listen…..i want in-universe girl genius Discourse™, set in the gg version of our time period, about how All Your Historical Faves were Problematic. p l e a s e.
I’m sort of picturing something like this:
did-you-kno:
DID YOU KNO In the 19th century, Agatha Heterodyne took down the First Wulfenbach Empire with a coffee engine?
i-left-my-heart-in-ada-kaleh:
lmao is this actually true, history side of tumblr pls confirm
thinkodancer:
Only technically. Agatha Heterodyne was a catalyst for the instability which characterized the transition from First Wulfenbach Empire to the Second Wulfenbach Empire, but you have to remember that her appearance in Mechanicsburg was mostly a pretext which a lot of the Fifty Families latched onto in order to rebel against a rule they saw as illegitimate. Baron Klaus was largely unpopular with the aristocracy, and even somewhat unpopular with common people, despite how many people nowadays seem to think the First Wulfenbach Empire was a utopia and the sun shone out of Baron Klaus’ ass.
So it’s debatable if Lady Heterodyne actually ‘took down’ the Empire. Arguably, the First and Second Wulfenbach Empires were the same political entity and only the ruler changed, but a lot of historians don’t see it that way (or at least, don’t talk about it that way) because of all the geopolitical changes between Baron Klaus and Baron Gilgamesh’s rule. It would also be unfair to describe Baron Gilgamesh’s empire as somehow lesser version of his father’s empire.
dingadoodledoo:
Ok but how does a coffee engine fit into this
thinkodancer:
It doesn’t, that’s just a story they tell to dumb tourists in Mechanicsburg.
notachurchdoor:
bullshit. I’m from Mechanicsburg, and the coffee engine story is 100% true. my great-great-great-great-great-great-uncle Mikli is a Jaeger and he confirms
loreleileilei:
Oh my GOD, the Jaegers weren’t even allowed into Mechanicsburg until a few days after the fighting had already started?? How can you not know this if you’re really from Mechanicsburg??
notachurchdoor:
come up to Mehcanicsburg and call uncle Mikli a liar to his face 🙂
do it 🙂 🙂 🙂
balanstoothgap:
I went to Mechanicsburg last summer and I even had the Castle Heterodyne tour. I can’t confirm or deny the coffee engine story, but I can only say that based on what I’ve seen, not only could it be true, but I seriously hope it is.
Also I hope I don’t have to actually say this for anyone, but DO NOT go to Mechanisburg and call her uncle Mikli a liar to his face.
Okay shut up loreleileilei everyone knows the jaeger were bending the barrons law all the time and if the jaeger waited till a few days after the fighting started (as if) theyed of missed the time stop and not of been loked in
imma gonna need sources on that dude. S O U R C E S. and not wikipedia, either, you /know/ the jaegers are always fucking with their page.
well there’s
Secretary to the Empire, TPU Press. “This Was Not Supposed To Be My Job”: The Collected Notes of Boris Dolokov, Stormlight Publishing. chapter 13 which has a whole section on the jaegers various method of using technicality in their favor and while it mostly deals with the dispatched jaeger maintaining the Jägertroth there a part there on disagreements with how far down property especially heterodyne goes
there’s
Memoirs of a King, Vol.3, King Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Pressoir d’Élyseé, has both accounts of how short the battle was (it didnt even last a “few days” it was over in less then a 24-48 hour period depending on what your counting as the start and the end) and of jaeger both during the battle and being pulled out with Tarvek Sturmvoraus 2 years later.
and finally the official Mechanicsburg destination guide and coupon book 19[x]8 edition Castle Press, Mechanicsburg Publishing Group. and the official black market edition Mechanicsburg destination guide and coupon book 19[x]3 edition Castle Press, totally not Mechanicsburg Publishing Group. both explicitly state
Mamma Gkikas invaluable aid in quick jaeger delivery to the surface during the battle of mechanicsburg and previous editions sarcastically implied it for many years. also if your not comfortable with jaegers theres plenty of townsfolk from back than still kicking around in the crypts you could ask
also Seneschal by Vanamonde von Mekkhan has a first hand account of the coffee engine and its effects on the townsfolk’s trust in the hetrodyne which while important probably wasn’t a key piece of the destruction of the empire
#TW:jaegers #TW:hetrodyne #god how can people be so dumb i bet there a total minon #also if your not comfortable with jaegers theres plenty of townsfolk from back than still kicking around in the crypts you could ask
you got something against minions?????
#YOU CAN TAKE IT UP WITH MY MISTRESS KTHNKS#GOD IM SO FUCKING SICK OF ASSHOLES TALKING DOWN TO US JUST BECAUSE WE FOUND PURPOSE IN LIFE!!#FUCK OFF!!!!#GIRL GENIUS#ASDFLJKAS⚙
PURPOSE IS THAT WHAT THERE CALLING HAVING SHITY HARMONIC RESISTANCE NOW
⚙ I BET YOUR KNEES QUAKE ANYTIME ANYONE WITH EVEN A JOULE OF SPARK SNEEZES BY YOU
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oh are you seriously going there
mistress maya and i have a wonderful working relationship built on mutual respect, and like hell i’d tie myself to any two-bit spark that walked by! i have STANDARDS! that’s why i picked mistress maya to begin with!!
WHAT I DO WITH MY PERSONAL LIFE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “””””SHITTY HARMONIC RESISTANCE””””””” AND YOU’RE BEING A FUCKING ASSHOLE OKAY
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