✰ FISH !!

(character belongs to CowboyWithAnxiety on toyhouse)

Kids who don't know much about the topic but are sensitive to social justice issues, who don't want to mess up and do something problematic, and very likely have ocd (hi, I have OCD) are extremely susceptible to this. It weaponizes vague moral vocabulary designed to trigger anxiety rather than invite actual intellectual debate.

There is absolutely nothing "problematic" about analyzing, writing about, or interpreting their relationship as a profound, intense, or even romantic partnership. Sanitizing their relationship to something non-sexual and strictly professional is not social justice. Especially since they were some of the fathers to social justice lol.

People "meet this idea with anger and resistance" because you are forcing a hierarchy upon equals.

Saint-Just was not his "little brother". He was his "brother" in the revolutionary sense of fraternity. It's ahistorical, anachronistic, and has nothing to do with who they actually were as real people. You act like they were fictional characters you can project whatever headcanon onto, and disregard that they were historical figures. This dynamic is deeply insulting to Saint-Just, which you would know if you cared about him - which you don't. He's just a fun bundle of tropes to play with to you - not a real human being who lived and existed.

aka "saintspierre"

and related Queer History Discussions

Analysis of the queerness of the fragments "On Affections" from Saint-Just's Institutions républicaines

Why we talk of queer erasure and homophobia when it comes to dismissing Robespierre and Saint-Just's relationship specifically

Digression from this post on homosociality and homosexuality in the late 18th century

Why projecting a father/son dynamic on Robespierre and Saint-Just is antiethical to their politics, personalities and identities

A few historians and other writers on Robespierre and Saint-Just's relationship

Two first-hand testimonies on the intimacy between Robespierre and Saint-Just

Why saintspierre doesn't reduce Saint-Just (just something very poetic I wrote about them)

About the lack of textual "evidence" part I

About the lack of textual "evidence" part II

Revolutionary perception of time and the forging of friendships during life-changing events

On Saint-Just using "tu" for Robespierre in the same letter in which Le Bas uses "vous"

Saint-Just wasn't only "one man among 21 who supported Robespierre" and even the Thermidorians knew it