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To publish the Works of Robespierre is to rehabilitate a name around which so many unjust prejudices have gathered; it is, at the same time, to provide the people with an abundant source of enlightenment and instruction. How many men who have never so much as glanced at Robespierre’s writings or speeches are convinced, on the authority of the aristocracy’s paid writers, that Robespierre was a villain. Let them read his works, and they will arrive at a fairer judgement of his feelings and his heart.

Robespierre’s works are the best answer to the frenzied declamations of his equally frenzied detractors. To slander, insult and shriek is not to reason. Those who, for want of better arguments, heap insult upon slander against a man prove one thing: that there is not a single fact in that man’s life which might support a reasonable and conscientious attack upon him.

Did Robespierre err? That is what I shall examine in the historical notice with which I shall preface his works. But it is above all through those works themselves, by reading and reflecting upon them, that one may become convinced that Robespierre was cruelly slandered. It is by closely examining his conduct and his political actions from 1789 until 9 Thermidor that one will recognise in him the purest defender of the rights of humanity.

Whoever reads Robespierre is inwardly consumed by a more ardent love of country and liberty, and by a deeper hatred of the tyrants who crush humankind. Whoever reads him sees a new universe unfolding before his eyes. He feels, touches and understands his rights; he identifies himself with them; he becomes worthy of the noble name of man, worthy of the great title of citizen.

SALUT ET FRATERNITÉ, CITOYENS

ON THIS SATURDAY, 14 THERMIDOR, YEAR 234 OF THE FRENCH FIRST REPUBLIC (August 1 for non-revolutionaries who shall be guillotined shortly), I SHALL BE PRESENTING MY THESIS ON HOW ROBESPIERRE FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WOULD HAVE BEEN A TUMBLR SEXYMAN IF TUMBLR HAD EXISTED IN THE 1790S, MEANING HE HAD A BAFFLINGLY LARGE FANBASE AMONG A PARTICULAR TYPE OF GIRLIES DESPITE HIS UTTER LACK OF CONVENTIONAL SEX APPEAL

IT SHALL TAKE PLACE FROM 5:30PM TO 6:30PM EST AT DASHCON 2: VIVE LA RÉVOLUTION @dashcon-two. IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND IN PERSON IN TORONTO, YOU CAN ATTEND THE PANEL ONLINE VIA VIRTUAL DASHCON 2 (which will take place on Discord because of course it will). TICKETS HERE.

I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

This is from the book this person thinks is "not that explicit."

That is a fucking blow job completely uncensored which I've politely fucking covered for you.

Same book:

They deserved being pulled from school libraries.

I don't say Gender Queer isn't explicit. If you read the words, I say "It isn't especially more explicit than my book"

If you're not familiar with the English language, 'more than' is used to compare one thing to another, as opposed to this meaning you have made up of 'it doesn't include that thing".

The fact the pretend person in my comic says "(Gender Queer) is way more explicit" also, to most people with literacy skills, implies that the pretend person in the comic, and myself by extension, acknowledge that Gender Queer is indeed an explicit book in parts.

Now, since you seem to lack literacy skills, I'm not going to expect you to understand this next part, but...

a) Context is very important in books. you are acting like GQ is porn. But its a memoir and educational, it's showing you these things cos it's being real.

b) 16-18 yos go to school libraries too. This book, and my book, is aimed at these age groups. Not all books with pictures are aimed towards small children. Not sure you are aware of that, but they're not. This book is aimed at young adults who are already generally familiar with the topic of sex, sex education etc.

c) that was kinda one point of my comic. People assume asexuality is a 'sfw' or child friendly topic because 'theres no sex involved' and that's both really patronising to people like me and oversimplifies what sex education should be about. You're over simplifying sex education here.

d) My book is at similar level of explicit to GQ. My book is also essentially about letting young people know that if they don't feel comfortable with having sex then they shouldn't have to force themselves into sexual relationships just because it's so prelevant everywhere. Like, surely my book is the kind of thing someone like yourself wants to be sharing if you are worried about teens getting exposed to sex?

e) I'm not sure how this imagery is any more scary or harmful than any other sex education content aimed at 16-18 yos. I watched my first sex ed video in school when I was 9. Although I am from the UK and highly aware that ofc USA is considerably more....puritanical than Europe lol

Obvs what I watched at 9 was very different to this because it was 'age appropriate', but we saw just naked bodies to explain the biological differences between people.

So basically it was like the imagery in the last page you shared that is apparently as bad and scary as the images of the other pages. I think it was at age 11 we got in school our first sex ed about actual sex, showing images of adults having sex, much like the second page you share...

...Clearly because Ive written a book about how I've never had sex my entire life, seeing those images at 9 and 11 did nothing to convert me to evil scary sex lmao

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: French History RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Éléonore Duplay & Maximilien Robespierre Characters: Éléonore Duplay Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Execution, Cholera, epidemic, Smoking

Friends from the Terror fandom who’ve read my Fitzier and Fitzfranklin fics may not know that I wrote another fic a couple of years ago, about Éléonore Duplay. The relationship between Éléonore, the eldest daughter of Robespierre’s landlord Maurice Duplay, and Robespierre has long been the subject of speculation by historians, playwrights and novelists.  Éléonore’s younger sister Élisabeth Duplay-Le Bas claimed in her memoirs that Éléonore was engaged to Robespierre; Robespierre’s sister Charlotte, however, denied this (it’s worth noting in this respect that Charlotte had a difficult relationship with the Duplay family, particularly with Maurice Duplay’s wife Françoise-Éléonore Vaugeois). Others at the time and since have claimed that she was Robespierre’s mistress, or (as J.M. Thompson put it) have made a thing out of her not being his mistress, playing this into the ‘Robespierre as the cold-hearted asexual’ trope (acephobia deployed for political purposes). 

What we do know is this: Éléonore never spoke to anyone nor wrote about her relationship with Robespierre - whether they were friends, lovers, engaged, or simply two people who happened to be living under the same roof.  We also know (thanks to the research of @sieclesetcieux) that both Éléonore and Élisabeth were mentioned during official enquiries into the leftist activities of François-Noël ‘Gracchus’ Babeuf, the so-called ‘Conspiracy of Equals’ in which other former associates of Robespierre such as Philippe Buonarroti were involved. The ‘Conspiracy of Equals’ in 1796 represented the final flush of truly left-wing revolutionary activity - sadly abortive - under the Directory, and before the French Revolution was definitively brought to an end by the consulate and then empire of Napoleon. It’s not a big stretch to believe that two women whose family had been so close to Robespierre would have shared his ideals, and could well have supported Babeuf’s last-ditch efforts to reignite the revolutionary flame.

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this is my fave panel btw IM SORRY

8 Thermidor

Citizens,

Others draw flattering pictures to you; I come to tell you helpful truths. I do not come to  carry out the ridiculous terrors spread by perfidity; but I want to smother, if it is possible, the flames of dissension by the only force of truth. (I will reveal the abuses who tend towards the ruin of the patrie and which only your integrity can repress.) I will defend before you your outraged authority, and violated freedom. If I also tell you something of persecutions of which I am the object, you will not do me injustice; you have nothing in common with the tyrants whom you fight. The cries of the outraged innocence do not importune your ear. The cries of outraged innocence do not importune your ears, and you are aware that this cause is not foreign to you.

Things are real tense in Paris tonight, eh?

Store will close on Monday 27th July until Sept 1st :3