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mainly les mis & other musical theatre // likes & follows from @brotherdusk

[dumbbich]

they’re so cute🥹

[dumbbich]

bro put those giant peepers away you’re gonna kill someone!!!

[lesmisveteran]

Earl Carpenter as Javert in London.

[inspector-arcadeii]

bring him home doodle

[louisa605]

[nortism]

Feeling very fond of Arai manga Bishop Myriel

[tthe-kick-insidee]

Monsieur… le Maire…

[piierogis]

@brickmas day 1: snow

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Jeremy Secomb's Javert in les miz concert. He's an anime girl you can't convince me otherwise.

[breadvidence]

How would each adaptation’s Javert fare in a classic Valvert post-Seine fic?

’25: He’s scandalized; are you allowed to write that sort of thing on an intertitle?

’35: With respect, he falls short of the aesthetic—but damned if he doesn’t hit his mark whenever the tropes call for some sweat and trembling. 

Kundan ’55: Despite the disadvantage that post-Seine is something of a misnomer, it can be presumed that being as hardworking and melodramatic as his Brick counterpart means he’ll meet all the basic requirements—and there might be musical numbers added, to boot.

’64: Forgive all the scenes that fade to black. Gotta mind the budget.

’72: The eyes are correct. All that staring—that’s correct, too. Now for the emotion to begin to bleed through. Any moment now. A dribble? A drop? One smidge, even?

’78: Please, our girl slays the part in all but one particular—middle aged virgin, you say?

’85: This guy, with his underlings and his spiritual role vis-a-vis his Valjean? He’s fit and ready for the criminal case subplot and the religious references—which makes it a shame he’s so peculiarly depilated. 

Musical: Javert himself is eclipsed by the true star: the wig. 

’98: He drowns. Poor thing, it’s not his fault; he couldn’t hardly get anyplace when Valjean strode off whistling like that.

2000: With that as his counterpart? Please, he ain’t just walking into that river, he’s running.

2007: Failing grade out of the gates. You might say he didn’t even make an attempt.

2012: Born for this? Hell, no! He goddamn helped give birth to it. He’s set to go—as soon as he puts on a back brace. BBC2018: He’s got A+ grades in homoerotic hyperfocus on Valjean, but this tenderness? Friendship? Intolerable. He will have to delegate to Rivette.

OT ’19: This is canon.

Bonus Brick:  Nevermind the homosexuality; how’s a man to suffer this sudden influx of backstory?

With love to the genre, from the classics to the currently updating to my own.

[fluentisonus]

sometimes I feel like I do kind of overuse "Men had only touched him to bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow." in my analysis of jean valjean but like those two lines really do say & imply so much about him

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#no but this is so important to jvj's character. but also socially and economically #the way he always has a female concierge and he basically mostly employs and interact with women #men are dangerous to him. this isn't just for romance but in a fraternity sense. the company of men is dangerous #and then he opens up to marius and immediately gets bruised again #cannot catch a break. #(mandatory disclaimer that the violence Hugo's talking about is very much physical and not just social or psychological etc)

oh really good tags !!

[alicedrawslesmis]

OP's tags: #god there is so much to be said abt jvj & gender. both other people and his own. I keep trying to write about it but it always gets so long#in some ways I think this is opposite but not in a necessarily contradictory way to what I said in my other post abt how he's been made#have a discomfort or anxiety around women because like I think it's essentially coming from the same place. where he personally finds women#more safe & comfortable to be around but then he has this real fear of & trauma around men & strong ideas of men as potentially a danger to#women & he to some extent resignedly includes himself in that & feels he should enforce a distance there despite preferring their company#which ironically I think that (the enforced distance + forcing himself to conceptualise himself as A Man despite imo not having a very#strong sense of gender for himself) actually does more harm to the women in his life in the end (his delegating all the stuff wrt women in#m sur m to allow them to be ''discrete'' -> fantine being fired; or else his assumptions abt cosette's marriage and the role he as a#''father'' is expected to play) than if he had just allowed himself to have the relationship he wants with them as people#literally though you're right. the company of men is traumatic & dangerous to him.#anyways like I say there are several essays at least to be written here#a lot to chew on.#there is such an interesting mix of like. rigid gender roles & societal violence & jvj's personal relationship to gender (or#lack thereof) & trauma & misogyny etc etc..... idk i'm not expressing myself well her but it's so much to pick apart#les mis#I also really like your point here about jvj conceptualising marius as a man here not just in terms of cosette but in a more general sense#that he is just often uncomfortable around most men in anything more than a sort of professional relationship. I hadn't really#thought about it like that. these tags in general are a really interesting specific angle i had not properly considered but#i find really compelling tbh

yeah he's living like a paradox of 'men are dangerous to me' and also 'looking at women may get you beaten up' that he says to montparnasse. Interacting with young women in any capacity other than 'father' or 'brother' is dangerous, being around other men is dangerous, he thinks of himself as a danger to women etc. The rigid gender works against him being around women when there are other men around to witness, yk. There's a longing for companionship but an immediate danger of it. Probably why the convent is such a safe place for him and Cosette since men are not allowed in. Except for Fauchelevent whos the one man he can be around normally

and it's interesting that being mayor or being in the military are another paradox, where it was more dangerous to refuse. And he feels very comfortable in the military for the rigid structure and the sort of anonymity it provides. In there, he's just a guard with the support of a superstructure that keeps him safe as long as he doesn't draw attention to himself. He can't be friends with men but he can be a brother in arms

There is SO much to be said about jvj and gender we can go on forever

[fluentisonus]

lots going on in my drafts apparently

[psalm22-6]

Les Misérables summarized, but I include all the typos that I have found in articles published between 1862 and 1978

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Part 2

[batrachois]

Bricktober day 1: LIGHT

(( @bricktober ))

[piierogis]

yet another of my favorite post seine tropes:

(sad alone valjean montage)

(confrontation starts playing)

[cattyisokay]

[lace-miserables]

i love valvert fanart so much because no matter how each artist interprets the details of each of their appearances, i have never ONCE mistaken them for different old men because there’s always just a Distinctly Unhinged Vibe and i’m like ah yes. it’s *them*