Unrequited

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

Holy moly, peak mentioned!

Hallo @creativitycache - you wanted a source on Code Name: Noisy Bitch. Paul Spalding relates the story in “Lafayette: Prisoner of State”. There aren’t really any more details beyond what I’ve included in my post, but Spalding cites a letter from Adrienne to Pillett dated 22 June 1796 - box 100/10, Arthur H and Mary Marsden Dean Lafayette Collection, Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A Kroch Library, Cornell University Spalding’s book is well sourced and rich in materials, many of which I suspect haven’t been translated before. Anyone who reads it who isn’t already in awed love of Adrienne will be by the time they finish, and Gilbert charms and inspires all over again. He even goes around winning over some of his gaolers, like the Commandant of Neisse, where he was imprisoned before Olmütz. And at the end of the whole horrific ordeal, he bounces back - not unscathed (you couldn’t be after what he endured), but his dedication to liberty and freedom were, if anything, strengthened. 

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Dude freak yes!

What were the bowing customs of pre-Revolutionary France? Did they have to unlearn a whole complex hierarchy of who bows to whom and in what style and what depth? Were there awkward moments where you had to pretend to scratch your knee or something when you forgot the new customs and had to awkwardly abort midway through? Is there anyone else who thinks far too much about these minutiae or if my brain just getting lost alone in the weeds again?

Dude freak yes