I’m Niniane, french writer and daydreamer, who loves reading (mainly historical, fantasy novels and non-fiction), drawing, cooking, history, period dramas, Fire Emblem and cats.
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My sideblog is City of Ladieswhere I write about women’s history! Queens, soldiers, artists…it’s the place to learn about the heroines of the past.
I used to write fanfics for Fe3h, but my current WIP is a fantasy novel set in a Byzantine-inspired world (tag: #Zoé dame du palais -> Zoé, lady of the palace). It tells the story of a woman warrior who becomes an attendant at the palace and catches the eye of the emperor.
All my stories are in French, but I can provide summaries or explanations if needed!
Anons are off and will stay off. This is no place for children and cowards 😘.
C'est la deuxième fois que je vois une réaction en mode “oui tu écris dans une autre langue car tu dis de vilaines choses et tu ne veux pas qu'on comprenne !!!” lorsque quelqu'un commente en français sur un post et j'ai envie de dire :
Nous ne sommes pas tous des anglophones natifs et nous ne parlons pas tous anglais.
Nous avons juste envie de parler dans notre langue quand nous nous adressons à des français.
Oui, il y a des français sur Tumblr. Faites avec 🥖🇫🇷🐸 !
Et si ça vous embête de ne pas comprendre…apprenez une autre langue ! Nous faisons bien l'effort de parler anglais, après tout 😉!
Comment oses-tu parler dans ta langue natale…? Pénitence, sur le champ! 😡😤
C'est la deuxième fois que je vois une réaction en mode “oui tu écris dans une autre langue car tu dis de vilaines choses et tu ne veux pas qu'on comprenne !!!” lorsque quelqu'un commente en français sur un post et j'ai envie de dire :
Nous ne sommes pas tous des anglophones natifs et nous ne parlons pas tous anglais.
Nous avons juste envie de parler dans notre langue quand nous nous adressons à des français.
Oui, il y a des français sur Tumblr. Faites avec 🥖🇫🇷🐸 !
Et si ça vous embête de ne pas comprendre…apprenez une autre langue ! Nous faisons bien l'effort de parler anglais, après tout 😉!
whenever i see people like “wowwww it’s so rare that female characters are allowed to be feminine AND strong 😍😍” it actually makes my head spin. where are all the books and movies about those terrible masculine women being capable so i can umm. avoid them.
personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job
dare i even say that, with how much technology has advanced in america, the 40 hour work week shouldn’t be as commonplace and you should still get full-time employment benefits when you’re working less than that actually
Leo the wise was a Roman Emperor who’s life came straight out of a Sims playthrough.
His ‘father’ was a peasent wrestler named Basil who came to the attention of the very drunk and very bisexual Roman Emperor Michael. Michael was so enamored with Basil I that he made him his co-emperor! Michael also had a mistress named Eudokia! Michael got a lot of heat for seeing his mistress by the church so he forced Basil to marry her to make it easier for him to see her.
Around this time Eudokia got pregnant and gave birth to Leo, Basil NEVER thought Leo was his son and was Michael’s bastard.
One day Basil killed Michael while he was in the bath and became Emperor! He had a really good rule as an emperor, among the best! His first born son Constantine from a previous marriage was meant to succeed him but alas the boy died! Basil was super pissed about this, not just because he lost his son, but that meant Leo was next in line and has been established Basil was certain Leo was not his!
This would be cause of great problems for Basil until one day during a hunting trip his belt got wrapped around the deer he’d been hunting. The deer proceeded to drag him 16 miles through the forrest at full gallop culminating in his death. It was rumored Leo was responsible somehow.
Now Emperor Leo was ready to have his first son with his wife! Uh-oh! She died from a fever! So Leo decided to marry again! Uh-oh! She died too! Leo incredibly upset wanted to get married a third time but the Orthodox Church was against re marriage and just barely let Leo do it previously. Getting into a qurrel with the Patriarch of Constantinople he was allowed to marry a third time.
Oh no! His third wife died in childbirth along with the baby! He tried to get married a fourth time to which the Patriarch said 'no fucking way! This is polygamy!’ and Leo decided 'how 'bout I do anyway’ and proceeded to get married again and firing the current Patriarch and getting a new one! Fourth time was the charm and he finally got a son and heir!
Aside from his colorful family history, Leo the Wise was known for being an academic philosopher king, he was a bookworm, and one of the more learned rulers in history! He never stepped onto a battlefield nor did he go out on campaign, though he wrote the Tactica, a military science manuel for generals in the Empire used for generations after his death. He also contributed greatly to Roman law by finishing his 'father’s’ work ’ The Basilika’ that simplified, better organized, and added to 'Justinian’s Code.’
“Portia Wounding her Thigh” (1664), by Elisabetta Sirani.
Elisabetta Sirani was an italian baroque painter who, despite her short life, achieved remarkable success and even founded an academy dedicated to training women artists.
In this painting, Sirani captures a scene from roman history, as recounted by Plutarch where Portia Catonis finds herself facing her husband’s secret contemplation of Juliu Caeser’s assassination. Fearing she might reveal the plot under torture, her husband hesitates to confide in her. To prove her resilience and ability to withstand any physical pain, Portia inflicted a wound on her own thigh, enduring the agony in silence for a day, even as she suffered fever and chills. She then presented herself to her husband, demonstrating her capacity to keep the plan concealed.
