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[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

Hi people,

(I think this is all right under the advertising rules - if not, I will totally understand if the Mods want to delete it.)

Anyway! I'm here to mention that I have nominated Dantons Tod and The Danton Case for yuletide - A Place of Greater Safety had already been nominated, which is great because it's my all-time favourite.

So, lots and lots of potential for revolutionary goodness (or, indeed, badness...) at Christmas, and I thought I'd post about it here in case anyone else fancied signing up for yuletide and requesting/offering these fandoms. Or indeed other revolution-focused books or films: the film Danton; City of Darkness, City of Light - there are lots of other things that could be nominated. I chose my nominations based on level of slashiness between Camille and Danton, I must admit...

I'm definitely planning to request, and probably offer revolution!fic - last year I was given a wonderful Camille/Danton story, which was a pretty amazing thing to wake up to on Christmas day. :)

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[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

4) And "what does it matter even if novels and plays ARE what shape people's ideas most?" Yes, who cares about the truth, after all (as there's no Truth, we can write that, say, Edmund Burke was raped by his grandmother and be happy with it). Who cares about the French revolution? Who cares about real people and real ideas? We just want to have fun, like Coppola's Marie-Antoinette.

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mean that I don't care about the French revolution - it's possible to care in very different ways about something, after all, and I'm not anti-traditional-history by any means, I just love to have wildly creative alternatives to consider in parallel.

(Not-so-seriously: my dedication to the French revolution is manifested by all the time I spent trailing round Paris this summer in the baking heat - in a wheelchair, actually, since I wasn't too well, and wheelchairs do not get on very well with the Paris pavements! - going from one Camille-related place to another. I think the highlight was seeing his inkwell in the Carnavalet Museum: it was marvellous to think of him using it to write with.)

[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

;-) That's a nice sign of devotion to the cause...May I ask you then: don't you ever feel sick if the people you do care about are, let's say, heavily misinterpreted in fiction? What comes on my mind is, for example, Jamet's paedophile murderer Robespierre...