Of Apples and Asphodel

Secret Elderly Cynical Svengali Behind The Great Frevblr Conspiracy™ 18+ Only please Military Historian Jean-Baptiste Kleber Francois-Etienne de Damas Armies of the First French Republic Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Era Cartoonist Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Artiste-Peintre Founder of the Church/Cult of Bessimu 1996 Online Napoleonic Menace since 1996

[fucktonofanatomyreferencesreborn]

A mouth-watering fuck-ton of hand angle references.

By Shadowcross on DA.

[psilocervidae]

Green + yellow + orange is a highly underrated colour combo

[psilocervidae]

Look at her don't you love her

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[wheelie-sick]

#oh brilliant we live in an actual fucking nightmare where some disabled people can't go to protests#WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

I want to address this real fast. you can go to the vast majority of protests with a bluetooth device like a hearing aid, cochlear implant, CGM, insulin pump, etc. this post is specifically talking about direct actions where they will bother tracking bluetooth connections. there are even a lot of lower level direct actions where you can bring a bluetooth device (and there are a lot of things that get mislabeled DA that are not DA and are fine to bring bluetooth devices to). this is really a concern with anything where there will be significant property damage or any bodily harm.

basically ask yourself: will they actually bother searching for me?

[valtsv]

i really do love those military jackets with embroidery that resembles a gilded ribcage they serve sooooooo much thanatological cunt it's unreal. the memento mori of it all. the bastardised martyrdom. the self-fulfilling prophecy of dressing yourself in silver and gold evoking the final, fragile shield between the most vital, vulnerable parts of you and annihilation, just to go to a place where the objective is to hack it to pieces as cruelly and efficiently as possible until you resemble nothing more than ground meat trodden into the dust you came from. fuck the military for real and forever but they went harder with horrifically ironic self-deceiving propaganda than anyone ever has or will. give it up for the old lie everyone!

[darviticus]

When your friend is somehow both Hornblower and Black Parade posting.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

We are living in a time of unprecedented amounts of original paleoart being produced. All over the world, throughout all social strata and in all sorts of styles. This boom in artistic output was not made possible by the development of art stealing technology and large corporations forcing it upon us but by networking, knowledge sharing and community building. That is what made paleontology more accessible and made it possible for so many people to be inspired by the fossil record to express themselves artistically.

The older I get the more scientific credibility becomes the mere baseline and the human aspects of a paleoartwork come into focus. Artistic decisions that a chatbot can never replace and should never make because Earth's history is too rich and filled with too many mysteries to let a machine take the wheel.

[4emehautrhin]

This. And I am personal friends with one of the better Paleoartists - and creative person - that I know - Stanton Fink - he has spent a lot of time researching and drawing these creatures - and others - and has a significant author presence online.

[4emehautrhin]

New intro post coming soon!

Anon asks are always off. Don't be a coward and hide behind a mask.

If you come here looking for drama, you won't find it.

If you come here looking for history and shitposting - welcome.

If you come here looking for history and the unfiltered BS of my mind and General Kleber and Damas history - pull up a chair

Tags to be posted later on - that way you can navigate around this cluttered atelier of my tumblr presence!

Approachable, but everyone has a limit! I have been studying this era since 1989 and online since 1996, participating in the Napoleon Series, being a historical consultant, artist, and presence in the greater Napoleonic Historical community before there was even a tumblr!

If you're under 18, I'd prefer if you did not interact with me. I am always respectful and will not engage in anything but historical discourse. I do not mind questions about the era, from enthusiastic young learners. I will post a set of links to take you to information you might want when I re-do my intro post - In the next year, I plan to be reviving my old NapLinks website with information, links and an ask box with email should you wish to ask me off this site. Note I will not tolerate anon hate or disrespect and those messages that are disrespectful will be reported to the proper authorities.

Don't drag me into frevblr drama discourse.

[shabbytigers]

[rougeaud]

Louis Aragon's 1958 historical novel, “La Semaine Sainte (Holy Week)”, depicts a turning point in history against the backdrop of the 1815 “Hundred Days”, weaving together the flight of Louis XVIII and the inner struggles of the famous painter Théodore Géricault. Fortunately, a Japanese translation exists. Readers with an interest in the Napoleonic era likely will make for an interesting read.

Featuring a diverse cast of characters—including members of Louis XVIII's family and Géricault—the novel portrays the complexly intertwined lives of Napoleon's marshals, such as Macdonald, Marmont, Berthier, and Mortier. Soult does not appear, but he is portrayed as an unreliable figure. Little is mentioned of Ney's rolling over, it is written that he has a round face and freckles.

What comes as a particular surprise is the depiction of Mortier's character. Contrary to his usual image as a gentle and sincere man, he is portrayed here with a scheming side. Figures like Vigo-Roussillon who left behind memoirs, also noted that Mortier feigned illness at Waterloo, suggesting he may have been a rather complex personality.

[maggiec70]

Your comment about Mortier's likely complex personality arising from Aragon's book, which I reread late last year, reminded me of this work, which I've never been without since 1985, when I began grad school:

French historian Jean Tulard evaluated Napoleonic memoirs in his cornerstone work, Bibliographie critique des mémoires sur le Consulat et l'Empire (1971, updated as the Nouvelle bibliographie critique in 1991). He characterized memoirs as a vital, irreplaceable mine of firsthand information that must be approached with caution due to frequent unreliability, hindsight bias, political self-promotion, and outright fabrication. Tulard is the French academic doyen of the French Rev/Nap period. He approved of Vigo-Rousillon's memoirs.

[algarroboss]

Chicos no tengo ni la más ínfima idea de como hice esto

[shpeplovsky]

❗️COMMISSIONS OPEN❗️

After all this time, I finally opened my own commissions! :D

https://vgen.co/shp3p <-- here

Also, there's a custom inquiry where you can submit your own idea at a budget of your choosing, so I'm looking forward to seeing yall at VGen!!!!

[4emehautrhin]

Go commission them! Excellent artist!

[marmont777]

I’m really interested in this museum. One of its exhibition halls displays Marmont’s belongings and most of his portraits. I really wish I could go and see them👀

While browsing web‑based sources, I came across portraits of Marmont’s parents, so I painted a picture of the three‑member family. Marmont actually had a younger sister, but she died at an early age.

I also depicted his wife. I believe she once loved him deeply, yet conflicts later arose between the couple, and they ended up getting divorced.

[paddy1209]

我也想喝拿铁

[probablyaleksashka]

Robespierre wasnt a dictator, but the Jacobin dictatorship was a very real thing just by the way

[kimtiny]

Unreliable teacher (what was he thinking)

[yg-arts]

Outfit challenge.

Feel free to send a character. They can be from any fandom!

A

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[lunapher]

@arieldrawsstuff this feels like something u love to do

[clearpurpleskiesart]

@missiemoosie 🔥🔥

[missiemoosie]

Oooh hell yes~! 😈😈🔥

[4emehautrhin]

Go ahead and ask me - one ask per person, no anons and I'll get it done by hopefully October.

Not any fandom though - that's the one thing I'll have to restrict lol.

WW1 pilots - ✅

Napoleonic dorks of any nationality (with a reference if I don't know them) - ✅

Frev dorks - ✅

NSFW - ❌❌❌❌❌❌ no. I will not do those.

[theglitterdome]

John Cleese and Graham Chapman relaxing on the set of Monty Python And The Holy Grail - 1975

[shinigami-social]

[only-a-heartbeat-away]

Rules: List five songs you're currently obsessed with.

Thank you for the tag @that-metalhead-ace!

1. Can't Fight The Moonlight - Leann Rimes

2. Young Volcanoes - Fall Out Boy

3. The Twilight Zone - Rush

4. Waiting - Vixen

5. Still Of The Night - Whitesnake

@ride-the-hammett @leviathanlazarus @emometalhead @simpforsimon @idontwannabethat and anyone else who wants to do this!

[sh0rt-f1lmz]

Famous Prophets (Stars) by Car Seat Headrest

El Scorcho by Weezer

Obvious by Roar (THOSE HARMONIES ARE AMAZINGG)

Godzilla Take Your Mask Off by Nero’s Day At Disneyland

The Other Side Of Paradise by Glass Animals

@smeefy-smoofy @vincent-b4rrer3 @saint-unjust @mike-the-star-collector

[saint-unjust]

tthank you for tagging me ^_^

Saint Just - Remastered by Saint Just

My Woman by Al Bowlly

Nrrrd Grrrl by MC Chris

Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes

Dagger by Slowdive

open tags

[probablyaleksashka]

halo....

Grabenkampf by Kanonenfieber

Race to the sea by Sabaton

Far from the fame by Sabaton

The end of the war to end all wars by Sabaton

Peephole by System of a down

Open tags but also @cruiseroffensivenspoleon @p0stm0rtem-l1v1d1ty @4emehautrhin im very curious about yall

[4emehautrhin]

Five - i'll give you links too. mind you I'm gen X and honestly I got more than 5 on my playlist but these I will always listen to. 1. Michel Delpech - Pour un Flirt

2. Abba - Chiquitita

3. Blackmore's Knight - Village Lanterne

4. Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata no. 20 movement II

5. Planquette/Rauski - Sambre et Meuse March

open tags, y'all.