#meera.rambles

[meerawrites]

Thinking about the fact several French provinces immediately outside of Paris to Lyon and the Auvergne eventually got tired of the revolution thing as soon as the factionalism which was probably inevitable and politically motivated guillotining was in the child steps. Maximilien Robespierre, I respect some of your ideas but how does your faction (the Jacobins and the enraged) manage to get both the Auvergne and Lyon to relapse into Catholicism and start an armed revolt against your already violent revolution.

(Tag yourself: I am Actual Historian, I am just here doing novel research.)

[queerquaintrelle]

If I could change one thing in TURN…

“Even though it was you who lied about who you were, you still don’t know who I am.” / “Thieves, soldiers, continental militia, they’re all the same…” - Sarah Livingston, TURN

“You’re a Tory…”

“And you’re a traitor.”

- TURN

If I could change one thing in TURN: Sarah Livingston wouldn’t die tragically and wouldn’t be utilized for Benjamin Tallmadge’s ‘man pain.’

Disclaimer: I love Benjamin Tallmadge, I’m just sincerely tired of not male characters being defined by their relationship(s) of any sort but especially to men and being played down as ‘docile’ or ‘helpless’. #Mencanstillgetawaywithalot

I really don’t need to explain this and I’m fully aware Sarah is a minor character in the show TURN. However! Given Elizabeth Blackmore and Seth Numrich’s both extensive acting careers, credits and works, I simply wish that Sarah didn’t didn’t die. I believe as Benjamin is our primary (anti) hero, he is naturally in need of a foil and I do love the culper ring, Abraham and Anna, but I don’t see them as narrative foils. They have too much in common.

Plus, at minimum through implication Sarah Livingston isn’t well-to-do and she’s a widow. Something often erased (just like Abigail aka Abby) in period dramas and I think it’d have been a great opportunity to expand upon how even with good intentions (Benjamin) there are no real “heroes” in history, or revolution(s) merely winners and losers.

This will definitely result in more essaying and more editing, RPing and fan fiction writing, but, for now, I’ll leave it at Sarah Livingston deserved better and more.

For though I love Benjamin Tallmadge, dearest cavalry lad, the world and revolutions don’t revolve solely around him.

[meerawrites]

The vampire Remmick would be so proud of the IRA and the current day country of Ireland by the way if anyone cares — if him dying for the second time was not necessary to the plot of the movie Sinners 2025, also he had a thing for Bonnie Prince Charlie and had a justified mental breakdown after Culloden assuming he is that old also assuming he was around for it he was definitely a Jacobite cause even though Outlander (all media) neglects to bring it up substantially a lot of Jacobites were Irish cause 800 years of being colonized by England and still fighting them is no joke and cause the most incompetent king in English history was not George III (unless you buy into the American exceptionalism ) but his father George II of Hanover. As a South Asian individual I personally save my vitriol for the officers who profiteered from and co signed the colonialism cause they could not the mentally ill man of early 20 in England who did not want his job in the first place and Queen Victoria cause screw that one in particular (negative connotation). Also, George III at least abolished slavery in England 10 years after [Upper] Canada did in 1820 so there is that.

[meerawrites]

Yet more books I hope to read in 2026.

Tagged by: @clove-pinks (thanks!)

Tagging: @fishalthor, @oopsallvampires, @vampirepyramidscheme & @elephantlovemedleys (if you want <3)

[meerawrites]

Read queer all year trope(s) game

💙 Your favourite queer book couple: everything is bisexual4bisexual if you are not a coward, preferably in many directions and contained by many descriptors or disregarding those mortal trifles, but... Ellaria Sand/Oberyn Martell (A Song of Ice and Fire books) < the only remotely 'aspirational in reality' couple here, Lestat/people who make him cry, especially women, and also Nicolas and Louis in a tie that will never be broken, and Rowan/Michael (The Lives of the Mayfair Witches).

💚 a swoon-worthy queer romance you couldn't put down: A Flame In the Night and Providence Girls by @ghostpoetics.

💛 a queer enemies-to-lovers romance you adored: Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (if you understand that subtext is still definitely text), and Bury Our Bones in The Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab.

🧡 a queer book with a stunning cover: The Witching Hour (1990 cover) by Anne Rice, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995 cover) by Gregory Maguire.

❤️ a queer book that stuck with you: The Vampire Lestat (1988), Frankenstein (1818), Fledgling (2005), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), la philosophie dans le Boudoir (1795), Juliette (1797), Disobedience (2006) by Naomi Alderman, unfortunately... The Picture of Dorian Gray (1892, uncensored).

💜 your go-to author for queer books: n/a, unless you mean well-known people, then Anne Rice/A.N. Roquelaure, Jewelle Gomez, Ursula K. le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Gregory Maguire.

🌈 recommend a queer book: Captive Prince.

Tagged by: @battyaboutbooksreviews (thanks!)

Tagging: @oopsallvampires, @rosalinecapulet, @monstersinthecosmos, @malicious-compliance-esq, @thelightfluxtastic, @herrshepard, @lesbian-scully, @xxgothchatonxx and @voicestm (cause I said so/if you want.)

[meerawrites]

6 books I want to read/finish in 2026

Tagged by: @oopsallvampires (thank you!)

Tagging: @fishalthor, @vampirepyramidscheme, @personelleblog, @battyaboutbooksreviews, @elisaintime, @musicboxmemories, @elrondsscribe, @itwasanangryinch, @ghostpoetics, @writerman, @bronzeriot, @zaegreus, @luthientinuvielss, @hekateinhell, @melusinasiren90, @slothroleplays, and @voicestm (if you want.)

Yes, Lasher and Taltos are rereads because I am a completionist when applicable, which is more often than you'd think.

[meerawrites]

Getting to know my mutuals

favorite color: unironically so many shades of purple, blue and pink are here because I look good in them, the shade of green that is so green it's beyond emerald and also frequently associated with the characters who are thespians and/or antagonists, lavender, and also the shade of green in the genderqueer flag.

last song I listened to:

Currently Reading: The Witching Hour (1990) by Anne Rice <- reread, The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter (1978) <- highlighting and note taking this time.

currently watching: so, I am not great at the tv show thing at least not the same way I read. Regurlarly recently, Versailles and TURN <- rewatch.

coffee or tea: all of the above, but tea is better.

tagged by: @emmaalovesbooks & @emeldiir (thanks).

tagging: @fishalthor, @personelleblog, @oopsallvampires, @melusinasiren90, @musicboxmemories, @hekateinhell, @monstersinthecosmos, @malicious-compliance-esq, @monarchyofdesires, @voicestm, @missbellesmagic, @slaymaster-general and @savagewilderness (if you want).

[meerawrites]

Link.

Tagged by: myself. (I stole this from an Instagram chat I am in titled: bi disaster support group, if you must know).

Tagging: @oopsallvampires @foolishfop @the-problematic-trolley @itwasanangryinch @xxgothchatonxx @thelightfluxtastic @clove-pinks @iamthemaestro @malicious-compliance-esq @vampirepyramidscheme @selkiewife @ladyimaginarium @mxjackparker @pettyshippen @tricornonthecob @unwanted-animal @im-not-good-with-names and @ollieoliveoboelo22 ~ if you want. <3

To be clear, I am not driving, that said, get in the car we are throwing bricks at government(s), cause I will not justify killing even when not real and hot vampires. Cause too many people say stuff without meaning it and it is unsettling, however, it is the only middle way I can think of to fix… too many problems right now.