#1.2.3

[thelunarchronicles-daily]

“What’s happening?” Iko asked behind her.

[bossuet-lesgle]

‘Jean Valjean, discharged convict, native of’—that is nothing to you—‘has been nineteen years in the galleys:...'

I still love the energy of the narrator deciding we just straight up don't need to know certain info. Like, is it a town that doesn't exist anymore? Is it somewhere we would recognize but not important to the story? Is it a symbol that where valjean comes from no longer has any bearing on his future?

[jelepermets]

“Everytime [the Bishop] said this word ‘monsieur,’ with his gently solemn and heartily hospitable voice, the man’s face lit up. Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea.”

Today’s chapter just broke my heart. Valjean’s disbelief that anyone should treat him with kindness and dignity is almost too much to bear - even if he later robs them, doesn’t truly yet believe such kindness is anything but foolishness.

Just, that he’s completely given up hope to the point he immediately tells them everything about his past, then insists on repeating it as if he doesn’t quite believe they heard him. His ramblings about his life, the way he finally seems to be able to talk and unburden himself of all the horrors that have happened to him.

“Oh, the red tunic, the ball and chain, the plank to sleep on, the heat, the cold, the work gang, back to the prison ship every night, the lash, the double chain for nothing, solitary confinement for one word - even when sick in bed, the chain. The dogs, a dog is happier! Nineteen years! And I am forty-six, and now a yellow passport, just that!”

It just makes you want to cry.

[exandriacityshowdown]

Round 1 Stage 2 Poll 3

Kraghammer vs. Jigow

Kraghammer, Tal'Dorei

Jigow, Wildemount

Voting ended onAug 25, 2023

Kraghammer, Tal'Dorei: Kraghammer is a dwarven city in the Republic of Tal'Dorei. It was a short stop on Vox Machina's journey to the Underdark, but it is where the first streams of Campaign 1 began.

image by andy law from tal'dorei campaign setting reborn

Jigow, Wildemount: Jigow is a Kryn Dynasty city in northern Xhorhas. It has only been mentioned in passing onstream, but it is a key location in Call of the Netherdeep.

image is official art by max dunbar from call of the netherdeep

[x1-saka]

[garbagecann24601]

The Heroism of Passive Obedience

Valjean enters and tells the Bishop exactly who he is and that he has come from the prison. The Bishop invites him to eat with them and sleep there. Valjean believes that it’s an inn and tries to offer him money, but the Bishop refuses, telling him that he is welcome there. He calls him monsieur and brother.

“Every time he said that word monsieur in his gently grave yet so very companionable voice, the man’s face lit up. Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man shipwrecked on the Medusa. Ignominy is thirsty for respect.”

[jaemintx]

fav underrated boy group songs of 2k17.

(aka groups you need to stan going into the new year.)

part one // part two

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