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russian revolution!au where ed is an orthodox christian and a monarchist, riddler is a bolshevik

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winter journey (зимний путь) is a 2013 russian drama film

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alexandra mikhailovna, «netochka nezvanova»

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netochka x katya, «netochka nezvanova»

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can't you see that it's a totalitarian dictatorship?

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The Student (2016 Russian drama film by Kirill Serebrennikov); Elena Krasnova

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Recommended Reading List for Fans of the Brick

Per my previous post, here is the recommended reading list! This list is still in the beginning stages and I am grateful for additional recommendations and/or corrections, I’ll add them to this list as I receive them.

The idea is to have a handy list geared especially for those of us who are interested in expanding our knowledge (of the time/etc surrounding Les Miserables) but are uncertain about where to start.

History:

Jill Harsin – Barricades

Mark Steel – Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution

Political Readings:

Declarations of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Henry Thoreau - Civil Disobedience

Henry Thoreau – Walden

Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolutions in France

Thomas Paine - Rights of Man

Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty

Rousseau – The Social Contract

Romantic Readings:

William Wordsworth - We Are Seven

Medicine and Healthcare:

1820s-1830s Medicine Resources

Romanticism:

Louis Crompton - Byron and Greek Love

An archive of Les Mis meta and research discussion:

Fans & Deliverance

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“HE SHOT MY LEG. I *JUST* FIXED IT!!!”

Big mood.

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Dostoevsky Moodboard Challenge ( 13 / infinite ): Minimalistic Covers Redesigned

What shall I talk about? About everything that strikes me and sets me to thinking.

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Traumatised Cody Fern, looking both sides of the road bc Michael did not.

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Reblog if you say "fuck" more than 5 times a day.

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fun fact: in russian, one of the slang words for ‘gay/homosexual’ is 'голубой’ which means 'light blue’

and obviously the translators of good omens had to work with that while translating the bit about aziraphale’s gayness

so one of the variants made him 'so light blue that any tropical island would hire him to illuminate the sky in the middle of the touristic season’

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Cody Fern as Lestat de Lioncourt.

Reblog if you agree.

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les mis as avengers: Enjolras as Captain America

grantaire/iron man - cosette/scarlet witch - marius/vision - bahorel/thor

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