#eximperial

I always felt that in order to get the truthful story, you needed to put together both of their pov of their relationship. I don’t doubt that Margaret would have died if Lydia hadn’t taken her in. HOWEVER, Lydia absolutely wrecked Margaret by pimping her out to men at the age of 10. Margaret has twisted it as kidnap in order to cope and get revenge. (1) (2) However, Lydia absolutely facilitated rape and absolutely should be blamed. The tragic thing in all of this is that Lydia thinks she did Margaret a service. It is strongly hinted at that Lydia had all of this done to her by her father, so she thinks she didn’t do anything wrong. And I don’t think anyone can convince her otherwise, which is really really sad.                           (3) It’s a blessing Margaret realized she was full of hate she needed to get rid of because it was destroying Lucy and Charlotte.

I disagree that Mags has twisted her history with Lydia into a story of kidnap; we know pretty clearly how Margaret wound up in Lydia’s house, from Margaret’s own mouth, and I see no evidence that it’s been distorted as a coping mechanism or as justification for revenge. Lydia may have doted on Margaret in some respects, but she neither “took her in” nor forcibly kidnapped her; she bought her. “My mother took me down St. Martin’s Lane. She’d spent every last farthing on her gin, the slut, and she was a bunter; no one’d go near her. She sold me to a bawd for a pair of shoes. I was ten. ... [Mrs. Quigley] dressed me warm, she gave me a full meal. She said if I pleased her gentlemen, I’d be her own sweet girl.” (1.01)

Blame is justifiably laid at Quigley’s door for how Margaret’s life has turned out, and how that’s trickled down to Charlotte and Lucy, but I don’t think Margaret has edited her memory of the circumstances. She knows she was sold to Lydia, and she knows of other girls whom Lydia did overtly kidnap through drugs / trickery / etc., and she hates Lydia for all of this, rightfully so.

But I do completely agree that Lydia legitimately believes that she’s done Margaret (and other girls, like Abigail Warren) a favor by forcing them into this business regardless of their age or will. It’s incredible how deeply she’s internalized this belief, and yeah, I think it stems from abuse at the hands of her father. “I thank him every day for the knowledge that he gave me. He taught me that love is strongest when it’s cruel. He gave me fortitude. I’ve given that legacy to all my girls. It’s the lesson I was teaching you.” (2.06)

Ah! Firstly, thank you for sending these; I’m really glad to see my posts about Connor getting attention, since he needs way more love from the fandom!

People accuse Connor of being boring or stoic and honestly he didn’t really come off as THAT stoic; he’s calm and exercises a lot of self-control, but it felt to me that he’s just very reserved around people he doesn’t know. Notice how much he opens up around the people of the homestead, who he’s a LOT more comfortable with.

Connor definitely seems to be to be suffering with bad PTSD; a clever detail with Connor constantly flinching away from open fire. In the end, I think that his grudge with Lee is based partly on personal vengeance, a debt to pay on behalf of his mother. At this point, he seems to have given up largely on America (though he, as far as what I know about Forsaken goes), remains optimistic that it might develop into something that befits the ideas he found so appealing, so its not that ideological anymore. It doesn’t help that, with Lee dead, Connor is a bit lost until he apparently seizes on the idea of building up the Brotherhood?

mentioned you on a post “I wasn’t going post this but someone convinced me i should. I was just...”

@amaatiart​ Maaan now I want to know what you think is going on in this picture XDDDD.

Not a lot of historians seem point out that Thomas Culpepper was a monster as well.

(1)As much as I liked the general sentiment, and how it is technically, very true....that means we haven't been American as a collective whole. Perhaps never. Roosevelt didn't do jack shit about the Holocaust until Jewish members of his own cabinet threatened to quit. They were also near tears when telling him this. And then, he lets in a small, small amount of refugees. ...(2) To be fair, bombing the concentration camps would have been disastrous (and would have killed the innocents that would have been saved otherwise), but there should have been hundreds of refugee camps spread across the country. There was only one. I know because I live 40-45 minutes away from it.  (3) When our founding fathers were writing out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, their primary thoughts were about protecting white, land owning men- mostly christian. It is only through the evolution of the human thought over the past 241 years that there are people who now see America as a place where people should live lives of human dignity (And the specifics of what that implies), regardless of sex, gender, class, and religion.

The divide over the issue of slavery to begin with in the Declaration, it’s outcome is what setup the rest, to be sure. And I know, I did a report about the bullshit administration and how he turned away a boat load of Jews. I know the comments he made about how there being less Jews in the world wouldn’t hurt anyone. And nor would I suggest that bombing the camps would have been the thing to do. Have you read In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin? It details the experience of William E. Dodd who became America's first ambassador to Hitler's Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. It includes his telling the US government of the rising violence and anti-Semetism, as well as how it was received by Roosevelt. It’s an amazing read, if not enraging at times because people were so casually anti-Semetic.

To me, as I interpreted the tweet, I believed it meant the people who believe the racist, anti-Semetic, Islamophobic bullshit that’s being pedaled. Also: Anyone who proudly served in the regime of Hitler and was brought over to our country and given new identities. When I think about the crimes we ignored because some men could help us sickens me. And I hate that my country overlooked so much deplorable behaviour, and the people who overlook it, or ignore it.