#nighttime activities

[goddess-misa]

Laying in bed, playing my puzzle game named A Little To The Left while Kiyo naps on call.

They need to wake up soon so we can talk but, it’s okay if they dont because i’m having fun doing my puzzles.

[mouse-prince-of-the-rats]

Water tastes better at night 😌

[whitetieblacknoise]

babe go to sleep you been lookibg for bowies photos from japan for 2 h

[josefavomjaaga]

Marie Louise on the road (6)

I made a mistake. When we left the travellers at Bois-le-Duc, I thought it would take another two days until Marie Louise’s new best friend, the Duchesse de Montebello, had her little adventure. In truth, it’s happening already on this day:

Monday the 7th of May

On the 7th, I was so sore that I did not get out of bed until dinner. [...] The Emperor went out to see the fortifications and received the authorities. I spent my day chatting with the duchess, for all my books and works had remained in Antwerp. [...]

Wait, books?, asks a confused French court. The new empress reads books?

[...] These gentlemen had been contrabandising all day and they encouraged the Duchess of Montebello to do the same.

This sentence is worth repeating: So these gentlemen (I guess that's supposed to imply: pretty much all of them) had spent the day happily – and openly, as even the empress learned about it - shopping for contraband goods. The same smuggled goods that (officially) had forced Napoleon to occupy the coasts of all of Europe and to slowly bankrupt all of France's neighbouring states. The same smuggled goods for which he had just taken half of Holland away from his brother Louis.

How little Napoleon’s own court cared about the alleged embargo might indicate that in reality, this may have been far less about harming English trade than about favouring French trade, to the detriment of the other states on the European mainland.

Anyway, back to our shopping trip with Madame de Montebello.

In the evening, Messieurs de Saint-Aignan and de Bondy came to fetch her in a shed. This man [i.e., an inhabitant of Bois-le-Duc], who had apparently already led them the day before, thought he knew where he was supposed to take them.

They stopped at the door of a house where they were beginning to climb the stairs, when the mistress of the house arrived with a light in her hand. The sight of this woman put the gentlemen in cruel embarrassment, and they begged the duchess to come down, telling her that they had come to the wrong shop. She always replied "It doesn't matter, I'll still be up there", which forced them to concede that they had been completely mistaken, that it was a house where they had acquaintances that it was impossible for them to introduce to her, and the duchess still insisting, they told her that it was a very bad place, which caused her to be in a very bad mood.

Yes, of course she means a brothel. Presumably, Madame la duchesse also had realized that for quite some time and had only wanted to hear it so she had a reason to give the two gentlemen a royal dressing-down.

I know I’m repeating myself, but – movie? Please? I love this scene even better than Berthier accidentally sneaking into Marie Louise’s bedroom.

[canaryfears]

That time I was out with my friends and we found this tortie cat and named her Scone for a night (we were in the country where coyotes are very prevalent and she was a kitten). Found her home the next day and all was well :)

[exoterrestrials]

yowling like a wild street cat because nobody can stop me

[sighted-circle]

How dark it is and the yearnings set in.

[sighted-circle]

There's 30 seconds of talk about using a Ouija board. There's no screaming or any overbearing stings from the score. It's just people living their lives, handling relationships. It's a million little pieces building to something awful.