#*died

[raileurta]

It's so funny to watch people go about their tasks normally not knowing the complete shit storm that Etho & Grian are creating.

[dailyjaycetalis]

[fazmid]

sure your dead blorbo may be widely beloved and mourned but do they have an actual public shrine that's been up and maintained for 15 years

[annachum]

Thinking how Monsieur and Madame Thenardier hate themselves so much, that they abuse and neglect their own children especially after the Thenardiers got bankrupt, because their own kids look like a mix of both Monsieur and Madame Thenardier in spades

And that contributes to Eponine's self loathing arc cuz she has a striking resemblance to her biological mother, whom she despised. Sometimes Eponine can't bear to look at her reflection because her self hatred made her believe she was ' ugly '

It wasn't until the Thenardier sibs began to receive kindness from outside the Thenardier circles did they realize that they aren't in fact ugly, and Eponine realizes that she is beautiful in her own way.

Meanwhile Cosette, who believed that her mother was an angel from Heaven for most of her life, and after an intensive healing period, she came to believe herself as ' pretty ' because of how her mother's goodness lived through. Only to later on realize that her mother is actually a flawed, messy but ultimately good person. That is going to be a shock for Cosette at first since she placed her mother at such a high pedestal, but she came to understand and accept her mother even more

Thinking how Eponine thought herself as a ' devil ' due to self hatred. But the truth is she is a deeply flawed but fundamentally good soul who needs healing.

Thinking how, since adoption, nearly everyone around Cosette coddled and overprotected her and viewed her as a pure, innocent angel. But Cosette is also wild and brave at heart. And as much as she is grateful and appreciative of the nuns, Valjean and Marius, I believe a part of her also wants to go about and explore more after the June Rebellion, just as a reconciliation for her soul. There is a foundation of wildness and bravery in her.

Thinking how Eponine literally can't forgive herself for bullying Cosette in the past for a time, only for Cosette to already forgiven Eponine and Azelma and grieved for their misfortunes. I bet Cosette also mourned for Eponine's death, not just out of trauma survivor solidarity, but of the life Eponine could have had if she survived.

Thinking how Eponine built walls as a survival mechanism, only to realize that there is power in softness too

Thinking how Cosette clung onto pacifism and embracing ' ladylike virtues ' as a coping and surviving mechanism, only for her to become much braver as the June Rebellion goes on - not in a warrior's way, but in a more pacifistic activist way, as she came to do charity work and then helps nurse Marius back to health

I think there is also an element of frustration here in Cosette that how everyone else seem to shield her from darker aspects of things in fear of breaking her heart even more. While they do mean well, Cosette would have understood more if the truths are more revealed to her. Valjean and Marius are so scared to push Cosette away if the darker truths are revealed....but Cosette still loves and cares for them anyway and forgives them for such trespasses. She just wished she was told of these things sooner.

These 2 really need healing, and deserve better

[creekfiend]

Learning about the death of the sun fucked me up as a kid and the other kids were really mean about it so like solidarity on having been trapped in that existential crisis since

🤝

I think in retrospect it is quite funny because of course all of the things you can say to comfort a very sensitive child who is having an existential crisis about the sun exploding are OTHER EQUALLY UPSETTING THINGS

Adult: oh honey no don't worry, it's so far in the future humans will be long gone by then

Me, feeling my existential horror expanding: HUMANS WILL BE LONG GONE?!

[eclipse-song]

One does wonder what toei will do with this particular family dynamic, given that both Shoma's parents are dead and his siblings seem to just plain hate him. Not exactly fertile ground for forgiveness, especially with how Shoma's been portrayed as pretty merciless toward man-eating Granutes.

Not that I *want* to see him kill them all, but I think them ending up "one big happy family" would be out of tone with the show. I'm seeing more of a theme of "if your family sucks, make your own family".

see I'm not seeing them going the route of reviving them or doing a one big happy family thing, but one of my least favourite tropes I've seen along with that is "oh nooo I'm maybe wrong for being so mad and not seeing the nuances of this thing my dad did because it was secretly something to benefit my own wellbeing so maybe I was too harsh on him".

I get squicked out by things too where this is sort of like Stacy's mom in Zenkaiger except where they left most of the details in Zenkai out of it because kids didn't need to know all that, the implications of Shoma's conception are a little 😬 if we're going with "his mom was kidnapped and held captive against her will and raised her son in fear of being killed and taken away at any moment"

[dilf-phoenix-rights]

Some of you have never made a video edit in your life and it shows.