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some curtain call convos

[courfaeriec]

i like to cry/laugh about victor hugo's writing style and random chapters spent on random details, but i'm reading the iliad at the moment, and omfg victor hugo as an ancient greek author would be unstoppable. think sewers and napoleon is hard?? he'll introduce every single character's parents and homeland and desires and lovers and,, yeah actually nm he kind of already did that lol

[courfaeriec]

i may not have my life together but i DO know a lot more about the parisian sewers than the average person so yknow what i think it all balances out nicely

[courfaeriec]

i love reading books in public and feeling like a mysterious intellectual stanger in a romance novel when in reality im reading les mis and everybody knows im an utter geek and my bespectled nose is one inch from the paper

[courfaeriec]

adora from shera might not have been written w autism in mind and her behaviors are explained by her ptsd and INTERESTING upbringing but oh lordy i have never felt so autistically represented in media

i feel like people focus on entraptas autism and im so so happy to have entrapta there but also AUTISTIC ADORA i love her and her stimmy motions and her rigid thinking and her rubbish social skills and her tight planning and her clumsiness.

ty adora

[courfaeriec]

shakespeare is lowkey more progressive than most writers these days and that is a hill i am willing to die on. he lets women be loud and clever and tricky and stubborn and delighted and fierce. AND he has a million little twinks who are just adorable. looking right at u, claudio

[naijasapphic]

did y'all forget the racism and how having dark skin is used as an insult constantly or how women in his plays without fail always mention that they're weaker, mercurial, and passive? and again, the racism? the racism? saying this as a Shakespeare fan. "more progressive" is a WILD jump to make. he "lets women be loud" and "stubborn" and "tricky" because those were (and still are) all stereotypes about women 😭 not because it's some sort of attempt at betraying the "standard" or something. lol.

[courfaeriec]

no absolutely he says some wild wild stuff 😭 i did not expect so many people to see the post bc it is a WILD exaggeration and like wash over everything. he portrays people of colour and different religions in such dangerous ways and it can be so gross to read sometimes. merchant of venice in particular

but i would genuinely say that some of his women are done really well! it's interesting to see how characters in his play are treat some of these female characters vs how the narrative treats them. i personally find that for characters like beatrice, she is being shown as an equal of the men beside her and shown to be just as strong and quick witted and so the play treats them as equal?? even if characters might not or think of her as like "untamed", the narrative doesn't suggest this. which makes me feel like shakespeare is a snapshot of women from the time period and how they're treated by society

lol not that that's true for most of them bc his generic woman is just a meek lover who has no say over her story.

i have a lot of issues with shakespeare, especially his portrayal of poc, but i do like some of the ways he explores gender and gender roles and society

[courfaeriec]

there are two wolves inside of everybody except they're not actually wolves and they're really 19th century french revolutionaries. one is locked in and other cannot be fucked because locks rust and dreams die. going to hand over the reins to the second guy because organic chemistry can go kill itself

[courfaeriec]

i love it when writers and composers care enough about the audience to sneak little messages into the lyrics and music that let the superfans listen to it a million times and only pick up certain lines or parallels after their 5th or 17th or 304th relisten

thank you les mis and epic <3

[courfaeriec]

the les mis fandom are the swifties of the classic lit world. constantly searching for clues to thinks that may or may not be there and digging up every little footage from everything ever. yall are so silly and ilysm

[courfaeriec]

there was a phase in my life when the only way i could go out in public was if i pretended i was being possessed by a 19th century ghost. thank u enj and jehan and courf for getting me through some tough times.

[mohand-mohamed999]

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[courfaeriec]

i love how courfeyrac was marius's first glimpse into what life could be like ?? like it could be any think you fucking wanted and you didnt have to live it the way other people wanted you do and courf showed him that for the first time and anyways marius 100% learned how to do his eyeliner from him and he was the first boy he ever kissed and sfhdjskfhj love them sm <33

[courfaeriec]

i have so much respect for victor hugo and his inclusion of absolutely everything he was interested in in les mis. like bro did not need to give us a battle of waterloo rundown, BUT HE DID AND WE READ IT AND WE LEARNED AND WE LAPPED IT UP. so screw editing. be a professional yapster like the man himself

[courfaeriec]

idec what anybody says courfeyrac is such a girldad and i love him for it. and you're lying to yourself if you don't think him and ferre are 100% girldadding enjolras all day long

[courfaeriec]

shakespeare is lowkey more progressive than most writers these days and that is a hill i am willing to die on. he lets women be loud and clever and tricky and stubborn and delighted and fierce. AND he has a million little twinks who are just adorable. looking right at u, claudio

[courfaeriec]

the 95% les mis fandom obsessed w les amis have vibes on the same wavelength as the vocal minority marauder era of the harry potter fandom and i absolutely adore it

[courfaeriec]

i cant imagine not being in the les mis fandom because who else r u supposed to doodle relentlessly and compare to greek gods and giggle and kick ur feet over ???

[courfaeriec]

i lowkey reckon theatre and acting are like the best things you can get an autistic person into. it does WONDERS.

like, you get to socialize in a way where everybody is learning. everybody is new, everything has to be taught from scratch, so you're at an equal point.

and you get to learn how to be confident speaking in front of people and how to project and present and just be comfortable with standing up there and doing stuff!!

also, there are no surprises?? you learn the script and you learn the setting and you learn the context and it's like okay i get what i'm supposed to do and i understand what the director needs. so nice.

AND THEN it's such a tightknit community?? you have your own special language and thing you talk about and customs and just welcoming people and you learn such control over your body and voice and movements and you do it with other people and it's just. yes.

and also?? even if acting isnt for you there is a bunch of tech stuff within theatre that is also super lovely. you dont have to say much, you remain in the background, yuo get your job done and get recognsed but not spot-light reconised for it and just. yeah.

would 110% recommend theatre as a coping mechanism or like a way of learning how to interact with other people because it works, im telling you