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Bex Burgess
@theorah.bsky.social
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Pro comic artist/illustrator 💖 I like cuddling my gf and cat 😸 Mostly writing/drawing comics about autism, asexuality and French Revolution atm~
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theorah.bsky.social
😆😆 I need to start streaming older shows the way they were originally designed- I feel especially like DBZ was WAY more fun to watch when I was a kid, and had breaks in between stupendously lengthened out fight scenes
July 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
make representatives represent the people again. they have been standing on the heads of those who elected them to work for the people who pay them for far far far too long. It's over.
June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
theorah.bsky.social
awww thank you for sharing~ If you wanna read the comic, I've ended up reposting each chapter in one long thread, with next chapter in a quote at end of prev chapter.
But also if you ever just wanna discuss/dissect the myth from the reality, I'm always ready to infodump 😁

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theorah.bsky.social Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · Nov 23
Here is Chapter 1 of 'Incorruptible', my on going wecomic exploring Maximilien Robespierre and many aspects of the French Revolution.
I hope you find Robespierre's story just as strange, inspiring, challenging and facisnating as I have!
#FrenchRevolution #robespierre #history 🗃️ #incorruptiblecomic
In the Place de la Revolution, a crowd has gathered to watch an execution. The French flag falls cross the page. Narration reads: "10 Thermidor. Twenty two 'traitors of the revolution' are marched through the streets of Paris towards their punishment- execution by guillotine." Stood behind guards are ordinary people, looking over the shoulders of National Guards. Some of the faces look upset, others angry. Narration reads: "However, not everyone in the on looking crowd can agree on whether the accused are traitors to their cause or not. No one can even agree on what they want from the revolution." A small man is carried to a group of surprised and worried looking guards. The colours are muted, to indicate the past. A narration box reads: "Only the day before, Guards refused to imprison the so-called leader of these traitors" Back to the present, a close up of the crowds fee, stepping over a disused pamphlet. Narration reads: "But, this same person is supposedly the mastermind behind all the horrors currently playing out in the revolution...Or this is what the pamphlets would at least have their readers believe." A young man with long brown hair walks beside a smaller man in a wig with glasses, whose face is bandaged up and soaked in blood. Narration reads: "And yet, the monster presented in the papers is not monstrous enough to not have friends. They march beside him, concerned, loyal. And also on their way to death."
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
theorah.bsky.social
I desperately want to know the context of whatever beautiful Regency-Passive-Aggressiveness is going down here ahaha
June 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
theorah.bsky.social
OMG that's amazing!! What on earth are the odds of that?? 😂😂
Do you feel like you have a nostalgic connection to Whisper of the heart in this way too? I was thinking earlier about it after your last reply, and I do feel like the nostalgia element probably also brings out a magical quality for me~
June 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
theorah.bsky.social
yes! Maybe that intertwining of that life and normal life 💖
Strangely for me the one part that feels 'normal' (but nostalgic)to me is the violin making and musicians, cos I grew up around that! Amazingly, my mum's first ever job was as an assistant for making Fiddles in London 😂
June 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
theorah.bsky.social
I'm so glad your kiddo enjoyed the book 🥺🥺 'best book ever read' is QUITE the compliment aahhh! 💖💖
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
theorah.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing 🥺
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
theorah.bsky.social
The little song on this first page is a real song about the Jacobins from 1790, if I remember right~
And I got the 'arrows of hercules' thing from a letter Camille wrote....I really like to imagine he'd tell his friends about that more than once loool
A long shot reveals a bustling room in a Parisian apartment, full of mostly men (outside of the famous Madame Manon Roland, a Jacobin who went about her own political ambitions by setting up gatherings for her male collegues and writing to them afterwards). Across the busy page of people drinking wine and socialising, musical lyrics are being sung aloud: “Gentleman! Let’s make haste! To the Jacobin’s own senate! It’s here that we will meditate, all the happiness of the state! And Robespierre, we shall see, praises Marat so eloquently! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! From Avignon, to good Arle! The Lameths speak, Alexander and Charles! And we are all transported then! Eh! Eh! Eh! Eh! When Gorsas shows, we never joke! Even when he’s inclined to boast, his oh so rare integrity! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! An author may be talked of much, but if a Jacobin he is not, then he can only be a fool!” At the bottom of the page, we see that the two culprits of this Jacobin song are themselves two of the proudest Jacobins- Camille Desmoulins and Jacques Brissot. They are in each other’s arms and singing heartily: “Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu!” The two men explode into laughter. Robespierre sits quietly in the background, clapping along with the rest of the audience who were watching the double act. A close up of Robespierre shows tired eyes and a smile that although genuine, is clearly taking effort to make. Brissot looks at Camille with a confident smile- who replies by flipping his hair vainly. Brissot: “That was marvellous, Camille! Where do you pick up these songs?” Camille: “Oh, h-here and there.” Brissot smiles with slight annoyance, and Petion comes up behind the two of them as Brissot asks: “what on earth do you mean by that?” Petion puts an arm around a smug looking Camille and says: “It means Camille is a hero of the people-” Petion continues, exchanging a playful, knowing glance to Brissot: “He is invited to places that even someone as well travelled as you have not been, Brissot.” Camille responds with smugness: “It’s true. The p-people love me.” A close up of Camille as he begins to go off on a little tirade that has probably been heard a thousand times. He flips his long messy hair as he speaks: “I am commended for my bravery on July 12th, and complimented on my p-pamphlets at EVERY dinner I attend.” Camille continues: “Even when they b-burned copies of La France Libre in Toulon- Although I wanted to weep-” Camille doesn’t look like he wanted to weep, he looks proud of himself- “I felt much reassurance. For the m-most esteemed patriots said it was only a testament to the strength of my work. AND I’ve heard it be said…” Camille in the foreground, puts his hands to his face in a swooning manner as he says: “That I write with the arrows of Hercules.” Behind him, Petion and Brissot both share his speech bubble, indicating that they are repeating Camille’s words at the exact same time. Petion repeats with nonchalance, and Brissot with a pose semi-imitating Camille’s dramatic nature. They have both clearly heard this phrase hundreds of times.
June 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM