robedepourpre
We're all stories in the end
French and proud to be. TV shows addict, books addict, fanfic writer and reader, feminist. I watch far too many tv shows for my own good, I love history, and I get far too much worked up by (geo)politics.
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Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
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Today I'm thinking about how all of K.J. Charles' Regency-set romances are partly a fuck-you to the horrible gender and class (and sexuality and race, naturally) dynamics of the Regency, especially among the upper-middle and upper classes, and how much the happy endings (including for the supporting het pairings) all seem to involve people escaping the ton and all that nonsense forever. Band Sinister, Thief in the Night, The Gentle Art of Fortune-Hunting... characters pair off into glorious m/m relationships (in one case with the option of future polyamory :D ), or make delightful het marriages that get them well out of "society", or in my absolute favourite case, turn out to be entirely ace and aro and fulfil a childhood dream that I won't spoiler but it's the absolute fricking best. Most of the m/m and m/nb relationships throughout Charles's work involve a significant class difference somewhere along the line.
Absolutely no romanticising the marriage market from Charles. In fact, Regency social expectations and pressures invariably comprise one of the obstacles to be faced and defeated, if not the actual villain. I love it. <3
(I speak as an Austen fan, and I think it's no exaggeration to say that Austen massively distrusted the social rules in which she lived and certainly held opinions that put her on the very liberal end considering her situation, but she still lived within them. Whereas a lot of Austen's imitators since have rather treated the ton etc. as... at best a cosy dystopia, at worst something actually good and romantic? That Charles goes "oh absolutely not" just makes me love her so much. <3 )
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Will Darling/Kim Secretan:
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Promise me you'll keep them safe.
Till my dying day.
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Pop Culture Apocalypse – The modern ruins of Filip Hodas
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Dude, you have three full cobs! I will slap you, Shawn.
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Comparing the rotations of objects in the Solar System. Just look at them lol.✨🪐
To everyone that's confused, the planet Venus rotates very very slowly, with a single revolution taking about 243 Earth days, and Mercury rotates slowly, but not as slow as Venus.
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Characters being compared to dogs always use terriers or pitbulls or something for their metaphors. “They grab on and they don’t let go” “They keep worrying at it until it’s dead” etc.
Anyway, I want to see collies used as metaphors. Albert Payson Terhune style. “He was like an attack dog–making slash-and-run attacks, cutting them up worse every time, never staying in range long enough to get hurt but circling back over and over.”
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Zuko was wrong, actually. (I think.maybe.) Because juice, like, comes from the moisture in thing thing and then you remove the non-liquid bits, whereas in (most?) tea, you infuse the leaves with water instead of relying on the inherent water. True hot leaf juice would be if you extracted liquid from a couple leaves and heated it up, which would be expensive and probably bitter but a fun way to do it
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Ethnic stereotypes among students at the University of Paris c.1200 AD, according to Jacques de Vitry
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Kait Rokowsky || Mary Shelley, Frankenstein || @hopepunk-humanity || Jenny Slate, Little Weirds || Intricate Explorer || Melissa Broder, Problem Area || Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked || Louise Eldritch, The King of the Owls || Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know || Damir Omerović || David Leviathan, How They Met and Other Stories || Ariana Reines, The Cow || Anaís C., Am I Good? || Okechukwu Nzelu, Here Again Now || Max Muselmann || Fernando Pessoa, I See Boats Moving || Mary Maclane, I Await the Devil's Coming || Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts || Mary Oliver, Spring || Jordan Steranka
Tathlyn Auvrynval: On Endurance, Defending, and Being Made A Weapon
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Torino, Italy
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