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what a WONDERFUL way to start a book. no this will NOT be relevant. you will read it regardless.

bishop’s back, ALRIGHT!

#les mis letters #it’s on #happy new year

Not pictured here: The bit where Combeferre literally sings a little victory song after everyone but Enjolras and an extremely schooled Marius departs from the café. (Les Misérables, Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 5)

#i have to explain this scene every time someone asks me what my tattoo means #etre libre in hugos handwriting #if I say it just means to be free it sounds so darn cheesy lol #les mis

nortism

It’s been one week since I last saw my beloved husband (Jean Valjean)

#titanic lady voice #it’s beeen eighty-four yeeears #les mis letters #catching up like napoleon never could

itsa-me-cavaradossi

Les Misérables, Vol. II, Book I, Chapter I.

OH HEY GUYS, WE’VE REACHED THIS PART OF THE BOOK, TIME TO PARTY THE WAY VICTOR HUGO WANTED US TO

#help me escape #i want to

nortism

Ah fuck it’s Waterloo tomorrow

#today’s the day #woke up at 6am to read it on project gutenberg and went nope this is too early for waterloo

secretmellowblog

Fantine’s death is fascinating for the way that Javert murders her in an indirect way, the kind of banal cruelty that would never legally be framed as murder even though Jean Valjean describes it that way. It’s less of a “deliberate execution” and more of that frightening “she had a pre-existing condition and died in custody.”

livelovecaliforniadreams

#favourite show and favourite actress #ted lasso #julie andrews #all hail queen julie andrews

lesmisletters

Congratulations, Les Mis Letters Readalong readers, on finishing books 5 and 6! Here’s to hoping things look up for poor Madeleine and Fantine…. I can’t believe Javert almost mistook Madeleine for Jean Valjean!

#les mis letters

“There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us.»

… is anyone else imagining that ridiculous picture of Putin on a horse… but he is holding a nintendo switch…

#someone pls photoshop that #or ms paint it #lm 1.7.4 #actually not sure I want to see that lol #les mis letters

…. so what has the brick made you look up recently?

#les mis letters #lm 1.7.3 #btw the answer is ambiguous but seems like Valjean must have had some serious heat in that fireplace to melt the candlesticks #if he’s felt so inclined

don’t worry valjean, I too feel the stern gaze of colm wilkinson in my head whenever I procrastinate

#les mis letters #lm 1.7.3

The brick is mostly talk about a man who is -obvously- Valjean but no no that’s a secret this is a STRANGER WE HAVE NO CLUE WHO HE IS OKAY

and

This is a metaphor. The metaphor is God. You’re probably too stupid to figure that out for yourself so there it is. It means God. You’re welcome.

#His conscience; that is to say God.#just read that line as I am very behind #like a week #is anyone tracking these things #led mis letters #les miserables

little-linda

Monsieur Madeleine has such immense levels of disney prince descriptions, it's actually strange that Hugo didn’t mention that little blue birds help him get dressed in the morning.

@caffeinatedjimmie made me post this

#les mis letters