I haven’t seen a similar post on tumblr, but here’s a few places to donate money and find means to support those in Palestine-

Pious Project provides menstrual care kits as well as soap, shampoo, disinfectants, etc

Gaza Esims lets you donate Esims- these are used to connect to the internet and keep communication going in and out of the country

Operation Olive Branch is a spreadsheet of Gofundmes for families seeking funds to flee the country, each having a link to sponsor them

Here's a reading list from Decolonize Palestine

Stop Gaza Genocide is a google doc that is constantly updated, which includes how to contact representatives, how to protest, and various activist resources (US centric)

Samidoun provides a constantly updating calendar of protests, and you can submit ones not listed if there’s a protest happening near you (Global)

UNRWA and Care for Gaza are orgs that directly provide general aid and food

Lastly, while not inherently about Palestine, I do want to encourage everyone reading this that If you see a post regarding Palestine- a video, a photo, a livestream, a text post- Archive it with the Wayback Machine. When digital information is prone to deletion and censorship, we cannot afford to lose something as valuable as knowledge.

Ida St. Elme:

a. “This lady Fucked. She was General Moreau’s mistress before she attached herself to Marshal Michel Ney and boy did she attach herself to Ney! She dressed as a man and fought as a soldier on horseback in some cases, and crossdressing is pretty damn sexy. There’s a smutty historical romance/fantasy following her starting with The General‘s Mistress and it’s pretty hot.”

Germaine de Staël

[no propaganda submitted]

Hello, yes, Madame de Staël propaganda to submit!

Madame de Staël was the daughter of Swiss banker Jacques Necker, the guy who contributed significantly to hastening the bankruptcy of all of France under Bourbon France (pre-Frev) (based).

However, she is so much more than her family: Madame de Staël hosted her own salons in Paris and around Switzerland where they discussed philosophy, politics, and literature, and she was a major proponent of Romanticism (one of the OG French Romantics, even before Hugo's Hernani took off). She published many of her own essays about the ongoing political movements of the time and felt that France should have shifted to a constitutional monarcy (from an absolute monarchy — hey, I support women's rights and wrongs) as well as a book called Delphine about divorce in post-Frev France that was said to have stylistically resembled Goethe and Rousseau's works. She is considered to have been a precursor for many Romantic authors including Mary Shelley, Chatueabriand, Walter Scott, and Byron, and even in the decades following her death she was held up beside Racine, Voltaire, and Goethe, and (because I am a Les Mis bitch) is someone whose name comes up multiple times in In The Year 1817, 1817, the year which occurs in 1817.

Napoléon hated her to the point of her being exiled from France, partly because she spoke out against his plans to invade Switzerland and partly because she compared him to Machiavelli, which dictators tend to frown upon.

And, for those to whom it matters, Madame de Staël also fucked, within the confines of her marriage as well as with various lovers throughout her marriage (Delphine was actually written while she was considering divorce from her husband).

Ida St. Elme:

a. “This lady Fucked. She was General Moreau’s mistress before she attached herself to Marshal Michel Ney and boy did she attach herself to Ney! She dressed as a man and fought as a soldier on horseback in some cases, and crossdressing is pretty damn sexy. There’s a smutty historical romance/fantasy following her starting with The General‘s Mistress and it’s pretty hot.”

Germaine de Staël

[no propaganda submitted]

DONATIONS FOR GAZA

As you probably know, the situation in Gaza gets worse every day. At this stage, every donation, no matter how small, might make a difference between life and death for someone trying to escape Rafah.

Donate as little as 7$ today and you get a sketch or a small illustration of yourself, an animal, a friend - whatever it is that you want.

You can find the full spreadsheet of families here: Operation Olive Branch

or you can donate to one of the randomized gofundmes from here: Gaza Funds

Send me proof of your donations and the details for the artwork you desire. YOU CAN SEND IT THROUGH DMs OR EMAIL ME (email and useful links here:)

Depending on how busy this gets, commissions might take two days or more.

*Biggers commissions are available for bigger donations! You can see illustrations I did in the past here.

Level 1: Porn with plot

Level 2: Porn with social commentary

Level 3: Porn with troubling philosophical implications

Level 4: Porn with maddening revelations of humanity’s place in the cosmos

Level 5: Porn with math

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if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.

instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.

i don’t know why i even have to say this but if you trap me on an island for seven years i will shut you out of my life for good

I just know that there exists an enemies to lovers to enemies fanfic about Napoleon and his exile with this exact plot

Hey there, I feel like this is a necessary post because we have some Brazilian girlies here.

The southern state of Brazil, my state, is literally underwater right now, thousands of people lost their homes, some died and some are missing due to heavy flooding. If you're in one of the affected areas, please be careful, pay attention to the news as some emergency numbers aren't working anymore, they're sharing new ones. Seek safe shelter, either with family members or the public ones. There's also a risk of dam failure, the Civil Defense is constantly updating on those, be aware to know when you have to evacuate the area. If you can help with donations or even sharing the news to get to more people, you're more than welcome. I'll leave some links showing how to help. Please be safe, it's a disaster out there! And no matter what your personal belief is, please pray for those people.

Civil Defense - To get updates on the situation

SC Internacional - To donate

Grêmio - To donate

Public shelter in Porto Alegre

Civil Defense - To donate

Select illustrations from this 2017 children's chinese language version of Les Miserables.

Necessary questions one should be able to answer before they can (informedly) criticize the French revolution and/or Robespierre:

1. Why was Louis XVI executed?

2. What is the war of the First Coalition?

3. Most of the people who died in the French revolution were members of which social group?

4. What was the cause of death for most of the people who died in the French revolution? Was it guillotine?

5. Who is Joseph Fouché? Also: Who is Collot d'Herbois?

6. Who introduced the Terror and why? (Could also ask "what was the Terror" but that could be too tricky to answer).

7. (Bonus trick question) Who was the ruler of France during the Terror?

I don't even mean this sarcastically. I am totally cool with people criticizing frev (Robespierre, etc.) but some basic knowledge needs to be in place in order to do so.

Just to clarify: this is not about who should have a right to engage with history or frev conversations, nor a test of "who knows more". There are so many things even experts on the French revolution still debate, and questions that are too complex to answer in simple terms (what was the Terror? Who was, indeed, the ruler of France?) But if one wishes to trash the revolution, then they should have a minimum knowledge to be able to do so.

Namely, this post is about very specific wrong answers that make people unable to criticize because of lack of minimum knowledge:

1. Louis XVI was executed for no reason. Because he was a king and the mob/Robespierre wanted him dead.

2. No idea about the war of the First Coalition? Not important for the revolution.

3. Most of the people who died in the revolution were aristocrats. (Alternatively: The majority of aristocrats died in the revolution).

4. Most (all?) of the people who died were guillotined.

5. No idea on Fouché and Collot. Probably Robespierre's henchmen.

6. Robespierre introduced the Terror. He did it because he wanted to rule/be a dictator/kill nobles/kill political opponents/be a precursor to Hitler, Stalin, etc.

7. Robespierre ruled France.

If these are your answers, then you simply don't have a minimum knowledge required, and you cannot criticize properly.

@myosotispalustris @thegameisonat221b asked about correct replies, so I am respondig. Although it is not possible to answer these in one post, and so many things are complex (historians still argue over). The questions I listed are not necessarily easy to answer correctly as much as they are easy to get wrong in a way that reveals common misconceptions about the revolution.

Namely, a big misconception is that Robespierre was a ruler of France (and a dictator) who introduced the Terror to (insert reason: kill nobles, terrorize his people, rule absolutely, etc.) All of the questions kind of link to this misconception.

Answers, not necessarily in order:

One thing OP mentions but that could stand to be stressed even more is that "lack of government institutions" doesn't just mean "the revolutionary government hadn't had time to replace the previous system."

It means there WAS no previous system. The Convention had to invent functional institutions from scratch because the ancien regime DID NOT HAVE THEM. That's why the Revolution got started in the first place.

What the ancien regime had was a hodgepodge of medieval institutions that hadn't actually functioned in decades or more usually centuries, with actual governance happening at the level of small-scale feudal fiefdoms, each with their own laws, tax systems, tolls, weights, and measures. They had been held together, barely, for the last two regimes by the personal power charisma of the king and a lot of debt. Like a LOT a lot.

And then Louis XVI comes along with all the personal persuasive force of an overcooked linguini noodle in a tornado, and France's creditors see their opportunity and start demanding payment of public debts. France--has no money. It has no tax base. The aristocracy is tax-exempt; the rich bourgeoisie are already paying all the taxes they can afford because they're making up for what the aristocracy isn't paying. The peasants and poor bourgeoisie are paying even more than they can afford. And the only body that can legally sign off on new taxes is a medieval council called the Estates-General that hasn't actually met in over a century, and whose internal procedural rules are basically *shrug emoji.*

This is what kicks off the Revolution--the attempt to make the clanky, insufficient machinery of state actually function, and the very quick realization that the only thing to do was scrap the lot of it and start over. This is 1789; the war starts in 1791. The various governments of the Revolution had had all of two years to start building a government basically from scratch when the war started and every aspect of governance, law, production, and labor in the country shifted to a war footing.

So, yeah, the Convention was pretty much anarchy, but SO WAS THE ANCIEN REGIME. It's just that history remembers anarchy very differently when it's an elected body jumping in to do things it hasn't had time to make laws about yet than when it's a bunch of rich aristocrats doing whatever the fuck they want on their own lands and telling the king it's all good.

#FRev#this is all very good!#we also forget that the war of the First Coalition#and also the Second through Seventh Coalitions#was an existential threat to the existence of France as a nation#losing didn't just mean having a king re-imposed#and paying reparations#and occupation#there was a very strong chance#and honestly it's kind of a miracle it didn't happen#that the Allies would have carved up France among them#and taken it off the map#everyone knew they could do it#because they were IN THE PROCESS of doing it to Poland

Jean Baptiste Hugo announced as Guest of Honor at Barricades 2024

Barricades 2024 is pleased to announce Jean Baptiste Hugo as one of our Guests of Honor for this year's convention. Jean Baptiste Hugo is the great-great-grandson of Victor Hugo. He has extensively photographed Hugo's home in exile on Guernsey, a project about which he said this: “In 2014, I was about to start a series of photographs of Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo stayed in exile for 15 years. I had the intention, picturing in my mind the dark gothic rooms, to use the legendary black and white 400 Tri-X Kodak film, known for its grainy quality and its rich black tones. It just happened that around that same period I started looking into the extraordinary colour possibilities offered by digital photography, having considered it for years , I must admit, as very inferior to black and white film. The introduction I was given to digital colour photography inspired me enough to try and capture as faithfully as I could the colourful atmosphere of my ancestor’s folly on Guernsey and, I am glad I did, as it allowed me to engage in an exploration of colour and texture in a very creative way which I am still pursuing today through other photographic subjects.”

the montfermeil sequence, according to the musical

the only Amis who have to Actually Care about their studies are the med students

all the rest are on a sliding scale from 'we don't actually know if they're even in college' to ' actively resisting the college they are enrolled in like they've been dumped behind enemy lines'

they are shit terrible students and that is actually canon

Law school is basically a degree in networking. Marius, the actual good student who shows up for his classes and is the only one of them that we are told ever takes and passes the bar exam... continues working the translation job he's been living on, because getting the formal credentials opens precisely zero doors for him, and he hasn't used his time in school to make the connections that would.

The person who squanders his college education is Marius. The other law students are using that time for its intended purpose--meeting people and finding their feet in the metropole.

It's even funnier that Marius , the Good Student, who probably IS whipping through his schooling for Mostly Financial Reasons....is still only pulling through because of the Actually Better Law Student Skills of his friends! In a very very direct sense, he has a job and an income at ALL only because Legle and Courfeyrac chose to loop him into their own massive networks .

And we get to see that Gillenormand holds the idea of Marius actually lawyering in absolute contempt. That's not what he at-least-partially-paid for!

Legle, meanwhile, is already living off his Networking Skills. He's super pro XD

(...man i wish I could re-find that paper "The Title of Lawyer Means Nothing" , about how Everyone in the July Monarchy era just openly knew this about law school. It's not For Studying! it's where your born-to-success/aspirational family sends your heirs to make sure they meet all the OTHER men who are going to be important someday! If they happen to also learn some legal things that's Nice, but not remotely the point.)

(..whether the fact that Bahorel, who has Made Connections so hard he's practically become a network unto himself, is in a sense Law Studenting better than almost anyone, is a source of fury or amusement to him is up for debate and probably varies by the minute. But he definitely knows.)

they were schoolboys sort of technically old enough to have a PhD

do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

sometimes "i ship it" just means "their Yes And game is insane and i wanna see more"

Now, as we have Les Misérables musical covering the plot, why don’t we have another one, covering all the digressions?