#books Not naming names, but most of you Tube/Tok author-influencers don't meet my standards and I find your prose pretty mid. Just saying. Don't act like you're hot shit by putting someone else's work down unless you think your own work is ready to take it. Do I have opinions on authors and books? Sure, I do. Some are legit targets, like…

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A Work-in-Progress Inspired by Recent Events 19 January 1804 Paris, France "No. Absolutely not. I'm not putting my name to that." Joachim Murat glared over the expanse of the table at the man who was the First Consul of France and also his brother in law, Napoleon Bonaparte. The sheaf of paper lay in front of him, awaiting another signature. He leaned away from it, folding his arms across his chest as he settled into his armchair facing the desk's occupant.

How to Meme Your Revolution #bookcovers #frenchrevolution By popular request, some fake book covers I made. They look great on Kobo and Kindle. Of course Couthon would write this. Who else is going to explain -- very sweetly -- to the kitty the nice man is gone now and the bowl will be empty forever? Clicky for the Full Size Image…

It’s a work in progress, but isn’t everything? #personal #kindle #ereaders #digitaldetox How I spent my Christmas. I’ve been using Kindles since the first generation of them that came out in 2011 or so? I think. Anyway, I also remember being excited with the first generation of Paperwhites with IPX waterproofing. I know I bought a blue and a black one, not at the same time.

Oh my god be still my heart ... DUMAS is COMING #blackhistoricalfigures #omarsy #theochristine #alexandrethomasdumas #napoleonicwars #historicalfilm #frenchrevolution Screenshot from Variety.com Finally, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas is getting a proper movie! The father of the author of The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and French Revolutionary War badass, Dumas is finally getting the big screen treatment he deserves.

Camille Desmoulins: Too Loud, Too Ideological, Too French #parody #satire #penguinclassics #bookcover #frenchrevolution I got an Epub file that contained a biography on Camille Demoulins and some of his writings, but it didn't have a decent cover so it could look pretty on my Kobo e-reader. I couldn't find a higher res version of this image of Desmoulins, but it looks great with the Penguin Classics template!

A Rejected Work-in-Progress #napoleonicwars #napoleonbonaparte #napoleonsmarshals #writing #fiction #history Sharing a bit of prose that's been sitting unseen in my drafts for two years. Originally, it was supposed to be a nightmare sequence, but it was too linear and too clean for that. I have nowhere to put it, but it's too fun to simply toss out. Enjoy. “Put that away and stop sniveling like a woman, it’s embarrassing.”

One Size Does Not Fit All: Reader Spaces, Author Spaces, and Leaving Your Illusions at the Door #frenchrevolution #notyoursafespace #history #fandom #antishippers #genrefiction This isn't the satire as you're looking for. Every so often, I wander out of my little literary niche to explore the overgrown jungles of BookTube and affiliated echo chambers. Basically, I'm like a tourist in those spots: I might write a few journal entries on my observations of the locals, snap a few pictures, sample the local food and wares, and then head back to my silo.

It's not the same #autism #narcissisticpersonalitydisorder #psychology I'm sort of back on my Milo Winter/Age of Scorpius bullshit, but Saint-Just is tucked away in the Barbie Dreamhouse of my mind, so he's not taking over the wheel. And honestly, that's all incidental and whatever Winter is doing isn't really the point here. Anyway, I'm popping back in on this topic just to highlight this blogpost by…

The Classic Occitan Folk Song Lately, I've been working on a fic about the Napoleonic marshals before they were marshals, and the French Revolutionary Army circa 1793-1795. I've been having a lot of fun with Ai Vist Lo Lop, my mind imagining this particular version as an infantry marching song. It's been great background music as I work. Figure I'd share it with anyone who might be interested.

#sculpture #19thcentury #géraudduroc #napoleonbonaparte General Duroc at CastiglioneBronze by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonnier, 1890Museum of Grenoble I was looking something else up when I came acros…

The Problematic Frenchman Who Lives Rent-Free in My Head and Thinks Eviction Papers are Counterrevolutionary Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794)Not Adam Driver"Aww, he looks so harmless!" "LOL NO." This was going to be an essay about why I have Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just around here, aside from being just another Dead Frenchman. I've used him as a sockpuppet across multiple essays on this blog, and figure I maybe I should write about it.