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oh the nostalgia of being 16 in the les mis fandom and finding so much comfort in les amis, dreaming of the day you too were in your 20s and had 9 extremely close friends, who were basically your family, and who you lived within walking distance of. You would all have the energy to meet up daily, to do fun things, to do serious things, to just live together, to be yourselves together.

What a wonderful thought that was.

honey-dont

ppl: boots are destroying theatre!!

the boot:

emomilestuck

happy august first who here is yearning for the summer of 2016 when life was simpler and we weren’t adults and hadn’t transed our genders yet

xoxo - emomilestuck

#How'd you know I transed my gender #Hope this is okay to reblog

jesterlesbian

We just are. We just be. No before, no beyond.

A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond.

wellmanneredthief

Y'all ever just remember Jeremy Jordan as Clyde Barrow and shriek a little bit inside?

I do

fraulinegrossebustenhalter

good morning to escaped convicts, single mothers, stingy pub owners, unhappy wives, people who believe in love at first sight, children who know too much, chronic yearners, and self-proclaimed martyrs

ilustrariane

“We’ll Share Paradise”

mixed media illustration, pencil on paper + digital watercolors and white digital pencil for the highlights

i missed drawing alw Erik

also, i got a new phone, so the drawings pictures must be more high resolution

klausscrimshaw

Eric meets Erik

The Little Mermaid / phantom of the opera Saga continues

First nonsense here

thesunsethour

the brick is a gift that keeps on giving

#Noodle???? A noodle???

texasdeath

Les Amis as articles about millennials

juanjoltaire

Les Miserables, the Telltale Series.

You play as Valjean, Fantine, and Marius. What happens if you choose to romance Eponine? Does the game end if you make Valjean go back to bed?

(Is that last screen a drunk joke or a death joke?)

pencilscratchins

im currently living in 2013, when the joke was they were all named jean and it was the last time i had fun

#Yes eponine and Marius are gay 🙂#Les mis

ohgeezitselle-deactivated202203

secretmellowblog

Part of the reason I have a complicated emotional relationship with Javert is because— Javert is BAD. He is a BAD person

But adaptations often don’t understand why he’s bad, and make him bad for the wrong reasons.

In the book, Javert is bad because he’s a cop. He is the Best Cop It is Possible to Be, he’s honest and completely obedient to the law, and he’s TERRIBLE, because you can’t be “good” when you’re enforcing a system that is inherently cruel.

But like... in Les Mis 1998 Javert is portrayed as being an unusually evil person who just has a weird obsession with Valjean, unlike other cops, who are Good. Les Mis 1998 even adds a Good Cop side character who lets Valjean go free in Montreuil-sur-Mer, while joking with Valjean about how Javert is unusually evil and none of the other cops like him.

???????

And as I’ve ranted about a lot, BBC Les Mis Javert’s desire to enforce the law is portrayed as a good honorable quality, and there’s an entire precinct of “good cop” side characters who help him.....while BBC Javert’s actual “moral failing” is what Andrew Davies calls his “twisted love” for Valjean.

and I’m just like...eh? Javert is bad, yes!! But that’s noT WHY he’s bad. He’s not bad because he’s gay, he’s bad because he’s a cop. He’s not bad because he’s an usually evil cop, he’s actually an unusually “good” cop— and being a “good cop” is why he’s bad!

Anyway....my problem with these adaptations isn’t that they make Javert a bad person, it’s that they completely misunderstand why he’s a bad person. They turn a critique of the police as a whole into “one guy was weirdly mean, and then he died and everything was fine”

pilferingapples

One of the things that makes the 98 Javert situation really stand out to me is that ...yeah, sure, other cops don't like Javert in book!canon *because he's too good a cop*, he's not corrupt, he doesn't take bribes or work closely with criminals and he is not comfortable or chill with other cops who do that! They specifically distrust him and shut him out of some things because he's Too Honest! Flipping it around so that he's the exceptional Bad Guy is such a wild misreading but it keeps happening! whyyyy

a-pinch-of-nutmeg-deactivated20

Because society is afraid to say that most cops around the world enforce a system that was built to keep poor people oppressed and the rich and affluent in power. Victor Hugo literally said this about Les Mis, quote for quote:

"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless"

Society continues to fear admitting to that, so of course Javert is painted as a bad apple.

#bro i thought it was obvious that he was wrong because he upheld the law in such a cruel way #les mis #javert

ti2guhr

Hamilton is 1000x better if you just listen to it TBH

ti2guhr

HONESTLY I think having this be a musical was a HUGE mistake and while I can appreciate the roads paved and conversations that have been had because of it, if there's going to be singing the entire time there's going to be a big disconnect with the play aspect of it bc songs are used as a way to step outside of the world you created on the stage for a few minutes, often to provide context or additional information or character perspective. Hamilton had no grounding in any play and it feels like the music and the visuals are constantly fighting.

I wouldn't be surprised if the visuals felt necessary because the content of the rest is really basic, the musical themes and motifs and lyrics throughout the entire story reflect/parallel each other exactly but there isn't enough variety to make it particularly interesting and the reusing of content is excessive imo. The symbolism isn't subtle either. But all this makes it more comforting to listen to in addition to it being comforting to listen to while it feels like we're on verge of a revolution HA

I think there's also a lot to say abt bringing black music to Broadway, something targeted to the white upper middle class and what its popularity has meant for Broadway, the arts, and society as a whole, but I'm sure there have been plenty of conversations about it already

ti2guhr

You could listen to an instrumental version of Hamilton and know exactly who's in that scene and what's happening because of how heavy-handed the musical themes are, and I'm not sure if it's lin plopping motifs where he feels like or if it just feels heavy-handed because of the way songs are structured

#no i agree the blocking and choreography doesnt mesh well with the songs #Hamilton