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frankie ❦ he/him ❦ ace + aro ❦ listening to my tunes

[gloomth-and-wanderings]

Ahoy there!

welcome to my blog!

he/him, call me Frankie or gloomth (if you're on les mis letters or whale weekly discord you might also know me as Walpole!)

my other haunts: I run @lmchaptertitlebracket, I'm bean_valbean on ao3, and I'm PlaidFrankie on letterboxd :3

(tags/more info under the cut)

profile picture is Joseph Cotten in Journey Into Fear with the hair of Enjolras from Les Miserables Shoujo Cosette edited on; header picture is Jonathan Richman from Live on Toppop 1978; blog title is a quote from hit film She (1935)

Some tags:

#my art is my art, #frankie's creations is other stuff I've made (with a sub-tag for just video edits), #frankie.txt is me yammering on. For a window into my brain check #so me and #i think about this all the time

Interests most prevalent here:

history/material culture (I tag by decade and year when I can)

Les Miserables

Star Trek

the X Files

the sea and the sky

old hollywood-era movies and old time radio, especially stuff with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, and Harold Lloyd

music, especially Talking Heads and Jonathan Richman

I speak English, but I am also learning Mandarin and would love to practice! 我的母语是英文，但是我也在学中文，所以我很想练习！

Feel free to send me asks!

I try to add alt text to my posts but if I forget make sure to let me know.

Currently reading: Correspondence of Horace Walpole, The Making of the English Working Class, The Other Side of the Sky, The Cheese and the Worms, The Flying Classroom, Maurice again

Currently watching: The X-Files (s5), Star Trek: Voyager (s6), Doctor Who (first doctor, s2), a lot of movies (on a Harold Lloyd glasses character binge at the moment)

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summer vacation in ayakashi alley character sprites : more more jump!

artist : ahowasa86

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girl same

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summer vacation in ayakashi alley character sprites : leo/need

artist : ahowasa86

[tummydrummer-deactivated2014022]

me nd my pirate girlfriend

[holdin hands]

me: bb ur hands r so cold

her: that me hook

[floofyhobbit]

in other news I got another page done (just need to edit) for issue two here's a peak Mr I love pledging fealty

[figurecollection]

Oscar François de Jarjayes Hello! Good Smile Figure by Good Smile Company, from The Rose of Versailles

[passionpeachy]

I want to see something........did you ever have an imaginary friend?

Yes (please describe what it was, I'm interested!)

No

I faked having one because I thought that was what I was supposed to do as a kid

Remaining time: 6 days 21 hours

[floofyhobbit]

@gloomth-and-wanderings

[gloomth-and-wanderings]

Peter'ing abſolute O'Toole, my liege

thats the way I like it 🫡🫡

[pilferingapples]

Les Mis 365, 3.4.1, Bahorel 1/? : The Funeral, The Riot

Hoo boy. This is gonna be long; I clocked out on these posts BECAUSE Bahorel’s is gonna be so long. . But that’s because he matters, darn it!  So let’s start at the start:

Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion of the burial of young Lallemand.

That’s the first thing Hugo wants us to know about Bahorel, the very first line. As important to his character as Feuilly’s adoption of the world and status as a workingman and orphan;  as important as Combeferre’s relationship to Enjolras or Courfeyrac’ s break with his parents’  tradition.

And it’s been largely forgotten what Hugo’s invoking. So a (very quick) primer:

The Lallemand funeral of 1820 (not 1822, but Hugo was in exile and didn’t have Google, so)  happened after a series of peaceful protests by mostly-students—mostly law students– in favor of the charter, the King’s own charter!,  that Courfeyrac will later torch. Specifically, they were in favor of the Charter over the proposed Double-Vote act, which would give an entire extra voting body to the richest of the richest voters (already an extremely select group; most students would NOT have expected to become voters as they grew up). The protest was just chanting– mostly “Long live the King, Long live the Charter”.

And in response they  were violently attacked by government enforcers. And when I say “violently”  I mean with axes and guns.  When the students tried to continue their (still peaceful, still unarmed) protests, the enforcers got even more violent, and started targeting anyone who even looked like a student, or who happened to be in  the general vicinity of the students, or who wasn’t a student but the enforcers didn’t like the way they looked.  One of those killed was a student named Lallemand, shot in the back.

This is the first image Hugo wants us to have as we read about Bahorel: a peaceful protest violently attacked, the voices of the next generation literally silenced by gun and club and hatchet, the forces of authority  swinging out in violent retribution against citizens because people SPOKE,  and asked authority to honor their word.

And it’s the image of the people of Paris in opposition to this, because Lallemand’s funeral? Was ENORMOUS, some four thousand people large. There were protests for days.

So this is the first thing about Bahorel, this is what he IS, as Feuilly’s an orphan, as Prouvaire is gentle, as Courfeyrac is Not an Aristocrat.  Bahorel is the voice of protest unsilenced by the hatchet, the grief of the city betrayed by its leaders, the bitter knowledge of who the King’s protection really serves.

This is important, and important to keep in mind—and very hard to keep in mind, because Bahorel is also BUCKETS of fun.

Keep reading

[columboscreens]

[studentofetherium]

i'm not normally one to make jokes about dialect or accent. but the way that British people pronounce "lieutenant" feels like an in-joke i'm not privy to

[aokozaki]

Aww, you're feeling lieut out?

[rowzien]

1826 Summer frock, trousers and frock drafted from The Tailor's Preceptor by Hamlet Hadfield.

Face reveal, wow, being post top surgery feels about a good as time as any to post my face.

My new summer frock was entirely handstitched and made with medium weight linen from Burnley and Trowbridge along with some scraps for pockets and interlining.

The braces are from Button Baron but they bleed on my clothes and I have yet to figure out how to fix it.

I didn't post my face before for a number of reasons, when I started posting I was much younger and in many ways didn't like the way I looked much all, but that's very different now. Upon making an Instagram and Facebook my friends have started sharing pictures of me anyways, what can you do.

[myankleissprained]

Guys can I be honest. I like you guys . You are my Frends. Yay Ok

[stroebe2]

[anthonybourdyke]

[clove-pinks]

Every British guy in the War of 1812 has a name like John Smith, James Taylor, or William Brown; and every American guy is named like Eleazor Peabody, Dempsey Dimwiddle, or (checks notes) Tench Coxe

[clove-pinks]

(tags via @captainswank)

[manyother]

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles dining at the Hollywood Brown Derby Restaurant in 1943

This photo was taken on August 12, 1943 at the famous Hollywood restaurant "The Hollywood Brown Derby" in Los Angeles, California.

During this period, Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles acted as partners in the charity magic show "The Mercury Wonder Show" (Magic Tent Show), organized to support American servicemen. Less than a month after this picture, on September 7, 1943, the couple officially married.