The Jacobins are Back — and They're Demanding Receipts #milowinter #ageofscorpius #internationallaw #schengen #thefinalcountdown Désolé, Angleterre -- you let yourself out. Author's Note: After that last post, Saint-Just demanded an encore. And he wasn't going to shut up about it until I gave the lectern back to him. As always, any resemblance to actual Dead Frenchmen is entirely intentional.

Fuck You, Jeff #kindle #kobo #ereaders #ai #amazon Murat the Colorsoft, Berthier the Matcha Basic, Lannes the SE Paperwhite - The Kindle Army before Enshittification Remember how I had a Kindle army to help handle my writing workflow? Yeaaaaah, about that ... I’ve had a Kindle since the first generation of them, with the keyboard and everything. I even posted on my Workflow article on how I utilize the most recent three I had.

When Your 1099-K Looks Like Charles II of Spain’s Family Tree #ageofscorpius #milowinter #asdtriggers I don’t even know what is happening here. I mean: Are there records of the refunds? Are the bookmarks tax deductible? If the dog travelled to Finland, were import fees filed? Import fees for renting a shipping container if the books were printed overseas? State taxes per book sold, customs documentation and fees for international shipments.

Birb. #birds #cockatiel

The One Good Thing Jeff Has Done #amazon #kindledirectpublishing #libraries #napoleonicwars Now you can request it at your local library! If you're in Amazon's publishing ecosystem, you might not be aware that Amazon relaxed its rules about distributing books listed in its Kindle Unlimited program to libraries, which you can do through Draft 2 Digital. Honestly, this might be the best thing they've done all year.

It's That Most Wonderful Time of the Year -- The Battle of Austerlitz #napoleonbonaparte #history #historicalreenactment Ugh. I'm so jelly.

Now the Jacobins are involved #milowinter #ageofscorpius #animalabuse #internationallaw Comité pour la Sécurité Canine versus Citoyen Winter and the status of Citoyenne Smidge Author's note: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just is here because it's more comfortable for me to latch onto a role for this, and Saint-Just brings the necessary energy. This is also not the first time I have deployed Saint-Just.

The Forgotten Victim in the Age of Scorpius Book Drama After finishing my long post about Winter, The Age of Scorpius, ASD, and assholes, I went through my usual nightly routine, and went to bed. In the middle of the night, my delayed cognitive processing lit up. Where is Winter's dog? A few years ago, Winter a.k.a. Milo Winter who used his pre-transition deadname on an infamous novel called…

Yeah, I said it -- This Autistic Is Done With Playing Nice If you're not familiar with the Age of Scorpius drama, let's just say it's epic. I'm not going to recap it, but there's plenty of information if you just look it up via the search engine of your choice. Or watch Meredith Novaco's video on it, which is an excellent dissection of the entire saga, or at least up until a month ago.

Still kicking, just quiet. I've been on a two-week road trip, largely incommunicado during that time (although I have managed to squeeze in some work that's now on my AO3 alt account QuillotineAndChill). Oh boy, I've got a lot on my plate, mostly finishing up a fic for r/fanfictionexchange's Winterfest event, as well as several essays I have percolating.

Sir, Why Are You Like This? Daily writing prompt If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why? View all responses Napoleon's Mean Girl: Jean- Baptiste Bessières, serving epaulettes and side-eye since Year VIII Anyone who's followed this blog, or my writing, or know my niche obsessions knows that Jean-Baptiste Bessières is my favorite of Napoleon's Marshals ...

Robespierre Doujinshi? More please. Daily writing prompt What book are you reading right now? View all responses I'm reading Incorruptible 1-4 by Bex on Tumblr, but its available as a downloadable PDF on her Ko-fi. The cover of "Incorruptible" by Bex It's a comic about the life and times of Maximilian Robespierre, how he went from a small-town lawyer to the leading figure of the French Revolution.

Yes, 200 year-old men can still be hot A bust of General Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, sculpted from his death mask, and now held in the collection of the Musée de Château de Versailles. Strictly an aesthetic observation, but Desaix had an absolutely nibbable nose. Posthumous portrait by Andrea Appiani, 1800, commissioned by René Savary, his aide-de-camp

My left hand is in a splint. I can type one-handed, but it’s a chore. The doctors still haven’t gotten back to me, and I’m about to head out of town for two weeks. Well, then.

Also known as 眠らない男・ナポレオン　―愛と栄光の涯に― Full, uncut, and subtitled. In 2014 the Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe put on a musical production on Napoleon's life. Titled "Napoleon: The Man Who Never Sleeps" had a limited stage run. I didn't quite understand the chorus line of imperial eagles at the end, but it's well worth your time to watch the whole thing.

From the French side of Reddit -- r/CrimesCulinaires Section VII: Cuisine de la Dernière Chance (Last-Chance Cooking) Recipe No. 47: Pâtes Carbonisées à la Mode de Lodi Satan cooked it: "Did he forget about his pasta for seven years?" Serves: 2 starving grenadiers or 14 terrified conscripts Preparation time: Unclear — began at dawn, finished sometime after the second cannonade…

how do you injure yourself in a cubicle farm? this is how this time was pinching my left little finger between the keyboard tray, the underside of my desk and the armrest on my chair. may have torn a ligament. now restricted to typmg right hand only, whivh really slows me down. left hand is all splinted up. i have a couple of essays i was working on here, but theyre going ti have to wait. christ, it looks like lannes trued to type this

The last refuge of the true Internet (before Capitalism violated its corpse) Daily writing prompt What are your favorite websites? View all responses Archiveofourown.org Hey, kids, remember when "Internet" meant community and finding others like you? When you didn't have to fend off bots, scammers, and someone trying to shill you a product you don't need? No SEO to worry about?

I mean, it's not like I'm obsessed or anything. Daily writing prompt What historical event fascinates you the most? View all responses Dramatic Frenchmen being dramatic There's dead Frenchmen all over this blog. Specifically, dead Frenchmen of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. I haven't really gotten into the Second Empire stuff, simply because Napoleon III isn't nearly as entertaining as his step-grandfather.

The Fifth Republic has some serious main character energy this week "I found the Crown of France on ...the sidewalk." If you haven't heard, thieves pulled off one hell of a heist, stealing eight historically valuable artifacts linked to the French royal crown. Empress Eugénie's crown (above) was dropped on a sidewalk, but the thieves made off with the other items.

Let's Pour One Out for the Lost Archives Today over on YouTube, baldbookgeek posted this video about the slow slide of the platform into decay and general irrelevancy: Honestly, I'm not that broken up. Yeah, he's right that the platform is losing creatives. A number of channels I used to enjoy have evaporated. Now, it's AI-generated videos and voiceovers run amok.

Stop lying to them Where the Kids Really Are: Archive Of Our Own, Wattpad, Webnovel, and Royal Road Lately, there’s been a lot of handwringing about teenagers not wanting to read any more. So…