#I love this book already

[alchemyfire]

That book "The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre" by David P. Jordan continues to amaze me. Here are more extracts...

As Robespierre lay on a table in the antechamber of the Commitee of Public Safety, drifting in and out of consciousness, his ball-shattered jaw bound up with a bandage, his triumphant enemies, in another room of the Tuileries palace, were creating the monster who would soon pass into historical legend. This Robespierre created by using materials scavenged from old calumny, damaging anecdote, and sometimes sheer malicious invention, was one of the founding acts of a new revolutionary government...

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This is how the first chapter started, followed by examples of this awful propaganda and slander, which I refuse to repeat here. *sigh*

Anyway, some interesting facts are brought up here.

In making Robespierre the monstrous symbol of the Terror, of all fanaticism and excess, they not only created a vile legend, which was politically useful at the moment, they also recognized, in their frantic efforts to exorcise Robespierre's disturbing shade, his significance. In a sense Thermidorian vituperation kept Robespierre alive. The very intensity of their malice tended to mythologize the man they sought to obliterate. The next generation, with different purposes and sensibilities, would take up the memory of Robespierre, still warm from the passion of Thermidorian hatred, and create a heroic figure, a savior of France and a champion of humankind. Monster and hero have remained the poles of Robespierre's changing reputation...

...The legend of a monstrous Robespierre not only grew unchecked, for when it was being made none dared challenge the new masters of the Revolution, but was reiterated and embellished by government apologists and men who found the legend useful for propaganda, a reminder of the revolutionary excesses from which they insisted they had saved France. Napoleon, whose coup d'état in 1799 ended the reign of the Thermidorians, as First Consul or later as Emperor, had no desire to remind the people of his brief but real robespierriste past. He had no intention of rehabilitating Robespierre's reputation, let alone connecting himself with the Terror....

Charlotte's Mémoires were then...the belated and necessary antidote for Thermidorian poison. (I love the author's language.)

Although she saw only the lovable brother, while... He never aspired to be loved for his personality (as Charlotte loved him). He demanded, and received, respect, devotion, even love - for he had several close friends who resembled and extended family - for what he insisted he was, a revolutionary.

[white-bread-bitch-face]

just started reading hitchhikers guide and WHAT WAS THAT LINE IN CH1????

!!?!??!ford!?!?!?!?

[chaotic-diaries-of-yours-truely]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HE CALLED CROWLEY "MY DEAR" OMGGGGG AHHHHH

[thebisexualwreckoning]

Not even five minutes into tender is the flesh and we already have bangers such as ‘teaching to kill is worse then killing’ and ‘revenge of the vegans’ truly one of the books of all time

[teethbomb]

Look at this little fucking freak

[lynxthewolf1]

Spoilers for Percy Jackson and The Titans Curse up to Chapter 3 but not completly beacuse i just started it

I love Nico and Bianca sm already. Nico just being a little nerd like "does Zues actually have lightning boltz that deal i forget how much damage?!" He's just a silly 10 year and i love him. It makes me happy to read something and the child character feels like a child. Can already tell Bianca was parentalfied beacuse they don't have parents and probally has attachment issuies and won't be able to let go of Nico and most likley become more attached to not have to go through her identity crisis alone beacuse in her words they only have each other. But that's just a theory a Di Angelo Theory!

[starleete]

“Help!” Piper yelled. “Somebody!”

Then she slipped, screaming as she fell.

“Jason, go!” Hedge yelled. “Save her!”

...

Save her? Jason thought. She’s gone!

But again his instincts won. He ran to the railing, thinking, I’m a lunatic, and jumped over the side.

The lost hero by Rick Riordan

[inlovewithpandora]

Just added another book to my Avatar collection💙!

I currently have Avatar: Visual Exploration & Avatar: The Way of Water: Visual Dictionary

The next book I want to get is James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide

These books are very good and informational, they give a more in-depth perspective of Pandora and the Na’vi! If you’re a part of the Avatar fandom you should definitely get them, especially if you’re a writer. It gives so much good information you can incorporate into your fics📝!

[agoodomenssideblogiguess]

Good Omens Season 3 Predictions:

(it took all my self restraint not to just use Bildad the Shuhite pictures)

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[chloesimaginationthings]

Shout out to FNAF phone guy finally getting a name!

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[shedontknowbutsheknows]

[doctorsiren]

Thinking about how (a humanoid) Bill would see Ford be older after those 30 years (because that’s how people work), and so to try and appeal to him again, he makes himself look older too (I mean, he’s WAYYYY older than Ford actually, but I just mean visually)

But then after he’s killed and sent to the Theraprism, he goes back to his original twink look, and I say this because I already did a drawing of my humanoid Bill in prison and I like how that design worked with his pathetic traumatized orange jumpsuit look more than I think I would like it with an older looking version 😁 plus uhh I don’t wanna deem that drawing “not canon” to my brain so yeah

[kyurochurro]

they did the monster mash!! 😳 🎃it was a graveyard smash!! 🦇👻

[nonasbirthday]

i still can't believe there are folks who say "well GTN is annoying but you just have to get through it and then the other books aren't like that so you'll be fine."

personally i have been chasing the high of GTN ever since i first closed the book