#the i heart revolution

[smchr-nina]

When the best fandom reunites to celebrate a non-official holiday based on a revolution mentioned in a 200-year-old novel

[hypogryffin]

Erina and Sophie....

erina and sophie..... perhaps even sophie and erina....

[seilon]

my only complaint about 2005 dw is that we didn’t get more episodes with gung-ho mortal baby jack harkness. absolutely smitten by that fucker

[sforzesco]

 Then, on his arrival in Constantinople, after much counsel with himself, considering that he was already unequal to the amount of pressing business and believing that there was no room for delay, on the twenty-eighth of March he brought the aforesaid Valens into one of the suburbs​ and with the consent of all (for no one ventured to oppose) proclaimed him Augustus. Then he adorned him with the imperial insignia and put a diadem on his head, and brought him back in his own carriage, thus having indeed a lawful partner in his power, but, as the further course of our narrative will show, one who was as compliant as a subordinate. No sooner were these arrangements perfected without disturbance than both emperors were seized with violent and lingering fevers--

AM 26.4.3-4

this was one of those illustrations that was originally supposed to be a 5 page comic until I realized I don't know anything about later roman empire architecture or visuals or art or anything, so we'll revisit that later. maybe

for right now though, these two are fascinating. we have two brothers acting as one body, even becoming ill in tandem with each other, it's giving This Throne Is Cursed. like, the last time I read about emperors coming down with life threatening illnesses, it was Caligula, and that moment in his biography marked a very specific tone shift. I spent the rest of the (first) time reading about Valens and Valentinian waiting for something comparable to Caligula's reign to happen lmao (Dio 59. 8. 1-2)

and since Caligula was already on the mind, I started thinking about Tiberius: I think he would've loved these two since he had a whole thing about twin-ification and brothers and etc etc etc. ofc, Rome is both a Mouth and a Tomb, so it's going to go badly for someone/everyone eventually, but honestly I think that Valentinian and Valens were the best we could've hoped for. like it could've been so much worse

Tiberius and the Heavenly Twins, Edward Champlin

Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D, Noel Lenski

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[enlitment]

Decent Dad Contest:

in light of the already depressing recent poll and and even more depressing thread, I think it's best to do a nicer poll this time!

Thanks to @anotherhumaninthisworld for coming up with the idea and providing info about Camille's dad!

1. Jean Benoît Nicolas Desmoulins

Supportive of his son's revolutionary goals while also expressing worry about his safety (perfectly reasonable)

Seemed to have a lot of patience with his son (which is saying something, given that it's Camille we're talking about... you need all the patience you can get)

Most likely rooting for his relationship with Lucile

Ready to give his son advice

"No, my son, I am not and can never be of your enemies (...) I am and always will be your friend and your best friend"

wrote a letter to the public prosecutor to try and plea for his son's life (in which he mentioned that he's proud of him: fellow-citizen Desmoulins, who until now has held himself honoured in being the father of the foremost and most unflinching of Republicans)

2. Denis Diderot

named his daughter Angélique after his beloved sister and mother

the shared love for their daughter is assumed to be what kept Diderot's and his wife's shaky marriage together for a long time

used the money he got from working on the Encyclopédie to secure the best possible tutors for his daughter

Went again the standards of girls' education of his time (usually focused on singing and piano lessons), instead choosing to teach her to 'think logically' and secure classes in subjects such as history, geography, or musical theory

"I shall teach her, if I can, to endure [the difficulties of life] with fortitude"

there's a reasonable evidence that he believed in his daughter's 'genius' as a composer, and even had the prelude she composed printed (you can listen to it here!)

I recommend this great post and this article for further reading if you're interested!

Also take this with the grain of salt, especially the Diderot one, I should be packing for a trip and didn't have that much time to dig for sources.

Also unfortunately some not completely enlightened views on women authors by our enlightenment philosopher... but hey, at least he believed his daughter to be special, which is kind of sweet? The female question in the 1700s is complex okay...

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Petition for The Trials of Apollo to be a musical/musically adapted because if this is how PJO is gonna go in the TV world who knows how they'll butcher TOA

[skitskatdacat63]

"Arrogant, ruthless, and by all reports (including his own) utterly charming."

(I don't know why I drew this but please take Revolutionary War British officer George, I think it suits him, okay!!!)

+ George Russell the type of guy to t-pose in front of rebels

+ the usual

Okay first of all, process, as always:

I drew this in one day hahaha....Actually really fun! I haven't finished anything in almost a month, and haven't painted for even longer, so I'm kinda dying at the fact that 18th century George Russell got me motivated 😭 Sometimes when painting, I realize I have free will and can actually just start painting over the lineart, and that's the best moment of every drawing process 🙏

Also I'm very proud of his face!!! I've said before, but art progression is such a weird thing. You'll keep repeating to your self "I'm no good at [insert art thing.]" And then randomly realized you can in fact do it. That's me with drawing real people's faces 😭 I'm just so shocked I got his face pretty good in one try!!!

Okay about the pose and quote. God its so fun to misappropriate quotes for my own evil deeds. Both of these are from this one officer from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton. Idk, I randomly saw his painting in a history video, and it's stuck in my mind ever since. And then yesterday, bcs I spent a lot of time looking at George, I'm like "hey you know what he kinda reminds me of-" and thus we have this.

I just found that quote about him from some historian to be funny, so I put it as a caption, as I would with Napoleon. This won't be an AU by any means but. I think if George was in the Revolution, he'd be the most stereotypical, evil British villain in American media type guy ever. And Tarleton is kinda that guy tbh, to the point where him and others like Arnold Benedict are the poster boys of evil Revolution guys. He even has a mocking nickname! "Bloody Tarleton/Ban", very "Osama bin Russell," no? 😭

Some notable moments from Tarleton's campaign that I think fit George: Apparently killed a bunch of American soldiers after they surrendered, making sure everyone was dead(😭😭), threatened to burn an American general's house down to make him surrender and then took him hostage, went toe to toe with George Washington himself and Washington even taunted him and Tarleton got a shot in, has a helmet named after him(very slayful.)

[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.

[duckyfann9871]

Bitches be like “I hate drama” and then their romantic vs Dramatic points is like

It’s me, I’m bitches

[lord-squiggletits]

Most confusing thing to me in the world about TF: One discourse/analyses/fandom takes is people saying that it's a bad thing that Orion hijacked the Iacon 5000 with Megatron and broke protocol to go looking for what happened to the Primes. Like y'all isn't this fandom constantly screaming about the demonization of revolutionaries and how good it is to rebel against authority? Or are people so conditioned to blaming Optimus for everything and framing Megatron as a victim that they just automatically repeated it in TF: One even if it's inconsistent with their previous analyses of all continuities?

Like... Orion jumping the gun on all of his plans and dragging Dee into them is "bad" in the sense that it causes tension in their relationship and pushed Dee further onto his radical path partially because he wanted to strike his own path and stop following Orion through everything. It's not bad that Orion wanted to challenge social norms by showing that people without cogs can be just as competent/talented as people with cogs?? It's not bad that Orion wanted to search for the truth about what happened to the Primes instead of just blindly trusting Sentinel???? When Dee got mad at Orion and ranted about how "you just HAD to break protocol" you weren't meant to go "wow he's so right, Orion is so bad for wanting to break social norms even if it gets him into trouble" you were meant to go "wow Dee is having a mental breakdown about being lied to and lashing out at the only person he currently has the power to lash out at." What are we doing here.

[divorcedwife]

i feel like the default period for historical AUs is the regency era, but personally i always want to drop people in 1780s france, for maximum drama

[monpetitchattriste]

Like no this episode broke me in so many ways. The sad music playing as Adrien tell Marinette he is leaving ripped my heart out.

Them cluching the luckycharm like a lifeline will forever be engraved in my mind.

Adrien defying is fathers wishes just to kiss Marinette is so powerful.

Them being pulled apart I don't even have words to express my thoughts

[papers-pamphlet]

This is a quote from another ship (gudacas from fgo) but I always imagine Alexander telling John "But you're going to do it anyway, right?" Before he does something reckless. Because he always was reckless and never had much care for his wellbeing. Alexander always tried to talk him out of it.

And then those words echo in John's head before he charges in on those redcoats on the combahee river that day.

[yinza]

Time for the annual KHR ladies for @trilies!

[Image Description: Digital artwork of I-pin and Bluebell from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! I-pin is shown in her teenage form, performing a flying kick towards an off-screen enemy to the left, her mouth open in a shout. She holds Bluebell around the waist with her left arm. Bluebell is in her mer form and has both arms wrapped around I-pin's neck. She is blushing and wears an expression of surprise. /end ID]

[llamaisllama777]

EPISODE REVIEW MGAFS,LAES,TSAMS

QUICK SOMEONE CALL MRS_SHADOW SHE'S FAMOUS!

I am so happy they took a look at the fan songs, Mrs_shadow deserves more recognition, plus this was also my first time listening to 'I'm not him'

Very good song! 👍 also, Earth and Lunar's little head pops during this was cute, and Lunar was absolutely vibing with his song.

HONKMAN BEGINS!!!

The Goose jokes were funny, I hate to admit it, but they were also congrats. Sun, now you can turn people into Geese and light them on fire!!! I'm sure that'll come in handy.

Also, with all these D&D references in TSAMS,LAES, and Davis' Fnaf chronicles, I think it would be so much fun playing D&D with these guys.

And now on to MGAFS...

WE GOT A TON OF NEW LORE IN THIS!

Only one thing about the new lore confuses me, and I hope they clear it up, 'Puppet/Charlie thing' to be precise. Oh, and real quick, I'ma just say it...

THIS IS ALL THE ASTRALS FAULT!!!!

Yes Puppet shouldn't have gone back home knowing there was negative star power there

BUT!

The Astrals had to know something like this would happen, and I don't want to hear them say something like, "We didn't think anyone be stupid enough to go there" Well someone did and it's your fault! They knew something like this could happen and didn't warn Puppet and Monty why...?

Cause don't care about other dimensions just this one! Understandable.... TO A POINT!

I really hope that Dark Sun's plan involves the death of at least most of the Astrals cause at this point the Astrals are just more trouble than their worth. I really hope someone puts the Astrals in their place soon. Sun? Dark Sun? Lunar? Anyone?

11/10! 👏 👏 👏

[ahemnaaaasebenyaaaa]

I think it is done now so here is the full thing that I made for context Kai and rei found themselves away from the others while following a sus man who works for a criminal thing when Kai confronted him the man kinda bragged about being a criminal and all his bad deeds so Kai remembering all the bad men back in the Abby znaped and killed him

And afterwards they went back to max and Tyson who were waiting outside