ma tête séparée repose sur toi ses yeux mourrants

stuck somewhere in 1794. (he/him, 25+) nazis/fasci/terfs, fuck off fuck off fuck off

[sans-culotte]

Hi, I'm a full-time administrator in non-profit organizations and student of law. Former student and teacher of econ & history. I'm happily married, queer, use he/him pronouns, and am in my late twenties. I am in fact an 18th century ghost in disguise.

Currently working as an independent researcher on a work entitled "Castles in the Air," abbreviated to CitA on this blog. Will soon start publishing more on the French Revolution & politics as well to this blog (and/or my substack!).

I created this blog mostly to yap about my projects - and an excuse to just talk anything 18th century. Feel free to talk to me, about your own projects/interests; my interests are diverse and I need no incentive to blab incessantly with kind strangers.

Nazis, fascists, terfs, and any of their like, are not welcome here. I use my block button freely.

[fluviusy]

“After a certain point in the negotiation, neither man could concede defeat or accept the humiliation of concession. The time for words, for arguments over syntax, was past.”

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg

Well I hope they didn’t, Happy 7/11

[doodledeposit]

"I have often and often… looked at that [sun] behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now at length I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting Sun." Happy 250 💕

[edithsweetithh]

in honor of america's 250th birthday approaching, here's your friendly reminder that this poem by emma lazarus (a jewish-american woman) is on a plaque attached to the statue of liberty:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[fluviusy]

“Aaron Burr was one of the most controversial men of his time, as renowned for wickedness in his later years as Washington always for probity or Jefferson for patriotic fervor.”

“Murderer of Alexander Hamilton, corrupt deal-maker in the election of 1800, and would-be emperor of the American West in the eyes of his peers, Burr had earned a reputation that even the most authentic evidence could not overcome.”

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne B. Freeman

Happy Independence Day to the Fallen Founder Aaron Burr.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

You know your historical topic really has its hooks in you when you're excited to find a box of receipts and expense reports.

[hisashiburine]

Omfg like why is he embarrassing

[amphibious-thing]

my toxic trait is referencing obscure history as tho thats a thing most people know

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

This should not surprise me and YET WHAT

[amphibious-thing]

I highly recommend reading them they're very interesting. You can read the first one Offences Against One's Self (1785) online. The later three Of Sexual Irregularities or Irregularities of the Sexual Appetite (1814), Sextus (1816) and Not Paul, But Jesus (1817/1818) were published in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality. I highly recommend reading them if you can get your hands on them. He argues that sodomy is pure good and thus sodomy laws are pure evil:

But if the act be pure good, punishment for whatsoever purpose, from whatsoever source, under whatsoever name, in which so ever shape and in whatsoever degree applied in consideration of it, will be not only evil, but so much pure evil.

~ Jeremy Bentham, Sextus (1816)

[romanceyourdemons]

an interesting thing about clothing in late medieval and early modern europe is that, while lower class people generally did wear brightly colored clothing instead of muddy brown clothes, there were very distinct differences in the color of clothing people of different classes wore. clothing was done with all natural dyes, of course, but they were either dyed locally with cheap and easily accessible ingredients, or they were dyed in holland, italy, the ottoman empire, or even further afield using a jealously guarded secret combination of difficult-to-access ingredients, including (crucially) better-quality fixatives. this means that not only did expensive imported fabrics maintain a dark, rich tone much longer than a locally dyed one, which would get a washed out look after a couple of years, but there were also certain colors that a working class farmer literally couldn’t afford to wear, and even though the difference between a cheap local lincoln green and an expensive imported popingay green might seem subtle to us people then seem to have been very sensitive to those differences. that’s also why the colors puritans tended to wear seem uncharacteristically bright to our modern eye—black was such a rich and expensive color that it would be inappropriate to wear to anything other than a portrait sitting, but the colors orange and kendall green were deeply humble in their origins

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

ever since i was a little girl i’ve had dreams of becoming an eccentric middle aged man

[m4nsch]

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

on this picture i drew Alexandr Andreevich Alexandrov - cavalry officer of the russian imperial army that participated in napoleonic wars. people persistently keep on misgendering mispronounsing deadnaming and calling him a crossdresser although alexandrov clearly stated that he didn't want to be called by his deadname and being treated like anything but a man. that's an interesting historical figure and i wanted to draw attention to his person. i can't tell everything about him in only one post so i recomend you to read about alexandrov by yourself

also be proud of yourself and remember that you're valid! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[lovetechnique]

mozart thee stallion

amadeus (1984) // kitty kat

[joboleninstan]

they actually make me so sad

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[revolutionarywig]

art collab with @xiorc-0714 ! I did the colouring on this one and they did the line art

Sorry that this took me forever to color thanks for the patience asfhj

[amphibious-thing]

the fact that people use the term “problematic” to describe both fiction that’s bigoted, fiction that’s made by someone who’s done/said something horrible and fiction that simply includes dark themes is really annoying actually

[sans-culotte]

don't leave these in the tags OP

[edgysaintjust]

French Revolution in five words

[reggiespoon]