#me fein

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I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

[manglam-marfach]

[Normal about chilaios voice] do u think they can give each other blood donations

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me: huh. People are discussing the reasons enjolras has for 'vous'ing feuilly but they haven't mentioned the reason i thought was most obvious.

@jealousofthetea : ...two of him?

Me: *chokes* yes. Two of him.

Me: but ALSO the class thing. I can totally see a revolutionary but also Rich guy overcorrecting about how to address his much worse off, highly respected comrade. At very least he'd think about it. Might get twisted up in his head about it. It's like they/themming someone gender nonconforming because you've overthought it instead of checking.

I was just reading the "Enjolras and his lieutenants" chapter and I noticed that Enjolras used the informal you for both Courfeyrac and Jehan, but not for Feuilly. Would you happen to know the historical/language reasons as to why that is? I thought it may be because both are students and where I'm from, students use the informal you, even if they don't know each other. But Bossuet addressed Marius with the formal you when they first met, so I'm not sure if that really is the reason for that. Does it mean that canonically, they aren't as close as Enjolras is with the others or could there be another reason for it? Also, do you know why he still only adresses them by their last names, even though he's using the informal you?

Nonny you are asking me about one of the Great Questions of the Novel: what the heck is going on with Feuilly and the t/v distinctions?

I am not going to dive into the weeds of standard t/v use,but --along with all the usual applications, in canon era and especially the kind of social circles that Hugo knew best and is setting up for the Amis, " tu" seems to have been common for young men to use together (a) with friends from childhood (b) among certain groups of Romantics , Because Romantic Friendship (c) particularly relevant here , among certain republican groups, because of the implied equality of everyone using it. Cosette will reference this use later:

And obviously all of this only makes Enjolras vous-ing Feuilly weirder!

And complicating the theorizing, Enjolras does use Tu for Feuilly later on, during his big barricade speech:

 Écoute-moi, toi Feuilly, vaillant ouvrier, homme du peuple, hommes des peuples. Je te vénère.

I have no solid answer, only theories! Theory 1: Feuilly is, somehow, fairly new to the group in Lieutenants. Counterargument: then why is he already one of the Lieutenants? And in what seems to be a particularly Secret secret meeting with ONLY the Lieutenants in attendance?

Theory 2: Maybe Feuilly's much older than we generally estimate , enough to make the Tu seem less automatic? The later use of tu at the barricades seems to argue against that, but maybe that's a special " we're all fighting and about to die" level of intimacy, since Tu does seem to be in general use there? Counterargument: hugo refers to them all being Young so very, very often, and ok that seems to include Up To Maybe 35, but still. Feuilly's part of their age cohort by all other signs.

Theory 3, Not Very Satisfying but Realistic: Hugo's bein' weird. Hugo personally used Vous for almost everyone, unless they were either direct family or , to be blunt, someone he was having an affair with. He definitely used Vous in friendships most anyone else would have considered a definite Tu situation. Maybe Hugo had an idea about it that he didn't flesh out; maybe he just wrote that and didn't catch it in edits; maybe his handwriting there was just really especially awful and whoever did the Clean Copy that day * didn't transcribe it right and no one later down the line saw it as a typo. Mundane, unrelated to the narrative reasons.

Counterargument: none ,really, except it's kinda boring.:P

Theory X (silly fandom only theory) : Enjolras and Feuilly are trying to act like they are on more formal terms , for shenanigans reasons. Maybe they're working on their Cover for a Secret Mission. Maybe they're trying to hide the fact they've started dating.

As for the Last Name thing, it's just how some people , especially men, are? I don't know that it really needs more explanation, but by all means tell me if you've got a theory! Personally I've always liked " Everyone is named Jean (so they default to last names) XD

usually, but not always, Juliette Drouet

[arolegos]

2 sets of drawing jay walker (training myself to like him so ill gaf when DR focuses on him)

[somedreamlove]

Wow, rewatching Dream's parkour after getting to know much more about parkour (from watching everyone grind it for MCC) really put it into perspective for me how much Dream is in a class of his own when it comes to minecraft. None of the other top-tier players even come close to replicating his easy wild abandon of movement or the way he does insane jumps and neos without line-up or preparation, leagues ahead of the competition, carried by some sort of transcendent minecraft intuition that comes from being just so in love with the game

[moxyphinx]

"Am I not what you expected?" - SIUAN SANCHE

[uorufein]

Can you believe it guys? Alien Stage Round 7, just a week away! Round 7 is in a week! Woo-hoo! I am shitting myself over this information. Alien Stage, just a week away. Oh, wow! Can you believe it? Round 7, just in a week! It got here so fast. Round 7, just a

[drh-j3kyll]

I got the dj to play We Both Go Down together at homecoming? I ruined the vibe for silly tgs reference?? I think so?? Hell yeah

[updogishere]

:)

I think that if gojo ran during their fight Sukuna would transport to heaven and cause problems too.

[skipitty-bop]

BOOPING CRASHED MY TUMBLR

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I particularly love armand/daniel happening post armand/louis break up. Like, Armand was fulltime lying and manipulating and abusing and controlling louis because he's soooooooooo afraid that his honest self is too boring &too evil to love. Old Maniel uncovers all that and is like. God you suck you're so evil. I want to pick apart your lies foreve.r text me.

[andersonfilms]

already halfway done with a vi fic, m’feeding the vi feins #trust

[princes-favorite-guard]

Oh boy

Look at his calves my god

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Tagged by @blessphemy

Hi sorry this was buried in the notes from that damn Mx. Pope post!!!

Lock screen - a lantern hand painted by a darling friend, ft. Some birch leaf liquor in a very pretty glass. It is BELIEVED the picture originally held ritual significance but the details are lost to modern archeologists.

Look. Listen to the song and then judge me if you must.

Do images automatically added to ur phone by WhatsApp for reasons of friends telling u about the arrest of the former leader of their country count?

Tagging @likeniobe @jealousofthetea @life-lifeisalongtime I want to see what celebrities you weirdos have on ur phones

Post a screencap of your lockscreen photo and a screencap of the last/current song listened on Spotify/YouTube, as well as the last photo of a celebrity that you saved in your phone. Tagged by @penguinsandpotterheads thanks my sweet friend 💛

(this makes me look like an absolute lunatic lololol sorry joe keery)

tagging w/ no pressure, ofc 💕: @asbealthgn, @bari-the-witch, @bmodiwrites, @gay-little-bitch, @mixsethaddams, @stevesbipanic, @edmunsn, @henderdads, @wynnyfryd

[jresseh]

so i forgot this one

[uorufein]

blink (you're) gone