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[ehghtyseven]

"he's just a great role model for everyone, not even as a hockey player, but also as a human being..."

[secretmellowblog]

Another issue I have with Les Mis adaptations is how the horror of prostitution is always made the Central Focus of Fantine’s story, instead of the horror of poverty. Idk when you’re used to the musical it’s almost a bit surprising when you read the brick and find out that most of Fantine’s chapters are about ......the mundane horror of living paycheck to paycheck, and giving up everything that makes you happy in order to make ends meet.

Even when book!Fantine does become a prostitute, the horror of it is more like “because of her job the police are Not on her side, she is stigmatized/considered inherently illegal, and so she has no legal way to defend herself when she’s attacked.”

Most of Fantine’s chapters center on her slowly descending deeper into poverty over the course of years, learning to live on less and less and less, and gradually being forced to give up control over every little thing that gives her any joy. She’s initially living an austere but somewhat stable life— and then she unexpectedly loses her job at Valjean’s factory. She’s forced to return all her rented furniture piece by piece because she can’t afford it, she can’t keep a rosebush in her window because she doesn’t have the time to water it; in order to pay rent she has to sew all day and into the night, using the candlelight from a neighbor’s garret. The only thing that brings her joy is brushing her hair; and then she's forced to sell her hair, and then forced to sell her teeth.....

The tragedy of Fantine's plotline in the book isn't that she became a sex worker, it's that poverty ripped away her autonomy in the same way it ripped away Valjean's. And I think that tragedy really deserves more focus in adaptations, because it's such an important part of the book.

[skautism]

old 3ds pictures of my pink bear domo

[georgie-barker]

Oh SI-5?? Who Are All Fine?????

Oh yeah silly me you’re right! They’re all fine and everything is great and no one is dead or anything! In fact, I can see Maxwell and Jacobi doing something obnoxious to Kepler’s uniform right now! Classic SI-5....

[dreamadove]

can somsone with The Sims 2 send me a picture of it so I can get it for Origin??? Please! Just a pic of the box

[j3llynaut]

starting to regret rewatching ds9 with kiika bc we only have one season left and that means it’s almost over AGAIN and i’ll be experiencing the ds9 blues AGAIN  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

[pastelpunkpizzapower]

Lord, I’m gonna miss this show.

Yeah hate to break it to you all but this is the final episode of Dimension W.

[kslayz]

can’t decide which hat i want?!?!/