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fictional character par napoleonic wars guerre napoleonienne marshal of france stylised art sketch for faedread maréchal sérault

gift for @faedread.art

i posted the timelapse for u in the discord... tysm 😭

fictional character par napoleonic wars guerre napoleonienne marshal of france stylised art sketch for faedread maréchal sérault

gift for @faedread.art

Character portrait of Sylvain de Chalais, a fictional Napoleonic général de brigade. White curling hair, pink complexion, blue-grey eyes, wearing the dark blue almost black frac uniform with gold oak-leaf embroidery at the cuffs and collar, gold epaulettes, sash, and the medal of the Légion d'honneur. His expression is quiet and observant. Hand holding a document. Set against a blue background with his name in cursive script above.

chef d'état-major du maréchal Fressange.
visual dev pour Achevé

There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary

the romans assessed sex by voice, skeleton, and temperament. the talmud had four categories where we have two.

then the enlightenment needed women excluded from citizenship and two thousand years of medicine got replaced by a checkbox. i wrote about what was lost.

sketch of napoleonic wars guerres napoléoniennes 18th 19th century fictional original character marshal of france maréchal sosthène fressange deadstar

fressange

Character portrait of Sylvain de Chalais, a fictional Napoleonic général de brigade. White curling hair, pink complexion, blue-grey eyes, wearing the dark blue almost black frac uniform with gold oak-leaf embroidery at the cuffs and collar, gold epaulettes, sash, and the medal of the Légion d'honneur. His expression is quiet and observant. Hand holding a document. Set against a blue background with his name in cursive script above.

chef d'état-major du maréchal Fressange.
visual dev pour Achevé

sketch of napoleonic wars guerres napoléoniennes 18th 19th century fictional original character marshal of france maréchal sosthène fressange deadstar

fressange

wonderful... thank you so much for the well wishes (and for enjoying!)

it's my birthday pls read my essays pretty please

The Homosexual Was Invented in 1869 From Plato's Symposium to the AIDS crisis: why your period drama keeps getting sexuality wrong, and how to fix it.

it's part 2 to the other heavily researched essay on historical sexuality. if you liked that one, you'll love the newest one.

There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary

the romans assessed sex by voice, skeleton, and temperament. the talmud had four categories where we have two.

then the enlightenment needed women excluded from citizenship and two thousand years of medicine got replaced by a checkbox. i wrote about what was lost.

i thought of you @garius.bsky.social because of your delightful contributions to the post when i made it. you would gawp at the things this tumblr claimed. just a horrendous misreading of the time.

i am literally writing a novel in french about a fictional napoleonic marshal but sure, correct my joke caption. this is why people don't engage with history online. the first thing that happens is someone shows up to perform expertise at you for having fun.

she also cited the prussians lancing retreating french at waterloo as a breach of military etiquette. cavalry pursuit of a broken army was standard doctrine. gneisenau ordered it personally. that's not a war crime, that's what cavalry is for.

she demanded i produce a source where napoleon personally ordered wellington killed. friend. that's what war is. when you send 65,000 men under masséna to drive the british into the sea, that IS the order. by her logic lincoln never tried to kill lee either.

drew napoleon and wellington. captioned it "two short kings who spent fifteen years trying to kill each other and accidentally invented the modern world." someone wrote me three paragraphs about how this was historically inaccurate. it was a joke caption on a drawing.

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wrote the companion to the homosexual essay. this one's about sex—not sexuality, sex. how the ancient world determined male and female, and why the binary was invented in the 1700s for unscientific reasons. drops tuesday. if the last one made you rethink your period fiction, this one's worse.

aeldari corsair prince OC warhammer 40k for Tijs

commission for tijs

Why Flat Characters Come From Flat People The interiority problem in contemporary fiction—and the writers who can't solve it

waddup i missed my acupuncture appointment today daddy is tense

anyway here's this week's essay that i'm rather proud of

Why Flat Characters Come From Flat People The interiority problem in contemporary fiction—and the writers who can't solve it

waddup i missed my acupuncture appointment today daddy is tense

anyway here's this week's essay that i'm rather proud of

While staying with my Mum in New England I got to experience missing an acupuncture appointment to look handsome and muscular digging my car out of 1 and 1/2 ft of snow, getting it stuck and then having to dig more.

Character reference sheet for Maréchal Sosthène Fressange, a fictional Napoleonic marshal. Three views: profile in bicorne with white plumes, front view showing the red grand cordon of the Légion d'honneur across dark blue coat with gold oak-leaf embroidery, and back view displaying elaborate gold braiding down the spine. Grey-eyed, dark hair silvering at the temples, sharp-featured. French quote on right reads: "She grows roses. The old strain. The ones that bow their heads. I thought them ashamed, once. Now I think they are simply tired of being looked at."

maréchal sosthène fressange🌹

Who is your favorite of Napoleon's original 18 Marshalls of the Empire and why is it Michel Ney?

that's the attitude that enables improvement. the initial sting means it matters to you—if it didn't, you'd have perhaps not read. that friction is the driver. the fact that you reflected and saw a summit instead of an attack says a lot about you as a writer. and so... climb well. ❤️‍🔥

mary renault is probably closest to what you're after. the charioteer, the alexander trilogy.

otherwise ao3 will serve you better than published fiction for that specific want—tag system lets you filter for exactly what you're looking for.

the "peeking behind the curtain" you want is a modern desire. the period-accurate version is the curtain—the public devotion, the visible inseparability. what happened behind closed doors stayed there, and the narrative respect for that privacy is part of the accuracy.

yes they do. good instinct.

but you're doing it again—"identified as gay" is the framework. achilles and patroclus in the iliad just are what they are. homer doesn't explain it. song of achilles is modern and does add interiority, but miller keeps it relatively unlabeled if i recall.

exactly...and that's not your fault, it's the limitation of the language we've inherited. "show me gay romance" is five syllables. "show me intense devoted inseparable particular friendships that never name themselves" doesn't fit in a search bar. the categories shape what we can even ask for.