Bex's Art

Pro comic artist 🎨 I still like cuddling my cat n my gf best 😸 Drawing a lot of stuff about autism n asexuality atm. https://linktr.ee/Theorah

[neirien-of-ennorath]

I am starting British Sign Language Level 3 this week. Super excited and a bit nervous as a non-native English speaker and an immigrant. Compared to Level 1 and 2, BSL level 3 will go deeper into Deaf history and culture research.

It’s only earlier this year that I discovered the connection between Deaf history and French Revolution. Apparently, French Revolution is a big moment in Deaf history. It was the first time in history Deaf people were recognised as equal citizens. Signing was accepted as a legitimate language, seen as a natural form of communication. When I first learned about it, I immediately asked a Deaf member at the sign club that I go to every week. He enthusiastically told me lots of stories, mostly about French Deaf people founding Deaf schools during the Revolution (and I soon got lost in all of the finger spelled French names unfortunately). I was fascinated to find so much more to learn, and overjoyed that two of my passionate interests connected.

On Deaf Day back in April, I got the book Signs of Freedom by Paddy Ladd, one of my favourite Deaf authors, and I finally started reading it this month. This is a play he wrote about Deaf history. And here’s French Revolution again:

For the Level 3 exam next spring, I will be making a presentation on Deaf culture or Deaf history. I don’t know what topic I will be assigned yet, but it would be amazing if I can present something related to the French Revolution in sign language!

I’m curious if they will cover the French Revolution from a Deaf studies perspective in my upcoming BSL course. I also wonder if the historians of the tumblr frev community have recommended readings on this topic? Also open to works about disability history more broadly. I would really appreciate any suggestions from the community. Thank you!

[y9rn]

During the French Revolution in 1791, the National Constituent Assembly abolished the law against homosexuality as part of adopting a new legal code without the influence of Christianity.

happy....

pride

month...

[theorahsart]

Did Maximilien live with anybody after college before moving in with Charlotte? Or did they graduate about the same time?

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he went straight back to Arras to live with Charlotte after he graduated. As a side note, Charlotte wouldn't have 'graduated' with him as women were rarely allowed an education back then (🥲)

Although fun fact, Robespierre himself wrote an essay arguing why two women should be allowed to attend some lectures at their local university, so I guess we know where he stood on that point at least pre-revolution. Maybe Charlotte had some influence on that opinion~

[theorahsart]

@secondjulia corrected my assumption 😁 Pls read her comment in the comment section for a VERY detailed account 👀 Its very helpful, she checked an actual book which is more than what I did ahaha

Thank yooou for the correction 💖

[sheishine]

Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Anomalocaris (Cambrian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アノマロカリス (カンブリア紀)。

The print is available on my Etsy shop.

[theorahsart]

Did Maximilien live with anybody after college before moving in with Charlotte? Or did they graduate about the same time?

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he went straight back to Arras to live with Charlotte after he graduated. As a side note, Charlotte wouldn't have 'graduated' with him as women were rarely allowed an education back then (🥲)

Although fun fact, Robespierre himself wrote an essay arguing why two women should be allowed to attend some lectures at their local university, so I guess we know where he stood on that point at least pre-revolution. Maybe Charlotte had some influence on that opinion~

[theorahsart]

This might sound very silly and overwrought, but I really wanted to say that like a lot of people I've been having a shitty year for a lot of reasons. Yet things like your comic updates can bring both relief and an escape. Every little bit helps and art as always, means more to people than you know. So thank you, truly, and I hope you take care of yourself too.

🥺🥺 WAAH thank you, what a nice message 😭

Probably like yourself, I feel so useless sometimes against the way the world is going. I wish I could help more, so it rly means the world to me when ppl send msgs like this that make me see that I can help just a little bit. On top of this, I dont rly get very much support/enthusiasm within the actual comic community for my comics (its just not ppl's jam, neither my art style or the kind of stories I'm telling, and that’s fine! When you primarily work in kids publishing, you have a wide appeal to teachers, librarians, normal folk.. but not sm ppl in the art scene)

So, to get this kind of support from readers means so much to me, it rly keeps ME going!! I woulda given up ages ago without readers... So THANK YOU as well!! 😭😭

[edoutft]

These men. Again

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 25

OMG we finally finished chapter 4 omgggg it only took over a year 😭 A friendly reminder that you can buy vol 1 of Incorruptible here, both the print version or a pdf if you want to pay whatever price you want for it~

Also...lol a comment @anotherhumaninthisworld made before, made me wanna add this:

I wanted to add all the ways they f*cked each other over to end up in their end situations but...there is no room. Guess I'll hafta draw it all out in the comic lmao

[theorahsart]

Daisies 💖

[citizentaleo]

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 25

OMG we finally finished chapter 4 omgggg it only took over a year 😭 A friendly reminder that you can buy vol 1 of Incorruptible here, both the print version or a pdf if you want to pay whatever price you want for it~

Also...lol a comment @anotherhumaninthisworld made before, made me wanna add this:

I wanted to add all the ways they f*cked each other over to end up in their end situations but...there is no room. Guess I'll hafta draw it all out in the comic lmao

[theorahsart]

I'm giving you a corny af ending to this chapter 😌 But cut me some slack, I am a millennial... and since the millennial experience is all about being a 30-smth who's been thrown unexpectedly into a f*cked up world, who is culturally used to shamelessly sharing and unleashing all our emotions at every moment...I think I relate very heavily to The Jacobins lmao

So I'm sure they'd all approve of all this sentimentality.

[lemurious]

Here’s to the ones who deliberately step outside the ranks and ignore categorization. Here’s to the revolutionary who contradicts Newton based on experimental evidence on the diffraction of light; to the journalist who describes eye diseases; to the doctor who advocates for prison reforms; to the lifelong skeptic of lofty pretensions who is turned into a symbol before his blood has clotted.

Here’s to refusing to turn away from the fear and the violence and the treachery and the war; to claiming the guard-post, though armed with words alone. Perhaps, just enough to protect the shared ideals. Perhaps, too much. Perhaps, insufficient; history may have the answer, but how could one know that, when one is in the process of making the history happen?

Here’s to hard decisions made unflinchingly; to cutting through the rush of a new republic like a soldier escaping a siege, decisively and with full understanding of the inevitable defeat; and to words that continue to ring true as we offer complacency to the twin hydras of poverty and injustice in hope that it will be enough to escape them, just this time.

"...que la société humaine y prenne garde, on ne tuera Marat qu’en tuant la misère ; Charlotte Corday n’a rien fait ; tant qu’il y aura des misérables, il y aura sur l’horizon un nuage qui peut devenir un fantôme, et un fantôme qui peut devenir Marat." - Victor Hugo

Happy birthday, Marat.

(*engraving is from the British Museum collection)

[ic-napology]

Art commissions - Gallery

Some examples of my work. See the commission sheet here.

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[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 24

If you recall in chap 3, I explored how important the Jacobin Club likely was as a place of connection for Robespierre. I think about that when I read about this boycott/walk out that happened, and the events of the following day- the early impact it probably had on him and the struggle to trust people later on.

[theorahsart]

😂😂 I love your hashtags so much. I feel like Brissot absolutely had this 'fuckin sell outs' energy...right up until he didn't lmao

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible Chap 4 pt 24

If you recall in chap 3, I explored how important the Jacobin Club likely was as a place of connection for Robespierre. I think about that when I read about this boycott/walk out that happened, and the events of the following day- the early impact it probably had on him and the struggle to trust people later on.

[lujinarchive]

Katara and Sokka