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NAY! WE PERSIST TO RESIST! I’M SCREAMING! Join us!

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Though it took a long time plague seems to have caused the demise of the Byzantine empire. It’s had an outsize role in history.

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Some doctors thought that urine baths weren't enough and so they encouraged drinking urine... yuppp

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Also, this is a very interesting topic! Definitely opened up my mind a little

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You did in fact inspire it! Not the drinking urine part, to be sure. In fact, I don't think anything could have prepared me for just how tremendously disgusting human beings could be. "I'll be in the privvy, making healing paste".

Bruh.

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Oh thank you! I’m curious to know what part was inspired by me!

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Ha, I might have uhh accidentally got a note someone wrote confused with a note you wrote, and your names are phonetically awfully similar. However, you inspire me all the time with your notes and musings, so I can legitimately say you also inspired this one too! (you should write more things about French Revolutionary art, pleaseeeeee)

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Haha thats okay! Im happy to know my notes and crisis’s have inspired you! I’m actually very interested in the French Revolution and I planned to write about it but I’m afraid that I’ve been too busy and writing became such a struggle, I hope to at least have a post about french revolution soon

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That is totally OK and I can completely understand :) I'm fascinated by the french revolution, I've read every book I could get my hands on, some of my favourites being 12 who ruled and Citizens. If my substack wasn't already about science and chemistry, I'd have written at least a few posts about it by now! Gah! Why are there only 24 hours in a day?! Why do I only have energy for like, 3 of those hours?!@$!@

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That is a disturbingly metal depiction of the angel of death come plague doctor. Well done!

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You're very kind :D I should turn it into a t-shirt too haha

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YES

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