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yelling at absolutely everyone to read this series isn’t enough so i present you [tadadaaa] why you should read (and love) the book of the ancestor series, a comprehensive presentation by so

nonagrey

links to the original art posts: nona / ara / clera / hessa / apple & kettle / novices / nuns

#when tumblr is a mess and you can't add external links or the post won't show up 😔😔#put them in a reply hopefully it's still visible enough 😔#book of the ancestor #red sister

compounditall

Happy Barricade Day from George Blagden I guess

https://twitter.com/gblagden/status/739594821602545669

https://vimeo.com/169469516

#happy birthday #les mis

trainerdot

the thing about time loop jokes is, sure, they may be repetitive, but they never get old

batcii

A Group Which Almost Became Historic

It's been over a decade since I first read Les Mis, and first drew this, (which still floats around in reblogs, the original post now being deleted with my old blog) and I thought I ought to finish this for Barricade Day. At the time, that illustration was the most ambitious I had ever drawn.

In the last ten years, Les Mis has perhaps felt more pertinent than ever. In Australia, where I live, bigoted, far-right political parties that were previously considered fringe are leading polls on the back of racist, anti-immigration rhetoric. I donate regularly to a charity that supports refugees that is local to me, the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, and am going to do so again today. I encourage you to do the same, either to the ASRC, or to an equivalent charity in your area.

"So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth... books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use." — Victor Hugo

#les mis

onewingedangels

Lara Croft in TOMB RAIDER: LEGACY OF ATLANTIS (2027) dev. Crystal Dynamics

#tomb raider

the-etcetera-archive

Source: The Secret of Moonacre; dir. Gábor Csupó, 2008.

#it's been way too long. may need a rewatch. tonight #the secret of moonacre

theswampghost

you should NOT be at the club. you should be in the streets, june 5th, 1832, paris france. you should be building a barricade

#les mis

thisauthorisscreaming

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

#that's amazing #art #craft

bleekay

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

bee-in-your-binnet

Literally amazing that there’s a predator that goes “mrrp” and you’re allowed to have one in your house

#<33

wordfather

i love it when im rereading a story and i find these little breadcrumbs of foreshadowing the author left. everytime im like "ohoho!!!! i wouldve gotten that before if i had the big picture!!! and now i do!!! delightful!!!" and idk i just love being able to read the same story twice but have two different experiences. i like when a story has so many layers that it can keep you entertained for a long time as you unravel all its secret nooks and crannies. thats a good story.

scribeherself

#please

microraptorhours

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

themartyredslaveoftime

@the-etcetera-archive

homunculus-argument

Libraries are sneaky, because once you go in, it's soo easy to get a library card, and once you have one, you can pretty much grab one of everything of all the stuff they have there with no consequence, and take it home. But then once you're home and you've read all the stuff you'll have to go back to the library to return the stuff, and once you're at the library again, you're at the library again, so might as well pop in to see what they got, and then you're hauling half their shit home again, and then you'll need to return to the library to return them, so you're at the library again

And the next thing you know you've read 3000 books, your crops are clear and your skin is watered, an angel descents from the heaven to suck your dick twice a week, and also you've got some books to return so you've got a perfectly valid reason to go pop in to the library. Just a little bit.

#there is no escaping it and it is Absolutely Great