#Le clown

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 💙🎻🤡👌

Giani Esposito 🎶 Le Clown

[indolenceinck]

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[yvesmaison]

Le Clown

[purecommemasolitude]

i've realized clown is one of those words where it could look like it's just a silly character who is called a clown

it's not

mozart l'opera rock really is the musical of all time. who else can boast having the main character's inner demon portrayed by a flamboyant clown who occasionally sexually harasses him

[threeswordstylemarimo]

THANK YOU YOUNG MIHAWK ACTOR FOR BLESSING US WITH THIS PICTURE🙏🙏🙏

[jazzy-flowerr]

So I forced my sister, mom, and dad to name a bunch of Cuphead characters

And uhhhhh these were the results :))

(I AM SO SORRY FOR THE NAMES MY DAD GAVE THEM I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ANY OF THEM MEANNNN AGHJKABGHJUKD-)

(I'll do this with the characters from the DLC later)

[cto10121]

Glinda has the 'protect white femininity' syndrome in fandoms, a behavior that has sprung up in later years, in which 'traditional' female characters have a large 'counterculture' fans that, in an attempt to fight any misogynistic attacks their faves get, defend them and prop them to the point that they spout traditional regressive or sexist rhetoric against the nerdy / tomboyish main female character to prop up their trad fave. they did the same in the Little Women fandom and Les Mis fandom. i think it's often pushed by mediocre white women who wish to stand out and self insert in Glinda type characters, and see any attack on their queen as a personal attack.

I’ve seen it happen in the Twilight fandom and it’s become really infuriating. Especially when the fans try to argue that these female characters were done dirty by the narrative/the author…when, in most cases, they get a redemption arc or they get off scot free.

Rosalie literally becomes true friends/sisters with Bella by the end of Breaking Dawn. Glinda not only lives but helps Elphaba’s son and granddaughter in subsequent books, thus earning her redemption; the musical is basically her POV of the whole affair and at times privileges her throughout at the expense of Elphaba. As for Les Mis, Cosette was never vilified in the narrative, not even once (I’ve heard of Cameron MacKintosh hating her, but Kretzmer’s translation definitely makes her smarter/more sympathetic compared to the French. I’ve heard both and yeah, “There is a castle on a cloud”>>>>“My prince is already on his way”).

I understand that many people love to hate on ingénue characters, especially if they present as conventionally feminine (I hear Maria and Christine get hate as well in musical theater circles, very similarly to Cosette. All soprano roles, tellingly enough). It’s definitely based on a very nasty strain of misogyny, especially when the female characters don’t do anything morally egregious (pretty much only Rosalie and Glinda are problematic in some way). But this isn’t a competition. Cosette and Éponine are both victims, both “misérables.” Bella only disliked (really, feared) Rosalie because of the latter’s hostility, and was relieved to learn it didn’t really have anything to do with her personally. Musical Wicked is about both Elphaba and Glinda, their friendship and their differences, and in Book Wicked all of their good, bad, and ugly is well-conveyed and developed. You can prefer one over the other, but hating on one with unusual passion is…not on.

[mallovamp]

red n blue doodles

i have requests i haven't done yet so im just posting art i already made 🙏

[devilmeows]

fellow transmascs, we need to be a lot less blindly confident in our ability to not perpetuate transmisogyny. just because we're trans doesn't mean we've unlearned the lifetime of not being affected by transmisogyny. just because we're trans doesn't mean we're magically immune to being transmisogynistic. we all know women can perpetuate misogyny, or that disabled people can be ableist, so why is the fact that transmascs can be transmisogynistic so hard to conceive?

transmisogyny is much more than just hating trans women, and we would all do well to listen to transfems about it.

and if you perceive this as an anti-transmasc thing, fucking check yourself. this isn't about you. this is about our transfem sisters.

[purrvaire]

black sails + shitpost I have on my phone (pt. 4/?)

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[dozydawn]

[indolenceinck]

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[la-pheacienne]

So @faintingheroine said that Javert is more of a class traitor than Ηeathcliff because at least Heathcliff directs his cruelty towards upper class people. I think that, technically speaking, Javert's class traitor traits are indeed worse. I mean his life purpose is literally to extinguish people that have a background similar to his, which is the very definition of a class traitor. The peak of his brutality and inhumanity is the way he targeted a famished, sick prostitute, the way he treated her like an animal, terrorized her, prevented her from finally getting her daughter back and gloated while tearing down her last anchor in life. This deliberate, senseless cruelty against a person as weak, as helpless, as innocuous as Fantine is truly something that technically exceeds even Heathcliff's evil deeds. Heathcliff too targeted people who were weaker than him (Isabella, the children) but at the very least these people belonged to the privileged upper class and he still deep down felt inferior to them, so you can at least give him that.

And yet I feel Heathcliff is more "morally reprehensible" than Javert. Heathcliff's motivations are purely individualistic, he's a very selfish human being and above all, he wants revenge. Javert may be a textbook class traitor but he does have his principles, bigoted principles but principles nonetheless. He has a specific mission and he does his duty, following a specific set of rules. When he fails at his duty and violates this set of rules, he immediately applies to himself the exact same cruelty he applied to others, and this happens twice. The first time, when he thought that he had accused an innocent man and questioned an authority (double vice), he immediately demands his removal from the police. The second time, when he realizes he fucked up, he kills himself. Hugo is particularly respectful of his blind devotion to duty, even in Javert's most hateful moments. Ironically that can also be used against him because it gives him this inhumane, robotic quality. Heathcliff being a classic, egotistical villain who's after revenge gives his evil deeds a much more "relatable" vibe. We can all relate to the desire for revenge, whereas Javert's sterilized, distorted view of the world is particularly eery. But in my opinion this is precisely why he's a level above Heathcliff. Or at the very least their brand of antagonist is quite different.

Receipts:

"I have often been severe in the course of my life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I should be a blackguard! Those who say, ‘That blackguard of a Javert!’ would be in the right. [...] Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor against rascals, I have often said to myself, ‘If you flinch, if I ever catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!’ I have flinched, I have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, cashiered, expelled! [...] Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert.” All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man.

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“Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his hand to a police spy.” He added between his teeth:— “A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am no more than a police spy.”

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Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,—error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.

He's still a piece of shit though, just to clarify.

[mirrorofliterature]

me, an intellectual: maybe the jedi should not fight in a war

someone else: so you wanted the separatists to KILL billions of INNOCENT PEOPLE? smh anyway jedi as fighters is not an oxymoron at all -

me:

me: that's not what I said at all -

[jazzy-flowerr]

Cuphead Fanart Week: Day 7

VICTORY!

[bottom image is the og image, top image is my redraw/stylization]

All prompts were made by @orangeleftyart

This week was a bit of a hassle, trying to balance this fanart week with school, theater, etc etc. I definitely did feel a bit burned out at some points. But it was worth it I feel, I had an absolute blast drawing all of these.

So happy 7th birthday to my favorite game ever!

Have a great day and remember to eat your water! ^ ^