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[szallejh]

Ich werde die Tage wieder Exemplare meiner Gw2-Fanfiction bestellen. Hat jemand Interesse?

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I'm going to order new prints of my Gw2 Fanfiction. Is anyone interested in getting one?

[ursas-arts]

Too cleric brained haven't drawn any of the others in a while

[baka-bun]

UPDATE: a kind soul had a copy so I am saved 🙏😭

So lately this year I'm learning that I should download fics I'm attached too because they keep disappearing 😭😭😭

It's happened twice this year and in the past as well. Currently, I'm hoping to find any Nie Mingjue/Lan Wangji shippers that may have saved chapters from a fic called Unbreak My Heart by Riall. It hadn't been updated in a while, but I randomly had an itch to look at it again. It's almost like I had a strange feeling that something may be amiss. Sure enough, the fic was nowhere to be found. Searching on ao3 and my old emails lead me to nothing.

I really adored their work although the chapters were not long, everything felt intentionally written. Their descriptions were beautiful and the au was fascinating.

See an example of my gushing here 👀✨️✨️✨️

I was hoping to make fanart as well 😞

I really really hope they didn't feel the need to remove it due to haters or ship wars because that'd be awful! If you don't like it, don't read it 😡

I don't know if they'll see this, but know that I loved your fic whether it was completed or not! I hope you consider reposting it one day even if it's anonymous or orphaned.

I'm sure there are others who miss it as well 🥺 It truly was one of the best NMJ/LWJ fics on there in my opinion!

[pazzoincasamatta]

Generale adorato, quando ahimè! Ieri mi avete lasciato, e il mio cuore era invaso dal dolore – andai al vostro letto – piena di emozione – rattristandomi che la vostra cara e riverita testa non potesse ancora lì riposarsi – a lungo. Rimasi là in piedi – così, triste – e lì, da sotto la coperta, vidi spuntare l’angolo del fazzoletto che avevate usato. Oh! Carissimo Garibaldi, era lì per confortarmi! Non posso spedirlo! Potrò senz’altro tenerlo, amarlo e trarne piacere – è quello grigio, che eravate solito portare attorno al collo […] e con esso vi ho aiutato a coprire la vostra cara testa […]. Avevo tanto anelato a possedere quel fazzoletto, ma non riuscii a esprimere quel mio desiderio – e ora è qui – vi prego, dite che può esser mio

lettera di Mary Seely a Garibaldi

[thetldrplace]

risorgimento- Lucy Riall

This is a recap of the first chapter of the book risorgimento By Lucy Riall. Risorgimento is the Italian word for resurrection, and it's the Italian term for the unification of the country. In case you didn't know, Italy was the name for the Italian peninsula, but it had not been a united country since the Romans took over each of the tribes under the name of Rome. But after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476 AD, the peninsula was open to whoever could assert control over an area. That happened to be a wide variety of players: Germany, France, Spain, the Byzantine empire, and Muslim armies were some of the bigger players- and in the north and center of Italy, a host of cities took the surrounding areas and became what we know as city states. In the 1800s, there was a push to unite the entire peninsula, with Sicily and Sardina, into a single country. The first chapter outlines the basic history of how this happened. The subsequent chapters of the book detail what this meant to historians and Italians in the years afterward.  

1 Risorgimento, Reform and Revolution 

Towards the end of the 18th century, many of Europe's most powerful monarchies had suffered setbacks. It is in this Europe-wide crisis of the eighteenth century that we must look for the origins of the changes in nineteenth century Italy. Italy had been ravaged by war and repeated foreign invasion during the 1600s. Alongside that were repeated famines, plagues and popular revolts. Governments throughout Italy attempted to introduce economic and social improvements, and construct more efficient government, but they encountered serious difficulties. Especially in Naples, implementing reform was opposed by the local power-holders, and the poor bore the brunt of the efforts. Outbreaks of violence became commonplace, and were even encouraged by the nobles and the Church in an effort to undermine proposed reforms. 

Many in the peninsula recognized the need for reforms, but successful or not, they unleashed instability throughout Italy. Reformers had weakened the entrenched political system, but had been unable to build new bases of support. There was widespread disillusionment and distrust of the political interests towards the end of the 1700s. 

In 1793, the French revolution invaded Piedmont. In 1796, Napoleon invaded northern Italy and in the treaty of Campoforno with Austria in 1797, gained control of the all Italy. The first of the French occupations led to three republics being established: the Cisalpine republic in the North, the Roman Republic in central Italy, and the Parthenopan or Neopolitan republic in the south. But a longer period of occupation from 1801-14 reflected a more conservative direction taken by Napoleon in France. 

This occupation turned out to be extremely important for future developments in Italy. The breakdown of the old states challenged the traditional authority of the old regime. The French rule also prepared the ground for a more uniform national identity in Italy. It helped spread revolutionary ideas and organizations. The idea of an independent Italian republic gained support as did democratic forms of government. Italian patriots began planning uprisings all over Italy. The French army and centralized government became models that reform minded Italians wanted to see in their country. The peasants however bitterly resented military conscription, and they, encouraged by the Church, fought back against such reforms. 

After Napoleon was defeated by the Austrians in 1815, the Habsburg Empire sought to restore the old order. But restoration in Italy meant different things to different people, from liberal reforms to the reaction. The carbonarist uprisings in 1820-21 were easily put down by the Austrians, but the revolutionaries themselves were at odds with each other. 

In 1831, Giovine italia, Young Italy, caused a series of disturbances, but again, the mass of people remained indifferent or even hostile to the idea of open revolt. But this group was led by Giuseppe Mazzini. The disastrous experiences of these years taught him that an entirely new kind of leadership was necessary to prepare the battle ahead. He was inspired by romanticism and an emotional engagement with the past. Italy's geography destined it to be united and free. It was time for a resurrection, a risorgimento. Mazzini managed to create a broad network of like-minded liberals across Europe to the notion of Italian unification. In the mid 1840's he attracted Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian exile in Uruguay, as the one who could unite and lead Italian forces. But he was at the same time losing ground in the bigger picture. 

In 1848-49, a major revolt broke out in Palermo. The government was easily overcome and the apparent ease of the revolt caused some real concern among conservatives. But the victory also masked some grave weaknesses. Many of the liberals who gained a foothold in the power, proceeded to halt the progress of the revolution in order to keep the masses marginalized. Their general refusal to address the causes of the mass unrest had grim consequences. At the same time, Italian monarchs didn’t want to give an inch to even the most moderate of reformers, and with the church, the piedmont government and other factions jealously guarding their own interests, things came to a near halt of progress. But here Mazzini seized the initiative back from the moderates. He arrived in Rome in 1849 and a republic was declared in Rome. Yet circumstances were no more favorable in 1849 than they had been 50 years earlier. While Garibaldi was a capable general, his forces were too weak and ill-equipped. Austrian domination was reaffirmed with the defeat of the Piedmontese army at Novara. After the defeat, Carlo Alberto, the monarch of Piemonte, abdicated in favor of his son Vittorio Emanuele II. 

The revolution frightened the Italian rulers though and this led to ten years of severe repression. Pope Pius IX and Leopoldo II in Tuscany turned their backs on liberalism. The Austrians in Lombardy-Venetia policed with heightened censorship and crackdowns on political dissent or discontent. Political dissent in the Two Sicilies was even worse, where even the most moderate liberals were arrested and condemned to long sentences. There were, nonetheless a series of failed insurrections: Milan in 1853, Massa in 1854, Palermo in 1856, and Sapri in 1857. Each of these was poorly prepared and under-armed. Mazzini's reputation suffered at home with an air of failure, though his network abroad, centered in London, survived intact. 

The Italian National Society was established in 1857, created by three ex-democrats: Daniele Manin (ex-leader of the Venetian republic), Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio, and Giuseppe La Farina. Their belief was that the only way forward for Italian nationalism was through an alliance with Piedmont. After 1849, Piedmont alone took a more liberal direction, confirming the power of the crown and Church, but guaranteeing freedom of the press and of association. From this, the moderate liberals were able to reform the economy and transform political life. This was a marked contrast to the political reaction in the rest of Italy. Much of the credit goes to one man, Camilo Benso di Cavour. Cavour wanted to steer a middle path between revolution and reaction. Economic progress, he saw, would result from free trade, liberal policies, and political stability. This model became the goal for Italian nationalism and eventual unification. Even king Vittorio Emanuele II was persuaded of an alliance with the nationalists.   

Cavour learned from the defeats of 1849 that diplomacy would be the only way to gain allies and isolate Austria. In 1858, an ex-Mazzini operative had thrown a bomb at the French emperor Napoleon III's carriage, and Cavour saw his opportunity. He traveled to France and met with the emperor to expel Austria from northern Italy. They divided up the map of Italy into areas they would rule. This would free Italy of Austrian rule, but not unite Italy in the sense the nationalists had wanted. But Piedmont and France agreed and provoked Austria into a war. The French-Piedmontese won and Piedmont gained Lombardy and central Italy in the process, but failed to get control of Venice. But Piedmont was largely in control of Italy at this point. 

Austrian allies in Italy were greatly destabilized by the change. It had a particularly devastating impact on the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The power vacuum left opportunities and Garibaldi stepped in as the most popular leader of the risorgimento movement. His hometown of Nice had been surrendered to France in Cavour's deal. So he set sail from Genoa and landed in Sicily with a thousand volunteers to overthrow the Bourbon king and unite the south with the rest of Italy. His expedition exceeded all expectations and in less than six months, Garibaldi had defeated the Bourbon army in both Sicily and on the mainland. He assembled an army of 20,000 volunteers, proclaimed himself dictator and reorganized the government.  

His conquest in the south gave democrats a solid power base, and in September 1860, he entered Naples on a train to a triumphant welcome. In October, he defeated the Bourbon army on the Volturno river, which gave him an open road to Rome. 

Cavour decided to stop him from taking Rome and sent the Piedmontese army south to meet Garibaldi's volunteers. A plebiscite in Sicily and the south voted in favor of annexation by Piedmont, and in November, Garibaldi handed power over to Piedmont. In February 1861, Italy was formally united with Vittorio Emanuele II as king and Turin as the capital. 

Venice was still under Austrian control and the Pope in Rome was protected by a French garrison. It was in 1866 that Italy finally gained control over Venice. It wasn't until 1870 that Napoleon withdrew his troops and Rome became the capital of Italy. Pius IX remained implacable and proclaimed himself 'a prisoner of the Vatican'.  

[szallejh]

Riall!! (:

Thank you so much, my friend 🤗

Newest attack for Artfight!

Riall belongs to @szallejh!

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

curious: do you ever get criticised by other types of historians (or students) for working on a topic in "great man" history?

The short answer is no, or at least not yet.

The long answer is that my research is specifically designed to not be that, because I am aware that is a potential pitfall. I have been very clear from the first version of this proposal that I put into my application that this isn't a biography and it isn't telling the story of a great man.

The key difference is that I am discussing political ideals, which happen to coalesce around a specific person. My guy is basically a way to anchor the story and give it a focus, but my argument is about the storm of ideas around him and how those reflect very large intellectual currents in the mid-19th century. Sometimes people produce an abundance of paper around them that is not necessarily about them personally, but rather about what they represent. Additionally, some people have a privileged enough position to be radical and outspoken in their beliefs when it would be dangerous for someone in a lesser social position to do so.

Or if you prefer, I'm following him around and looking over his shoulder to see his world, because the book will be about that world and those ideas.

I'm not alone in doing this either. Here are two books that I personally think do it rather successfully:

[that is Lucy Riall's Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero and Franz Szabo's Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism]

I'm designing my research around the idea of not writing Great Man history intentionally, and I suspect that's why no one (yet) has tried to criticize it from that direction.

Though, I will take a moment to say (as an aside) that I don't think my particular guy fits the model of a Great Man with how the historiography has treated him. Great Man history implies that the person has been given an overabundance of agency in shaping the world around them, to the detriment of other factors. I can't say too much without possibly giving away who it is, but I have had conversations with my advisor that can be summed up as "given his social position, you'd expect him to have a lot of agency in his own life, but his beliefs and his decisions are practically absent from this story. That's really weird."

For a number of reasons that I have various theories on, he doesn't fit the mold. And I find that fascinating. It's part of what drew me to this guy: there is stuff that does not fit.

And stuff that does not fit is catnip to the historian.

[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Lundy's Lane

The Battle of Lundy's Lane (25 July 1814) was one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812. Fought near the location of present-day Niagara Falls, it saw a US army under Jacob Brown clash with a British force under Gordon Drummond. Although the battle was inconclusive, it rendered the Americans incapable of continuing their invasion of Canada.

Battle of Lundy's Lane

Alonzo Chappel (Public Domain)

Background: The Americans Invade Niagara

On 3 July 1814, the United States launched its final largescale invasion of British Canada. Led by Major General Jacob Brown, an army of 3,600 US soldiers, state militiamen, and Seneca warriors crossed the Niagara River to assault Fort Erie, a British stronghold located on the Niagara Peninsula. The British garrison, outnumbered and taken by surprise, quickly surrendered, giving the Americans control of the fort. The next day, one of Brown's subordinates, Brigadier General Winfield Scott, led his brigade north in an attempt to push back the forward elements of the Right Division of the British Army, which had been left to defend the peninsula. The British had a little less than 2,000 men – 1,350 regulars, 350 Native American warriors, and 200 Canadian militiamen – but their commander, Major General Phineas Riall, believed that his men would make up in training and discipline what they lacked in numbers. Therefore, instead of pulling back in the face of Scott's advance, Riall dug in at Chippawa Creek, guarding the one bridge over the creek.

On 5 July, the Americans and British clashed at the Battle of Chippawa. Initially, the fortunes of battle swung in favor of the British. Advancing through the woods, the scarlet-coated regulars managed to scatter the American pickets and push back the undisciplined state militiamen without much of an issue. But then, they came face to face with General Scott's brigade of gray-clad US regulars. For the past several months, Scott had been tirelessly drilling his troops at their camp outside Buffalo, New York; these drills would last anywhere between seven and ten hours a day, with inspections and parade marches taking place weekly. As a result, Scott's soldiers were much more disciplined than the half-trained US troops the British had been used to fighting in earlier battles. The British officers watched with bewilderment as Scott's men loaded their muskets and fired in unison, unwavering under fire. Upon realizing that these were regulars, Riall marched his own best troops out to face them. For 20 minutes, the American and British regulars stood their ground, exchanging deadly volleys, until at last the redcoats broke and fled.

A few days after the battle, Riall withdrew north along the Niagara River, eventually making his way to Fort George on Lake Ontario. This frustrated Brown, who lacked the manpower and heavy artillery necessary to take the fort. Instead of pursuing, Brown moved his army to Queenston, a settlement seven miles (11 km) south of Fort George and the site of the first attempted American invasion of Niagara two years earlier. Here, Brown decided to wait for assistance from Commodore Isaac Chauncey, who commanded the US fleet on Lake Ontario; his hope was that Chauncey could ferry supplies and reinforcements to the army at Queenston, and perhaps even aid in the eventual attack on Fort George. But Chauncey, prickly as he was, had no intention to play second fiddle. In the commodore's view, the US ships on Lake Ontario had become subservient to the needs of the army and were being used only as glorified transport vessels, which he felt injured the honor of the navy. This was mostly a problem of Chauncey's own making; he could sail out and challenge the British ships on the lake to a battle anytime he wanted but preferred instead to procrastinate in Sackets Harbor, wasting more time and money building unnecessary ships.

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[vixenvtuber]

Is people thinking you’re Monica Riall better or worse than people thinking Vixen and Marissa are different people?

*cries loudly*

[szallejh]

Love this!! This brings out her demonic side so so well 💚💚

Art trade with @szallejh ! An experimental piece, doing my more halftone-y style on a character with a very pale palette.

Had a great time drawing Riall!!

[snototter]

A bay-backed shrike (Lanius vittatus) in India

by Steve Riall

[psalm22-6]

Victor Hugo's opinion on depictions of Jean Valjean in fanart

So, in April 1862, 21 year old Julien Girard de Rialle published a  “Critique of the Critiques” of Les Misérables his newspaper the Revue théâtrale, littéraire et artistique, along with the above image by up-and-coming artist (and former bookstore employee) Rodolphe Julian. Naturally, de Rialle sent the paper to Victor Hugo, who sent this letter in reply:

Your April edition is only arriving to me in June. Absence has its displeasures to which one must be resigned. Your article charmed me. Nothing but grace, wit, and verve! I thank those who have the goodness to be my enemies, their attacks are caresses because they bring me such defenses.   I shake your hand, Monsieur.  Victor Hugo P.S. Please congratulate on my behalf the author of the drawing, which is truly lovely and which couldn't be clearer. The bishop is sleeping soundly, the convict is hesitating profoundly. Perhaps the beard is too long. It's only a few days' growth. I make this observation because other painters have made the same small mistake.

So there you have it: temper your desire to give Valjean too long a beard.

Source: Un article prenant la defense des Miserables, une gravure pour leur illustration, et la lettre de remerciement de Victor Hugo, procurés et commentés par Gérard Pouchain (Pouchain is such a treasure trove of information of Les Mis related content. If he didn't already exist, I would have to become him. )

[thespringtimeofmylovin]

Charlotte Martin compilation 🖌️

Born as Catherine Martin on September 20th, 1948, in Paris, Charlotte was a successful model in the 1960s and 1970s and remains a painter to this day. She is also famous for having dated both guitarists Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. After a strict and confined childhood, she decided to change her name and move to London, living a hedonistic life as a model.

In Eric's autobiography, he writes: "At the Speakeasy Club, I had first met one of the great loves of my life, a very beautiful French model, Charlotte Martin. I was smitten with her from the very first moment I set eyes on her. [...] Charlotte was an incredible girl, more interested in films, art, and literature than in modeling, and we had a great time together." They had a relationship between 1965 and 1968. It is often said that Eric broke up with her because he fell deeply in love with Pattie Boyd (George Harrison's wife). Pattie also mentioned in her biography that she suspected Charlotte and her husband of having an affair after that.

It was Roger Daltrey's (The Who) wife, Heather, who introduced Jimmy and Charlotte backstage after the Royal Albert Hall gig in 1970, during Jimmy's 26th birthday party. He said he fell in love with her at first sight and, after speaking for a long time, did not hesitate when she invited him to her flat that night. Shortly after, she became known as the new "Mrs. Page," a title previously attributed to Pamela Des Barres. It was the beginning of a long and stormy relationship that ended in 1986. They never officially married, Page stating that the legal marriage system was not important to him. They also had a daughter, Scarlet Page, in 1971, who later became a photographer. Nowadays, Jimmy Page is on good terms with Charlotte. He said in an interview with The Independent in 2004: "Every Christmas, we are all together, all the mums and all the children (…). We are a close-knit family."

To this day, Charlotte has remarried (to Ernest D. Riall) and has been living as a painter. Through her paintings, she often explores her escape from her dark childhood, and the influence of 1960s pop culture remains strongly present in her art.

[szallejh]

That's so interesting! Thank you

OH OH OH tell me more about the demon in Leyya's head please!! (Not Peitha, obviously; the other one :D)

Lucky for you I actually have a couple whole posts about it!

Its name is Cepir, and it wound up in there as a result of her search for some form of vengeance after Zojja's injuries in the jungle.

Here's the information about Cepir and living with him in her head!

Here's the information about the dagger and how she got possessed!

She's been having a really rough time of it since HoT, between guilt over what happened and generally missing Zojja, and I don't think it's gotten much better for her lmao.

[naturallyadventured]

elbixu_albaruiz

Avui he fet 29 voltes al sol! Els meus últims vint. I per celebrar-ho vam anar diumenge passat al banyet glaçat anual que faig ja per tercer any consecutiu. Aquest cop amb la millor companyia 🌻 El primer bany va anar de la mà de tot aquest procés que he anat fent de creixement personal, entendrem i fer-ho en profunditat. Vaig despullar el meu interior, treient capa a capa fins a trobar que hi havia en el centre i a partir d'allà tornar a formar l'Alba que realment vull ser. En quan t'has sentit tan nua, amb la teva essència, i la pots abraçar sense por, sense expectatives, sense intencions, és quan pots créixer amb els peus ben arrelats a terra i les branques mirant ben amunt 🌿 L'aigua freda va relaxant cada múscul del cos, els peixos ens van donar la benvinguda a un món natural, per sorgir amb la pell sensible a la tramuntana que evaporava les gotes que reposaven sobre nostre, un camí del mar amb retorn cap a la terra 🌊 Entre vi, patates i rialles vam crear un record únic per iniciar aquest últim any de vint-i-molts 🥰

Mil gràcies 🪨@thelittlebuster_experience i 🌿@gbi_92 us estimo molt 🤍 Difereeeentes 😋

[wangxianficfinder]

A good place to go for requests for deleted fanfiction is /r/deletedfanfiction on reddit. I know that they do have a copy of Riall's fic.

@baka-bun , why don't you try this reddit? Also, @gloriousclotpole said they have the first 9 chapters, you can message them too ^^

P.s Please be respectful of authors who don't like/want their deleted fics being shared. It's disappointing, I know, but if they don't want it being shared, please don't.

- Mod C