let us endeavor to tell.

"I only understand love and liberty" // a Les Mis sideblog: lots of valvert, meta, and me yelling about my feelings // mainblog @transfemmbeatrice // icon by @muiromem

[mcd217]

I was recently reminded of this collage I made for a design class I took. Thought it was fun.

[lonelyroommp3]

and so javert you see it’s true this man bears no more guilt than you. who am i?

[qurossword]

mhm. and what if I was the sad dark haired cynic artist and you were the angelic revolutionary leader who believed in the people. and what if the people never stirred. and what if I stirred from my slumber to hold your hand when we died. what then. what then.

[ueinra]

Out of nowhere YouTube recommended an episode of a cartoon called “‏blame it on hugo!” where the characters travel back in time to meet Victor Hugo and ask him about Les Misérables.

These are just a few clips from the episode.

Btw if you watch the episode you’ll notice that they made him the drama queen that he is.

[saninmint]

what if,,, what if I made stickers,,,

[lizardco1827]

More art of my favorite Parisian police inspector

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

my 2 favourite reviews of the brick from the past month

somehow makes it sound like this 1,400-page epic historical novel is a bland self-help book ("practical"?)

honestly, contender for funniest sentence of all time: "it feels as though the author has no definite opinion on politics, religion, or even the central plot of the story."

VICTOR HUGO???

NO OPINION?

bonus runner-up, because i like how it makes it sound like javert is the one droning on about the sewers:

[korliguess]

Likely thing for him to do

[bogusbyron-arthall]

Commission for @cannibal-squirrel. Thank you so much!

[imadetheline]

guy who's only experienced real life watching les mis for the first time: wow this is really timely and has many real-world connections and applications

[eventhedarkestnightwillend18]

started putting my doodles in an actual notebook (yes it's not a sketchbook shhhhhg it's ok) and redid a few of the old ones; here's the first page :D

"the IRS" is my pen name for comics; it's from an old inside joke about taxes (don't worry about it)

disclaimer: some of the words/captions in these were inspired by memes/posts, but I fear I don't remember the sources; credits to the OPs of those ofc

[piierogis]

[piierogis]

Who is pictured on this Les Miserables cover art?

Fantine (wrong hair color as usual)

Jean Valjean (red prison shirt)

Javert (in his pyjamas)

Marius(' new coat with Marius inside it)

Enjolras (red and black)

Cosette (let a girl have some fun)

Eponine (these are rags)

Victor Hugo (yassified)

Gillenormand (that's just how he looks)

Bishop Myriel (that's his misspent youth)

Someone else?

Voting ended onFeb 1

[aaronstveit]

today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

[pylades-drunk]

this is probably so nit-picky and annoying, but whenever someone calls javert a bad cop it makes me go a little bit insane. it completely undermines his character and his entire reason in the story. he is the perfect cop, and that is why he is a bad person.

he is ruthless and cruel. he thinks entirely in black and white and follows the letter of the law like it is gospel. in the book he is our conduit into the justice system, he is it’s face and its name. he is the law personified. shaped and moulded into the perfect blank slate, being fed information and believing it blindly, doing exactly as he’s told without question. he is exactly what the system was made to create.

by calling him a bad cop it removes the very purposeful intent behind his character. it makes it seem as though the systematic violence and oppression which he enforces, and the ways in which he enforces it, are personal choices - even mistakes. when in reality they are the actions of a completely unjust governmental system, working as it is intended to.

"bad cops" are not made by personal choice, they are moulded and formed by the system to have no mercy or kindness. the worst people make the best cops, because cops were never meant to uphold societal niceties.

[secretmellowblog]

Okay but the moment after Jean Valjean sets Javert free, and Javert unconsciously begins referring to him with the formal “you” indicating respecting rather than the “informal” you he’d used before, but without Javert himself realizing it or recognizing the change…. Homosexual behavior.

[piierogis]

any post seine fic when Valjean tries to mope himself to death