#But think about Cosette.
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During making a gifset for today's chapter, I found this sentence.
Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated their expenditure, which was very modest.
Vol. 4, Book 3, Chpater 2.
The nuns taught her housekeeping which literally meaning chores and other houseworks. But thinking about her childhood, I think this class would be one of the most hard classes for her, bring back the bad memories of that horrible inn. What would you think about this?
#Les miserables#les mis#My Post#Cosette#The Lark#Convent Student#The Convent#Rue Plumet#Tw:PTSD#I bet this would be one of the most traumatic school events for her beside with physical and mental punishment.#It's just doing houseworks for normal students.#But think about Cosette.#She did these kinds of works in that hellish inn for 6 years!#Would this probabbly brought those harsh memory.#What do you think?#The Brick#Meta#Les Mis Letters
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I love you "boring" female characters. I love you ingenues. I love you female characters who aren't "modern" enough. I love you female characters who aren't "badass" enough. iI love you female characters who aren't "empowering" enough. I love you quiet female characters. I love you unappreciated female characters. I love you polite female characters. I love you female characters who "can't appeal to modern audiences." I love you frightened female characters. I love you female characters labeled as not complex just for being nice. I love you female characters who get criticism just for not being their tomboy or femme fatale counterpart. I love you silk hiding steel trope.
#literature#theatre#movies#cosette fauchelevent#anne elliot#fanny price#elinor dashwood#alicent hightower#sansa stark#meg march#beth march#if you guys can think of any more let me know#much ado about nothing hero#feminism#but if I see this get labeled as trad fem it's blocked on sight#jane seymour#jane bennet#juliet capulet#Snow White#Cinderella#aurora#princess aurora#lucie manette#elain archeron#emma carew#phoebe dysquith#christine daae#stella ransome#cordelia#desdemona
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Before writing Les Mis, Hugo’s beloved 19-year-old daughter Leopoldine tragically drowned. As a result Les Mis is full of drowning imagery— drowning as a a symbol of impossible grief and loss, drowning as a symbol of being left behind by a society that doesn’t care about protecting your life, drowning as a method of suicide.
The les mis letters chapter today is the first chapter where Hugo highlights the drowning imagery that becomes central to the rest of the novel. The horrible symbolic death Valjean suffers as a result of being entirely isolated and forgotten by a society that doesn’t value his life is also foreshadowing of Javert’s eventual death.
Throughout the novel, Eponine also frequently talks about her desire to drown herself in the Seine; Thenardier monologues about how “the river is the true grave” and when bodies fall in it “justice makes no inquiries;” later Valjean escapes prison by faking his death by drowning, and so on and so on. There’s this emphasis that drowning doesn’t just mean death, it means erasing yourself from existence. It means you’re forgotten.
One of the saddest references to the death of Leopoldine is the way Valjean and Javert learn about the other’s death (or “death.”)
Hugo learned about his daughter’s death not from a family member/friend, but by reading about it in a newspaper. He was on vacation away from his family at the time. He was reading the news in a cafe and happened to stumble on an article about Leopoldine’s horrible tragic drowning, which was how he first learned that she was dead.
When Javert learns about Valjean’s “death” in prison (when Valjean pretends to drown in order to escape), he learns about it by reading it in the newspaper. When Valjean learns about Javert’s death by drowning, he learns about it by reading it in the newspaper.
So…yeah :(. Les Mis is full of all these agonized metaphors around drowning (as a metaphor for death/grief/being entirely forgotten by the people around you) and part of that comes from Hugo’s own deep personal trauma around the death of death of his daughter.
#les mis#les mis letters#lm 1.2.8#Victor Hugo#death cw#: ((((((((((((((#but yeah#I think pilferingapples was the person who first made me aware of this and :;(((#Hugo’s grief over Leopoldine also obviously shows up in the way he writes Valjeans relationship with cosette#and it is very :(#…..#Les mis spoilers#spoilers#it feels very weird to tag this novel with spoilers#especially about stuff like ‘the symbolic meaning of drowning’#but i guess I do talk about plot details so?
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—To know that, despite it all, there will always be good men in this world, even if there are monsters.
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Another Les Mis x Dracula AU doodle to close out Halloween 🧛♂️. Check out the fic below if you want any last-minute Halloween spookiness!
#never not gonna be thinking about them#especially on Halloween night#les mis#les mis fanart#les mis fanfic#marius pontmercy#cosette#cosette fauchelevent#combeferre#jean prouvaire#grantaire#enjolras#syrup art tag
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the improvement on her dress is INSANE!!! THAT LACEEEE THAT FIT!! AND THE COLOR IM OBSESSED
#les mis#cosette fauchelevent#Beatrice Penny-Touré#costumes#love literally everything about it.. the belt being white too is just. Why didn’t u think o f this before!!!#wouldn’t complain if they made this the new fit for west end/tour cosettes#along with Marius’ pink bow#les miserables
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#these aren't all of them just a random collection but just thinking about how much him not talking is such a strong part of his character#which is. well i think some of it is just that he's naturally quiet but some of it is definitely something that's grown in him over time#like when we first see him in digne he talks a Lot more than when we see him again in montreuil. which is probably bc he then has something#to hide but the way that him having something to hide ends up bleeding this sort of silence over into the rest of his life. hh.#there's more of these particularly there's a lot where it goes like. someone says something to him. he does something in response. they say#another thing. he does something in response. they say something else. he does something in response#<- so it's like a dialogue except actually they're the only ones talking#there's like whole sections of text that are just like this. whole conversations he's in that only really have one vocal participant#anyways. uox faucibus haesit coded of him for real :(#thoughts#les mis#also thinking abt how i think this is a big part of why he comes across differently in the musical. which is not the fault of the musical#bc it's just not possible to do in that medium i think . but it does chance things impression wise#Also this paralleled with all the places cosette is described as quiet/not talking when he first goes to get her
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the amount of old men i draw are directly proportional to my stress levels so here’s a compilation of the most presentable old men i drew this year that i never posted, in no particular order
#jean valjean#javert#cosette fauchelevent#les mis#les miserables#doodle#pokemon#now i could speak a lot about what i think the pokemon of *every* character in les mis could be#but that day will not be today.#anyway most of these like the last post were also style experiments; the last one in particular was an attempt at making—#—an old style painting that really did not work. the first one was based off a really good artstyle from a music video#the rest are just silly stuff
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the fact that cosette and éponine met briefly as adults, with cosette not recognising éponine at all, makes me insane
#can’t think about those two without wanting to cry#THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDSSS#les mis#les misérables#éponine thénardier#éponine#cosette#cosette fauchelevent#mine
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THE WELL AND THE LIGHTHOUSE PMV/ANIMATIC
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very very jean valjean centric because i love him and he deserves the world <3 im not sure if pmv or animatic would apply better to this, but either way, i hope you enjoy it!
#about the events i didnt include in this: i know their significance they were just cut out because i couldnt find a way to apply it#to the lyrics or there were other moments i wanted to include more#ok with that out of the way every tag past this one will be me talking about the process of making this etc etc#basically a yap fest and fandom tags#45+ hours of work wow#never made anything like this before!#im very happy with how it turned out though :3#blood sweat and tears went into this#at points i didnt think id be able to finish this but! its here! i finished it! aah!!!!!#file size was too big to post straight to tumblr had to upload it to youtube first </3#UGH IM SO PROUD OF THIS#i did a lot of vaguely talking about it but ITS HEEREEEE!!!!!! ITS DONE! FINALLY!!!!#not sure what else to say other than wow this took me a long time and it drove me half insane#les miserables#les mis#jean valjean#valjean#inspector javert#javert#fanart#les amis de l'abc#< tagging them as a group because theyre there for one frame so it counts </3 and for some reason half the fandom is on that tag. why.#sorry les amis fans youve been deceived#art#marius pontmercy#cosette fauchelevent#pmv#animatic#dont you dare let this flop. please.#i spent 2 months on this please please please please dont let it flop.
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so this is what i've been thinking about... PLEASEEEE SEND ME ASKS OR REQUESTS FOR THEM!! I would love to explain as much as i can/draw more doodles of them... Also if anyone could come up with a name to call these designs i would appreciate it, because i'm not sure..
These are a collection of polished doodles from the last few days. I really liked the shape-y animals i could assign each charachter. Here are mostly Valjean and Javert, but Cosette's design is on here too!!! I assigned them the animals purely based on vibe and certain connections the brick makes. I also have a few designs for les amis and the thenardiers but i'm kinda working on those.... I have to admit if the Amis weren't such special charachters they would all have been beavers (barricade haha get it? Get it??) so:
A lark for Cosette
A wolf/Fox/shadow/thing for Javert
A Big Cat for Valjean
Also a valvert tidbit because it makes me happy
#les mis#les miserables#jean valjean#javert#inspector javert#small cosette#fanart#sooooooooooo#this is all i've been thinking about lately#PLEASE GIVE ME ASKS AND RQ#PLEASERE#ask game
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Valjean trying to give more soft bread for Cosette. Vol. 4, Book 3, Chapter 4.
Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.
#Les miserables#les mis#My Post#Jean Valjean#M. Leblanc#Cosette#The Lark#Mlle. Lanoire#Father and daughter#Owl and Wren#White Bread#Black Bread#Rue Plumet#If you only remember about Valjean stole bread and got caught you're the one haven't finished the Brick yet.#This Bread Part is really important too.#Think about how Cosette got starved and only ate scrubs from the Thenardiers as a child!#He does not want to get Cosette starved and tried to give best food for her.#On the contray he wanted to go the road of Calvary and one of this was eating rough black bread.#But Cosette does not want to her father suffring and she knew how to stop.#Best Dad#Valjean is REAL father of Cosette#Happy Father's Day!#The Brick#Il cuore di Cosette
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redraw of these cosettes now that i have a slightly more solid grasp on how i wanna paint/do my lineless work in general
it’s interesting to see where i’ve progressed after 8 months :^O
#les miserables#les mis#cosette#cosette fauchelevent#truly my darling bbygirl!!! i love thinking about what her style would be in a modern au#one day i will do studies of period-accurate clothing but that day isnt today whoops#i think cosette would enjoy sonny angels…. jvj wouldnt understand but they make her happy so he is happy
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take this wip from a silly lyric comic im making :)
#jean valjean#cosette#i just think theyre neat (i bawl my eyes out whenever i think about them)#heavily influenced by shoujo cosette here even though ive put it on pause as i read the book#les mis fanart#les mis
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being new to the les mis fandom via the musical & having not read the book or any other media yet is crazy like who are all these people
#textposts#french ass names#i know they're the amis d ABC but idrgaf about those guys wont lie too busy thinking about COSETTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and JEAN VALJEAN !#and javert too i guess. whatever.#les mis
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eat that girl for lunch
#sims 4#ts4#story tag#the sims 4#s4#sims#simblr#sim: stevie#floating cigarette bc idgaf adksjn#Jude used to eat this girl for lunch 😔 😔#this lil sneak peak of Stevie's room!!!!#I haven't shown it before I think..#love her.. will daydream about her forever#I think. about her and Jude so so much#regret having them broken up right from the beginning#but the angst is what feeds me#August's reaction to this post is to send it to Bear and rage about it with him#Cosette burst into Stevie's room shortly after like bb you better delete that embarrassing shit 😰#Jude's reaction-- he's blocked her so he doesn't see it. blissfully unaware.
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this is how that LM BBC scene went, right?
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Thénardier to Cosette and Marius: your father is a murderer
Cosette: yeah, who did he murder then?
Marius: I'm sorry, Cosette. He's telling the truth
Thénardier: Oh?
Marius: He killed a policeman called Javert
Cosette and Thénardier: ???????
Cosette: What are you talking about? Papa and Monsieur Javert are good friends and live together.
Marius: ?????
#valvert#cosette would not mention javert to marius#valjean would not mention javert to marius#les miserables bbc#brainstorming for a fic and thinking how to go about a fix-it
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