you & I knew strange corners of life

art scrub elle / 23 / usa

[all-wee--need-is-love]

llegando de la fiesta el domingo

[permanentlygoaty]

[a police car very slowly pursues a flying-saucer-shaped vehicle along a street]

[redmensch-deactivated20190323]

an anti-israel protest by turkish ultranationalists yesterday in instanbul surrounded a synagogue [neve shalom], kicked the doors, & threw rocks at the windows, saying it was revenge for israel keeping muslims from entering haram al-sharif & that they’ll be back today & every day after that for more

the jewish community in turkey goes back two & a half millennium & they have nothing to do with israeli policy. please keep them in mind & refuse to let diaspora jews be blamed for israeli actions

[elritch]

i’m aiming to take a hiatus from tumblr so friends!!! if we talk, please please please feel free to ask for my number/insta/snapchat/facebook/whatsapp/whatever platform you’d be most comfortable chatting on

[barricadeur]

When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea I guess it could look like that O no no I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host oh crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty I guess it could be that too either the money or the screaming angels WOULD YOU QUESTION A WINDOW what? WOULD YOU QUESTION A WINDOW I suppose not I suppose I wouldn’t THEN NEITHER WILL I QUESTION MY CORPOREAL NOR VEGETATIVE EYE

Texts from William Blake.

don’t get me wrong; i see the appeal of flower crown fanon jehan. but i feel like this is probably a lot closer to what it would be like to be friends with him. (via barricadeur)

[judevic]

i want to be given verbal encouragement by a dog who speaks in a deep otherworldly voice 

[elritch]

well she dropped a music video and I'm reconciling myself to a future I knew was coming: anguished feelings & regrets about a woman destined to be famous and haunt me from every radio and billboard

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

I’m not totally inclined to police anachronism in a fandom whose canon founded Georgia ~20 years early (in addition to the naval uniforms).* However, there’s one idea I’ve seen cropping in Black Sails fandom that bothers me a little bit because of what it suggests about the way that we view history— and that’s the idea that slavery was legal in early Georgia, specifically the Georgia of James Oglethorpe. 

From the founding of Georgia in 1733 to 1750, slavery was forbidden. (The prohibition was informal at first, then formalized in 1735.) There are many reasons for this, some nice— Oglethorpe seems to have been opposed to slavery on moral grounds— and most only practical: the trustees of Georgia didn’t want to risk slave uprisings, especially so close to Spanish Florida, and they also wanted to discourage idleness and the accumulation of wealth. (read more here)

When I see people assume that slavery must have been the accepted norm in the American colonies, especially in the South, it suggests to me a view of history in which slavery was inevitably a part of American history. In other words: there is literally no other way to imagine American history than with slavery involved. Aside from the fact that this is obviously incorrect, I would also argue it’s part of a larger narrative of history that sees us as progressing from “less civilized” times towards the “more civilized” era we now enjoy. People in the past, we think, were not as advanced in their thinking as we are in ours; they were less capable of understanding the truths we understand. 

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[elritch]

magic 8 ball am I someone's MCM

[elritch]

tbh I wish more e/R shippers understood that yes, e/R has more weight in the brick than any other ship involving enjolras but the vast majority of that weight, on enjolras’s end, is entirely narrative and symbolic not about how compatible they are in daily interactions or how ‘secretly’ in love enjolras is they’re not there yet, how could they possibly be there yet? the only glimpse of a chance in this dynamic happens in OFPD but of course they die I understand writing them that way for fun but am surprised people treat this as the actual dynamic brick e/R is not enjolras thinking ‘you know.... underneath it all.......i really do like grantaire....romantically’ brick e/R is vhugo’s disembodied voice gushing over Symbolism as he gives OFPD huge narrative impact and finishes enjolras’s character arc (an arc that began with the influence of combeferre, his decision to save jehan, and his concern for the families of the dead) in his acceptance of grantaire most of the e/R dynamic lies in narration, metaphor, and structure because it’s not about what already exists, it’s foreshadowing of OFPD and what could have been

[uze]

[heylookitsarevolution]

This is the money courage, reblog at your leisure for wealth, positivity and good fortune. Add any negativity to this post and a man will appear outside your home yelling “return the slab” over and over.

[nooniebaddass-deactivated201804]

That Guy Was Too Creepy & I Can’t Risk It

[weavemama]

I feel bad but this is so fucking hilarious

[weavemama]

if anyone is lost, Donald trump jr literally just tweeted out evidence of him being involved with Russia. Something this journalist has been trying to find evidence of for months…… he is obviously in in shock 😂

[lesbiansandpuns]

he has continued to be hilarious

[adamsvanrhijn]

Hugo wrote [Enjolras being gay as] close to saying it outright as it was possible to do in his time. 

no he didn’t, there is a shit ton (relatively) of 19th century French literature with intimate relationships between characters of the same gender and characters who are explicitly interested in only the same gender and Enjolras is not one of them and has never been one of them in established literary theory and criticism. a lack of interest in a gender especially in the context of Enjolras’s character and Les Misérables the novel as is does not explicitly indicate gayness, although that is a valid literary interpretation of the text (keeping in mind that Enjolras in canon is absolutely not a parallel with modern gay male culture). but as far as interpretations go, other things that are justified with the text: 

(what would now be considered as) asexuality

celibacy with repressed or ignored desire

celibacy with acknowledged desire, but symbolic focus on greater causes

potential for interest in women with a symbolic focus on greater causes

homosocial interest in men (nonsexual; nonromantic; still more intimate than the already intimate mores of male interaction at the time)

Enjolras is described many times to be chaste and celibate; the dynamic between Enjolras and Grantaire in canon is far from what I would call a requited let alone healthy relationship. shipping Enjolras/Grantaire the way many people do is completely contrary to explicit canon on that basis alone. 

but quit congratulating Hugo on his “gay representation” that was “all he could do”. he could have done more if he wanted to; he didn’t. literature is up to interpretation and there are textual arguments for interpreting Enjolras as gay.

but this is shipping. there are also textual arguments for other things.shipping Enjolras with a woman does not affect real-life media representation. I don’t know anyone who does that who has read the book cover to cover anyway - just like I find there are a lot of people who seem to be queer French literature experts but get basic, explicitly stated character details from the novel wrong.

modern AU fanworks have very little relation to the text to begin with - if you’re a stickler for Enjolras being gay in canon, why aren’t you a stickler for Enjolras’s canonical chasteness, celibacy, and masculinity? why aren’t you a stickler for Grantaire’s alcoholism and overt misogyny? whether or not you are gay (I speak as a gender non-conforming lesbian; I find the claim that Les Mis fandom is full of gay men who identify with Enjolras to be exaggerated at best) this is cherry-picking and using shipping and your personal headcanon to attack people who literally don’t know any better is not going to make them agree with you.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[sassyeol]

i made a meme for class and no one laughed :-( 

[amtrax]

I’m glad that almost 70,000 people laughed at your joke to make up for that.

[gimme-that-pen-back]

Drink With Me

I don’t think that Grantaire’s solo in Drink With Me is actually as sad as one may think. There’s a strong juxtaposition between him singing about how they won’t be remembered and the reality of thousands of people commemorating their death. Perhaps the best example of this is George Blagden’s video: the words of the song are contradicted by the actual video, in which he returns to the site of the barricade almost two centuries later and has now been viewed by thousands of people. In other words, Grantaire’s solo is beautiful because he was wrong. Their deaths did mean something and almost two centuries later, the people who lost their lives in the June rebellion are still remembered. Because ultimately the June rebellion has been immortalised by Les Miserables, and I doubt anyone will ever forget it.  

[adamsvanrhijn]

how does…. “if you haven’t read the book or seen the musical you’re still a les mis fan!” work exactly….

[cactusreadingoldthings]

Shoujo Cosette?!?!? :D

<3

To be fair, there are things I’ve been in the second-hand fandom of for months before being able to get my hands on the full source material.  Mostly foreign stuff.  And there’s a lot you can piece together from other people’s fanwork and clips and gifs if you are intense enough.

[adamsvanrhijn]

I would argue that that makes you a Shoujou Cosette fan, to be honest?

I don’t think it’s a lack of availability thing in most cases. Les Misérables is widely available online and has been translated into many languages. There are certainly valid reasons not to have read a long book with difficult topics and language, but if you have unrestricted internet access (not always the case in some countries), a bookstore with a well stocked classics section, or a library with the same, you can read Les Misérables. Two of those options are free.

The plot & characterization in most adaptations differ wildly from the source material. The fandom characterization is often completely removed from it, in a way that to me implies … most people are fans of essentially book-only characters without having read the book. A lot of fan headcanons and characterizations are literally the opposite of details included in the novel.

I think being a movie fan or a musical fan is great (although I think being a musical fan used to mean one was into musicals in general but especially LM, and the way non-Brick musical fans interacted with it was different and more musical fannish than how Brick fans did - some people were in both though).

But I have seen people say things like “I hate the musical and don’t want to read the book but I LOVE fandom” with 100% sincerity. Really the root of my bitching is wondering how this actually happened and why - it doesn’t make sense to me that someone would associate themselves with something that they only enjoyed a far removed and limited piece of, ie, modern AU ami fanfiction. Many people just have no interest in engaging with the book at all or the musical - and I find myself wondering a lot why they’re here, when they could choose another piece of fiction that has a group of male characters they can write fic for.

[elritch]

the 21st century did fuck all for a lot of people but i’d like to thank it for allowing me to see nate silver’s liked tweets