#look i mis this

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

#is this anything? idk I've been looking at it too long to tell. anyways I just really liked this passage #^ the text here is a little abridged tbc bc i couldn't draw all the uses of nettles he lists etc #I think I might also color that last panel separately bc I'm really pleased with it tbh #thoughts #my art #les mis #jean valjean

[acekindaneat]

man loves his takoyaki

#I LOVE REIGEN'S STAGE PLAY ACTOR FR HE'S SO GOOFY #i recently watched it so it is stuck in my head ouugghh #I'll probably redraw more bits from the stageplay bc i love it a lot #also im trying out a new brush i hope it looks good #anyways heres the normal tags #mp100 #reigen arataka #arataka reigen #shigeo kageyama #kageyama shigeo #mp100 fanart #mob psycho 100 #comic #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #mi art stuff #i love takoyaki so much too one time i ate like 12 of it

[angelicughart]

grantaire with long hair and long coat is something that can be so personal

#enjoltaire #exr #enjolras #grantaire #les miserables #i saw the les mis tour last week and grantaire looked like this and it awoke something feral within me #maybe re-entering my les mis phase once more

[secretmellowblog]

Another reason I dislike Les Mis adaptations that make Jean Valjean constantly openly angry/violent is because they miss that Jean Valjean is not allowed to be angry. The fact he is forbidden from expressing anger is, I argue, actually a very important part of his character in the novel!

One of the subtler political messages of the story is that some people are given freedom to express anger, while others are forced to be excessively meek and conciliatory in order to survive.

Wealthy conservatives like Monsieur Gillenormand can “fly into rages” every five minutes and have it treated as an endearing quirk. Poor characters like Fantine or Jean Valjean must be constantly polite and ingratiating to “their superiors” at all times, even in the face of mockery and violence, or else they will be subjected to punishment. If Gillenormand beats his child with a stick, it’s a silly quirk; if Fantine beats a man harassing her, she is sentenced to months in prison.

(Thenardier and Javert are interesting examples of this too. Thenardier acts superficially polite and ingratiating to his wealthy “superiors” while insulting them behind their backs. Javert, meanwhile, is completely earnest in his mindless bootlicking. But I could write an entire other post on this.)

The point is that….Jean Valjean has to be submissive and self-effacing, or he puts himself in danger. He can’t afford to be angry and make scenes, or he will be punished. The only barrier between himself and prison is his ability to be so “courteous” that no one bothers to pry into his past.

Jean Valjean is excessively polite to people, in the way that you’re excessively polite to an armed cop who pulls you over for speeding when you secretly have a few illegal grams of marijuana in the your car trunk. XD It’s politeness built on fear, is what I mean. It’s politeness built on a desperation to make a powerful person avoid looking too closely at you.

It’s politeness at gunpoint.

Jean Valjean has also spent nineteen years living in an environment where any expression of anger could be punished with severe violence. That trauma is reflected in the overly cautious reserved way he often speaks with people (even people who are kind and would never actually hurt him.)

So adaptations that have Jean Valjean boldly having shouting matches with people in public and beating cops half to death without worrying about the repercussions just make go like “???”

Because that’s part of what’s fascinating about Jean Valjean to me? On one hand, he is a genuinely kind compassionate person, who cares deeply about other people and behaves kindly out of altruism. But on the other hand, he was also “beaten into submission” by prison, and forced into adopting conciliatory bootlicking behaviors in order to survive. And it can sometimes be hard to tell when he is being kind vs. when he is being “polite” — when he is speaking and acting out of earnest compassion vs. when he is speaking and acting out of fear.

The TL;DR is that I think it’s important that even though Jean Valjean is very (justifiably) angry about the injustice that was inflicted on him, his anger is harshly policed at all times— by other people, and by himself. He has been told his anger is wrong/selfish so often that he believes it. His anger takes weirder more unhealthy forms because he has no safe outlet for it. His rage at society becomes a possessiveness towards Cosette and silent hatred of Marius, but primarily it becomes useless self-destructive constant hatred of himself. And while I might be phrasing this wrong, I think that’s what’s interesting about Jean Valjean’s relationship with anger— the way his justified fury at his own mistreatment gets warped into more and more unhealthy forms by the way he’s forced to constantly repress it.

#les mis #les mis letters #jean valjean #don’t mind me just Valjeanposting #you know I’m doing okay when I’m Valjeanposting #but yeah I can’t remember the first person who started talking about this concept with me #(it was years ago) #but now I think about it constantly #when you read the book looking through that lens #of certain charcaters being forced to act conciliatory and polite ‘under threat of violence’ #you notice it constantly #it’s such a running Thing #and you could write tons of posts about it on www.tumblr.com

[hamletthedane]

objectively, “I would know those rippling muscles anywhere…” is the funniest plot point in les miserables

#‘a memory stirs…’ #That’s not all that—no. I shant. #les mis #les miserables #i like that various adaptations show him doing things while imprisoned to make this slightly less weird #it’s still weird #Did you just like. Never look him in the face Javert.

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

#alnst ivan #alnst till #ivantill #alien stage #ooooh boy turns out ivan’s self esteem is pretty low in terms of love #makes total sense but it’s not what i expected from someone who looked so in control of what he wanted and was willing to pursue from till #he loves humbly which was my first intepretation of him before we even got round 3 #it’s changed since then with more (mis)information leaked by vivinos to misdirect our understanding of him #so to get this clear dialogue of his final thoughts is really… clarifying #and terribly sad in a way #ivan loves till so much and is entirely aware that he hasn’t been the most gentle of suitors #god i have many thoughts about this #ahhh ivan baby your feelings aren’t shallow at all

[transvampireboyfriend]

he’s sweet <3

#wwditsedit #wwdits spoilers #wwdits #wwdits 4x06 #the wedding #guillermo de la cruz #wwdits guillermo #wwdits marwa #wwdits nandor #nandermo #this is the first gifset i've been proud of omg im making progresss!!!!!!! i had a LOT of help with this one but i think im getting there #my beloved guillermo #the love of my life guillermo #my best friend guillermo #heart breaker heart staker #MI VIDA #<3 <3 <3 #look at him he's so sweet omg #i couldnt even think of a good caption bc my brain is just in a loop of #he's so sweet he's so sweet he's so sweet he's so sweet he's so #8k #.

[cirkkaa]

About the traveler...

#about lumine´s arrival and a skeptical kaeya #:) #my art #genshin impact #look it´s an actual comic #my inspiration for this was bc i play traveler lumine i wondered if kaeya could recognize an inteyvat #When i first played act 1 i didn´t like kaeya bc he was too bitchy to traveler who was just being kind and he just.. lied man.. #i hate him sm (I have accepted him in my heart) #kaeya #lumine #diluc #a mitad de esto me salen con las noticias del hangout pueden imaginar mi disbelief

[motions1ckn3ss]

this might be THE cuntiest interpretation of look down i've ever seen... i need to see more

#i am HOWLING at this #they yassified look down😭😭😭 #this MIGHT be the greatest showman #les mis #les miserables #videos

[i-wanna-hug]

CHOOSE YOUR CHAMPION

#((sry garrett i'm team marian i can't resist her charming voice & her piercing blue eyes & her perfectly toned arms that look like they c-) #((oh um s-sorry what was i talking about? i think i got distracted...)) #((also would you guys be mad if i said i'm kind of a wasian hawke truther? no evidence to support it just my own delusions <3 LOL)) #garrett hawke #marian hawke #dragon age 2 #dragon age #da2 #my art #((i always forget garrett has a real name cuz whenever i play m!hawke i always name him mike so he'll be m-mi.. mike ha- nvm you get it))

[diableasura]

Listen I know nothing about the les miserables fandom and honestly i didn't even know there was a fandom but long story short I got my hands on an actual masters thesis based on the fandom writing around les mis and in particular about the ship between enjolras and grantaire (they actually used the term enjoltaire on a real university end of masters thesis) so congrats to the les mis fandom cause you have a strong soldier out there who wrote 30 pages analizing enjoltaire and their ao3 fics.

#there are more than 12000 enjoltaire fics on ao3 btw #yes I had to look it up after seeing that thesis #to say I was amazed by that sheer number would be an understatement #talk about a silent majority #les miserables #les mis #enjoltaire

[allforthe-gay]

it is completely one hundred percent baffling to me that any of the foxes would come away from witnessing neil and andrew's reunion in baltimore with the opinion that their relationship was just hate fucking . like my brother in christ are you blind

#andrew was FERAL . #he fucking choked KEVIN like COME ON #and he was like RACING into the room to see neil and #he was all like *tugs neil's hoodie to get his attention* *threatens anyone who tried to come close to them (abby)* #he was all like 'i dont trust them to give you back.' come on man . #and neil was looking at andrew . most definitely Like That. when he was talking to abby #neil was all battered and bruised from barely dodging a fucking death sentence and he sees andrews partly red eye and thats #the first thing he talks about #*lightly taps a thumb against the bruise at andrews eye* i didnt know theyd staged a riot #they were all like Looking at each other and ..... idk i am not explaining this well enough but . #you don't need me to. you all read it #it was So Fucking Obvious my god #im crying bc even neil thought nicky wasnt far from the truth at that point #like he could not have been more incorrect istg . #aftg #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #all for the game #mi ne

[acekindaneat]

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SERIZAWA WEEK!!!!!!

what flavor of ice cream do you think they'd get? 🤔 🍦❓

(click for better quality!)

#*RISES FROM THE DEAD* HELLO EVERYNYAN #IT'S SERIZAWA'S BIRTH WEEK!!!!!!!!! #serizawa katsuya #ekubo #tome kurata #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 fanart #mi art stuff #ekuseri #hehe #i've accidentally made tome look similar to reigen oopsie #ANYWAY I'VE BEEN FIGHTING ARTBLOCK AND HOPEFULLY SERIWEEK WOULD GRAB ME BY THE NECK AND GET ME TO DRAW #serizawaweek2024 #also i think seri would like cloud watching or just in general sight-seeing #he's soaking up the outside world ☝️

[twisting-in-wonderland]

let! him! have! his! octopus! plush! >:[

(messy extra stuff----)

meanwhile,back at NRC:

(+ here’s a WIP >:] )

#twst #twisted wonderland #jade leech #harveston sledathon #azul ashengrotto #i'm. tagging him because. he's there in spirit in the pic--- and he's under the read more- #ram's art #i mainly used this as a practice for something - which is why it's messyyyyyy #anyways i think he should have been allowed an octopus :[ to limit him to land animals only is mean :[[[[[ #also i am. enjoying this event so much fr #oh yea - i sorta tried to wing the fabrics that jade picked---- #i. think. at least--- #i didn't actually re-read that part so i probably mis-remembered what he picked aha--- #oh also also dont look at the sled <3 i sorta . skimmed drawing it #anywaysss mush! mush! little plush octo!!! you can do it!

[vampire-mina]

thinking about eponine saying “i’m the devil but it’s all the same to me” like how did victor hugo casually just write about a deeply traumatized girl believing that so deeply that she is unworthy of most things and evil but still performing small acts of kindness despite her shitty life (watering the flowers) and not become absolutely obsessed w her

#look i know she did it to get marius’ address BUT STILL #IT HAS DEEPER MEANING TO ME #i think abt her all the time and everytime i circle back to this quote #eponine thenardier #les mis #les miserables #les misérables #eponine

[suitehearttts]

somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see? | store

#les miserables #les mis fanart #les amis de l'abc #les mis #guys holt shit #this is apparently what les mis does to a mf: suddenly he can draw not only environments but envinornemtns with (kinda shitty) perspective? #genuinely this is like the first meaningful time I’ve drawn a full room in a piece since like… freshman year #its not perfect but i genuinely don’t think i can look at it up close anymore without driving in myself insane #anyway!! ily modern amis aus you will always be famous #also here’s everyone going left to right from the green couch around: #courfeyrac #combferre #bousset #feuilly #marius #cosette #jehan #enjolras #grantaire #joly #bahorel #mushetta #eponine #gavroche