historical fiction is such a funny genre like dammit i spoiled the ending of les mis for myself by reading the wikipedia page for the paris uprising of 1832
and yet it’s such a tragic genre for this same reason. like you want to believe that they can make it! you want to believe they can take the future in their hands and make it whatever they dream it could be. but what happens to them was always there, set down in the ledger of the wikipedia page for the paris uprising of 1832