igneousfluid

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perks of unemployment: you have an unlimited amount of time to spiral into an obsessive rabbit hole of research diving into every obscure book, documentary and absurd article you can find about your favorite little historical figure.

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The fishes are some out of the world metaphor and by the way CLICK MORE TO SEE SAINTSPIERRE KEYCHAIN

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So hey guys did you know I love these two??

They were so gay istg man

WHAT ARE YALL DOINNGGGG GUYS

"[...] However, this man [Marat] had a sensible heart. He especially showed his formidable affection towards Camille Desmoulins and Barbaroux. What attracted him to Camille was his amiable character, his wit, his gaiety, his good humor. This contrast exists in friendship as in love. Camille Desmoulins initially responded to this tenderness with enthusiasm; he publicly refered to Marat as a prophet, the guardian angel of France, the genius of the Revolution and called him the Divine Marat in his newspaper. But the unequal character of the two friends more than once broke this good understanding [...]"

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Trash BBC Docudrama: Robespierre was a monster like Stalin and Pol Pot and Mao and Hitler and he would have killed us-!

Actually he was never a big fan of war, even less invasion and conquest.

You know who'd have invaded and slaughtered you though?

Yeah. This guy.

Your brilliant snarky smug mathematician OC.

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Hi guys Marat in a mousetrap(Lafayette put it out for him most likely)

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i am certain that hébert would be a frank zappa fan and i don't like it

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Being a fan of a famous historical figure is crazy, I will be like ‘wow finally seeing my waifu this year 🥰’ and it will be at his mausoleum

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I find it very funny when historians/authors in general phrase something in the gayest way possible,

In this case I'm probably being a bit anachronistic as this is from the 19th century but GOOD LORD Esquiros, this sounds almost like fanfiction.

My probably not very accurate translation:

[...] However, this man [Marat] had a sensible heart. He especially showed his formidable affection towards Camille Desmoulins and Barbaroux. What attracted him to Camille was his amiable character, his wit, his gaiety, his good humor. This contrast exists in friendship as in love. Camille Desmoulins initially responded to this tenderness with enthusiasm; he publicly refered to Marat as a prophet, the guardian angel of France, the genius of the Revolution and called him the Divine Marat in his newspaper. But the unequal character of the two friends more than once broke this good understanding [...]

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Part of the problem is that a few historians in the 70s and 80s argued that romantic friendship was seen as normative and was completely socially acceptable. Since then historians have done in-depth research showing that romantic friendship was only semi-socially acceptable and was seen as sexually suspicious by some people. But every time someone suggests romantic friendship might be part of queer history they're told "that's just the way people spoke back then" by someone who read a Tumblr post based on a Blogspot post based on the Wikipedia page that was based on a couple of articles from the 1970s.

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my pure, innocent, and beautiful primary sources vs. their appalling, disgraceful, and vile secondary sources

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Here's a comic about autistic special interests :3

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i had a dream and there was old man yaoi between marat and an evil fyodor dostoievski i don't remember the details.

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Heh... hey guysss..... tradicional sketches before I can actually do smth digitally

Some are more silly

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Homme des Lumières.

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What tf did I just draw

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i don’t really know how tumblr works but apparently there’s a french revolution/frev community on here?? i drew camille and his fuckass micro-fringe and i occasionally do other shitty doodles of other historical figures/fictional characters etc. so you should totally follow me i promise i’m funny sometimes (?)

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i had a random thought about how that young hébert portrait looks like arisa ichigaya from bandori and now I CAN'T UNSEE IT