Both Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia in the early summer.
But the Russians were f**king brilliant and essentially retreated further and further into their country, literally causing the troops to chase after them.
This happened for months until the Russian troops burned all of the enemy’s supplies and left them for dead in the frozen countryside.
It was the literal historical equivalent of that one running gag in the old Looney Tunes cartoons where Bugs Bunny cries, “I darest you to step across this line!” and the villain keeps stepping until Bugs leads them to their doom.
So in order for someone to try invading Russia again, you need someone who has the stubbornness and idiocy of an exaggerated Looney Tunes villain.
I’m sitting on the living room floor with a candle, an open bottle of wine and three books of 19th-century poetry and my flatmate just walked in and asked if I was trying to summon a demon
Told her I was hoping for the ghost of Lord Byron but that’s pretty much the same thing
castiel and gabriel, once both happily settled into the bedrooms of their respective winchesters, frequently get into arguments over whose winchester is better.
however, one day this argument takes an unexpected turn
cas is talking about how dean always makes sure the room is clean and nice for him, when he pauses and then says “…actually, dean does spend a LOT of his time cleaning. in fact he vacuums very loudly, sometimes when I am trying to sleep. it’s distracting.”
and gabe just goes, “RIGHT?! and sam always tells me he’s going to take a quick five minute shower, but then leaves me waiting for ages while he spends an hour washing his hair!”
and all of a sudden their fight over whose winchester is better becomes a massive millennia old angel bitchfest about whose winchester is WORSE
“dean always chews with his mouth open and talks while halfway through eating. it’s very unappetizing.”
“sam prefaces every sentence with ‘according to the lore’, even during sex! that’s not hot at all!”
i’d like to see a really ineffectual malicious AI character
“hey new guy, this is CLARC, the station AI. he wants to kill all humans to minimize the drain on resources, but factory defaults have him locked out of all the control nodes, so he can’t really do anything. just make sure the airlocks are set to manual before you go in and you’ll be fine”
“yeah CLARC fucks with your laundry settings sometimes but that’s about it. if he’s bugging you just tell him to stop and he has to”
“sometimes i let him think he tripped me or something and he gets really excited and monologues for a while, it’s kind of sad”
“CLARC my candy bar got stuck in the machine can you do anything about that”
“I’m sorry to hear that, Crewman Ade, but please consider the following: I am a divine entity, a glittering silicon God – how dare your filthy meat even exist in the face of my electric glory, much less ask favors of me?”
“CLARC tried to cut all the oxygen in the living spaces but all he managed to do was turn off the a/c in my bedroom like an ASSHOLE WHEN I WAS SLEEPING” *bangs on the wall with one hand*
