Riley S. Faelan on Nostr: What if we normalised telling history through user interface stories? "As a feudal ...

What if we normalised telling history through user interface stories?

"As a feudal French peasant, I experienced a period of food insecurity, so I died of famine."

"As a French feudal lord, an unusually high number of my peasants died, so I complained to my seigneur how hard good help is to find."

"As a feudal French king, I want to have a good time, but all those downer vassals keep complaining about some sort of peasant famine, so I wanted to make a point by suggesting that the commoners think about how hard it is to be a king and send letters to me."

"As a hopeful French peasant, a bunch of my friends died of famine, but the king had invited feedback, so I wrote to him and politely suggested lowering taxes during famine."

"As a French king in the best time ever to be a French king, some peasants ruined my mood by sending me letters about tax policy, so I brought the subject up with their dukes."

"As a French duke, my day was ruined by hearing that the king was displeased by some annoying peasants, so I dispatched a regiment to take care of the problem."

"As a French knight, I troubleshoot my liege's problems, so I hunted down some peasants who had written a nasty letter or some such nonsense, and shot them."

"As a French peasant, I saw a bunch of soldiers shooting my friends for writing a letter to the good king, so I went to Paris and made new friends.

"As a hungry Parisian, I like to hang around with my new Jacobin friends. I'm starting to have doubts as to the goodness of the king."

"As a King's lawman, I'm unhappy with the increased disorder in our beautiful city, so I ordered my underlings to shoot on the unruly mob to make them disperse."

"As a soldier serving my king in Paris, I hear some of my friends were broken out of Bastille where they had been doing time for not shooting on the mob when ordered. I'm starting to think the mob might have some real power!"

"As a newspaperman, I hear that the king has ordered some provincial soldiers to reinforce the guard at Versailles. Extra! Extra! Read all about the cakes they got to eat while we here in Paris starve!"

"As a woman in Paris, I had been having trouble buying enough food for my husband and child, so I kvetched about it with some of my sisters at the Commune, and then we marched on the Versailles.

"As a king of the France, my home in Versailles was ransacked by hangry commoners, so I decided to move to Paris where it should be safer. Call me the king of the French now. Long live me!"

"As a carpenter in Paris, I had trouble selling enough furniture to buy food, so I made this nice guillotine instead. Now people are buying me free drinks, at least."

"As a Jacobin barista, I heard the supposed king had moved to Paris, so when the revolution came, my friends seized Citizen Louis. The word on the streets is, National Convention wants to have a little chat with him."

"As the King of the French, I am responsible for promoting new inventions, so I gave the guillotine a try. The blade was awfully sharp, and the blood spewage ruined my beautiful gown. 0/5, would not recommend."