For the tattoo thing, I had replied to you on Twitter but my account was locked and blah blah I guess it didn't work or something. So. In France, when a prostitute was being caught, they would tattoo/burn a fleur de lys (the crown's symbol) on her/his shoulder. But Brendon wouldn't know he has it... Or maybe he could know about all this, the burning/tattooing habit the French have and expect Ryan to have one because he knows what he's been forced into doing for the past years...?
And the offer still stands, if you need info on 19th century France, I will dig through my History notebooks and answer your questions.
Oh yeah, I had a question. We're you planning it to take place in the early 19th century or the late, around the Moulin Rouge time? Because if you had planned the late 19th century, I have other authors Ryan can fangirl over because they ~think like him about boys, like what I had suggested about Oscar Wilde. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud were a couple. It didn't last long, ended with two bullets in Rimbaud's wrist and Verlaine in jail, but they had, and I quote Wikipedia, "a short and torrid relation". Just saying.
Also, if you had decided to choose the second half of the century, it would make the brothel even more realistic because it's around that time that Paris became a place of debauchery, especially la Place Pigalle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartier_Pigalle) (where the Moulin Rouge actually is), a place where poets and artists would meet to drink absinthe, smoke opium and write weird poetry *coughs*Baudelaire*coughs* So basically, the "Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love" of Moulin Rouge began in the late 1800's, when symbolist writers pushed away the realist ones. *shuts up about literary movements*
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For the tattoo thing, I had replied to you on Twitter but my account was locked and blah blah I guess it didn't work or something.
So. In France, when a prostitute was being caught, they would tattoo/burn a fleur de lys (the crown's symbol) on her/his shoulder. But Brendon wouldn't know he has it... Or maybe he could know about all this, the burning/tattooing habit the French have and expect Ryan to have one because he knows what he's been forced into doing for the past years...?
And the offer still stands, if you need info on 19th century France, I will dig through my History notebooks and answer your questions.
Oh yeah, I had a question. We're you planning it to take place in the early 19th century or the late, around the Moulin Rouge time? Because if you had planned the late 19th century, I have other authors Ryan can fangirl over because they ~think like him about boys, like what I had suggested about Oscar Wilde.
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud were a couple. It didn't last long, ended with two bullets in Rimbaud's wrist and Verlaine in jail, but they had, and I quote Wikipedia, "a short and torrid relation". Just saying.
Also, if you had decided to choose the second half of the century, it would make the brothel even more realistic because it's around that time that Paris became a place of debauchery, especially la Place Pigalle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartier_Pigalle) (where the Moulin Rouge actually is), a place where poets and artists would meet to drink absinthe, smoke opium and write weird poetry *coughs*Baudelaire*coughs*
So basically, the "Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love" of Moulin Rouge began in the late 1800's, when symbolist writers pushed away the realist ones. *shuts up about literary movements*
Sorry if that was boring and useless. :/