#magnon

[jazzyjuno]

so was anyone gonna tell me about the canon gay mothers in les mis or did i have to find that out myself

also gavroche leading the two brothers around (who ill be calling pressoir and jurges bcoz of shoujo cosette, idk those names r good)

[dolphin1812]

The Thénardiers are awful and it’s horrible that they cared so little about their sons, but M Thénardier using Rousseau’s treatment of his children as a justification may be the most darkly funny thing he’s said.

The entire situation does have a dark comedic element, probably because the one being lied to is Gillenormand and because the youngest sons are treated well. Aside from the heartbreaking fact that the Thénardier children were too consumed by poverty to notice their siblings, the arrangement isn’t as bad as it could be? 

It’s tragic in that they mean more as a basis of material earnings than as people, though, even to the kinder Magnon. Their parents are the first to not care, but institutions are equally cold. Thénardier is, unfortunately, right that no one’s going to look into the situation when the children are poor. That the deaths of Magnon’s actual children were only noted by her (and indirectly by her associates) is a terrible sign of how little society valued the children of the poor and of how dangerous early childhood was (an epidemic taking both of them in a day).

Worse still, they have become more of Javert’s victims, the arrests following the Gorbeau raid taking away their mother figure. It’s so sad to watch the eldest lose the note because his fingers are too cold to hold it.

[cliozaur]

What the Thénardiers really needed was contraception! There are so many various themes raised in this chapter, but I will be focusing on the topic of young children because it evokes strong emotions in me. Losing children due to epidemics, selling and buying them, children losing their home and caregivers… it’s all so heartbreaking! And it’s also disheartening that this chapter primarily highlights the cynicism of the adults involved in these transactions, rather than the cruel fate of young children.

Paradoxically, being sold to Magnon turned out to be the best thing that has happened to the two little Thénardiers: they were taken care of, and “they were treated almost like “little gentlemen,”—better by their false mother than by their real one.” It seems that buying children from the Thénardiers is a good thing, after all, especially considering that Cosette, in a sense, was also “purchased” by Jean Valjean. It’s such a dubious moral situation, as it is often the case with situations involving M Thénardier! And the Thénardiers have the audacity to compare themselves to Rousseau. Well, of course, he might have been the worst father ever, but at least he did some good things in his life, unlike the Thénardiers.

After Magnon, her roommate Mamselle Miss, and other residents are arrested by the police, no one seems to care about what will happen to children left behind. At least, Magnon, anticipating such a situation, left an address where the boys could seek help (who is M. Barge? Why not M. Gillenormand?), but the cobbler who handed the boys the paper with the address did not seem to care enough to take them there. And, of course, they lost the piece of paper: “his benumbed little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very good hold on the paper.” I just can’t… I am not even sure that the boys were able to read what was written on it. It brings us back to the theme from the gamin digression—how poor children are often seen as dispensable.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - In Which Magnon and her Two Children are Seen, LM 3.2.6 (Les Miserables 1925)

One day, there was brought to him in a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an aside: “Well, what now? What’s the matter? You are finely taken aback, and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d’Angoulême, the bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d’Alluye, brother to the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his fault.”

[ahmaaaaaaaaaaaaad]

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[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I was talking with a friend about the canon named women of Les Mis and decided to experiment to see who those are according to Les Mis fanworks.

Behold: your top ten women of Les Mis.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

M A G N O N E

[arturocordero83]

Crow-Magnon by Matthew Grabelsky

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Scientists probe chilling behavior of promising solid-state cooling material

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an emerging technology called solid-state cooling. The findings are published in the journal Science Advances. An environmentally friendly innovation, solid-state cooling could efficiently chill many things in daily life, from food to vehicles to electronics—without traditional refrigerant liquids and gases or moving parts. The system would operate via a quiet, compact and lightweight system that allows precise temperature control. Although the discovery of improved materials and the invention of higher-quality devices are already helping to promote the growth of the new cooling method, a deeper understanding of material enhancements is essential. The research team used a suite of neutron-scattering instruments to examine at the atomic scale a material that scientists consider to be an optimal candidate for use in solid-state cooling.

Read more.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

I think it's long enough after his passing that we can speak about it:

Abraham Lincoln was a caveman looking mofo.

[bush-or-bald]

A-aea (Spear and Fang): Bush or Bald?

A-aea is a "cro-magnon," a now discarded term for the first anatomically modern humans in Europe. Today, we call them Aurignacians. Aurignacian blades were crude stone implements that no lady should ever put near her lady cave.

Verdict: bush

[zithcavooris]

Oh dear, I've fallen behind. Here, have a random caveman

[saucylobster]

The final fossil of my region and morelike Aerodactyl in that it doesn't evolve. Mixed the two types that I use most often for my fossils and a caveman seemed perfect for the combination. Cragnon are adaptable and intelligent pokemon that are well suited to colder climes. They generate a frozen club which they stud with stones to further its efficacy as a weapon and tool. Despite preferring to always have a club on hand, they have a devastating strength whether they use it or not. --Attack Info-- --Ability Info--

[bronwynhillside]

AO3 is down...it's been hours...maybe I'll pick up a book.

Jean Aurl's Valley of Horses...let's read about cro-magnum and Neanderthal tech...

[philoursmars]

J'essaie de rattraper mon retour : ces photos datent de fin juillet !

Marseille. La Villa Méditerranée, à l'architecture en porte-à-faux, qui abrite la réplique de la Grotte Cosquer : sur la 2ème, un Lionceau des cavernes devant une Saïga (avec à droite, un Cerf et un Bouquetin); sur la 4, je suis devant un Mégacéros (reconstitué, évidemment !) puis un Cheval de Prjevalski. Sur la dernière, le "Cro-Magnon", le bateau bien nommé d'Henri Cosquer