#father madeleine

[thatisntverycombefair]

what ive gleaned from 'how jean can become champ'

[dolphin1812]

This chapter!

Fantine’s behavior here is really similar to how Valjean acts around the bishop. In the same way that he was extremely polite and deferential when he entered the bishop’s house, Fantine tries her utmost to appease Javert, complimenting him and admitting her “fault” so that he might treat her more mercifully (which, of course, Javert would never do). Then, when Madeleine helps her, she can’t believe it. She rambles more than before, clearly in shock. It’s also interesting how she initially ascribes all of this kindness to Javert. While it is specified that she’s blamed Madeleine for her suffering this whole time, and it therefore makes sense that she wouldn’t automatically switch to thanking him, it also resembles Valjean’s conflicted feelings over the bishop. When he heard that he was part of the religious establishment, his first instinct was to mention the bishop he remembered from prison and how distant he was. He was still polite in the way he said it, but it’s clear that he couldn’t reconcile that man with the compassion of the bishop in front of him. He doesn’t even realize his high status until he’s almost sent to prison again. Moreover, although his experience with kindness is less complicated than Fantine’s in some way (his hatred of Myriel wasn’t specific in the way Fantine’s hatred of Madeleine is; he blamed society as a whole for his state, not the bishop), that image of a divine struggle is something they both share. This passage is long,  but it’s important:

“Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.”

Here, we have all the parallels between what Fantine feels in this moment and Valjean’s redemption: the dark vs light imagery; the references to the divine; the idea of changing one’s soul; and Fantine losing her hatred and rage as she’s filled with kindness now that someone else has shown her compassion.

On another note, I like how we see Javert’s emotional investment in the law in this chapter. I feel like his very literal obedience to it makes it easy to imagine him as an emotionless vessel for its dictates (he himself would probably like that image), but his identity is so bound up in this system that any challenges to it hurt him. He’s already in shock because of Fantine’s “crime;” someone outside of society insulting a citizen is unimaginable to him. And an authority figure intervening on the side of the poor? Especially an authority figure who’s suspicious (which is already provocative)? He fears that he’s going “mad” as he experiences “the most violent emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life,” underscoring just how much these rules impact him emotionally. He even trembles and turns blue and pale upon hearing Madeleine repeat himself; his reaction is so strong that it’s outwardly visible.

[mellomadness]

everyone’s already talked about how welly boots by the amazing devil was definitely written while joey was reading the witcher books and working on the show, and how geralt and ciri’s relationship are definitely influential in the song’s creation but like. has anyone talked about the song as is?

it’s from the perspective of a too-soon dead father, telling a story to—presumably—his living daughter whose ears can no longer hear his words and yet he continues to tell the tale. and as she grow up he continues to speak to her, always in her corner, even and especially when she breaks down and screams her hatred toward him in her grief—“I’ve been so scared, you left me here behind, do you not care? how the fuck am I supposed to carry on… without you here?”—he is still there, willing with everything he has left that she will still feel his love, feel the comfort in the ghostly hand on her back, feel his strength and take solace in him, even though they are worlds apart now.

and as she stands in the grass outside her childhood home she feels the wind whip at her, enveloping her as the storm rolls in. she turns to go back inside and freezes.

a brand new pair of scarlet welly boots sits on the front porch. just like the last pair her father bought her before he died. and she finally knows.

he never left

[brian-kinney-apologist]

"oh i forgot, love makes you stupid", says claudia as she continues to stay in the same city, on the same continent full of vicious vampires while once again breaking the great laws the same vampires made up and repeatedly told her anyone should and would be prosecuted for

[lestatbaby]

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

ok this is a controversial opinion but like….. to me, henry spencer was actually not a shit father….. hear me out.

i understand that there’s a lot of subtleties that go into emotionally abusive parents, and i’m not trying to dismiss that, but honestly i just don’t see all the negativity that gets associated with him so often. also, between henry and madeleine, one parent actually seemed to be there when shawn was growing up, and it wasn’t his mother.

let’s look at shawn’s childhood. in all the flashbacks, henry was the one who volunteered at shawn’s school, who took him to movies and was around for all of his new hobbies and interests. he was the one making sure shawn did his homework and hung out with his friends and learned life lessons. granted, some of his teaching methods were not appropriate for a kid shawn’s age, so yes i can see where the criticisms come in and i agree with them. but he was so much more than his mistakes, he was the parent who cared.

when shawn grows up, yes there’s animosity between him and his father but to be quite honest, i’ve never met one person who doesn’t have unresolved daddy issues so that in itself doesn’t condemn henry in my mind. we see how much henry saved from shawn’s childhood and how much he remembers, and to me he actually does quite a bit to help shawn when he needs it. this is particularly telling in comparison to madeleine, who isn’t there to begin with and eventually we find out she really did leave her kid behind, and to me that does a lot more damage than any one thing henry did.

shawn and henry have issues, i won’t argue with that. but i really don’t think henry gets enough credit for the good he did and the way he tried when shawn got older. above all else, he was there and he was there for shawn, and that’s important. god knows it’s not everything, but it’s something.

[croutoncretin]

La pietà

[biilodyfangs]

EPISODE 8 SPOILERS

thinking...parellels

[impressionism]

What’s wild and sad is just Claudia finding someone who gets her and is there for her (they cute and shit and I care) and like the universe that provides the karma, the “Tower” moment, I’m a tarot girlie, her daddy’s back!

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 🤣

[thatisntverycombefair]

me finally getting back to the valjean parts after the bastard man tholomyes parts: 🥺🥳💃🎉🎊

[dolphin1812]

Javert remains hilarious. I love that seeing Madeleine in a position of authority makes him so uncomfortable because of the cognitive dissonance that he just avoids him as much as possible, because he has to treat him with respect as the mayor (an Authority Figure), but it also convinced he’s a convict. And of course, since this is Javert, all of this is explained with references to dogs and wolves:

“The first time that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog might experience on smelling a wolf in his master’s clothes.”

The animal imagery around him really is consistent.

Hugo’s discussion of taxation is interesting as well. In citing the Minister of Finance, he returns to the idea of historical documentation, implying that there’s a record that confirms everything he’s saying. Oddly enough, though, I feel like Hugo doesn’t talk enough about money here. Debtor’s prisons weren’t as big in France as in Britain at this time (at least, I think - if I remember correctly, there were efforts made to limit or abolish debtor’s prisons during the Revolution, but they continued to be dealt with and reformed throughout the 19th century), but given this connection between not being able to pay and prison, I was kind of expecting more of a digression than a paragraph. The word “compel” also felt like it was alluding to a discussion of the state’s force, but Hugo doesn’t elaborate (shockingly). I guess he decided to get his point across concisely this time?

Similarly, I’m waiting for the breakdown of Fantine’s expenses. I’m glad that the factory was like “the face of a friend,” but knowing that her salary is low because she wasn’t trained in this work before is concerning, given that she has to support Cosette (by sending money) as well.

[nashvillethotchicken]

Ion care who we gotta call, Johnny Cochran or Saul, imma get Madeleine and Claudia off them charges

[alas-pooryorick]

I am my father's daughter

The Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir

Fleabag (2016-2019)

East, West, Salman Rushdie

Irish proverb

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen

The Father Tamer, Eileen Granfors

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco

A Room Called Earth, Madeleine Ryan

[ganemouchie]

If y'all hadn't noticed by now, I am fucking insane about TAD's music.

[claudiaeparvier]

I hope Claudia escapes the afterlife and eats some of you fr

[hischildrenofthemoon]

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♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 lorian carfell will curse your soul

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 lorian carfell ♱☾ carfell aesthetics ♱☾ lorian aurelius carfell ♱☾ aurelius carfell

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖊

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 haester grimald is a creature of the night

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 haester grimald ♱☾ haester aesthetics ♱☾ haester malakhai grimald

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 father romero is haunted in every sense of the word

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 mateo romero ♱☾ father mateo romero ♱☾ romero aesthetics ♱☾ father romero

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕷𝖚𝖓𝖆𝖊

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 henry prescott was bitten by a werewolf

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 henry prescott ♱☾ prescott aesthetics ♱☾ henry grant bradshaw-prescott ♱☾ sir henry prescott

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕴𝖓𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 sebastian blackwood is tormented body and soul

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 sebastian blackwood ♱☾ sebastian aesthetics ♱☾ sebastian amadeus blackwood ♱☾ lucien darvell corvin

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕷𝖚𝖓𝖆𝖊

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 madeleine holmwood is hunting a werewolf

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 madeleine marion holmwood ♱☾ madeleine holmwood ♱☾ the werewolf's hunter

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 abigail mortimer is doomed by the narrative

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 abigail katherina mortimer ♱☾ abigail mortimer ♱☾ abby mortimer ♱☾ the warlock's bride

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖊

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 charity beckford is a vampire killer

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 charity melissa beckford ♱☾ charity beckford ♱☾ cherry beckford ♱☾ the vampire's killer

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕴𝖓𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 helena hawthorne lives in a haunted house

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 helena circe hawthorne ♱☾ helena hawthorne ♱☾ lena hawthorne ♱☾ the ghost's soulmate

♱☾ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄𝔯𝔠 ♱☾

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖘 𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖘

𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 sister agnes fears the one who lies beneath (technically not her own playlist, but the concept is the same)

𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 agnes fremkel ♱☾ sister agnes fremkel ♱☾ agnes mariah fremkel ♱☾ the shadow's chosen

𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 thorned roses in the garden of evil ♱☾ children of the moon aesthetics ♱☾ the one who lies beneath ♱☾ serpentarium ♱☾ aleyna carfell ♱☾ naberius carfell ♱☾ the grimald brides ♱☾ hestia grimald ♱☾ lenore grimald ♱☾ andras grimald ♱☾ henry x madeleine ♱☾ lorian x abigail ♱☾ haester x charity ♱☾ seb/lucien x helena ♱☾ mateo x agnes