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You THROW AWAY One Ring? You throw away One Ring like the trash? oh! oh! Jail for hobbits! Jail for hobbits for one thousand ye—

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happy ides of march from combeferre 🔪

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i think that it is important to step back and think about context, both narrative and historical, when we talk about the cultural misogyny reflected in victor hugo's writing — "therein lies the whole woman’s future" and "a little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children" — we are talking about a society where the vast majority of women lack agency and security unless they are married, and the scene in question is cosette, a neglected little girl dressed in rags whose abusive foster siblings have everything they could want for and are taking it for granted — "they had thrown their doll on the ground" — making a toy out of a knife, and fantine, her mother, has just died after being separated from her daughter for more than half of a decade — fantine whose lover abandoned her and the child he had with her, and who never had the opportunity to gain economic and social legitimacy and respect (for herself and her daughter) through marriage because she was jilted by a man who had the privilege to abandon his mistress without any compassion as to what that would mean for her and her chances of survival both literally and socially. this opportunity for stability, which again was one of women's only opportunities for stability, was stolen from fantine, and that theft completely ruined her life despite her best efforts to make the most of the situation and provide for her daughter — her daughter who already has the cards stacked against her as an illegitimate child, and who without intervention in all likelihood is either going to die young of neglect and abuse or grow up without any pathway to safety and security — "the whole woman's future" — because of her station.

the implication and assumption that women are most fulfilled through marriage and motherhood is absolutely misogynistic in nature. but hugo is making a statement here (one he will continue to make throughout the rest of the novel, most explicitly with combeferre's oration at the barricade) based on [his] contemporary society and culture, and when we focus discussion and thought on that statement's misogyny alone, viewed through our own modern lens as people living in the 21st century, we risk missing the impact and relevance of this cultural commentary at the time it was written in a way that easily tips into dismissing a key theme of the novel.

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Map by 宋大能

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I have literally nothing to back me up here except Vibes, but in my heart I know whenever very, very, very, very baby Maglor found out Maedhros wasn't Literally Omnipotent he just had to start bawling as he had to reorient his entire world around this very upsetting discovery. Maedhros can't reach a note that isn't actually possible for anything but seagulls to reach? Cause for mourning. Maedhros can't make sense of the two word nonsense sentence Maglor is saying? A tragedy of epic proportions. Maedhros can't physically fetch stars for him? However shall he survive this grief!

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Flight of the Noldor beloved chapter actually...

we [...] shall be [...] masters of the bliss and beauty of Arda.

[ye] shall go weary of the world as with a great burden

how is an elf weary of the world and still an elf hmm

we [...] shall be [...] lords of the unsullied Light [...] No other race shall oust us!

[ye] shall wane, and become as shadows of regret before the younger race

ngl curufinwë honey you had it coming with this one

[...] this doom I add: [our] deeds shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

[...] the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters

this last one is just plain beautiful because subject and substance are indistinguishable, like yes feanor im eating the book as we speak, actually I'm singing it in sexy medieval Lesson-tones and accidentally biting down on the corpses of your sons, it's a crunchy singing experience

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Now spread each wing, for the eastern sky With sunlight soon shall glow. The morning star shall light us home. — Louisa May Alcott, "Fairy Song"

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okay so like i havent been here v much but i have have have have have to yell abt this: man of the house (part one) is soooooooo earendil coated

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les mis fandom culture is every august 31st IF HEAVEN AND HELL DECIDE THAT THEY BOTH ARE SATISFIED ILLUMINATE THE NO'S ON THEIR VACANCY SIGNS IF THERE'S NO ONE BESIDE YOU WHEN YOUR SOUL EMBARKS I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK IN REVOLUTIONARY SCHOOL AS VICIOUS AS ROMAN RULE I GOT MY FEELINGS BRUISED BY THE LEADER IN RED AND I PROPPED THE BAR AS HE TOLD ME, "R, YOU'RE A GOOD FOR NOTHING FOOL," AND I HEARD EVERY WORD THAT HE SAID

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I don't think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything

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ok so we know about the need to infodump, but what about the opposite? The need to absorb more information about your special interest like a sponge, but you literally can’t find any new material because you’ve already consumed every fact about it

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bitches be like "these are my comfort characters!" and it's a group of murderers

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When I face a situation I don’t know how to solve, I think about what Fëanor would do were he in my place. Then I proceed to do the exact opposite.