j'sais pas si je t'aime...

Dan O'Herlihy as Michel Ney ☆ Waterloo (1970)

Happy birthday doodle for smellington— I hope he enjoys NAPOLEON cake for his very not NAPOLEON THEMED BIRTHDAY

Because he HATESNAPOLEON

NAPOLÈON’S FAREWELL TO JOSÉPHINE

BY LOUIS MARIE BAADER

Bonaparte at Arcole, 1796, 1896 by M. Haider

"Napoleon arrived at the bridge at Arcole just as Augereau’s attempt to capture it had been beaten off. He ordered another attack, which stalled under heavy fire. Augereau then seized a flag and walked out fifteen paces in front of his skirmishers, saying, ‘Grenadiers, come and seek your colour.’ At that point Napoleon, surrounded by his aides-de-camp and bodyguard, grasped another flag and led the charge himself, haranguing the troops about their heroism at Lodi. For all his statements to the Directory two days earlier about not exposing himself to danger, he certainly did at Arcole. Yet it failed – the men displayed ‘extraordinary cowardice’ according to Sulkowski – and they didn’t rush the body-strewn bridge, although his aide-de-camp Colonel Muiron and others were killed on it at Napoleon’s side." [Robert's Napoleon: A life]

Le Maréchal Ney faisant le coup de feu by Victor Huen, 1910 (Marshal Ney giving the order to fire)

last song listened to: rhiannon, but the reverb

favorite color: red, pink.

currently watching: I don't really watch TV all that much but i am watching a survival show called extracted which is ridiculous. and i'm doing some old anime rewatches!

currently reading: i've been so busy i haven't had a chance to read lately, but the last book i seriously picked up was, 'death comes to the archbishop'. i also was reading a biography on thomas cromwell and stephen gardiner some time ago. i need to pick both of those back up.

current obsession: tudor history of course, but also medieval/medieval fantasy.

currently working on: whew, i finished a 100k+ novel a while back, a tudor novel, and i've been editing and proofreading it. i'm also working on a series of short stories--one of them being inspired off of the hunch back of notre dame and the VVITCH. also drawing some original characters for a high fantasy novel im writing-or drafting.

last google search: byzantium fashion, specifically for women. and medieval headc overings.

tagging: @freakshaped @elizabethboleyn @arthurmorganist @venuscrows @devonaoski @austin--friars @no1-angel and anyone else who might need to do this as well

Last song listened to: This. OK, technically not a song, I suppose, but it's the last thing I listened to which wasn't purely instrumental!

Favourite colour: A really deep red. Venous blood red.

Currently watching: Nothing! Too busy writing and reading (when health stuff allows), and I don't watch much TV anyway.

Currently reading: Still on The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White.

Current obsession: Whether I might be able to get back to playing tenor viol because I miss it terribly, hence all the violposting, and The Terror.

Currently working on: A Terror fanfic. First fanfic I'll have ever written in my life, I feel I deserve some fun as I've had a tough time recently. While that's being finished off, I've paused a short story which starts with the last recorded execution for sex (not involving violence) between men in France (Diot and Lenoir, Paris, 1750).

Last Google search: Current score in the England v. Japan friendly (at time of typing, Japan are leading 1-0).

last song listened to: le petit bonhomme orange by cyril cyril & syndicat du futur. i heard it on the radio about a week ago and it's been stuck in my head ever since...

favorite color: a muted dark green... forest green, maybe?

currently watching: the terror!! (i'm about 15 minutes into episode 4... crozier is regretting his life choices)

currently reading: plutarch's parallel lives (currently on nicias), and pride and prejudice

current obsession: the french revolution of course, though the terror/the lost franklin expedition has potential...

currently working on: a 2000 word essay on the classical influences on saint-just's rhetoric, emotions, and relationships (draft 1 is done, yay! 2000 words is nothing i've had to cut so much out Imao), and the final edits to my epq/extended project qualification, which is a play about thermidor (but it's a modernised satire), plus a 70+ slide powerpoint with research, experiments, the writing process, all my justifications, etc... i think the powerpoint has about 28,000 words worth of text on it...? the play will be shared on here once the project is marked 💀

last google search: jacques louis david patroclus 😭

Last song listened: Bloodsucker by Paralysed Age

Favourite colour: Dark red

Currently watching: “Objectivity in Mathematics” by Penelope Maddy in YouTube.

Currently reading: I have a lot to read these days so: Symbolic Logic by Walter Redmond, The joy of abstraction by Eugenia Cheng, and What is democracy? by Giovanni Satori.

Current obsession: French Revolution, economics, political philosophy and logic.

Currently working on a: A lot: an article about suicide, an exposition about art in the French Revolution (in French), and a big essay about the Indian Culture and religion.

Last google search: “Artemis II launch” xD.

Tagging: @aedislumen @cherryinz @saintjustitude

Last song listened: Of the machine by Shiv-R

Favourite colour: light blue/cyan

Currently watching: nothing at the moment.

Currently reading: Les dieux ont soif by Anatole France.

Current obsession: always the French Revolution... And nuclear physics; I'm loving that class!

Currently working on a: the reports of my lab experiences, my thesis and my exams. I would also like to go back writing posts here, but I'd like to

Last song listened: Claws by Kim Petras

Favourite color: Any highly saturated hues of pink💕

Currently watching: Waterloo by Sergej Bondarchuk (1970) (yep, doing a rewatch)

Currently reading: "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters (1914)

Current obsession: My usual hyperfixations take turns like in a factory. Napoleon, Dragon Ball, Winx, Mermaid Melody. Deep in nostalgia, aren't we?

Currently working on: Self-promotion and house-working, as always.

Last song listened: Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

Favourite color: Red

Currently watching: Rewatching Star Trek Deep Space nine.

Currently reading: Mehmed the Conqueror and his time by Franz Babinger and The Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy (audiobook version if that counts)

Current obsession: Napolèon/French Revolution(of course), Eastern Roman/Byzantine history sprinkled with a little ottoman.

Currently working on: Blogging and Working on my side hustle

Last song listened: Headfirst slide into Cooperstown on a bad bet by Fall Out Boy

Favourite color: Blue

Currently watching: It's always sunny

Current obsession: Napoleonic Wars (yes even 3 years later) and also travel apparently?!

Currently working on: getting my money up and going on more adventures

Tags: @dishwaterblonde15 @scourgiez @pompomshevik