anyway here's les mis

hi i’m salt :)

[nicnacsnonsense]

I hate when people ask me how long it took me to crochet something I’ve made. Frankly, that’s none of my business. I put the yarn on the hook and worked on it whenever the spirit happened to take me to and then one day it was done. How long that process took is between the yarn and god; I want no part of it.

[dogpuppy]

[philcollinsenjoyer]

a lot of stories are about the fantasy of someone going to find you when u disappear from a group function

[multifandomhoodies]

Mutuals can have my home address before discord can have my ID

[ohitsashlie]

[secretmellowblog]

Part of the reason I have a complicated emotional relationship with Javert is because— Javert is BAD. He is a BAD person

But adaptations often don’t understand why he’s bad, and make him bad for the wrong reasons.

In the book, Javert is bad because he’s a cop. He is the Best Cop It is Possible to Be, he’s honest and completely obedient to the law, and he’s TERRIBLE, because you can’t be “good” when you’re enforcing a system that is inherently cruel.

But like... in Les Mis 1998 Javert is portrayed as being an unusually evil person who just has a weird obsession with Valjean, unlike other cops, who are Good. Les Mis 1998 even adds a Good Cop side character who lets Valjean go free in Montreuil-sur-Mer, while joking with Valjean about how Javert is unusually evil and none of the other cops like him.

???????

And as I’ve ranted about a lot, BBC Les Mis Javert’s desire to enforce the law is portrayed as a good honorable quality, and there’s an entire precinct of “good cop” side characters who help him.....while BBC Javert’s actual “moral failing” is what Andrew Davies calls his “twisted love” for Valjean.

and I’m just like...eh? Javert is bad, yes!! But that’s noT WHY he’s bad. He’s not bad because he’s gay, he’s bad because he’s a cop. He’s not bad because he’s an usually evil cop, he’s actually an unusually “good” cop— and being a “good cop” is why he’s bad!

Anyway....my problem with these adaptations isn’t that they make Javert a bad person, it’s that they completely misunderstand why he’s a bad person. They turn a critique of the police as a whole into “one guy was weirdly mean, and then he died and everything was fine”

[pilferingapples]

One of the things that makes the 98 Javert situation really stand out to me is that ...yeah, sure, other cops don't like Javert in book!canon *because he's too good a cop*, he's not corrupt, he doesn't take bribes or work closely with criminals and he is not comfortable or chill with other cops who do that! They specifically distrust him and shut him out of some things because he's Too Honest! Flipping it around so that he's the exceptional Bad Guy is such a wild misreading but it keeps happening! whyyyy

[a-pinch-of-nutmeg-deactivated20]

Because society is afraid to say that most cops around the world enforce a system that was built to keep poor people oppressed and the rich and affluent in power. Victor Hugo literally said this about Les Mis, quote for quote:

"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless"

Society continues to fear admitting to that, so of course Javert is painted as a bad apple.

[dailyclassicart]

Philip Burne-Jones - "Self-criticism" (1892)

[heavenlycreatures]

finland, pietarsaari, 2020

[knightsickness]

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

[darlingofdots]

"a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good" and "people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica" are both correct statements

[exaltedrevenge]

[alphabettacarp]

[iadorebotany]

Genuinely might be one of my favorite moomin doodles I’ve ever seen.

[peppermintsandbones5]

RIP Lydia Bennet you would’ve loved watching tik toks at full volume in public

[sunnydaze081]

5.

[illmadekn1ght]

i’ve genuinely had this in my calendar for a couple of years this is so exciting

[schofielded]

DB Cooper mystery solved: he survived and used the money to start the film website "IMDb" (I am DB)

[piierogis]

[moshpitgirlfriend]

[lilliankillthisman]

In the musical we know he tried to escape the galleys, but nothing more. In the book Valjean escapes a full four times, and every time he gets caught within a day or so. So when he gets caught about eight hours after stealing the Bishop's silver... it does seem like he's just really bad at running away? Like at some point this is a skill issue.

[holespoles]

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Moominland Midwinter