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cahnAnd in this post:
-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!
-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, andselenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!
-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War
(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)
-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
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luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and
selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!-
mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)
-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
Re: The Backstory for the '45
Date: 2021-10-09 07:33 pm (UTC)Yep. BPC was all, "Gimme an army, where's my army, come on!"
He was just champing at the bit.
This. He was a twenty-something year-old young male who'd been raised his entire life in the belief that his destiny was to be king, because Divine Right of Kings. Becoming king was his mission and his religion. Obviously, everything was going to work out in his favor! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
What he didn't have was a great ability to cope with setbacks. When things didn't go the way he wanted, he got frustrated and started insisting that the universe cooperate with him Because Destiny, instead of thinking realistically and pragmatically about how to achieve his goal. That had a lot to do with how he alienated people who were like, "I'm not sure the odds are in our favor and nothing you're saying is convincing me you have a great plan here." Instead of convincing them he had a great plan, he'd get into a bad feedback loop wherein he insisted it was his divine right to be king, and they withdrew their support, and he got frustrated at the lack of support, and round and round it went.
When things were going well, he could be quite charming and popular, hence the nickname and the romanticizing PR. But when things didn't go well, not so much.
Re: The Backstory for the '45
Date: 2021-10-10 04:43 am (UTC)