#hugo is also there... kind of

[dfltjc]

hello mindhack fandom

[ihavevisions]

Good morning to world’s most experimental piece and to an idea that has been in my brain for. Months

Alternative versions under the cut ↓

[fluentisonus]

still chewing this one over so hopefully this makes sense but one very minor running thing I feel like we get w jean valjean is that without disliking women or even believing that they're in any way unequal to him he. hm. for the most part doesn't have much normal contact with adult women after his sister (and presumably none for the 19 years he was in prison) which means that. not that he doesn't understand women so much as i feel like idk. he makes the mistake of unconsciously assuming men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus style that he doesn't understand them (being aware of that lack of contact & under the impression women are fairly different to men), and because he's a guy who wants to understand things & is largely self taught (often from books) especially wrt social niceties, he ends up being very credulous, in that presumed lack of understanding, of commonly held beliefs & traditional, societally reinforced ideas of gender rolls & gender characteristics, and this sometimes ends up ultimately hurting women around him despite his genuine good intentions

like obviously firstly in montreuil-sur-mer where he wants the female workers to have "pure morals" and gives them a separate workroom to the men to "remain discreet" which I think he genuinely intended as a means of making it a good work environment for the workers -- women can have privacy & focus on work & nothing uncomfortable or untoward is being brought into the workplace etc -- but as we know this backfired horrendously because it essentially resulted in fantine being fired for having a child out of wedlock & everything she went through after. and given his reaction he doesn't seem to have ever considered this a potential effect of his rules -- like he doesn't seem to have understood how those sorts of rules end up ultimately punish the women involved more than anything

and the other main instance of course is with cosette and his assumption that essentially a woman has a father, & then she has a husband & having a husband no longer needs a father (this is strengthened a lot by his own feeling of his own taintedness -- it's not the main thing responsible for what happened by any means. but it's a part of it) & this assumption is incredibly hard on her!!! she obviously doesn't see it that way at all! but it never seems like it occurs to him not to think of it in that framework bc essentially society in general sees it that way

idk I guess what I find interesting abt this is that it's a big blind spot in a guy who's otherwise extremely willing to question social biases & generally likes to take people all on a level as just another sort of person like himself. again I think in his general behavior towards women interpersonally there's nothing bad & in fact there's a lot of genuine respect there & probably willingness to learn even (in fantine 's case), but it's like he just never worked out that these ideas about gender are about as true & helpful as ideas about class or criminality etc etc

[secretmellowblog]

Woah some Les Mis genius just made a tiktok diving into the canonical parallels between Jean Valjean and St Nicholas:

Or watch on tiktok to boost this excellent person in the algorithm! They are clearly trying very hard to produce quality analysis about extremely important Les mis things like “Jean Valjean breaking into people’s houses to secretly give them money,” but do not have a lot of followers yet! :

[ind1exo]

- Prefect Seasons Edition -

[all-of-your-mercy]

you know what........ im starting to really understand the lycahugo stuff

[tomwaterbabies]

when hugo was a kid i think someone might have made a comment that olivia looks kinda creepy. not even with malicious intent necessarily, just how people think animatronics n stuff sometimes look uncanny or whatever. anyways this would have made him so upset he starts crying

[evilyesman]

fallout 76 is a really pretty game when it's not tweaking the fuck out with glitches

[my-current-obsession]

Me, delusional, foaming at the mouth:

ISH ROUTE??? POTENTIAL ISH ROUTE? PLEASE?

[devil-takethe-hindmost]

i am so sorry that the stolle worms have rotted my brain so badly recently but i need to put this image out there

because to me jehan frollo will always be a mix of j stolle and probably like 7 different enjolri (aaron tveit, hyoie o’grady, samuel wyn-morris, wallace smith, daniel diges, anton zetterholm and will richardson) and i have yet to have the time to actually draw him out so i did a very fast faceapp edit just to see what blond stollehan (jerhan?) would’ve looked like

[onecooooooolcat]

it's crazy bc i feel like i cant remember any of the french lit i read for my degree studies like none of them stood out to me in any lasting way? at least not yet. but tht quote from the critic of biswas n hugo from les mains sales non récupérable live rent free in my brain n i did those at a level

[simbico]

They didn’t get to have a romantic Love Day but they still managed to squeeze in their first date night since Fern was born. ✨💖✨

[tsckcyomi-archived]

Before Benedikta left for Storm to search for the second Eikon of fire, she consumed part of the heart of Drake's Spine. What she initially thought to be a boon for her and was honored to receive, she soon realized was more curse than blessing. Her powers began fluctuating and were more difficult to control ━ thus, she decided to use them scarcely from there on out until her return to Waloed.

Unfortunately that meant never fully using her power when semi-primed, either. It's also why she didn't prime when fighting Clive in Caer Norvant. She knew she'd lose control and bring down the entire structure, killing her men and her prisoners in the process.

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

My Sofia the First ships related headcanon is that Sofia is asexual so none of it matters

[martyrbat]

okie finished the lets play of arkham city while knitting and. hm..