Hello xx, I'm Alastor (Als, Alstor, Al, A) or 秋 (qiu), you can call me as any of the aforementioned or if there's any nicknames you would like to bestow on me feel free as well b(^^)b - I am a minor... So take that with whatever you will-
He/She pronouns, don't mind they/them but please refrain from doing so :D ☆ Mostly Eng, Mandarin / BM (sometimes), interested in learning more languages ...
Main media/fandoms- Les Miserables, F1, and 全职高手 (The King's Avatar)
And my OC :D
I am very very attached to all three of the above... The most prominent fixation as of right now is of course, Les Mis but the other two are still very much active (especially in my brain). I also partake in RPF fandom stuff JUST SO YOU KNOW.
Other media/fandoms/interests- The Beatles, Hamilton (the musical), The Odyssey, animanga in general, House MD, Sherlock Holmes (ACD, BBC and most adaptations), Pokemon TCG, mobile / gacha games and others....
I do block freely to curate my own experience. Generally idrc about anything because each to your own... I like to interact with people as well!!
More detailed info below!! (And by more I really do mean MORE.)
Les Miserables
My favourite Les Mis characters are Jean Valjean, Javert, Marius, and Cosette. Favourite ships are Valvert (my OTP) and Marisette, though I'm also not opposed and sometimes inclined to Mariposette (or whatever they're called, but it's a weirder version of them lowkey)...
I really really really really enjoy the musical version of it as well :D. Fav songs are Stars, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Bring Him Home and One Day More. But also very very much soft for On My Own and A Heart Full of Love.
Fav cast is the 10th Anniversary Concert the Dream Cast with Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean, Philip Quast as Javert and Michael Ball as Marius Pontmercy. But every cast is dear to me, especially the Original London Cast and John Owen-Jones as Valjean :D.
Formula One
My fav F1 drivers are Lewis Hamilton 44 and Fernando Alonso 14 as of the current grid. Retired/not in f1 anymore drivers I really enjoy Sebastian Vettel, Checo, Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen. Older eras of F1 you'll probably just see prosenna (Aryton Senna and Alain Prost) and Launt (Niki Lauda and James Hunt).
I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY ADORE SEWIS, FERWIS and SLAGCLAREN. Also like Chestappen, Strollonso and others (random drops)...
Forza Ferrari sempre of course but I have soft spots for Haas and Aston Martin... Which is probably why I'm always miserable when I watch this sport not gonna lie.
全职高手 The King's Avatar
Fav is 魏琛 / Wei Chen and 韩文清 / Han Wenqing.. However, I do like all of the characters well enough :DDD they're all my children (affectionately). I do like to pile trauma on them so do take note because they're filled with headcanons.
Others
I like Hamburr (Hamilton musical), am a John Lennon girl (The Beatles) and am obsessed with McLennon an unhealthy amount.
Animanga- my faves are One Piece, Death Note, My Dress-up Darling and Love is War.
I believe in the "Odysseus is just a tragic hero who is just a man" narrative.
Favourite Pokemons are the Scorbunny line (Scorbunny, Raboot and Cinderace), Charizard, Greninja, and Gengar. Favourite of all is Cinderace. And favorite element is the fire element.
For Hyv games I play Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. I'm a Welt, Ruan Mei, Gallagher and Dr Ratio main (HSR). Also a Lycaon main for ZZZ.
Tags for archival / navigating purposes:
#als' daily shenanigans - shenanigans that I don't feel like fit into any other tag
#als' rambles - rambling and opinionated topics, mostly crazy shouting and incoherent stuff
#als' ambitious hobbies - tag for me to record my hobbies if I did them and to note down stuff I wanna do that I don't have the time or the capacity to do rn
#als' brainworms - brainworms stuff, vague and not yet complete... The tag for AUs and headcanons
#als' les mis diaries - anything and everything les mis that does not classify as the other tags
#als' asks - answers to asks
#als' art - art posts (mostly doodles, also very immature and not really good on the eyes imo)
#als' gaming - watch me crash out over games
#als' playlists - to fund my Spotify playlist addiction
#als reads - books (other than les mis) related thoughts and blogging
So I was re-listening to the 2010 Les Mis recording while scanning photographs at work and oh my oh my oh my how did I not realize before that during the first attack, Javert says "Jean take care." Jean!! His first name! Not the more formal Valjean, as we hear in other recordings. I doubted myself, wondering if I was delusional, so I listened to that line four or so more times and yep, Javert says Jean. HE SAYS JEAN. IT'S SO INFORMAL. AHHH. I'm going to think about this for a long time now.
"Give a human face to this dog son of a wolf, and it will be Javert."
that guy has reached a critical mass of dog comparisons per sentence
Literally a dog. He's Valjean's dog so that's also gay and we love that. Direct quotes from the book: "Javert, serious, was a watchdog." "When he had so unexpectedly encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the dog who finds his master again." "...to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's hand!"
His entire storyline is that he is the law's faithful hunting dog. His storyline revolves around chasing and hunting down this one man. And when he finally comes face to face with him he forsakes his original master and is torn apart by his loyalty and his sense of justice
Laios Touden
💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 35 · My propaganda for Laios:
The first two are instances of other characters seeing his behavior as doglike. The bottom two a
This competition has been so fun, but this last decision is so hard ;^;
Short comic based on the @lesmisshippingshowdown Here is the poll [Go vote if you haven't already!] and the other Labubu art featured is by @bootsselbst :D
No unnecessary trash-talking about characters or shows. Generic things like 'kill that guy' are fine; things like 'other character/show is terrible because xyz' are not
No trash-talking of other voters
If I see the word cop that's a strike
Each character gets three strikes. On the third strike, that character will lose the poll
Propaganda:
Javert
"Give a human face to this dog son of a wolf, and it will be Javert."
that guy has reached a critical mass of dog comparisons per sentence
Literally a dog. He's Valjean's dog so that's also gay and we love that. Direct quotes from the book: "Javert, serious, was a watchdog." "When he had so unexpectedly encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the dog who finds his master again." "...to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's hand!"
His entire storyline is that he is the law's faithful hunting dog. His storyline revolves around chasing and hunting down this one man. And when he finally comes face to face with him he forsakes his original master and is torn apart by his loyalty and his sense of justice
Alexis Ness
Another character literally calls him a dog or puppy several times, and treats him like he owns him. He's also extremely loyal and eager to please.
His character is that of a stray dog adopted, given a purpose, and then abandoned, who chooses to not leave despite being set free out of a deep need to be needed. His loyalty is overwhelming to the point he disregards the dismissal and doubles down leaning into the guard dog identity even when it is no longer being pushed onto him. He also gets called puppy and dog multiple times in the manga and just look at his obedient chained up pose in the cover image...
