#The Age of Revolution

[aldanil]

My Orlesian Agent of Solas, Tamril

With Reva, Solas right arm from the Art Book

I never had the opportunity to meet her and yet I miss her

My bad for becoming obsessed by a character from a concept art book that will never see the day of light (but one can still dream, right ?) 0/20 experience, do not recommend

This is my first art from 2025 after two months of art block and my tablet who almost died

[luvinaeverdene]

Persepolis (2007) Directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

[pratchettquotes]

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[robby-bobby-tommy]

The parallels that hurt so much

They both jinxed the most important event in their lives trying to help...

They both lost their closest friends to this....

And both were abandoned and hurt in the worst way possible by the sibling they've looked up to....

They had good intentions, they were so young......

And they're the monsters others have created.

[elbiotipo]

There was a longer, better article about this, but it's interesting that virtually all fantasy is reactionary in the sense that the heroes are questing (almost, of course there are exceptions) to turn things back to what they were. Either stopping a great evil that is going to destroy the current world which is Fine As It Is, or living in a dystopian evil empire and try to return the Old Kingdom or the Old Republic which was good and nostalgic. It's always "the Old Days were better" or "we must preserve our current way of life", never "we will build a better future beyond our current society".

[desadeness]

My sketchbook was filled and i decided to chose some drawings (mostly sketches tho) which i was kinda proud of so i’ll show them. Also i have a hollywood version robespierre here (i swear he got miku binders on)

(This is my first time showing art, be proud🫶)

[enlitment]

Which Underrated Woman from History are You?

Finally got around to making a uquiz featuring six of my favourite women from history! You can either get someone from the French Revolution, Roman Republic (I know, how unexpected!) or from 1700s/early 1800s.

Featuring scientists, writers, politically active icons and a few poets whose lives were intertwined with theirs, as a treat!

Enjoy and thanks everyone for sharing! ✨

[bondilluns]

FRANK IT UP!!!!!!!

my commissions are open if you want to see your fav mcr pic drawn in my style!! ^^

[ID: A digital painting of Frank Iero in 2007, during projekt revolution. He's sitting on the floor and playing guitar. The instrument covers half his face, and only one eye is visible. He's looking up, frowning, in a way that resembles The Fallen Angel by Cabanel. End ID.]

[octavodeci]

I lose a piece of my sanity every time I interact with Marie Antoinette defenders on yt comment sections. “she actually just wanted to live a simple life in a farm with louis xvi. She even wrote to her mother to save her. The french hated her because she was a woman 😢😢” 1.2k likes in 2 days.

I asked “Has anyone picked up a history book? What the French wrote during the Revolution?”

Then somebody with a Gacha life profile replied “We don’t care what the french think when we can study the real history. I bet you’re one of those people that believe she had incest with her son.”

What? Why did it escalate that quickly. I cannot believe Marie Antoinette has raging fans you’d expect from Taylor Swift. She is dead people <<DEAD>>. What legacy are you trying to salvage in 2025? Kirsten Dunst’s performance is not a biography. The French Revolution in 1 minute does not make you a historian. Don’t believe your history teacher either because they’re skimming over frev to get to the next unit as fast as possible.

They’re teenage girls, stanners, Marie Antoinette is girlyyy pop ✨✨💅🏻💅🏻, “I don’t know what an estates general is!!!” What is a clergy? I am ignorant!! 😁🎉🥳

It frustrates me. It makes me mean. I am no longer engaging in stuff like this. I need to distance myself from negativity.

Where was this information from? Tik Tok?

Case concluded.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 60: 19th Century III and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

[mylittleredgirl]

my personal experience with The Premise was when i was 13 at my first star trek convention. i walked around having my mind blown open by the realization that this many people enjoyed star trek (and created things for it!!!), and was curious about the tables tucked basically under the stairs far away from the professional merch dealer's rooms.

a woman manning one of these tables covered in paper zines asked me if i liked The Premise, but it was a verbal conversation so the question i heard was, "do you like the premise of star trek?" with no capital letters but a sense of Great Importance.

i don't actually remember what i said, but it was definitely the wrong answer. this spun around in my head for years, because it was some kind of essential password for the key to the kingdom. but like, what was the premise of star trek? humans live in spaceships someday?? peace and love between humans and aliens in the 23rd century? why was that a pre-requisite for reading this carbon-copied stapled newsletter with kirk and spock on the cover that "might not be appropriate" for me to read?

anyway i assumed this kind of speakeasy table was selling political manifestos advocating overthrowing the government to get us to Star Trek Times faster.

[rested-shaved-coffeed]

Pencil drawing of a 14-gun Royal Navy cutter, c. 1800, based on a drawing of HMS Nimble by marine artist John Gardner (1930-2010).

[batty4her]

Imagine consistently posting a picture of the dude who killed the ceo simply bc yall think he’s hot. Now he will be hot in prison bc yall won’t stop being thirsty af :///// yall won’t survive a revolution bc of social media alone

[hrtiu]

AU where the agents of Solas are relevant to the plot and led by Briala... Augh, since Dragon Age belongs to us now, can we just make this version of the game plz?

[enlitment]

In case you're wondering like I was: the reason why a lot of the 18th-century philosophers can't seem to stop making Cato the Younger references (Voltaire talks about Cato at least 6 or 7 times in Letters on England which is a lot because it's by no means a long text. Mandeville too of course — hi bestie!)

is because there was a play in the early 1700s about Cato (Addison's Cato, a Tragedy to be precise) which seemed to have had the cultural impact of early seasons of Game of Thrones

Catoo! this actor is from an 1800s production but still. Look at that facial expression. The sad wet cat energy. The pain in his eyes. It's all there!

Oh, and by 'cultural impact of Game of Thrones' I don't mean an increase in theatre subscriptions or of Cato action figures sales (though that would have been awesome!)

I mean it had a pretty significant influence on many of the American Revolutionaries (and French too most likely, since, cultural osmosis and all that). A lot of these nerds sure loved to quote it!