#Horace to Max

[jazzdailyblog]

Joe Chambers: A Masterful Journey Through Jazz

Introduction: Joe Chambers, born eighty-two years ago today on June 25, 1942, in Stoneacre, Virginia, stands as a pivotal figure in the jazz world, not only for his virtuosity as a drummer but also for his remarkable talents as a pianist, vibraphonist, and composer. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Chambers has contributed significantly to the evolution of jazz, working with some of…

[sakuramoti0903]

🎤House of Mouse🎞

[dalia1784]

There's a lot to appreciate here.

Major points for acknowledging the difficulty of playing a monster in a monster movie.

[jaybaeblue]

Shelf of interest

[adventurelandia]

Colorful by Natsu-Nori

[alyssacbatt]

[houseofmouselove100]

It seems that the snow in Disney City is very icy and cold like Mickey arrived cold

Mickey decides to do his interview on the street while Goofy and Donald take Dewey, Huey and Louie with Max skiing in the snow.

Suddenly a huge snowball arrives and they collide with Mickey and they also bring a frozen fish

Salty has his fish and Mickey has a cold because of the cold weather.

[ducklooney]

How would the Ducks react to Julius The Cat? I feel like he'd be another foe for them to fight, given how sadistic he can be in MANY of the Alice Comedies shorts. Especially in Alice Gets Stung, I felt bad for the rabbit and the bear.

Hi!

To be honest, I never even thought about it until now, except for Julius the cat to be with Oswald and Mickey as a trio of brothers and the first positive Disney characters. I agree, unfortunately many call Julius the cat a rip-off of Felix the cat, since Felix came before Julius and I think he deserves to be featured more often. If Oswald can do it, why not Julius. It could especially be for Epic Mickey 3, if it could ever come to fruition. By the way, the bear is Peg-Leg Pete, who later became a cat. It's like how Betty Boop went from a dog to a real woman. Although the story is a bit complicated, that's mostly how the characters were developed.

Hm, well as for the ducks, in my opinion, Donald would probably get to know Julius first and resent it at first, because he's not really in the mood to be with Mickey's team except Oswald, at least in my opinion, but he could easily get along with him. . Daisy too. Not sure about the others. I know that for Donald's nephews (classic version) and Max Goof (Goof Troop), it was certainly easy to be with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but the ones with Mickey and Oswald would be kind of a babysitter for them. Even though he has 420 nephews and nieces. Morty and Ferdie (Mickey's nephews) could easily hang out with Julius and have Julius be their babysitter. Oh, yes, Horace could easily do with Oswald and Julius and he will understand them best, because unfortunately Horace has been neglected a lot in recent times, if not decades.

However, this is my opinion and this is a good idea, you should make some drawings and fanfiction related to it. And thank you for your question, and if you need anything, feel free to ask me.

[kaitcreates]

Horace

Max

[lucidowl]

I spend two seconds looking at Nicole's GIFs and feel the urge to go rewatch season one. At 4:30AM.

[animationproclamations]

Trade ad for Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies.

La Cinématographie Française, December 31, 1937.

[jazzdailyblog]

Clifford Jordan: The Unsung Hero of the Tenor Saxophone

Introduction: In the vast landscape of jazz, where legends often overshadow other brilliant musicians, Clifford Jordan stands as one of the most remarkable yet underappreciated tenor saxophonists of his time. His contribution to jazz is immense, marked by his distinctive sound, impeccable technique, and a deep-rooted commitment to the integrity of the music. Jordan’s career, which spanned over…

[way-too-cool-raybot]

The best part of Sam and Max: Hit the Road is when Max says It's morbin' time

[maximilianthequeer]

Cannot believe rumpole of the bailey doesn’t have a bigger tumblr audience honestly. It’s a 70-80’s show about an incredibly kind, jovial english barrister - it’s such a similar vein to morse and yet everyone’s forgotten about it! It’s written by an ex-barrister and has incredibly progressive ideals for the time, and it’s so funny! And if you’ve ever heard anyone being referred to as “she who must be obeyed” - this is what that’s from!!!

look at this grumpy guy i’m devoted to him in a way only tumblr will understand and I need more people to watch this

[mychameleondays]

Miles Davis Quartet: Miles Davis Quartet

coloured vinyl

Prestige PRS-3335301/PRLP 161, 2011

Originally released: 1954

[enlitment]

i am curious about robespierre and camille and “doomed by the narrative”, if you are free i would love to learn some more about them since i only have basic frev knowledge!

- @iron--and--blood

Thank you so much for the ask! ✨

The short version is that they started off as school friends and got separated for a couple of years after finishing their studies. Then the revolution started in 1789 and brought them together again by uniting them in their shared goal, only to completely tear them apart in 1794. And by ‘completely tear them apart’, I mean that Robespierre was one of the people who signed the decree for Camille’s arrest which led to his execution in 1794. Talk about star-crossed…

The answer would not have been possible without this great article by @anothehumaninthisworld btw! Definitely go read it if you haven’t already and are craving more information.

Both Camille Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre studied at Lous-le-Grand, the former Jesuit school, in Paris. Camille was 2 years younger than Maximilien, but they definitely knew each other, and there is a strong suggestion that they were friends back then. Later, Robespierre calls Camille his ‘study companion’, ‘college comrade’ and (and this will be important later, so just put a pin in that) ‘a talented young man without mature judgement’. Their favourite topic to discuss with each other was apparently the Roman Republic - because of course it was. I also like to imagine they bonded over their enthusiasm for classical authors!

Although two years is not that much of an age difference, a lot of people (including Przybyszewska, who takes it to the max) picked up on the fact that their dynamic was kind of like this:

picture by @did-slid-skid (hope it’s okay to share it, if not then I’ll take it down. Give it a like here!)

…and it sort of continued to be like that until the bitter end, but let’s not get ahead too much.

Once the revolution kicked off and Camille started publishing his first newspaper, he seems to have tried to capitalise on the fact that he knew Robespierre,whose political career at that time was already gaining significant traction (in a bit of ‘I’m so proud of my famous talented friend! Just look at Robespierre! And have I mentioned he is *my* friend?!’ kind of way). At this point, Camille might have had an incentive to exaggerate their closeness a bit to help his own journalistic career.

But I think it’s fair to say their relationship became closer once again sometime during 1790 since Robespierre was not only a witness at Camille’s wedding to Lucile, but he also became a godfather to Camille’s and Lucile’s son Horace, according to some sources. And if not a godfather, then definitely at least an occasional babysitter.

Also not super relevant from a historical perspective but the wedding scene in La Revolution Francaise is very cute, despite the film's many issues:

Then, around late 1793 and the first half of 1794, things got really messy. I mean, they were always really complex of course, it was the revolution and fractions kept forming and falling in quite a rapid succession. I mean messy specifically in regards to Camille. To put something really complicated as simply as possible, Camille started to be associated with the Indudgents/Dantonists - a name coined for the political fraction which included figures like Georges Danton and Fabre d'Églantine, who was involved in a massive corruption scandal.

Around that time, Camille also started publishing a newspaper – La Vieux Cordellier – which criticised the actions of the Committees and as such, came to be seen as something that was actively undermining the authority and the efforts of the revolutionary government.

There was quite a heated public exchange between Camille and Robespierre in January 1794 at the Jacobin Club. It also marks one of the greatest instances of what I like to call ‘using Rousseau as a weapon”.

Basically, Robespierre ordered Camille to destroy the copies of his journal, to which Camille replied by quoting Rousseau and saying "to burn is not to answer." It's important to know that Rousseau was *the* hero of Robespierre - a fact of which Camille was fully aware - so this was meant to cut deep. It must have stung!

Robespierre then replied “Learn, Camille, that if you were not Camille, one could not have so much indulgence for you”. This to me really illustrates the nature of their relationship at this point in time.

I am not sure how much of this is actually historically accurate and how much is my view based on the interpretations of their relationship in the media, but the sense I get is that Robespierre was quite protective of Camille until he felt like he had no choice but to move against him.

Despite the small age difference, there seemed to have been kind of an older, wiser person in a protective role/younger man led astray (or, if you want to go the Przybyszewka's route, acting like a brat) dynamic. Robespierre is quoted referring to Camille as a ‘spoilt child’. I mean, Camille might have been one of the first people to be called enfant terrible (I swear I saw it somewhere and did not hallucinate it, right?), despite being a man in his 30s.

Camille's whole vibe is somehow 30+ going on 14. Like that's pretty much a historical canon.

But then, in one way or another, the situation reached a point where for Robespierre, the importance of preserving the revolutionary cause outweighed the importance of friendship with Camille - his old college comrade. (DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE!)

In March 1794, Robespierre, as a member of the Committee of Public Safety, was among the people who signed Camille’s arrest warrant and thus, with a stroke of a pen, sealed his fate.

blood and ink parallel etc etc you get it ~

According to Robespierre’s sister, Charlotte, Maximilien tried to visit his friend in prison. I'm including a longer version of the quote because it is fascinating! Przybyszewska includes this supposed event in her play, The Danton case. It is also something which I may or may not have capitalised on in my own writing. Ahem.

"all I know is that my brother had much love for Camille Desmoulins, with whom he had studied, and that when he learned of his arrest and his incarceration in the Luxembourg he went to that prison in the intention of imploring Camille to return to the true revolutionary principles he had abandoned to ally himself with the aristocrats. Camille did not want to see him; and my brother, who would probably have defended and perhaps saved him, abandoned him to the terrible justice of the Revolutionary Tribunal."

An important question though is whether we can trust Charlotte as a source here… (most likely no?) If it were true though, it just screams doomed by the narrative (and own hubris?) to me.

Lucile Desmoulins, Camille’s wife, meanwhile tried to plea for Camille’s release by writing to Robespierre and trying to remind him of his and Camille’s friendship:

Have you forgotten these ties which Camille can never remember without tenderness? You who prayed for out union, who took our hands into yours, you who have smiled at my son and whom his infantile hands have caressed so many times (…) Even if he (…) hadn’t been as attached to the republic, I figure his attachment to you would have functioned as a substitute for patriotism, and you think that for this we deserve death?

(I’m not crying you’re crying)

Lucile’s letter, however, did not help to change Robespierre’s mind and overturn the decision. On 16 Germinal Year II (5th of April 1794), Camille Desmoulins was executed, along with other Dantonists.

Just one more line that always makes me sad, to really rub it in as a special treat – from Camille’s letter to his wife from prison:

“I have dreamed of a Republic such as all the world would have adored. I could never have believed that men could be so ferocious and so unjust.”

Or, as @anotherhumaninthisworld aptly puts it in the tags, Camille and Maximilien’s relationship essentially boils down to this:

(Really funny, but ouch.)

Their relationship also features prominently in the works by S. Przybyszewska, an early 20th century Polish playwright who very much picks up on the potentially queer vibes of Camile's and Maximilien's dynamic and just runs with it. She's much loved by the French Revolution Tumblr fandom for writing what is essentially a beautiful extremely angsty historical RPF in the 1920s.