#javert.

[secretmellowblog]

Feeling normal about Javert and Eponine today

[dedicatedfollower467]

one of the things i love about ebenezer scrooge, and a christmas carol in general, is that, unlike most fictional rich people, scrooge doesn't allow himself the luxuries that he denies to others.

like. he is enormously wealthy, but does he spend his money on good food and nice things and indulgences? no. he keeps his house dark because it's cheaper to not light things, he eats gruel, he barely even makes a big enough fire to heat himself, let alone the room. he scrimps and pinches pennies everywhere he can - including in areas that other people would consider "necessities" rather than "luxuries."

the story of a christmas carol is as much about ebenezer scrooge coming to realize that his misanthropy and miserliness is making himself as miserable as it's making everyone around him, and learning to once again take joy in living in a way he hasn't allowed himself since he was a boy.

it's genuinely cruel to ebenezer scrooge to compare him to assholes like elon musk and jeff bezos.

for all that he is a terrible, terrible person, at least scrooge isn't a damn hypocrite.

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

Javert is NOT a rich white cop, he's a poor Romani man born inside a jail. When I first joined the Les Mis fandom about a decade ago I remember there were a lot of people who made Javert a rich white policeman. Which, hey, I do kinda get it, especially when you're contrasting Javert to characters like Valjean or Les Amis. I totally get why people would want that story to exist within Les Mis fanworks. But also, that is not Javert whatsoever. He's canonically half Romani, born in a prison.

Javert being a class traitor actually means so much more to the story than Javert being some random privileged asshole pig.

[megnutk]

2fort

(happy 10th anniversary to the best ytp out there)

OP is using the original video (and the reanimated) to raise funds for trans lifeline so it just confirms this is the best ytp :)

[bedpolls]

JAVERT. FROM LES MISERABLES.

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

[fulladeroure]

It's always "spill the tea" and never "tell me quickly what's the story, who saw what and why and where, let him give a full description, let him answer to Javert!"

[hellenhighwater]

If you read or watched Les Mis and were really into the dynamic of "Cop who is a traitor to his people and definitely has some unaddressed Stuff going on because of it and who is on the hunt for Superhumanly strong guy who is an enemy of the state and also obsessively dedicated to the protection of a young girl, and for a while these two think they are on the same side but it turns out they're not actually, and neither of them handle that well" but also felt that the whole story would have benefited from more hand-to-hand combat with literal tigers,

then boy do I have a movie for you

[autumnalmess]

Hey man sorry I've not posted in a while, it's a funny story actually. I actually got arrested for stealing bread for my sister and her seven starving children. yeah, it was pretty bad. I tried to escape 3 times so yeah I got 19 years, yeah and then I broke my parole and now there's this slutty little man after me, yeah I think he has a crush on me or smt idk

[motions1ckn3ss]

tiktok comments: the gifts that keep on giving

[thefrenchbrick24601]

THIS WAS POSTED ON THE OFFICIAL MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM TIKTOK

[oldbooksandnewmusic]

just a lill somin that I put to much effort into

[warning it loud]

[rainbow-femme]

I understand that Javert’s characterization is meant to be representative of a wider societal mindset demonizing the impoverished and those forced to commit crimes to survive, keeping them in a cycle of prison and poverty. I understand that his single minded drive to punish a non violent single offender who did an objectively small and insignificant crime was meant to be an indictment on a cruel and corrupt system

But also taken literally within the narrative he is so funny

His life long white whale he could never stop chasing was a guy who served his full jail time for stealing one (1) loaf of bread but then didn’t meet with his parole officer. This man lived and died by his obsession with the worlds most boring offender

And then when he as a middle aged man considered for the first time that morality may not be black and white his reaction was to immediately kill himself

Most character ever

[television-bodies]

happy pride month to the performance of les mis i saw yesterday in which javert squeezed valjean’s bicep for like. a solid 20 seconds after “a man your age… to be as strong as you are”

[ueinra]

[dmitryanya]

okay so i know i missed barricade day by several days but please accept this belated les miserables offering anyways.

[minacoleta]

Men like us can never change.