the human experience isn't unique and everything you're feeling has been felt before and you're not alone in your experiences despite how isolated you've convinced yourself you are and you're not too much and people do care and your friends do love you and please believe me when I tell you that the world is filled with warmth and you contribute to it by being here
Some fucking ghouls on twitter just misgendered me and called me a chaser and a cross dresser and an agamp because I have an nsfw account where I retweet porn. Why do these kinds of people exist? Why are there trans women that just love acting exactly like terfs? I am so fucking tired of this shit and I'm not out to anyone irl so I have fucking no one to talk to about this! I'm not a docile little house cat so that gives people a free pass to paint me as a predator
i wish i could already exist in a dynamic (homoerotic) with someone i'm totally compatible with without the tedious ordeal of Intentionally getting to know them. like going into the relationship wanting to be romantic? booooooooo. dating apps are not for me. i prefer courting people the old fashioned way by framing them for murder and gutting them on my kitchen floor
OP--turned off reblogs and it is bad tumblr etiquette to try reblog it again, but I am sharing this with two cents cause I have opinions + media criticism credentials + done archivist historian work + my current wip centres largely around this nuance and the nuance of inherent human unreliability. See here, and here. Meaningful citation I am gonna quote a lot… also this is just my opinion having read Das Kapital and worked at a unions museum and being a historical fiction writer + gothic horror writer.
when I say "apologize" for Robespierre I don't mean take away his humanity or complexity. The same applies to Marie Antoinette as much as I don't like at all what she stood for or her irl views, she was still a person, as well Napoleon I Bonaparte (the first 'Liberal' Dictator) are all people, not necessarily 'moral' or 'good' people, and we don't have to erase their humanity to talk about how they were not 'good.'
As competent as Louis XIV nicknamed, Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or Sun King (le Roi Soleil) for his competence and ability to win France's colonial wars (a thing shockingly-- historians of all political leanings agree upon), could've spared France and all of its citizenry a lot of hurt if he just took away the ancien regimes social powers but left them their titles etc. TLDR: if France became a constitutional monarchy none of the French revolution would've happened.
Robespierre was by no means an "avenging angel" but it is important to keep in mind most of what he fought for was warranted and he was the victim of a posthumous smear campaign.
I cannot possibly reiterate enough times just how messed up the ancien regime was, yeah, not all nobility had power or wealth, like country nobility. But, unless you are the bourgeoise new money, titled and wealthy or court nobility. You along with the 99.9% (who is not the clergy or the second estate) might as well be getting by on scraps, Dangerous Liaisons (the book) touches on this conflict a lot.
Historical fiction is by nature fiction it shouldn't be moralized differently from any other fiction.
The French (and by extension European + American) empires never really 'died' they just rebranded themselves a lot.
hey just fyi the same hormone ur body releases to make u wake up is an anxiety hormone - ur fine. take a deep breath. and just accept it as your body telling you to get started
idk maybe vagueing about it hasn’t been the way to go and i assume most of you haven’t seen this post (or this version, at least). i don’t want to start drama and i don’t want to do some big dramatic callout post. but simply put, i don’t want to see that fucking person on my dash. and i should hope that seeing this version of the post will explain why they should be blocked. i don’t think their discriminatory and erasing statements reflect this fandom or the content of all your characters so hopefully seeing this person’s true nature will be beneficial all around.