#safe to rb

[meerawrites]

Not naming names nor am I Jewish, I am however an ally to the Jewish people. You know better, check yourselves.

[wanderfaun]

Vent art about my complicated feelings toward my gender identity

[theinvisiblemenace]

HEY!! I was thinking about hosting a Universal Monsters art/fic/etc week, but wanted to get an interest check first! So:

[discoenj]

Les Mis not trending on June 5&6 is sososo scary

[queerquaintrelle]

PSA for AMC Immortal Universe, Sam Reid and Anna Torv fandom ~ applicable to AMC+ subscribers and fandom friends in North America. But, to the point — The Newsreader season 1 is now on AMC+ and being released on a schedule (I do not know what that schedule is but I thought y'all should know).

[crowrelli]

I hate pmdd bc it’s like oooooohhhhh there is no jooooy and love in this wooooorld every hurdle in front of u is a mountain and you shall break every bond in your soul if you dare try and climb them so sit there and wallow in your wasted, rotting potential and then a week goes by and everything is fine again (:

[hhedone]

fresh out the shower, someone put them in their mouth🌷

men + minors dni.

[melpomeneprose]

#melpomeneprose - independent semi-selective ~ historical fiction, literature & mythology/folklore based multi-muse, loved and portrayed by xxmelpomenexx. featuring Benjamin Tallmadge, Elizabeth Schuyler-Hamilton and many others.

Maybe it will turn out this time… ©

[getinthering]

Bi makeup + big hair yea im full of myself rn

[meerawrites]

*Hangs this up on the door.*

There much better.

[wanderfaun]

I try so hard to keep you going

[00venator]

Ruh I feel like I need to asking for attention but asking for attention feels rude and invalid.

[queerquaintrelle]

“Lestat is bi,” I say into a microphone.

The biphobes and media illiterates boo.

“They’re right,” come a soothing French voice and an astute writerly voice.

The voices in question are Anne Rice and Lestat de Lioncourt himself.

[dykeofmisfortune]

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

[melpomeneprose]

#melpomeneprose - independent semi-selective ~ historical fiction, literature & mythology/folklore based multi-muse, loved and portrayed by xxmelpomenexx. featuring Elphaba Thropp (primarily based on the novel) and many others.

"A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air. White and purple summer thunderheads mounded around her. Below the Yellow Brick Road looped back on itself, like a relaxed noose. Though winter storms and the crowbars of agitators had torn up the road, still it led, relentlessly, to the Emerald City." - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, 1995

© ~ edits by me, do not steal.

[little-desi-historian]

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.