Meet Me At The Barricades

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[thundersnowstorm]

my favorite period drama costuming anachronisms:

men are just walking around with their doublets half open at like, formal court events. who let these harlots in.

Shoes Are For Pussies, Real Men Wear Boots

that’s not how corsets work

oh ok so we’re just gonna ignore the existence of shifts when it’s not convenient for us. i see how it is.

her dress says period, but her hair says mid 2000s prom

there seems to be a pants shortage in the kingdom, for the only ones left are skintight leather pants!

holy orientalism batman

catholics wearing subdued colors and limited decoration, like goddamn protestants

we get it, you don’t want the romantic leads to look silly in period accurate outfits. but if you don’t know how to make a codpiece look sexy, that’s on you.

[theriza]

Making my first tumblr post in literal years because I finally watched all of BBC’s Les Mis and I can’t get over this one thing. Namely, it’s not actually that bad? Like, it absolutely has stuff I didn’t like (doing les amis dirty as hell being top of that list for me), but it also did a number of things really well. We got to see characters and moments we rarely see, we got some really talented actors. Heck, I even ended up loving their version of Enjolras by the end, and Courf and Grantaire were genuinely wonderful. In fact, for an official adaptation I feel they gave us a fair rep of E and R’s dynamic, with the changes made to Grantaire’s action functioning to visually show us what we are told without seeing in the book. Like, them being in the middle of a fucking riot and R focusing on nothing except E’s injured hand, not to mention the subtle parallels and comparisons to Marius and Cosette’s story.  Is it the best? Not even close. But it’s not bad. Which is why it is endlessly funny to me because the fandom would probably have welcomed this show with at least some enthusiasm had it not been for the director being such a massive ass from day one that he’d pissed of anyone who might be excited about his show before they even wrapped production. Like, you single-handedly assured the horrible reception of the work of thousands of people by sheer force of nasty personality. That is genuinely impressive.

[unpretty]

did cinderella ever talk to her man about his faceblindness

[bisexuhowl]

#'i met the perfect woman but it was a special occasion'#'so now wherever she is her makeup and hair are probably different'#'this is my nightmare'

[unpretty]

rip prince charming, who had to let the whole kingdom make jokes about his foot fetish for the rest of his life because every blonde with an updo looks basically the same as far as he can tell

[unpretty]

they call him prince charming because he’s always really polite to strangers to cover for the fact that he doesn’t know if he’s supposed to recognize them from somewhere and when you’re a prince that shit starts wars

[unpretty]

best part of this post is all the people with prosopagnosia confirming that they literally never questioned why the prince was incapable of hiring a sketch artist even in versions without masks/glamours

(ps here’s this)

[thefrozennhorizon-deactivated20]

Me when I see ankles on tumblr after December 17th

[geekinglikeaboss]

this is shitty but by god we are staying true to form

[penny-anna]

Legolas & Gimli: *bickering like they do every day*

Pippin, too loudly: ugh those two should just KISS already

Legolas: -_-

Gimli: -_-

The entire rest of the fellowship: o_o

Pippin: what, I’m just saying what we’re all thinking

Merry, also too loud: I wasn’t thinking it!!!

Sam, quietly: I was.

[inactiveaccount12345678]

My roomba is scared of thunderstorms

I was sitting at my desk just a few minutes ago, drawing, and a really loud crack of thunder went off–no power surges or anything, just thunder–and my roomba fled from its dock and started spinning in circles

I currently now have an active roomba sitting quietly on my lap

[systlin]

Humans will pack bond with anything. 

[apostatively]

I had a teenage girl come into my tea shop with her mother the other night. She purposely grabbed a teamaker in the most crunched-up looking box on the shelf (got banged around in shipment) and carried it protectively over to the counter. “If something’s in a damaged box I have to get it because I’m afraid no one else will love it,” she laughed nervously.

Not only will humans pack bond with anything, the empathy level of adolescent girls in particular likely has puppy-saving, world hunger-solving, war-ending powers.

[a-dull-glow]

I once saw a really bumpy lime at the grocery store, just a real ugly fruit. Later that night my boyfriend & I were driving home from rehearsal at like 11:30pm & passed the grocery store & I stared crying & he said “is it that lime? Do you want to go back and get it?” And I nodded and pulled the car around and bought the lime.

[your-friendly-neighbohood-black]

I saw this post once but IT GOT EVEN BETTER

[deanplease]

I honestly thought it was just me.

[zjofierose]

i do this sort of thing All. The Fucking. Time. it is SO annoying.

[norwegianalien]

If Hugh Jackman can deadlift 405 pounds, he shouldn’t have settled merely for Marius. He could’ve picked up Enjolras as well. You know what, add Eponine. Street gamines can’t possibly weigh that much. Man let’s just add the whole of Les Amis (including Gavroche). It’s Hugh Jackman. He can take it. 

[tinystarlitdwarf]

#valjean just picks up the whole barricade and leaves

[boo-cool-robot]

“yes my child I forgot what your booby of a young man looks like so please pick one from the pile”

*tries to subtly tilt the more sensible looking ones towards cosette* 

[thevalvertwhisperer]

#but imagine him trying really hard to get her to choose combeferre

“Look, Cosette, this one is practicing medicine! And he seems to have an extensive reserve of facts on things from moths to space!”

“Papa, I think that is Marius beneath him.”

“No it isn’t. But look at this Combeferre, his glasses truly frame his face.”

“Papa-”

“Cosette. P L E A S E.”

[gay-jesus-probably]

The best part about this is that Valjean has no idea who his daughters dating, but damn it he knows it’s one of them, so he just takes everyone. The young doctor? Coming. The drunk one? Hopefully not, but bring him anyways. The small child? Might be the brother of whoever Cosette’s with, better bring him just in case. This young woman? Well, Cosette’s already proven she doesn’t tell Valjean everything, so she’s coming too.

And then the final confrontation between him and Javert. Valjean comes staggering out of the sewers holding a pile of people.

“IT’S YOU JAVERT, I KNEW YOU WOULDN’T WAIT TOO LONG!”

“Valjean, what the fuck-”

“THE FAITHFUL SERVANT AT HIS POST ONCE MORE!”

“How are you balancing all of them.”

“THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS GIRL AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS CHILD HAVE DONE NO WRONG, AND THE NEED A DOCTORS CARE!”

“I’m not dealing with this, just go.”

“COME, TIME IS RUNNING SHORT!”

“I said you can leave!”

“LOOK DOWN, JAVERT, THEY’RE ALL STANDING IN THEIR GRAVES! MAKE WAY, JAVERT, THERE’S ABOUT A DOZEN LIVES TO SAVE!”

“TAKE THEM VALJEAN.”

[amarshmallownamedo]

This is the best les mis post I’ve ever seen

[pleasantserenitydeac]

Amara: Are you guys flirting?

Hermann: We are not flirting. We are arguing.

Newt: We’re flirting.

[itsforyouitsgod]

girls don’t want boys girls want a full proshot non-concert version of les mis

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

THIS EXISTS.

I don’t know if people know this, maybe it’s common knowledge for Brits but it came as a wonderful surprise to me when I was in the UK; the V&A Museum in London have a National Video Archive of Performance that has professional recordings of West End shows from like, the past 20 years or so?? That you can access??? For free?????? IT’S WONDERFUL

So you can watch a professionally shot stage performance of the 2004 cast in Les Misérables, or Hayley Atwell in The Pride, or DanRad in Equus, or Matilda the Musical, or like, a lot of things

I went along in 2013 to watch Ben Whishaw’s 2004 Hamlet and I wish I’d had the chance to visit more because it’s SUCH A GOOD RESOURCE. You have to email and make bookings to view recordings, and the first time you visit you’ll be made a member and get a card and everything, but AFTER THAT they give you a disk and sit you in a room and you can watch your professionally shot West End show in peace. IT’S REALLY GREAT, YOU CAN EVEN TAKE A FRIEND.

The archive listings and how to book a screening are here. If you live in the UK and don’t have the cash to see v expensive West End shows, this is a really good alternative to bootlegs!! 

[foxhounders-deactivated20160813]

my friend left her window open in her bedroom and came back to find this

look at his self-satisfied little face, the cheeky shit

motherfucking australia

[kyla-hunt-blog]

if there was a post to describe australia, this is it

[soloontherocks-moving-refol-blog]

wait. 

you mean to tell me this isn’t even a pet bird?

that in australia, you have wild birds that just fly from house to house with the express purpose of fucking shit up?

fucking HELL australia, what is wrong with you?

[aryeastark]

wake up australia 

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That’s what birds do

They fly around and fuck shit up

Do you have some kind of mysterious nice birds in your weird foreign country

Do birds in America and England fly into your house and make the bed and tidy up the living room a little bit

[crispybiscuitfinger]

It’s cold here, so they just bounce off the windows and lie there and twitch spasmodically while you look for the shovel.

[happyvegetable]

Basically hurling themselves at windows is the worst thing birds do

[cryforce]

yeah man a kookaburra literally flew into a classroom at my high school and just sat his smug ass down on top of the desk for a good 20 minutes

[millshouse-deactivated20140425]

why has nobody mentioned the fact that in australia there are 3-4 months a year where everybody just accepts that they’re going to get attacked by magpies. It is literally called “swooping season” and these birds will fly down to peck your fucking face, and people get their eyes ripped out and shit, it’s fucking brutal.

[sociopathicitaliangrandmas-deac]

My teacher had to go to hospital and have surgery because of swooping season. It was in the parking lot of school and all the kids would do a mad dash towards the car as the magpies tried to kill us.

[casey-jane-lewis]

no but when you’re 12 years old and riding your bike like mad on the way home from school with an icecream bucket on your head with like branches and shit sticking out if it to scare them off and none of this is considered strange

[theacademyish-deactivated201708]

what the actual fuck australia 

[priscellie]

I am pretty sure all of these Australia stories are a massive, globally-spanning trolling effort, and only the people who have visited the country are allowed to be in on the joke.

[seananmcguire]

Nope.

Went there.

Parrots tried to take our car.

Came home IN A FUCKING HURRY.

[elidyce]

Interesting thing about magpies - they’re not great at identifying individual humans visually, but if you make yourself identifiable in some way they’re usually open to reason. We used to have some very aggressive swoopers in our back yard - as soon as they realised that the humans *inside* the fence never bothered them and were the source of the delicious compost heap, they turned into flying black and white guard dogs who would viciously assault any passing stranger but never bothered anyone inside the yard. Several times they swooped at us when we approached from outside, then when we walked into the yard they would pull up and act incredibly apologetic like sorry ma’am I had no idea it was you I would never please don’t stop stocking the food pile.

There was another little group of magpies in the park who would attack any solo pedestrian but never bothered anyone walking a dog or pushing a pram, because apparently those were identifiable traits indicating a non-threatening human. In the spirit of inquiry, I started going out of my way to be polite to the magpies - carefully walking a wide arc around them when they were on the ground, etc - and emitting an identifiable call of ‘hello birdie’ before swooping season started. 

I spent the next ten years crossing that park at least once a day and as long as I turned at the first flutter of wings and said ‘hello birdie’ to the magpie waiting to attack as soon as my back was turned, I was fine. Every time, the magpie would stare at me for a minute and then fly off to harass some other pedestrian because apparently the magpies and I, we were cool. 

Parrots are a lot less open to negotiation, and the little bastards travel in flocks. Beware the parrots. 

[angstriddentrashhuman]

Australia: the only country where it is necessary to sign a peace treaty with the birds in order to stay unmangled.

[zornsable]

They did lose the Emu War, after all.

[incorrectmightynein]

Caleb: I’m a piece of trash.

Molly: As someone who cares deeply about the environment, I am obligated to pick you up. Is 7:00 okay?

Caleb: You smooth fucker.

[traitspourtraits]

[newtbiszler]

all of this is super gay and lovely but also the fact that charlie day managed to get himself quoted yet again saying how much newt loves hermann into hermann’s own character bio is such a fucking allyship power move someone get this man a GLAAD award

[hgedits]

inspired by this devastating post 

[apitnobaka]

from this meme post (x) that just begged to be drawn

[swingsetindecember]

tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like

“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”

and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”

“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”

“How about kimoNO.”

“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”

“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”

“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”

“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

“he’s been separated from hermann”

“he’s not himself, there’s no one to keep him real”

“he misses the man that he’s in love with”

“people have been shipping it but i think they’re totally right”

“it completely informs the character”

“it’s the better way to take the character”

“i honestly was thinking about it that way when i was acting a few of those scenes”

“it’s so much more interesting”

“thank you to the fans for writing along with the writers”

charlie day says all of this totally unprompted and in less than a span of 59 seconds