Day 1 after the Putsch

Like I imagine a great many people I started my day yesterday with the good news from Georgia and ended it staring at various news sources in horror. If there is no consequence for the creature and his minions, this will only have been a prelude, so I really, really hope against every cynical bone I have that the arrest warrants are being prepared. Also, be safe, everyone, if you can.

This account from reporters who were inside the Capitol at the time is harrowing.

January Meme: Favourite Hohenzollern Sibling Moments

felis wanted to know my favourite Hohenzollern sibling moments. There is a true embarassment of riches to choose from by now (has it been less than two years since I'd have been hard pressed to name a sibling of Frederick the Great other than his oldest sister Wilhelmine (and the-brother-who-also-was-gifted-and-gay-what-was-hie-called), let alone know anything about their personalities and interactions? Many a correspondence, lots of memoirs and biographies later...

So, picking and choosing just some of many, and trying for a balance between funny ones and angsty ones:

( I have been brought up with her since my childhood; so you can count on the fact that between us two, these indissoluble bonds of tenderness and attachment for life reign, which all other bonds and the disproportion of age can never equal )

The other days