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From The Rose of Versailles Children’s Pocket Encyclopedia
People like Loulou, who are born under the sign of Gemini, have a cheerful and straightforward personality. They get along with people right away, even if they've just met. However, they bore easily and can be fickle. Though never insisting on selfish demands or getting their way, they are always popular. They are quick witted and get good grades in school. Loulou has shown talent since childhood that even surprises Oscar.
WHY IS THE IMAGE QUALITY SO ASS (update: ok it actually looks good. Before I uploaded the post, the image looked super pixelized)
I made this drawing for my Spanish class. Our teacher asked us to make an infografia on ourselves, and since I wanted to talk abt my passion for art, I thought it would be nice to make a colored drawing.
Please if you're a SJ fan I'm sorry if he doesn't look quite right.
↬ these guys again in my history course
We were studying WW1, and I started to miss last year's lessons on the French Revolution and Robespierre... WHY DO I START LIKING HISTORICAL PERIODS AFTER I STUDY THEM AT SCHOOL???? I'm so obsessed with the Napoleonic wars, and if my passion had happened to start last year, I would've been freaking out hearing names like Bernadotte and Murat. Although last year's course was much more focused on searching if Napoleon perpetuated the ideals of the revolution rather than his military campaigns.
Chapter 22/50
Current Word Count: 194,358 words
Summary: With the start of a revolution putting their safety at risk, Oscar and André flee to England where they hope to build a new life for themselves.
Pairing/Characters: Oscar/André, Bernard, Rosalie, Original Characters
Warnings: Sex scene.
Extra Info: Sequel to Say It's Possible.
Rating: E
Genre: Romance, friendship, angst
No notes for this chapter because 1) I don't really have anything to say as it is a shorter chapter and everything in it is self-explanatory, but also 2) now that I am over 500,000 words into the story, and just a few chapters away from the end, I would prefer to spend those extra hours working on the story itself rather than unnecessary notes.
Chapter 21/50
Current Word Count: 187,343 words
Summary: With the start of a revolution putting their safety at risk, Oscar and André flee to England where they hope to build a new life for themselves.
Pairing/Characters: Oscar/André, Bernard, Rosalie, Original Characters
Warnings: Mild sex scene.
Extra Info: Sequel to Say It's Possible.
Rating: E
Genre: Romance, friendship, angst
Notes and behind-the-scenes stuff under the readmore:
HORSE CHAPTER!
This is for all my horse girls and guys. And all the sentimental readers, too, while I’m at it.
When am I not referencing Black Beauty (the book, but also the 1994 film, starring Docs Keepin’ Time, which is the only good film version ever made)? One of my favorite parts of the story is when Black Beauty is bought again at the end. In the film, it’s his former groom, Joe Green, that recognizes him and buys him—but in the book, it’s Farmer Thoroughgood and his grandson that buy him to “make him young again.” When he is healed, he is given to three ladies on a trial basis to see if they like him; his groom there is Joe Green, who recognizes him by his markings and thus he finds his happy ending.
Originally, Scarlet was not meant to be seen again, as she was a means to an end, primarily ensuring that André run into Mr. Campbell in London, but I had a stroke of genius on 18 January 2026 and decided to bring her back. This added another chapter to the story and forced me to adjust several later events, but now that the story is over 450,000 words long (from my end), I can say with complete certainty that I feel it was a wonderful choice.
I grappled with the idea of bringing Ebony back with her, but decided against it. This story is, ultimately, very self-indulgent, but I have to draw a line somewhere, and André running into both horses together just felt far too convenient, especially this many months later.
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They end up buying another fine carriage because they don’t really have a good backup for the main carriage if something happens to it, and Mr. Campbell usually opts for a closed carriage rather than an open one, because he dresses well and does not wish to get dirty/covered with dust.
Open carriages are nice for like, a lazy Sunday drive, but the Campbells don’t tend to indulge in such things, and when Mr. Campbell is going somewhere, it’s for the purpose of business.
A plain carriage for the staff to use would be nice, but it’s not really that necessary and it’s quite a bit more work for him without really benefitting Mr. Campbell. Jack and the pony-cart will typically suffice. And in an emergency, if someone needs to go for a doctor while André is out with the carriage, the special carriage can still be hooked up and used without a problem.
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Oscar does pretty well without André, but I think it helps that there’s nothing pressing happening at home—and that she can distract herself pretty easily with work. If either of those things were different, she would have struggled far more.
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Of course Oscar isn’t going to assume that this horse who looks like Scarlet is Scarlet, but when she finds out, she mirrors the goodbye she gave her when she left Canterbury, but this time as a hello. <3
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Oscar unpacking the cats means that she has accepted this place as home. I’m sure you all understood that, but just in case. <3
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Oscar finally gets to ride a horse and she looks beautiful doing it. 🥺
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Thank you all for joining me on this horse-filled chapter journey! I hope to see you again next week. 💕
Chapter 20/50
Current Word Count: 177,867 words
Summary: With the start of a revolution putting their safety at risk, Oscar and André flee to England where they hope to build a new life for themselves.
Pairing/Characters: Oscar/André, Bernard, Rosalie, Original Characters
Warnings: Sex scenes in this chapter.
Extra Info: Sequel to Say It's Possible.
Rating: E
Genre: Romance, friendship, angst
Notes and behind-the-scenes stuff under the readmore:
Chocolate, especially for the purpose of making something like hot chocolate, usually came in a brick and you had to shave off bits of it and mix it in. No fancy powders in 1790!
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Baby François! In the Napoléon sequel, François seems to mostly take after Rosalie in terms of hair/eye color. Babies usually start with blue eyes and then over the course of around six months to a year (and sometimes up to three years), they change into what will end up being their final color.
Baby hair also mostly falls out and is replaced by more permanent hair and sometimes when this happens the color changes, too.
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If you remember from Say It’s Possible (and the canon!), promotion in the military requiring your family to have held noble rank for x amount of years was something that had a lot of people very angry before the start of the French Revolution, and was, in fact, one of the reasons the French Guards were brought over so easily to the side of the people.
Reversing this change is a pretty big deal and would actually allow for Alain to get promoted, now.
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FESTIVAL TIME! Riverhill House does employ a good number of gardeners, and of course they have Mr. Shepherd as the groundskeeper/one leading them all, but it is a rather large estate and fairly constant work throughout the spring/summer/fall to maintain, especially in light of always adding to the gardens and redoing things.
One fun, cost-effective way is to employ the townsfolk and turn it into a party, where everyone comes together to handle the work with a barn-raising mentality. At Riverhill House, though, it’s not about “community” for the town so much as it is about partying and getting paid for very limited work.
Sending townsfolks through the gardens to pull out all the grass and other weeds and turning it into a contest may be genius. It’s fun and kind of low-stakes, and come June, most of the weeds are a lot easier to spot (compared to earlier in the year where you’d probably have a lot more people pulling up plants by mistake). I like to imagine the gardeners are out and about kind of helping to keep an eye on things to prevent mistakes, but still.
Anyway, plenty of people don’t participate which is what makes it fun.
Scything to keep the grass short is of course how people “mowed” lawns before easier methods existed, and to be frank someone who is really good at scything can be quite quick and efficient at it. Obviously they leave this one lawn alone for the sake of the festival, and use the cleared space to then host the games for the children, so it’s okay if it doesn’t look the best. It’s also out of the way of the rest of the party; I was picturing it being in the area below on the property (in purple).
In teal is the "west" lawn where they eat lunch.
Also, here’s a video of someone scything. It’s very satisfying to watch.
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André’s déjà vu is from the end of Chapter 6 of Say It’s Possible. I thought it would be fun to kind of show (much, much later, of course) some of his perspective for that.
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Next week André and Andrew go with Mr. Campbell to the horse sale, and Oscar has to deal with being away from him overnight. Hope to see you guys there! <3
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