about me:
✪ ash
✪ they/them
✪ anarcho-communist
✪ french revolution enthusiast
✪ les miserables enjoyer
✪ occasional artist/musician/writer
✪ aromantic asexual
✪ neurodivergent
other social media:
✪ @ashalaska-music (original music catchall)
✪ @theartof-beingfree (reblogging others’ art)
✪ @pigeonprose (writeblr)
✪ @anarcho-pigeonism (punk sideblog)
✪ my ao3
✪ if we are mutuals, you can ask for my discord
ground rules:
✪ discourse must be civil; if you call me a slur you will be blocked. I’m always open to respectful debate. block the tag #discourse if you don’t want to see that.
✪ my askbox and anon are always open, but I reserve the right to not answer your ask if it’s rude/inappropriate.
✪ my original post tags are #pigeon.txt, #pigeon.img (art/edits), and #pigeon.mp4 (videos). comprehensive taglist here.
✪ minors may follow. I do post heavily political content (but I do not post NSFW). use discretion.
✪ I don’t participate in shipping discourse. seriously, don’t ask me for my opinions because I don’t give a fuck.
✪ if you need something tagged, don’t hesitate to ask.
other:
✪ my qpp is @hadleyfrasergender. go check his blog out!
✪ if you see a cool pigeon, tag me!
✪ header is the night cafe by vincent van gogh. pfp is by me.
✪ remember to get vaccinated!
if you make fun of people harmlessly expressing themselves i hope you explode and die forever!!!!!!!!!!!
my partner is really into 50-70 year old actors like val kilmer and al pacino. I’m really into 200-250 year old revolutionaries like antoine saint-just and jean paul marat. we’re both really annoying about this on discord. great minds think alike etc etc
hold your head up high (you might not have it forever)
Would you say that your hyperfixation would be the French Revolution? You seem to know a lot about it and post about it too. /gen
yeah 100% lol
Dude I see your comment war with some over autism - - why you are being like that? If your really atistic too, you would be more empathetic, why aren't you? Other dude had a point but you wouldnt take it. You should treat you fellow auties with respect/solidarity.
hey! I usually don’t respond to asks like this, but something needs to be said here.
AUTISM DOES NOT EQUAL HIGH EMPATHY.
AUTISM DOES NOT EQUAL HIGH EMPATHY.
AUTISM DOES NOT EQUAL HIGH EMPATHY.
AUTISM DOES NOT EQUAL HIGH EMPATHY.
Autism does not equal high empathy.
AUTISM DOES NOT EQUAL HIGH EMPATHY.
I am a low empathy autistic person. Empathy is not synonymous with respect or compassion. I cannot feel other people’s feelings the way someone with higher empathy can. This could be because of my autism or because of another comorbid mental condition. It doesn’t fucking matter. I don’t think you were trying to be ableist, but you really are being ableist here and it’s important to point this out. Not having high empathy doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.
Don’t fucking tell me to be empathetic. It’s like telling you to snap your fingers and turn your skin purple.
To answer your question: the guy came onto MY post and complained about it being so popular, to which I asked why he had a problem with it. he responded saying that I was being “too defensive” and that he had autism and couldn’t understand neurotypical tone. I am very much not neurotypical, and pointed that out to him. what the fuck kind of problem do you have with that? he was the one that came onto my post with a rude comment.
My Writings and Contributions
- Translations of Frev Sources
- Media and books influenced by Thermidorian propaganda
- Here are some facts we take for granted that revolutionaries didn't know that will blow your mind
- Learning to Be a Lawyer in 18thc France
- Brief historiography on women, the law, marriage and divorce (scroll down)
- Brief overview of the Thermidorian Reaction
- On Saint-Just’s Personality: An Introduction
- Saint-Just in Five (Long) Sentences
- Random Sources and References on Saint-Just‘s Youth (In French)
- Louise Michel's Poem on Saint-Just
- On Charles Le Bas, Philippe's brother and Élisabeth Duplay's second husband
Book and article recommendations:
- The "short" version
- Part 1 - A Note On Objectivity and Two Approaches (introduction) + Culture: Enlightenment and Antiquity
- Part 2 - Ideological Stakes
- Part 3 - Old Classics and Syntheses
- Part 4 - Specific Topics and Areas of Research
- Part 5 - Side-related but still important
- Part 6: Highlights and Short Reviews
My Posts In Progress and Eventual Research:
- My thoughts and analysis of Saint-Just’s unsent letter to Villain d’Aubigny
- A (brief?) introduction to Saint-Just’s many faces and myths
- Could Saint-Just have been neurodivergent?
- Why Enjolras was inspired by Saint-Just: comparing the text of the brick to Saint-Just’s Romantic Myth
- An Episode of the Thermidorian Reaction: the Attack on the Club des Jacobins and the Misogynist Targetting of Women
- How the pamphlet about the Club infernal locates them in the circle of Wrath and not Treason - the latter would out them as counterrevolutionaries
- Can we call the French Revolution a "fandom"? The invention of celebrity culture, etc.
Other Important Posts
- On Robespierre's Black Legend (by rbzpr)
- On Thermidorian propaganda (by lanterne)
- Frev Resources (by iadorepigeons)
- On Couthon (by iadorepigeons)
- Some Primary Sources (by anotherhumaninthisworld)
- Élisabeth Lebas corrects Alphonse de Lamartine’s Histoire des Girondins (1847) (by anotherhumaninthisworld)
- Regulations for the internal exercises of the College of Louis-le-Grand (by anotherhumaninthisworld)
- Were Robespierre and Desmoilins together at Louis-le-Grand? (by robespapier and anotherhumaninthisworld)
- Robespierre was not Horace Desmoulins' godfather (by robespapier and anotherhumaninthisworld)
- Saint-Just Masterpost (by obscurehistoricalinterests)
- One myth on Saint-Just (by saintjustitude and frandrest)
- Saint-Just as political philosopher and theorist (by saintjustitude)
- On Charlotte Robespierre's memoirs (by montagnarde1793 and saintjustitude)
- On Simonne Évrard (French and English biography copy-pasted by saintjustitude from the ARBR website)
- Anglo American historiography (by saintjustitude and dykespierre)
- On the Terror's Death Toll and Donald Greer (by montagnarde1793)
- The relationship of Camille Desmoulins and Robespierre in literary works of Przybyszewska (by edgysaintjust)
- 26/08/2022
aromantic's worst nightmare fic trope go
soulmates
love triangle
hanahaki
something else idk i dont read enough fic (put it in da tags)
love triangle is fine because you can say fuck it neither or fuck it both and really subvert that trope. soulmates are annoying but if you worldbuild so that they’re not necessarily romantic it’s okay. hanahaki is basically always shitty tho. the idea that someone will literally die if you don’t reciprocate always struck me as very incel-y, no matter how pretty you make it.
An impressive (and inspiring) takedown by Marat, from the “Continuation of Jean-Paul Marat's letter to Camille Desmoulins,” in L’Ami du Peuple 449 (5/5/1791)
“My poor Camille… it is perhaps only you in France who could have imagined that the aim of the freedom of the press was to correct public functionaries, to change the henchmen of despotism into patriots… but who does not know that it is intended to instruct the citizens of their rights, and to inspire in them the desire to enjoy them, the courage to defend them, the audacity to avenge them: that it is intended to make them aware of the prevarications of their agents, and to make them feel the need to punish them: that it is intended to teach them to obey only just and wise laws, to resist iniquitous laws, to oppose tyrannical laws: that it is intended to teach troops to distinguish the perfidious designs of their leaders, to despise arbitrary orders, to lay down their arms when they order them to massacre citizens, and to laugh at their threats: that it is intended to break all the springs of despotism, while waiting for authority to be based on justice; to snatch its sad victims from oppression, while waiting for it to cause freedom to triumph; this is the use I have made of it up to this day, and I dare to believe that I have not wasted my time.”
do you believe there are heroes left in man
we don’t need heroes we need to fight together for a better future and put our hope into collective action instead of single icons that are easy to idolize while losing track of what we’re supposed to be working towards



