#sydneyflapper

[pilferingapples]

@sydneyflapper replied to your photo:edwarddespard: A caricature from 1833 in La...

It think it’s a fairly broad brimmed, comparatively low crowned top hat that comes across as a bit more contemporary!

wow--it really really looks like a cowboy hat! XD Maybe some kind of riding top hat?? did those exist?

[sydneyflapper]

Winter Art Deco in Napier

[oilan]

sydneyflapper replied to your photo: “Not all of them survived, but my friends and I made some macarons!”:

They look YUM! I was given some by laduree on Christmas Day by my brother and sister in law - perfect! Are they caramel?

Haha they are just plain, but we filled them with nutella, apricot preserves, and lemon curd! 

[tenlittlebullets]

sydneyflapper replied to your post: You just hang out in an Enjolras vest when you're at home I don't know why my headcanon is usually you chilling behind the computer in jammie pants and a full xylophone vest

Personally my jammie pants have Eiffel towers on them, as my mother loves to give them to me. I’d love phrygian caps myself as a chance from the hearts and poodles.

My actual current jammie pants are boring--purple with snowflakes on them--but hey, if anyone knows a source for real Phrygian cap jammies I'd totally buy them for the lulz.

[ellevante]

sydneyflapper replied to your photo: I’m gettin a haircut on friday„just in time 4...

Bobs FTW.

Yes!!  Last spring, I got it cut really short (chin-length) and I miss the carefree feeling that it had, if that makes any sense.  I think I might feel "classier" when I get rid of all this extra baggage aha

[bunniesandbeheadings]

The full extent of Ribbe's assertions on the atrocities in Haiti is controversial, btw, but even at its "mildest" (i.e. his order to kill the men above 12 years of age), it's still an atrocity. Napoleon is not entirely evil - his contribution to the development of legal codes, for example, is admirable - but it is hypocritical to condemn Robespierre for his supposed atrocities while praising Napoleon and ignoring the atrocities that can be laid at his door.

For example - the massacre at Jaffa. Napoleon’s own private secretary, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, wrote of the thousands Napoleon had slain, saying “This atrocious scene, when I think of it, still makes me shudder, as it did on the day I beheld it; and I would wish it were possible for me to forget it, rather than be compelled to describe it. All the horrors imagination can conceive, relative to that day of blood, would fall short of the reality.” And that was a pro-Napoleonic source

I’m posting these for future reference. Apparently, another Napoleonic enthusiast has cast doubts on the validity of Ribbe’s work —- I’m unfamiliar with this area of historiography, so I can’t say until I start poking around for myself, but again: I’m taking note. Thank you everyone for the help! 

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Anyone who exults the legacy of Napoleon should read the work of Claude Ribbe and his research into the man he describes as the first in history who 'asked himself rationally the question how to eliminate, in as short a time as possible, and with a minimum of cost and personnel, a maximum of people described as scientifically inferior'. That "tyrant" Robespierre vehemently supported abolishing slavery - Napoleon not only reinstated it, he made conditions worse for PoC.

[laissezferre]

sydneyflapper replied to your post: sydneyflapper replied to your post: but wait is...

My professional occupation involves history and its interpretation…but, of course, my views on the Revolution entirely rely on Enjolras’ hotness… (Snort)

exactly, it undermines fandom's intellectual capabilities and not to mention taste. when i saw that, i couldn't even begin to entertain the arguments presented.