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>>764493
You spin around, the Riga Black Balsam still clutched tightly in your hand, your eyes wide with a mix of defiance and unease. Standing barely an arm's length away, a figure of striking beauty and unsettling grace meets your gaze. She is tall, with skin like polished ivory and eyes that shimmer with an intelligent, almost predatory emerald green. Her hair, a cascade of deep raven, falls unbound past her shoulders, framing a face that could be carved from myth. She wears a long, flowing gown of midnight blue, intricately embroidered with silver threads that seem to catch the moonlight and sparkle with a faint, internal luminescence. A subtle, captivating smile plays on her lips, one that suggests she finds your sudden, politically charged question utterly bewildering, yet strangely entertaining.

"Liberalism?" she repeats, her voice a silken whisper that caresses the night air, carrying not a hint of malice, but pure, unadulterated curiosity. One perfectly sculpted eyebrow raises, her head tilting slightly as if trying to decipher a complex riddle. "I confess, little rogue, I am unfamiliar with such an intricate term. Is it a spell? A curse? Or perhaps," she pauses, her smile widening just a fraction, "a rather mundane name for a deeply personal terror?"


>>763981
>NO, YOU'RE AWFUL, TOMDATINKER
MAKING CARTOONS OF ME
YOU JUST WANTED TO MAKE FUN OF ME!
Yeah, I assumed everybody was! I thought that Grace-posters were larping as monarchists as a joke!


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That's why Hobbes is vindicated in lamenting that the pillars of Western Civilization don't have a friendly portrayal of royalty: they associate it with their enemies & the learned Englishmen read the Old Testament, read the Greek classics–a recipe for disaster for monarchies
Plato also condemned it and didn't like the poets stories–so much that Plato wanted to ban and expel the poets.
So it isn't only Hobbes who felt something was wrong.

>"Hesiod told about how Uranus accomplished what he says he did, & how Cronus took revenge on him. As for Cronus's deeds & sufferings at the hands of his son [Zeus], even if they were true, I wouldn't think they should be told to the youth in this lighthearted way."


Thomas Hobbes
>Look now, how great a prejudice these are, such, and so great is the benefit arising from this doctrine of morality, truly declared. How many Kings (and those good men too) have this one error, That a Tyrant King might lawfully be put to death, been the slaughter of?

>How many throats has this false position cut, That a prince for some causes may by some certain men be deposed? And what bloodshed hath not this erroneous doctrine caused, That Kings are not superiors to, but administrators for the multitude? Lastly, how many rebellions has this opinion been the cause of which taught that the knowledge whether the commands of Kings be just or unjust, belongs to private men, and that before they yield obedience, they not only may, but ought to dispute them?


>Besides, in the moral philosophy now commonly received, there are many things no less dangerous than those, which it matters not now to recite. I suppose those ancients foresaw this, who rather chose to have the Science of justice wrapt up in fables, than openly exposed to disputations: for before such questions began to be moved, princes did not sue for, but already exercised the supreme power.


>They kept their Empire entire, not by arguments, but by punishing the wicked and protecting the good; likewise Subjects did not measure what was just by the sayings and judgements of private men, but by the Laws of the Realm; nor were they kept in peace by disputations, but by power and authority:


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>>763918
There is no Bourgeois democracy equivalent of Grace-posters on this website


>>761322
>christuyghurs when you say they don't have a soul
this is your brain on grace


>>761052
dont ever disgrace my flag again with this bullshit.


They are a Grace-poster


>>760192
says the persona who believes in royalty= divine ruling and peasants < royalty because unable to sustain themselves without one
grace ain't no better


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Alunya & Grace McDonald's Fanfic
>A sunny morning, Grace & Alunya are at a McDonald's.
<"I really like Pinkie Pie," says Grace, sitting down at the table. Grace sways her sunny blonde hair and smiles. "I love PONK! Pinkie is Spongebob funny and boinks everytime she hops."
>Alunya turns, "What do you want at McDonald's?"
<Grace says, "Hashbrowns and pancakes… with orange juice."
>"Wait here," Alunya says, and the revolutionary catgirl walks to the counter to tell the proletariat cashier their order. Alunya looks dismally at the McDonald's employees and resented their opppression, but Grace-chan is more important. Another McDonald's employee walks across Alunya with their phone out. Alunya glimpses: the McDonald's employee is browsing leftypol.org–comrades are close at home, thankfully another leftypol user.
>Grace is alone at the table, and Alunya comes back. "Pinkie Pie? I like Rainbow Dash." Alunya places the pancakes on the table and sighs. "I kind of hate Rarity."
<"Rarity is lovely pony, darling," Grace says, impersonating Rarity's voice. "You only say you hate Rarity because of her opulence and class." Grace eats a bit of pancake and smiles, giggling at Alunya. "Besides, darling, you don't hate me."
>Alunya averts her eyes: it was true, she doesn't hate Grace. She did just buy her McDonald's. She PAID for the McDonald's for Grace!
<"The hashbrown tastes so good." Grace adds with another bite. She gazes out the window with her emerald eyes. "I never thought we would eat at a McDonald's."
>Alunya feels embarrassed, "It isn't like I wanted to be seen with you here… at McDonald's, eating with you." Alunya moves to eat her breakfast–she bought the same items she did for Grace, because Alunya consciously didn't want to out class her.
>Grace keeps eating her pancakes. As Grace does, an anon comes out and shows a Tomdatinker ☭ panel printed on a white sheet of paper to Grace.
>"You're dead, Grace!"
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>A sunny morning, Grace & Alunya are at a McDonald's.
<"I really like Pinkie Pie," says Grace, sitting down at the table. Grace sways her sunny blonde hair and smiles. "I love PONK! Pinkie is Spongebob funny and boinks everytime she hops."
>Alunya turns, "What do you want at McDonald's?"
<Grace says, "Hashbrowns and pancakes… with orange juice."
>"Wait here," Alunya says, and the revolutionary catgirl walks to the counter to tell the proletariat cashier their order. Alunya looks dismally at the McDonald's employees and resented their opppression, but Grace-chan is more important. Another McDonald's employee walks across Alunya with their phone out. Alunya glimpses: the McDonald's employee is browsing leftypol.org–comrades are close at home, thankfully another leftypol user.
>Grace is alone at the table, and Alunya comes back. "Pinkie Pie? I like Rainbow Dash." Alunya places the pancakes on the table and sighs. "I kind of hate Rarity."
<"Rarity is lovely pony, darling," Grace says, impersonating Rarity's voice. "You only say you hate Rarity because of her opulence and class." Grace eats a bit of pancake and smiles, giggling at Alunya. "Besides, darling, you don't hate me."
>Alunya averts her eyes: it was true, she doesn't hate Grace. She did just buy her McDonald's. She PAID for the McDonald's for Grace!
<"The hashbrown tastes so good." Grace adds with another bite. She gazes out the window with her emerald eyes. "I never thought we would eat at a McDonald's."
>Alunya feels embarrassed, "It isn't like I wanted to be seen with you here… at McDonald's, eating with you." Alunya moves to eat her breakfast–she bought the same items she did for Grace, because Alunya consciously didn't want to out class her.
>Grace keeps eating her pancakes. As Grace does, an anon comes out and shows a Tomdatinker ☭ panel printed on a white sheet of paper to Grace.
>"You're dead, Grace!"
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>>759727
good thing they have you as their gracious liberator then! where would those savage proles be without your petit bourgeois grace?
also i even bothered using italics and specifying the word potential but subhumans here are functionally illiterate lol


Grace would hate corn since Khrushchev whined about "Cult of Personality".


>>759292
It seems to me like you’re coping
Regardless if they’re “suburbs of Twitter “ furries whine about persecution.

You’re not a chad that handles the hatred with grace. Furries are just now in good graces with pop culture, is all.


>Is that a gun? *nervous laugh* Grace, let's read more fanfic I wrote about us~
<BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!


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Grace is dead, everyone just move on


Grace deserves a Valentine's Day card, smh.


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>>723725
it was this but with a poem. maybe the poem was in the post and the image had no text. i forget. i swear grace anon posted this once.


>>752317
>what if I think monarchism doesn't go hard enough?
Where do you think you are?
Yes, Graceposter likes Gaius Caligula and named Jill "Hot Cheeto" after his daughter.
I guess Western monarchy is sometimes offset with Christianity at times (which Graceposter is blackpilled about on occasion)–having remarked that the only authentic royalism known is Christianity in the West–it doesn't mean we have to look to the pharaohs when we have Gaius Caligula.


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A reference sheet for Grace & the other OC Jill/Hot Cheeto.


Grace has been found dead by the White Army!


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tankie doodle came to town riding on a brony
stuck a poodle up his cap and named it ratatoullie

step mom and I went to camp along with queen grace chan
and there we came and saw the commie men as THIN as crushed beer cans
tankie doodle keep it up, tankie commie Zigga!
pray to marx and pay up Lassale, that one big jewish uygha!

and there was comrade alunya on top a fat stalin!
demanding total porky death from her men
I GUESS THEY KILLED A BILLION

tankie doodle keep it up, tankie commie Zigga!
pray to marx and pay up Lassale, that one big jewish uygha!


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(These are most of the Grace collection of pics)


Sonic 1 Grace mod is available
LATEST VERSION
https://files.catbox.moe/o6hcf6.zip
Steps:
1.
Unzip this folder:
2.
Go to "mods" & enable Grace mod & Music Mod & Labyrinth Mod
3.
Make sure the Options under Abilities & Visuals are the same.
(Note: Turn off Peelout)
4.
Play as Sonic.


Grace Alunya cosplay


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icup grace


>>748056
>>748055
>>748054
>>748053
>>748051
Why are there so many refined drawings of Grace in the same art style? Is somebody using a Character-customozation-avatar-maker website or something? Like some type of 2D-Heroforge?


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more grace art


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grace art


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grace popcorn


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grace grace grace


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bison parody grace


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grace 2


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grace art collection


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more grace art


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art of grace


>>747804
Why would Alunya want to escape from Grace's palace?
Tired of Grace preparing delicious cookies.


>>747799
Uuuuuuh, Alunya is actually trying to help untangle the leash from Grace's neck.


>>747657
Grace is alive!
Alunya strangling Grace?
That never happened.
Grace survived.


Grace is dead
Bad news guys, police reports show that Grace has been found dead on the floor of her palace with what appears to be a Patsafe Nylon Dog Leash tied around her neck.


Royal excellence in great servants
>Necessarily the man who spends all his time and trouble on the smallest task will do that task the best.

>But when there is work enough for one man to boil the pot, and another to roast the meat, and a third to stew the fish, and a fourth to fry it, while some one else must bake the bread, and not all of it either, for the loaves must be of different kinds, and it will be quite enough if the baker can serve up one kind to perfection—it is obvious, I think, that in this way a far higher standard of excellence will be attained in every branch of the work.


Royal gifts
>Thus it is easy to see how Cyrus could outdo all competitors in the grace of hospitality, and I will now explain how he came to triumph in all other services.

>Far as he excelled mankind in the scale of his revenues, he excelled them even more in the grandeur of his gifts. It was Cyrus who set the fashion; and we are familiar to this day with the open-handedness of Oriental kings.


>There is no one, indeed, in all the world whose friends are seen to be as wealthy as the friends of the Persian monarch: no one adorns his followers in such splendour of rich attire, no gifts are so well known as his, the bracelets, and the necklaces, and the chargers with the golden bridles. For in that country no one can have such treasures unless the king has given them.


>And of whom but the Great King could it be said that through the splendour of his presents he could steal the hearts of men and turn them to himself, away from brothers, fathers, sons?


The King's Eyes & The King's Ears
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Xenophon Cyropaedia

>The father of Cyrus, so runs the story, was Cambyses, a king of the Persians, and one of the Perseidae, who look to Perseus as the founder of their race


The education of youth
>It is true that he was brought up according to the laws and customs of the Persians, and of these laws it must be noted that while they aim, as laws elsewhere, at the common weal, their guiding principle is far other than that which most nations follow.

>Most states permit their citizens to bring up their own children at their own discretion, and allow the grown men to regulate their own lives at their own will, and then they lay down certain prohibitions, for example, not to pick and steal, not to break into another man's house, not to strike a man unjustly, not to commit adultery, not to disobey the magistrate, and so forth; and on the transgressor they impose a penalty. (3) But the Persian laws try, as it were, to steal a march on time, to make their citizens from the beginning incapable of setting their hearts on any wickedness or shameful conduct whatsoever. And this is how they set about their object.


Friend & Enemy distinction: careful not to teach children dangerous things
>Yes, my son, it is said that in the time of our forefathers there was once a teacher of the boys who, it seems, used to teach them justice in the very way that you propose; to lie and not to lie, to cheat and not to cheat, to slander and not to slander, to take and not to take unfair advantage. And he drew the line between what one should do to one's friends and what to one's enemies. And what is more, he used to teach this: that it was right to even deceive friends even, provided it were for a good end, and to steal the possessions of a friend for a good purpose.

>And in teaching these lessons he had also to train the boys to practise them upon one another, just as also in wrestling, the Greeks, they say, teach deception and train the boys to be able to practise it upon one another. When, therefore, some had in this way become expert both in deceiving successfully and in taking unfair advantage and perhaps also not inexpert in avarice, the did not refrain from trying to take an unfair advantage even of their friends.

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For if the King be to sit in the Throne, and he is the Law-giver of the Nation, and people be to seek the King's face, and to listen to the Divine sentence that is to come out of his lips, is he be to sit as chief, and to dwell like a King in an Army, if he be to sent forth the Decrees, and Nations to be to bow down before him, if young men ought to hie themselves from him, and old men ought to arise, and stand up, if the voices of Princes ought to be strayed in his presence, and after his words they ought not to reply, if all the Land ought to wait for him as for the rain, and to open their mouths for him as for the latter rain, then surely the best Counsel, the great Counsel of a Kingdom is not circumscriptive to a King. No, good Counsellours know better fealty, & bad Counsellours ought to be leave off this exilency. Let Magna Charta then be preserved, and the petition of Right have all the right that is in it, but let the Maxima Charta, and the prescriptionof King's Right be thought on with them, and above them; for it is the Elder Brother, and of the Blood Royal, and ought to wear the Crown before all others. If then the honour of God, or the fear of his Laws, the Image of God in a King's forehead, or the Scepter of God in his Hand, a King's Royal Ornaments, or a King's Royal Office, the advancement of Religion, or the protection of the innocent, the obedience of Subjects at home, or the dread of Foreigners abroad, the duty that ye require from your children, or the reverence that ye expect from Inferiours, the peace of the Kingdom, or the prosperity of the Kingdom carry any authority with you, let the last word be spoken, that may tend to the disparagement of the King's dignity, and the last arrow be shot that may be levelled with the diminution of his power, let us fill his Coffers with Gold, and his heart with confidence, let us end all enmity in unanimity, & change all fierceness into fidelity, let us fight no more against Kings, but fold out arms in subjection, let us all fall at the King's feet, and vow never against to strike at his head, let us join no more battles, but join hands, weep that we have been such enemies, and smile that we are become such friends; let us rejoice that we have gotten at home the Father of our Country, & be glad that we are coming home to our Mother Church; let it comfort us that the King has brought Bishops along with him to restore us to our first Faith, and Judges to settle us in our old inheritances; oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


To the most Potent, and Puissant Monarch Charles the II King of Great Britain, &c.

The epistle dedicatory.

Dread Sovereign,

God hath given us a Sight, the Sight of your Self. How many aking eyes where there once to see you? how many ravished eyes may there be now to behold you? Every one could not present such a sight; no, He in Heaven. Hath restored you to your Father's Throne to be looked upon as a glorious Spectacle. We saw for many years nothing but the horrid faces of strange Rulers, and now we have your Face of true Majesty to bless our eyes with.

OH that we had good eyes in our heads to discern the difference of Objects; what a change this, that whereas we saw nothing but Usurpers in their Barbarousness, Our does do now see a King in his Beauty? Your absence was the Bane, Your precense is the Beauty of the Nation. To apply all this Beauty to yourself, perhaps would be judged flattery, therefore I have endeavoured to show your three kingdoms, that there is a derivative Beauty in you, namely that your Majesty is our Beauty. For how is a Nation obscured if it has not a King in it? and how is it illustrated, if it hath a King reigning in Royal Splendour and Imperial dignity? I wish that there be no ill Judges of Beauty in the Land, and that there be none which are ready to strike at the face of Beauty. It doth grieve me, that when you have brought delight to the eyes of Millions, and put peace into all hands, yet there should be left amongst us some glaring eyes, and menancing hands… What need those King-vexers and Gad-flyes of Monarchs plot treasons, and kindle diffentions, when we have Incendiaries, and State-troublers of our own?

…Oh inexorable, oh incorrigible King-haters? Men have been mad, and some distempers we have lately found, but surely this frenzy will not always last. Let them look your Majesty through, and what occasion can they find in your of disgust, distaste, or so much as discontent? So far as I can perceive your Majesty doth but seek your Native Right, the established Religion, the fundamental Laws, the Honour of the HIghest, the freedom of the meanest, the welfare of the Nation, the Peace of the Kingdom, and they may see as well as I that your graces are conspicuous, your qualifications eminent, your carriage affable, your Government mild, your counsels prudent, your actions Heroical, your life spotless, and your conscience sincere, except therefore they would have an APost too long. Click here to view the full text.


The Pre-eminence of King Charles II:
>His comely presence, meekness, majesty,
>Do Adamantine lustre far out-vie;
>If to be highly born it is great bliss,
>What Prince for Birth may you compare with his?

>Behold your King then thousands more tall
>In Grace, Power, Virtues, higher than you all
>When Kingship, Persons, Virtues thus you see
>All meet in one, happy's that Monarchy
>Not Solomon in Glory may compare
- P. Dormer's Monarchia Triumphans, 1666.

THE GREAT FOUNDER / PRE-EMINENT MONARCHY
As explained by Aristotle in Politics
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<The Fundamental Rights of Sovereignty, according to Thomas Hobbes
>1. The Subjects Cannot Change The Form Of Government (The form of Government is a fundamental law)
>2. Soveraigne Power Cannot Be Forfeited
>3. No Man Can Without Injustice Protest Against The Institution Of The Soveraigne Declared By The Major Part.
>4. The Soveraigns Actions Cannot Be Justly Accused By The Subject
>5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject
>6. The Soveraigne Is Judge Of What Is Necessary For The Peace And Defence Of His Subjects (And Judge Of What Doctrines Are Fit To Be Taught Them)
>7. The Right of making Rules, whereby the Subject may every man know what is so his owne, as no other Subject can without injustice take it from him
>8. To Him Also Belongeth The Right Of All Judicature And Decision Of Controversies:
>9. And Of Making War, And Peace, As He Shall Think Best:
>10. And Of Choosing All Counsellours, And Ministers, Both Of Peace, And Warre:
>11. And Of Rewarding, And Punishing, And That (Where No Former Law hath Determined The Measure Of It) Arbitrary:
>12. And Of Honour And Order
And finally, Thomas Hobbes adds, with his 12 marks of Sovereignty (as Jean Bodin would have it):
<These Rights Are Indivisible
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Hobbes / Greeks & Romans, the Universities, Schoolmen, & Parliament Men
>Fourthly, there were an exceeding great number of men of the better sort, that had been so educated, as that in their youth having read the books written by famous men of the ancient Grecian and Roman commonwealths concerning their polity and great actions; in which books the popular government was extolled by that glorious name of Liberty, and monarchy disgraced by that name of Tyranny; they became thereby in love with their forms of government. And out of these men were chosen the greatest part of the House of Commons, or if they were not the greatest part, yet by advantage of their eloquence, were always able to sway the rest, especially the great haranguers, and such as pretended to learning.

For who can be a good subject in a Monarchy…
<For who can be a good subject in a Monarchy, whose principles are taken from the enemies of Monarchy, such as were Cicero, Seneca, Cato, and other politicians of Rome, and Aristotle of Athens, who seldom spake of Kings but as of wolves and other ravenous beasts?

>You may perhaps think a man has need of nothing else but to know the duty he owes his governor, and what right he has to order him, but a good natural wit; but it is otherwise. For it is a science, and built upon sure and clear principles, and to be learned by deep and careful study, or from masters that have deeply studied it. And who was there in the Parliament or in the nation, that could find out those evident principles, and derive from them the necessary rules of justice, and the necessary connection of justice and peace? The people have one day in seven the leisure to hear instruction, and there are ministers appointed to teach them their duty.


>But how have those ministers performed their office? A great part of them, namely, the Presbyterian ministers, throughout the whole war, instigated the people against the King; so did also the Independents and other fanatic ministers. The rest, contented with their livings, preached in their parishes points of controversy, to religion impertinent, but to the breach of charity among themselves very effectual; or else eloquent things, which the people either understood not, or thou
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Hobbes' Behemoth recounts the history and causes of the English Civil Wars.
He starts BEHEMOTH (the anti-Leviathan) in recounting the factions involved.
Hobbes' pessimism is my pessimism.

The seducers were of diverse sorts…
1st faction: The Presbyterians
>One sort were ministers; ministers, as they called themselves, of Christ; and sometimes, in their sermons to the people, God's ambassadors; pretending to have a right from God to govern every one his parish, and their assembly the whole nation.

2nd faction: The Papists / Catholics
>Secondly, there were a very great number, though not comparable to the other, which notwithstanding that the Pope's power in England, both temporal and ecclesiastical, had been by Act of Parliament abolished, did still retain a belief that we ought to be governed by the Pope, whom they pretended to be the vicar of Christ, and, in the right of Christ, to be the governor of all Christian people. And these were known by the name of Papists; as the ministers I mentioned before, were commonly called Presbyterians.

3rd faction: Fifth monarchy men & other low church protestants
>Thirdly, there were not a few, who in the beginning of the troubles were not only discovered, but shortly after declared themselves for a liberty in religion, and those of different opinions one from another. Some of them because they would have all congregations free and independent upon one another, were called Independents. Others that held baptism to infants, and such understood not into what they are baptized, to be ineffectual, were called therefore Anabaptists. Others that held that Christ's kingdom was at this time to begin upon the earth, were called Fifth-monarchy-men; besides diverse other sects, as Quakers, Adamites, etc, whose names and peculiar doctrines I do not well remember. And these were the enemies which arose against his Majesty from the private interpretation of the Scripture, exposed to every man's scanning in his mother-tongue.

4th faction: The Intellectuals / School-men / Educated Elite & Parliamentarians
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Thomas Hobbes
>To conclude there is nothing so absurd, that the old Philosophers (as Cicero saith, who was one of them) have not some of them maintained. And I beleeve that scarce any thing can be more absurdly said in naturall Philosophy, than that which now is called Aristotles Metaphysiques, nor more repugnant to Government, than much of that hee hath said in his Politiques; nor more ignorantly, than a great part of his Ethiques.

Jean Bodin
>"Moreover, from earliest memory the people of America always have retained the royal power. They do not do this because they have been taught, but from custom. They were not trained by Aristotle, but shaped by their leader, nature. Furthermore, when they hear that the rule of optimates exists in some corners of Italy or Germany, they marvel that this can be."

>"What Aristotle said that the king becomes a tyrant when he governs even to a minor degree contrary to the wishes of the people – is not true, for by this system there would be no kings. Moses himself, a most just and wise leader, would be judged the greatest tyrant of all, because he ordered and forbade almost all things contrary to the will of the people. Anyway, it is popular power, not royal, when the state is governed by the king according to the will of the people, since in this case the government depends upon the people. Therefore, when Aristotle upheld this definition, he was forced to confess that there never were any king"


<Thomas Hobbes on monarchomachists & pro-regicides

>From the reading, I say, of such books, men have undertaken to kill their Kings, because the Greek and Latin writers, in their books, and discourses of Policy, make it lawfull, and laudable, for any man so to do; provided before he do it, he call him Tyrant. For they say not Regicide, that is, killing of a King, but Tyrannicide, that is, killing of a Tyrant is lawfull.

<Hobbes / From the same books (like Aristotle's Politics), they think in Democracies they are all freemen, but under Monarchies, all slaves

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Jean Bodin on Aristotle & Monarchy Continued
>For even Aristotle himself is of opinion, That Monarchs should be created by election, calling the people barbarous, which have their Kings by right of succession. And for which cause he deemed the Carthaginians more happy than the Lacedemonians, for that these had their Kings by succession from the fathers to the the sons in the stock and line of Hercules, whereas the others still had them by election and choice. But so he might call the Assyrians barbarous, the Medes, the Persians, the Egyptians, the people of Asia, the Parthians, the Armenians, the Indians, the Africans, the Turks, the Tartars, the Arabians, the Muscovites, the Celts, the Englishmen, the Scots, the Frenchmen, the Spaniards, the Peruvians, the Numidians the Ethiopians; and an infinite number of other people, who still have, and always before had, their Kings by right of succession. Yea and we find in Greece (the country of Aristotle himself) that the Athenians, the Lacedemonians, Sicyonians, the Corinthians, the Thebans, the Epirots, the Macedonians, had more than by the space of six hundred years, had their Kings by right of lawful succession, before that ambition had blinded them to change their Monarchies into Democracies and Aristocracies. Which had likewise taken place in Italy also, whereas the Hetruscians and Latins for many worlds of years had their Kings still descending from the fathers to the sons.

<Now if so many people and nations were all barbarous, where then should humanity and civility have place? It should be only in Poland, in Denmark, and in Sweden; for that almost these people alone have their Kings by election: and yet of them none, but such as were themselves also royally descended.


>Cicero says, humanity and courtesy to have taken beginning in the lesser Asia, and from thence to have been divided unto all the other parts of the world: and yet for all that the people of Asia had no other kings, but by succession from the father to the son, or some other the nearest of kin.


>And of all the ancient kings of Greece, we find none but Timondas, who was chosen King of Corinth, and Pittacus of Nigropont. And at such time as the royal name and line sailed, oftentimes the strongest or the mightest carried it away as it chanced after the death of Alexander the
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There will be more art of Grace too.


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Maybe there'll be more art of Grace or maybe Alunya?
Anons call the other OC Jill Drusilla by the nickname Hot Cheeto.


>>739239
It's a disgrace that we are not allowed a thread for cock, penis, and balls, but we have to put up with these vile bimbos with balloon tits while scrolling


Merry Christmas, Grace-poster!


>>738004
I did sort of modify the picture, but gracefag pics are generally commissions/requests and not a drawfag.


>>732219
>Where did Grace go?
Hopefully for her sake not the Guillotine.
>Why does Alunya drink milk from a bowl?
Do you think I can read minds or something?!?!


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>missing
Where did Grace go?
and
>Alunya
Why does Alunya drink milk from a bowl?


November is over, time to look at her Grace


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Emo Grace highly recommends Sonic Racing Crossworlds.


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>Emo Grace in the chao garden


>What is Grace listening to–


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The Melancholy and Lamentations of Emo Grace
<"…Saving only that he [the Earl] was carried away with the stream, in a manner, of the whole nation, to think that England was not an absolute, but a mixed monarchy; not considering that the supreme power must always be absolute, whether it be in the King or in the Parliament…"

<"…Besides, I told you before, that those which were then likeliest to have their counsel asked in this business, were averse to absolute monarchy, as also to absolute democracy or aristocracy; all which governments they esteemed tyranny, and were in love with monarchy which they used to praise by the name of mixed monarchy, though it were indeed nothing else but pure anarchy…"


<"…Only that fault, which was generally in the whole nation, which was, that they thought the government of England was not an absolute, but a mixed monarchy; and that if the King should clearly subdue this Parliament, that his power would be what he pleased, and theirs as little as he pleased: which they counted tyranny…"


Emo Grace recites Hobbes verbatim and sulks at anon


There is also my other OC.
>Who is Jill Drusilla?
Is my other alternative monarchist OC.
Named after Julia Dursilla (the sister of Gaius Caligula) – this new OC represents my renewed outlook on absolute monarchy (& partially because I laud Gaius Caligula). I felt the need to make a new OC for three reasons:
1. I feel I have drifted so far from the kind of monarchist I was in 2018 (when I was new to e-monarchist politics & made Grace-chan – much more cynical towards the traditionalist crowd since then for all the spurning & contempt I've been met with from them – one of the reasons why I went with Jill Drusilla is because I've grown so fed up with High Churchism that I decided to disassociate even more since I apprehended the name Grace has those connotations, albeit initially from my pov it didn't).
2. I felt like making an OC in tune with my other alias (Jill Drusilla has orange hair to represent like a corgi).
3. Wanted to give a new OC a chance (after Grace-chan never catching on after all my shilling efforts for years). Also because I wanted to try a new OC anyways.


Plato Republic Book 5:
>This, then, Glaucon, is the manner of the community of wives and children among the guardians. That it is consistent with the rest of our polity and by far the best way is the next point that we must get confirmed by the argument. Is not that so?” “It is, indeed,” he said. “Is not the logical first step towards such an agreement to ask ourselves what we could name as the greatest good for the constitution of a state and the proper aim of a lawgiver in his legislation, and what would be the greatest evil, and then to consider whether the proposals we have just set forth fit into the footprints of the good and do not suit those of the evil?” “By all means,” he said.

>“Do we know of any greater evil for a state than the thing that divides it and makes it many instead of one, or a greater good than that which binds it together and makes it one?”


>“We do not.”


>“Is not, then, the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds, when, so far as may be, all the citizens rejoice and grieve alike at the same births and deaths?”


>“But the individualization of these feelings is a dissolvent, when some grieve exceedingly and others rejoice at the same happenings to the city and its inhabitants?” “Of course.” “And the chief cause of this is when the citizens do not utter in unison such words as ‘mine’ and ‘not mine,’ and similarly with regard to the word ‘alien’?


>“Precisely so.”


>“That city, then, is best ordered in which the greatest number use the expression ‘mine’ and ‘not mine’ of the same things in the same way.”


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>>723247
I want to unite with Grace-chan!!


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Graceposter's Political Ideology
I'm coining a term for my ideology of Monarchy:
Monarchia Natio Coloniae / Dynastic Patriotism.
Meaning, the cultivation of a people with Monarchy (to make them more united & as a greater family).
(I might have butchered the Latin, but it is the thought that counts).
That is my political ideology.
When I say colony in Monarchia Natio Coloniae my intent is a cultivation of politics, to make a people & politics a colony of monarchy. Not colony in the context of foreign lands, but the establishment of politics from Monarchy.
This way, there is a dynastic patriotism.
My two inspirations are Hobbes' Leviathan and North Korea Juche.


OP Profile:
>OP?
OP is a monarchist on leftypol.org.

>What kind of Monarchist is Graceposter?

A modern day absolute monarchist & invested in the late 1500s & 1600s kind of absolutism, hereditary rule / dynasties, & the pre-eminent notion of monarchy as opposed to mixed constitutionalism / limited or mixed monarchy, formally called constitutional monarchy & constitutional monarchism.

>What about Medievalism & NeoFeudalism?

OP is ambivalent towards traditionalism, particularly the Medievalist or Neofeudalist style of Royalism, & traditionalists who are solely denoted by high church & sometimes the mixed constitutionalism of the Middle Ages & later periods.
The style of absolutism, concerning Monarchy, OP sees as fundamentally different in certain respects, so OP is ambivalent and wary of Medievalism & Traditionalism.
The Medievalist lacks a certain political forte with regard to Monarchy & the Herodotus Debate that absolutism carries (because the Medievalist is predisposed to ultra-clericalism / ultramontanism). Medievalists usually are strong proponents of mixed constitutionalism (having their roots in Aristotle & his politics) and wields Alexis de Tocqueville & Bertrand de Jouvenel against absolute monarchy.
OP is not that kind of monarchist, albeit invested in both monarchies such as the traditionalist connotation of a king with a Christian crown, but also Caesarism and even secular dictatorships sometimes as modern monarchies or bearing a resemblance to monarchical form.

>Who is Grace?

Grace is the board tan of /monarchy/ and /8flags/ on 8chan / 8moe and a monarchist tan.
Sometimes Grace is just an OC or apolitical (when representing /8flags/ or Graceposter is funposting), but primarily Grace is a monarchist tan (& supports Graceposter's taste, style, & niche of monarchy, tbh; she is not a constitutional monarchist or a staunch ultramontanist, but predisposed to absolutism and JUCHE, lmao, sorry Luce and constitutional monarchists).


>>655366
Grace chan this is always your home bro/sis.


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Author Profile
In 2006, ROMANTIC FOOL saw Bikko's rise in popularity and wrote up a background on Bikko and her conception as a character.

Here's a shoddy translation by dome dude from the Discord:

About Bikko.
Please read on for more information about Bikko.

“Who is Bikko” Bikko-san is a character from “ROMANTIC FOOL since 1995” featured on this site. The name of this characters is made up of both Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji in order to make it difficult to search/look up. When I first created Bikko, I didn’t really imagine any specific character traits based around the name. That is why I would like to take this opportunity, knowing what I know now, to talk about and discuss this character. Originally, when I started writing this stuff I was stricken with so much anxiety about whether it would be shot down or not.. Bikko was the star of “Kesson Shojo”, a fanzine released about 2 or 3 years ago.

“Composition”

Among my circle of friends, I knew of a girl who had lost one of her arms and some fingers in a tragic accident. I noticed those around her would walk ouyghshells, looking at her in a funny way and treat her differently. Despite of this, however, this girl would not let this get to her and instead carried herself with dignity and grace – I remember thinking how cool, how beautiful she was because of this. I wanted to put the respect and adoration I felt towards my friend into the character of Bikko.

However, is the narrative solely relatable to her? Aren’t we all burdened with some kind of defect? Aren’t we all missing a piece of the jigsaw in some way or another? Obviously, in the case of you and I, they can’t be seen from the exterior. I think it is important to recognize one’s deficits, accept them, swallow them and consider how you are going to live with them. I think that treating disabled people with visible “defects” as saintly figures, whom are untouchable and never gazed upon, is discriminatory
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I will learn about how to move with elegance and grace.