#mis-understanding

[erainbowd]

I Let You Down, Sinéad

I should have been a fan back then. But I wasn't. I regret it now.

The loss of Sinéad O’Connor hit me harder than I would have expected. I hadn’t been much of a fan in her glory days and while I respected her, I hadn’t paid her much mind in the intervening years. I suppose I’d imagined she’d always be here and I looked forward to seeing what an old lady version of Sinéad might get up to and then suddenly she was gone. In the outpouring of press in the wake of…

[paularoseauthor]

How to Cope with Mis-understanding & Family Estrangement.

In this post, I offer suggestions coping when you are misunderstood and judged unfairly. And for those who are estranged from family, it will help you as well.

When we use the world wide web, be it email or social media, we put ourselves tat risk of unfair judgement. Judgment can cause misunderstanding, and misunderstanding may cause a break in relationships. Accepting that misunderstandings happens all the time, helps me cope with the inescapable judgment toward me. Within relationships, misunderstanding can occur very quickly and catch us…

[drunken-devotion]

was it casual when you held my hand in our final moments despite not believing in the cause but in me

[weirdgirlification]

it is funny how valjean is like “i can’t let cosette know i was a thief :(” when she has just gotten engaged to a man who was involved in a violent anti-government uprising

[the-black-bulls]

BLACK BULLS CASINO!!

[ofpd]

one thing about me is that i always assume that everyone knows the plot of les mis even though theoretically that's probably not true....

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

[estie-posts-shit]

reminder canon grantaire is bourgeoisie. He lives in furnished quarters near the musain, has a specific waist coat for revolutionary occasions, and enough money to drink two (three?) bottles of wine in one afternoon.

[rubberbutton]

Look, I love Javert's slutty lil slicked-back ponytail, but I have such a soft spot for 1830s curls. And there's technically nothing that says he doesn't have them....

[ash-and-starlight]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Blue Eye Samurai || 1x06 - All Evil Dreams and Angry Words

[chivaleone]

guys. guys you can’t just make jason todd your “everything character.” he’s not one of those mix-and-match skylanders— you can’t just take traits and trauma from other characters and give it to him, erasing the purpose and impact that those parts of those characters have in/on the narrative.

[fluentisonus]

important to gimli characterization. to me. is that while he's generous & steadfast & caring where it matters he is also just a little bit vain. not in a delusional way or a way that causes problems but like. he is aware that he's good looking & good at what he does and is pleased with himself for it. he's aware of his own good qualities & proud of them in a way that makes his friends roll their eyes a little. but he's charming & realistic about it and also Right so you can't be too annoyed. guy who takes way too long styling his hair & beard because he knows he has very nice hair. guy who will brag a little about his axework because he knows he's just that good. do you see what I'm getting at

[lesbianslugreaction]

I love it when Modern AU Valvert fics forgo Javert being a cop and instead find new and inventive ways of making him incredibly pedantic and a total stickler to rules. Like, yeah, make that man *checks notes* the most straight-laced camp counselor or the most killjoy roller coaster technician ever. It's like enrichment to him.

[alphazed]

i am sorry les mis fandom but we all know the truth

[earthly-apples]

12, Enjolras and Grantaire

12. What's a headcanon you have for these characters?

So we all know Enjolras was heavily based off Saint-Just, under the impression that he was an unrelenting archangel of the revolution. Hugo was heavily influenced by historians of his era (Michelet and Lamartine), and this impression of Saint-Just would reappear again in his later work, Quatrevingt-treize. I would argue that Saint-Just was rather different from the stoic image that Hugo describes in his works, even when under the consideration that most of the characters in Les Mis are highly symbolized. Saint-Just is very difficult to understand, not only because of how short his political career was, but also due to the fact that, after his execution, he was greatly demonized in Thermidorian propaganda. Current documents do give us a few glimpses of his inner thoughts, but it is far from enough for us to truly understand his personality even by a little.

What we do know, however, if he most likely lived, laughed, loved before the tumults of 1789. There was a rumor of him being in an ambiguous relationship with a girl from his hometown, he wrote plays that bore none of the clipped, serious tone so characteristic in his future speeches. L'Organt, an epic poem he wrote during his stay at the reformatory for stealing his mother's silverware, consisted of both political and sexual topics. He was capable of singing Italian airs during his lifetime. After his execution, among his confiscated properties, there was a flute.

While Hugo emphasizes Enjolras's virginity, I'd like to think that he actually understands--or at least has a vague idea of--the shittalking and the vulgar jokes from Les Amis. Sure, he'd probably not be very up to date with all the slang, but he should have a basic idea of it. I feel like this is also important for his revolutionary activities, especially in communicating with people of different origins.

So when Grantaire presents him with his suggestive jokes, Enjolras is probably not impressed. What a hopeless idiot, he thinks as he ignores him, again.

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I haven't made up my mind on whether Grantaire knows that Enjolras knows. He worships Enjolras, and idolatry is so easy to blind us all... :)

[yumichika]

where would we be as a society if grantaire didn’t possess every actor who plays him