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Fanny Price: I was quiet, but I was not blind.

Elinor Dashwood: I was quiet, but I was seething.

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They're just friends!!

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you don't need to have cute handwriting girl, Dostoevsky's manuscript drafts looked like this

left- draft of Demons. right- draft of The Brothers Karamazov

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Honestly, one of the things that fuck me up the most about The Brothers Karamazov, is not only that Dostoyevski names Fyodor Karamazov —arguably the most vile character in the novel— after himself; but that he names this character's pure son, mr. little ray of sunshine Alyosha, the same as the son Dostoyevski lost at three years old, a loss that pained him all his life, like????? what did you meant by this sir???? does such goodness only belongs to the realm of death?? of fantasy?? Are we always to taint good works through our polluting influence? what does this mean!!!!

From W. J. Leatherbarrow's "Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brother's Karamazov"

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Headcanons (Les Mis I)

My Headcanons(?) of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" in an AU set in Kazuo Ishiguro's world of "Never Let Me Go".

(This thread contains SPOILERS from both books.)

Cosette grows up in an academy (farm 😞) designed to raise clones for organ donation. It's one of the few that cares about education and treating the clones well, but it has fewer resources and lower conditions compared to the academy in the original story. One day, while looking through a magazine, she sees a picture of the real Cosette, happy with Fantine (My Fantine is a seamstress and she’s doing great in life). This makes Cosette clone want to find her own place in the world, so she decides to escape.

Valjean, who is against the organ donation system, finds Cosette Clone. Determined to give her a real life, he adopts and protects her, trying to keep her from being sacrificed when she turns 20.

Javert is an inspector dedicated to maintaining the donation system. When he learns that Valjean has adopted Cosette Clone, he starts chasing them to bring her back to the system she escaped from.

Marius is not a clone. When he discovers the existence of the Amis clones, he is shocked to see replicas of his deceased friends. As he learns about this world, he can’t help but become friends with them. (A sad life I gave him, he can't catch a break even here.)

In this version, the Amis are clones who met in one of the many donor academies (similar to the one in "Never Let Me Go," but some came from other places with worse conditions and met while waiting for their fate). Enjolras wants to start a rebellion against the donation system (because that’s what was missing in the book 😢).

Combeferre hears a rumor: if clones can prove to the academy’s director that they have real emotions, they might be allowed to live a few more years before being forced to donate. He convinces Enjolras to try this first.

Grantaire, who fits this scenario perfectly, presents his artwork to the director. His paintings are so expressive that the director is impressed, wondering how someone without real emotions could create something so deep.

SPOILER: It doesn’t work.

Jehan is the first of the Amis to die. Even though he supports Enjolras’s vision and believes in the rebellion, he wouldn’t deny anyone a donations. 😢

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Mitya: This is all my fault.

Alyosha: No, Mitya, it isn’t.

Ivan: Yeah, it kinda is.

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Alyosha: We’re family! Families talk about things!

Ivan: No, families ignore things until they go away.

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Ivan, holding a cauliflower in front of Alyosha’s face: What is this?

Alyosha: …cauliflower?

Ivan, to Mitya: Now tell him what you think it is.

Mitya, looking away: Ghost broccoli.

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Ivan: What exactly are you doing?

Alyosha, surrounded by a pack of middle school boys: Building a family.

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Kolya: I’m too young to die! And too old to eat off the kids menu! What a stupid age I am!