed being poisoned.

It was widely known but only acknowledged behind closed doors that Yusupov was gay, which was a no-no. Perhaps he was positioning himself as the pinnacle of straight masculinity, literally murdering the "gay-ly comes onto me while I'm trying to nobly stop his evil from spreading" guy. Who knows?

But again...I would NOT put it past Rasputin, honestly. I would not put anything past Rasputin. Literally nothing. Like, the fouler, the worse, the stinkier...nothing would surprise me at this point. Truly, one of the most insane people of all time, in every possible way, I cannot believe we get to exist on a part of the timeline that allows us to point at him and go, "What about that guy, huh? Wanna talk about all the shit he did? For the next five hours? Because Jesus Christ, man."

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#Ann watches EXU #exu calamity #lou wilson

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TIMOTHY OLYPHANT 🍎 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (2014)

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THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (2014)

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A fun fact about EXU Calamity-

Working on these had me stressed and overwrought, mostly because I was worried that I wasn’t gonna pull of the Look, and the aesthetic would be shakier because of me.

To deal with that, I made up a character to be the in-universe mosaicist who was designing and crafting these panels of the Ring of Brass. Every time I messed up or my hand slipped and I had to go back a step, I imagined him dropping a tile, muttering a curse, and trying again. His name was Florent, he was a journeyman artist and craftsperson in Avalir, and he was my coworker for about a month.

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#ann writes stuff #WDWG #wdwg fic #way down we go #bethyl #bethyl fanfic

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I'm Allan. I'm Ken's buddy. All his clothes fit me.

MICHAEL CERA as ALLAN in Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

#wait are all these scenes real bc if they are I will watch this fucking movie right now

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As soon as Travis offered that other sword as a trade the fucking wheels were absolutely spinning in Matt’s mind

You can’t tell me otherwise

#ann watches critical role #critical role #critical role 1x36

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I’m also listening to season one of Dungeons and Daddies on the side. I’m not looking up specifics so idk if this is just a weapon, a spirit. In the weapon, or if it could count as a creature or entity but the Deck of Many Things ep

An NPC pulls a card that causes their alignment to change (can’t believe I got Scam Likely back and immediately taken away 😭)

Can we balance card Craven Edge?? I’m assuming it’s going to be…definitely evil, I don’t think it would be neutral evil at least not now. So it’s probably more like chaotic evil

And we just

We gave it to Grog

And I know “how would a sword pull a card” we aren’t gonna address that 😭

(I know we probably can’t but wouldn’t that be nice and probably less horrible than whatever is going to come down the line?????)

#ann watches critical role #critical role

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God pls let this only come into play in an episode where we get Ashley back bc maybe she can…help somehow? Keep something terrible from happening?

Can we get Sarenrae to cleanse it or something? 😭

#ann watches critical role #critical role #critical role 1x36 #mom I’m scared

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ITS GONNA GO SO BAD GUYS

#ann watches critical role #critical role

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On one hand, I love how excited Travis was

And this could potentially provide some seriously…serious deep/dark shit with Grog and I think seeing Travis play that would be amazing on the other

AHHHhHhHhHhHhHh

#ann watches critical role #grog strongjaw #hold me I’m scared #critical role

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I had to pause the episode to vent about this bc at least with Orthax I was like

Like yeah eventually you had to do an exorcism or something but…I mean. All things considered I was kinda fine with this bc it aligned with wiping out the Briarwoods, Percy getting revenge.

But uh. This sword. This fucking sword. It is clearly a sentient item. Like super ducking sentient. Not to mention the previous wielder was ducking SYLAS. The fact that Taliesin was like I need a week canonically to figure out tf I’m doing with this and still didn’t know

If it were enchanted only I’d be like okay no problems here swing away, Grog 👌

But it’s not

It’s alive

It’s alive and in the hands of the strongest character at the table who has approximately two brain cells to rub together (I love u grog but like me you are not passing your wisdom/intl checks)

I can see it now, this shit is going to either overtake him OR…manipulate him somehow. I think it would be easier to manipulate Grog vs gain control over his physical form. And I just…I don’t like this at alllllll lmao

In summary. (And again pls no spoilers. Don’t tell me if I’m right or wrong I’m watching this for the first time on YouTube)

#ann watches critical role #critical role #craven edge #grog strongjaw #critical role 1x36

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I DONT LIKE THIS MATT

#ann watches critical role #craven edge #like #my god #just BAD VIBES