David Standeven, Texan Author

Seventh best writer you've never heard of, grumpy grill dad, neoclassicist, neoromantic, Christian, AI Hater, and purveyor of niche historical things.

[David Standeven, Texan Author @DavidStandeven]

Hello there, it appears you found me.

If you like sword and sorcery, clashing steel and harrowing escapes, then I'm your guy. I have a pirate adventure (a sequel to 'Hand that Wields the Sword') written but not yet published. Try one of my books out, or not. I'm not your dad.

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@CostasAnest @TheAmiNereVar @jas_cant_hang Would you have preferred the John Boorman version where the fellowship fight for Galadriel sexually and Aragorn humps Eowyn to heal her?

I am not joking.

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@HistoryMemesLOL Great firsthand source on the matter:

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@shoredfragments @HistoryMemesLOL Except Franco, by being tied to no ideology, was able to get them all to play nice enough to win the war.

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@medievalmlord Legend

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@ReviewsPossum I would love to plop said people into 1930s Germany and see if their logic holds.
https://t.co/ykwruIYUYx

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@ChristianHeiens Well, we don't know that. It wasn't written down.

In the late era the Germanics have embedded themselves deep in the Imperial System. Rome was not sacked by a foreign army of Vandals or Goths but by Vandals and Goths in Imperial pay.

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@histofevery_yt2 He is militarily worth a lot of respect... few generals could have lost so many battles yet won the war.

He's the second best Fabian commander in that war (I think Nathaniel Greene edges him out).

But yeah, half of Americans' knowledge of the war makes The Patriot look accurate

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@OrthodoxOrigen Actually @OrthodoxOrigen think of him as the Anti-Vespasian (who took over during the "Year of the 4 Emperors"). While Vespasian was an affable man and stabilizing force who created a system that could have persisted, Septimius was a guy who built something only he could run.

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@OrthodoxOrigen Short version: takes power during the "Year of the 5 Emperors", rules with iron fist, devalues the currency to pay the army, sets up the conditions for the Crisis of the 3rd Century (which happens after his dynasty is killed off)

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@OrthodoxOrigen His reign is very much a "false calm before the collapse". He keeps order while ensuring that things will crumble once he goes.
The Severans are generally crap, but he sometimes gets a pass as the "good" one. In truth, he sets up a house of cards that the other Severans collapse

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@OrthodoxOrigen Just Ruler and Dictator are not necessarily exclusive.

The guy created legal justifications for what he was doing, but even then everyone knew it was post facto theater

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@OrthodoxOrigen Nestorius got to write a "This is what I ACTUALLY believe" later and we have it.

So yes

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@SamyazaSpeaks Which is why Protestantism happened. Well, one of the reasons

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@EricRSammons "Be better"

Man, have you any testicles? Only women and boy-fuckers talk like that.

And as an ex-SSPXer, yes many DO IN FACT hate the pope.

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@MalindaDetweil1 Ban? No. Not unless it is toxic (including to babies/child development).

Tell everyone to eat right? Absolutely.

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@OrthodoxOrigen And Septimius Severus. Man was 100% a dictator.

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@OrthodoxOrigen You need to reread about Augustus then.

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@TommyGun433746 @LetcalfeLark A case of the right and left both being right 😂

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@spencer_askew First time I read it (I was 12) I was finding it boring.

Then Feanor showed up.

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@medievalmlord "hUR dUR wHY dID da fASCISts wIN????"

- Leftists who have never read "Homage to Catalonia", which explains it neatly.