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9 mos ago
Current This site's like Old Broadway...I'm seeing a young man sittin' in an old man's bar, waitin' for his turn to die.
12 mos ago
I would sooner face outright phobia again than be given a half-hearted apology by the same systems which did nothing in the face of injustice and to now seek to make profit from our suffering.
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12 mos ago
I will never celebrate Pride Month for being stabbed in the leg and shot in the neck while it is sponsored by Chase. I will never mistake complacency for forgiveness nor acceptance.
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12 mos ago
Pride Month is celebrate by those who have never struggled. Those of us who have - those who have been harassed, assulted, detained and debased - have no such pride in it. There is only ire and spite.
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12 mos ago
So sorry if I'm not enthused. It's just that there's nothing to be happy about now, and people just buy rainbow stuff from the same corps who need us kept down to sell them in the first place.
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“There was a time when I was master of the universe. As I was staying ageless and motionless before my computer, flying untouched over human frenzy, cities rose and crumbled under my thumb, tiny people ran hurriedly to their death on the roads I had built and time flew at my command.

Then it all stopped, and I had to become one of those running specks. They call it 'life.'”

Nicolas Combrexelle

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Anyone have some good reading for this era? Trying to drill down on the revolutionary side of things and I’ll admit I don’t know much about this particular time period.


Here's a decent place to start on the predominant movement in the UK at the time:

Chartism, a radical movement in England
The Newport Rising, the last large-scale armed protest in the UK
The Young Ireland Movement, which wanted a free Ireland and engaged in several rebellions
@Yam I Am, can I have a member of the Cantacuzino Family to play with? They're Orthodox and have actual Imperial Blood, so...


LB...you do know the whole point of the RP is to get those types of guys shot, right?

And you do know the entire point of the Rebellion of 1821 and 1828 was to get rid of those guys - and they're gonna be kicking off again real soon, right?


ALL EUROPE SHALL BE SWALLOWED IN THE FIRE OF REVOLUTION MUAHAHAHAH


Wow gee, it's almost like revolutions inspired by the deposition of old social order is entire premise of this RP
I need a candidate for King who is relatively liberal yet tolerable to the establishment. Any candidates?


>>King of Greece
>>Liberal

Pick one or the other, my dude

I'd just put Otto of Bavaria on the throne and have him be deposed by revolutionaries in an RP story arc (as happened later historically).
@Lady Lascivious, be Greece's patron? :P


So historically, Greece was usually under the patronage of three powers in Europe:

- The Francophile faction, which was usually aligned in the more conservative powers of Hellenic government and favored a more gradual shift of the country into modernity after Ottoman rule.

- The Liberals and Irredentists, who found themselves being found under the influence of the British.

- The reactionaries and Orthodoxists, who liked the strong power of Russia's status and mutual orthodox heritage to, again leverage power against the Ottomans (I think you're noticing a pattern here)

OTL the conservative factions in Greek politics would largely end up winning internally, but Greece herself was by in large under the whims of a British establishment - who in turn would end up being pro-Hellenic more often than not, due to the interests of the expanding Greek state likewise also serving as a natural check to both Russian and Ottoman interests in the Balkans. In that vein, your best bets for any fruitful alliance here would most definitely be Britain, who was very interested in a Hellenic state who could fulfill that role.
@Dinh AaronMk, as you're here, I have to ask: What exactly was so wrong with the Egyptian Sheet? Or would it have been accepted if not for my attitude?




To make a long story short:

There isn't one: There was only one when you acted like these events that Muhammad Ali did historically were - as I said earlier - things he could do in a vacuum and wouldn't attract anyone's attention, when in reality, they all certainly did.

If you just made it clear that you're willing to go in knowing that Muhammad's actions likely would have resulted in the Oriental Crisis occurring to make Egypt a vassal state of the Ottomans again (as it did historically with a 5 nation coalition against Egypt), then...sure. There's nothing wrong with your sheet whatsoever.

Britain would be very interested in what might disturb the Middle East too much since it puts the security of India at risk. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt was a warning signal to the British it was time to take the region serious. They weren't the only ones incapable of playing around out there.

So Page threatning, "prepare to be bombarded" isn't an OOC threat to IC out of personal annoyance, but that the British would almost certainly see Egypt as a potential threat to India, or a means by which someone else might be able to fuck with India: the French again, perhaps.

Since a new power like Muhammad Ali would need sponsors on the mainland to do anything. And bludgeoning them with naval power would be a means to start negotiations.

We could suppose too that Russia being what it is, if it did become a Revolutionary state it could produce a Russian Napoleon and it would become a threat. Because the situation is tense and even if the Persians nibbled a bit of Russia off doesn't invalidate them in the wrong run. They are not PoW Russia. So you can make the same or similar Russian arithmatic too.
@Yam I Am@USSR@TheEvanCat@Dinh AaronMk the alpine republic fandom is dying


I notice that the map still has Greece as Ottoman. Can you help me remedy that ICly?


If you want to be a part of this RP after this, then I will have to state: you must now go to the Balkans or the Baltics.

And I will respect your decision (Yes, this is an edit).


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WIP Map of Europe for this, lemme know if anything needs editing/changing for people's lore

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