#Convent Husbands

[secretmellowblog]

I think Pere Fauchelevent deserves to be the new tumblr Les Mis sexyman. He’s got everything: a redemption arc, witty jokes/snark, and a bizarrely homoerotic relationship with a main character (Valjean literally takes Fauchelevent’s name and they raise Cosette together.) Sure, Fauchelevent is not “canonically hot,” but that has never stopped the Les Mis fandom before! (Just look at Grantaire and Javert.) I think ppl could easily ignore his canon descriptions and reimagine him as a sexy silver fox

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The Man with the Bell, LM 2.5.9 (Les Miserables 1967)

“Who are you? and what house is this?” demanded Jean Valjean.

“Ah! pardieu, this is too much!” exclaimed the old man. “I am the person for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had me placed. What! You don’t recognize me?”

“No,” said Jean Valjean; “and how happens it that you know me?”

“You saved my life,” said the man.

He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean recognized old Fauchelevent.

“Ah!” said Jean Valjean, “so it is you? Yes, I recollect you.”

...

“What house is this?”

“Come, you know well enough.”

“But I do not.”

“Not when you got me the place here as gardener?”

“Answer me as though I knew nothing.”

“Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent.”

Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as though talking to himself:—

“The Petit-Picpus convent.”

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Wacky relationship dynamics that I love:

Edit to add:

Alchemy of Souls, Doom at Your Service, Extraordinary You, Moon in the Day, Marry My Husband, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Oh My Ghost, W: Two Worlds, Lovely Runner, The Judge from Hell

[theineffablecon]

With huge thanks to Rob Wilkins, we have just had three new Good Omens items land in our Alzheimer’s Research UK auction…and we know you’ll love them! 😍

🐍 https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/bethanywindsor 🐍

Whilst you’re there, we can strongly recommend checking out this gorgeous signed print from the brilliant Rory Kurtz, who was an amazing panellist-and real Good Omens fan!-for us this morning! 😍

[irvinis]

Nice.

Комикон хороший и конкурсы интересные.

Based on David's adventures on Proud Nerd Con. I don’t know the author of the statue, but dolls from @lydiablackblade

[angellilou-art]

Crowley at cons goes even more chaotic.

I loved the experience! And I got my very first angel angle booth!

Many people asked photos with me and already knew my work! It was disturbing first because I rarely do irl events so I didn't knew the... aura I have? Idk how to describe that eh

Anygay, I could SLAY 🐍

Wish someday to do cons outside France~

WAHOO!

[secretdiaryofcrowley]

Many, many wonderful Crowleys at Proud Nerd Con! :)

(and one Aziraphale hiding between us.)

[lily-s-world]

Not jealous at all at the people who will see the Hannigram reunion at the Chicago Convention. Yes, not an ounce of jealousy. I'm just happy for them.

[sidleyparkhermit]

Given that FHOTUS, FGOTUS and FSOTUS are all unpronounceable, I propose that we simply refer to the next First Couple as “POTUS and Doug”

[mistawolfie]

Series WIP since 2017…added 8 more this year…I am on a ROLL

[ID: Characters from Land of the Lustrous in black and white bookmark form with a splash of the color of their hair. Page 1, top row, Phosphophyllite, Cinnabar, Lapis Lazuli, Yellow Diamond, Amythis 84 and 33; bottom row, Diamond, Bortz, Antacticite, Cairngorm, Ghost Quartz. Page 2: top row, Rutile, Padparadscha, Morganite, Goshenite; second row, Euclase, Jade, Red Beryl, Obsidian, Alexandrite. Each character has a white or black simplified sun-shaped halo over their head. End ID]

[plussheep]

big cartoony gulp.... hello phighting community . first time i've ever tried to interact aside from the game itself

i was . very bored and autistic yesterday . which prompted me to want to challenge myself to design some fan concept menus for the game . hope it's . alright !

More under the keep reading ! [art done by my husband @thatbendyfan as well as official game renders]

[secretmellowblog]

I love how the first thing Fauchelevent says to Valjean in the convent is a stock pickup line:

"Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: if ever you do fall, it will be from there."

It's just like

Valjean: *terrified, panicking, not sure where he is, and having an emotional breakdown over Cosette nearly dying* Fauchelevent: Did you fall from heaven? bc baby.....ur an angel <3

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - In Which Jean Valjean has Quite the Air of Having to Read Austin Castillejo, LM 2.8.4 (Shoujo Cosette)

Fauchelevent went on:—

“How the de—uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The prioress expects you.”

Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the empty coffin.

“What is that empty coffin?” asked Jean Valjean.

Fauchelevent replied:—

“The coffin of the administration.”

“What coffin? What administration?”

“A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, ‘A nun has died.’ The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and undertaker’s men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The undertaker’s men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in it.”

“Put something in it.”

“A corpse? I have none.”

“No.”

“What then?”

“A living person.”

“What person?”

“Me!” said Jean Valjean.

Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under his chair.“You!”

[tampire]

Their ends justify their means

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[thisweekinfandomhistory]

Apocalypse now? This week, V and Emily start out the episode by talking about the super-cool annual convention that Good Omens fans created and host as part of The Ineffable Society: the Ineffable Con, going strong since 2019. Then, we have to delve into the allegations against Good Omens co-author and showrunner Neil Gaiman, former Tumblr everyman and (alleged) total sleazebag. Looking at the Gaiman situation through the lens of, "how are fans reacting, and how are fans treating each other's reactions?" makes us feel a little better than looking too deeply at him as a person. The episode closes out with a reminder that the fannish world moves fast -- when we put this on our calendar, it was supposed to just be a happy episode about awesome Good Omens fans, you know? Sigh.

Sources

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