#Mirror Ladies

[lesmisscraper]

Valjean and Cosette's small talk, returning from the well in the forest. Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

[annachum]

During the June Rebellion,

Both Eponine and Cosette are sometimes ' at war with themselves '

While Eponine's ' war ' is external - scraping for her siblings, literally often physically fighting against her abusers, often resorting to violence as a form of self defense ( and that includes biting and stabbing ), carrying defense weapons wherever she went, even dressing up as a man to sneak into the June Rebellion barricades to help protect Marius

Cosette's ' war ' is internal - battling the trauma demons inside her head at times, fighting to keep peace with herself, literally passionately choosing a more peaceful lifestyle, and sometimes internally battling her inner demons

Both Eponine and Cosette also have a teetering danger to repeat a similar cycle as their biological mothers

Madame Thenardier is one of cruelty and hate

Fantine is one of suffrage, love and martyrdom

Luckily for many, Eponine and Cosette don't have to repeat a similar cycle as their bio mothers

Eponine's story became one of redemption

Cosette's story became one of hope

[fifi2930]

Another reason why the #mirrorscene hits differently for me compared to other intimacy scenes in previous seasons (no shade to those either, they all worked really well within their seasons and stories):

There's this moment when Colin gets her permission to touch her, and then his eyes close when his hand moves across her skin. Kudos to the acting by Luke and the way the scene was shot, but the man looks like he is lost in awe and reverence. Like he can't believe he gets to touch her after dreaming of her, like he has to savor every second of it.

And consider it from Pen's perspective. She has been brought up and treated to feel unworthy of love, attraction, taught that she should settle for the first man who'll have her. She was ready to accept a loveless practical match with Debling because she believed true love was a foolish fantasy for someone like her. And then she finds herself with this man who physically aches for her, who is visibly revering her body, who is making sure she knows what an object of sexual and emotional desire she is is.

This is why one kiss from her and sex will never be casual for him anymore. This is why, despite knowing nothing of sex, Pen trusts him completely and lets him guide her through this first time with complete abandon.

Individually, love is a forsaken fantasy for him and an unattainable goal for her. Together, it is worship.

#off for my millionth rewatch

#this sex scene beats all others, fight me

#when he said Lie Down I became pregnant

[anderwater]

Saira : 30, young and relevant

[hadrassians]

some pose practice with chargentstep

[crazyrichxplainr]

Amita Suman and Anjana Vasan for Vogue India (ph: Suleika Mueller)

[hollywoodlady]

Bessie Love brushing her hair, early 1920s.

[env0]

Tree Trunk Thighs so big my booty looks small

[lesmisscraper]

Thenardiers remembering about the old benefactor and his young lady. Volume 3, Book 8, Chapter 12.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[annachum]

Thinking how Cosette and Eponine both been through hell and came put singing. Thinking how both of them once had trouble connecting with their feminity due to severe traumas yet become more comfortable with their own skin as they are healing. Thinking how Cosette finds her purpose through pacifism and visual arts while Eponine finds her purpose through protecting her siblings and those in similar shit as her. Thinking how Cosette chose pacifism as a form of resistance while Eponine chose frontline defenses to protect her siblings, and both are strong in their own ways

[ourphantomsforeverr]

“Unauthorized duplication will result in gerard coming to your house and sucking your blood”

i love my bullets cd more than anything

[totallycomplexloveandfiction]

this is for the people who don't understand EP:7&8 Colin

https://x.com/venusjmi explains it so beautifully!

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973)

[llutik]

her firstborn

..so ugh you know how once there's been only cat and robb in her scary and not very promising newly married life... and how robb was her whole world

and how he really is her whole world in death???

[fifi2930]

Pen after being fingered: "is there more?"

Honey, that thing in his pants wasn't there for you to hang your necklaces on 😅😅😅

#someone give the ton girls sex ed

#eating cake doesn't make babies, more headlines at 1

[doomedlemur]

Does Crowley actually destroy the "bad" plants?

I think not!

Neil Gaiman notably suggested once that he makes the shredder noise to frighten the plants, then sneaks the plant with leaf spots out and gives it to the old lady downstairs.

However, this was just in response to a question asking what could be told to a child who was upset by the scene, and so could not be considered canon. It does seem in character, but trying to be mindful of not headcanonning Crowley into too much of a meow-meow, I was prepared to believe either possibility.

But then, I was reading the book. And though much of the scene in the show was taken line for line, in the book it doesn't say he shreds the plants, or that the sound of a shredder is heard, or anything like that. It says he leaves the flat with the offending plant, and returns an hour or so later with an empty pot.

About the right amount of time to pop downstairs, have a chat and a cup of tea, and re-pot a plant, wouldn't you say? Hmmmmmmm.