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happy late bastille, happy on-time federation, i wonder what the sunrise saw that day

aaahh i don't think i can finish bastille day art in time, lafayette doodle in the meantime

#frev #frev art #marquis de lafayette #i drew this on the back of a wanted poster

Announcing "Liberty, Epistolary, Fraternity!"

Dracula Daily can be for anything in the public domain.... so why not some non-fiction? LEF will send out, approximately weekly, a letter (of varying length) relevant to the French Revolution on the relevant date. We will begin on 14 Juillet 1789 and slowly make our way to 1794. People can hop on and off the train at any time, and "necroposting" is completely fine.

You can participate by:

subscribing to the Substack (salutpublic.substack.com)

discussing the letter of the week on Tumblr with the tag "#liberty epistolary fraternity" (all kinds of posts are welcome! meta, art, shitposting, etc are all contributing. have fun with it!)

interacting with other people's posts

submitting letters you want to see to this Tumblr with an ask (please do this hehehe)

Because of the long cycle of this subscription, every new month there will be an "off-season" letter, which can be from any point in the French Revolution, or outside within reason, so you can expect four regular letters and one additional letter every month.

LEF is at this moment a solo project by @entropicbunny, in pursuit of accessibility, because BnF's user interface could never. Any questions, requests, etc can come to this blog or the above handle.

(you can also help out! finding and translating letters is always extremely helpful & guarantees any letters' place in it <3) (also please do in general because otherwise it's not impossible for me to forget saint-just's first letter to robespierre, etc, etc.)

#pardon my shameless srb just this once #haha

doodle about robespierre's immortal legacy as birds

#i apologize for my handwriting #frev #frev art #maximilien robespierre

project hail mary based off a description in toilers of the sea, and toilers of the sea based off a description in toilers of the sea

#the toilers of the sea #victor hugo #gilliatt #project hail mary

mountains for barricade days!

the first one is based off this photo by Connor Quagliana :)

#barricade day #les mis #all the Window Ladies have been combined #french romantics #nerval #thibault #i suppose

didn't get the opportunity to finish this but the way the conciergerie is set up to evoke the people chilling there haunts me

#frev #frev art #la conciergerie

redrew this Tree from like a year ago

#frev #frev art #saint-just #et al if you can recognize them :)

a world about to dawn!!!!!!

#frev #frev art #maximilien robespierre #inspired by darnton calling an 18thc french riot's anger a lightning in a bottle

it's always been there

#thomas-alexandre dumas #rosalie jullien #gracchus babeuf #frev #et al #frev art #does this technically qualify as napo fanart gdjkjfsdjg lmao #i know tumblr has a habit of compression but this time i also saved this as a jpg so lets see if that's even worse for the image quality

sorry camille sorry hérault the moon took over this is a moon blog now

(i will probably be posting at least one more Moon Drawing. Moon.) but anyway this one's based off the anecdote in hugo's promontorium somnii in which françois arago explains to him that yes, the telescope is working correctly, you are looking at the moon, anyway it's beautifully written

+ i recently watched the 1962 munchausen film with a friend in which Hand Telescope makes its appearance, fun stuff if you're in a moon mood (it is also very moon)

#victor hugo #francois arago #oh and also sorry lavoisier #science is still at it if that makes you feel better for the whole stealing money thing #that said moon is still a colonialist venture; the rock itself might be a sublime representation of progress but even science takes #raw material & uses agents of violence

some thoughts on how i typically draw marianne's physical age vs how she's usually depicted (reference under cut)

#frev #frev art

sure in the mood to march on versailles these days

#frev #frev art #saint just #saint-just #jean-paul marat #i miss january '93

your art is a huge inspiration to me😭❤ Personally your use of depth and form and composition and themes and aaaaaaa it all got me so hooked and made me think how long have you studied art overall. also can I ask what software do you use?!✨ ❤

aahhh thank you this is really cool coming from you!!!

as for art i've been at it since i was a wee lad but i think i started actively studying around 2023 (?), around the same time i became interested in theatre, comics and classical lit… after that it was just a countdown until i found SO MANY inspiring artists in the frev neighborhood

& i use medibang on my laptop—it's free & basic but i've been abusing the default wet watercolor brush forever since haha

hilariously or poetically or something it took me 3 extra days to finish this due to my own jaw complications

#i got cursed #frev #frev art #maximilien robespierre #thermidor

fouché and talleyrand toasting to the monarchy with lightning and apocalyptic wind 10/10 ending hilarious

#the movie i'm referring to is le souper btw #it's an adaptation of a play and is Just those two discussing which direction to go #frev #frev art #joseph fouche #joseph fouché #fouche

on a related note, I've been reading about the propagandists of the deed lately....

#something about how the guillotine has been repurposed and bastardized from what it was originally meant to be #but that's an illustration for another day i think #frev #frev art #saint just #saint-just #louis antoine de saint just

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