#good even!

[seek--rest]

you think the stranger things finale was bad because your delusional fandom theories and ships weren’t made canon. I think the stranger things finale was bad because it was overly long after a badly paced broken up season and bad writing. we are not the same.

[greenlikethesea]

been somewhat anxious since i've been away from rehearsals for midsummer for a while. but i came back yesterday and it was so fun. i'm one of the mechanicals and our director has given us permission to just do the Very Very Most. also i was talking about the pitt with two of the actors and the guy playing snug was like 'i've drawn robby/whitaker fanart if you'd like to see it' and reader, it was very good

[centrifuge-politics]

Brick Club 4.1.3

The Texas history jumped out, but tell me this guy doesn’t look exactly like the infamous Santa Anna. Another ill-received ruler of a country who, during the 1830s, presided over the massacre of a vastly outnumbered group of revolutionary fighters...hmmm, one wonders.

Louis Philippe is a good dude by every metric Hugo throws at him but there are some niggling indications that maybe he’s not suited for the role he finds himself in:

“ruled by the present interest, governing always by the nearest convenience”

“loving his country incontestably, but preferring his family”

“needing to see in order to judge”

“excelling in making of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas”

He’s smart, but he’s chronically unable to think of the big picture, he doesn’t see things in relation to each other. He only wants to sweat the details. He cares about the moment and doesn’t consider the fallout. Louis Philippe would make an excellent advisor or statesman, representing the concerns of a smaller group, a province perhaps, on a national level. His is a voice you would want to hear but probably not the sole person you want making decisions.

“Louis Philippe is 1830 made man,” except that things Hugo liked about 1830 he finds faulty in King Louis Philippe. Louis Philippe could have been great only “if he had had a little love of glory, and had appreciated what is great to the same extent he appreciated what is useful.” It’s pretty weird that the heart of Hugo’s judgement is that Louis Philippe wasn’t power hungry enough, that he was maybe too…mild. I get his point, that Louis Philippe was a ruler half-made, the sense of patriotic glory he need too often mediated by his mild temperament, but it’s a little unfair to say that Louis Philippe is the ruler 1830 deserved. We’ve already acknowledged that it wasn’t the Revolution that failed, it was the interference of the bourgeoisie that destroyed it. Did we want more glorious kings? No, we wanted a republic!

I’m actually inclined to agree with Hugo about Louis Philippe, but I think his critique rests on the flawed premise that Louis Philippe ought to have been a better King of France. That it all would have been okay if Louis Philippe had embraced the mantle of King of the French. Hugo seems a little eager to let him off the hook for the negative aspects of the July Monarchy. Sure, Louis Philippe was made a king when he should have been made a statesman, he was set up to fail form the very moment he was instated. The final revolution would have come around whether he had been a great king or not, but that doesn’t excuse the actions he took as king. You simply can’t separate the reign from the ruler.

Bonus, picture of Santa Anna for comparative purposes:

[dykeselfcest]

going back to work today....I should get to write fanfiction and watch movies at home forever and this should not negatively affect my physical or mental health

[shiroselia]

Expected news: Chapter Manda thought was kinda mid turns out to be perfectly fine, even good at times

[theaologies]

I feel about a fate inked in blood the same way I feel about all of Danielle L Jensen’s books: this is a good book, but what’s with the level of hype for it

[turtles-on-turts]

[grinding teeth] my art is fine my art is fine my art is fine