i recommend every history student to play the appropriate assassin’s creed game before starting to learn about a subject bc it makes everything 10000% funnier like. hey. i know this guy. he had an unresolved yet undeniable homoerotic sexual tension with my favorite video game man. what’s he doing here.
everybody wants to write about royalty that is troubled and concerned with the morality of monarchy and absolute rule but nobody wants to write about the compassionate empathetic king losing his mind and having a complete breakdown and smashing the divine scepter of the gods over the enchanted crown
“what if I was a NICE absolute ruler” yeah well what if you went apeshit. what if you couldn’t simply reconcile feudal dictatorship with the innate equality of humankind what if you started pulling out your own teeth to hand out to passerby.
“I’m trying to make the best use of my power in an unjust and exploitative system :)” I’m raving in the streets denouncing my lineage and pissing on the wall of the temple of the god that crowned my ancestor
i like sailing myths and superstitions because most of them can be boiled down to “if the ocean doesn’t like you it will chew you up and spit out your bones. and if it really loves you it will swallow you whole and keep you forever. good luck 👍”
if you were going to tell me i would be in tears at the end of an eight-episode mockumentary on fucking freevee because not only did they manage to find one of the most genuine men on the planet earth to be part of their entirely-staged story, but because every single actor who got to know him longer than we did at the end said full-stop they’d fallen in love with him and were so happy to be his friend and had so much fun with him and because everyone acknowledged that he just went above and beyond time and time again every time he was faced with a moral or ethical dilemma and proved people ARE inherently good actually!!!
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