#Napoleon – Age of the Lion

[phatburd]

Napoleon: Age of the Lion - Chapter 43. Napoleon gets beat up by both his mom and Pauline while Junot and Marmont watch.

This chapter marks the “official” start of the Italian campaign in the manga. This chapter brings in Sérurier, reintroduces Berthier, and mentions Eugene as Napoleon’s aide-de-camp, but he’s not shown. Mama Bonaparte also beats up Murat. Chapter 42 reintroduced this manga’s take on Masséna, and also brings in Carnot and Augereau. No sighting of Lannes, Bessières, or Victor yet, but I’m sure Tetsuya Hasegawa won’t keep us waiting much longer!

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

[your-dandy-king]

RP Murat reacts to Hasegawa Murat:

....

Is that supposed to be me?

Oh my god, look at me!

My compliments to my artist! He's made me so handsome and perfect here! "A captive of your love"? Yes, that's me, really, what's so terrible about saying that?

I can look at myself all day! Tetsuya Hasegawa has captured my essence, the essence that is Murat! 😘

I respectfully disagree. The key to a healthy and balanced life is taking some time out for yourself, if you get my meaning. Like with anything else, it's better with friends!

I breathlessly await your next installment, Monsieur Hasegawa. You've given me quite the introduction into this tale of your illustrated epic!

[timelorddarthswagger]

Napoleon – Age of the Lion

This is a story of the life of Napoleon. The tale begins just before the Battle of Austerlitz. Then, it jumps back to 1769 to tell the story of Napoleon’s life from the very beginning, including the circumstances of his birth, his childhood on Corsica, and his difficulties as a Corsican boy in a French school. All of these experiences eventually culminate in his becoming the famous Emperor of the French.

Not Napoleon doing the Itachi.

" You Lack Conquest "

" Huh, young prince with the soul of Napoleon I see art, like I know the custodian At the Gagosian and my ho is Cambodian While I'm smoking, I send her to the store for some Ozium Huh, if I ain't hot, you must be smoking that opium Or that shit Hector gave Smoke' and 'em (Sup Smokey!) In that Impala, but ain't nobody dope as him So, hip-hop, it's time to hold the symposium Or a seminar with no podium "

[phatburd]

Tetsuya Hasegawa: Napoleon kicks Junot down the stairs.

Drame sans paroles

[slugsden]

How to get info from the French prisoner?

Ask him for a love life advice. Stranger means better.

He thinks you are crazy and spills everything.

[alicedrawslesmis]

ok this chapter of les mis letters (2.2.1. Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430) is EXTREMELY important to understand the rest of the novel

les mis is a messy book but I am constantly amazed by how hugo poetically creates these microcosms of the whole novel in very short chapters. Like, I spend a while not reading it but then I get back to it and I see just how circular and how well crafted this novel is despite how messy it is. Contains multitudes etc

ok, what do I mean by this? One: Hugo has a straightforward political message that he wants to convey in his own convoluted and idiosyncratic ways, and every chapter repeats that same message within itself and also as a part of a larger narrative.

So what we just had in the previous book is the fall of a great titan, Napoleon, who represented a sort of french spirit. Hugo tell us his thesis: the 19th century is the end of the age of great men and the rise in community where authority is spread equally. We don't have titans, we have democracies. His fall is followed in text by the fall of M. Madeleine, a popular man who was the "soul" of this small town, a titan of industry, who - being toppled - took with him the prostperity of the town. It continues his message of 'a great patriarch is no solution to collective suffering'. M sur M's prosperity died when the one guy who was holding it together went away

(I also think that the runaway cart scene is a demonstration of that too. JVJ can't lift the cart by himself, but in risking his life the rest of the onlookers rushed to help and saved Fauchelevent. The same principle)

In a way JVJ's rise to a position of mayor mirrors Napoleon's rise to power propped up by a massive wave of popular outcry even a little bit despite himself. He wasn't aiming for it, but he got there and he made himself emperor (nowadays we don't really have that but we need to understand that the whole concept of king/emperor was understood by most people to be a human manifestation of the body politico. This is illustrated very clearly by the cover for Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, where the population becomes the body of the king:

Hobbes codified the idea of the social contract and of absolute monarchies)

But also, unrelated to this chapter specifically: I believe Hugo is directly refuting Hobbes when he claims that the collective spirit of the people of France is not in the shape of a king or of a tyrant, but of a lion. It's not in a single man that we confine authority and power but in the collective. And so the man in this equation is superfluous. No need for a great man anymore!

Anyway, in conclusion: I would describe les mis as a big spiral where the narrative keeps circling itself to form a larger picture that still reflects the same shape. And I always forget that, but then I come back to the book and I'm smacked in the face by that again.

(if you've never read les mis, the newspaper articles in this chapter are also a surprise tool that will help us later)

[usagi-zakura]

I wanted to draw some Norway-dragons through the ages! The problem is I usually base these on flags and Norway didn't have its own flag till around 1814..

In the viking age country flags weren't exactly a common thing, (the Danish flag is considered the oldest and its from 1219). Kings would have their own symbols, but those would change every few decades when a new King came to power... so instead of going with any particular flag I just made it red and gold, the colors of the Norwegian coat of arms. During this time we also established our own "colonies" on Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Orkney Islands and Sheltand Islands)

The Kalmar Union was formed in 1397, and was a union of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (as well as Norway's island territories, and part of Finland which was ruled by Sweden at the time.. though Shetland and Orkney ended up being given to Scotland during this period). Being a union Norway again didn't have its own flag so I went with the Kalmar flag, which is yellow with a red Nordic Cross.

After the Kalmar Union was dissolved Norway remained in union with Denmark, at this point the closest we had to a national flag was the Danish one with a golden lion in the corner. So I went with red white and gold.

Then came the union with Sweden after the Napoleonic Wars. Norway did at first try to just gain full independence at this time, so we had a flag made, the same red white and blue as is in use today. But Europe didn't think we deserved independence and just gave us all to Sweden. We did get our own Constitution though... though in the process we lost Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Iceland would eventually gain its own independence sometime after WW2. Sweden having long since lost their Finnish territories to Russia.

Then in 1905 we got this.

The Kingdom of Norway, fully independent with its very own king.. who was Danish as our old royal lineage was long since dead. There was a possibility we could have ended up as a republic at the time, we even voted on it... the choice still ended up as a Constitutional Monarchy where we have a king... but the main lawgiving power comes from an elected government. (I like to see the King as kind of a mascot of the country :p )

[usergreenpixel]

I saw your reblog of the Napoleon manga, was fascinated, looked around and found that there’s a translation of it that’s started this year! It’s gotten up to the third volume https://mangadex (dot) org/title/a1de21f0-3007-4cde-b45a-d71462b70e8e/napoleon-age-of-the-lion (replace the (dot) with a .)

@tairin , LOOK!!!

[megahorous]

Played PowerWash Simulator this time, because I don’t have much of a life !

-- I got it because I heard it was therapeutic, but you have to learn how to crouch and highlight hard-to-see dirt which isn’t hard

-- It’s a game about getting a lot of people’s phone numbers !  ......and then you power wash their stuff, with a power washer

-- You don’t see what the people look like.  I wondered if Kevin and Stacey could be shipped [age-wise, etc.] because of their amusement park rivalry.  A lot of the stories were interesting

-- For me at least, getting to 99% is only about half-done because you have to find out where the last tiny specks are and that can take even longer !  You can highlight unclean pieces if necessary

-- I liked listenin’ to music while I worked [there’s no in-game music].  I listened to the Shrek, Napoleon Dynamite, Space Jam, Lion King soundtracks and I added the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack to my collection during this time too

-- The ending reminded me of HEY ARNOLD! in how it went from sort of a down-to-earth-kind-of game and suddenly got a little fantastic with volcanoes, time travel, and of course Power Wash Simulator himself is the only guy who can save the world all of the sudden !  Wow !

-- I actually dreamed about seeing the ending credits shortly before it happened; what an exciting dream to come true.  I wish I could dream about various other things....

-- I got the free Tomb Raider mission and started that, so you could say this is my first Tomb Raider game.  But, you probably wouldn’t

[themovieblogonline]

Ridley Scott, the visionary behind Blade Runner and Alien, has done it again. At 86, he’s taking us back to the Roman Empire with Gladiator 2. If you thought the original was the last word in historical epics, think again because Scott has a few more cinematic tricks up his toga. The 2000 blockbuster was a cultural moment, complete with Russell Crowe yelling, “Are you not entertained?” Well, two decades later, the answer is still a resounding "yes." But why revisit this brutal, beautiful world? According to Scott, the film wouldn’t let him rest: “The original created a life of its own. It became global on all the platforms. It spelled out that we must have a sequel.” Scott didn’t just sit around dreaming of gladiators for 20 years. In that time, he directed 20 films, including American Gangster and Napoleon. When asked how he cracked the sequel’s story, he compared screenwriting to assembling a Lego kit: “You start with the skeleton before adding the flesh and fat.” Trust Ridley to make even storytelling sound like a gladiatorial challenge. Visual Effects: From Sand to CGI Spectacles If you thought the original’s visual effects were groundbreaking, Gladiator 2 ups the ante. Scott, ever the perfectionist, noted how advances in technology made scenes more realistic. He reminisced about the original film’s coliseum: “We built 40% of the set, then used visual effects to create the rest.” Now, he can do it all with uncanny precision. What about those infamous baboons? Yes, baboons. Scott shared a story about modeling the film’s ferocious creatures on a hairless baboon he saw in South Africa. “Don’t go near them,” he warned. “They’ll rip your arm off. But they’re perfect for the Roman arena.” That’s the Ridley Scott brand: terrifyingly real and undeniably entertaining. Strong Heroes Need Strong Villains Scott has a knack for creating unforgettable adversaries. In Gladiator 2, Denzel Washington steps into the arena. The director, who previously worked with Washington on American Gangster, called him “the best actor we’ve got.” Their reunion promises a powerful performance that’s sure to leave audiences in awe. Why Gladiator 2 Matters Scott doesn’t just make movies; he makes cultural events. He’s quick to remind us that while the Roman Empire may seem glamorous, it was a brutal time. “The Romans enjoyed family devoured by lions for fun,” he noted during the press conference. Yet, he’s careful to give us a romanticized lens—an escape, not a history lesson. With whispers of a Gladiator 3 already in the air, it’s clear Scott isn’t done with Rome. As he put it, “The film was planned to leave it wide open for a sequel.” At this rate, we might get an entire Roman cinematic universe. If Ridley Scott has proven anything, it’s that age is just a number. He’s still the king of the cinematic battlefield, and Gladiator 2 is shaping up to be another crowning achievement. https://youtube.com/shorts/nRltF9n2BRk Read the full article

[phatburd]

Napoleon: Age of the Lion - Chapter 38. Junot reads Naps' romance novel.

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

Part 2 to this post

Then they kill a man

BUT WHAT IS THAT LAUGH

😭😭😭😭😭

[wikiuntamed]

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[thaylepo]

I LOVE historical fiction, I love the fuck out of it. Gladiator was a fantastic fucking movie and fun as hell to watch, knowing it was about as historically accurate as Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Spartacus doesn't change that it was a really fun movie. (Beyond a bit of initial disappointment maybe at learning the Roman Empire wasn't exactly as sensationally fucked up as portrayed..... at least until you learn all the ways the Roman Empire was actually sensationally fucked up, anyway lol)

You don't need to claim your historical fiction is historically accurate for.... what? Clout? Veracity? Compensating for telling a poor story? No one's going to see cgi lions and tigers twice the size of a man and think "oh surely that's exactly how it must have been", and if they do, then accuracy's not of much concern to your target audience anyway.

ROME didn't even remember their own historical origins by the time they became of any significance among the Classical Mediterranean powers. They'd lost nearly all memory or record, if there was any, of anything before the Bronze Age collapse just like pretty much everyone else. So they took the scattered fragments of recollected lore and made up their own origins. The Roman Empire invented its own fucking history out of myth and legend and baked in all the things that were important to them at the time. That story's about as factually historical as a vampire hunting president, but it tells us more about how Rome saw itself than any list of events possibly could.

Our stories now shape how we see ourselves and our place in a timeline of humanity much more than how we see history or historical accuracy, and making people believe your made-up bullshit is historical is just posturing: useless and nonessential. Who cares? Who are you fooling? The true value of made-up bullshit is that it's supposed to be FUN. Abe Lincoln fighting vampires is FUN. A jousting stadium of 14th century medieval spectators stomping to Queen's We Will Rock You is FUN. Giant tigers and Napoleon being a short sassy bald man with indigestion is FUN. Yeah, it's misleading, but it's even more misleading AND disingenuous to dig your heels in and claim that people who dedicate their lives and passion to the study of something know less about that than you to make yourself look.... smart? Authentic? It doesn't matter.

There's no shame in choosing to make something FUN instead of accurate, but there's a shitload of shame in outright fucking lying about it. What level of respect does Ridley Scott show for his audience with that?

I love made up bullshit for its own entertainment value. I cannot stand someone trying to feed me made up bullshit while trying to tell me it's real. That is literally 99% of my waking life in modern society. Just make your bullshit entertaining and stop trying to convince me the Vikings were filthy bare-chested pelt-wearing barbarians. I'm still gonna watch the hot sweaty shirtless man and badass sword wielding lady show. I grew up on Sam Raimi's Xena and Hercules, ffs. I don't know why we keep trying to bill stuff that's just as ridiculously made up as "historically accurate" when we're basically just reinventing writing Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aenead. (Then again, that was basically considered "history" as far as Emperor Augustus was concerned.... so maybe nothing really has changed.)

Ridley Scott, regarding his new Napoleon movie, is being aggressively defensive about its inaccuracies with historians. He's gone on record saying "When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’" This is a classic argument of people with no idea how historians do their work, how historical accuracy is determined and evaluated, and - in Ridley Scott's case in particular - how important it is to properly portray historical accuracy in other media.

The reason why Ridley Scott is being so aggressively dismissive of complaints about historical accuracy is due to past beef leading to a problem he likely has.

This is a movie that, by din of being touted as a 'nonfiction' movie about a historical figure, is basing much of its marketing on historical accuracy by default. The trailers show it's not, and reviews by historians say it is riddled with dozens if not hundreds of inaccuracies. Napoleon's portrayal is frankly a surface level depiction and nowhere near the nuance that historians were hoping for.

Scott's defensive about it. He need not be. If he had a historical consultant then he could go "I'm not an expert on the time period, but I have someone who is, ask them about it" and fob them off on his movie's historical consultant. It's a whole Thing. He doesn't have one, however, so he has to defend it personally.

You see, Ridley Scott probably didn't hire a historical consultant for Napoleon. The last time he had one - Kathleen Coleman for Gladiator - she was so upset over the inaccuracies he pushed through and how little her work affected the film, she requested her name be taken off of it.

Why this is important is because so many more people will watch a movie made by Ridley Scott than I or any other person could write. More people will watch Scott's Napoleon in the States than five hundred books about Napoleon combined worldwide.

More people watched Dunkirk than ever read a book about the Evacuation of Dunkirk. The movie Breaker Morant did so much for public perception about the execution of a genuine war criminal people in Australia still on occasion call for a pardon for Morant.

Fundamentally, mass media like movies will always have more impact of a popular perception about somebody, a time period, an event. That's why Ridley Scott making an inaccurate movie and going 'oh, you weren't there, you didn't see it with your own eyes, so how could you know, I don't have to listen to you' is a problem.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday.

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25% of Britons do less than 30 minutes of physical activity a week.

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Jellyfish can learn from experience, even though they don’t have a brain.

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98% of Europeans live in areas where the air is more polluted than the World Health Organization believes is safe.

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Only a third of the borders in sub-Saharan Africa have been officially ‘delimited’ - where both countries agree on exactly where they are.

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The Popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson, who inadvertently left a glass of soda water with a stirring stick outside overnight in freezing weather.

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Every morning, Napoleon would stand naked and pour a bottle of eau de cologne over his head and then rub his chest and hands with a rough brush. His back and shoulders were rubbed by a valet, and if the rubbing wasn’t vigorous enough, Napoleon would shout ‘Stronger, like an ass!’

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Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.