"Home is where we are now..."
the characters belong to the amazing @yaelokre, whose captivating storytelling has reignited my passion for art <33
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Watching SDMP purely for Lark so of course I must make a design. This is just the rough draft and definitely subject to change but I wanted to be the first one. Heโs a Horned Lark, of course
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๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ
These are the women who have a sixth sense, some may be seers, mages, healers and/or bards. They carry messages for people to hear; knowledge, wisdom, memories, and cautions. Theyโre the women who change the story, by adding or sometimes taking.ย
๐ฟ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐
๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ข๐๐๐๐
๐ฝ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐
๐ธฬ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ฉ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐
๐ด๐ ๐๐๐ข๐
๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
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"Only the little lark never sang."
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A ghost you say? A ghost may be.
Darling Cosette โค๏ธ
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This chapter is absolutely heartbreaking. Knowing that Fantineโs situation has gotten worse because she stops sending money as regularly? That sheโs still trying to because she thinks Cosette is doing well, even though sheโs suffering? Seeing the actual abuse Cosette endures? Itโs horrible.
Like we saw with Valjean upon his arrival in Digne, Cosetteโs dehumanization is highlighted by comparisons to domesticated animals. She is fedย โa little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat,โ but whereas Valjean resisted his subhuman treatment to an extent (he cried out upon seeing that a dog had a place to stay for the night while he didnโt), to Cosette, this is just how things are. We see that she eats with the cat and the dog, and from a bowl like theirs, without complaint. Sheโs obviously not happy, and she has the comparison to รponine and Azelma to show that this is not the only way for children to live, but can she understand why sheโs being treated this way? Does she know that she wasnโt abandoned, or does she think she deserves this somehow? Or is she so worn down that she doesnโt think about this at all? She is only five, and sheโs already been made to work.
Cosette isnโt even addressed as a person in letters to her mother. Sheโs consistently referred to as aย โcreatureโ in writing and in speech by the Thรฉnardiers, and over the course of the chapter, Hugo goes from sayingย โchildโ toย โcreatureโ (โshivering little creatureโ) as well. It gives the sense that she internalizes this to an extent? Or that this dehumanizing language is so commonplace that no one thinks anything of it anymore.
ย Another point that infuriates me is the attitude of the populace. To some extent, itโs possible that they donโt know the full extent of the abuse Cosetteโs enduring, but given that sheโs always wearing rags and is sent to work before daybreak - which they know because they call herย โthe Larkโ - they know that her treatment is far from ideal. And yet they praise the Thรฉnardiers for their charity simply because to them, it would be more natural for no one to care for Cosette at all. Sheโs an object of pity to them, but not of true sympathy; they donโt see her as a person.
The last line is particularly sad. I hope weโll see Cosette sing at some point.
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The two devils on Schlattโs shoulder bit is too good, here is a second version of it, doodle edition
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The Lark's seed shall carry forth
The first note of a song that ends all times
And one of her blood shall sing the last.
Wait, what?
So the one singing the song is of the Lark's blood?
So they finally admitted he's not fully human?
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still not over jaskier documenting the story of the seven (largely told about and through eile) and probably relating so so much to her
(probably also taking personal notes... for reasons)
the parallels are uncanny i will scream about this until the end of my days
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