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Minerve entourée des muses de la Victoire, couronne le buste de Napoléon (1808) by François-Frédéric Lemot. In English: Miverna surronded by the muses of Victory crowns the bust of Napoleon. It is the pediment of the (beautiful) Louvres Colonnade.
Let's have a couple of close-up shall we?...
... bees, eagle: ok that fits the Napoleonic theme.
Ludovico Magno... so that would be Louis XIV... Wait what? That very much does not fit.
Did Minerva have too much hydromel and crowned the wrong monarch? Is it just Napoleon cosplaying the Sun king? Did Lemot got away with it because from the street honestly you can't tell and the whole thing looks rad? I mean: come on!
So how Napoleon ended up in a revival of the Grand Siecle on a public building? Well, he lost against the coalition. And the Count of Provence became king. And he was not thrilled by that sculpture. Wanted it gone from the colonnade.
In the end, what gave? Lack of money from the king? Laziness from the sculptors? A general sense of "why bother, you might be gone in a month anyway"? I don't know. But decision was made to just put a wig on him, carved Ludovico Magno and voila! It has been Louis XIV all along.
So in the end we have Minerva with her eagle/bees spangled shield crowning the bust of Louis the Great (who looks quite frankly pissed about all that). For some reasons, the king forgot about was fine with Empire symbolic staying there.
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every time bioware releases adjacent media that ties to the game I lose more my excitement to play DA:D
#salted halk#are you for real?#i don't want to go through 50 comics and anime and whatnot to play a game and know its lore#this is so tiring
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hey so like... can the universe stop killing off my family members for like ten minutes????
Or at least take out the one I don't care about I mean cut me some slack here
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Parent email of the day:
Please do not call on our daughter or ask her to participate in class. It makes her feel dumb.
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Me: So you're a Harry Potter fan?!
Them: Yes but I hate Snape.
Me:
#harry potter#severus snape#are you for real?#siriusly dude#grow up#what's ron with you#that's ridikkulus#stay away from me
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@disneyanddisneyships awe look this is you 💖
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"Your hair is gay.. I mean grey."
@abyssaldespair
Oh. So it's this how it's going to be when Obito is going to approach him? Two can play at that game!
"Your face looks like a fruit that has gotten rotten on one side."
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had to read that haaland and mbappe are "better than" young messi. i wouldn't be able to hate kylian but some of you are making me hate haaland for real.
#do you know numbers people?#are you for real?#the man is old and you forget everything he did for this damn sport#tired#leo messi#no one is better than young messi for christ sake#have a little sense#yall be just setting up those players#let them be their own person and leave messi alone
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Why are you so mean to Jervis? What did he ever do to you?
I'm mean to Jervis because he doesn't kidnap people who are rude to him.
that being said,
#unreality#ARE YOU SERIOUS ANON?#ARE YOU FOR REAL?#gothamblr#gotham irl#jervis tetch#mad hatter#batman
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Oh, the havoc it would cause if I ever use Tumblr Blaze on one of my fics...
#it's so tempting#my finger is hovering over the button#but tumblr#11 bucks#are you for real?#pffffffffff
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Women can't show shoulders but men can do this and that's somehow legit.
#transgender#trans#sexism#terfs#radfems#honestly#are you for real?#a woman isnt allowed any one this#but somehow this doesnt give you dysphoria
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Of all people to go see Brando's corpse first, it's Sonny.
His mom and wife were RIGHT THERE and yet the first person is SONNY
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#wym svt had seven nominations at some award show yet didn't win a thing?#are you for real?#rambless
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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method
#I was forced to get over my hatred of making phone calls bc of this#one 15 minute phone call is the equivalent of 5 back and forth emails#also if you don't know exactly what you need help with you can just ask and you can get real help#instead of just desperately clawing at faqs on websites#it's infuriating that it works so well#ramblings
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VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.
Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)
#self#last night i kept stimming thinking about this LOVE IS AO REAL. AUGH#i dont like damming but this is a step in the right direction AND it gets the public involved#i love that! more public interactions like this in ecology please! thats how you bring change! thats how you make ppl see the beauty in life#marine biology#ecology
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