From passions to guilty pleasures

28 | She, her | ENFJ(P)-T. Ravenclaw💙 | Catlover. Reader. Nerd. Carcoleptic. Know-it-all thirst for knowledge. Sorry for everything (especially my English) except for what I believe in. | "Labels are the opposite of understanding" (Nomi Marks, Sense8)

[rongzhi]

Things that are legal to do but unhinged

English added by me :)

[gothicenjoyer]

women with facial hair. you agree. reblog

[gothicenjoyer]

the person who reblogged this thirty times in a row gets it

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

[effexwh0re]

and i really dont gaf!!!!!!!

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I would like you to consider the political implications of mocking non-American film, dismissing the arts, and replacing thought provoking and stimulating media with media that’s just designed to entertain and sell. Just for a moment.

[jakeyp]

[call me by blondie playing] THE STEVE HARRINGTON BABYSITTING SERVICE

[the-cicer]

The funniest thing about writing my thesis is the number of pages and words. I'm about at 12k words e like 50 pages. Like, that's a medium to short fanfic I read when I've not much time.

[jiubilee]

The real tragedy about the barricade is that we don’t know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because we’ll never know. 

[enjolras-in-valinor]

Charles Jeanne (who I think is probably actual real life Enjolras) wrote an in-detail account of the ACTUAL barricades in a letter to his sister after the fact

you can read it, tenlittlebullets translated it into English :)

it’s really graphic, he leaves no gory details out, just FYI if you’re gonna read it, keep TW: VIOLENCE  in mind

[tenlittlebullets]

#how is he real-life enjolras if he survived (via metellus-cimber)

I’m so glad somebody asked this, because the answer is: when they finally ran out of ammunition, Charles Jeanne rounded up everyone who was still standing, went, “look, if we’re going to die, we might as well die fighting,” and led a suicidal ten-man charge against an entire flippin’ infantry column, armed with nothing but bayonets. The first few ranks of soldiers were so unprepared for such a spectacularly insane attack that they were too surprised to shoot. They crossed bayonets and tried to hold the insurgents off in hand-to-hand combat, but Jeanne’s swordsmanship was apparently aces, because he held off a bunch of them at once and covered his friends as they tried to breach the ranks. And once they were in, nobody could shoot them for fear of taking out their own guys.

So the last stand that the insurgents had intended as a noble suicide ended in them breaking through the ranks entirely and winding up in the next street over, outside the combat zone, going “well shit, what do we do now?” (I’m guessing the infantry column wasn’t very deep; central Paris at that point was a rabbit warren of narrow twisty streets, and assembling troops en masse for an organized attack was a logistical nightmare.) Unlike the National Guard, the army weren’t total chumps and got themselves turned around to give chase and start shooting once they weren’t at risk of friendly fire any longer… and that’s when all the civilians holed up in their houses went “no way, you’re not getting your hands on these crazy bastards” and started hurling furniture and crockery down on the soldiers’ heads. Jeanne was understandably distracted at the time, but afterwards somebody informed him that the barrage of unlikely projectiles included a piano. A piano. That is some straight-up Looney Tunes slapstick right there. No wonder Hugo went for the heroic death scene instead; if he’d stuck to real life, he probably would’ve gotten complaints that he’d wrecked his readers’ suspension of disbelief.

Anyway, someone opened an alley gate for them to shelter in and take stock of the casualties–most of them survived(!!!), but a few were pretty nastily wounded. Their host then had to lock Charles Jeanne in to keep him from charging right back out and taking on the whole goddamn army singlehanded. He probably would’ve broken down the door if the poor man hadn’t pointed out that going back out would give away his wounded comrades’ hiding place and the identities of the people sheltering them. They sat there listening to the gunfire gradually slow and go silent, and then in the middle of the night the ones who could still walk were allowed to slip away one by one at long intervals from each other. Charles Jeanne went straight home, slept like the dead for a few hours, was woken up at five in the morning with a warning that he’d been denounced and the building was surrounded, and then slipped out in disguise and managed to evade the police for four months before a former comrade ratted him out and he was arrested.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Charles Jeanne’s letter is an absolute treasure that deserves to be available to anyone in Les Mis fandom who wants to read it. Incidentally, “how Actual Historical Enjolras survived the barricades by being too good at his suicide mission” is also one of the stories I tell when anyone asks me what the hell is so interesting about researching people nobody’s ever heard of from an obscure chapter of French history. 

[tenlittlebullets]

Bringing this back for Barricade Day! To answer a few questions that keep coming up in the reblogs: here’s my translation of Jeanne’s letter, which was my main source. Jeanne stood trial, was imprisoned instead of executed (because can you imagine what a martyr he would’ve made), and died of tuberculosis just a few years later. Despite his improbable survival story, the RL June Rebellion was not an everybody-lives AU–like the revolt in Les Mis, it ended in a hard-fought retreat into one of the buildings on the street, followed by a massacre. The guys who led a suicide charge and accidentally won were, unfortunately, the exception.

[akindplace]

Titsay

[ryegarden]

gay rights haha rb patreon insta

[crykea]

(Pictured: a series of pride drawings in the bold colours of the original rainbow pride flag complete with the colours meanings in the drawings.

Pink: sexuality. Drawing depicts a feminine presenting person straddling the lap of a person wearing a binder and cupping their face.

Red: life. Two Black individuals laughing with their heads tilted up at the sky. The first has an afro and the second has long dreads and a he/him/his tattoo.

Orange: healing. Two people grinning and showing off bandages. One had jaw length hair and bandages on their arms. The other has long curly hair and bandages on their chest with drainage tubes.

Yellow: sunlight. Two masculine presenting people kissing. One has their arms thrown around the other’s neck and is loosely holding a bouquet of flowers.

Green: nature. A person in a hijab with cat eye eyeliner and light facial hair looking calmly upward. There are flowers drawn beside them.

Teal: magic. Drawing depicts a drag queen and a drag king standing next to each other. The queen has a buzz cut and it wearing a corset. The king has messy hair and is wearing a baggy tux.

Indigo: serenity. Three people drawn with their heads cocked to the side and zen looks on their face. They each have a tattoo on their cheek. The first has two man symbols the second two female symbols, and the third two Male symbols and a female symbol all linked.

Violet: spirit. Two couples drawn holding their significant others. The first couple is crouched on the ground holding a pride flag. The second is standing and one has their head on the other’s shoulder.)

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

Big fan of the way lesbians do gender, it must be said

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

goes without saying but this post could not be more trans inclusive if it tried

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

happy one (1) week of this post let's review the tags

- lesbians thanking me for appreciating them, ily mwah

- lesbians saying "you're welcome" ily mwah

- lesbian who asked if I wanted to kiss about it, girl u know I do. Mwah

- lesbian who said she also loves what I'm doing (non-binary-ness) 🥺😳 are we about to kiss rn

- friends saying hi in the tags, hello!!!!

- nonlesbian queers speaking about how the way lesbians do gender inspired them to play with gender and how much they love and respect lesbians 💕

- nonlesbian queers saying fuck yeah shout-out to lesbians 💕

- people tagging their lesbian friends 💗

- these 2 tags in particular which killed me

[gay-jesus-probably]

Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:

Everyone needs to wear sunscreen

SPF 50 is pretty much the best protection you can get, an SPF higher than that will have the same effect

Melanin does not protect you from skin cancer

Tanning is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation

Spending the majority of your life receiving regular large doses of UV radiation without any skin protection is a good way to get skin cancer

Don't use tanning beds, and don't go sun tanning

Wear your fucking sunscreen

[zooophagous]

If you're swimming in the ocean, also consider looking for coral-reef-safe sunscreen! Some sunscreens are toxic to coral and in popular swimming destinations it adds up

[dimension20official]

If you know someone who speaks dismissively of people working service or retail jobs, please remind them that they are bad.

[cundtcake]

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

[boomerang-always-comes-back]

This is too adorable

[dancinbutterfly]

eeee my other favorite goat video

[girleulogy]

If a hot bi girl wanted to fix me I would let her

[lumsel]

if a hot bi girl wanted to make me worse i would let her

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

[gayweeddaddy69]

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

[ueinra]

Les Misérables, One Mother Meets Another Mother (Illustrated by Filiberto Mateldi, 1940)

[kidrat]

literally who CARES if straight cis men are wearing skirts for ‘clout’!!! I want to live in a world where being gnc is desirable to them rather than one where they make bigoted jokes about it. it’s GOOD that people with the privilege to do so are normalising gender non conformity and i dont give a shit if they have deliberate political intentions or if they’re just having fun you guys are all so annoying

[kidrat]

we could be using the tiktok boys to kickstart a movement around men wearing skirts that would benefit gnc and trans people but you guys want ideological purity before u want results

[urbanism]

i agree wit this but at the same time a lot of these guys are performing to be gnc in order to attract women and that’s a problem,,,,

[kidrat]

is it?

do you think men have never tried to make themself attractive to women before? why is it that you suddenly have an issue with that when they’re not doing so in a socially approved way? Why do you view gender nonconformity as any more ‘performative’ than mainstream, conformative choices of presentation?

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

This just in, it’s morally wrong to want to look hot

[esteicy-blog]

So following the tradition how is our king Viktor going to cause the apocalypse this season?