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fairycosmos

bro are you good?

no but there is no solution for any of it

girlslashers

having fun

proteidaes

Manifesting ... good luck ...🍀🌟

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san-demetrio-corone

Kyiv-based artist Alexey Kondakov uses surrealistic documentary photography to superimpose figures from classical artwork into everyday scenes of modern life. He is renowned for his Photoshopped collage series in which Kyiv, Ukraine served as the backdrop for characters from old world masterpieces. The artist merges the past and the present, showing with a deft eye how classical figures fit seamlessly into contemporary situations that, in themselves, are timeless.

sachart

Oh dear god it's Barricade Day again

#good morning it is the 6th #this is absolutely gorgeous #barricade day

good morning to my fellow june 5th observers

#les mis #barricade day #this year's barricade day is much more somber

hayzeydayzey

Barricade Day 2024

"Dawn does not illuminate whom, but that which they left behind."

#happy barricade day #les mis

enjolraspdf

hey sorry we put your boyfriends in a perpetual time loop. yeah they're fated to die tragically in a doomed rebellion on 5-6th june every year. sorry.

#it's barricade day #les mis

secretmellowblog

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

#barricade day #les mis