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tanoraqui:

tflatte:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

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. 

#GIVE ME THE BANG DISCOURSE I DEMAND THE BANG DISCOURSE#new heterodyne story othar has a major role in the radioplays and stories but IN REALITY HE WAS A MURDEROUS SCUMBAG#says an intimidatingly lengthy textpost#cue the arguments#‘othar is a smol cinnamon role’ ‘othar could crush a man with his thighs my dude’#WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CONSENSUS ON KLAUS IS

ohhh my god

there is a NEVERENDING WAR about klaus and whether he just took his methods too far or if he was a terrible person or if he was a bad person trying to do a good thing or vice versa. everyone has a totally different opinion.

people arguing over tarvek’s constant side-switching, not helped by the romantic storyline of falling for and trying to save the heterodyne. accusations of "you’re only defending him because he was pretty!”

god…i want this too tbh. give me the present-day epilogue of history nerds and vaguely-interested non-nerds fighting it out.

Tarvek’s going to write memoirs, we all know that. He’s going to pull a Winston Churchill and write a multi-part autobiography explaining everything he did and why they were all the right choices at the time, even if on occasion in retrospect some are a little…iffy. (And those concessions are only there because Agatha and Gil wouldn’t let him get away with publishing without.) (Memoirs of a King, Vol.1-4, King Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Pressoir d’Élyseé)

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thefivearts:

lesbiantuxedomask:

thefivearts:

azzandra:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

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

elf-kid2:

lesbianedgeworth:

thefivearts:

lesbiantuxedomask:

thefivearts:

lesbiantuxedomask:

thefivearts:

azzandra:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

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

⚙

 

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

so are we just gonna ignore??? how Zola was outed as a false Heterodyne because of her failure to get the right harmonic resonances???

are we just ignoring how Zola’s coffee was reportedly so bad that some thought it was poisoness???

Ok then

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iztarshi:

hands-of-blue:

iztarshi:

firecoloredwater:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

tflatte:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

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. 

#GIVE ME THE BANG DISCOURSE I DEMAND THE BANG DISCOURSE#new heterodyne story othar has a major role in the radioplays and stories but IN REALITY HE WAS A MURDEROUS SCUMBAG#says an intimidatingly lengthy textpost#cue the arguments#‘othar is a smol cinnamon role’ ‘othar could crush a man with his thighs my dude’#WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CONSENSUS ON KLAUS IS

ohhh my god

there is a NEVERENDING WAR about klaus and whether he just took his methods too far or if he was a terrible person or if he was a bad person trying to do a good thing or vice versa. everyone has a totally different opinion.

people arguing over tarvek’s constant side-switching, not helped by the romantic storyline of falling for and trying to save the heterodyne. accusations of "you’re only defending him because he was pretty!”

god…i want this too tbh. give me the present-day epilogue of history nerds and vaguely-interested non-nerds fighting it out.

Y E A H 

most of the cast is made up of historically influential, objectively at least a little bit terrible but more then anything else complicated people. that’s like. the perfect storm for some really fucking epic academic brawls in the future. 

…Okay but now I’m imagining Maxim stumbling into all of this debate and having Opinions.

“SHUT UP I’M RIGHT I WAS THERE”

“Pfff yeah right that was 200 years ago what do you think you are a jager”

“YES.”

I love the idea of Jägers joining the discourse. On the one hand, they were there. On the other hand their opinion and perspective is frequently bizarre to anyone who isn’t familiar with Jägers.

(And I really hope someone studies Jägers in the future. Jägers Through the Ages would be both a fascinating book and very frustrating to write. It’s not that they won’t talk about it, it’s that they mostly talk about things that are not of historical interest. Or, to put it bluntly, extremely gory and silly anecdotes.)

And Kaja thought that Agatha’s biography would be interesting to write. There would probably be a ridiculous number of gaps in any jäger history even if you did manage to keep them on topic – nothing about the draught or the workings of the Castle or Mechanicsburg’s defenses or the Heterodynes’ side of battles or-

Lots of anecdotes, not very many actual facts. Got to keep the Heterodyne secrets, after all. And lots of mysterious gaps surrounding anything to do with spying or intelligence gathering, of course.

And what about the discourse on jägers? Lots of arguments about whether their history with the old Heterodynes has made them irredeemable, or whether it’s just the jägers that fought back then that are to blame, or whether the younger jägers are to blame as well for becoming jägers and therefore condoning the actions of past jägers…

The Jägers would probably all show up to argue that they are irredeemable.

“Ve iz Heterodyne monsters. Hyu seem confused.”

azzandra:

lesbiandelphidiggory:

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.