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He/Him/His | COMMISIONS OPEN | I will hyperfixiate on something and that will be all I post about

[tangjue]

⚠️ TW: death, blood, disturbing imagery, psychological distress ⚠️

This is kind of a continuation of this post

[joboleninstan]

TW decapitated head (duh it's frev) and disturbing images?

[aoelustious]

it’s so tempting to think we know who a historical figure is. like, we’ve read the books, we’ve seen the letters, the portraits, the carefully archived quotes, the secondhand impressions. we’ve consumed so much about them that it feels like we’ve met them. but we literally can’t know. not really.

especially with the ones who lived before cameras. before sound recordings. before we had any way to capture a person as they actually were. we will never know what their faces really looked like—only what artists thought was flattering, or what conventions demanded, or what their patrons wanted to see. we’ll never know what their voices sounded like. the cadence of their speech, the laugh that caught in their throat, the way they slurred when they were drunk or soft-spoken when they were tired—gone.

when you analyze a fictional character, you’re dealing with something intentionally constructed. the author made them interpretable. every line, every gesture is purposeful, designed to communicate something. but historical figures weren’t written that way. they weren’t edited for clarity. they were messy and inconsistent and self-contradictory because they were alive. and what survives of them—letters, documents, anecdotes—is just a very narrow window. we’re peering through keyholes and calling it a portrait.

that's why historical fandoms always feel like a giant collage project to me. we all start with the same pile of scraps: quotes, anecdotes, portraits, rumors, historical context, the occasional “so-and-so once said he was like this.” and everyone picks and arranges those scraps differently. some people dig deeper and find more pieces, others highlight the parts that speak to them most.

none of us are “right,” but all of us are creating.

[digitaldiscipline]

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month.

https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin

[pmkn2-0]

providence propaganda poster!

Yummy yummy

[revolutionarywig]

if every Robespierre you have (including irl and modern) got into a fistfight (with dnd refereeing to keep it fair) who would win and who would run out sobbing first the people need to know ‼️

Love this question hahahhaa

I fear Robespierres are generally not built for fist fights (except for dnd robespierre lol)

[tubeon-deactivated20260110]

Visiting Gloria

[pyth666pi]

"The incorruptible, the archangel. Both a son of France."

Weewow

[god-help-me-pls]

i got really into nsync and wanted a post tbt branch design that looked more like jt and it spiraled from there

new branch btw </3

[theorahsart]

I was kindly invited by @pigeon-on-saint-orange and @moonolivia to make a little Robespierre art for an event they're running on Lofter for his birthday. So, I made a *very corny* comic. Happy Birthday Maximilien Robespierre! Many of your dreams and ideas live on in modern day~

[misscalming]

Thermidor posting, made smth else that payed homage to more of “Saturns children” but didn’t like it. So just Robespierre unfortunately, full under cut, bit gory abt what you’d expect, T.W. Blood, bruises

[sackosulodtikagsakoron]

Thermidor!!

Warning! Blood and stufff ans uhhm a little mold?

Rotten apple - Jack Stauber

The edelweiss flowers symbolise immortality and achievement♡

Happy Thermidor people🫶

[janellefeng]

Based on the play Thermidor (1925) written by Stanisława Przybyszewska.

[barbaroux]

back for thermidor..

[365chapitres]

9 Thermidor

[janellefeng]

Thank you to @shamisenorchestra for the beautiful music and sound in this short animation, please check them out and you can also find more of their work on shamisenorchestra.com 

[birdytaste]

Alexander woke up in the camp. The General was looking for him. Everything seemed ordinary…

I meant to share this on duel day, but things got busy and I finally found time to translate it—hope you all enjoy it!