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THE AMOUNT OF EXCITEMENT RUNNING THROUGH MY BODY
(My grandma went out shopping and then remembered she had a Brick TM at home and bestowed it onto me…)
It’s so thick and gorgeous and I can’t wait to read it! The translation is Norman Denny, for those wondering.
Also, I’m a first time Brick-reader. I have seen the musical and 2012 movie. But, I have also heard about the infamous Battle of Waterloo tangents and the Parisian sewer system tangents…
Wish me luck and good luck to the fellow Brick-readers 🙏🙏
#les mis#les miserables#the brick#victor hugo#I can’t wait for the ‘Marius becomes real enough to give Cosette his address’ chapter#ok I do know a few things about the brick but have I read it ever? noooo#ava rambles
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Rgardless your opinion on enjoltaire as a ship is Grantaire did NOT get "friendzoned". He got trashzoned. Sewerzoned. Run-over-by-a-carzoned. He fell for Enjolras and Enjplras just kept WALKING and rolling his eyes whenever Grantaire (crawlling on the ground after Enjolras) managed to be close enough to touch his clothes. He was not fucking "friendzoned"
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I do find it interesting how so many section of Les Mis’s convent digression are essentially Callout Posts for Jean Valjean.
There are times when I wonder how much Hugo wants us to see Jean Valjean’s self-isolating/self-harm behaviors as self-harm, and how much he wants us to see them as Noble Self-Martyrdom. (Ex: sleeping in a cold hut in the backyard while Cosette has the house, eating bad food while Cosette eats well, excising himself from Cosette’s life planning to die alone, exiling himself from humanity to live alone.) He recreates the patterns of the convent long after he’s left.
But these chapters make it clear that Hugo is criticizing that kind of behavior— obsessively doing penance via self-harm, while isolating yourself from the world. It’s a real stark criticism of Jean Valjean’s constant self-exile.
If you replace “convent” with “Jean Valjean,” a lot of this feels like a very pointed descriptions of Valjean’s self-destructive behavior at the end of the novel:
When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no.
A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme abnegation.
(…)
In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise.
(…)
Sacrifice that is misdirected is still sacrifice. There is something grand about making a serious mistake a duty.
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I seriously think most (if not all) les mis fans have a crush on Combeferre on some level.
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I’m humbly requesting some Joly art?? 🖤 no presh tho
i don’t usually take requests but I missed drawing joly and you were very nice in your request so here
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Barricade Day Advent Calendar
Day 11: Wolfboy
and a bonus everyone together:
#javert#les mis#les miserables#barricade day advent calendar#everyone#oh shoot I forgot the image descriptions hold on#there we go
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Art motivation has been low this month so most of these were requests or doodles i did while bored
always open to requests .
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I haven’t drawn in almost two weeks and you can tell but I thought this was fun
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Javert you're at work get a grip
#les mis#art#les miserables#artist#digital art#fanart#les mis musical#valvert#original art#jean valjean#javert
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Aaron Tveit as Enjolras
• Les Misérables (2012) dir. Tom Hooper
Based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo
Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great affair.
INSPIRATION/TEMPLATES: ★☆★
#lesmisedit#les miserables#les mis#enjolras#enjolrasedit#filmedit#usergif#userblorbo#usercossette#usercaitlyn#courfeyrec#**#mine.gif#films
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#my posts#les mis#les miserables#victor hugo#lascelles wraxall#wraxall translation#lynd ward#lm 3.4.1#enjolras#les amis de l'abc
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the "would you like my hat" scene (aka the coldest javert entrance in the entire book)
#les mis#les mis fanart#monsieur thenardier#patron-minette#javert#inspector javert#also i need to know if other adaptations have this scene#i only saw it in shoujo cosette
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different valjean era selfcest like its an undertale au
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Victor Hugo explaining his feelings and theories on monasticism and religion within the convent digression:
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I doodled a Javert during class and my friend (who doesn't know the charachter at all) said to me ''you know what he needs?'' and then drew the dog on the right side of the paper.
When i saw what she was doing i was smiling because it fits perfectly and she drew it without knowing that. It was so fun
She also said something about ''he's beating off women with his stick'' wich I thought very funny aswell
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golden boy
hi les mis fandom, here's some Enjolras sketches + a digitalised and colored portrait✨
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