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another les mis musicality thought: eponine's 'and i know it's only in my mind, that i'm talking to myself and not to him' melody in 'on my own' is repeated in the epilogue when cosette sings 'you will live, papa you're going to live / it's too soon, too soon to say goodbye' because 1) eponine and cosette are mirrors of each other and 2) just as eponine knows that marius doesn't love her and she's deluding herself in her imagination, deep down cosette knows that valjean is going to die and she, too, will be left on her own

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The fact that Valjean gave Cosette all black clothes—he really is the originator of goth Cosette

(Credits to @euphraisette for being the first (soft) goth Cosette truther I ever came across <3 (hiii :))

#my friends respectfully Valjean bought her black clothes because her mother had died like a week previous #but yeah that's gotta be what kicked off her habit of doing so for the rest of her life #afterwards she associates black clothes with being clean and warm & comfortable despite the tragedy associated with them #bc she herself didn't witness her mother dying and true to canon Valjean probably didn't stress the formality/implications of them to her

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grantaire is like oh please enjolras please i would get on my knees and polish your boots if you would only ask me to. and enjolras is like ok fine here is one very simple task for you. and grantaire’s like oui cher anything pour toi 😘 and proceeds not to do it

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obsessed with characters being saved against their will. being knocked unconscious and carried away from a danger they won't stop trying to fight. being shoved through a portal somewhere far away and safe right before it closes. trying to self-sacrifice only to have the exact person they're trying to save swap their places at the last second. getting the only cure to the disease or curse bc the person administering it loves them too much to give it to anyone else, including themselves. being thrown to safety right as they had accepted dying. someone else they thought had gotten to safety running back to drag them out of danger. it's so fucking tasty

#character fully intent on dying killing themselves only to be brought back

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Les Amis family mentions:

Enjolras and Prouvaire: only son (or only child?) and "rich/wealthy" , with no exact mention of what means

Combeferre: ....well he has a mother, since he forgets her at the barricade? no other solid info

Feuilly: an orphan, with no mother or father , and apparently no knowledge of any extended family

Courfeyrac: his family name is de Courfeyrac and he drops the particle, so perhaps some tension with his family? however we know nothing else about them...

Bahorel- son of peasants, who "respect" him; it seems to be mutual

Bossuet: amazing amount of family info really?? his dad was a postmaster, but has died; one of his ancestors was a servant in the palace, who minded the royal dogs; but we still don't know if he's got any surviving family

Joly: somehow we know nothing?? at all???? Grantaire : well he has a dad, anyway, who's disappointed in his failure to do Maths well...if you believe Grantaire's interpretation, which you probably never should

Conclusion: Joly is a Being of Mystery

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outsiders and boring normal people and fandom newbies always think that buckwild kinky porn fanfiction is the strangest fandom hobby but they are wrong.

the strangest fandom hobby is plotty fanfiction, the kind that requires research, because engaging in this hobby makes no goddamned sense.

it doesn’t even give anybody masturbation material, which is at least a logical and admirable goal that contributes to the betterment of society, or at least society’s solitary orgasms.

in other news i hope the cia spyware monitoring my internet usage understands that i’m googling information about smuggling drugs in thailand because i want the details to be right in a single paragraph in a 10,000 word story about a gay mafia guys.

#not me researching long-term effects of scarlet fever and descriptions of life for blind people in the early 19th century

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Anto Carte   (1886-1954)

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Happy Pride Month to Columbo

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- It’s one of the most heartbreaking chapters. Poor little Éponine. Hugo goes on and on, describing her unhealthy appearance, ragged chemise and petticoat, and the premature aging that poverty forced upon her, almost robbing her of her innocence. Just when you think he is done, he comes up with new depressing details, like this: “She entered resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, at the whole room and the unmade bed.” The numerous hints that her father prostitutes her are just… unbearable. It’s difficult to comprehend how Hugo can simultaneously sympathize with her and dehumanize her in such a hideous way! Just look at this: “a species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery.”

- Even worse is the part where we learn that she is literate (she reads well and can even write - in Fantine's case, these would have been lifesaving skills), but literacy doesn't add anything to girl’s chances in life! It’s striking contrast to Marius, whose education allowed him to earn his living. I like that we are reminded that she is Gavroche’s sister, and he takes her to the theatre! It seems that this entire family (including their abominable father) has a soft spot for theatre and plays!

- Her speech about sleeping in the ditches, suicidal thoughts, and hallucinations due to hunger is so sincere and heart-wrenching. And it also evokes some vibes of Javert ("When I thought of drowning myself, I said to myself: ‘No, it’s too cold’" and “The stars are like the lamps in illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew them out” – but this last reference is more fitting for the musical version of Javert).

- As for Marius, he was not as bad when interacting with her. Although all the things Hugo said about Éponine (nice and ugly) are supposedly Marius’ observations, he was quite polite (calling her “Mademoiselle,” and not reprimanding her) and generous. And it’s also good to know that Marius figured out that his neighbour, “Jondrette,” is a swindler.

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favourite interaction in the brick is when grantaire is Drinking Heavily and bossuet is like “haha do you have a hole in your stomach?” and grantaire responds “you certainly have one in your elbow” finishes his wine. then goes “by that i mean your coat sucks. laigle. laigle. your coat is old. i am insulting you.”

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Jean Valjean

Les Miserables 2012

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yeah yeah opening a fic and "he would not fucking say that" but what about you open the fic and "he would fucking say that". what about that pure feeling of euphoria when it's exactly right the way you like it

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I'm always a slut for Eldritch Nightmare Merlin, official cryptid of Camelot and infant demigod, and @fluffypotatey and I agree Hunith would be entirely chill with that, but I also propose Arthur is the only other person who sees nothing out of the ordinary about Merlin. Like, all the other OG Round Table knights are pretty worldly guys (except Leon, but that man has Seen Some Shit) so they've probably met enough other sorcerers or seen enough magic used to know Merlin's magic is a bit....out of the box. But Arthur has known Merlin the longest, has seen him at his best and worst, so his entire attitude towards the whole "greatest sorcerer ever to live" thing is just, "Okay, and??? Good for him???"

Things Arthur has seen Merlin do:

Create a rainstorm over a town that was suffering from drought

Conjure food out of nothing when their rations got ruined

Speak to elemental spirits

Summon lightning from a clear sky

Heal an entire forest destroyed by wildfire

Transformed a volley of arrows into a cloud of butterflies

Turn a would-be assassin into a mouse

Turn himself into various animals including a raven, a fox, a cat, a stag, a wolf, a serpent, and a stoat

Create a 30-foot wall of fire to cut off their enemy's escape route

Address the Seelie Court

Things Arthur has also seen Merlin do:

Trip on the same set of stairs at least once a week for 10 years

Get his cloak shut in a door because he forgot he was wearing it

Peel apples to give to his horse

Cry over a litter of fox kits they found on a hunting trip (they were very small and fuzzy)

Get giggling-drunk after one (1) cup of strong wine

Play hide-and-seek with small children

Help the younger pages and squires practice their letters

Attend a council meeting barefoot because he forgot to put his boots on that morning

Carry around that scaly wingéd demon dragon hatchling in a sling like an infant because "she missed him"

Merlin: *does some Literally Impossible feat of magic*

Arthur: Same bae, different day, what y'all fussing about?

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i have a friend who has kinda bad eczema on their right hand but their left hand is fine and thats because acidity makes eczema worse and that includes vaginal acidity and my friend is both a lesbian and a slut so they finger a lot of people and that fucks up the hand they use (their right hand). Anyways do you think BBC sherlock would deduce that by looking at my friend’s hands

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Hugo’s direct comparison between Bamatabois and Tholomyès is so painful. It’s one thing to know that, logically, Tholomyès didn’t care about Fantine and saw her as disposable; everything we saw of him (and of course, Fantine’s present state) indicates that. But the difference between how men like them treated Fantine when she was beautiful and held the more acceptable status of “grisette” and how she’s treated now that she’s ugly, poor, and a prostitute is stark. Before, she wasn’t worth making commitments to, but her presence was welcome as long as it was “fun.” Now that she’s in need, the true extent of their cruelty is on display because there’s nothing they can get from her. They feel no obligation to treat her with even the most basic level of courtesy because they never saw her as a person to begin with.

The title of this chapter - “M. Bamatabois’ Inactivity” - is somewhat strange. The chapter revolves around his actions: he harasses Fantine verbally, then shoves snow down her dress. Of course, Hugo discusses all that he doesn’t do as well. He doesn’t work and is not very helpful or harmful in his inaction. Since he has some wealth, his unemployment doesn’t condemn him (either financially or in the eyes of society), but it doesn’t help his image, either. It’s accepted that there are men like him who don’t work, but it’s not praised, either. Since he has some status and money and is aligned with the party in power (his hat indicates that he’s a royalist), he’s tolerated by everyone around him in spite of his “inactivity.” 

This “inactivity,” then, is largely defined through his relationship with society: he’s “inactive” in that he doesn’t work. That being said, it’s also a legal “inactivity.” At the end of the chapter, Bamatabois flees before Javert can question him, leaving Fantine to him. Bamatabois isn’t seen as a criminal worth pursuing, so in the eyes of the law, he was never there except as a victim of Fantine’s aggression. Even though he spends most of this chapter harassing Fantine, to Javert, he is the “inactive” victim, while Fantine’s single reaction makes her the perpetrator.

I think this was chosen as the chapter title to play on these two notions. The first alludes to the valorization of work by the bourgeoisie: would bourgeois readers really want to support this “idle” man over Fantine, who works as hard as she can to help her daughter, just because he appears “respectable”? It challenges their assumptions about class and one’s worth while also playing on their values. The second idea is more ironic and frustrating. We know that Bamatabois wasn’t “inactive” at all, but he’s not going to be punished for anything he did because of the difference in class and status that exists between him and Fantine.

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dean + text posts pt. 2 bonus:

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bishop myriel and madame magloire in 1.1.2