#sw in les mis

[whorejolras]

"forced" "coerced" "sexual slavery" "sold her body" "cause of death: prostitution" "moral descent" "corrupted" GOD FUCK ENOUGH ENOUGH SHUT UP ENOUGH SHUT UP

[duo-ducks]

He is not reading a single word 💔

Codywan Les Mis actor au inspired by The Truth That Was Once Spoken !! The fic is incredible, I knew nothing about Les Mis going in but still loved it

[mymblesbuir]

honestly thinking about the Javert/Kallus parallels makes me so insane because like. what if their fates were reversed?

what if Javert realised the error of his ways and chose to help Valjean and his family instead (and maybe fell in love along the way)?

what if Kallus couldn't cope with Zeb's mercy, couldn't reconcile his cognitive dissonance, and killed himself rather than change his views?

man. Javert is such an immensely, utterly tragic villain. even the hardest parts of Kallus' arc are practically sunshine and rainbows in comparison to Javert's end.

[doodledraw]

my cool down doodle yesterday ended up becoming….a little more than just a doodle when I took the chance to experiment a little stylistically. Whoops?

anyhoo, this is a doodle from the mind of @goddammitjim, who wrote a codywan les mis actors au fic. The description of Cody watching Obi-Wan sing Bring Him Home (conveniently my favorite song) on opening night (ch 10) has been stuck in my mind since I read it, and I’ve wanted to doodle codywan again so….here we are!!

I hope you don’t mind that I played in your sandbox a little! I’ll link the fic here for anyone interested, it’s a really great one!!

[aldieb]

most fun thing to do with media is Compare and Contrast. i had a ball in elementary school because in those days it was all about the comparing and the contrasting

[sithlaurrd]

Hi omg I saw Star Wars AND les mid on your profile and immediately went omg!!

Yeah those two fandoms about sum me up lmaoo😭😭

[samaspic31]

Never have i felt rage worse than when i learned carrie fisher was sent to a fat farm, on the demand of fox studio executivess who put it as condition to have her cast cause they insisted on someone thinner (hi casting practices are deeply evil in fatphobic transphobic and racist ways- and that has only mildly improved since the fucking 70s) prior to filming a new hope, to lose 10 pounds, which was far from an exceptional practice in the film industry at the time. And lucas told it in the film bonuses with no shame or apology, they even interviewed carrie about it as if that was some fun anecdote-fuck lucasfilm all the way off for that. And to this day dieting for roles in blockbusters still is the norm (remember that anecdote of her telling john boyega to go break his diet and eat an energy bar from her fridge on the set of the sequels 30 years later ? we progress so fucking slowly)

In general Hollywood obsession/morbid fascination with actors modifying their weight to unhealthy degrees for roles sucks and so does the way journalism and the audience feed the mythos and reward those movies with press and promo about it (still haunted by that star trek press tour where benebitch cabbagepatch was asked continously about dieting for a scene not even in the movie, meanwhile the female actress who had a gratuitous scene in underwear it was just a normal thing, hello gender inequality). anyways as soon as i hear an actor had to diet i lose interest in ever paying for the media. no movie or series is worth the human suffering and its prevalence is yet another symptom of the dishonesty of art under capitalism

[juniperika]

the 2018 Les Misérables series is proof that if there's going to be a live action Agent Kallus, he should be played by David Oyelowo with no explanation whatsoever because the man can actually pull those sideburns off

[whorejolras]

rip Fantine you would have loved the decriminalisation of sex work

[only-my-unexistent-fiances]

Okay, personalmente no me gustó el sample de El Muchacho De Los Ojos Tristes en esta canción de Selena pero-

Voy a llorar, primer aviso

sad eyes // Anakin & Ahsoka

[mymblesbuir]

accidentally started thinking about the Javert/Kallus parallels again and instantly took at least 50 points of psychic damage

[thefulcrumfiles]

Thrawn traición realmente es otra cosa porque existe este personaje llamado Director Asistente Ronan, quien parece estar enamorado de otro cierto Director...y se la pasa elogiandolo todo el tiempo, trayendolo a conversación cada que puede y dejándolo vivir en su mente sin pagar renta... increíble

[pappito]

anno amikor a nagyobbik gyerek ment középiskolába, a suli közölte, hogy egy fajta számológépet fogad el, de azt meg kötelező, úgyhogy vettünk neki egyet. Ezt a szépséget, na:

Becsületes nevén Casio fx-9860GIII, mint utóbb kiderült, az iskola csak erről a modellről tudta, hogy hogyan lehet exam mode-ba rakni, lol. Most, hogy a kisebbik megy ugyanabba az iskolába, végigmentünk a beszerzendő bigyókon, és most az iskola egy másikat ajánl, amit úgy hívnak: Casio FX-82AU Plus II.

Ez kb. a negyedébe kerül, mint a másik, de a másikat már anno megvettük, szóval nem downgradelünk, csak hogy kisebb legyen a tévé rajta és zöld legyen a légkondi gomb. Nade. Az a fehér az egy nagyon okos masina ám, messze többe tud, mint amire bárkinek valaha szüksége lehet (van rajta Python bakker meg add-in appok!!!) viszont gondoltam megnézem lehet-e ápdételni rajta valamit.

Mint kiderült lehet, az OS le van maradva pár szubverzióval, úgyhogy fogtam magam és elmentem a casio vonatkozó oldalára, ahol mindenféle okosság van ehhez meg minden máshoz.

Majd kiderült, hogy kell egy "fx-9860GIII GRAPH35 Series OS Ver.3.70 Update.exe"-t letölteni, azt felinstallálni a virágtartóra (mac-re is van asszem) majd elindítani, a számológépet összekötni a pc-vel, belemenni valami sokadik menü sokadik bugyrába, hogy receiver módba tedd a cuccot és elindítani az ápdét. Itt már mélyen jártunk a kilencevenes években (letöltöm a zip-et, kicsomagolom a zip-et)

Na mindegy, lefutott, megoldotta, most már új oprendszer van, minden jobb lett kicsit. Biztos. De látom ám, hogy van ez az okos Physium nevű addon:

Periódusos rendszerrel meg mindenféle hasznos majomsággal, na dobjuk fel azt is! A physium letöltése egy pillanat volt csupán és nyertünk vele egy zip fájlt amiben van egy PHYSIUM.g1a nevű fájl, amivel gyakorlatilag semmit nem tudok kezdeni. Kis turkálás után kiderült, hogy azért nem, mert ahhoz, hogy feltegyem ezt az addont a számológépre, kell a bájosan csengő névvel rendelkező FA-124 PROGRAM LINK, amire amúgy semmiféle utalás nincsen a készülék saját oldalán, a sw support részen, meg sehol, egy 2011-es, antik forumbejegyzésben (don't go there) leltem rá a megoldásra.

Kis küzdelemmel kitúrtam a FA-124-et a casio hivatalos support oldal minden igyekezete ellenére:

a telepítő az amire azt szokás mondani, hogy "időtálló design", ez se változott 1996 óta. De most büszke tulaja vagyok ennek az appnak:

Nosza, futtassuk is hát!

Az időutazást folytatva, első kísérlet a csatlakozásra nem zárult fényesen, a számológép nincs data receive standby módban!!!!

Ilyesmivel engem már nem lehet meglepni System/F6/F5 és TÁDÁMMM, nem működik. Forduljunk hát a manuálhoz, lássuk mit mond.

MInt az közismert, a physium kiterjesztése g1a, viszont a szoftver, az ígéretekkel szemben, csak g1m kiterjesztésú fájlt hajlandó elfogadni... wtf.

Pedig, ahogy a designből is tisztán látszik, a legfrissebb változatot használom, lecsekkoltam.

Egy másik fórumbejegyzés vitt el egy még másikabbra, (ezek már 2012-esek) ahol semmi érdekes nincs. De miközben a megoldást kerestem, a számológép kijelzőjén mindenféle tippek jelentek meg, például ez:

hogy mi van, ha simán csak USB transfer módban konnektálsz a számológéphez, majd a g1a fájlt szanzsén belebaszod a root-ba, fittyet hányva a sok fejlesztésre amit a casio szakemberei invesztáltak az FA-124-be?? Így is tettem, tehát. Igazodva a felhasználói felület és a processz dizájnjához, természetesen totál kommanderben.

Hiszed-e, vagy sem, a physium és a valószínűségszámítós addon vígan csücsül a menüben:

Csak úgy lefotóztam ezt ahelyett, hogy a CASIO Screen receivert használtam volna, mert ahhoz már nem volt erőm, hogy annak is nekiálljak.

Köszönjük, hogy velünk utaztak a casio időgépén (most pucolhatom le az amúgy tök felesleges szarokat a pc-ről) és velünk örültek, hogy most már a gyereknek egy (na jó, kb. 10) gombnyomással elárulja a zsebszámológépe a kobalt titkait:

Bónuszként kiderült, hogy a zsebszámológépeknek is van teljesen elborult rajongói közössége, akik amellett, hogy játékokat portolnak számológépre, meg mindenféle vad dolgokat művelnek amibe jobb nem belemenni. Meg az is, hogy ez a masina mennyire elbaszott jó kis kütyü, még valamiféle mintavételezős izét is rá lehet akasztani és data loggerként használni, meg a gyűjtött adatokat mindenféle grafikonon ábrázoltatni vele.

De azért elmehetnek kázióék a bús a picsába, elég lett volna annyit írniuk, hogy "másold be a fájlokat a gyökérkönyvtárba data transfer módban" és akkor nektek nem kellett volna elolvasni ezt a sokmindent.

De periódusos rendszer gecc!!!

a valószínűségszámítósban van coin toss meg kártyahúzós meg kockadobós aminek megmondhatod, hogy mennyiszer fejvagyírásozzon, kockadobjon és az eredményt lerajzolja, meg mindenféle paraméterezhető izéket tud, meg python kódot lehet rá tenni és futtatni, tök menő az egész, négy AAA elemmel.

A nejem, az örök optimista most közölte, hogy "és mi van, ha az iskola csak az új, butább verziót fogadja el?". Hehe. He.

bonusz kontent:

Physium titkai

Probability Simulation titkai

Geometry Application titkai

[kcrabb88]

I've been thinking about changes in fandom behavior lately, especially in relation to shipping, so I gotta dump my thoughts out here.

So, it's not that shipping wars don't happen now, but they seem to happen less in the traditional way (and I'll get to why in a second). It used to be, back in the day, that shippers would fight with each other allll the time about which was BEST. Real wild stuff. I joined fandom in the early 2000s, I've been through the wars (Pirates of the Caribbean, Phantom of the Opera, I've seen things! Even early Les Mis movie fandom had some Times).

And I think two things have changed.

One, people rarely seem to fight about the actual ship now so much as You've Done Something Morally Wrong By Shipping This And I Will Call You Out behavior. Purity culture. All that. But that's not so much what I've been thinking about lately. What I've been thinking about is the kind of, Sheen of Being Fake Nice, where people say ship and let ship, but many of them ... don't actually mean it. Fic or art of less popular pairings will have passive aggressive commentary from time to time, things like "oh I really don't ship this but this art is cool" or "I liked this fic but I wish it was this ship" or just generally being weird about ship content that ISN'T their ship ON that content. And yet, if you make your own personal post saying you don't like a ship (not for a moral reason, you just don't dig it!) that's considered being mean. And I find, overall, that it's that certain shippers of big pairings that are the biggest offenders here? Which is ?? Strange to me??? You're popular what are you afraid of? The smaller ship overtaking your ship?? Be serious. Anyway, I just have found in recent years, especially shipping a smaller ship in a bigggg fandom where people can be REALLY aggressive about non-canon ships "actually being canon and everyone thinks so" and about fanon generally, that I have to be nice, but the bigger ship people can behave badly. This is not nearly everyone of course! But it does happen. I'll never forget the commenter on one of my SW fics who called the main romantic pairing "the only vice of the fic." I'm a big girl, I can take weird comments, but it wasn't a one-off, and it doesn't only happen to me. It happens to other fic writers and especially, I think artists! Not cool behavior.

(Plus god, people are really unkind to multi-shippers these days which! Is also super rude. You can ship more than one thing, man, there aren't laws).

[trzepotttt]

new intro post whaaaat

trzepot // she/they // 17 // pl/en/fr

i post mostly frev and mcr related stuff, also every semi-coherent thought that crosses my mind. i misspell everything in every language so be prepared for that

texts/asks are always welcome <3

proana dni

main fandoms: mcr, ptv, frev

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music: mcr, ptv, sws, fob, p!atd, evanescence, paramore, kino, chopin, rameau, sdm, vivaldi, marina, feu!chatterton & sooo much more

books: war and peace, this side of paradise, donna tartt's books, les mis, the forefathers eve (team słowacki tho), MY IMMORTAL

shows/movies: voltron, mlp, paw patrol, heathers, the dreamers, descendants, also literally every movie with talking animals

games: minecraft, co09, sonic, literally nothing else (nonogram & cat game maybe???)

tagging system??

the trzepot tag - my original posts

mcr / ptv / sws / fob / classical music / chopin / patd

frev for french revolution

wap for war and peace

mlp for horse yuri, co09 for y2k yuri, voltron for cosmic yaoi, sonic for hedgehog yaoi

polblr for posting in polish/about poland

sth else i forgot????

[whorejolras]

this has been sitting in my drafts for months and i'm finally posting it.

it's adding on from this post about Fantine and sex work in les mis. this post ended up being long and more about sex work than Fantine but it does come around i swear.

the way we discuss Fantine is very important, but why?

the way that we talk about Fantine and sex work in les mis - on tumblr, with our friends, in the brick club chat, in articles and in scholarly analysis - directly correlates with the way we treat modern day sex workers and the struggles we face today. notably, the fight for decriminalisation.

i'd argue that Fantine is the most famous of the "dead sex worker" trope. i'd argue she's one of the most famous fictional sex workers. she was just name dropped in the new mean girls movie. everyone knows the story of Fantine the "Miserable Dead Prostitute".

to many people, the book or musical is their first and often only point of reference for sex work, and informs how they treat real life sex workers. many of us interacting in fandom are or will soon be adults with jobs, you could be a childcare worker or a doctor or therapist or any role that makes you a mandatory reporter. and if you hold biases towards sex workers and your patient or the parent of the kid in your class is one, then what.

(you know i had a therapist tell me once that if i had any kids she would "be forced" to report me to the police for "child abuse" on the grounds of my job. that was discrimination and was illegal as i live in one of the four locations in the world with sex work both decriminalised and a protected attribute under discrimination law, but it still happened.)

how people think informs how they vote, and public opinion in turn impacts legislation that actively damages sex workers and puts them in real danger. (criminalisation, the nordic model, "legalisation" also known as licensing, instead of full decriminalisation).

here is a resource put together by NSWP, the Global Network of Sex Work Projects that covers terminology and legal frameworks. I recommend giving the whole thing a read, but if you just want to learn about the difference between the different legal models I'm talking about read from pages 12-14.

full decriminalisation is the safest best practice option for all sex workers. not the nordic model, not select legalisation, full decriminalisation for all workers including those who aren't "legal" citizens.

bringing this back to Fantine. when i search analysis of sex work/"prostitution" in les mis, this is the shit i find.

link 1 | link 2

i don't even know where to start on rebranding "oldest profession" to "oldest form of oppression" and "trafficked and forced into the industry" - the trafficking conflation is a common one. the majority of labour trafficking occurs in industries completely unrelated to sex work, with sex trafficking numbers being grossly overestimated. there are no true numbers because under criminalisation victim/survivors of sex trafficking can't safely seek help for fear of being criminalised. decriminalisation helps everyone.

I will also say that the trafficking narrative is a racist xenophobic one used to target migrant workers, making them more vulnerable to higher rates of police violence, detention and deportation. if you want to get deeper into this I recommend reading Migrant sex workers and trafficking - Insider research for and by migrant sex workers.

yet here we see the idea that most of (if not all) sex workers are trafficked or forced, a narrative that removes the agency of sex workers and obscures the reality of labour trafficking. in short, lies which serve to sensationalise and erase real lived experiences, provide publicly-sanctioned excuses for the heavy policing of marginalised communities, and helping no one.

i will quickly say here that you'll never meet anyone who fights as hard for sex trafficking survivors than sex workers and sex worker peer led organisations.

and in the second example, you see how even though they're saying sex work, (so they listened enough to know not to say "prostitute" anymore), but they're still sharing anti-sw beliefs like "selling the body/selling yourself", violent phrasing that denies us not only agency but connection to our bodies, autonomy, and consent.

this is something i'll talk about a lot more in the chapter analysis that i'll get around to finishing and posting one day: but fantine doesn't sell her body to sex work any more than she sells it to the textile factory. how is one form of physical labour "selling your body/yourself" and another isn't? at the end of the day, she still owns her body, just like when i leave a booking i still own my body, just like when i clocked out of my past civilian jobs i still owned my body. we sell labour, we sell services. not ourselves.

noting here that even when discussing exploitation and trafficking, phrasing it as "selling your body" is also gross, still removes the survivors agency and connection to their body, and shows that you're not really a safe ally to survivors at all.

these ideas, that i pulled from the first paragraphs of two of the first analyses of fantine i stumbled across, are the same ones that sex workers around the world argue against when lobbying for full decriminalisation. it's the arguments we have with law makers and councils and saviour organisations and our own families and friends.

i'll talk about this more later but look at how anne hathaway finished playing Fantine and then signed off on a letter and petition against full decriminalisation of sex work and advocated for the nordic model - ensuring that sex workers and trafficking victims alike would be more vulnerable to violent clients and policing.

ironically, the same thing Fantine faces.

so my whole roundabout point is it matters. the way we talk about characters like Fantine matter. this directly impacts how real people treat real sex workers. this directly impacts legislation that directly impacts the lives and safety of sex workers AND survivors of sex trafficking.

just in case i haven't said it enough the safest option for both parties is always complete and full decriminalisation btw 🫶🏻

all links in case they break (sorry for making it longer but i don't trust tumblr with links lol)

tumblr post:

NSWP terminology and legal models source:

screenshot 1:

screenshot 2:

Migrant sex workers and trafficking - Insider research for and by migrant sex workers:

anne hathaway article: