HalfMaskSister

just an artist | she/her | rus, eng | INFP | Call me Sister or Half:)

[halfmasksister]

I made it in July, but decided to post it here just now... 🍓

Because I forgot about Tumblr obviously

[halfmasksister]

He just wants to keep the funky fish for himself.

🐟🕊

[fuckyeahhistorycrushes]

A couple of weeks ago, someone submitted French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre as their history crush.

While I was pleased to see Robespierre spotlighted, I was not pleased to see how he was depicted. Contrary to popular (and frankly erroneous opinion), Robespierre was not a lunatic, a tyrant, or a mass murderer. He did not “go insane” or kill thousands of people. In fact, he saved thousands and lost his life because of it.

Pretty crush worthy right?

Well, it gets better.

Throughout some of the bloodiest points of the revolution, Robespierre made it his mission to stand up against the very excesses he is now accused of promoting. He protected the lives of thousands of his political enemies, personally intervened in the condemnation of King Louis XVI’s sister (Madame Elisabeth), and promptly scolded/recalled those deputies responsible for military atrocities on the war front.

Robespierre did believe in terror - but his terror was a necessary one, a terror which relied on clemency and reason to achieve its means. It was not “the Terror” we are taught or the the Terror that we know. That terror was the one carried out by Robespierre’s political enemies, enemies who then utilized propaganda to attribute their excesses to Robespierre posthumously.

As the esteemed historian William Doyle writes:

Robespierre himself, he was never a dictator, and there is no reliable evidence to suggest that it was his aim…men called him a dictator because they feared moral inflexibility in one who had power. After they had destroyed him, they used the charge to justify what they had done. It also enabled them to blame him for acts they themselves had helped to commit, but which became increasingly a subject for shame, recrimination, and revenge during the months of retreat from terror and ruthless government which now began.

Need more proof? Put down that AP Euro textbook and look into some accredited works on the subject from JM Thompson, Albert Mathiez, George Rude, or RR Palmer.

Vive Robespierre!  

[itssemisstuff]

Vive Robespierre!

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

List of Saint-Just's personal possessions part II: Furniture

Saint-Just occupied a spacious apartment on Rue Caumartin, which he furnished himself, unlike his previous accommodation at the Hotel des États Unis. The building in which the apartment was located was newly-built and had several precious commodities such as a water pump located in the building’s inner courtyard. It’s also very likely that Saint-Just took advantage of the water pump to have a room converted into a bathroom, a luxury at the time and a sign that he was fairly avant-garde in respects to personal hygiene for his time. 

His choice in furniture seems to have been based on comfort above all, and I suspect he acquired several pieces of furniture second-hand. Shades of blue abound in his home, hinting that this could have very well been his favorite color. It is possible that he designed his apartment as a place where he could comfortably entertain his colleagues, as suggested by the numerous chairs and armchairs found in his apartment. The list goes as follows:

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[sextidi]

french revolutionaries if they were animals

[xiorc-0714]

omg owl camille😭😭

[halfmasksister]

They're adorable 😭

Horse Saint-Just!!!!!

[tangjue]

A simple saintspierre hand-drawn MAD

(song: “雪人” by 駝兒)

[halfmasksister]

!!!

[icybloodtigrss]

Today is 15 Ventôse in the French Republican Calendar, and it is the Day of the Goat (as opposed to Billygoat on 5 Ventôse).

[splitflute]

clear the searches salieri KIND salieri LOVING

[doodledeposit]

A 3 month endeavor to recreate General George Washington's uniform, particularly inspired by Arnold Friberg's painting of the Prayer at Valley Forge. Went to Washington's HQ and around Valley Forge today to get pictures ❤️

[halfmasksister]

SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

[misscalming]

Dantons perspective

[halfmasksister]

Cutie😫😫

[halfmasksister]

Sketching balding man

💀🍎

[saintjustitude]

Ok I'll bite.

Explain to me how the age gap between Robespierre and Saint-Just is making saintspierre a "problematic" ship?

Especially when you take this into account? Or the fact that a 25yo is an adult? And don't you dare give me that pseudoscience about the frontal lobe, it's not true. The "legal age" (as much as they could conceive it) in the Ancien Régime was 25, 30 in some places. It frustrated Saint-Just to no end, and you want to reduce him to childhood again?

[stalinistqueens]

copy/pasting my comments without editing:

ppl have rly exploited the age gap thing for manipulation purposes in fandom discussions a lot. adults of different ages having relationships was not really the problem. the problem was older people who exclusively target and will only date much younger partners like leonardo dicaprio, who is 900000 billion years old by now and only dates 25 year old women, because they perceive them as being vulnerable and less demanding than partners their own ages.

it was primarily about misogyny (although same sex couples aren’t free of this kind of behavior) but like. who cares about misogyny when we have multiple people dismissing danton’s sexually inappropriate behavior towards women :////

mysteriously~*~ this standard isn’t applied to m/f couples they like. no one is saying babet and phillippe, henriette and SJ, or camille and lucile are problematic for their age differences. or even louise sebastienne gély and danton, which was a scandal at the time. :/

[saintjustitude]

The age gap between Philippe and Élisabeth is 8 years, 7 years between Saint-Just and Henriette, 10 years between Camille and Lucile, and we all know about Danton and his second wife. If those are normal because of 18thc standards, then so is the age gap between Robespierre and Saint-Just. Yes, your modern sensibilities can be bothered by it, but it's not "problematic". Especially since they considered themselves to be equal, and Saint-Just would never have thought of his age as making him "different" from his peers. That's the "young man" who was arguing so often with 40-50yos as his equals they called him "arrogant".

[kyliaquilor]

That Robespierre still has his defenders even today is... not surprising, but definitely disappointing.

[le-vieux-cordelier]

(ooc: you're quoting thermidorian propaganda against him. He was neither a leader nor in charge of the terror—the white terror killed more than the supposed reign of terror before it. He was just well known and was used as a scapegoat by people that had blood on their hands. I recommend expanding your horizons beyond anglo historians that were always hostile to the revolution.)

[aramistinguette]

saw this funny 1934 newspaper header (the article itself isn't very interesting though) so I thought I could make a little lino cut design inspired from it

I might carve one of these and print it on a t-shirt or something idk

[halfmasksister]

Grow a... revolutionary??

I'm still trying to develop a sustainable design for everyone so that I can draw them the same way every time.

And I like to draw this ridiculously pointy nose for Robespierre..........

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[sieclesetcieux]

Don't infantilize Saint-Just.

He would absolutely loathe to be reduced to his youth. He fought against it at every turn of his tragically short life. He tried to get elected before he was the required minimum age of 25, and he pestered about his minority to the man who published his essay on the Constitution of 1791. In that letter, he counted the days to his majority. It was a terrible obstacle to him.

And to make things worse, the Directoire later raised the age to be elected to 30 years old. They had to make sure no one could ever rise as high as he had. It wasn't enough to murder him, they had to murder his legacy too.

So, don't call him a child. Don't treat him like one. You only make the Courtois and Mantel of this world happy.

[fluviusy]

The final character design hw for SJ

[halfmasksister]

DROOLING🤤