desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

A midnight pee turns into a midnight surprise

Wanted to redesign Kaguya

Hebe: I was raised as an only child. Hebe: My two brothers, and three sisters took it pretty hard.

I notice in your translation of Lucile’s diary, on 9th June 92 she says “He's gone! If they would have ripped my soul out, they wouldn't have hurt me any more. What a wound has come to my heart!“ Is she referring to Horace here? I assumed so from the context (unless it was Camille) - and if so is she referring to the baby being taken to the wet nurse? I wondered why she would choose not to breastfeed it herself given the distress. Was it to do with the dangerous situation in Paris or Lucile being unwell (as she mentions?). I know you don’t have definite answers to all this but given you are a wizard I wanted your opinion! (The joys of trying to decipher the girl’s incredible crypticness for a novel .)

Yes, I think it is rather obvious it’s Horace being sent to a wet nurse Lucile is referring to in this diary entry. It’s also confirmed by a letter Camille wrote to his father three days later: ”I named [my son] Horace-Camille Desmoulins. He was immediately sent to a wet nurse in l'Ile-Adam (Seine-et-Oise) with the little Danton.”

As for why Lucile didn’t breastfeed Horace herself, I agree it can come off as a little strange given that mothers breastfeeding their own children was the new hot stuff. We know that both the Brissot, Roland and Lebas couple went through with it (in the latter case, Philippe even seems to have had the topic of breastfeeding your own child be some kind of ”ultimatum” to see if Élisabeth would be a suitable wife for him). We also know that Horace was one of the very first children to have a republican baptism instead of a religious one, a clear indicator his parents were open to other new ideas regarding babies. Camille does however not appear to have been as huge of a Rousseau stan as some other revolutionaries (in number 55 (December 1790) of Révolutions de France et de Brabant, he does for example write that he no longer idolizes Rousseau ”since he became an aristocrat in his old days,” and even tossed Confessions away in rage, ”in order to not hate the philosopher from Geneva”), the philosopher largely being the one who had advertised for mothers breatfeeding their own children. Also, according to Mette Harder’s Life in Revolutionary France (2020) — ”In practise, it seems that only a minority of parents followed this advice, given the prevalence of wet-nursing in France, particulary in larger cities.”

Finally, my only other speculation here is that since Horace, as shown by Camille’s letter, was sent to the same wet nurse as Danton’s youngest son, maybe it was Georges and Gabrielle who told Lucile and Camille: ”our wet nurse is great, you should send your child there too.” Then it’s also true Paris, like you say, wasn’t exactly the safest and healthiest place for an infant (or anyone!) in the summer of 1792, so it would make sense to want your child out of there for a while. But Lucile of course had a country house to run off to (which, as seen through the diary, she actually did shortly after Horace was sent away) and where we might imagiene she could have easily brought her son as well, so I don’t know if that explanation alone is sufficient enough.

Trying to undo the damage of Facebook w/o risking your relationship with a loved one is like defusing a fucking bomb sometimes I stg

okay personal grievance but. grrm making cat get pregnant on her wedding night was just one of the manu cruelties he enacted upon her but arguably the one that goes the most unnoticed. she did not want to have sex with that man

In 93 AC she [Alysanne] attended the wedding of Prince Baelon’s eldest son, Viserys, to Lady Aemma of House Arryn, the eleven-year-old child of the late Princess Daella (their marriage was not consummated until the bride had flowered, two years later).

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

their marriage was not consummated until the bride had flowered, two years later 

Wow, I’m feeling so much better now! Thirteen! He didn’t fuck her ‘till she was thirteen! And she had Rhaenyra at fifteen! SO OLD! WTF is wrong with these people?! What did poor Aemma do to deserve that? But hey, Viserys loved her SO VERY MUCH!!!

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"Leia, have you ever wondered why your mother and father chose me to be your teacher and protector, why out of all of the highly qualified servants in the palace and the droids they could have purchased, they chose someone from Naboo?"

A poem I wrote for my wife

Say what you will about my wife

Was it my fault she went this way in life?

Was my queerness too much for a boy to bear

So she had no choice but to grow her hair?

Or did I accept them as they were then

Encouraging choice for my best friend?

Letting her be who she wanted to be

By showing her who I was, fully me?

Did that stir a change, a rapid onset

To grow her hair as well as breast

That let her turn into a gorgeous butterfly,

Given half a chance to grow and thrive?

Did I turn her into something I liked

Or was she always the one for whom I'd give my life?

Whether called he, she, they, or anything else

I'd never have her as less than her true self.

Did I know, back then, who she would be?

No, but there's no other face I'd rather wake to see.

So you took me, so I take you

To be my wedded partner, too.

unrelated anathema fact. she's on an eternal New Interesting Food quest. any time there's a food she's never had before she's gotta try it; this extends to shapes, colors, and flavors of food she's otherwise had before as well. the party has spent multiple hours walking around markets exclusively stopping at food stalls for this exact reason

belated honeymoon in Tartosa! 

Oh nvm i confused this with another fic how embarassing aaahhh i finished reading it and omg u never fail to deliver its so SAURR GOOD !!!!

It’s cool! I’m glad you liked it 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

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KILIAN FITZGERALD — casual in the capital QZ before his disappearance | formal / workwear / “university” in the capital QZ a member of the governmental body | post disappearance, convinced single-handedly for fedra to abandon the denver QZ.

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this can tie into ruyan as well i think...... ruyan does not struggle with her gender or sexuality at all in any sort of repressed way i think the only way she really struggles with is outwardly dating other people because of her specific circumstance of not technically a cis woman? but something agender but wants to be spoken to as a woman and the main issue comes with how she transitioned and how she has taken on the body considered ''male'' for au ra and how that influences how people see her and treat her during sex and romantic endeavors. but her problem stew is mostly unrelated to that and more about her insane mental illness and obsessions but this also isnt about this. this post was supposed to be about utterly terrifying it is for ruyan when she marries chefant because she realizes this means shes going to be part of a family and for once in his life have like, brothers and a father and is expected to call them as such and it sends her spiralling down a hole again about the long drawn belief shes had that nobody has ever loved her beyond obligation and ESPECIALLY when she finds out on his very own wedding day that his own mother never really even loved him and did all she did simply out of obligation and now she worries and obsesses over being taken in to a new family and the wedding and what this all means and how terrifying this all is. not to mention after knowing everything that goes on in the family how worried she is that shes so easily accepted in for who she is (agender woman? person bisexual) while they all have been having a magnitude 8 repressed family moment. AND her other fears about marriage and being ''tied down'' and the idea that everyones love for her has a limit that will be met one day and she will be discarded and left behind or that hes expected to be a certain way or behave a specific way and meet ''requirements'' for this love. anyway