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Our Revolution
By: TalktomeinClexa
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None in this chapter; Blood and Injury, Violence in others
Status: Complete
Summary: Lexa, an Assassin saved by Titus when she was a child and trained by him since, is injured during a mission and saved by a young physician named Clarke. The two of them rapidly become close, despite Lexa's dangerous life. As the French Revolution plays around them and the Templar threat increases, will the two women survive long enough to see it through and get their happy ending
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Chapter 52: February 1793
An odd silence lingered over the city of Bordeaux on that evening of early February 1793. The streets, usually filled with people chatting about their day before strolling home for supper, were mostly deserted. Only a few groups of men hung out by the inns and cafés, talking in hushed voices that contradicted the jerky moves of their hands.
“As if Austria and Prussia weren’t enough, now we’re at war with Britain, too.”
“Not only Britain. I heard the Netherlands as well.”
“My brother says we might declare war against Spain soon.”
“This is insane. How do they expect to fight on so many fronts?”
“And with what army? Many of the volunteers of last year have left. I’m telling you; there’ll be a draft. There’s no other way.”
“I’ve already paid my dues,” the tallest man said, lifting his right arm to show the stump that had been his hand. “And for what? The king’s gone, and it’s not like we lot are eating any better. If the Convention1 wants a war, they can go fight it themselves.”
In the midst of their conversation, the men didn’t see the boy approaching. Aden had been listening to them for a few minutes, hidden in the shadows, and decided to strike before they left. His clothes were too thin for the winter, and many holes let the icy wind bite his pale skin. But despite his shivers, he made quick work of the ties holding the coin purse of the man with his back to him.
He was retreating slowly when a shout came, “Hey, you! Come back here.”
Aden spun around and ran as fast as his skinny legs could carry him. His feet protested in his too-small shoes, soon joined by his empty stomach, yet he sped up when the steps of the men chasing him grew nearer. If they caught him, he would be in for a thrashing. Or worse.
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#our revolution#Assassin's Creed AU#french revolution au#clexa#clexa fic#assassin lexa#clarke griffin#lexa#I've spent so long editing this story that I ended up writing a whole new chapter for it
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Nasum - Our Revolution
#Nasum#World in Turmoil#Our Revolution#Release date: May 1997#EP#Genre: Grindcore#Themes: Politics Society Anti-fascism#Sweden
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THANKS TO ALL WHO WORKED TO DRIVE BACK REPUBLICAN FASCISM IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS!! LET”S KEEP WORKING TO EXPAND DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS!!!
#John Fetterman#Bernie Sanders#Pennsylvania#midterm elections#blue wave#Democrats#Republicans#democracy#human rights#Our Revolution#fascism
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Today's multitudes of suck up sucker sycophants that are not independent critical free thinkers. Unfortunately this is the average American voter foolishly sending America to hell in a handbasket. Wake up people and use your heads for something besides a hat rack.
#democracy now#democratic socialists of america#our revolution#progressives#the humanist report#politics#green party#democratic socialists of america#being liberal
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Mahmoud Darwish, “On Hope,” trans. Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb, in Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance
#our land is not barren / each land has its own rebirth / each dawn has a date with revolution !!!!!!#w#poetry#mahmoud darwish#all beautiful poetry is an act of resistance#from the river to the sea
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While overall I felt like the tbosas movie was well done, there's one part that really bothered me. When Sejanus gets involved with the rebels in the book, he's fully on board, stealing them ammo and weapons from the base, and planning to hold guards at gunpoint to free the prisoners. In the movie, however, he just wants to run away and then is surprised and upset by the fact that the rebels were planning an act of violence.
This doesn't seem like a major change, but from a political standpoint (as tbosas is a very political book), it's a big one and one I very much do not like.
In the text, Sejanus plays the role of the moral compass. Whereas both Coriolanus and Lucy Gray having complex and subjective motivations, Sejanus is always driven by wanting to do the right thing, even if it costs him. He acts as a baseline, keeping the readers from getting lost in endless loops of justification for atrocities just because Coriolanus's internal narration is rhetorically persuasive.
So when Sejanus (who up until this point has been relatively pacifist) joins up with the rebels in the book and agrees to participate in an act of revolutionary violence, the text is pointing out that that act of rebellion is morally permissible. That even violence against the oppressor class can be an altruistic action. Sejanus planning to fight the guards with the rebels is not a sign of his corruption, it's a sign of the fact that his society has become so corrupt that not doing it would be morally worse than doing it. After all, someone's going to die either way, so why not have it be the oppressors?
If movie!Sejanus is still occupying the role of the moral compass (which he seems to be), then his dismay at the possibility of the rebels using violence acts as a narrative condemnation of the violence, when the opposite is true in the book. The movie tries to make a distinction between the "good" dissenters (pacifist, nonviolent, morally superior) and the "bad" dissenters (violent radicals/terrorists). In the current political climate, this idea and narrative is extremely unsettling. And I'm disappointed they did this, but not surprised. Like the other Hunger Games movies, it was produced by a large media company, and they can't follow the satire of the book too closely lest people realize the fundamental irony of it. People in positions of power do not want to tell a story where violent activism is portrayed as moral--at least when it's against a society that obviously mirrors our own. (The brutalist architecture style is another complaint that I have, but that can be discussed in another post.)
Changing that seemingly small detail about Sejanus's involvement with the rebels doesn't do much to change the continuity of the storyline, but it does a lot to change the underlying message of his character and the story. This was almost certainly intentional, because the same sort of thing was done in the original trilogy movies as well. Companies are scared of subversive media because it makes them look like the 'bad guys' too, so they wrap rebellion in a lens of fantasy and moderatism.
#sejanus plinth#politics#tbosas#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#analysis#thg#pigeon.txt#I have a LOT of thoughts about this#but this post is already long as hell#anyways. violent revolution is morally justified.#we have nothing to lose but our chains
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#hangman page#adam page#swerve strickland#samoa joe#wrestlingedit#aewedit#aew#aew revolution#*#ours: gifs#maker: s#feud: hangman vs swerve#feud: hangman vs joe#event: revolution 2024#hangman x swerve
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Mr. Andrew Hozier byrne sat down and said 100 years from now the Empire will have fallen and because of that we have hope. The fruits of our revolution are inevitable, our dreams are inevitable and propel us forward and because of that we have hope for an easier world!
Yes the despair and yes the hope 😭 the sun will dawn on better times
#oh it’s giving me chills#the martyrs of our revolution will power the world we make!!!!#the sun is coming up on a dream!!#happy hozier Friday all#dev speaks#hozier#empire now#unheard
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#daniel garcia#matt lee#matt menard#wrestlingedit#danielgarciaedit#aew#aewedit#aew revolution#aew revolution 2024#ours#gif#*
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Hi there :-) What's your favourite of your own fics? What would you recommend to a reader and why?
Gosh, tough choice. It's like asking me to choose between my children cats 🤔
I love the shorter stories and one-shots I've done so far, but I guess as a writer I get a lot more invested in a longer story. The background stories, the universe, the different characters... There's more to play with. For example, Our Revolution and Ad Astra Per Aspera were amazing and challenging to write, and I'm super proud that I finished them. It was a little while ago, though, and my style has — I hope — improved since, so I'm re-editing them atm.
My favorite and the one I would recommend would be the On the Ground series, I guess. It's the one I'm working on now so the style is more mature. It's a long, detailed story with lots of side snippets and minor characters. By the look of it it won't be finished before 2030 but it should be worth it 😅
Thanks for asking!
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i have just realized that pash is probably in her thirties. late twenties at a minimum. like on my first read i thought she was obnoxious and brash in the way that you are when your frontal lobe isnt fully developed but that math doesnt math. shes nine or ten in wakes photo which was taken at least twenty years before nona takes place. plus, pyrrha first guesses shes wakes sister. pash is fully grown. this is the best news
#our lady of the passion#i love my cringe fail lesbians so much#she IS the nepo baby of the revolution and i SUPPORT HER#the locked tomb#nona the ninth#eskildit posts tlt
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Guy who has only seen Revolutionary Girl Utena watching their second thing: Getting a lot of 'Revolutionary Girl Utena' vibes from this...
#its me. im guy#this show has irreversibly damaged my brain#this is about persona 3 btw.#everyone goes into their coffins during the dark hour....#if it cannot break its shell. a chick will die without being born#we are the chick. the world is our egg. if we dont break the worlds shell we will die without being born#smash the worlds shell. for the revolution of the world!#rgu#revolutionary girl utena
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Lord, i used to pray for times like these
#hozier#unreal unearth#andrew hozier byrne#my hozier?? talking about songs and actually releasing them too???? i didnt know he could do that#and rob the goddess coming back from the valley of death!!!#fucking excited tho cuz from what hes said the matryrs of our revolution sounds like a baaaanger
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Yes absolutely, since they don't have cashiers to pay including their benefits. Why should you work for free by ringing up your own groceries?
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I cannot believe
That it has taken me 20 years
To understand that the Utena movie is what happened to Utena after the series.
It's a fever dream of the major plot points. It's regret and guilt and despair. It resonates constantly with the whisper of the story of a person who tried to save someone and died in their place. It's a brittle-edged rewrite of everything that happened, except this time Utena knows from the start what she's up against, and this time Anthy will do anything - anything - to show her that she didn't fail.
The movie is Utena trapped in a tiny world of her own creation that is yet an echo of the world of Akio's creation. The movie is Anthy fulfilling her promise to find Utena and save her in turn. The movie is the reassurance that the series did not end in despair.
And I will fight to the death to defend the car thing. It's the whole point. Utena could never save Anthy by picking her up and carrying her out of there like an object. But she can make of herself a vehicle, and Anthy can choose to take the key and leave.
#revolutionary girl utena#utena#rgu#feelings all over my face#it's the bit where Rinbu Revolution starts playing#and Anthy floors it#there are no roads#but we can make our own#anyway this anime formed a good 30% of my psyche so#tenjou utena#himemiya anthy
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