#hugo bootstrap

[awaketake]

Best Hugo Themes For Blogs and Portfolio Sites

In this video I'll cover the best Hugo themes for blogs and portfolio sites. Whether you're looking for a clean blog theme or a modern portfolio theme, there's something for everyone.

I'll show you 8 top-notch Hugo themes that offer unique features like video support, responsive design, and more!

Plus, I'll walk you through how to install and customize them for your brand.

[saints-and-poets-maybe]

In the course of these trips [Myriel] was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district. ... Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ. (LM 1.1.3)

Bishop Myriel's parable of the villages is ultimately concerned with the care of one's neighbor, but in each example the avenue of care differs; Embrun uses the church, Devolny makes it the responsibility of a family, Queyras gives the authority to the local government and educators. No great new social structure is required, but each community tends to its own with the tools it already has. Every approach is, at least in this one little section, equally valid, and the point is not the relative merits between them, it is that the important work––bettering each other––is undertaken, one way or another.

In each case, responsibility is placed on the people with power or means, not the ones in need. There exists no insistence that the poor farmer of Embrun pull himself up by his bootstraps, or that the daughters of Devolny, who in this culture have fewer options for flourishing than their brothers do, provide their own dowry; instead those who have enough are charged with making sure others do, as well.

That instruction can certainly become paternalist, in a vacuum. But although a rather Romantic interest in the special nature of great men is hard to avoid in LM, here paternalism does not appear to be the intent of either Hugo outside the narrative, or Myriel within it. Each community is permitted the agency to devise its own solution, and each is praised for its ingenuity within its own context. Instead, through Myriel, Hugo insists that there is a real obligation to the care of the other, within the means and power one has, whatever those means may be. The only way to fail that obligation, in turn, is to make no attempt, to abandon one's neighbor to ignorance and squalor.

[maybeelse]

just wanted to say that your website is really good, I like it a lot

Aww, thank you! I did my best with it (and Hugo+Bootstrap made the structural stuff easy).

But I have to ask, Anon—why do you hide your face?

[nehasodhani]

Website Design Tools and Technologies Every Designer Should Know in 2024

Website design is a constantly evolving field, with new tools and technologies emerging regularly to enhance the way designers create and optimize websites. In 2024, staying updated with the latest trends and tools is essential for designers looking to stay ahead of the curve and deliver exceptional user experiences. Here are some of the top website design tools and technologies that every designer should know.

Responsive Design Frameworks: With the proliferation of mobile devices, responsive design has become more important than ever. Frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and Materialize provide a solid foundation for building responsive websites quickly and efficiently. These frameworks offer pre-designed components, grids, and stylesheets that streamline the development process and ensure consistency across different devices and screen sizes.

CSS Grid and Flexbox: CSS Grid and Flexbox are powerful layout systems that have revolutionized the way designers create website layouts. CSS Grid enables designers to create complex grid-based layouts with ease, allowing for precise control over the placement and alignment of elements. Flexbox, on the other hand, is ideal for creating flexible and dynamic layouts, making it easier to build responsive designs that adapt to various screen sizes and orientations.

Static Site Generators: Static site generators like Gatsby, Hugo, and Jekyll have gained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity and performance benefits. Unlike traditional content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, static site generators generate HTML files upfront, eliminating the need for server-side processing and database queries. This results in faster page load times and improved security, making static site generators an attractive option for building fast and scalable websites.

Headless CMS: Headless CMS decouples the content management system from the frontend presentation layer, allowing designers to create highly customizable and dynamic websites. With a headless CMS like Contentful or Strapi, designers can create content using familiar interfaces while developers have the flexibility to use any frontend framework or technology stack to render the content. This approach enables greater design freedom and scalability, making it easier to create personalized and immersive user experiences.

Voice User Interface (VUI) Design: As voice-activated devices like smart speakers and virtual assistants become increasingly prevalent, designers need to adapt their skills to accommodate this emerging technology. Voice user interface (VUI) design focuses on creating intuitive and natural interactions between users and voice-enabled devices. Designers must consider factors such as voice commands, speech recognition accuracy, and conversational flow when designing VUIs to ensure a seamless user experience.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR): AR and VR technologies have the potential to transform the way users interact with websites and digital experiences. Designers can leverage AR and VR to create immersive and interactive content that engages users on a whole new level. Whether it's providing virtual tours of properties, simulating product experiences, or gamifying user interactions, AR and VR offer endless possibilities for innovative website design.

Performance Optimization Tools: With page speed being a critical factor in user experience and search engine rankings, designers must prioritize performance optimization in their website design process. Tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and WebPageTest provide valuable insights into website performance metrics and offer recommendations for improving load times and optimizing assets. By implementing performance optimization techniques such as image compression, lazy loading, and caching, designers can ensure that their websites load quickly and smoothly across all devices and network conditions.

In conclusion, staying abreast of the latest website design tools and technologies is essential for designers looking to create cutting-edge digital experiences in 2024 and beyond. From responsive design frameworks and CSS layout systems to emerging technologies like AR and VR, embracing these tools empowers designers to push the boundaries of creativity and deliver impactful user experiences that resonate with audiences in the digital age. Whether you're a freelancer, a design agency, or a website design company in India, incorporating these tools and technologies into your workflow can help you stay competitive and deliver exceptional results for your clients.

[zenesyslabs]

Bootstrap 5: What You Need to Know

Bootstrap 5, the latest iteration of the popular open-source web development tool, brings significant changes and improvements. Here’s a quick rundown:

Removal of jQuery: Bootstrap 5 bids farewell to jQuery, opting for vanilla JavaScript instead. This streamlines the framework, reducing bloat and improving performance.

Switching to Vanilla JavaScript: With jQuery out of the picture, developers can now rely on native JavaScript, simplifying code and enhancing compatibility.

Responsive Font Size: Bootstrap 5 introduces a responsive font size engine, ensuring typography adapts seamlessly across devices.

End of Internet Explorer 10 and 11 Support: IE 10 and 11 are no longer supported in Bootstrap 5, allowing developers to leverage modern JavaScript standards without compatibility concerns.

Changes in Gutter Width Unit of Measurement: The gutter width unit shifts from pixels to rems, offering more flexibility in layout design.

Elimination of Card Decks: Card decks are replaced with a more flexible grid system in Bootstrap 5, streamlining responsive design.

Navbar Optimization: The navbar component is optimized for better performance and simplified markup, with added dark dropdown functionality.

Customized SVG Icon Library: Bootstrap 5 introduces a new SVG icon library, providing developers with a wide range of reusable icons.

Switch From Jekyll to Hugo: Bootstrap 5 integrates with Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator, for improved performance and ease of use.

Class Updates: Some CSS classes are removed or added in Bootstrap 5, enhancing the framework’s simplicity and functionality.

In conclusion, Bootstrap 5 continues to evolve, focusing on lightness, simplicity, and speed to empower developers in creating modern, responsive websites.

For More Information Read Blog : EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BOOTSTRAP 5

[aquar-io]

its using bootstrap.386, but for HUGO

if i were u i probably wouldnt click links from strangers on the internet’s BUT!!! if u wanna see the cool new site i would think thats swell….

its here

it used to look eeeextreeeemeeely lame

[laravelreactjs]

Eleven - Multi-Purpose Bootstrap Admin Template

Eleven – Multi-Purpose Bootstrap Admin Template

Eleven – Multi-Purpose Bootstrap Admin Template is a creative admin template which comes with a React Next.js variant, angular variant, gohugo variant as well as an HTML/CSS/JS version. It comes out of the box with support ffor light and dark colour schemes, animated icons as well as a myriad of other features. With this, you get all you need to start working on your React/Angular/HTML SAAS, CRM,…

[howdydarling]

ELI'S MAN LIST.

Long post. Super long post. Super super long. Almost certainly not complete, but I ran outta steam like halfway through, so this is what you get.

IRL MEN. → men i would currently let absolutely wreck me

Ted Raimi - i do not have a single limit or boundary that i would not break for this man.

Lance Henriksen

Josh Brolin

Oscar Isaac

Jason Momoa

Christoph Waltz

→ men i have formerly been interested in who could probs still get it

Jeff Bridges

Robert Knepper

Andrew Scott

David Anders

Zachary Quinto

Leonard Nimoy (if he were still alive)

Karl Urban

DeForrest Kelley (if he were still alive)

Gaspard Ulliel

Paul Bettany

Adam Driver

Domhnall Gleeson

→ men i would probably fuck but not necessarily bc of the usual reasons

Tim Curry

Willem DaFoe

The Skarsgårds

Jack Black

FICTIONAL MEN.

→ SHOWS

→→ Outer Range

Royal Abbott

Perry Abbott

Rhett Abbott

Wayne Tillerson (it'd be a really weird fuck, i know it in my heart)

Billy Tillerson

Luke Tillerson

→→ Doctor Who

The Doctor (Nine / Ten)

The Master

→→ BBC Sherlock

Jim Moriarty

→→ Firefly

Hoban Washburne

Jayne Cobb

Simon Tam

→→ Torchwood

Owen Harper

Jack Harkness

→→ Heroes

Gabriel Gray / Sylar

Adam Monroe / Takezo Kensei

Peter Petrelli

Samuel Sullivan

Edgar

→→ Dollhouse

Alpha

→→ Star Trek (TOS)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy

S'chn T'gai Spock

→→ The Walking Dead

Negan Smith

The Governor

Darryl Dixon

Merle Dixon

→ MOVIES

→→ Tron

CLU 2.0

Rinzler

Kevin Flynn

Alan Bradley

→→ Jurassic Park (franchise)

Robert Muldoon

Ian Malcolm

→→ Zombieland

Tallahassee

→→ Star Trek (NuTrek)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy

S'chn T'gai Spock

Khan

→→ Priest

Black Hat

Ivan Isaacs ("Priest")

→→ Dredd

Dredd

Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal (Mama's not a man but she could get it)

→→ Pacific Rim

Herc Hansen

Stacker Pentecost

Newton "Newt" Geiszler

Hermann Gottlieb

The Kaidanovskys

Hannibal Chau

→→ Hunger Games

Haymitch Abernathy

→→ Alien (franchise)

Bishop

David 8

Walter

Dwayne Hicks Xenomorph

→→ The Lego Movie

Good Cop/Bad Cop

→→ Guardians of the Galaxy

Yondu Udonta

Kraglin

→→ Star Wars (franchise)

Armitage Hux

Kylo Ren

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Han Solo

Cassian Andor

Poe Dameron

Phasma (again, not a man, but Oh Boy)

Qui-Gon Jinn

Boba Fett

Jango Fett

K-2S0

Tobias Beckett

Dryden Voss

Literally any Stormtrooper (not just the clones)

Any/all of the Knights of Ren

→→ Legend

Ronnie Kray

Reggie Kray

→→ The Devil's Carnival

Lucifer

The Agent

→→ Pirates of the Caribbean

Jack Sparrow

Will Turner

Hector Barbossa

Davy Jones

James Norrington

William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner

→→ Labyrinth

Jareth, the Goblin King

→→ Ferngully

Hexxus

→→ James Bond (franchise)

Raoul Silva

James Bond/007 (Daniel Craig)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

→→ Inglourious Basterds

...am I allowed to say Hans Landa? Hans Landa.

Sgt. Donny Donowitz

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz

Marcel

→→ The Black Phone

Albert Shaw (look, sorry, don't @ me please)

→→ Scream (franchise)

Ghostface (but like?? the concept of him, rather than any particular actual iteration of him)

Dwight "Dewey" Riley

→→ Venom (franchise)

Eddie Brock

Venom

Cletus Kasady

→→ Dune (2021)

Gurney Halleck Leto Atreides Duncan Idaho Stilgar

→ GAMES

→→ Final Fantasy X/X-2

Auron Jecht Seymour Guado Shuyin Baralai Nooj Gippal Isaaru

→→ Final Fantasy XV

Ignus Scientia Ardyn Izunia Gladiolus Amicitia Regis Lucis Caelum Clarus Amicitia Bahamut

→→ Resident Evil VIII: Village

Karl Heisenberg Sturm Soldats Lycans Varcolac Urias Brothers

→→ Kingdom Hearts (franchise)

Axel

→→ Borderlands (franchise)

Mordecai Handsome Jack Fl4k Zer0 Krieg

→→ Boyfriend to Death (franchise)

Strade Lawrence Oleander

→→ The Price of Flesh

Mason Derek The Auctioneer Jack Komodo Dragon Machete The Demon The Lich

→→ Overwatch

Jack Morrison (Soldier 76) Gabriel Reyes (Reaper) Jamison Fawkes (Junkrat) Mako Rutledge (Roadhog) Reinhardt Wilhelm (Reinhardt) Siebren de Kuiper (Sigma) Cole Cassidy

→→ The Quarry

Travis Hackett Jedediah Hackett Chris Hackett

→→ Fortnite

The Jonesy Collective Midas

→→ Left 4 Dead

Bill Overbeck The Hunter The Smoker

→→ Dragon Age (franchise)

Zevran Anders Fenris Alistair Iron Bull Krem Samson Solas Varric Hawke Cole

→→ Death Stranding

Heartman Higgs Deadman Sam Cliff

→→ Fallout 4

John Hancock Nick Valentine

→→ Detroit: Become Human

Hank Anderson Connor Gavin Reed Nines Simon Ralph Karl Manfred

→ BOOKS

→→ Star Wars

Sinjir Rath Velus Cardinal

→→ Shade's Children

Shade

→→ InkHeart

Dustfinger

→→ A Darker Shade of Magic

Holland Astrid & Athos Dane

→→ Dune

Everyone included in the movie list, plus: Shaddam IV Hasimir Fenring

→ ANIME

→→ Naruto

Gaara Zabuza Sasori Deidara Itachi Kakashi Iruka Kabuto Kisame Shikimaru Kankuro

→→ Trinity Blood

Isaak Fernand von Kampfer Dietrich von Lohengrin Abel Nightroad Cain Nightroad Radu Barvon Leon Garcia de Asturias Tres Iques Hugue de Watteau

→→ Hellsing

Alucard Pip Bernadotte Father Anderson

→→ Loveless

Soubi

[fremedon]

Brickclub 3.5.1, “Marius in Penury,” and 3.5.2, “Marius in Poverty”

We gloss over several years in these next two chapters: years in which Marius, through difficulty and very hard work, becomes self-sufficient--remarkably so.

This is not a good thing for Marius.

(Everything here is riffing off the discussion @everyonewasabird started in his writeup, so go read that first, it’s quite good.)

The language in which Hugo extols the beneficial effects of poverty for Marius is so much like some of the worst contemporary bootstraps rhetoric that it’s very easy to miss the places where that praise turns ironic. But look at this, from the end of the first long paragraph of 3.5.1, detailing the hunger, evictions, and social embarrassment and humiliation Marius endures:

Awesome and terrible test from which the weak emerge degenerate, the strong emerge sublime. Crucible into which fate casts a man whenever it wants a villain or a demigod.

Marius is becoming a Great Man.

In this book, that’s a terrible thing to be. (And it says something about how radical a message that still is that I miss it almost every time it comes up.)

Hugo continues,

For many great feats are performed in small struggles. There are dogged deeds of valour, overlooked, that hold out step by step in the darkness against the fatal onslaught of destitution and depravity. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, no renown honours, no fanfare salutes.

Life, adversity, isolation, abandonment, poverty are battlefields that have their heroes, the obscure sometimes greater than the illustrious. 

This is Cambronne at Waterloo; this is the barricade; this is Fantine’s descent, and the narrator means every word here--but between this and the villains or demigods of fate’s crucible, there’s a contrast it’s easy to miss. These aren’t the struggles of great men; they’re the struggles of good men--of people. Being a demigod isn’t a goal in this book. Enjolras starts as one and his endgame is becoming more human and more vulnerable.

And the next paragraph:

In such a way are steadfast and rare natures created. Almost always a stepmother, poverty is sometimes a mother. Deprivation begets strength of soul and of mind. Hardship is the wetnurse of pride. Adversity is a good milk for the noble in spirit.

Marius was offered the chance, two chapters ago, to take the Republic as his mother. And he took the other choice--here, poverty; there, glory and war. Being a great man; pulling himself up by his bootstraps; going it alone, without accepting help or charity. To lend money to his friends from time to time, but never accept anything but Courfeyrac’s old green coat. It’s as much a mistake for him here as for Madeleine in M-s-M.

And to compound it--hat tip to @pilferingapples--he cloisters himself, going out at night so his clothing looks black, and pulling away from social connections to maintain his pride in a way that is also reminiscent of Valjean, in another of the book’s inversions:

Some formality of expression or behaviour that in any other situation would have seemed to him polite, now seemed to him servile, and he bridled at it. He venerated nothing, not wanting to back down. There was in his face a kind of austere flush. He was shy even to the point of rudeness.

In other words, he feels his position of social inequality so keenly that routine social kindnesses or friendly give-and-take would feel like charity on others’ part or scraping on his own, so he avoids them. It’s the opposite of Valjean’s habit, of eating those abasements and feeling proud to the point of hubris of how much of them he can swallow, but it has the same result--both men end up almost completely atomized and alone.

The horrific thing is that Marius probably thinks he’s taking Combeferre’s advice. What could be greater than to be a Great Man? To be free, Combeferre says. And, welp--

He had suffered everything in the way of privation. He had done everything except contract debts. He said in his own favour that he had never owed anyone a sou. To him, a debt was the beginning of slavery. He even told himself that a creditor is worse than a master, for the master is master only of your person whereas a creditor is master of your dignity and can give it a beating.

Hugo goes out of his way to distinguish Marius’s ideas from the narrator’s here, and that’s often a flag that the character has gotten something wrong. Marius isn’t entirely wrong here--for Fantine, debt was the beginning of slavery. He has, correctly, sensed and avoided a pitfall that we have seen swallow Fantine--consumer debt, debts of the sort that Thenardier has fled so thoroughly that Marius can’t track him down in three years of searching (more on that in a moment), would have been a terrible thing for him.

But Fantine didn’t have friends offering her a loan or a place to sleep. Mutual aid isn’t debt--and Marius gets this on some level, because he’s willing to be the source of the rotating ten francs the Amis trade back and forth. He lends Courfeyrac sixty francs once, and he doesn’t think less of Courfeyrac for taking it! But he’s not willing to accept it.

And accepting help, being vulnerable to people who matter to him, is the quest he should have taken. Having been brought up by Gillenormand, it’s not something he knows how to do. But that’s a lot harder and scarier than isolating himself and learning to live on one mutton chop for three days--and, Bonapartist as he is, he’s determined to do everything himself.

And then there’s his debt to Thenardier. “It was the only debt the colonel had left him, and Marius felt honour-bound to repay it.” This debt is his entire patrimony. If human interconnectedness isn’t a matter of debts--if this debt doesn’t need to be discharged--then his father has left him nothing tangible. And that’s also a hard and scary idea, and not one he’s ready for.

(And now we’re back to Marius’s internalization of that word ingrate. I have no doubt that Gillenormand played the patriarch and drummed into Marius’s head constantly how much Marius owed him.)

This got hugely long, so just a couple more short observations:

Marius’s food budget (365 francs/year), when he gets to a low but stable income, is more than ten times his rent (30 francs/year). He pays 36 francs--20% more than his rent--to the concierge for some basic housekeeping and shopping. One of the privations we are told he endures before he achieves this stability is “sweeping his own landing.”

Marius is having his mail sent to Courfeyrac’s address, which presumably is how Aunt Gillenormand keeps tracking him down. I would love to read a fic about Courfeyrac’s occasional conversations with Aunt G.

“While all this was going on he qualified as a lawyer.” Which, for someone with no connections and no professional wardrobe, opens precisely zero doors--he continues to support himself on the basic literacy that’s part of his class inheritance and his self-taught language skills.

“This Rousseau restaurant, where so few bottles of wine and so many pitchers of water were emptied, was palliative rather than restorative.” Nice. Restaurant, meaning ‘restorative,’ was originally the beverage one drank in a restaurateur’s establishment, as one drinks coffee at a café--an expensive, highly concentrated bone broth, which was a health food craze in the 1760s and 1770s. (I am currently reading Rebecca Spang’s The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Highly recommended.)

[meta-squash]

Brick Club 1.2.7 “Profoundest Despair”

There’s just so much in this section, I’m just going to pick random bits that I’ve written down and go at them. I wrote a lot of notes in my February reread and even more this time.

In this section we start to really zoom in on Valjean. We go from his distant, unformed, sort of numb characterization in 1.2.6 to this deep, intense rage and injury. Hugo makes it clear that because Valjean was ignorant, but not stupid, he is able to think more about his situation and judge it (and others). It is interesting that he says this at the beginning of the chapter, and yet later on his also says that Valjean did not consciously think of any of this stuff or know what he was feeling. I’m not entirely sure how he can think things over and not think things over at the same time?

Valjean really goes for the extremes when he‘s thinking through his internal tribunal. First, he condemns his theft as extraordinary and reprehensible, then he decides that all humans should suffer greatly, then he decides that his punishment was excessive. He reaches the right answer, I think, but the machinations to get there swing wildly in terms of moral opinions.

“He asked himself whether human society could rightfully make its members submit equally, in the one case by its unreasonable carelessness and in the other by its pitiless care; and to hold a poor man forever between a lack and an excess, a lack of work, and an excess of punishment.”

This is such a good criticism of both capitalist society and the prison system. Not only is he frustrated and outraged by the extreme nature of the punishment for a rather minor crime, it’s also a condemnation of a society that, instead of helping it’s least fortunate, forces them into a bare life and a scarcity while expecting them to bootstrap themselves and survive “honestly” without giving them the ability or chance to even do so. They punish a person who desperate for being desperate due to poverty and lack of social/economic resources, but the punishment leaves them socially marked so that when they return to society, they’re stuck in the same cycle of deprivation, unable find work because no one wants to employ a former convict, so they’re left with stealing again.

There are some things that Hugo says that I just have to disagree with. “One may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.” Like???? I think people just get angry when they think they’re right, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally right. I’m sure Hugo got into at least one debate where the other person was fundamentally wrong and got angry? I can’t get behind this one, Hugo, sorry. People are angry all the time for stupid and wrong reasons, that doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally right.

It’s interesting, I think, that Valjean seems to have remained rather docile and neutral and empty of emotion or thought until he reaches the prison. Hugo says, “Through suffering upon suffering he gradually came to the conclusion that life was a war and that in that war he was the vanquished. He had no weapon but his hatred.” I think it’s interesting that it’s not just the suffering of poverty and hunger that makes him angry, and he doesn’t condemn society and everything until he reaches the prison. Suffering as a poor but “honest” peasant isn’t enough to reach the depths of hatred. It’s only when he reaches the prison and finds that he’s even deeper in the pit of despair and misfortune that he clings to hatred rather than numbness as a coping mechanism. It’s also not until he reaches this point that his “thoughtful” nature appears. As far as the narration is concerned for 1.2.6, he just kind of goes unthinkingly about his life, numbly doing what he has to in order to survive and for his family to survive. But when he suffers enough for his anger and hatred to flare, so too do his thoughts.

In prison Valjean has “an incomplete nature and a vanquished intelligence,” which I think is Hugo’s way of establishing him as moldable at this point. His mind “wakes up” when he reaches this point of intense suffering, but he’s still incomplete. He’s smart, but society and suffering have smothered his mind etc to the point where, in 1.2.6, he’s just going about life without much substance. Because of his intelligence, he’s able to feel that rage about his situation, and to use it as something to cling to. Hugo says it again when he’s talking about the “spark” in each soul. He really hammers home the fact that Valjean is someone who has goodness and intelligence inside him, but it’s been intensely suppressed and oppressed and needs kindness etc for it to blossom into something true.

Also, Valjean was in his late 20s when he went to prison; he doesn’t decide to go to school until he is 40. That means he’s most of his way through his sentence and extremely mired in hate before he gets an education and learns to read, etc. I think it’s interesting that he’s so mired in hate for so long, and yet when he encounters the bishop and is affected by him, it really doesn’t take very long for him to start to change. It shows the power of kindness, and really hammers home the fact that Valjean really never had felt any sort of kindness in his adult life and that “never since infancy, since his mother, since his sister, never had he been greeted with a friendly word or a kind look,” and that the bishop’s acts really had a huge impact on him.

“At times he did not even know exactly what he felt. Jean Valjean was in the dark, suffering in the dark, hating in the dark. He lived constantly in darkness, groping blindly, like a dreamer. Except, at times, there broke over him suddenly, from inside or out, a shockwave of anger, an overflow of suffering, a sudden white flash that lit up his whole soul and showed all around him in front and behind in the glare of a hideous light the fearful precipices and dark perspectives of his fate.”

Valjean’s anger seems very different from other characters in similar situations. It seems to have more light, more perspective. It seems much more self-righteous and self-preserving. Patron Minette and Valjean’s fellow inmates seem to simply accept their lot in life; they’re desperate but not angry. They don’t feel cheated by the system, they feel cheated by individuals. They do not feel they don’t belong there; they have long since accepted this is where they are, they seem frustrated or sullen, but not white-hot with rage like Valjean. Fantine is desperate and miserable but not angry; Patron Minette etc are violent and conniving but never seem to be outraged at their situation. They are “almost unconscious,” as Hugo says in 3.7.2, due to their “ignorance and misery.” Valjean, on the other hand, is still “incomplete,” I guess?

Valjean seems uniquely aware that his situation is caused by a corrupt system. Which I think is actually really interesting because of what Hugo says about about being outraged if you’re fundamentally right. In this case, the subconscious or unconscious awareness of his intrinsic goodness and “incorruptible element” makes Valjean more angry about his circumstances than someone who is not as introspective or perhaps who has totally given up and accepted their fate.

This chapter also establishes Valjean’s superhuman strength and basically describes him as a parkour master that can climb walls. I wish I could draw because reading the section describing that ability made me want a little animation of a bearded older Valjean leaping around on top of buildings.

“The peculiarity of punishment of this kind, in which the pitiless or brutalizing part predominates, is to transform gradually by a slow numbing process a man into an animal, sometimes into a wild beast.” There’s something about this sentence that is so intense and so descriptive. Again, another excellent criticism of the prison system. Only this time he straight up calls out the fact that pitiless, brutalizing punishment does nothing to help a person or rehabilitate them or do anything but totally break and dehumanize them. It feels vaguely connected to the line a page or so later, in which Valjean would look around him and say to himself “This is a dream.” The ongoing and almost inconceivable trauma of prison and galleys life making it impossible for Valjean and his fellow prisoners not to react to their circumstances in ways that either shut them down completely or make them reactionary due to ptsd.

“As motives, he had habitual indignation, bitterness, a deep sense of injury, a reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the upright, in the unlikely event he encountered them. The beginning and end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law; that hatred which, if not checked in it growth by some providential event, becomes in time a hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, then hatred of creation, revealing itself by a vague, incessant desire to injure some living being, no matter who.”

This paragraph almost seems to be Hugo foreshadowing Myriel’s kindness and the effect that has on Valjean. It makes me think of Petit Gervais, and the way Valjean’s own actions towards the innocent and unsuspecting Petit Gervais clash drastically with the effects of Myriel and start to break down all the walls and instincts Valjean built in prison.

Finally, I have a question that someone more historically inclined might be able to tell me. In the Argot section (4.7.2) Hugo describes the dungeons in the Chatelet de Paris, and says that “Men condemned to the galleys were put in this cellar until the day of their departure for Toulon.” Would Valjean have been subjected to this? Hugo doesn’t mention it in reference to Valjean, so I’m going to assume that isn’t the case, and perhaps it was an ancien regime thing that disappeared with the revolution? I just figured if Valjean had gone through that, it would have been mentioned in this section somewhere.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#8yrsago Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky: bootstrapping high-tech civilization from hive-mind Machiavellis

The Children of the Sky is the third novel in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought cycle of novels, three brick-sized, Hugo-award winning novels that are the near-perfect balance of science fiction's twin traditions of wild speculation and high-intensity storytelling.

A summary of Children's plot: Imagine bootstrapping a fallen civilization into transcendance using nothing but a collection of hive-mind Machiavellis, a crippled hyperadvanced space-ship, and a pack of surly, scheming orphaned adolescents. Oh, and then there's the vengeful god ramscooping itself to relativistic speeds a mere 30 lightyears away.

That gives you an idea of just how far-out and far-ahead Vinge is thinking. The story revolves around the refugees from a crashed spaceship -- the children of a hubristic human colony that had edged up to the border of the galaxy's transcendent zone, where hyperadvanced beings can manipulate the very laws of physics. These Icaruses had hoped to raid the gods' archives and find a shortcut to their own godhood, but instead they woke a monster, one that chased them to a distant world and nearly killed them. But they were saved by a hero who twisted the laws of physics and sent the Blighter Fleet (as the monster was called) thirty lightyears away in the blink of an eye, and died in the process.

Ravna Bergsndot survived the armageddon, and it was she who woke the orphaned children from their coldsleep caskets, and, with them, set about rebuilding a civilization advanced enough to turn back the Blighter again, racing to bring her exile-world from medieval fiefdoms to physics-bending demigods in a mere century.

In this, the humans are aided by the Tines, a race of doglike hive-intelligences. Three or more Tines come together and form a collective consciousness, synchronizing with high-speed, ultrasonic chirps. A literal society of minds, the Tines are essentially immortal -- they need merely replace injured or killed individuals with new members. But the Tines are sorely limited in ways as well: if two Tines get to close to one another, their "mindsounds" will mingle, and their consciousness dissolve. Adding new Tines to a pack-individual can change its identity, sometimes creating new and unrecognizable packs.

Even with the Tines' ingenuity, Ravna's quest would be hopeless, except that she is able to avail herself of the libraries of the Out of Band II -- the crashed starship that brought them to the Tines' world -- and its endless archive recording other civilizations that had bootstrapped themselves out of similar situations. With the Oobii, this should be nothing more than a serious engineering challenge.

But even the children of near demigods are not immune to human frailty and scheming. And the Tines are hardly universally benevolent. What starts out as a fascinating thought-exercise in how you could combine knowledge, computation and raw materials to make an advanced civilization out of stone-age conditions quickly turns into a fabulous novel of intrigue and politics, as crosses, double-crosses and triple-crosses pit Tines and humans against one another in a quest for power, dominance, and vengeance.

Vinge's explosive imagination and deft storytelling make epics zip past like hummingbirds -- you'll steal daytime moments to read more, and lie awake at night contemplating what you've read. Vinge is best known for the mind-bending ideas that his science fiction delivers like a warhead (he came up with the notion of the "Singularity," among other things), but the missile is as well-engineered as its payload: Children is an adventure story with teeth, mindbending technical speculation blended with graceful storytelling.

This is the third (and not the concluding) volume in the cycle. The first two are A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Theoretically, you could follow Children's plot well enough without the benefit of the first two, but they are such treats themselves, you'd be depriving yourself if you did.

The Children of the Sky

https://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/vernor-vinges-childr.html

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printfogey replied to your post: on the Thenardier women and cultural narratives

the post seems to be deleted?

...so it is. I read it literally less than an hour ago, when I reblogged it. I wonder what happened.

The tl;dr was that the issue with Mme. Thenardier reading romances was that the popular romance story of the day was a rags-to-riches fairy tale type story, which is just as unrealistic as the American pull yourself up by your bootstrap equivalent. Mme Thenardier bought into that dream and, when she failed to achieve it herself, passed it on to her daughters by living vicariously through them. Eponine internalized it in turn, and was in turn disappointed, and what Hugo is possibly decrying is less the dream itself and more the irresponsibility of feeding your kids fairy stories and passing those off as achievable reality.

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[bywandandsword]

So.... I may have been overcome by curiosity and got that dad dating game that was so popular a while back...

Mild gushing under the cut

Mostly right now I’m not too far in I don’t think. I’ve only been on two dates, but mostly I’m worried about Amanda. She’s hiding something that made her cry and slipping in school. I’m so proud of my fictional daughter 💜 for getting into her dream school tho. Art school is one of my irl pipe dreams and I’m glad at least my child can do it. 

Initial reactions to the dads:

- Mat is super cool and when he smiles I get butterflies. Also he thinks I’m cool. I’m not as into music and honestly got a little bored during our date, but I’m positive about the situation

- Damien is the dad I went on a date with, just cause he’s the Most Extra one there. He turned out to be less pretentious than I thought he would be and I’d like to see where this goes. He puffs out his cheeks some when he’s talking or nervous and it’s cute. He’s a really level headed parent, which is always a plus. Also, the fact that he printed and bound Naruto fanfiction endeared him in my heart forever 

- Craig is the next dad I’m going to try to date, but like, irl I’m nervous about it and would never consider it cause we have a History and it’s a bit odd. Also, I totally embarrassed myself at the gym. But as his friend, it would be rude to try and avoid him forever

- Brian is one of the dads I have no real interest in dating. I’m not fond of his oneupmanship from our first meeting. I want to avenge my loss in the daughter-bragging-duel excuse you my daughter is the best daughter to daughter ever, so I might go on one or two dates with him. His dog is cute tho

- Joseph gives me the heebies and the jeebies. So does Mary. And like, I get that he’s a youth minister but come on. Joseph, Mary, and four little Christ-themed names? You could have just gone with Jesus and been less cheesy. He’s got the creepy anti-Christ vibe mixed with the equally unappealing rich suburbanite vibe, the sort who’s upper-class but claim to be middle-class and makes donations to starving children in Africa but when faced with poverty in his own neighborhood, he talks about the power of positive thinking and bootstraps and obtusely ignores institutional systems of inequality and his own privilege 

- Hugo has the patience of a saint and I admire that. He’s sweet and well read and I can see us bonding over books. Like, he’s got the Professor Indiana Jones vibe but instead of punching Nazis but he’s totes risk his life looking the a lost hoard from the Library of Alexandria. But at the same time, he’s Amanda’s teacher and it would be weird. I don’t know that I’ll do anything about him unless something develops or I figure out why Amanda isn’t doing well in his class

- Robert I have no idea and I’m a bit worried to find out. He seems to have a history with Mary and I’m certain it’s not a healthy relationship. He keeps just appearing like a freaking cryptid. I’m curious but he doesn’t seem to want to talk to anyone and I think I’m going to respect his space until he gives me an indication that he’s be okay with my messaging him. What about that Game tho. Yay sports.