thepoorlark

[thepoorlark]

the height difference between cosette and marius in bbc les mis really slapped me in face and I LOVE it

#bbc les mis #les miserables #cosette #marius pontmercy #marisette

[thepoorlark]

this !!! let’s end this narrative that the root of éponine’s pain stems from marius and cosette as individuals

can i just say i don't really understand where the thought that eponine would hate cosette personally and specifically just for being cosette comes from. like, sure, maybe she resents her a bit for the whole 'marius' thing, that's an understandable leap to make. maybe she even harbours some jealousy for cosette getting to live comfortably while eponine is in poverty. but at no point did i interpret eponine really expressing disdain for cosette specifically; it never really comes off as personal. eponine is aware of her own standing in society and the tragedy of her story comes from someone so young being so resigned to their own disenfranchisement and how they are perceived by the world, and that there's nothing she can do to change that, despite desiring things that are out of her reach in her social standing, like the love of marius or just getting to be a teenage girl. she knows what she longs for and she knows where she is, and she recognizes how irreconcilable those two things are, and imo that's where a lot of what some people interpret as eponine's 'sadness' or 'bitterness' comes from, not from some imagined rivalry with cosette.

#eponine #cosette #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

if they just told cosette the truth I guarantee every single one of their problems would be solved in like half a second

Cosette is the only one with brain cells in the last chapters of the book. The reason they had to conceal everything from her is because she’s the only one who’s reasonable:

“You no longer need a father, you have a husband.”

Cosette became angry.

“I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to things like that, which are not common sense!”

#les miserables #cosette #jean valjean #marius pontmercy

[thepoorlark]

someone write this fic please I beg you

for your consideration: pediatrician cosette

pediatrician cosette who comes into work with flowers in her hair and ribbons on her stethescope and a sheet of stickers in her coat pocket at all times

pediatrician cosette who is loved by the kids because she's so good at helping calm their anxieties about illness or injury

pediatrician cosette who shares stories of her own illnesses and injuries with her patients to assure them they'll be okay, validating their feelings and taking the time to explain everything in detail so the kids don't have any surprises

pediatrician cosette who always takes treating her patients at their pace, if they're not ready for her to do something, she waits patiently and helps them breathe and prepare themselves for what's to come

pediatrician cosette who sits all night by her patients bedside after a procedure

pediatrician cosette who brings coffee and vending machine snacks to the parents of her patients who have been up all night worrying

pediatrician cosette who never wants a sick child to feel the shame or loneliness or guilt or fear or fucking loneliness that she did growing up

pediatrician cosette.

#cosette fauchelevent #cosette #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

yeah so 8 year old cosette wasn’t the sweet and gentle child that the musical portrays her to be. she was feral and “peevish” and numb because not all child abuse victims need to come out as little angels to be victims.

#cosette fauchelevent #cosette #les miserables #the brick

[thepoorlark]

my favorite headcanon forever and always

you cannot convince me that the casting director for les mis 2012 was not an enjolsette siblings truther......... LOOK AT THEM

#cosette fauchelevent #cosette #enjolras #les mis 2012 #tom hooper

[thepoorlark]

does this fandom ever rest or must it always hurt me

There’s something about how Victor Hugo assures us that Monseigneur Bienvenue died peacefully by telling us his older sister stayed by his side until the very end. That, even after he went completely blind, she spent every night sleeping in the bedroom next to his, and spent every day taking care of him. And under his sister’s care, the blind bishop was more happy than he’d ever been in his entire life because “to be blind and to be loved is one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness . . . the supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves— say rather, loved in spite of ourselves— this conviction the blind have. In their calamity, to be served is to be caressed . . . light is not lost where love enters . . . the soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it.”

And then when first describing Grantaire, Hugo writes that the only thing the skeptic had ever dared to love was Enjolras, because “[n]o one loves the light like the blind man.”

And then Grantaire spends his final moments by Enjolras’ side, just like the bishop died by his sister’s side.

#monsignor bienvenue #enjoltaire #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

fantine is still at the restaurant

#right where you left me #im sorry #fantine #tholomyés

[thepoorlark]

so now we can say that fantine canonically rode a roller coaster. the more you know.

YAY I love the chapter of Les Mis where Fantine rides a roller coaster!

About three o’clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs-Élysées.

The “Russian Mountains” were an early version of roller coasters. They were (obviously) invented in Russia, and then became a Thing in France when Russia occupied the country after helping defeat Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo, which resulted in a lot of cultural exchange.

Obviously at this point roller coaster technology was in its infancy (they were basically just carts that rolled down a track.)

Here’s a longer post with more detail on the coasters!

But yeah, I wish adaptations would just let Fantine zoom around on her little roller coaster for a bit. She goes through so much later on that she deserves that. Let her have this one thing.

#somehowimnotsurpised #fantine #tholomyés

[thepoorlark]

please please please this is the only thing I have ever wanted ever

Now Les Misérables remastered™️ better be like Taylor’s versions where we get all the good old stuff but just a little bit better AND on top of that we get something new and that new better be Grantaire’s full part of Drink With Me or else

#les mis 2012

[thepoorlark]

the only character ever

#cosette fauchelevent #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

lacy by olivia rodrigo except it’s èponine and cosette

#literally all of èponine’s feelings towards cosette in one song #especially that last verse #eposette #cosette fauchelevent #eponine #olivia rodrigo #guts album #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

remember that time Marius finally started paying attention to Cosette after months of ignoring her and it pissed her off so much that it stirred a sense of “war” within her to the point that she decided to use his infatuation with her to take revenge on him only to accidentally kind of sort of fall in love with him. remember that.

#hugo’s sexism went crazy in that chapter #but still. angry cosette. #marisette #cosette fauchelevent #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

“ken only has a great day if barbie looks at him” is the most grantaire pining for enjolras thing I’ve ever heard

#enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #les miserables #barbie

[thepoorlark]

thank you to today’s les mis letters for reminding me of that time Marius went to a ball with Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and Grantaire to look for Cosette, only to leave early and walk home alone like some sad character in a teen coming-of-age movie

#but ​in his defense I wouldn’t want to go to a ball without cosette either #marisette #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

say this again and again and again

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

#barricade day #les miserables

[thepoorlark]

why is this actually canon

in a les mis modern au eponine keeps inviting herself to go grocery shopping with marius and keeps trying to steal the makeup and this makes marius anxious so he eventually he just ends up buying anything she wants on his student loan debt budget so she doesn't get caught and shes like awwwww isnt he so romantic and chivalrous <333

#marius pontmercy #eponine #les miserables