#and with saving Marius

[secretmellowblog]

One fascinating thing about the way Hugo writes Jean Valjean's inner conflict is that we're almost never actually in his POV when he makes his final decisions. We spend chapters and chapters exploring Jean Valjean's thought processes as he agonizes over difficult moral choices, but in the final crucial moment, when he actually makes his choice, Hugo "cuts us off" from his internal monologue. We view what his final choice looks like from the outside, from the perspective of other characters. This is especially significant because Jean Valjean, from the outside, is often pretty unreadable. He is uncannily calm, tranquil, and polite. He's opaque. There's a moment where he's described as a "whirlwind within, calm without;" Jean Valjean uses excessively polite behavior as a defense mechanism, "picking up his calm the way a warrior would pick up his buckler." The most obvious example of this is the Champmathieu trial, where Jean Valjean agonizes over whether to turn himself in. We spend chapter after chapter inside of his POV, exploring his terror and inner conflict as he weighs his options and invents a thousand excuses for himself-- we explore his trauma-fueled reactions to the concept of returning to prison in painful, agonizing detail, from his horrific memories of prison to his surreal nightmares about being buried alive. The tension builds as chapters fly by and he still hasn't made his final decision, as he hopes some unforseen accident will prevent him from making it to the trial and he won't have to make the decision after all-- But in the final moment, when Jean Valjean *actually* makes the final choice...we're not in his point of view. Instead, it's told "from the point of view" of the courtroom, and Jean Valjean's strange heartbreaking serenity is described solely from the outside. At the moment where we most want to hear what Valjean is thinking, we're abruptly cut off from his inner monologue. This becomes even more tragic when the "adrenaline rush" of the courtroom fades away and we witness the aftermath of the trial. When Jean Valjean returns to Fantine, we see him from the point of view of Simplice and other characters. He's described as behaving "mechanically" as if in shock. From the outside he appears eerily uncannily "tranquil" and completely opaque. It is impossible to tell what he is feeling or thinking. Jean Valjean responds to Javert's violence toward Fantine with an icy, eerily tranquil restrained fury: threatening him with a leaden bar, saying "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment"-- but you can feel behind that restraint the weight of all the grief/anger from the previous chapters, which he's incapable of letting himself express openly. He has made this horrible nightmarish sacrifice that he's been agonizing over for thousands of words, he's facing unimaginable violence and grief--- and in the moments where we most want to hear how he's reacting to this, "the line goes dead." We're brutally cut off from his mental state and left to imagine what he might be feeling.

After a few moments of this meditation (Jean Valjean) bent towards Fantine, and spoke to her in a low voice. What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard them.

#les mis #les mis letters #we were talking about this in the Letters discord server #and im losin my mind over it a little #I think this also happens with stealing the candlesticks #? #and with saving Marius #also the way his relationship with Javert ends #we don't see *why* he decides to rescue him at the barricades from his own pov #and thats significant

[jelly-sandwichy]

as promised heres the abc guys!!!!!

#les mis #les mis fanart #“WHY ISNT ENJOLRAS IN A RED WAISTCOAT” im saving that for his barricade design because itd be cool idk #i wouldge drawn marius too but im tired </3 #les amis #friends of the abc #les amis de l'abc #enjolras #combeferre #jehan prouvaire #feuilly #courfeyrac #bahorel #bossuet #joly #grantaire #les miserables

[khickuwa]

hold me tight, till all my broken pieces mend together.

#art #artist #fanart #illustration #illust #luke pearce #tears of themis #tears of themis fanart #digital art #rkgk #marius von hagen #mariluke #DRAWING THEM FOR MY SANITY #I'VE BEEN DYING (busy with school work) #ive been thinking about them alot recently #mariluke... mariluke save me......... #they are microwaving in my brain brrrrr

[protectionsquad24601]

"every teenage girl thinks they're Eponine when their crush doesn't like them" no, teenage girls feel like Eponine because they feel rotten and unworthy of love and selfish and bitter and angry and they think they're the only one who feels that way

Teenage girls feel like Eponine when they're so exhausted from their own self-hatred that they can't bring themselves to care anymore; even though their wretchedness is caused by things outside of their control, hope this helps

#les mis #les miserables #the brick #victor hugo #eponine #im the devil but i dont mind #im not saying shes unworthy of love; im saying she thinks she is #also the scene where shes yelling at the criminals to save marius's house has the best lines #really the teenage girl experience

[ormymarius]

He was such a bitch here, I was giggling in glee (slight spoiler under the cut)

#ignore the watermark I stole this image off some shady site just for this post #bc the moment lives in my head now lmao #I mean he did eventually save [redacted] but it makes me laugh #aquaman #aquaman and the lost kingdom #orm marius #dceu #patrick wilson #aquaman 2 spoilers #aquaman and the lost kingdom spoilers

[isopodsinmymailbox]

siege art dump😆🏳️‍🌈

#isopodsart #rainbow six siege #r6s #r6community #fensmoke #docjager #jagerdoc #?? is that their ship name. #smoke r6s #fenrir r6s #mute r6s #doc r6s #jäger r6s #jager r6s #james porter #mark r chandar #emil svensson #gustave kateb #marius streicher #i dont think anyone is a doc x jager fan besides me #but theyre cute and silly ok #idk y im doomed to be #a rarepair fan… save me fensmoke/jagerdoc.. save me.. pleasze #also thx for 100 followers!💯 #i should draw jager more hes my goat not gonan lie..

[reegis]

May be perhaps consider…. GPT in dating simulator

🤭🤭

im considering GPT every day of my life just in general

using this to address all of the Many asks i have about drawing all of the other mechs+doc for the fake dating sim- i really wasn’t planning on adding any more of them past my original post,, (ashes as an exception bc. its ashes. i would burn down my entire planet for them in a heartbeat 😔)

if i have the time/ energy i will Maybe (maybe) add others but i really wasnt planning to go further w this so im sorry if i dont get to your request 😭

#if i do ill probably try & save up to do a masterpost of all of them together #i wish i had the tim e aaa #if (IF) i do top of my list is marius n brian ngl #but we’ll see #unrelated & very secret so im burying it in the tags #but im trying my hand at writinf a fanfic for the first time ever #abt GPT #naturally #asks

[toriangeli]

One of my favorite things about how Anne Rice writes historical fiction: she doesn't sugar-coat her characters.

As in, there was never going to be any way all these vampires going back 6000 years were going to align with modern sensibilities. They're not savory. They suck.

First off, any male of status from before the Great Depression probably did, in fact, look at an underage girl and think, "she LOOKS like she could grow up cute and interesting, but do I want to wait to ask her dad and risk someone else calling dibs in the meantime?"

Lestat: Killed majestic, beautiful animals that were only trying to feed themselves. To save the lives of people who were counting on him, yeah, but still.

Marius: Literally from ancient Rome, lots of ideals from that time, pederastic relationship with Armand, see above disclaimer about males from prior to the Great Depression.

Armand, Santino, most of the de Landens: I do feel like the Children of Darkness/Satan wouldn't have been founded in our time, as evidenced by Lestat so easily disbanding them with basic Enlightenment talking points, so I think it counts.

Louis: LITERALLY OWNED SLAVES. And not in a bullshit "but I treat them so nice and they'd just be owned by someone mean if not for me!" way, he legit believed this was what black people were for. Until he became a vampire and all humans looked equal(ly foodlike) to him.

Gabrielle: Let other people raise her kids while she became a library hermit.

Maharet and Mekare: Cannibals. Oh, sorry. Respectful cannibals.

Khayman: Nnnot even gonna be sarcastic about this one. He was as much a victim of it as Maharet and Mekare, hence them not blaming him in the slightest. But people today would be put on trial for following an order like that one, so I figure it belongs here.

Daniel: idk probably unprotected gay sex. It was the 70's.

Claudia: Gets a pass. She was five. All the bad shit she does is unrelated to her time.

Mael: Helped keep a vampire captive for years, then proceeded to kidnap someone and force them to become a vampire, all because "idk we're kooky druids and it's our religion."

Everard: Laughs at Benedict for being kidnapped and having his blood stolen. Victim-blaming at its finest.

Akasha and Enkil: I mean, we know what they did, but everyone hated them in their own time, too, so.

Eudoxia: Jesus Christ.

Davis: HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG EVER IN HIS LIFE. /protects him forever #theonlyinnocentvampireprobably

And you know what? I'd take the worst of these over Bill Compton, Damon Salvatore, or Whassisface Cullen fighting for the Confederacy because "the greater good." Like bro. At least the dickheads above are being honest about it and we can judge those parts of them appropriately. You're trying to make us think you were doing something honorable by being vague. We know what you were really fighting for, and so do you.

Moral of the story: If you're gonna be evil, trying to be sneaky about it only makes it worse.

#the vampire chronicles #tvc #lestat de lioncourt #marius de romanus #armand #louis de pointe du lac #gabrielle de lioncourt #claudia de pointe du lac #mael #maharet #mekare #khayman #daniel molloy #everard de landen #santino #akasha #enkil #i do not remember davis' last name but he is precious #precious i tell you #allesandra de landen #eleni de landen #eugenie de landen #was that it for the cultist de landens? #i haven't gotten far into pandora yet but i'm sure there's shit there too #saving it to read on my flight next month #eudoxia

[saym0-0]

im so insane about polymechs,, like i keep going mildly insane over different trios

#they're all together (save for nastya ofc) but they like to go on dates in twos and threes and fours #currently its marius/jonny/ts #their voices sound so lovely together and grhgghsjfkfb #theyre SO GOOD #the mechanisms #the mechs #polymechs #jonny d'ville #marius von raum #WHO IS MARIUS VON HAGEN HE KEEPS SHOWING UP IN MY TAGS #toy soldier

[jelloia]

// tot cn server spoilers

this is all i've ever wanted.

AT LAST we get lukerosa high school pining era our coming-of-age-romance is finally coming !!!

they r so beautiful together... i've never felt more like a third wheel...

and of course it wouldn't be a post by me without a marius mention AJFDK BUT LOOK AT HOW HIS SMILE TURNS INTO A BLUSH....

also the post evol is just so cute and fuzzy... it doesn't have the intimacy of luke's but it just screams cute high school au i'm so in love

guys literally what are we supposed to do. first we have the sss cards then we have the dragon au cards then the lunar new year cards and now this...

#s chips savings r going in the negatives #tears of themis #luke pearce #marius von hagen

[dawnquafam]

Do you ever think about how Arthur said "No one hits my brother but me" and then one day later when Orm was possessed and he had every reason to actually do it, he refused to fight him at all

#bc i do #like. WE know he was joking #but there is a decent chance orm didn't #his father killed his mother. he and arthur tried to kill each other. his whole family had to let him get tortured for four years #he's used to violence within his family. he's hardly known anything else. why would he expect anything different now? #it may not have even occurred to him that arthur didn't mean it until he was trapped in his own body silently screaming at him to fight bac #and instead arthur both did absolutely nothing to hurt him and risked everything to save him #arthur curry #orm marius #dceu

[peachhieeworks]

3rd Anniversary is leaving me DEAD. Aside from the horny stuff they’re moving in together!!!!

The Pre-evo is so wholesome 🥹🥹🥹

ALSO THIS IS A NEW RANK!! It’s called SSS and it’s an interactive card with the male leads! If 3rd Anni is like this I’m having a funeral on 4th Anni 🥲

#tears of themis #artem wing #luke pearce #marius von hagen #vyn richter #tot #zuo ran #xia yan #mo yi #lu jinghe #We have a year to save!!!

[omgjolras]

marius to his wife's abusers: i owe u my life

#why was this removed from the musical it's hilarious #les mis #les miserables #he tried to save gavroche that's something at least #marius

[rocksanddeadflowers]

Just so you know if I had any idea how to animate I would absolutely make the silliest, most cheesey, cutesy, bubbly, colorful animation of Prison Mechs x Lyf to Doctor by Jack Stauber.

Lyf (who is post TBI and so so so pretty and has big sad eyes and is 'sick' bc the bifrost ('sick' as in traumatized and needs love and care an grounding!!)) (also "i need a doctor" Lyf totally does the classic faint on couch/into somebody's arms thingy with the back of their hand to their forehead) getting Marius's official totally a real doctor diagnosis for Love. Marius prescribes a minimum of one little smooch on the cheek from each of the three of them daily ("take three of these a day").

"Cool, are you alright on your own?" You don't have to stay with us if you don't want to.

"No I'm not sure." I'm not sure. I've no where to go and I think I like it here.

"Okay." You're always welcome with us.

#actually sick to my stomach over this #i have the whole thing planned out in my head but i cannot draw to save my life i do not enjoy it and i am bad at it please oh my god #them..... them kissing.............. #the mechanisms #lyfrassir edda #the bifrost incident #marius von raum #raphaella la cognizi #ivy alexandria #violinspector #I'm still unsure if the four of them have a ship name bc they should #i think i once proposed “across the prosmos/lost in the prosmos” like a play on prose edda but idk kinda long and confusing

[pilferingapples]

I was talking with @everyonewasabird about Cosette’s situation towards the end of the book, and realized that,from Cosette’s POV:

-Marius told her he was going to need to miss seeing her for an evening; that meant two days. He refuses to tell her why, and he gives her Courfeyrac’s address. (4.8.6) He makes vague allusions to some men he knows, and gives her Courfeyrac’s name and address, because something might happen, one never knows” .   When he is convincing her of the need for him to leave for an evening, he tells her, in doing this , “ "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps."

-the day after Marius and Cosette skip their nightly meeting for the first time ever, the June Revolt happens. 

- the day after that, Jean Valjean is also gone , the whole day and until early the next morning. There is absolutely no way Cosette doesn’t know he’s gone. But she’s used to her dad disappearing for a day or two, she might not think too much about it....

- except Cosette learns after the revolt that Marius was severely wounded on the barricades.  She pretty much has to learn this from her father; no one else she knows even knows who Marius is!

- after Marius wakes up, everyone, including Cosette, reasonably now assumes him to be a srs bsns republican revolutionary. She also must learn that Courfeyrac, and all Marius’ other friends, have died in pursuit of that revolution.

-the only thing Valjean and Marius really talk about to any degree is politics. (5.5.7)

-Hugo notes several times that Marius and Valjean have an obvious air of two men with a secret between them. (5.5.7, 5.7.1). Cosette has gathered enough to believe the things they won’t talk to her about are political (5.7.1).

-Valjean does his best to convince Cosette that all his strange behavior after his confession, and even the condition of their meeting room, and the short time they meet, is his doing and according to his wishes entirely.  He won’t elaborate. He’s just. Meeting his daughter. In near-secret.  and refusing to meet her any other way.

Under a name Cosette doesn’t know. 

HMMMM.  

- What I’m saying is, it would be completely and entirely fair for Cosette to think that her (known revolutionary!!)  husband and her (always mysterious!) dad are involved in political conspiracy  that they are refusing to tell her about for all the usual reasons people might keep a political conspiracy secret.  It would even be very reasonable for her to conclude they met through the uprising. 

A household with Political Conspiracy happening would even fit in comfortably with Hugo’s own life experiences!--his mom and her lover had plotted against Napoleon, without him knowing. 

What does this change? I don’t know. Nothing, necessarily?  but Hugo doesn’t really consider Cosette’s  POV and interiority at all here, so I want to do it more, and that led me here, and now you too. 

#long post #heck does she know --or suspect--her dad saved Marius??? #she MIGHT #it would not be hard to guess!! #but we will never know #because Hugo doesn't think it's Relevant to Valjean's Journey #which is SO MESSED UP #but anyway. #Cosette talk

[ormymarius]

Stephen gave Orm puppy eyes when they first met and Orm immediately fell for him, love that

#no bc stephen was literally ‘pls save me from manta 🥺’ #and orm was like ‘maybe I don’t hate surface dwellers after all’ #orm marius #dr stephen shin #aquaman #aquaman and the lost kingdom