niko !

they/them • "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." • 🇮🇳🇬🇧🇺🇸 • autistic • i make memes and even edits sometimes!

[mooshire31]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAYMITCH (here’s more AU drawings)

I started drawing this before I started fleshing out the lore in my head so I lowkey wish I had given Haymitch an axe instead of a sword but I was too lazy to change it.

Also I love all of these except I lowkey dislike one of them but I will not disclose which one.

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Logged back in to give a rundown of my Tomodachi Miis:

- Burdock and Asterid Everdeen are happily married I hope he doesn't explode

- Burdock has insane autism rizz (where do you think Katniss got it from??) to the point that Asterid proposed to him twice totally not because I failed the proposal game the first time

- Haymitch and Lenore Dove are in a committed relationship, he asked her out by gifting her red gumdrops

- Haymitch has a shirt that says "Certified Lenore Dove Enthusiast" with a picture of Lenore Dove on the back

- Maysilee has a shirt that says "I ❤️ yuri" inspired by a TikTok I saw

- Blair, Maysilee, and Lenore Dove have all been in love with Asterid at some point (including while she and Burdock were sweethearts)

- Burdock and Asterid were once mad at each other because he got jealous of Maysilee

- Blair tried to ask out Lenore Dove while Haymitch was asking her out but she chose Haymitch

- Louella's just chilling and enjoying her life :)

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taking a break from frevposting for a minute so here's a silly little hunger games edit

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had a relative kind enough to bring this over from the uk! :) unfortunately i have no cats to photograph it with and i value it far too much to put it anywhere near my dog lol BUT i love bird-nerd Max and this book as well!!

[misscalming]

Charlotte would joke àbt stealing Max’s girl till the end of time. Also Eleonore gap tooth cuz I said.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

ON FEBRUARY 22ND, 2026, HE WILL BE FORCED TO EAT CEMENT

mark your calendars for this historic event

[thoughtportal]

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign (apparently translates to "Sorry", in a sincere way)

[soul-of-a-ghost]

pathetic wet beast on the brink of tears

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OH MY GOSH LOOK AT THEM

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Is Ruth Scurr's book about Robespierre a good book ?

In short, Ruth Scurr spends a great deal of time saying why you wouldn’t want to invite Robespierre to dinner. 

His personality is assaulted and she then uses this as evidence of his evil as a politician. Robespierre’s dreamy, shy, avoids parties (the ‘let’s get drunk!’ kind, I mean, not necessarily political parties, although he said he didn’t like them either). She then spends very little time analyzing Robespierre’s politics or the circumstances that drove him, leaving her head twirling at his maneuvers, which she inevitably boils down to his personality defects.

But for someone who is so focused on Robespierre’s personality, she actually offers very little insight there, either. So many of her paragraphs she just sums up with “this was irrational, Robespierre was just being nuts.” Okay, fine - but why? If he’s mad, what’s his method?

One thing that particularly bugs me about “Robespierre is just wacky” is Scurr tries to use idealism as an inherent indication of irrationality. It’s not. The fact that Robespierre did not take bribes is actually not that scary. No matter what your politics, I’m sure you’d agree, that trying to improve the living conditions of the poor is not scary. Believing in your cause is not, in and of itself, Bad. It’s what the cause is that can be frightening but Scurr just sort of shrugs and lumbers off when you ask her about it. 

If Robespierre is wrong, why? Even if you dislike Robespierre - and there’s plenty to dislike - you should at least be able to explain to me why Robespierre thought he was right if you’re writing his biography.

But to an extent…she can’t. Because to explain why Robespierre thinks he’s doing makes sense, Scurr would have to place him in the context of his time. There’s a French Revolution going on in the book, in the background, somewhere, but Scurr really doesn’t want to analyze that much. Oh, she’ll judge it - this part was good, this part was bad, but Scurr really does start to muddle around whenever she has to explain the why of anything. 

And context is everything. If I sit down in a chair and start to hallucinate for a few hours, you might think that I’m a little peculiar. If you learn that I’m just sitting in the chair reading a book and just visualizing the scenes, well - well, now it’s a different picture, isn’t it? 

To summarize her book: Robespierre was crazy, the French Revolution happened and it was bad. If you want something a little more in depth, I’d look elsewhere. 

So no, I don’t like it very much. It does have its merits; it was the first biography of Robespierre I ever read, and actually can serve as a good introduction to the period itself in terms of “things happened in A, B, C order.” 

[citizen-chaos]

SUNRISE ON THE REAPING SPOILERS

if you read past this you claim full responsibility for what you've read you have been warned

I'm so mad it took me so long to put this together, but in Catching Fire, Katniss specifically points out that Maysilee has to detach herself from Merrilee, who she recognises as Madge's mother, and Asterid, as hers. Asterid herself mentions Maysilee being in the 50th Games. And when the reaping starts, Haymitch is with Burdock and Blair. But since the reaping had to be restaged after Woodbine's death, he isn't standing with them anymore in the new version. So Katniss didn't mention it because she literally had zero reason to suspect that Haymitch even knew her father until he talked about him in the memory book because the Capitol's version didn't show them together. YOUR HONOUR THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS ☹️

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i know i haven't been especially active on here but dear god can we stop with the notion that liking and shipping certain frev figures is evil and bad? like fucking, sorry i find Danton interesting and funny even though i know he isn't necessarily a good person because of it? because don't you dare say 'people who like Danton are bad because he did this and that' and then swear up and down that idk Robespierre is an innocent little blorbo who did nothing wrong ever

and plenty of beloveds have done Danton-adjacent shit before (cough Fabre coughh) so,,, why do we hate just him again? oh right because he's 'ugly'.

i'm not saying he's a good person but it's a fucking exhausting argument with 'you can't like Danton because he was a bad person he was a pedo!1!' like god forbid someone wants to draw or write about ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT FRENCH REVOLUTIONARIES sometimes

anyways insert cool outro here niko out

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 17

In Barnave's speech we see a rhetoric that continues to be used in modern day, against anyone calling for social justice and progress- the classic 'progress is going too far, and anyone asking for justice/equality are agitators of peace' It's a rhetoric that comes with dire consequences when a police force is backing it- as will be seen in a few updates time, and as we see in present times.

[mathildeaquisexta]

January 21 1793, Bonbon Robespierre because all his friends went to the King's execution instead of his birthday party

[bloggingboutburgers]

I guess I should also mention it's lucky IF we get sidewalks and pedestrian crossing here in the first place huh...

How civilized was the US supposed to be again?

[citizen-chaos]

Happy 262nd birthday Bonbon! You are loved and appreciated <3

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Happy 263rd birthday! Still both loved and appreciated :)

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doing everything except making the frev textposts (i love this book so much) @kemisaur

inspired by scatterpatter's incorrect quotes

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was pairing my fav frev figures with ride the cyclone songs and Camille Desmoulins gets both This Song is Awesome and Talia. I don't make the rules sorry. also Augustin Robespierre gets the Ballad of Jane Doe

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Happy 270th birthday to Georges Couthon ! (got a nice mostly round number there :P)