#interpretations realisations

[fateandloveentwined]

the musical and the brick: congruence

You know how I always said bring him home should not be in les mis, and it is not canon? I mean, it just occurred to me that even though Valjean didn’t save Marius at that time, he did eventually, and he even blessed Cosette and Marius’ marriage despite his unwillingness to do so, going so far as to proclaim his life’s work ended. And he saved Javert at that time, a far greater fear of his own (or was it that his love for Cosette surpassed that fear for his own imprisonment), showing how he has always been about love and redemption. It made me think, and I realise the tone of bring him home has never been wrong. You change some things and shift some timeframes in adaptations, and who am I to complain about one of the best numbers of this masterpiece?

(I didn’t get bring him home that much at the start. But someone close passed away, I looped it, and yeah, at times like those you suddenly see what the song is really about, and it’s beautiful.)

And when JVJ really sings it at the ending, it is so true to the story.

And same goes for the do you hear the people sing reprise at the finale. Because Victor Hugo wanted to write about fading into nihility. He wanted to write about death, about how lives don’t matter a hundred years down the road. Revolutions fade, compassion and genuine love and forgiveness reigns. But he wrote this in the 1850s, in the wake of France's 1848 revolution mess and he himself in self-imposed exile, the glaring failure of the second republic and the irony of napoleon III’s ascension shoved in his face. So he’s disillusioned with uprisings. He wants peace. But above all he still longs for liberty and egalite—at that point in the course of history we don’t even know if he still believes in the possibility of such a future. So instead Hugo writes about the fading of things, he writes about religion and he writes about love and compassion, he chooses to end the story with the fading life of Jean Valjean rather than the conviction of liberty of the ABC’s.

Despite all this, for just a little or a lot, in the heaven faraway and some time in their near future, for at least a brief respite of time, the chorus rings of a la volonte du peuple, and I suppose it will be what he wished for.

The musical is pretty congruent, all things considered.

(recommendation of the day: I was listening to Chris Jacobsen's BHH which made me write all this. So blame him.)

[🕯️les mis index]

[renewashere]

No time for existential crises! They've got opportunities ahead of them!

[fateandloveentwined]

@stiltonbasket: (because oops I reblogged the wrong reblog :)) Someone who read MDZS on JJWXC explained that in this scene in Chapter 31:

In the past, Wei WuXian had countless friends to drink with. He had seen hundreds and thousands of ways people acted when they were drunk. Some wailed loudly, others giggled idiotically, some flounced about, others collapsed immediately, some were determined in taking their own lives, others whimpered, “Why are you leaving me?” However, this was his first time seeing someone like Lan WangJi, who didn’t make any noise, looked decent, yet acted strangely.

the man crying "Why are you leaving me?" was none other than Luo Binghe, confirmed via MXTX's reply to a comment on this chapter. :)

I was today years old when I found out about the Binghe cameo in MDZS...

[mayhasopinions]

they r so stupid

[ladeldee]

When you're trying to introduce yourself to the new people but your husband will not stop hyping you up.

[dykealloy]

this will never not be hilarious to me

[burgercheese1812]

Jinshi: Describe your perfect date.

Maomao: That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th. It’s not too hot or too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

[diino8081]

guys i think i know how the curse transferred

[achillean-knight]

wanted to redraw the piece I did when we first got the KH4 trailer

Chat, beholde my art 3 years later LMAO took them long enough that my style some-what changed dramatically PFFT

Nah jokes aside, I'm still relishing in the fact we got news!! We actually got KH4 news :'>> man... So for funsies I thought I'd test my skills and see how much my style really has changed in 3 years. There's alot I wanna improve on, but there's improvement I think!

[fateandloveentwined]

Death walk to Arras

moral obligations yeah but also no I was rereading jean valjean's internal dialogue scene on his way to Arras (if I speak, I am condemned / if I stay silent, I am damned) and yes it is about the factory workers and the people of Montreuil-sur-Mer, it is about "my soul belongs to God I know, I made that bargain long ago", by faith of consequentialism if I could save the lives of a hundred people over one wretched man who is not going to do so, of course I would not condemn myself to life in gaol.

but also no.

he did not freaking want to go to the trial. All his way to Arras by horse he was pulling a Jarndyce and acting fricking like, "the wind blows, ergo Providence decrees I am not to go to Arras". "The court is full and everyone believed in the miserable convicted man. Of course I should just turn back and leave." All the time his heart was literally going "okay I'm just going to get there, take a look, everything's fine and dandy and I'll be headed my way back Montreuil-sur-Mer".

and that's almost what he did. He got there, shoved his mayor alias at the judge and got a first-class seat at the court treated with nothing but reverence, every one of his former inmates condemned the falsely tried man without a shadow of doubt, then, dang, jean valjean looked at the wretched guy confused and miserable at the front, and went,

"I cannot actually let him go to jail for life for a crime and more petty crimes he has not a single clue about. I just can't."

et voilà there he goes he stands up and calls all attention to him; he reveals himself to the world by spilling arbitrary secrets about his inmates and shocking the hall to silence and fervour. he walks away before anyone arrests him, says, "you know where to find me" and heads home.

It was never about saving one life vs. a hundred, about being righteous and doing what was honourable. He was dreadfully fearful of the incarceration that loomed ahead; at that moment before the wrongly accused man he simply realised he could not go on.

the crowd oohs and aahs, they epitomise disbelief, in three days they forget about him and dear old Monsieur Madeleine was but an unrepentant bonapartist, a convict and a thief most deservedly rearrested.

Montreuil-sur-Mer topples in weeks. Many years later at his death, Jean Valjean leaves something on his grave, but that, too, fades away.

the other reason for his confession: and must my name until i die / be no more than an alibi

[romionarry]

if god hates gay people then why do we keep winning . that joanne woman scattered ronarry cocaine all over this page and she didn’t even do it on purpose

[somegrumpynerd]

Cross has trouble getting to sleep alone in his room and goes looking for a distraction, but ends up finding a solution for both of them

[apolloandhypnos]

POV you're a gith or possibly a frog and you're about to let an amnesiac, religiously traumatised, 48 year old goth girl send you to the astral plane without the use of a god

[theyareawake]

[radicalcrashout]

in another life it's a saturday at the gay bar on queen street. they don't meet in an office, in the shadow of a death. they find each other's eyes across a dimly lit dance floor crossed with neon lights and glitter eyeshadow. they know who they are in this life, a life that is not only for god. maybe they believe. maybe one of them does. maybe they both did once. but god isn't what's important when they sit side by side at the bar and share a smile that sings so sweetly of something more, a deeper connection, a chance to say ''i love you'' and mean it.

in another life they get to fall in love and it doesn't mean the end of everything but rather simply the start of another way of being.

this is about vincent benitez and thomas lawrence based on this post by jickdraws everyone go send him some love pls

[fateandloveentwined]

LotR is not about Frodo—and that makes it beautiful.

Fellowship is about the fellowship. All nine of them. Then they break, and Two Towers is about Minas Morgul and Isengard, which gives us Frodo and an increasing amount of Sam; Isengard on Merry, Pippin and Treebeard (ents!) then later the rest of the troop; Returning of the King is Aragorn. The Lord of the Rings is, well, Sauron.

None of the titles is about Frodo.

At some point the narrative delves into everything but Hobbits, and the book ends with Sam.

Fellowship had me loving Frodo, from Book 1 on, and Aragorn and Gandalf. In the Two Towers and at the ending of Fellowship I loved Gimli and Legolas; Merry and Pippin were kind of, inadequate and woefully unprepared. Sam and Smeagol deserve a mention. In Book 5 Meriadoc and Peregrin I truly loved, and in Book 6 no more could be said of Sam Gamgee—then in the end all of them, Frodo and Aragorn, Bilbo and Gandalf and Galadriel, Elrond as they sail across setting sun to the ainur's musics of the West. Sam turns back, and he is with Rose and their young Elanor. Aragorn with Arwen rules Arnor and Gondor; Gimli and Legolas on their wild travels and Merry and Pippin on theirs. It’s a journey through and through, and in the end you fall in love all of them (Smeagol being the cutest name (i'm sorry fight me)); usually I just delve deep into fandoms with one single character but Tolkien makes them work, breathes life into all of them.