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Nothing dystopian about performing Les Misérables in the Israel state? We're not going to mention how fucking crazy that is? During Nakba? In Tel Aviv? Nakba? Nakba? Genocide? To zionist audience? K.

Only dystopian when performing in front of fascists in the USA? K.

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female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

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turns out im not done with this. prouvaire with liberty spikes so high they hit every doorway he goes through. he has the most extensive discogs and vinyl collection that his parents funded. he’s just a kid! nobody moshes harder than prouvaire. he knows every underground venue in paris. he tags every sign with stickers. ladies flock around him but he’s so bad at sex

yeah fuck it. modern prouvaire is punk. his mom does his mohawk before he goes out to shows. he plays solo sets just guitar for 20 minutes and it sucks ass. combeferre goes to the open mic in support and feels his glasses crack but still pats him on the back and says he was awesome. prouvaire pierced his own tongue and passed out. stick and poke tattooer for life. wears so many second-hand pieces and claims it’s fashion but at this point he’s just layering belts with belts

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celiac joly my beloved ... being labeled an invalid because he is sickly from constantly getting glutened . but no one knows what celiac is yet so people think he is crazy for thinking there's something wrong with him. treating it himself by going on like an all fruit diet or something and everyone's like ohhh crazy joly! and he keeps doing all these weird rituals to keep healthy because the fruit thing worked and it just becomes another quirk of his :] and all his friends love him

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silly joly sketches

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Roommates you say…?

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yeah fuck it. modern prouvaire is punk. his mom does his mohawk before he goes out to shows. he plays solo sets just guitar for 20 minutes and it sucks ass. combeferre goes to the open mic in support and feels his glasses crack but still pats him on the back and says he was awesome. prouvaire pierced his own tongue and passed out. stick and poke tattooer for life. wears so many second-hand pieces and claims it’s fashion but at this point he’s just layering belts with belts

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Oh merciful one please update jawbreaker I’m actually in distress with it leaving of so unresolved😓😓🙏🙏

old anon but i promise im cooking

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Feel free to print and distribute this image

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happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

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Character of your choice with 26! :> If you want!

In this trying times I offer you a Combeferre

Thanks for the ask!! Color palette challenge from this list

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Anonymously tell me your assumpmtions about me and I'll confirm or deny them.

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Update on the June Rebellion comparisons in Asian settings

Hopefully this is more clean.

Thank you again for @granhairdo for informing me of their AU to slap onto this little table of mine.

So far, I have a two page long list that you can above of comparisons. As I slowly go through my resources, I hope to improve more on these later. If I do update on this list, it'll be when I make another page worth of content.

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Another comment on the 2001 Hungarian Les Mis:

Grantaire's actor (I don't know his name) looks very much like Hugo's sketch of the character.

There aren't enough pageboy-haired, mustached Grantaires in the world, but at least there has been one.

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i think it's extremely unfair for you to say the actors are spineless. the producers and directors, yes. but the actors were literally having their livelihoods and future career prospects threatened if they spoke out or refused to perform.

grennell, the president of the kennedy center said, “Any performer who isn’t professional enough to perform for patrons of all backgrounds, regardless of political affiliation, won’t be welcomed. In fact, we think it would be important to out those vapid and intolerant artists to ensure producers know who they shouldn’t hire - and that the public knows which shows have political litmus tests to sit in the audience. The Kennedy Center wants to be a place where people of all political stripes sit next to each other and never ask who someone voted for but instead enjoys a performance together.”

and, i want to point out, that acting in Les Miserables is a job, not a life commitment or a political statement.

I stand by what I said: every single person involved in putting on the Les Miserables Kennedy center performance was either a spineless coward or a Trump supporter, and they should ALL be utterly ashamed of themselves. They're an insult to the novel's legacy. I'm shocked people are defending it. I used to sometimes wonder whether Victor Hugo's actions-- speaking up against Napoleon III's attacks on democracy-- were genuinely that important. After all, it's not like Hugo literally shot Napoleon III in battle or raised barricades against him with his own two hands-- he just used his platform to publicly criticize Napoleon III's attacks on democracy, knowing that he was doing it at a great personal risk. And he was right about the risks-- publicly speaking against Napoleon III did radically change Hugo's life, it did radically alter the course of his career, he did lose a lot of the power he used to have, and he was forced into exile away from everything he knew.

And Les Miserables was the product of that sacrifice. it is the novel he wrote from exile, and it is thematically about his exile. It is a novel that was written as a defense of the principles of a democratic republic, and as an encouragement for people to speak truth to power and stand against tyrants even when it came at great personal risk. But like... I'm honestly starting to respect Hugo's sacrifice a lot more now that multiple people have reached out to me claiming that it's ridiculous to ask that people starring in a musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel accept any level of personal discomfort to stand up to a modern dictator. I'm obsessed with the idea that Les Miserables shouldn't have to mean anything-- that these performers can cosplay as revolutionaries Risking it All to stand Up to Powerful People, while also being spineless cowards claiming they can't accept any personal discomfort/risk whatsoever to stand up to an actual modern dictator. Even when- again!-- they are starring in a story that is literally the product of Hugo's personal sacrifice standing up against Napoleon III! No, I wouldn't care as much if it were some piece of hollow corporate trash like "Back to the Future the musical" or some other garbage. I wouldn't' even care as much if it were another hollow "stick it to the man musical" like Wicked, where all the revolution theming is just hollow window dressing. I do care when it's Les Miserables, because the original novel was written by a man who WAS willing to make that personal sacrifice, and wrote the novel ABOUT that sacrifice. I care that now these people are making their living off of Victor Hugo's legacy-- but start crying about how "they're just poor smol beans who can't do anything uwu" when asked to make even a fraction of the sacrifice that he did, the sacrifice that Les Miserables is about, the sacrifice it exists to encourage. Thousands of people were out on the street demonstrating this weekend to send a message to Donald Trump-- and when this group of artists had a direct line to make a statement to him, the thing thousands of people are out on the streets trying to get, they cowered in fear and refused. Instead they sang to make him feel good, like he was the Hero of the musical--something he already believes-- all while playing pretend as brave revolutionaries making big risks. A democratic lawmaker was shot to death this weekend, but asking a performer to care about the meaning of the art they're profiting off of is "too big of a sacrifice." give me a break. Despite everything, I do think art means something. I think art is more than "a job," I think art is more than a hollow corporate product and vehicle for profit. Les Miserables means something, and it's important that it means something.

But that means it's also important to call out the shocking hypocrisy of what the story has been warped into. The novel does have meaning and even the musical does have meaning-- and that's why I am so outraged that people are dismissing that meaning as irrelevant. It's like Orwell's description of art in dystopia as being a simply "a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

Honestly, if the actors wanted to sing songs about how it's ridiculous to ask them to take any personal risks or sacrifices to speak truth to power.... they shouldn't be in Les Miserables. Instead they should just get onstage and sing this song from The Sound of Music about compromising with Nazis for three hours:

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@orbitingapollo requested Joly and Bossuet together

thank you for donating!

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Cosette 😭 Cosette 😭😭😭😭😭😭. MY shaylalaa 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 oh. And Marius ig