A moment of appreciation for the 1992 French Les Mis cartoon, which, among MANY other wild choices, apparently decides to have Valjean get a pardon (with multiple people, including Javert, testifying in court), then do a post-Seine style rescue scene:
(Cosette, Marius and their pet dog are also there)
Then, IMMEDIATELY has Javert take the name Fauchelevent and sail off to America.
Yeah, sure. Sure, why not. We love a creative adaptation.
"Ladder" - a Toulon era Valvert song. Out on Tumblr now and will be on all streaming platforms next Friday (pre-save here)!
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Music, lyrics, production, & cover art by me :) Lyrics & instrument info below the cut!
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Lyrics: (60 lines)
On the other side of where I came from,
On the right side of the bars.
Every chain is still a mirror,
If I dare to look too hard.
‘Cause the ladder from misfortune
Climbs more righteous every rung,
So every step is a sacred promise -
I won’t look down, I’ll just go on.
Everything that rises up from entropy
Takes refuge in the law,
So I memorized my code of honor
and wore it like a coat of arms.
And they told me I got lucky -
Just one slip, you’re too far gone.
‘Cause potential is absolute
Like black and white, or right and wrong.
They said beware, they said be grateful,
If you stray you’re lost forever,
Boy, just pray the past is all you’re hiding from.
But in my secret sparks of darkness,
There’s a flaw that keeps me lawless,
I can follow every rule except for one.
Every cloud that blurs your judgment
Pulls a star down from the sky,
So I shield from my periphery
Temptation and desire.
But if they push through the surface,
Past the point of no return,
You’re gonna brand my wooden heart
That cannot melt, but it can burn.
But I’ve been good and I’ve been careful,
Kept in line, straight as an arrow,
Should have known I couldn’t stay too green too long.
Cause in my secret sparks of darkness,
You’re the flaw that keeps me lawless
I can follow every rule except for one.
I was confidently merciless,
Steadfast in my obedience
A bloodhound with a compass
How I never strayed until…
You came like a magnet,
A landslide of a man
With strength to pull me from the ladder,
Make me yours to ruin.
You were the fire below the surface,
So unruly and unclean,
Now you’re the fate that breaks the floodgates,
Laughing wildly from my dreams.
A siren call, a force of nature,
Lone divergence in my tunnel vision.
Point me towards a dead end,
Off the tracks and off this ladder,
Where I'll fall or climb courageous,
Keep you buried,
Keep you nameless,
Like you’re not my Achilles heel or fatal flaw.
And when you go, I’ll say “good riddance”
To the shame that keeps me prisoner
And pray that when you go,
That you’ll stay gone…
Instruments: (mostly for LMSS mods, but everyone else feel free to bear witness to the chaos)
Uhhh hi LMSS mods. I am...so sorry about this lol. I have absolutely no idea how you're planning to score this and I fear this may test the limits of scoring complexity lmao. But I can assure you that all of the weirdness I'm about to describe was done out of nitpicky music production perfectionism and not an attempt at point-maxxing. If you have any questions or if there is any math I can do to make your job easier, PLEASE lmk because this is uhhhhhh...
Okay here goes:
Total time: 4 minutes, 34 seconds
So technically there are 17 tracks playing in the song. (1 drum track, 2 bass tracks, 4 guitar tracks, 2 vocal tracks, and 8 synthesizers).
All 4 guitar tracks are playing the same part, but they have different amounts of distortion and 2 of them are panned all the way to the right and the other 2 are panned all the way to the left.
The main vocal track is active throughout the whole song, but it's doubled in the choruses and bridge to add texture.
And then *sigh* there are the synthesizers. Technically there are 8 of them, but they're playing 3 different parts. Basically I had to layer multiple synthesizers playing the same part to get the sound that I wanted. So there's one group of 3 playing the buzzy synth part, another group of 3 that's meant to sound like a lead guitar, and then a group of 2 arpeggiators playing the high sparkly part.
The 2 bass tracks are playing 2 different things and the drums are just the drums.
So yeah. Uh. I'm so sorry. Please do whatever you think is fair and if there's any way I can make it easier, feel free to DM :)
Why in the actual goddamn fuck is lmss allowing a pedophilic “ship” (brujon/azelma) to qualify for competition? Like, that actively gives people who create grooming and abuse material depicting azelma (a TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL CHARACTER) with a 30 YEAR OLD MALE CHARACTER a platform to spread it. Regardless of your opinion on shipping and censorship, this is not something the lmss mods should allow. This is wayyyy different from content on ao3 or just general posts on tumblr regarding this material; due to the way lmss works, participants who don’t have the tag for this material blocked/are unaware of its inclusion are going to be exposed to it against their will and people who do have the tag blocked won’t be able to participate against it properly because they won’t be able to see match info.
This decision has made participating in the event extremely off-putting for myself and others around me in the fandom who were previously really excited to take part for our ships (personally, I was excited for Mabeuf/Georges and Convent Husbands since they both qualified this year). I implore anyone who reads this not to participate if Brujon/Azelma is not disqualified.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Conventionnel G./Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel
Characters: Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, Conventionnel G. (Les Misérables), Favourite (Les Misérables), Fantine (Les Misérables), And the gang
Additional Tags: Theologian AU, Modern Era, Pre-Slash, Rivals to Lovers, of sorts, Crack Treated Seriously, Somewhat
Summary:
“Without liberation, there’s no reconciliation but conciliation. So newsflash, Bienvenu. There has been turmoil inside of the church for quite a while. You just haven’t noticed it because the people suffering from said turmoil have been quiet and polite, patiently waiting to be noticed.”
“You’re having your ass handed to you”, Favourite said helpfully.
Or: Myriel, a priest and a professor of pastoral theology, writes a Facebook post. Another professor revels in dragging him publicly.
@lesmisshippingshowdown a steal for myriel/conventionist g! ❤️
