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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

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when the blind man shows frankenstein’s creature the pleasures of life he shows him cigarette and music. notice how he doesn’t show him hugh jackman singing bring him home.

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After a mere two days of studying, multiple caffeine induced (and normal) anxiety attacks, about 4 hours of broken sleep between the two days, and being nearly disowned by my father (maybe?? it’s possible! Who knows what happened there.) I can officially say that I killed those finals. Lowest grade was a 94, second lowest was a 98. Thank you Victor Hugo 🙏🙏 feeling crazy rn

If Jean Valjean can drag Marius through the sewers for miles and get him out alive I can get through my finals

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Guys. I won FRONT ROW Hadestown lottery tickets. I got to see this phenomenal cast from essentially ON STAGE. It was basically immersive, the fog rolled into our faces, the lamps nearly swung over us, and the part of the stage that juts out was right next to us so it felt like they were standing at our side. I felt the stage opening and “I CONDUCT THE ELECTRIC CITY” in my bones. I don’t think I’ll get over this any time soon. One of my best theater experiences ever I think

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i'm obsessed with hamlet. serial procrastinator, famous yapper, who monologues any time anything goes even mildly wrong. he gets POISON STABBED, and instead of dropping dead like his mother, his uncle, and his opponent, he MONOLOGUES ABOUT IT. HE PROCRASTINATES DYING TO MONOLOGUE ABOUT IT. there's just something so beautiful about him clinging to life to deliver one last baller speech

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Looking at pictures of my cat before walking into my final like a soldier taking one last look at his beloved family in a locket before heading to the front lines

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If Jean Valjean can drag Marius through the sewers for miles and get him out alive I can get through my finals

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modern apollo as a computer programmer who absolutely hates python

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I won’t accept “Enjolras DIIIIED for NOOOOOTHING he was SOOO YOUNG” when Victor Hugo wrote a novel that inspired two dudes to write a musical where Enjolras’s featured song has been used as a protest song across the world for decades now

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Round 2, Matchup 88: IV.vi.2 vs IV.xi

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next donald trump is gna go see cabaret

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Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

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Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed

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Les mis and The count of montecristo really is an awesome pairing. Same premise of a guy who’s unjustly put in prison. Same concept of an antagonist symbol of the law. Same idea of two generations overlapping. Homosexuals. Exactly the same time period of post Napoleon France, although completely different social classes, with les mis exploring all of the lowest while tcomc explores all of the highest. Truly peak crossover material. I wanna put Albert and Enjolras in a room and see how long it takes for the latter to try to strangle the former to death.

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If Jean Valjean can drag Marius through the sewers for miles and get him out alive I can get through my finals

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what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

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One time, not even a week after seeing Les Mis, my family and I went to a restaurant that had — for some inexplicable reason — a “Jean Valjean Seafood Special” on their menu. And us all being fans of Les Mis we naturally have to ask our waiter: why? Instead of saying “oh I don’t know” or “oh the guy in the back is a big Les Mis fan” or something, he decided to pick the fun route and lie. He looked into our eyes, straight-faced, so serious, and said “Jean Valjean is French for ‘Seafood Special.’” Now, I don’t speak French, but I know enough that I’m not quite sure that’s true. I respect him for being able to just lie like that though, very impressive.