I'm going to be a grandmother!
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Finished reading the Bartimaeus trilogy, and for the most part I was like "well this is fine but I want to finish it quickly so I can start reading something else", and then the very last chapter wrecked me.
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Ngl - I was staring at the JF sketch thinking how good it would look with ear-rings and then HK goes and does the same hairstyle with EARRINGS and a HAIRPIECE and KITTY-CLAWS?
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I'm sorry, WHAT???
Ryan Reynolds is rebooting Biker Mice From Mars????
HOLYSHIT.
HIRE ME. I want to be on this project.
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I hate the premise of this chapter so much (”the heroism of passive obedience” just brings back all of my issues with how Mlle Baptistine and Mme Magloire are treated), but if the title were different so that I could know that wasn’t what Hugo wanted to focus on, it would be so much better, because most of it really consists of heartbreaking moments between Valjean and the bishop.
Valjean is upfront about his identity after entering, but he doesn’t believe that he’s not being cast out. In response to the bishop, he sort of rambles? For instance, he repeats his origins three times in a row (”’I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come from the galleys’”) even before he pulls out his yellow passport to confirm it. His speech is similarly repetitive when he talks about learning to read and asks if he will be provided with shelter, highlighting the extent of his shock. It’s also clear how low his standards for treatment are - not just because he can’t process that someone is actually giving him a place to stay, but because he automatically asks if there’s a stable at the end, assuming that if he is given shelter, it could only be around animals, not people. He laments that he is treated worse than a dog (”’dogs are happier’”), but he’s also internalized the idea that he is equal to or below most animals.
Also, these lines are incredible:
““What need have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which I knew.”
The man opened his eyes in astonishment.
“Really? You knew what I was called?”
“Yes,” replied the Bishop, “you are called my brother.””
Watching Valjean get so much joy out of basic respect (being addressed as “sir” and with what I assume is “vous”? The translation of “tu” to “thou” in English in confusing, since we don’t use that anymore, but it seems to be what would make sense context-wise) is both sweet and desperately sad, but this? This is one of the most moving moments so far. The way Valjean jumps to astonishment (the connotation is unclear, but I’d assume he either assumes he’s notorious or that the bishop is simply full of knowledge) and the bishop flips their relationship from a hierarchical one (convict-bishop) to an equal one! With a word! And if Valjean isn’t used to the basic respect that would be given to almost anyone, then what must being treated as an equal - as a “brother” - feel like?
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✴.·´¯`·.·★ 💚𝓘'𝓶 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓮𝓬𝓱𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 💚 ★·.·`¯´·.✴
I accept what was, what is, and what it will be. Healing and growth is consistent - I'm bound to lose people along the way. All that matters is that I don't lose myself and I keep the good ones close.
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bottom!Mac is real as ever in 2023 and I’m so grateful
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*Cough Cough*
Definitely didn't cry while watching that one movie about a brooding outcast gay framed for murder and his adopted NB shapeshifting punk rock child last night.
*Cough Cough*
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