#I miss les mis

[solb4dman]

listening to les mis again.. 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO BE SPECIFIC. I can feel the ghosts of this old fixation taking its grip on my persona once more. I CAN SEE THE LIGHT, GOD HELP GELP

remembering the old valvert fic I abandoned on ao3 HAHAHAHAHAH

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

[marzipaint]

speak no evil, see no evil

[thepiecesofcait]

[Red & Black Trumpets]

[alenaphale]

made this because what the hell.

more like ‘ya theyre cool 😖😭😳😳’

original pic i saw somewhere on the internet

[24601orwhatever]

Les mis munich is BACKK!!!!!!!!!

📸: insta

[antynous]

Enjolras, the believer, despised the sceptic and soberly deplored the drunkard. His attitude towards him was one of pitying disdain. Grantaire was an unwelcome Hephaestion. But, roughly treated though he was by Enjolras, harshly repulsed and rejected, he always came back, saying of him: ‘What fine marble!’

[sauntering-vaguely-downwardss]

Enjoltaire red and black shenanigans ! 💥💥

~ I asked for drawing requests over on insta and this was one of them ✨ thought I’d post it on here for yall as well :D

[permit-it]

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

[shamedumpster]

I made a lino block out of this piece from last year!

Progress shots below the cut :)

[secretmellowblog]

I really do love how Javert is the ultimate physical embodiment of the word “bootlicker.”

His entire personality is composed of “respect for authority and hatred of rebellion;” he grovels before anyone of a higher legal/social status, and thinks they can do no wrong. He puts all of his faith into the institution of policing. He worships his superiors in the police force and the legal system. He would sell out anyone who committed any infraction to the police, and would do it with smug glee.

I honestly cannot think of any fictional character who embodies the word “bootlicker” better.

I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite small Javert moments is when he’s attempting to get Madeleine to fire him, and….he gives Madeleine a salute even when Madeleine’s back is turned, and he can’t see the salute. To me it shows how much Javert’s bootlicking is genuine. It is earnest. He earnestly believes in his own inferiority and the necessity of constant groveling respect to authorities. They don’t need to police him— he polices himself. He grovels even when their backs are turned.

He doesn’t just lick boots for show; he licks boots because he genuinely believes it is the morally correct thing to do, that an “inferior” is legally bound to grovel before their “superior.” And he enjoys this groveling; he experiences a savage glee at his usefulness to authority; he loves the taste of boot leather.

He’s a bootlicker all the way to the bottom of his soul.

[marzipaint]

extremely late barricade day post. barricade month

[zqnl]

I WAS OFF CAMPING AND DIDNT REALISE IT WOULD BE OFPD SO SOON AFTER MY RETURN I HAVE REGRETS and a wip

yes they’re looking hella bald rn but u gotta trust the process 😔😔

[lesmissocials-fuckedup]

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Someone please do me a favor and tell the Les mis team to stop clowning themselves