#and matched with music

[dollfat]

[bluegiragi]

mask off.

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[professorcalculusstanaccount]

Castafiore delivers an earth-shattering performance! Update to my story, the House of Glass! Follows directly from this. Drawing this part was intense - crowd shots, buildings, cars, guns - all things I'm not fond of drawing, but hopefully this was worth it!

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[undertale-ost-tournament]

ROUND 3: MATCH 2

Bonetrousle vs CORE

[charlixcxluver]

Charli at her ibiza partygirl set.

[gigizetz]

really liked this shot

[dizzybizz]

"there, there- breakfast's almost ready..."

[myaverageartblog]

So I watched the Barbie movie yesterday,,, I feel like the light music club would see it together~

[numbuh424]

The unstoppable, mighty hurricane and the immovable, cold, hard truth.

[bu99erfly]

LOOSSEMBLE TTYL, 2024

[dkunknowing]

This is for @clasiann i think I tag the right person right?

[kasterarts]

Moving Forward. (Spoilers for YTTD up through 3-1b)

[doctorsiren]

may i request an athena cykes? ^_^

warriors of the mind!!

[undertale-ost-tournament]

ROUND 1: MATCH 19

Bergentrückung vs Amalgam

(For some reason the animated Bergentrucküng image isn't working, I don't know why.)

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Another Les Mis musical connection that's making me feral: Jean Valjean uses the same melody with which he sings to Cosette, "Believe me, / Were it within my power, / I'd fill each passing hour-- / How quiet it must be, I can see, / With only me for company"...

When he sings "You are free, / And there are no conditions. / No bargains or petitions! / There's nothing that I blame you for. / You've done your duty--nothing more" to Javert.

In my journey to map out the various leitmotifs in the show, this one really flung me for a loop because what does it meannnn?? This is the only time we hear the melody in the show, and it's applied in two very different circumstances, where the relationship Valjean has to the characters involved could not be more opposite. What connects them?? But I think I have it.

It's a reluctant release. Not of the people, but of his own desires regarding them. Let me explain.

Valjean very distinctly wants things from both Cosette and Javert, which he sings about on the rising part of the melody. With Cosette, he wants to be the center of her life: "Were it within my power, I'd fill each passing hour;" on the other hand, he desperately wants Javert to leave him alone. When he has Javert at his mercy, he absolutely does want to trade lives, which is why he sings it on the rising part: "And there are no conditions, no bargains or petitions." He does want these things--but he's letting them go.

And that's where the falling part of the melody comes in. In both situations, Valjean knows he can't have what he wants. So he gives up that desire. He accepts that Cosette wants someone else, and doesn't blame her for it ("How quiet it must be, I can see, with only me for company,"), the same way he accepts the situation between him and Javert ("There's nothing that I blame you for. You've done your duty, nothing more."). That's why immediately afterwards, he tells Javert his address, and why shortly after that, he prays that Marius be brought home to Cosette.

Cosette is his biggest security, and Javert is the biggest threat to his security. But in this little melody, he sets them free (Cosette metaphorically, and Javert literally). He acknowledges what he wants, and accepts that he can't have it, even though it hurts.

And if that ain't the most Jean Valjean thing, I don't know what is.

[your-turn-to-role]

okay 1) have many emotions about this

2) the temptation to try and play that to see what it sounds like is very strong rn