nel-ii
nel || 19 || they/them || aroace || every once in a while I scream about something other than Les Miserables || if you know me irl no you don’t
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I HAVEN’T DONE ONE OF THESE IN FOREVERRRRRRR
Favourite color: green
Currently Reading: nothing yet, but I’m planning to pick up Fellside by M.R. Carrey
Last song: Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked by Cage the Elephant
Last Film: …I can’t remember. I don’t really watch films these days TvT
Last Series: this semester got me a little fucked, so I can’t remember the last thing I read or watched, but the last “series” I’ve read was ph taxation laws annotated
Coffee or tea: Tea!!! I genuinely don’t know how to enjoy coffee TvT
Working on: learning as many art mediums this summer before the next semester starts eating me up again. I sculpted and painted a bunch of aranaras this morning :>
Nine People I Wish I Knew Better
AAA TY @rose-margaritas for the tagggg
Favorite color: pink, all day every day
Currently reading: I just finished Sunrise of the Reaping (after binding the Hunger Games series for the very first time right before), so I think my next book is going to be This is How You Lose the Time War
Last song: Tough Luck by Laufey (it has been on repeat ALLLLL DAYYYYY)
Last film: genuinely cannot remember, I am not a film person
Last series: Etoile (working on my third rewatch, this time with my theatre friends)
Sweet/savory/salty: Salty, generally
Tea or coffee: Redbull or tea, or just straight up eating espresso beans
Working on: Does finishing my degree count? That, learning to play 2 new instruments, and I’m 100 words into a fic (for the first time in years) that I cannot promise I will finish
Tagging (no pressure): @twisted-tales-told @robyngoesrogue @cinnamon-notes @aslongasitistold @giyuulatte @justcallmeemily @annafromao3 @my-name-is-jimmy (because I miss you pookie) @skuzzinfish
Im actually obsessed with the asian joly headcanon and that is because he's a short silly guy with whimsy and joy in his heart who loves to learn but is anxious but trying to push past that. And boy if that doesnt sum up literally so many seasian ppl i know
[ID: a digital drawing of Valjean from Les Miserables. He is sitting mostly in the dark, at a table, staring emptily at a chicken wing. Handwritten text reads “last supper (a chicken wing).” End ID.]
Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!
congrats to the Les mis châtelet team for winning best musical! :)
“ships should at least make sense.” no. ships can make sense, sure. but they’re just fictional characters we play with for fun. they’re fantasies, not a fucking thesis paper. so no, they don’t always have to make sense. they just have to make you happy (or horny).
let people enjoy (fictional) things however they want to enjoy.
ExR + touches
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Bonus:
forever my favorite part of west end productions- the handshake :)
(again, sorry for the mediocre quality, this is from 2011!!)
I absolutely love how Marguerite, in Chauvelin’s eyes, is a symbol of wisdom and freedom in the musical.
He wants her. He objectifies her not as a woman, but like a national treasure. He is possessive of what was once her ideals. He wants her to be like him. He wants her to become a martyr. He wants to eternalize her into a symbol of their new society.
I believe this is also what the 1982 film tried to portray (the musical is directly inspired by this film adaptation).
They got rid of Marguerite’s agency over her own sins and completely antagonized Chauvelin in order to put an emphasis on this form of objectification.
As the story nears its end, Chauvelin loses all interest in Marguerite, upholding his own ideals above his yearning for her. He was to make an example out of her. Instead of a symbol of the revolution, he would turn her into a national traitor, a symbol of evil, everything that goes against his idea of “democracy”.
Enjolras in Korean can be spelt with Ahn as the first letter, which works because Ahn can be a surname.
This awoke a memory for me of a jokey tale I told on ao3 many years ago:
Grantaire is Korean, and he is dating Enjolras. The problem is, Enjolras is White (and he's a man, but that was lowkey irrelevant lmaoo). This takes place in the late 80s/early 90s.
Grantaire tells his parents that he's dating Mx. Ahn.
You see, Grantaire had always wanted to date a foreigner, mainly because his father was very racist and Grantaire himself was seen as a burden on the family, a black sheep if you will.
So, to piss him off, he had dated many foreign men. Enjolras was the only one who was living in Korea and could speak some Korean.
When his family finally wished to see Mx. Ahn, Grantaire felt pressured to introduce him to the family.
All throughout the lead-up to this family introduction, Grantaire had never indicated that Enjolras was White (and a man, I suppose).
It wasn't until when Enjolras came through the door with a tiny whisky in hand did everybody find out on the day what kind of preferences their Grantaire had.
Enjolras knelt in front of the matriarch and poured whiskey for the drunk and disinterested father, and finally got accepted and was allowed to continue dating Grantaire.
You see, before this meeting, Enjolras was given a 'practice run', given how serious this meeting was going to be.
Éponine, a Japanese friend of Grantaire, decided to act as a ''matriarch'. She had asked Grantaire what she was supposed to do, and how she was supposed to act, and given her young age, really took a dramatic and comedic approach to her role as the matriarch.
She pointed at the cushion in which Enjolras was supposed to sit in, had a huge fan in her hand, and started being condescending and judging about him.
"You're a man." She said as she fanned.
"Yes, I think so."
"You're American."
"I'm French."
"What's your name?"
"Éponine, you know me."
"No I don't! I am Mrs. Kang, the head mistress of the household and you will address me as such! Where's the whiskey?"
He popped out a bottle into sight. Grantaire sighed in unison with the action. He had pushed for him to get a large bottle, and indicated, through mimes, to Éponine that she should remark on its size.
"Why is your gift so cheap?"
Enjolras glared at his boyfriend. "I am not getting drunk."
And so on.
I think the great thing about seeing Enjolras as the personification of Revolution is that as logical and cruel as he can be, he is still caring, he doesn't enjoy violence, he's capable of so much empathy and forgiveness...
If revolution were to be a person, I think it's so beautiful to think of them as compassionate.
Unusual Saints To Pray To
Javert logic:
“This woman flung herself on Monsieur Bamatabois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are in the world!”
Not even the gods can help you with that, brother
“The man remained silent for a moment, then said abruptly, ‘So you’ve no mother?’
‘I don’t know,’ replied the child.
Before the man had time to respond she added, ‘I don’t think so. Other people do. But I don’t.’
And after a pause she went on, ‘I think I never had one.’”
(LM 2.3.7)
everything about this exchange kills me. cosette’s simple acceptance of “I don’t” as if her existence as a motherless child is just the way it is. not a mystery, not a tragedy—she just inherently exists outside of other children’s reality.
it’s one small moment, but it encapsulates the age-old attitude that the status-quo will never change, that systems of oppression are simply a natural and unavoidable reality. and that perception squashes any potential to imagine a different way of life.
(only for valjean to show up at the inn all like “actually cosette, you are NOT inherently alone and unloveable, you are NOT destined to an existence of servitude and poverty, there IS another way of life for you and we’re going to go find it together”)
Have you noticed that JMB is one letter away from IBM ? Because I sure did, and that's what you got.
That was fun to draw.
The computer is 100% my Divoom speaker with a few more buttons. I love it.
That one was for @jbm-week ! Spread the JBM love !
internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing
Three Javerts on one stage: Michael Ball, Philip Quast and Bradley Jaden at the opening night of "Les Miserables - The Arena Spectecular" in Sydney.
Constantine AU🥵
And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Fast JehanParnasse doodle to cover emotional needs
He watches over me while I do my history revision!!
jon and the admiral 100 hour staring contest
Sketches from opposite ends of the Valvert spectrum; two dorks taking a walk, and Javert in the catacombs from @autumngracy‘s AROS
An all too short TV commercial with rare footage of the first Canadian cast of Les Mis, 1989.
Yesterday the charity I have shared on my blog before, Ever Mile, was able to distribute meals to the hungry in Gaza.
Currently, they are in need of photography equipment to document more charity work. So please keep sharing and donating.
You can donate here:
Tagging some people for reach
@hotvampireadjacent @leviathan-supersystem @yekkes @ovur @prisonhannibal @allpinsandneedles @sexhaver @determinate-negation @frottinq @halorvic @zoology @zvaigzdelasas @xenosagaepisodeone @tamamita @omegaversereloaded
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