#like wtf was going on

[frevandrest]

That’s interesting. Why do you think Charlotte was closer politically to the Dantonists?

gfdsgdffdsgsd I admit it's more of my tongue in cheek thinking than anything fully based in reality. Because there is nothing 100% demonstrating that Charlotte was actively thinking about politics. On the other hand, the way she talked about it in her memoirs, does show that she had Political Opinions. She tried to minimize this aspect in her memoirs (because she tried to present herself as a "proper woman" concerned only with domestic issues), but she does share enough to indicate that she thought about this stuff more than she was willing to admit. I am not sure if we can count Charlotte as a revolutionary in her own right (not like, say, Claire Lacombe), but I do think she was more political than she presented in her memoirs, and more than how she is often perceived (by historians).

And if Charlotte thought about the revolution and politics, it is clear that she was pro-revolution... but also not necessarily in the way her brothers were. Again, I don't have any concrete proof, and this is why I would love if someone wrote about Charlotte from this angle, but she does seem more of a traditionalist in some ways, and idk, less radical (?) than her brothers.

This is also reflected in the company she kept. Because Charlotte had many male friends/acquaintances and many of them were Dantonists. She had men who helped her (including times when she was fighting with her brothers), and many (most?) of them were associated with Dantonists.

Then there's also Fouché. Not a Dantonist, obviously, but fits the idea of Charlotte associating herself with men/factions outside of the Robespierrist circle. Like our girl met with Fouché a few days before Thermidor, and I assume they didn't talk about weather.

And after Thermidor, she was arrested and very quickly released, and while it could be simply because it was clear she didn't have much contact with her brothers, she was released super super quickly. This indicates that someone perhaps intervened on her behalf (true, she also signed a document in prison but I still feel there had to be someone who specifically said for her to be released.)

Finally, there's citizen Mathon, a man who helped her hide after Thermidor and with whom she lived after being released and until his death, decades later. Mathon's daughter was Charlotte's heir, and it seems like Charlotte raised the girl as a step mother. No concrete indications that Charlotte and Mathon were romantically involved, but they lived together and raised his daughter. Mathon was also associated with Dantonists.

So while there is nothing indicating that Charlotte was actively working against her brothers (or that they worked against her - that's Thermidorized bullshit), it does seem that Charlotte was more political than commonly perceived. She kept company with men from different factions (particularly Dantonists), which seems like conscious choice (?). It might be possible that she was just unaware of the implications, or she knew very well and she did it because this is what her (political) opinions aligned with.

[thunderbottle]

spinning him in my mind a bit

[troythecatfish]

Genuinely Dystopian

[wtfforged]

i like when hes squishy!

[ashdoodle-s]

The final victor

[lilybug-02]

Pain is a great motivator…

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Meanwhile Toriel:

(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)

Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!

[nova-rpv]

a redraw of the first drawing i posted here to celebrate the fact that ive been in tumblr for more than a whole year posting my shit and havent deleted my blog in panic yippee \:D/ (mushy rant in tags)

[ncrailfan252]

I want to know why that rule needs to exist

magic the gathering has an official rule about the timing of taking your pants off. the official rule is that it's a "special action", meaning it doesn't resolve with the usual stack-based system.

(that's the player's pants, btw)

[khaopybara]

❝You said if I graduated as a doctor, I could ask you for anything, and you'd give it to me. (...) I know now what I want. (...) I want you.❞

SONYA SARANPHAT as PLENG SADABPIN and LOOKMHEE PUNYAPAT as WAN WANWIYA episode 1 of AFFAIR

[cyfffff]

you’d think since dick was a mathlete hed b the number one guy to ask for help w math homework but actually he knows so much advanced math that the first time tim asked him for help with a simple geometry problem he pulled out his dusty ti-84 and started solving it in the most convoluted way that took an hour bc he was also just trying to relearn the math he hadn’t done in like 5 years. cue him screaming in frustration when he realized the actual way to do it would’ve taken him 2 minutes (tim asked him at the beginning if that way was right and he waved him off saying no) none of the batsibs can ask him for math help until they get to pre-calculus at least

[spirk-trek]

I'M LOSING MY MIND what is the point of "dig in there mr. spock" ? why did they write that??? spock regularly gives jim massages? in public? on the bridge???WHAT? whY? why does he stop her when he realizes it's NOT spock???? it's somehow more professional that way?! was it for laughs?? IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY!!!! WHY!!!!

[pixal2]

I just noticed something

How the FUCK does this boy sleep

[inkskinned]

okay if you're really cool about things, i can be honest with you. before you read further, decide if you're a girl's girl. if you're cool and actually cool or like not cool.

men don't talk in my book because i was fuckken tired of the way they're the center of every fucking story. i was tired of how every story takes a moment to let them talk. men can shut up for literally one fucking book.

unfortunately not everyone is cool. professionally what i usually say is i didn't want to add violence to the world. the only men in my book are abusers, so they don't get to talk. they don't get to take up space. they ruined my life, they don't get to have their words echo anymore.

because like, yeah! you find practically any story about a person surviving trauma and... there's a man at the center. men are often rescuing us from these things. a "good man" is always standing around, being a good man, proving to the victim that good men are the real men. that her experience was unique rather than universal.

the redacted text has not been taken well by all of my early readers. there is this weird, crouching growl that keeps occurring with men-of-a-certain-age. why don't we hear his side of the story?

when i sat down to write everything that happened to me, i couldn't look at the frank brutality of my abuser's words on a page and think to myself: i actually let him speak like that. i had to redact his words from the manuscript. i then left it redacted. no victim is going to read this book and hear the person who hurt them. it is a book for the victims to speak. abusers shut up challenge, forever. for eternity.

my father once told me, chuckling, i should just have a page of redaction where i let the man just finally talk. it is funny to joke about how we should make a whole page in my book about a man that hurt me. this was not the only time someone commented - it feels like you're hiding things. how do i know you're actually a victim if he doesn't get to speak?

there are books where women aren't even present. i even genuinely like some of those books. like, who doesn't like the hobbit?

i keep running into people defending this imaginary man. the default narrative is so true to some people that they will defend any man, just by virtue of the assumption - "if he's acting like that, you had to push him." certain people need definitive proof that you didn't accidentally make your partner into an abuser. they need to decide if you deserved it, because they want to be able to judge you.

which makes sense, i guess, from a hind brain perspective. if you can figure out "why" someone was cruel, you can protect yourself against it. if you defend the bully, the bully might side with you. i don't really know their explanation for feeling this about a character in a book. trust me, i wrote the guy. he is not going to protect you.

i guess i just - there was a time in my life where i desperately wanted anyone to defend me. where i could have really used someone saying holy shit are you okay instead of what did you say to make him act like that to you.

instead, over dinner, a friend-of-a-friend i just met is pouring herself wine. i heard you wrote a book, she says. she gives me the kind of chilly smile i associate with knives. i heard it's unfair to men.

[keferon]

OKAY OH MY GOD THIS FIC IS GREAT I HAVE ONLY READ THREE AND A HALF CHAPTERS AND IM ALREADY IN LOVE

I originally wanted to make both of these pieces in color but I’m gonna be honest I have no fucking idea how to draw Ricochet…he is described as black and red and…mmhhmmm does he have canonical (canonical for this fic I mean) design? Do I need to design him myself? Idk I’ll figure this out later

[suntails]

toot toot!

[bayeis]

I haven't watched this show a day in my life