Awww, I can see why you like them! *opens your fic in tab*
I am a bit envious that your historical fandom has politics that feel relevant to (I assume) your own. In mine, the two main characters are on opposing sides, but both of them are actually royalists, at least in the sense that the side for which they fought had a king. There doesn't seem to have been much of a leftist movement at the time (mid-18th century Britain). Of course when you dig into it, which I have definitely done, there's still all sorts of interesting stuff going on, which I guess is always the case in history! And the character on the winning side does very much react against the harsh repression going on after the war.
Perhaps strangely, I have never read Les Mis, although I've read books on the Paris Commune (though that was later, I know).
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Date: 2020-06-11 07:03 pm (UTC)I am a bit envious that your historical fandom has politics that feel relevant to (I assume) your own. In mine, the two main characters are on opposing sides, but both of them are actually royalists, at least in the sense that the side for which they fought had a king. There doesn't seem to have been much of a leftist movement at the time (mid-18th century Britain). Of course when you dig into it, which I have definitely done, there's still all sorts of interesting stuff going on, which I guess is always the case in history! And the character on the winning side does very much react against the harsh repression going on after the war.
Perhaps strangely, I have never read Les Mis, although I've read books on the Paris Commune (though that was later, I know).