an homage to those damn revolutionaries

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

#admittedly the depiction of the uprising as a bacchanal somewhat undermines the seriousness of the actual revolutionaries' convictions#but I think it is an interesting addition to the apollo/dionysus thing the fandom has going on#also take it from someone who had a wonderful time in an actual production of the bacchae...the dionysian ritual is a play too :)#there's an essay in here about public spectacle in the 1830s#the theatre/opera (Heine's “Robert le Diable” reference from the same column)#and neoclassical allusions in Les Miserables#maybe even something about apollo god of plague and dionysus god of mass movements#unfortunately that essay requires someone who reads more french than me to author it (OP's tags)

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

Her name was Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi btw! She’s a Catholic saint :-)

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

also fun fact that vietnam war ended in 1975 that was only 44 years ago i don’t care how hard it was for us veterans to kill people. two millions poor people died in that war, thousands of children are still born with tremendous health problems due to the effect of chemical bombings (the orange agent to be specific) i’m tired of hollywood making movies about the vietnam war and focus on how brave white people are for killing n terrorizing us

not to mention there are still around 80 million unexploded bombs in Laos alone which is making farmers afraid to work their land, keeping the country as one as the poorest in the world. 50 000 people have been killed by unexploded bombs in Laos since the end of the war, 75% of whom were children

more bombs were dropped on Vietnam than the entirety of World War 2. it wasn’t even really a war as much as a genocide and planned environmental catastrophe with napalm, bombs, agent orange, etc.