Status Updates From 1635: The Eastern Front

The cast of characters has grown so fucking large it's impossible to keep everyone straight. Luckily I trained on Star Wars so I am having a 85% hit rate of remembering who these motherfuckers are.

My favorite part of this series is the adaptation of modern technology to 17th century limitations. All these nerds and no way to make semi-conductors. The computer club is doomed. Oh well time to recreate the ENIAC using water clocks.

I've given up trying to read each year and read each "storyline" as decided by wikipedia, but now I'm running into the issue where characters are referencing events that happened in books I haven't read. What the fuck was the Ram Rebellion.

Part 5. Chapter 31.

The same. Vaxholm Island, in the Stockholm Archipelago

I agree and disagree with various of the author’s characters’ expressed opinions of the “uptime” psychiatric profession (to which I do not belong) but as to BPD, yes, like “Oppositional Defiant” I suspect it’s less scientifically descriptive, more useful for questionable reasons

The same. Stockholm

Part 5. Chapter 30. Vaxholm Island, in the Stockholm Archipelago

Part 5. Chapter 28.

Er, Jeff, Romantic notions- about- the Cossacks. One of the most infamous.. About the Cossacks. Really. *spit-take*

“the beasts weren’t always as dumb as..”
“dumb” means mute, I believe, in this context, although that seems clearly wrong too (neigh, it certainly is…)

Part 5. Chapter 27. Zielona Góra

Part 5: October 1635. The motion of our human blood. Chapter 26. The south bank of the Odra river, near Zielona Góra

The same, a field outside Dresden

The same, Stockholm

Part 4. Chapter 25. Vaxholm Island, in the Stockholm Archipelago

Part 4. Chapter 24. The Vogtland

Yes, picky, but I wonder if this conversation would have been like without the Ring of Fire. I’m having trouble finding published editions (in English anyway?) of Oedipus Rex before the 18th century. Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) had heard of it (in some adaptation- Sophokles’ or another’s?) and titled a Latin-language book of his “Oedipus Aegyptiacus” (1652-54) though.

Part 4. Chapter 23. Dresden

The same, Poznań, Poland