History Rocks

Anastasia. 25 years old. Russian. She/her. Current interests are: Frev, Napoleonic era, Vlad Dracula of Wallachia, History, Japanese culture, mythology and literature. Heteroromantic asexual. Currently studying abroad. Nice to meet you!

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Frev Prompts Masterpost:

Part 1:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/658720753246748672/here-are-some-frev-related-prompts-enjoy

Part 2:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/658752358314098688/more-frev-prompts-6a-child-of-a-future

Part 3:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/658897314524577792/frev-prompts-part-3-enjoy-13-a-young-female

Part 4:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/659046245869993984/frev-prompts-part-4-21-the-protagonist-is-a

Part 5:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/659249523133218816/frev-writing-prompts-part-5-seriously-i-have-no

Part 6:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/659516646493405184/writing-prompts-part-6-apparently-my-brain

Part 7:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/659858959720644608/frev-prompts-part-7-61-a-reimagining-of

Part 8:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/663137299344818176/frev-prompts-part-8-thats-right-im-not-done

Part 9:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/666303448619384832/frev-prompts-part-9-im-back-with-some

Part 10:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/666463508797505536/frev-prompts-part-10-yay-its-an-anniversary

Part 11:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/666585973850849280/frev-prompts-part-11-its-halloween-edition-so

Part 12:

https://usergreenpixel.tumblr.com/post/668405170593464320/frev-prompts-part-12-were-officially-reaching

Don’t hesitate to tell me which prompts you want to choose and ask for help and/or ideas!

Good luck! 🍀 🤗

My Fics Masterpost:

A Light in the Storm ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

The Grim Game (Part 1)

[mozslvt]

I REALLY need somebody to yap to me about saintspierre. I know a lot about the frev but I don't know much about Robespierre and Saint-Just's relationship and I NEED to know more it is eating me alive

[stalinistqueens]

@sieclesetcieux has a lot of relevant information :D

eta: also there’s a bunch of stuff @saintjustitude has. ^^;

[saintjustitude]

Hiiii here's my most recent compilation of posts on the topic.

And here's more I wrote recently so they're not linked there:

Two First-Hand Testimonies on the Intimacy Between Robespierre and Saint-Just

A Few Historians and Other Writers On Robespierre and Saint-Just's Relationship

Why projecting a father/son dynamic on them is antiethical to their politics, personalities and identities

Analysis of the queerness of the fragments "On Affections" from Saint-Just's Institutions républicaines

Saintspierre, queer erasure and homophobia

Digression from this post on homosociality and homosexuality in the late 18th century

...I should probably make one masterpost or something.

ETA: one of the links was wrong.

[mozslvt]

THANK YOU SO MUCH?!?!?! I LOVE YOU!?!?

[saintjustitude]

If you have questions, feel free to ask! ^_^

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@mozslvt I recommend watching La Terreur et La Vertu for a good (and not demonized) representation of their closeness in pop culture. It’s not explicitly stated if they’re only platonic or an item (and unfortunately many fictional pieces that portray them as a couple demonize them…), but I think it’s worth checking out! Sorry I can’t contribute much to the history side of things because that’s where @saintjustitude shines while my specialty is reviewing fiction 😂

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3, 9 and 10 for the ask game.

Thank you.

Hey!

3. My mother’s upcoming birthday. She’s turning 50.

9. Favorite time of day is probably early evening. It’s a bit less hot in my area at that time, the beach is less crowded and the sea has had time to warm up. Plus, sunsets are gorgeous!

10. Okay, I don’t really FOLLOW a sport. Not my thing really. But I played badminton as a kid and now I’m into kendo (a martial art involving fencing with bamboo swords and in armor), long walks and occasional axe throwing at a range.

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Hello my dear heart!

For the ask thingy you reblogged, 1, 3 and 20, pls?

Hope you're having a great day <3

Thanks, Amy!!!

1. So my username comes from the color green (my favorite) and the fact that I thought Green Pixel sounded nice. Simple as that 😂

3. I think I look forward to my mother’s birthday in June the most. It will involve going to Russia and I DO NOT look forward to that, but the quality time is worth it.

20. It sounds really boring, but sometimes I wish people asked me how I was doing 😂 But I think many people could use more reaching out.

[sesamie]

simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

What's your blog title from?

What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

what are you looking forward to right now?

if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)

What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

favorite month of the year and why?

favorite time of day and why?

do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

dishes or laundry?

what's something you learned recently?

if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

Write, type, or speak?

what do you wish someone would ask you?

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🍐🍓🧅 :3

🤣 Дякую. Ти теж 🫵

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🥥🥑

Which toast? I can make French toast!

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🍍 🍐

Oh… 😳

Thanks. I’m not always soft in reviews tho 🤣

[mistchievous]

Fruits & Vegetables Ask Game

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[lionofchaeronea]

Ask away if you feel so moved.

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

Indeed - send me your edible emojis!

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Me too!!!

[northirish]

I WANT A SWORD

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

I WANT A MUSKET

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I WANT A CROSSBOW! 🤣

[bonebeautyart]

Anatole Levandovski, Le Chevalier de Saint-Just.

Source: Valerij SURKOV, Иллюстраторы – Савва и Александр БРОДСКИЕ «Кавалер Сен-Жюст», 2013.

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Fun fact! Levandovski actually wrote some fiction about Frev too! Unfortunately, it’s all in Russian (I’m not sure if there is a translation out there). But that’s my native language so I’m definitely filing it in the “to review” section! @saintjustitude , he portrays SJ and Robespierre with a homoerotic (intentionally or not, I don’t know) subtext! But it’s Soviet media so they aren’t the bad guys!

Special thanks to @on-holidays-by-mistake for telling me that Levandovski wrote fiction too because I thought he was only the author of published history works.

[saintjustitude]

Oooh. Interesting!

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He wrote one novel about Marat in particular, one that has Marat, Danton and Robespierre as main characters… One about Babeuf too. @aedislumen @18thcenturythirsttrap , forgot to tag you guys 🤣 Sorry

[bonebeautyart]

Anatole Levandovski, Le Chevalier de Saint-Just.

Source: Valerij SURKOV, Иллюстраторы – Савва и Александр БРОДСКИЕ «Кавалер Сен-Жюст», 2013.

[usergreenpixel]

Fun fact! Levandovski actually wrote some fiction about Frev too! Unfortunately, it’s all in Russian (I’m not sure if there is a translation out there). But that’s my native language so I’m definitely filing it in the “to review” section! @saintjustitude , he portrays SJ and Robespierre with a homoerotic (intentionally or not, I don’t know) subtext! But it’s Soviet media so they aren’t the bad guys!

Special thanks to @on-holidays-by-mistake for telling me that Levandovski wrote fiction too because I thought he was only the author of published history works.

[saint-jussy]

I am so fascinated by the subtle difference in Andrzej Seweryn’s performance in the English versus the French versions of Thermidor in LRF. In the English version, he seems a lot more dignified. He reacts with just frustration and shock and never looks like he’s about to cry. His voice never breaks. Meanwhile in the French version he was a hot mess here. The difference is small but it does affect the way his character is perceived.

My theory is that they filmed the English version first and by the time they got to the French takes Andrzej was full on losing it LOL

[usergreenpixel]

I’ve never actually seen the English version! Interesting! It could be various takes as someone else already mentioned (former theater kid here, I remember doing several takes and trying different approaches), but I wonder if mentality differences and/or Frev perception differences also play a role?

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[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[usergreenpixel]

Great advice in general. GenAI is definitely extremely unethical (scraping data often without permission to train the models and wasting energy on the data centers), but critical thinking is definitely something that needs to be kept in mind in general. Though, in the age of AI, it’s ESPECIALLY important specifically because it’s designed to placate the user. That’s why it hallucinates, I think, and I don’t think you need me to explain why that sycophantic approach can get super dangerous super quick, even if it doesn’t drive the user to death or injury.

[mk-58]

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I like your reblogs of cute animals and the adorable tags when you reblog Frev art!!!

[trobeds]

mutuals send me a 💌 and ill tell u something i love about you