Ghost River

If you want me, then do come across “EXCUSE ME, I’M THE CAPTAIN!” { WEAR }

[supersonicanimates]

hi #1 DIVING BELL fan here

[mysticdoodlez]

I know I said I was gonna make Specter my personality for three months, but that was before Starset released AD ASTRA.

This is gonna be my personality for three years

[under-the-knife]

"My heart's an artifice, a decoy soul"

Monster // Starset

[cosmiceverglow]

I watched the stream, loved it. So, here's a doodle for it.

[theblueskyphoenix]

Dream Visitation

[feelingsofaithless]

Stand my ground, I won't give in No more denying, I've gotta face it Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside If I don't make it, someone else will Stand my ground

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[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 unusually evil cop, he’s actually an unusually “good” cop— and being a “good cop” is why he’s bad and cruel!

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”

[the-crooked-library]

To add to that -

Another crucial aspect of Javert’s character, the one that adaptations always ignore, the one that actually is the Reason he is so obsessed with upholding the law - flawlessly, mercilessly, perfectly - is his heritage. Canonically, he is Romani, and the world saw him as a criminal since he was a child. He is desperate to prove himself to a society that does not care for him; and to erase that is to vastly limit the depth and complexity of his character and his interactions with Valjean.

The reason he commits suicide in the end is because he realizes that he wasted his life in this vain pursuit; but another facet of that tragedy is that even if he had attempted to start a different, better life at some point, the world’s prejudice would have followed him regardless - in a way that it never did Valjean. Javert knows that, and the resulting bitterness directly informs his obsession with bringing Valjean to “justice.”

He is the antagonist, he is a bad person, but he is, irrevocably, one of Les Miserables. To reduce his role to “villain” or “nemesis” is to ignore the fact that the true villain of the story is the terrible, cruel, unfair world in which the characters live.

[safwald]

[twiley-birb]

LITERALLY 😭

[ilyagrigoryevichhollander]

the captain of the wolfnichols ship: nico silva

[thats-the-biz-babe]

BRILLIANT MINDS 2x07 'The One That Got Away'

[oncillaphoenix]

the spirit is willing but the flesh is experiencing technical difficulties

[wolfnicholss]

new reaction image just dropped

[o0anapher0o]

The thing about the "It’s easy" though

Josh, my love, you're a neurosurgeon. You joined the army as a gay man under DADT and 'made it work'. You took over management of a public hospital because no one else volunteered. You fell in love with Oliver Wolf.

Which part of that is supposed to make me think you like things to be easy?

[thehours2002]

New Muriel Landon Lore

[niraves]

"I'm sorry to- "No, no, no. It's okay. You should be happy, Josh"

Oliver Wolf x Josh Nichols in Brilliant Minds 2x07

[under-the-knife]

"Beg for the dirt when they find you in a coffin"

Pale Moonlight // Dayseeker