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he/they/she, 26, from Denmark. enjoyer of white-haired anime boys from ASOIAF as well as from other media (sometimes even actual anime). same @ on Twitter. 🍉

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Atlas

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Been doing a lot of volunteer work this week. Pic extremely related.

A passage from the novel "A Place of Greater Safety" saying:

"Now it is his daily work to particularize, item by item, the iniquities of
the system, and the petty manifestations of tyranny here in Arras. God
knows, he has tried to placate, to fit in. He has been sober and conformist,
deferential to colleagues of experience. When he has spoken violently it has
only been because he hoped to shame them into good actions; in no way is
he a violent man. But he is asking the impossible he is asking them to
admit that the system they've labored in all their lives is false, ill-founded
and wicked.
Sometimes when he is faced with a mendacious opponent or a pompous
magistrate, he fights the impulse to drive a fist into the man's face; fights it
so hard that his neck and shoulders ache. Every morning he opens his eyes
and says, "Dear God, help me to bear this day." And he prays for
something, anything, to happen, to deliver him from these endless, polite,
long-drawn-out recriminations, to save him from the dissipation of his
youth and wit and courage. Max, you can't afford to return that man's fee.
He's poor, I must do it. Max, what would you like for dinner? I haven't an
idea. Max, have you named the happy day? He dreams of drowning, far far
under the glassy sea
He tries not to give offense. He likes to think of himself by nature as
reasonable and conciliatory. He can duck out, prevaricate, evade the issue.
He can smile enigmatically and refuse to come down on either side. He can
quibble, and stand on semantics. It's a living, he thinks; but it isn't. For
there comes the bald question, the one choice out of two: do you want a
revolution, M.de Robespierre? Yes, damn you, damn all of you, I want it,
we need it, that's what we're going to have."

August 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Atlas

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Robespierre gap moe

A screenshot from the Peter McPhee biography of Maximilien Robespierre, saying: "Robespierre plainly had a taste for the pastries of Artois. 'Since we arrived, every moment has been filled with pleasures. Since last Saturday, I have been stuffing myself with tarts. Fate placed my bed in the room where the patisseries are kept; this exposes me to the temptation of eating all night long, but I determined that it is good to control one's passions and slept amid these seductive objects. It is true that during the day I made up for this long abstinence.'"

Screenshot from the Peter McPhee biography of Maximilien Robespierre, saying: "He was, she insisted, naturally goodhumoured and enjoyed light-heartedness, even if he preferred to read or reflect
rather than join the family for games of cards. He was an intense man, often consumed by his work to the point of absent-mindedness. Once he poured a ladle of soup onto a tablecloth, not noticing that there was no bowl; on another occasion he was mortified that he had undertaken to accompany Charlotte home from an evening function but had forgotten and had walked home alone with her trailing far behind."

July 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM

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June 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM

Atlas

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I have no clue but. 🤝

May 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Atlas

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I've always been more than GNC enough to not harbor the delusion that masc girls don't get sexually harassed and I also know I don't pass 100%. But I do get curious which tree the guy in the car who just yelled "hey beautiful, you look good" thought he was barking up tonight

Club bathroom selfie of a white transmasc with a blond mullet, a "Songs for Pierre Chuvin" Mountain Goats T-shirt and a vest with a pink triangle pin

May 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Atlas

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STITCHES OUT

May 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM

Atlas

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"You look like... Tom Clancy's Final Fantasy" - my friend

Mirror selfie of a white transmasc person (me) with a bleach-blond mullet and a bandage on their ear wearing a green T-shirt with a red star, a black vest, camo fatigue pants, Doc Martens boots and a keffiyeh around their waist

May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM

Atlas

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I was promised 3 days of headgear this time. And also I might end up in a medical journal

White transmasc person with glasses (yours truly) wearing a really dumb-looking white bandage around the head + 1 ear

April 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM

Atlas

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Ended up having to ditch the sunglasses for entirely unforeseen (unless you happen to have thought about it for 5 seconds) "extremely inconvenient on a dimly lit dancefloor" reasons but I do like tonight's queer cabaret + rave outfit a lot

A nonbinary person with a white mullet undercut wearing a goth outfit with a lot of fishnet fabric

April 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM

Atlas

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ARADIA MEGIDO????

Screencap from Star Trek DS9 4x22 where Miles O'Brien says "I'm very much alive,"

Screencap from Star Trek DS9 4x22 where Miles O'Brien says "and I intend to stay that way."

March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Atlas

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Went to a punk show last night and then due to a Series of Unexpected Events subsequently ended up at a normie house party wearing. This gear. (Everyone was very nice and cool about it but fhfggdbfgg)

nonbinary person (me) wearing a lime green neoprene harness and collar over an Einstürzende Neubauten T-shirt

March 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM

Atlas

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The Yangchen novels also have what might be the only canon het YA romance I've ever actually both enjoyed AND found objectively good

March 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM

Atlas

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Not a lot of tie-in YA novels have Hilary Mantel-tier morally complex failviziers in them, let alone as the main antagonist and protagonist (different characters) of two successive series, and by god did FC Yee aim to change that

March 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Atlas

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Been going through the final 25% or so of this book extremely slowly mostly bc I've been SO busy but also a bit bc it's. Not nearly as good as the first 75% or so lol. THAT SAID I am, predictably, absolutely obsessed with this bit that I just got to

“Hébert is going round talking about Camille, giggling, and saying this
is no ordinary friendship, I’m sure.”
“Of course it is no ordinary friendship.”
Is he not understanding, or is he refusing to understand? This is one of
his weapons, this professional, cultivated obtuseness. “Hébert is instituting
further inquiries into Camille’s private life.”
Robespierre flung out a hand, palm towards Danton; so theatrical, the
gesture, that Fabre might have coached him.

“They ought to make a statue of you,” Danton said, “in that position.
Come on, you know what I’m talking about. I know you weren’t around in
the Annette days, but I can tell you, he furnished us with some
entertainment, your friend—afternoons languishing semi-respectably in
Annette’s drawing room, and evenings over at the Île de la Cite, committing
unnatural acts among the affidavits. You never met Maître Perrin, did you?
There were others, of course.” Danton laughed. “Take that look off your
face—nobody thinks Camille’s taste would run to you. He likes men who
are very large, very ugly and devoted to women. He just wants what he
can’t have. Well, that’s the way I see it, anyway."

February 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM

Atlas

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Feel like shit just want her (my rainbow keyboard) back. Could do much worse than a permanent Dirk Strider color scheme though

February 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Atlas

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I got distracted and forgot to livetweet the rest of the book (which I'm almost done with) but I did make this relationship dynamics graph. NOT a shipping chart mind you these are only the explicitly textually confirmed ones

January 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Atlas

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Oomfs PLEASE read this book it has the Worst Polycule in it and I'm obsessed

One morning, late March, Camille woke up with a certain thought going
around in his head. He had been talking to soldiers—General Dillon
amongst others—and they said if there is going to be a war anyway, what is
the point of standing out against public opinion and the tide of the times?
Was it not better to put yourself at the head of an irresistible movement,
rather than be trampled in the rush? He roused his wife and told her. “I feel sick,” she said.
At 6:30 a.m. he was in Danton’s drawing room, pacing the carpet.
Danton called him a fool.
“Why do I always have to agree with you? I’m not allowed any
independent thoughts. I can think what I like as long as it happens to be
what you think.”
“Go away,” Danton said. “I am not your father.”
“What does that mean?”
“I mean that you sound like a fifteen-year-old and what you are trying
do is pick a fight, so why don’t you go home for a few days and quarrel
with your father? We would be spared political consequences.”
“I shall write—”
“You will not put pen to paper. You do try my temper, exceedingly. Go
away, before I make you the first Brissotin martyr. Go to Robespierre, and
see if you get a better reception.”
Robespierre was ill. The raw spring weather hurt his chest, and his
stomach rejected what he fed it.
“So you desert your friends,” he said, wheezing a little.
“This need not affect our friendship,” Camille said grandly.
Robespierre looked away.
“You remind me—what’s the name of that English King?”
“George,” Robespierre snapped.
“I think I mean Canute.”
“You will have to go away,” Robespierre said. “I can’t argue with you
this morning. I have to conserve my strength for important things. But if
you commit yourself to paper, I shall never trust you again.”
Camille backed out of the room.
Eléonore Duplay was standing outside. He knew she had been listening,
because of the sudden vivacity in her dreary eyes. “Ah, it’s Cornélia,” he
said. He had never in his life spoken to a woman in t…

January 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Atlas

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Not Camille studying Hebrew likes yours truly. Psychological warfare is being committed against me

I looked at his books. Jean-Jacques Rousseau by the yard; few other
modern authors. Cicero, Tacitus, the usual: all well-thumbed. I wonder—if
we go to war with England, will I have to hide my books of Shakespeare,
and my Adam Smith? I guess that Robespierre reads no modern language
but his own, which seems a pity. Camille, by the way, thinks modern
languages beneath his notice; he is studying Hebrew, and looking for
someone to teach him Sanskrit.

January 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Atlas

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Truly cannot comprehend the psychological makeup causing Danton to behave like this about his friend breaking up with a woman but I am kin assigning him Robert Baratheon. And also urging on Robespierre to kill him faster

Danton began to laugh. “Eunuch,” he said. “The girl should be glad he
didn’t carry the farce any further. Oh, I should have guessed.”
“No need for such unholy jubilation.” Camille was gloomy. “Try to
understand.”
“Understand? I understand perfectly. It’s easy.”
He went to hold forth at the Café des Arts. He had it on good authority,
he told everyone, that Deputy Robespierre was sexually impotent. He told
his cronies at City Hall, and a few score deputies of his acquaintance; he
told the actresses backstage at the Theatre Montansier, and almost the entire
membership of the Cordeliers Club.

January 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM

Atlas

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I still find the women in this book rather gratingly boringly written but I do appreciate this representation of the great gap in understanding that has always existed between the fujoshi and the non-fujoshi. And the confirmation that Lucile of course belongs to the former category

January 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH (these statements by Camille and Max respectively happen within like 2 pages the connection is Significant. Tfw you're so used to being bullied even your friends are like "well I guess he's just a sub" despite you not liking it. But also, crucially yet unrelatedly, you ARE a sub)