things that are gone (are still meant to be)

11 pm thought: unfortunately the sad but logical reality is that he is straight and just kind of a weird freak and also a misogynist but it's still beautiful how romantic his obsession with his best friend is and how its psychosexual nature haunts all his creative work

Gerhardt still loves that little bratling despite everything it's the typical sibling dynamic "I hate the little shit but he's still my little shit so whatever"

Also I want a hilarious familial context when the Great Potato War / Plum War came into play and I mean when Prussia and Austria both poked their noses into Bavarian's succession crisis

Both of the contingents ended up stealing potatoes from the Bavarians I'm not even joking there was no reason for either of them to have butted in

Listen it started with Bavarians establishing the Eastern March and my HC had Gerhardt discover the little runt and was like wtf is this dirty mutt

Then when washed down it revealed a child and he was like WHOA am I a dad now?!???! King Otto @ him "no the fuck you're not I don't even trust you to care for my child you're a guardian at best"

PROMPTS FOR APH AUSTRIA WEEK 2026!!!

ABOUT | RULES

Graphics: @furararanenene

Like last year, we have two different prompts for each day of the event- you do not have to use both of them, and prompts are, as always, up for interpretation. Have fun with it and we can't wait to see what you have created in October!

~ Roshon & Fay

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Day 1 (October 20th): The Treasure of King Ottokar II / Gemstone, Precious Stone

Day 2 (October 21st): Privilegium Maius / Woven Threads (traditional/National clothing of Austria)

Day 3 (October 22nd): Behind the Reins (Spanische Hofreitschule) / Tonality & Atonality (Viennese Schools of Music)

Day 4 (October 23rd): Habsburgs vs Ottomans / Afternoon Coffee (Kaffeehaus Kultur)

Day 5 (October 24th): The Dual Monarchy / Sonntagsessen, Sonntagsruhe (Homecooked meals, Resting Day)

Day 6 (October 25th): Occupation Post WWII / Jugendstil (Austrian Art Nouveau scene)

You can’t die here. I will save you. Only I am allowed to kill you.

I’ve studied a lot of Anglo-French medieval history, and England and France are so inextricably intertwined and such twin flames of each other that it’s genuinely impossible to imagine how one could have become the nation they are today without the other.

In 1066 France conquered England, fundamentally shaping the English language, distribution of land ownership, and system of governance, but in doing so handed the English kings a mandate to claim the French throne for the next 464 years. The kings of England only stopped claiming to be the rightful kings of France in 1801, when there was no longer a crown left to claim.

In the Later Middle Ages and after the English Civil War the English gained a reputation for being regicidal. Especially after the death of Richard II, the French perception was that ‘the English kill their kings’ and limited their divine authority [P. S. Lewis, Essays in Later Medieval French History, pp. 169-73]. But French thinkers like Voltaire later borrowed from British principles of limited monarchy and constitutionalism, fundamentally shaping the French Revolution and the creation of the French Republic in 1792.

After centuries of Anglo-French political and religious wars, at Dunkirk in 1940 thousands of French soldiers held the rearguard to allow the British troops to escape and were slaughtered. In 1944 Britain repaid the favour and thousands of British servicemen were killed during Operation Overlord to liberate France.

This is a tiny fraction of their shared history. Because at almost any point in English or French history over the past thousand years it is impossible to imagine one without the other.

Pylades: I'll take care of you.

Orestes: It's rotten work.

Pylades: Not to me. Not if it's you.