#WAIT ALSO LES MIS

[syrupsyche]

So, I decided to follow along for Dracula Daily this year

And

And

Jonathan Harker is going on a road trip :D

yeah, he's pretty stoked about it! and even more excited to tell his fiancée all about it soon 😄😄

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

truly the most egregious part of the 2012 Les Mis is that they changed Valjean’s line from

“It’s the story of those who always loved you, your mother gave her life for you then gave you to my keeping.”

to

“it’s the story, of one who turned from hating. The man who only learned to love when you were in his keeping.”

LIKE?????!! How dare they remove Valjean specifically mentioning Fantine’s sacrifice and putting that before he mentions his own part in the story?? How dare they make Valjean imply that it was only when Cosette came into his keeping that he stopped hating everything and learned to love WHEN THE FUCKING BISHOP IS THE REASON FOR THE GODDAMN SEASON????

Like OF COURSE Cosette softened Valjean, of course he became a better man when he became her father, of course their relationship is important.

But this story would not have happened without the love of the bishop and it was his love that rekindled the love that was dormant in Valjean’s heart. And it was Fantine that fanned that flame, then Cosette’s that kept it steady.

I just hate how flat it makes Valjean’s story seem. “It’s the story, of those who always loved you.” Is THE answer Cosette has been searching for her whole life. I wish they’d kept it in instead of feeling like the audience would only feel fulfilled by Valjean’s story if he only mentioned his direct relationship to Cosette.

Whatever idk. It’s a good Les Mis for a lot of reasons, but a bad one for a lot of reasons too 🥲

[hyperfixationstation1]

The, now and forever, solitary daughter

Eponine Sketch

Tombow HB, Micron 0.05, and New Calligraphy Pen fine tip !!!!!

[seesboy]

do. do you see my vision

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I’m almost to the cultivation conference in the novel, which means Jiang Cheng will come back and Jin Guangyao will finally show up for real!

but first there are 20+ pages of Wangxian doing romance tropes and I don’t wannaaaa

[lawisnotmocked]

>:D I can finally get my collection out of storage again!!

[syrupsyche]

get these bots out of my inbox ❗️❗️

[mr-independent]

you know, its not brought up in fics often but ted is extremely well read. he doesnt brag about it, but hes read everything from f scott fitzgerald's b sides to ayn rand's doorstoppers to the sixteen book Ender series, etc etc etc. Ted reads about as much as we see Beard reading (which. in my head is a trait that was passed on, a new focus to sharpen the mind and keep him out of trouble and his mind off drugs, something Ted offered up as a coping mechanism for when his own dad died, a way to have fun and adventure and escape without ending up in jail like Ted himself had a handful of times before, scaring the bejeezus out of his ma.)

this turned into a mini fic and i lost my train of thought but point is, Ted reads So Much and more people need to pick up on this in fics please and thank you.

[moethh]

HEY I FINISHWD SEEING THE LES MIS PLAY AGAIN IN LONDON AND I AM COMPLETELY NORMAL ABT IT BTW

please read the tags i spent too long on them im exhausted :D

[gaylotusthatexists]

wait omg one week until i see hadestown :D guys :D :D eeeeeeeeeeeee

[irregularbillcipher]

every masterpiece

has its cheap copy

[graysongraysoff]

Me: Wow I am so excited for one of my favorite fanfic writers to read one of my favorite manga arcs I can't wait to see what they thi—

Them: *Literally posts for all of yesterday and into this morning about how wrong everyone is for making this arc about a ship I like*

Me: Okay.

[ofpd]

why are there no les mis modern university aus on ao3 set specifically at uc berkeley

[milkteahoe]

Innocent by Taylor swift is so valvert

[immensity-to-dream]

ID: Two pen on paper drawings of Enjolras from Les Miserables, as a modern young person. The first is just of his face, with a nuetral-to-slightly-concerned expression on, and his hair down. The next shows him wearing a tank top, with a bandaid on one arm, looking off camera. Here his hair is tied back in a low pony, though some strands sneak out. End ID.

softlaunching my fanfic WIP with this enjolras design. hes an 18 year old trans man. he loves activism so much he might not go to college. hes out to his insane gay friends but not to his exceedingly progressive parents. hes half egyptian half white canadian. hes the prettiest girl at the party and he can prove it with a solid right hook. im in love with him and so are half his friends.