#anyway did anyone else catch that history ireland article about tobacco. interesting stuff

[werewolfetone]

Said this before but though it's understandable I rlly wish the northern irish historical fiction industry (?) was far less focused on the troubles. could not give less of a fuck about anyone's thoughts on how complicated the PIRA was at this point let's someone make a drama about 2 rival tobacco manufacturers in early twentieth century derry having an amadeus-type relationship against the backdrop of the start of the first world war and the various upheavals of ireland in that period, never actually depicted onscreen beyond the various recruitment posters and war wounds and weird number of men with guns dressing the set and the extras, and subtly addressed through the dramatic ups & downs of struggling to figure out how to walk the narrow ground between being able to hire away your rival's workers via good working conditions and answering the siren call of profit, and trying to out-sell your former idol turned lifelong enemy who you still dream about at night and can't control your body's reactions towards close proximity to (despite how much you hate him) wrt the early irish cigarette industry, while also losing family to the war or (more metaphorically) to politics and trying not to let your relationship with this fella who you don't even like make you forget you even have a family every time you gaze deep into his eyes. or something. and we'll go from there