Anatole Ternaux
@ternaux.bsky.social
✅ Je m’appelle Jean-Michel Jacobin
✅ Discomfort Fiction Writer
✅ Désolé c’est en anglais
✅ Warning: Autistic Hyperfixating
✅ https://www.deadfrenchmen.rip
✅ Discomfort Fiction Writer
✅ Désolé c’est en anglais
✅ Warning: Autistic Hyperfixating
✅ https://www.deadfrenchmen.rip
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Available on Kindle, Kobo, B&N, OverDrive and more! Additional information and an excerpt of the first chapter is available on my Wordpress blog ➡️ durocsdeskdrawer.ink/2025/08/10/l...
If you think your handwriting is bad, at least no one's mistaken it for a map of Italy yet.
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 AM
If you think your handwriting is bad, at least no one's mistaken it for a map of Italy yet.
I absolutely positively had nothing to do with that act of arson over there.
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
I absolutely positively had nothing to do with that act of arson over there.
My glass nib quill is missing and I am SUFFERING.
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 AM
My glass nib quill is missing and I am SUFFERING.
@histnovsoc.bsky.social Thank you for this lovely review of my book! ❤️ 🇫🇷 historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/lies...
Lies Agreed Upon: A Historical Murder Mystery in the Age of Napoleon - Historical Novel Society
M. Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, disgraced admiral of the French fleet defeated by Horatio Nelson off Cadiz, arrives at a modest hotel in Rennes, Brittany. The evening unfolds in meticulous detail, follo...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM
@histnovsoc.bsky.social Thank you for this lovely review of my book! ❤️ 🇫🇷 historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/lies...
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Not just for him! Give her the gift that will make her head spin!
February 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Not just for him! Give her the gift that will make her head spin!
*takes notes* There is no such thing as too much butter, and never enough roast chicken for Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Too Much Butter?? - Butter Boiled Chicken - 18th Century Cooking - Townsends
YouTube video by Townsends
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February 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
*takes notes* There is no such thing as too much butter, and never enough roast chicken for Napoleon Bonaparte.
youtu.be/N1Biy5776ec
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Unpopular opinion: America has *never* not been a fascist nation. Whether or not you felt it depended upon your gender, skin color, sexuality, religion, class, and national origin. To pretend otherwise is ahistorical.
Can America still do better? Better to ask: who benefits if not?
Can America still do better? Better to ask: who benefits if not?
February 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Unpopular opinion: America has *never* not been a fascist nation. Whether or not you felt it depended upon your gender, skin color, sexuality, religion, class, and national origin. To pretend otherwise is ahistorical.
Can America still do better? Better to ask: who benefits if not?
Can America still do better? Better to ask: who benefits if not?
Washington: a centralizing nationalist, not a civil-liberties maximalist, who was willing to deploy armed force against civilians (Whiskey Rebellion, 1794) to enforce federal law. And personally invested in property order—including enslaved human property—and deeply hostile to popular disorder.
February 2, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Washington: a centralizing nationalist, not a civil-liberties maximalist, who was willing to deploy armed force against civilians (Whiskey Rebellion, 1794) to enforce federal law. And personally invested in property order—including enslaved human property—and deeply hostile to popular disorder.
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"Police everywhere, justice nowhere," -Victor Hugo
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
"Police everywhere, justice nowhere," -Victor Hugo
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a wizard. This is the only historically correct answer. Fight me.
February 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a wizard. This is the only historically correct answer. Fight me.
An excerpt from the chapter I've been working on and has consumed my life. Feel free to leave feedback.
February 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
An excerpt from the chapter I've been working on and has consumed my life. Feel free to leave feedback.
La machine est en mouvement.
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 PM
La machine est en mouvement.
Neurotypical: "Oh my god, he's so hot."
Autistic: "I really like his bone structure. It’s so symmetrical. I wonder what his skull looks like under x-ray?”
Autistic: "I really like his bone structure. It’s so symmetrical. I wonder what his skull looks like under x-ray?”
January 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Neurotypical: "Oh my god, he's so hot."
Autistic: "I really like his bone structure. It’s so symmetrical. I wonder what his skull looks like under x-ray?”
Autistic: "I really like his bone structure. It’s so symmetrical. I wonder what his skull looks like under x-ray?”
THOMAS-ALEXANDRE DUMAS WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
I will not hear any arguments otherwise.
I will not hear any arguments otherwise.
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM
THOMAS-ALEXANDRE DUMAS WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
I will not hear any arguments otherwise.
I will not hear any arguments otherwise.
Readers Don’t Understand Metaphors Anymore … OR, Maybe You Just SUCK at Your Job
The Social Contract Between Author and Reader and the Sin of Literary Essentialism #writing #books #literacy Yes, yes it can always get more fucked up I've said it before -- I don't like commenting on other authors'…
The Social Contract Between Author and Reader and the Sin of Literary Essentialism #writing #books #literacy Yes, yes it can always get more fucked up I've said it before -- I don't like commenting on other authors'…
Readers Don’t Understand Metaphors Anymore … OR, Maybe You Just SUCK at Your Job
The Social Contract Between Author and Reader and the Sin of Literary Essentialism #writing #books #literacy Yes, yes it can always get more fucked up I've said it before -- I don't like commenting on other authors' writing styles. Until they use their own writing style to try to advance a persuasive argument and fail on every level. And they do it with 110% confidence.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Maybe it's an autistic thing, but I don't notice themes, morals, or characterization first. Instead, I notice sentence structure. Does the sentence feel spiky, interesting, asymmetrical, the word choices deliberate? If it's not, my eyes just slide right off, my brain reads the sentence as "boring."
January 30, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Maybe it's an autistic thing, but I don't notice themes, morals, or characterization first. Instead, I notice sentence structure. Does the sentence feel spiky, interesting, asymmetrical, the word choices deliberate? If it's not, my eyes just slide right off, my brain reads the sentence as "boring."
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Sandwich tonight: Peanut butter and strawberry jam and apricot preserves and blueberries and honey and dismembered Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie. I don't want to say I'm currently experiencing a sugar rush, but my walls are transparent and I can see through time.
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Sandwich tonight: Peanut butter and strawberry jam and apricot preserves and blueberries and honey and dismembered Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie. I don't want to say I'm currently experiencing a sugar rush, but my walls are transparent and I can see through time.
I am now off work for the next three days. Doctor’s orders.
Yes, I work nights and weekends. It’s the only rational schedule.
I also write between 0130 and 0400 while noshing on valerian root, Zzzquil, melatonin, and ashwaganda.
I do not recommend that writing routine.
Yes, I work nights and weekends. It’s the only rational schedule.
I also write between 0130 and 0400 while noshing on valerian root, Zzzquil, melatonin, and ashwaganda.
I do not recommend that writing routine.
January 29, 2026 at 6:03 AM
I am now off work for the next three days. Doctor’s orders.
Yes, I work nights and weekends. It’s the only rational schedule.
I also write between 0130 and 0400 while noshing on valerian root, Zzzquil, melatonin, and ashwaganda.
I do not recommend that writing routine.
Yes, I work nights and weekends. It’s the only rational schedule.
I also write between 0130 and 0400 while noshing on valerian root, Zzzquil, melatonin, and ashwaganda.
I do not recommend that writing routine.
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I present to you the Peanut Butter and Jelly Brownie, you can just go ahead and give me the James Beard Award now, thank you
(PS: It was terrific)
(PS: It was terrific)
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I present to you the Peanut Butter and Jelly Brownie, you can just go ahead and give me the James Beard Award now, thank you
(PS: It was terrific)
(PS: It was terrific)
Drinking some pedialyte helped. So go drink some water, or something electrolyte rich. Your heart will thank you.
jean_michel_jacobin
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Drinking some pedialyte helped. So go drink some water, or something electrolyte rich. Your heart will thank you.
jean_michel_jacobin
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 AM
jean_michel_jacobin
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.
1m
This is your reminder to go drink some water.
My heart rate was over 120+ while I was sitting down, because I was dehydrated and suffering from a respiratory infection. I was dizzy, no chest pains, but my watch was screaming at me every 10 minutes about my BPM.