#Ed Junot

[cadmusfly]

Let's Judge The Signatures Of Dead Frenchmen - Marshals of the Empire Edition

plus some bonuses at the bottom

This is a shitpost I've just wanted to do ever since I noticed Masséna's signature.

I know signatures are not meant to be legible, god knows mine isn't, but look at it, it's all the same letter!

I'm lazy so I'm only going to judge the ones on wikimedia and a few extra from letters, sorry to Marmont and others who did not get their signatures scanned and then made transparent for osme reason who is going to forge a dead frenchman's signature

Of course Bessières has a nice one:

Berthier is also pretty nice:

Loopy! Wait as has been pointed out to me, that could be an Alex. Did anyone ever call him Alex or Al

I love Lannes' because he circles his name!

A fancy guy like Murat's gotta have a fancy one, right?

Nice but not as loopy as Berthier's, honestly not the fanciest here

Davout has a nice legible one

Let's look at Soult's-

Woah, he's taking up a bit of space there! Where are you going with that t, champ?

Augereau is nice and straight I'm in awe as someone physicalyl incapable of writing in a straight line even on lined paper

Mortier is also really nice!

but also Ed Mortier. He called himself Ed. Do you think his friends also called him Ed or perhaps Eddie

MacDonald is Massena tier

can you guess who this next one is

hint: not french

Lefebvre's goin for the loop:

Jourdan is all classical:

Cant find Bernadotte pre-kinging but dude why is your kingograph so large who transcribed it like this

@phatburd linked me St Cyr's and

Very nice!

Victor lets see

I think I see a V in there. And a treble clef.

Oudinot:

I can kinda make it out!

But anyway I've been saving the best for last.

I have no words for this artistic masterpiece by Marshal Michel Ney.

Is that an umlaut or an emoticon? What are the two lines doing - error of transcription or part of the actual signature? Why do the loops just keep on going????

Is he just self conscious of how short his name is?????

Bonus!

Eugène de Beauharnais how's your-

he just didnt know when to stop.

Junot:

circle! pretty circle! napoleon did say he has pretty handwriting

Duroc:

Man he turned that c into an underline

This was fun! Next I'll rate all their coat of arms of something

[armagnac-army]

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT WE

THE MARSHALS OF THE EMPIRE

HAVE BEEN RANKED!!!!

BEHOLD THE DEFINITIVE RANKING!!!

Davout - @perdicinae-observer

Lannes - ME

Berthier - @your-staff-wizard

Soult - @murillo-enthusiast

Ney - @le-brave-des-braves

Suchet

Masséna - @chicksncash

Macdonald

Bessières - @bayard-de-la-garde @your-dandy-king/@askgeraudduroc

Murat - @your-dandy-king

Victor - @beausoleil-de-bellune

Oudinot

Saint-Cyr - @bow-and-talon

Marmont

Mortier - @simple-giant-ed

Lefebvre

Augereau - bunking with @chicksncash

Bernadotte - @france-hater

Jourdan

Poniatowski - @le-bayard-polonaise

Moncey

Grouchy

Kellermann

Sérurier

Brune

Pérignon

and here are the batonless guys they say should have a baton!

@generaldesaix, @le-fils, @puddinglesablonniere, @general-junot, @le-dieu-mars

I do appreciate my oen ranking on the list >;]

now discuss!!!

[thistlecatfics]

This subject came up with my friend last week so here is my attempt at starting a list of the best writers/artists of my (millennial) generation.

Requirements: my subjective personal taste, staying power, being iconically millennial/speaking to my generation, big name in their field even if not big name overall, not just a social media shit-stirrer

Sally Rooney (novels)

Taylor Swift (songwriting)

Beyonce (performance/singing) (gen x cusp)

RF Kuang (fantasy) (gen z cusp)

Tamsyn Muir (scifi)

Ocean Vuong (poetry, literary fiction)

Jia Tolentino, Jamelle Bouie, Ezra Klein (commentary)

Ronan Farrow, Sarah Kliff (investigative journalism)

Ed Yong (science writing) (gen x cusp)

Lin Manuel Miranda (musicals) (gen x cusp)

Other writers/artists I considered: Casey McQuiston (new adult/romance), Leigh Bardugo (YA/fantasy), SA Chakraborty (fantasy), Kai Cheng Thom (?? instagram-y writing?), Chanel Miller (memoir/visual art), Lady Gaga (performance), Jon Favreau (speech writing), Amanda Gorman (poet) (gen z), adrienne maree brown (essays) (gen x)

Who am I missing? Who absolutely needs to be on this list? I'm particularly looking for more nonfiction writers, poets, visual artists and non-Americans since those are areas I'm less familiar with.

BONUS Gen X honorees because I kept thinking of people who turned out to be Gen X:

Emily Wilson (translation)

NK Jemisin (fantasy)

Patrick Radden Keefe (history)

Jessica Valenti, Moira Donegan, Ta-Nehisi Coates (political commentary)

Cheryl Strayed (advice columns)

Susanne Collins (YA)

Kiese Laymon (memoir, essays)

Junot Diaz (fiction, short stories)

Jhumpa Lahari (fiction, short stories)

[murillo-enthusiast]

Brun: The directory wasn't updated to account for Marshal Bernadotte- King Bernadotte at @france-hater sharing his address with Bagration and one of the Wellingtons. Should we file their green words under their original listings?

Bory: They'd still have their original placements, most likely, so keep those places, I say.

Petiet: One of the Emperors - @napoleon-bonapartee - got three green words... There's a possibility some of those words are doubled up with other people's words, I think.

Lameth: Ah, and we missed the brilliant @generaldesaix 's green word.

Petiet: ... Lameth, are you okay..? You seem distracted...

Lameth: Hmm? Ah, dear Petiet, I'm fine. Don't worry about me~

Brun: If you say so. Let's see, here's our clues for this riddle so far...

Riddle observations Red: Austrians, ass/Murat, go, hot, cracker, wife, yay, oysters, :), brainrot, cutting, eat, tub, shin,disgusting,burning paper...

armagnac-army: I, love le-brave-des-braves: ravioli your-dandy-king: would, 3 and 2 hint chicksncash: eat your-staff-wizard: 32 perdicinae-observer: dishes bow-and-talon: admire, from france-hater: from simple-giant-ed: afar bayard-de-la-garde: give le-bayard-polonaise: hearts general-junot: to askgeraudduroc: everyone trauma-and-truffles: look generaldesaix: me le-dieu-mars: up troboi1806: in carolinemurat: doctor's alexanderfanboy: place frencheaglet: remember le-fils: when, he napoleon-bonapartee: ever, killed a man in god-of-the-army A wellingthighs: MAN pakenham-kitty: march, you headlessgenius: already the-adventures-of-lydia-brown: died

[kforourke]

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The old saying about teachers learning as much from their students as students learning from teachers is certainly true, but in my years of teaching I've encountered another truism* that's less frequently bandied about: the process of preparing to teach can be just as educational (if not broadly edifying) as teaching itself.

Case in point: the short video I found, when preparing for the final meeting of my recent Hugo House class, of Ed Yong discussing the role writers play in communicating science. Here's its juiciest quote:

Good science journalism is also an important corrective force; it's a wall that stands between the public and this huge amount of hype and misinformation and vested interests, and it's the tension between these two sides that informs the work that I do. Writing that reveals how incredible the world around us is, and that also calls out bullshit when it's necessary.

And here's the video:

What Yong is saying isn't new, but it is nice and succinct. And one could easily replace the phrase "science journalism" with any sort of nonfiction writing/storytelling/creative discipline; the point is the placement of the writer between the material being turned into a story and the audience for that story. It's the writer's—the interlocutor's—job to ensure that the story being told is both true to the material and to the audience. They serve both masters, so to speak.

Which brings me (as does so much these days!) to artificial intelligence. If indeed "90% of online content" will be AI-generated by 2025, then the role writers/interlocutors play will be even more important—they will ensure trust.

Sure sure, that 90% number feels both picked out of thin air and likely to cover all sorts of clearly-just-marketing-or-spam "content," but the point remains that AI will likely make human writers and human curators all the more important. As Patrick Nathan put it in his book Image Control, in "the rushing flow of commodities, a dialectical approach to the art we make and the relationships we forge is the rock in the river, the stick in the spokes."

Meanwhile, to underscore my point, The Atlantic recently reported that an enormous database of pirated books has been used to train several large language models. "Upwards of 170,000 books, the majority published in the past 20 years" are included in a dataset called "Books3," which includes "nonfiction by Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, and Jon Krakauer" and "thrillers by James Patterson and Stephen King and other fiction by George Saunders, Zadie Smith, and Junot Díaz."

!!!

To which no less than Margaret Atwood responded thusly:

A former teacher of mine once said there was only one important question to be asked of a work of art: “Is it alive, or is it dead?” Judging from the results I’ve seen so far, AI can produce “art” of a kind. It sort of looks like art; it sort of sounds like art. But it’s made by a Stepford Author. And it’s dead.

...

Header image, Brueghel the Elder's "The Alchemist," 1558, ink on paper, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, the title is a reference to the Walter Benjamin essay.

*Speaking of truisms:

[odk-2]

Nathan Abshire and The Pine Grove Boys - Popcorn Blues (1960) Nathan Abshire from: "Popcorn Blues" / "Broken Hearted Blues"

Cajun

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Nathan Abshire: Lead Vocals / Accordion Ed Junot: Electric Guitar / Backing Vocals Junior Benoit: Rhythm Guitar Dewey Balfa: Fiddle Robert Bertrand: Drums

Produced by Jay Miller

Recorded The Jay Miller Recording Studio in Crowley, Louisiana USA during 1960

Kajun Records

Nathan Abshire

[crazycoke-addict]

My Thoughts on the Me Too Movement

The Me Too Movement has been having media attention since the fall of Harvey Weinstein in October. Since, than many survivors have come up and said that a certain powerful human being has either harassed, assaulted, raped or abused them at some point in their lives and majority of the times, they aren’t the only person whose the victim of the powerful. However, although I’m all for survivors keeping out and speaking, there are parts where I sometimes not all for the me too movement when it comes to Hollywood.

Many people believe that the Me Too Movement started because white celebrities like Alyssa Milano started the hashtag on twitter. The Me Too Movement was founded by a black woman named Tarana Burke in 2009, it was movement to help unprivileged black women who have been sexually assaulted, abused, harassed or rape in workplace find a voice and don’t be silence anymore. In October 2017, Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, harassment and rape by many women including A list actresses like Angelina Jolie. Although you could say it’s brave that these women has come and said there story, Harvey Weinstein has been in the Hollywood industry since 1979. Since than he has met a lot of celebrities like Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He’s also met the Clintons and the Trumps. Harvey Weinstein was around a lot of celebrities and most of them have said that they knew about what Weinstein was doing behind the scenes and I’m pretty sure other celebrities who have become the victim of Harvey Weinstein probably knew that they weren’t the only ones. I sometimes I have a problem when victims come out and their incident took place in 1980s, like I understand that people have a right to choose if they want to talk, but you need to understand there are going to be some consequences. To me, it seems like your career and fame was more important, you takes photos of you and your abuser together knowing what he has done, rather than speak up after what happened so another women doesn’t become a victim. Harvey Weinstein has victims who were non-famous, but the famous ones didn’t do or say shit and look what happened, you were the 15th victim, you probably known he added 75 or more victims after you and you didn’t say anything at all and when you do you act like you didn’t know even though it’s a possibility that you could have known.

My problem with the me Too is it seems like the victims are racing to social media rather than go to the police or they aren’t doing anything to take down their abuser. It’s ok to share your story, but saying that you won’t press charges on the person who caused you pain is going to affect the other victims that they’ll have in the future or if only one victim decides to press charges, you aren’t going to press charges to help her out. This is why I can’t show any sympathy towards the women who accused Roman Polanski of assault back in the 1970s. It’s like “Where were you, when Samantha Geimer was going through the trial and the media at the age of 14?”. Not only that, they want Samantha to help them out, but this time, you are your own. She went through with the trial, she had to hear what media had to say about her and also it’s choice if she wants to forgive Roman Polanski as well. That all goes out to Charlotte Lewis who also accused Polanski of rape back in 2010, the incident took place in 1983. Since these allegations on Polanski happened during the 70s, while they were only a teen and Charlotte Lewis started speaking out in 2010, her being the only one to do so like Samantha Geimer was the only victim to speak out back in 1977. those same victims who were upset with Samantha would’ve been an adult in 2010, but you still stay silent letting Samantha and Charlotte to suffer not at the hands of Roman Polanski but also at hands of the media as well. When you choose not to speak out early, it’s gonna cause some consequences.

False Accusations are Real and we need to be careful, who we believe when it comes to the me too movement. Just become someone talked about how they were disrespected by a celebrity or that celebrity touched them inappropriately that doesn’t mean that they are telling the truth or even 100% victim because when their story gets out, they’ll have a lot of praises saying how “brave” they are for speaking, but when somebody finds the evidence that a whole different story. Junot Diaz was accused of “misogynistic” and “bullying” when a girl asked him about a character in his book. The girl also stated that he yelled and public humiliated her, but someone found the audio of the incident and uploaded it to sound cloud, in the audio you can clearly can tell that he is defending his work but he isn’t yelling at her or saying misogynistic words towards her or even public humiliated her as what she stated in her story. 49ers player Rueben Foster was accused by his ex of domestic violence, but it was revealed by the ex that it was all a lie because she’s still bitter about the break up. Catfish star, Nev Schulman was accused of harassing a woman and also “reevaluate” her sexuality by sleeping with her. The allegations on Schulman was found not credible and without merit. I’m also skeptical when it comes to the four victims of Ed Westwick and it’s not because he’s handsome, but it’s weird that two of victims dated the same producer, changed their months when it was revealed that Ed Westwick wasn’t in LA as she said and also how the biggest mistake was that fourth victim didn’t leave but instead took a show after what happened. People accusing celebrities of something that they didn’t do isn’t new. Brian Bank has been falsely accused of rape. Keanu Reeves was falsely accused of hypnosis and impregnating a woman. False Accusations do happened and before you started hating on the guy who’s been called a “Rapist” even though he isn’t convicted as one, you should understand that the “victim” you support might be a money grabber or trying to get their 15 minutes of fame.

I might sound harsh, but that’s how I feel ok. I don’t think me too is a witch hunt and it’s also seems like saviours to the real victims, but when it comes to false accusations and how Hollywood acted like they started the me Too because actresses started speaking out even though they were silence because the career and fame was more important than a non-famous victim’s pain and suffering. I do have a fair share of Favourite celebrities but some of them are fake as well. I sympathise with the victims who have been trying to expose people like Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Tambor and R.Kelly before the me too movement. I also sympathises with victims like Samantha Geimer, Charlotte Lewis, Dylan Farrow and Sparkle who didn’t chose to be quiet and wait for social media to blow up and went through with the courts and trials. celebrities say they side with the victims, but they work with people like Woody Allen or even Roman Polanski and call them the greatest directors of all time. Academy Awards banning Polanski and Cosby is nothing more than a publicity stunt to make themselves look good because this is the same award that Roman Polanski won for best movie director. ‪I also sympathise with people like Corey Feldman who is using his voice to expose the pedophilia ring that been going in Hollywood because we have IT and Stranger Things Kid who could be a fallen victim of these powerful men who want to abuse their power.‬

[bowieberlinstateofmind]

Bowie was a voracious reader. In 2013, he posted a list of his top 100 favorite reads on his Facebook page.

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall David Bomberg by Richard Cork Blast by Wyndham Lewis Passing by Nella Larson Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Stranger by Albert Camus Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Herzog by Saul Bellow Puckoon by Spike Milligan Black Boy by Richard Wright The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot McTeague by Frank Norris Money by Martin Amis The Outsider by Colin Wilson Strange People by Frank Edwards English Journey by J.B. Priestley A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West 1984 by George Orwell The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Beano (comic, ’50s) Raw (comic, ’80s) White Noise by Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky The Street by Ann Petry Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Bridge by Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Teenage by Jon Savage Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Viz (comic, early ’80s) Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont On The Road by Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult by Rupert Thomson In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[hollywoodlady]

David Bowie’s 100 Favourite Books:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, )

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillette

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2020

Previously: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories

“Evolution Never Sleeps” by Elisabeth Malartre (1999)

“Sexual Dimorphism” by Kim Stanley Robinson (1999)

“Game of the Century” by Robert Reed (1999)

“In a Tub” by Amy Hempel (1985)

“Tonight Is a Favor to Holly” by Amy Hempel (1985)

“Celia Is Back” by Amy Hempel (1985)

“The Glitch” by Rebekah Frumkin (2013)

“John Starks” by Salvatore Pane (2012)

“The Jon Lennin Xperience” by Rachel B. Glaser (2010)

“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

"The Witness for the Prosecution” by Agatha Christie (1933)

“Sadie When She Died” by Ed McBain (1972)

“The Adventure of the German Student” by Washington Irving (1824)

“The Apparition of Mrs. Veal“ by Daniel Defoe (1706)

“Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament” by Clive Barker (1984)

“The Soul of the Great Bell” by Lafcadio Hearn (1887)

“In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (2000)

“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce (1898)

“A Visit” (prev. “The Lovely House”) by Shirley Jackson (1952)

“Night Surf” by Stephen King (1969)

“The Lonesome Place” by August Derleth (1948)

"The Phantom Coach” by Amelia B. Edwards (1864)

“Afterward” by Edith Wharton (1910)

“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen (1945)

“The Tower” by Marghanita Laski (1955)

“Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier (1971)

“███████” by Joyce Carol Oates (1998)

“Vampire Princess” by Ryuki Mao (2004)

“Cruel Sistah” by Nisi Shawl (2005)

“The You Train” by N.K. Jemisin (2007)

“Hello, Moto” by Nnedi Okorafor (2011)

“Pearls” by Priya Sharma (2012)

“Monstro” by Junot Díaz (2012)

“Bugs” by Ageha (2013)

“The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” by Karen Russell (2013)

“How to Get Back to the Forest” by Sofia Samatar (2014)

“Sixteen Minutes” by Premee Mohamed (2016)

“Wish You Were Here” by Nadia Bulkin (2016)

“A Diet of Worms” by Valerie Valdes (2016)

“None of This Ever Happened” by Gabriela Santiago (2016)

“The Taming of the Tongue” by Russell Nichols (2016)

“Wet Pain” by Terence Taylor (2007)

Novels

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes (1959)

The Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell (1986)

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950)

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)

Comic Shorts/Single Issues

“The Enigma of Amigara Fault” by Junji Ito (2001)

“Out of Skin” by Emily Carroll (2013)

Video Games

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order dev. Respawn Entertainment (2019)

Hogs of War dev. Infogrames Sheffield House (2000)

MASSIVE CHALICE dev. Double Fine Productions (2015)

Far Cry Primal dev. Ubisoft Montreal (2016)

Star Wars: Republic Commando dev. LucasArts (2005)

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II dev. LucasArts (1997)

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith dev. LucasArts (1998)

Ape Out dev. Gabe Cuzzillo (2019)

The Last of Us Part II dev. Naughty Dog (2020)

Prehistoric Isle in 1930 dev. SNK (1989)

CARRION dev. Phobia Game Studio (2020)

Drakengard 3 dev. Access Games (2014)

South Park: The Stick of Truth dev. Obsidian Entertainment (2014)

The Walking Dead: The Final Season dev. Telltale Games and Skybound Games (2018-2019)

EarthBound dev. Ape and HAL Laboratory (1995)

Spider-Man: The City that Never Sleeps dev. Insomniac Games (2018)

Spider-Man: Miles Morales dev. Insomniac Games (2020)

Short Films

“Dcera (Daughter)” dir. Daria Kashcheeva (2019)

“Hair Love” dir. Matthew A. Cherry & Karen Rupert Toliver (2019)

“Kitbull” dir. Kathryn Hendrickson & Rosana Sullivan (2019)

“Mémorable” dir. Bruno Collet (2019)

“Sister” dir. Siqi Song (2018)

“Henrietta Bulkowski” dir. Rachel Johnson (2019)

“The Bird and the Whale” dir. Carol Freeman (2018)

“Hors Piste” dir. Léo Brunel, Camille Jalabert, Loris Cavalier, Oscar Malet (2018)

“Maestro” dir. Florian Babikian & Victor Caire (2019)

“A Sister” dir. Delphine Girald (2018)

“Brotherhood” dir. Meryam Joobeur (2018)

“Nefta Football Club” dir. Yves Piat (2018)

“Saria” dir. Bryan Buckley (2019)

“The Neighbors’ Window” dir. Marshall Curry (2019)

“Papers, Please – The Short Film” dir. Nikita Ordynskiy (2018)

“Playdate with Destiny” dir. David Silverman (2020)

“Black Box” dir. Monica Garrison (2010)

Movies

Michael Clayton dir. Tony Gilroy (2007)

Little Women dir. Greta Gerwig (2019)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) dir. Cathy Yan (2020)

1917 dir. Sam Mendes (2020)

Sonic The Hedgehog dir. Jeff Fowler (2020)

Onward dir. Dan Scanlon (2020)

The Invisible Man dir. Leigh Whannell (2020)

Bloodshot dir. David S. F. Wilson (2020)

The Hunt dir. Craig Zobel (2020)

Cabin Boy dir. Adam Resnick (1994)

Manos: The Hands of Fate dir. Harold P. Warren (1966)

The Castle of Cagliostro dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1979)

Misery dir. Rob Reiner (1990)

The Descent dir. Neil Marshall (2005)

The Descent Part 2 dir. Jon Harris (2009)

Black Rock dir. Katie Aselton (2012)

The Nightingale dir. Jennifer Kent (2018)

Labyrinth dir. Jim Henson (1986)

Dark City dir. Alex Proyas (1998)

Night of the Hunter dir. Charles Laughton (1955)

In the Mouth of Madness dir. John Carpenter (1994)

Sorcerer dir. William Friedkin (1977)

Paperhouse dir. Bernard Rose (1988)

Strangers on a Train dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1951)

Gone Girl dir. David Fincher (2014)

Dune dir. David Lynch (1984)

Nosferatu the Vampyre dir. Werner Herzog (1979)

Blacula dir. William Crain (1972)

Splice dir. Vincenzo Natali (2009)

In the Tall Grass dir. Vincenzo Natali (2019)

Fright Night dir. Tom Holland (1985)

Near Dark dir. Kathryn Bigelow (1987)

Don’t Look Now dir. Nicolas Roeg (1973)

The Ritual dir. David Bruckner (2017)

Thirst dir. Park Chan-wook (2009)

Hush dir. Mike Flanagan (2016)

A Tale of Two Sisters dir. Kim Jee-woon (2003)

The Invitation dir. Karyn Kusama (2015)

Bird Box dir. Susanne Bier (2018)

Jennifer’s Body dir. Karyn Kusama (2009)

Pee Wee's Big Adventure dir. Tim Burton (1985)

Smooth Talk dir. Joyce Chopra (1985)

The Muppet Movie dir. James Frawley (1979)

Police Story dir. Jackie Chan (1985)

Tomorrow Never Dies dir. Roger Spottiswoode (1997)

The World Is Not Enough dir. Michael Apted (1999)

Die Another Day dir. Lee Tamahori (2002)

Quantum of Solace dir. Marc Forster (2008)

Skyfall dir. Sam Mendes (2012)

Spectre dir. Sam Mendes (2015)

Just Another Christmas dir. Roberto Santucci (2020)

A California Christmas dir. Shaun Piccinino (2020)

Soul dir. Pete Docter (2020)

TV Episodes

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (2020)

Bob's Burgers - "Heartbreak Hotel-oween" (2020)

TV Series

Gargoyles - Seasons 2 & 3 (1995-1997)

Star Trek: Picard - Season 1 (2020)

Star Trek: Discovery - Seasons 1 & 2 (2017-2019)

Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018)

Star Wars Forces of Destiny (2017-2018)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 7 (2020)

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Seasons 12-14 (2017-2019)

American Horror Story: 1984 (2019)

The Legend of Korra (2012-2014)

The Magic School Bus - Seasons 1-2 (1994-1995)

What We Do in the Shadows - Seasons 1-2 (2019-2020)

Hannibal - Seasons 1-3 (2013-2015)

Bee and PuppyCat - Season 1 (2014-2016)

The Twilight Zone - Seasons 4-5 (1963-1964)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Seasons 6-7 (2019-2020)

The Good Place - Season 4 (2019-2020)

BoJack Horseman - Seasons 5-6 (2018-2020)

House of Cards - Seasons 5-6 (2017-2018)

[of-foolish-and-wise]

mega-list of book recommendations

saw a mega-list of literary recommendations going around recently and was struck by the dearth of titles by poc, so i made a list of just poc titles to course-correct. keep in mind that i can only in good faith recommend what i’ve read, so i’m sure i’ve absolutely missed some integral titles. drop me an inbox message if you have more recs, i’m always open

canonical

the narrative of frederick douglass - frederick douglass

incidents in the life of a slave girl - harriet jacobs

the souls of black folk - w.e.b. dubois

montage of a dream deferred - langston hughes

cane - jean toomer

their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston

the bean eaters - gwendolyn brooks

a raisin in the sun - lorraine hansberry

invisible man - ralph ellison

native son - richard wright

the autobiography of malcolm x - malcolm x

the fire next time - james baldwin

sister outsider: essays and speeches - audre lorde

things fall apart - chinua achebe

the garden of forking paths - jorge luis borges

one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez

the color purple - alice walker

the woman warrior - maxine hong kingston

satanic verses - salman rushdie

beloved - toni morrison

sula - toni morrison

the house on mango street - sandra cisneros

the joy luck club - amy tan

DAMN. - kendrick lamar

plays

a tempest - aime cesaire

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - ntozake shange

fences - august wilson

dutchman - amiri baraka

the american play - suzan-lori parks

memoir

the light of the world - elizabeth alexander

how we fight for our lives - saeed jones

between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates

persepolis - marjane satrapi

men we reaped - jesmyn ward

heavy - kiese laymon

black boy - richard wright

the yellow house - sarah m broom

brothers and keepers - john edgar wideman

zami: a new spelling of my name - audre lorde

poetry

american sonnet for my past and future assassin - terrance hayes

the tradition - jericho brown

night sky with exit wounds - ocean vuong

citizen: an american lyric - claudia rankine

twenty love poems and a song of despair - pablo neruda

don’t call us dead - danez smith

eye level - jenny xie

life on mars - tracy k smith

a fortune for your disaster - hanif abdurraqib

postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz

i can’t talk about the trees without the blood - tiana clark

i wore my blackest hair - carlina duan

an american sunrise - joy harjo

oculus - sally wen mao

short stories

her body & other stories - carmen maria machado

interpreter of maladies - jhumpa lahiri

exhalation - ted chiang

ficciones - jorge louis borges

what is not yours is not yours - helen oyeyemi

sour heart - jenny zhang

essays

how to write an autobiographical novel: essays - alexander chee

trick mirror - jia tolentino

bad feminist - roxane gay

they can’t kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqib

we were eight years in power: an american tragedy - ta-nehisi coates

borderlands/la frontera: the new mestiza - gloria anzaldua

this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color - ed. cherrie moraga and gloria anzaldua

white girls - hilton als

non-fiction

the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the era of colorblindness - michelle alexander

stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america - ibram x kendi

bunk: the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news - kevin young

an alchemy of race and rights - patricia j williams

looking for lorraine: the radiant and radical life of lorraine hansberry - imani perry

the next billion users: digital life beyond the west - payal arora

fiction

passing - nella larson

caucasia - danzy senna

trust exercise - susan choi

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong

corregidora - gayl jones

the fifth season - nk jemisin

the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz

the round house - louise erdrich

there, there - tommy orange

little fires everywhere - celeste ng

the supervisor - viet than nguyen

kindred - octavia butler

the known world - edward p jones

the underground railroad - colson whitehead

the god of small things - arundhati roy

the vegetarian - han king

theory

playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination - toni morrison

black skin, white masks - frantz fanon

mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: an american grammar book - hortense spillers

discourse on colonialism - aime cesaire

scenes of subjection - saidiya hartman

the signifyin(g) monkey - henry louis gates jr

pedagogy of the oppressed - paulo freire

feminist theory: from margin to center - bell hooks

black noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary america - tricia rose

decolonizing the mind: the politics of language in african literature - ngũgĩ wa thiong’o

black marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - cedric robinson

black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment - patricia hill collins

black and blur (consent not to be a single thing) - fred moten

young adult

diary of a part-time indian - sherman alexei

the hate u give - angie thomas

emergency contact - mary hk choi

i am not your perfect mexican daughter - erika sanchez

poet x - elizabeth avecedo

[armagnac-army]

OOC: The Napoleonic Askblog/Roleplay Scene Directory

Here's an Out Of Character post listing the blogs I'm aware of in the Napoleonic RPF Roleplay Scene! It's OOC because Lannes would want to make sarcastic remarks with typos.

If you want (or don't want) your blog on this list, message me and whether you want a main/other blog associated with your name or whether you want to be anonymised! Also happy to include non-Frenchmen and Frev folks.

Doubles or multiple versions of people are welcome, this is a varied afterlife. We all have our different ideas for what this afterlife is like as well.

Feel free to reblog or link to this!

And now we have a OOC discord server to chat about all of this! Feel free to join if you'd like!

The Marshalate

armagnac-army - Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello - played by cadmusfly

murillo-enthusiast - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, and ADCs - played by cadmusfly

@le-brave-des-braves - Michel Ney, Prince of the Moskva, Duke of Elchingen, and ADCs - played by @neylo

@your-dandy-king - Joachim Murat, King of Naples - played by @phatburd

@chicksncash - André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli, and others - played by @chickenmadam also playing as his ADC, with appearances from Marshal Augereau, the Cuirassier Generals d'Hautpoul and Nansouty, and the Horse Grenadier General Lepic

@your-staff-wizard - Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram - played by @chickenmadam, as above

@perdicinae-observer - Louis-Nicolas Davout, Prince of Eckmühl, Duke of Auerstaedt - played by @mbenguin

@bow-and-talon - Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr

@france-hater - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, or Karl XIV Johan of Sweden, played by @deathzgf also includes the Duke of Wellington and Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration

@simple-giant-ed - Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso, played by @isa-ko

@bayard-de-la-garde - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Duke of Istria

@le-bayard-polonaise - Prince Józef Poniatowski of Poland

@oudinot-still-alive - Nicolas Charles Oudinot duc de Reggio, played by @spaceravioli2

@beausoleil-de-bellune - Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno

@commandant-des-traitres - Auguste de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa

The Grande Armée

@general-junot - Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes - played by @promises-of-paradise

@askgeraudduroc - Géraud Duroc, Duke of Frioul, Grand-Marshal of the Palace - played by @sillybumblebeegirl, also with cameos from Marshal Bessières shared with your-dandy-king

@trauma-and-truffles - Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, Surgeon to Napoleon and the Imperial Guard - played by @hoppityhopster23 who also plays his modern assistant

@generaldesaix - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, most likely would have been a marshal if he lived - played by @usergreenpixel

@messenger-of-the-battlefield - Marcellin Marbot, aide-de-camp of maréchal Lannes - played by @a-system-of-nerds (Inactive)

@le-dieu-mars - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, General - played by @chickenmadam

@puddinglesablonniere, Charles-Étienne César Gudin de La Sablonnière, Gemeral of Davout's Corps

@francoislejeunes, Baron Louis-François Lejeune, ADC to Berthier, Artist and Engineer

@troboi1806, Jacques de Trobriand, ADC to Marshal Davout

@cynics-and-cynology, Captain Elzéar Blaze

The Bonaparte Family

@carolinemurat - Caroline Murat née Buonaparte, Queen of Naples - played by @usergreenpixel

@alexanderfanboy - Napoleon Bonaparte, The Big Cheese

@frencheaglet - Napoleon II, also known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, played by @usergreenpixel

@rosie-of-beauharnais - Rose Beauharnais, also known as Josephine Bonaparte, once Empress of the French

@le-fils - Eugène Beauharnais, Prince of the Empire, Bonaparte's stepson, played by @josefavomjaaga

@jbonapartes - Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Prince of Montfort

@napoleon-bonapartee - Napoleon Bonaparte, The Head Honcho

Other Notable Personages

@askjackiedavid - Jacques Louis David, neoclassical painter - played by @sillybumblebeegirl

@lazarecarnot - Lazare Carnot, mathematician, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety

Not French

Russians

@the-blessed-emperor - Tsar Alexander I (Inactive)

@loyal-without-flattery - General Aleksey Andreevich Arakcheev, who runs His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (Inactive)

@misha-wants-to-go-home - Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, played by @spaceravioli2

@catherinesucks - Tsar Paul I of Russia, father of Alexander I

@ask-tsaralexander - Tsar Alexander I, played by @goddammitjosef

British

@the1ronduke - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, played by @spaceravioli2

@banasstre - Banastre Tarleton, Major-General

@pakenham-kitty - Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

Spanish

@headlessgenius - Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Painter and proud Spaniard

Original Characters and Friends

@the-adventures-of-lydia-brown - Lydia Brown, a jack of all trades and problem solver finding herself in this strange realm with all these dead Frenchmen

Hopster, trauma-and-truffles's modern time travelling assistant

Madam DuQuay, ADC who takes no nonsense, helping out chicksncash, your-staff-wizard and le-dieu-mars

[smokymelancholy]

David Bowie's Top 100 Reads:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

City Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, ’50s)

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, early ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[murillo-enthusiast]

Hi ADCs, you guys seem a lot nicer than Soult, so I’ll give you some more hints.

up in

The one with an animal in the name, the one who died in egypt, the one missing a body part, the one who is the sole exception to you all.

This should help out…. If it doesn’t, I’ll be clearer but you ADCs will have to do a challenge hehe

Petiet: Thank you most graciously, Citoyen Riddler, for these hints!

Lameth: We are attracting more bees with honey with our gallantry~

Brun: Let's not get too excited. Let's put the list of green words properly in order first and also address these new hints.

Petiet: Oh, we misfiled Kléber and Trobriand... yeah, that's "up in", and also maybe the "died in Egypt hint" is pointing to Kléber there...

Bory: Animal- the most obvious animal is Davout's "perdicinae-observer"-

Petiet: Obvious to you...

Bory: But one could also consider Masséna's "chick" to be an animal, or "kitty" as in the name of the Duke of Wellington's Wife-

Lameth: It was Madame Kitty Pakenham at @pakenham-kitty, whose name seems to not register on the version of the directory we have! She had two words!

Brun: Got it.

Petiet: Missing a body part? We already had Goya on the list...

Lameth: Technically, many of us are missing body parts- why, I heard that for sale was the Emperor's-

Bory: Sole exception is Mademoiselle Lydia Brown at @the-adventures-of-lydia-brown! It had been catalogued but must have been lost in filing.

Brun: 27 clues, including the number clues, which may or may not count.

Lameth: If Marshal Lannes' conjecture about 32 clues is right, we are missing or yet to receive approximately five more!

Brun: Let's put our corrected green word list under the cut.

Petiet: Oh, one from the Queen of Naples just came through..! Let's add it!

Riddle observations Red: Austrians, ass/Murat, go, hot, cracker, wife, yay, oysters, :), brainrot, cutting, eat, tub, shin,disgusting,burning paper...

Green Word Hints:

armagnac-army: I, love le-brave-des-braves: ravioli your-dandy-king: would, 3 and 2 hint chicksncash: eat your-staff-wizard: 32 perdicinae-observer: dishes bow-and-talon: admire, from simple-giant-ed: afar bayard-de-la-garde: give le-bayard-polonaise: hearts general-junot: to askgeraudduroc: everyone trauma-and-truffles: look le-dieu-mars: up troboi1806: in carolinemurat: doctor's alexanderfanboy: place frencheaglet: remember le-fils: when, he napoleon-bonapartee: ever pakenham-kitty: march, you headlessgenius: already the-adventures-of-lydia-brown: died

[kingjasnah]

actually. actually let’s talk about diversity in fantasy let’s give that a go. im mad and im gonna be that way for a while

don’t want to read all this? fair. tldr: fantasy writers who rely not only on the medieval europe model but also hide behind historical accuracy in 2020 (fuck it, from ‘95 onwards) are lazy and unimaginative and should be held accountable no matter how many white 20 year old dudes jerk off to whatever power fantasy is embedded in the plot. so lets chat about that lads. (slightly) drunk rant under the cut

now prelim shit: we know fantasy is used both as escapism and as a way to deal with various traumas via magical metaphor. staples of the genre. even if jk rowling busted out the laziest and at times offensive metaphor for ww2 and racism ive ever seen, she still adhered to time and true tropes. whatever.

so why have we, in this post game of thrones era, become insanely obsessed with realism? i can hear sixty 20-something year old men crying at me rn like oh ohh oh its based off the war of roses oh wahh all medieval fantasy fiction is based off england and the crusades anyway so women should get raped and people of color should be demonized its not racism its xenophobia and also gay people dont exist and disabled people are systematically killed off and if we stretch the magic fixes mental illness thing a LITTLE further we have straight up eugenics.

we all know where the england but myth thing came from. now the thing about tolkien is that while i will always absolutely love lotr, looking at the LAZY state of fantasy? damn i kinda wish he hadn’t revolutionized the genre. the bitch was still racist. he still didnt give a shit abt women (eowyn was just a vehicle to show how much he fucking hated macbeth anyone holding jrrt up as a feminist icon for that needs to sit the fuck down and explain to me why i can count the woman speaking roles in lotr, a story with a name and fleshed out backstory for every minor character, on one hand but thats! another post). he had something to say abt class with sam i’ll give him that but he is still 100% NOT what we need to hold our standards to in 2020. 

i dont want to talk about old school fantasy, like 80s early 90s cause theres literally no point. its sexist, racist, ableist for sure, this we know. david eddings (not even that old school tbh) can rise from the grave and explain himself to me personally and i still wont forgive him for ehlana. 

so let’s talk historical accuracy. quick question. who the FUCK gives a shit? WHO is this elusive got fan who’s out here like blehh actually??? this method of iron production is TOTALLY anachronistic of the time. ummm these vegetables in this fictional world were NOT native to english soil so how are they here? cause i know this is the classic argument but ive never actually met someone who cared about the lack of dysentery as much as they care abt the women getting raped on screen/page. 

god forbid you have to worldbuild for a second god forbid you can’t rely on the idea of fantasy readers already have in their head god forbid you have an original idea god forbid you spend more than two seconds thinking about ur setting (oh i should mention i dont....really blame GoT for its setting cause of how long ago it was og written but trust me i sure as hell blame grrm for writing a 13 yr old giving ‘consent’ to sex with a grown man within the first couple of chapters) 

If we accept the basic premise of fantasy as escapism, and i AM drunk so i will NOT be finding fuckin. quotes and shit for this but come on tolkien said it himself and as much as i’ll drag him he crafted the simplest and most powerful fantasy metaphors on the board rn. But if we know its escapism. If we know. then who is it escapism for? certainly not for me, the gay brown woman who busted through all of GoT in 10th grade. 

modern fantasy lit used as an excuse for that white male power fantasy is literally disgusting. calling historical accuracy is so fucking dumb ESPECIALLY cause we, as ppl in the 21st  century, KNOW women have been consistently written out of the story. poc ppl, gay and trans ppl, anyone with a god forbid disability has been WRITTEN out of history as we know it, INCLUDING the fucking war of the roses so HOW can we hold up testimony we know is flawed to support our FICTIONAL. STORY. just to??? support the white power fantasy?? literally noah fence but if you are a white guy who felt really empowered by every time jim butcher described a woman tell me: how do you think that’ll hold up in classic HisToRiCaL fantasy. you think thats a fucking noble pursuit? or are you grima wormtongue out here. 

(side note: jim butcher stop writing challenge i dont need to know abt every woman on page’s nipples. anyone who hides behind subgenre like that? ‘ohhh its a noir story thats why hes sexualizing everyone’ shut the fuck up an author isnt possessed by a fuckin muse and compelled to bust out 500k they have agency and they have choice and they MADE the choice to reserve said will for none of their female characters)

which brings me to point 2: target audience and BOY is the alcohol hitting me rn but WHO is this for? this isnt the fucking 80s we know poc and other marginalized folk read fantasy FOR the escapism. on god ive had a cosmere focused blog for nearly three years and. im just gonna say it im interacted with A LOT of yall and ive managed to talk to VERY few white straight ppl as compared to everyone else. 

like....who deserves to see the metaphor on homophobia or racism. joanne rowling? the bitch who literally tried to sell us happy slaves and the disgusting aids metaphor and the worst case of antisemitic stereotypes i ever saw in an nyt bestseller? yall think that was for US? or was it for the white guilt crowd. 

literally white people can find any book about them that they can relate to. but hmmm maybe theres a reason gay women care so much about stormlight archive’s jasnah kholin, a brown woman who’s heavily coded as wlw. or kaladin, the FIRST fantasy protag ive ever seen with clinical depression. hmm i wonder why a bunch of millennials are vibing all of a sudden. im not saying sanderson is perfect--but its the best ive seen from a white author tbh

maybe theres a reason a lot of poc vibe with a literary way to express trauma, and maybe thats why i specifically get so pissed when its not done well. theres a REASON books about outcasts pushing through and claiming their own lives are popular with people who arent white and straight and able bodied. Junot Diaz had a point. maybe lets STOP catering to those assholes who think theyre joseph campbell’s wet dream personified. ive lost respect SO many authors who are objectively talented. pat rothfuss can write so beautifully that ive cried to bits of name of the wind but literally i will never pick that series up again (not just because of the felurian. women in general tbh. mostly the felurian ngl) cause 1) i personally KNEW men whod jerk off to that shit and 2) there was no need for it there was no plot reason for ANY of that shit 

so like obviously thers an issue with authors of color specifically not getting recognized for fantasy and genre work but on god??????? im still mostly mad at the legions of white authors churning out the same medieval england chosen one books year after fucking year. have an original thought maybe. also im sorry that you as an author lack the basic empathy needed to examine the way that women? or any group of people that youre explicitly writing about see the world and would specifically see YOUR made up world. 

yes your fantasy should be diverse, but more than that it should be kind. if you as a writer cant respect groups of people who deserve it....what the hell are you doing in a genre that traditionally is about finding ways to express injustice through metaphor? tolkien’s hero was sam. fantasy was NEVER about the privileged. yall know who you are so stop acting so fucking entitled. peace out. 

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Nathan Abshire and The Pine Grove Boys - Popcorn Blues (1960) Nathan Abshire from: "Popcorn Blues " / "Broken Hearted Blues"

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Personnel: Nathan Abshire: Lead Vocals / Accordion Ed Junot: Electric Guitar / Backing Vocals Junior Benoit: Rhythm Guitar Dewey Balfa: Fiddle Robert Bertrand: Drums

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Recorded: @ The Jay Miller Recording Studio in Crowley, Louisiana USA during 1960

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Nathan Abshire June 27, 1913 – May 13, 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Abshire