#(why don't we just pretend i'm not in trouble 🥺👉👈 and then you read my mind & see which WIP i most want to talk about)

[singsweetmelodies]

I need attention please ❤️

but you haven't given ME attention 💔

[bakerstreetdoctor]

First of all, Leibniz was so real for speaking against Grand Tours. I don't agree that an education is complete without experiencing foreign countries, but yeah in reality the tax payer was mostly just paying so that young men could have "fun" and ruin themselves

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>Fabrice's dad hires a private teacher so his sons don't get the wrong ideas

>teacher: "yeah so I have this crazy theory"

>fails to prove theory

>kills himself

>sons get sent to university where they definitely get the wrong ideas

>??????

"instead of studying I wasted my time with ball games, affairs and *grits teeth* [worst of all] going for walks"

Like sure the first two are stupid shit, he should've kept his dick where it belongs (for the rest of his life. God I wish I could castrate this rapist). BUT GOING FOR WALKS

I'm diagnosing one of his younger brothers with something

"[guy died in battle] He was a hopeful young man, whose liveliness didn't allow him to get comfortable enough to study. But he loved geometry, fortification science, and other sciences in connection with that, so much that he was capable of working 24 hours sitting on the same chair without food or drink."

Karl was apparently super tan and, quote, "had the most beautiful blue eyes in the world"

Also another L for camp gay Karl, because apparently he wanted Fabrice to tell him about the ladies in Vienna

"The old Electress (mother of the Hanoverian Elector, later king of England) tirelessly asked me a thousand question about the personality, disposition and looks of the king of Sweden"

That's where my cougar hunter comment from yesterday stems from.

Max anecdote! (Besides the one that he was fucking around -_-)

"on the journey we pretended in a little Silesian town that von Görtz with his lively looks was a prince, the little prince of Württemberg his page and we were noble men. When the prince wanted to insert himself into a conversation with a beautiful Miss, who had just been asked by Stralenheim when he had heard a child screaming "Does one also make children here?" [?????], Stralenheim harshly snapped at him "When the Cavaliers are talking, the pages have to shut their mouths!" [It's definitely harsher in German] This provoked the prince to such a degree that we had trouble to pass it off as a joke and calm him down.

Finally not something where he's getting gassed by everyone lmao

Fabrice apparently left his coach parked (at a rate of 1 Gulden per week) in Vienna like 2 decades ago with a chest of money as security, and doesn't plan to fetch it because he doesn't wanna pay the whole sum. I wonder what came of it....

After General Lagercrona had some serious beef with Grothusen which the king had to break up, the following day this happened

Lagercrona: "I think your majesty were a little angry at me yesterday 🥺👉👈"

Karl: "No, not at all, but you conducted yourself in such a way, that if Grothusen didn't have had more respect than you, it might've gone very badly for me, and at several times my fingers itched to answer your impertinence with 5 fingers [meaning to slap him], but I believed it would be more foolish of me than you to do that, but now I wanna declare that you should go and never come under my eyes again. 😤👉"

Lagercrona: *begs on his knees and lists all his prior merits and accomplishments*

Karl: "That's why I've already forgiven a thousand mistakes you've made. But this was the straw that broke the camels back, that's why the only thing left for you to do is leave."

After that Lagercrona developed such a fear of being seen by the king that when he heard he was a few miles (1 mile ≈ 8 km) he rushed home and locked himself in.

Idk why but I keep thinking of the "I'm not calling you a good boy"-meme 😭😭😭