' After Legendre, the member of the Convention who has the highest opinion of himself is Saint-Just. One can see by his gait and bearing that he looks upon his own head as the corner-stone of the Revolution, for he carries it upon his shoulders with as much respect as if it were the Sacred Host. But what makes his vanity killing is, that some years ago he published an epic poem in twenty-four cantos, entitled "Argant." Now Rivarol and Champcenetz, whose microscope, used in the interests of the "Almanach des grands hommes" not a single verse, not a single hemistich in France, has ever escaped, have in vain gone in search of this ; they who have hunted up even the least little scrap of literature, have not seen Saint-Just's epic poem in twenty-four cantos. After such a misadventure, how can he show himself ? ‘
Camille Desmoulins, passive aggressively misspelling ‘ Organt ’ and throwing down the shade against de Saint-Just.
basically, pandora from myth shares a lot in common with diana ( which i’ll get to in a moment ) & hoo boy do i want to include more of those comparisons in my writing, especially early era wondy.
so it all starts waaaay back, after prometheus ( which means foresight or ‘ he with foresight ‘ , btw ) basically gets away with protecting humans at zeus’s expense one too many times so zeus, being the lil pissbaby he is, decides to retaliate.
he has hephaestus craft a woman ( some versions claim her to be the first woman ) from clay.
the woman is blessed with gifts from the gods.
she’s as beautiful as aphrodite, cunning & curious & smart. she’s crafted for perfection. she’s then wedded to prometheus’s brother, epimetheus ( ‘ hindsight ‘ ) , despite prometheus’s warnings. the story goes that she’s too curious & opens the jar with all of the evils of the world against zeus’s instructions & , even though she only takes a peek, it’s enough that they all go flying out.
however, interestingly enough, pandora’s name translates to ‘ all gifts ‘. many speculate that’s her name because of the gifts bestowed upon her by the gods but some assert that pandora actually came bearing a jar with all of the gifts & the graces of the world & that it was only countless retellings & a shift in the view of women that saw pandora’s story change drastically by the time it came to writing & collecting these stories down onto paper. they point out that the jar she bears, also clay, represents a uterus & femininity - a symbol of life .
think about it though. a woman of clay blessed by the gods bringing her gifts to better the rest of the world ( literally, in some tellings, Man’s World ) . & if that ain’t diana, idk what is.
the other one was outdated surprise i have a new one now + everyone will ignore it
if i’m missing something, please let me know bc i am a certified dumbass. and if you wanna be on here ( or wanna be on here more ) come plot with me you cowards.
this is more for me than anyone else, and it’s more applicable to my resource blog, but these are the FCs I am planning on making gifs for at some point in my life the near future, and also the people I’ve made gifs for that I will be updating every once in a while. Highkey-- if there’s someone you play with a ton of video content and not a ton of gifs, let me know, because I can do my best to hook you up.
But because his character was weak some have said that his campaign for clemency in the last year of his life was a campaign of fear, undertaken to save his own life ; and others, that he had not the stomach to endure the cruelties which made the military victories possible. Yet all that history tells us is that he risked his life, and lost his life, for saying what Robespierre believed, but dared not say ; what Robespierre, at last, said in a whisper, which was overheard, and which brought him, too, to his death ; what Saint-Just came back to say after Fleurus. The answer that he spoke too soon, that it was unsafe to abolish the tyranny of the Committee at that time, is no answer. [Camille] recognized the necessity of the Terror, but pleaded that it should not be applied blindly and indiscriminately. He hated two things above all others : purposeless cruelty and the sombre Jansenist dream of Robespierre. The vision he saw was Danton's happy Republic.
J.B. Morton, ‘Camille Desmoulins (and Other Studies of the French Revolution)’ 1950
