#so when ppl are on their old man yaoi you gotta take it with a heafty teaspoon of salt

[thisisadecisionimayregret]

I must admit some real surprise at there actually being gay men in the terror. like yes it's a naval ship from the 1800s obviously there's gay men there, like statistically it makes sense. but honestly I assumed tumblr was doing the usual thing of projecting queerness onto every blorbo regardless of canon and had done my typical mental adjustment when starting a show to be prepared for no queers so I wouldn't be disappointed. what a pleasant surprise though

[cloud-makers-make-pollution]

we're moots lol

okay this is gonna be a lot cuz he's like the main character or whatever

he was born uhh somewhere and he had a sister with a kid but their parents died so he and his sister had to take care of the kid. jean was a tree pruner but it wasn't enough so blud was like "screw it" and tried to steal some bread but was (of course caught and sentenced to 5 years for violent robbery but he was like "hell nah" and tried to escape like three times so he ended up with 19 years total and now the police (cough cough javert) hate him

so anywhizzle he does his 19 years and javerts like "ugh ig we have to let you go on parole or whatever" so jean valjean is like "yippee" and he's like wandering around tryna find a place to stay but ppl are like "nah ur a convict im not fuckin w dat" so now he doesn't have a place to stay but some dudes like "go ask the bishop he's really kind (WHICH THERE IS AN ENTIRE FUCKING SECTION ABOUT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK)" so jean 👖 goes to talk to the bishop and the bishops like "yeah come stay with us" but the two nuns in there are like "ew he's a convict he's gonna rob us" but the bishop dgaf so 👖 stays the night but he wakes up at midnight-ish and is like paralyzed with the decision of whether or not to rob the bishop cuz bro's got a lotta silver so...

spoiler alert

he robs him

so 👖 is like running around at 3 in the frickin morning and the police catch him and take him to the bishop like "sir this dude just robbed u" and the bishops like "yeah ik also here take the candlesticks and become a better person" so the police let him go and 👖 is like "omg he just like gave me all this free silver and he also said that i need to become a good guy" so 👖 breaks parole (omg lawbreaker 😨) and goes back to his hometown (which is also where fantine lives lol haha coinkydink hahaha) and he sells all the silver (except the candlesticks those are like a reminder of the scene with the bishop) and gets an alias which was like "pere madeleine" or smth idk and we don't see much of him cuz victor chooses to tell us about fantine

when we come back tho, "pere madeleine" has become "monsieur le maire" and he's the mayor of the town and owner of the factory where fantine works. as the mayor he's like a really good guy and he brings the town prosperity!! yippee!! and all the ppl love him but they're kinda sus of him like "who's this dude and why's he so nice" cuz they're a little paranoid ig but anywhizzle he's walking around or smth and he sees fantine being assaulted and stuff and javert taking her in and he's like "hell nah not on my watch" so he heroically bursts in and is like "she did nothing wrong let her go" and he and javert go thru their old man yaoi but fantine is eventually released. javert is NOT happy bout it tho

one day, javert comes into the mayor's office and he's like "bro i messed up i thought u were a former prisoner who broke parole lmaooo anyways we caught the guy and his name is jean valjean (DRAMATIC GASP) and we're holding his court soon anyways have a nice day lolol" but the mayor (COUGH COUGH JEAN VALJEAN) is having this identity crisis about whether or not to go fess up and free the guy but he ends up doing it and there's a buncha detailed chapters about his trek to the town where the court is being held but we don't care abt that

so he shows up and everyone's like "oh that's the mayor or smth ig" they drc and he sits in on this random guy's court session and there's a buncha evidence about how this guys is actually jean valjean but the ACTUAL jean valjean is like "NUH UH BITCH ITS ME" and everyone's like "GASP!??!!??!" and so javert is pissed and tries to get him arrested but 👖 escapes cuz he's gotta get fantines child to her and that's about where i am in the book lol

i hope you enjoyed my rambling about jean valjean and sorry for the long read lol

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this may be even more beautiful that the fantine one

“anywhizzle”

new word alert motherfuckers this is awesome

I feel like maybe you should rewrite the brick once you’ve finished it just your version and see how well it does because damn this shit it great

also

… @k-is-for-potassium ?

is this you??

[zukkacore]

I mean. I gotta ask about enemies to lovers trope for grading

HEYYYYYYY ok so

Enemies to lovers: A

I do think i like this like. MARGINALLY better than friends to lovers but i also am the kind of person that thinks the fight between these two Types of shipping is kinda dumb. Like. friends to lovers ppl hate enemies to lovers for being problematic and enemies to lovers ppl hate friends to lovers bc its saccharine and the fans of it are like. averse to conflict in their relationships. Well. I'm here to tell you. I like when things are sweet and i love toxic old man yaoi. I can hold with both hands. Why are we fighting. We should be kissing about it.

Anyway I do think i like the evolution of a relationship over time which is why i think this one is fun. Like the hatred to trust to love thing. That or the route of like. Sometimes i like drama and when fictional little bitches treat each other badly. Like. I love friends to lovers but i think if you HAD to make me choose i like drama a little bit more.

It also bugs me when ppl try to frame it as problematic bc they will like. try to kill each other or whatever and its like ok but you're limiting your understanding of whats going on and lowkey being antiintellectual when you take everything in a story to be literal. What is this doing emotionally. There is something useful about taking emotions that FEEL big and then literalizing that in a story to push it as far as you can take it. etc etc.

I think a lot of ppl like. Try to capitalize on this trope tho and do it in a way that my ass does not like. Like be it from me to cast the first stone when im here obsessing abt Porter but some of y'all need to get better at writing enemies to lovers. Some of these bitches are not enemies, sometimes it’s colonizer / colonized and you should be embarrassed. Like. I think they should either be on opposite sides of a conflict in which they are like equally culpable or you have to really interrogate the harm one party is doing. usually under the guise of like. fucking imperialism. A lot of the really popular enemies to lovers ships actually drive me insane for this reason.

its my favorite thing ever when done well. But like. im picky.

[cloud-makers-make-pollution]

oh yeah i totally agree

and i meant melodies like in the soundtrack there could be a soloist playing a similar melody from another song to kinda subtly connect?? the scenes

so in the book, we hear a lot more about fantines backstory

so she was dating this dude and she was absolutely head-over-heels for him but he's like "meh it's just a side chick" or smth and so she was in this friend group and they all had bfs so they went on this quadruple date (there were four pairs) and the dudes told the girls they had a surprise for them and all the girls were super excited!! but the "surprise" was that all the bfs were leaving and the dudes saw it as a prank but for fantine (idk abt the other girls) it was like "omg this dude who was my main source of stability is fuckin gone" and she was left with custody of cosette so now she's gotta take care of herself and this little girl on her own (keep in mind fantine is like 25 at this point)

so she's wandering around tryna find somewhere to stay and she finds mrs. thernadier outside with her children (yeah the thernadiers had like a buncha kids including eponine and gavroche) and fantines like "oh u look like a good mom will u take care of my girl" and the thernadiers were like "yeah but you have to give us this outrageous amount of money" so fantine was like "anything for my bbg"

so fantine is left on her own with the thernadiers taking care of cosette and demanding way too much money and fantine would pay cuz she was being told that her girl was being taken care of, but she actually wasn't. the thernadiers were treating cosette like a slave, she was dressed in rags and barely fed, and everything that fantine gave the thernadiers was given to their other kids or they used it for idk what which is messed up cuz now fantine is being lied to AND is being milked for what little money she has

so now fantine is trying to find a job and she worked at this factory that the mayor (cough cough jean valjean) owns and runs but the ladies there are all gossippy bitches that get fantine fired so now she doesn't have a job and is steadily having to pay more and more to the thernadiers. so she's wandering around the street and some lady's like "i'll give u ten francs for your hair" (which was actually like quite a bit at that time idk look it up) and fantines like "ugh i have no money so ig so" and another dude's like "i'll give u 40 francs for two of your teeth" (why he wanted her teeth i'll never know) and fantines like "dhhdhs i need the money" so now she has no hair and is missing two teeth

shes still wandering around yk when these ppl r like "omg u need money? become a prostitute it pays very well" and she's like "screw it i've lost all my pride already" so now she's a prostitute but it STILL isn't enough cuz the thernadiers keep demanding MORE MORE MORE but she's just chilling on the street one day and some dude like assaults her and she fights back but gets the police called on her (knock knock it's javert, bitch) so now she's gonna get arrested but the mayor's like "nuh uh she didn't do anything" so javert and the mayor (cough cough jean valjean) are doing old man yaoi or whatever and fantine just leaves cuz the mayor lets her

but now fantine is sick so she's in the hospital with tb and all she wants is to see cosette. the mayor comes and visits and he promises that he'll take care of cosette and get her away from the thernadiers so she dies happy knowing that her precious little girl is safe

so yeah that was like fontine's entire story and it probably all sucks cuz i was typing really fast and not really going back for corrections lol. sorry for such a long read

what do you think? any input?

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this is the most beautiful rendition of fantines story I think I will ever have the blessing of reading like genuinely who are you and can we be best friends I’m loving this I laughed out loud multiple times my family thinks I’m texting a boy now which is rather amusing seeing as I’m gay asf but you know uhm

but yes the musical repetitions like in Come to Me the same tune is used in On my Own and when the Bishop is doing some holy baptising Christian god stuff with valjean that’s a very similar tune to Empty Chairs at Empty Tables and the tune for Lovely Ladies, like most of that song is what is in Turning Turning just Turning Turning is a lot softer and more somber, which could be intentional to idk show contrast between the prostitutes and the dead kids but still an outcome of the poverty if you get what I mean? oh and in Valjeans existential crisis that I’ve forgotten the name of that tune is the same as the tune in Javerts soliloquy which I think is artistic genius because it’s both characters, one of which who has been at the others neck the entire show, having a massive fucking realisation about their life and making a huge decision by the end which is awesome but obviously one ends in “yay let’s be better man and use an alter ago” and then other ends in “well looks like imma go jump off the bridge then” so obviously contrasting endings (intentional?) but still. I can’t think of anymore right now but yeah

and the Thenardiers other kids I think I’ve heard of them *cough cough ahem in fanfiction cOUGH* Eponine, Gavroche, Azelma, and two other boys that they got rid of? Or sold? I’m not too sure I did some research but it was late and I learned virtually nothing

but oh this was awesome I’ve finally gotten to go on about the music and how far I’ve looked into it and thought about it because I have nothing else to do this is great

also the melodic similarities could be due to the fact that they had a very very short time to write the musical right so maybe repeated tunes was the way to go but idk I’m just theorising at this point 😭