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do all the numbers

ok! (from this ask meme)

1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged? No
2. You talked to an ex today, correct? No
3. Have you taken someones virginity? No
4. Is trust a big issue for you? I don’t really know what this means
5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently? sadly no I have not hung out with George Blagden recently
6. What are you excited for? In theory I should be getting a book delivered soon
7. What happened tonight? Last night I came home for the weekend
8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted? Why girls specifically??
9. Is confidence cute? Uh I mean it’s nice when people feel good about themselves I wouldn’t call it “cute”
10. What is the last beverage you had? Tea
11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust? first of all fuck binaries am I right but if you’re talking about guys then like.. five
12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans? Yes
13. What are you gonna do Saturday night? Shower and tumblr I’m very exciting
14. What are you going to spend money on next? I don’t know
15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed? no
16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months? Probably
17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything? No one
18. The last time you felt broken? I don’t know
19. Have you had sex today? lol no
20. Are you starting to realize anything? Yeah I have a musical problem
21. Are you in a good mood? Sure
22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks? Maybe
23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s? His are bluer but they’re similar
24. What do you want right this second? some chocolate would be nice
25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy? N/A
26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color? Yeah
27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh? No
28. What was the last thing that made you laugh? I watched Powerless last night and I also laughed a little when I just went to see Beauty and the Beast I think
29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now? Sort of but not really
30. Does everyone deserve a second chance? Not Everyone but like most people sure
31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to? No
32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do? irrelevant
33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda? No
34. Listening to? My mom is humming Belle from Beauty and the Beast
35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore? Absolutely
36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is? whom
37. Do you believe in love at first sight? Not exactly idk
38. Who did you last call? My mom
39. Who was the last person you danced with? If you mean like a slowdance then Alex but otherwise it would be Teresa whenever we last danced to Newsies
40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed? no
41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake? I don’t know probably last week
42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today? Yes
43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush? Sure
44. Do you tan in the nude? No
45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss? no
46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night? No
47. Who was the last person to call you? Some telemarketer
48. Do you sing in the shower? When I’m at home yeah but not at school
49. Do you dance in the car? not really
50. Ever used a bow and arrow? Yes
51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer? Isn’t anyone who uses a camera technically a photographer
52. Do you think musicals are cheesy? ABSOLUTELY NOT
53. Is Christmas stressful? It depends
54. Ever eat a pierogi? Yes
55. Favorite type of fruit pie? Maybe blueberry
56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? I went through a bunch of phases but at one point I wanted to simultaneously be a librarian, a writer, an artist, a cook, and an astronomer
57. Do you believe in ghosts? not really
58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling? Yes
59. Take a vitamin daily? in theory but.. no
60. Wear slippers? Yeah
61. Wear a bath robe? No
62. What do you wear to bed? Pajamas
63. First concert? I really don’t know because my city has concerts in the park in the summer and I’ve been to lots of those and some other events elsewhere before I really remember but the first like big concert I went to that sticks with me was Trans Siberian Orchestra
64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart? I guess Target
65. Nike or Adidas? neither
66. Cheetos Or Fritos? Cheetos
67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds? Usually peanuts
68. Favorite Taylor Swift song? I don’t really have one
69. Ever take dance lessons? Yes
70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing? No
71. Can you curl your tongue? yeah
72. Ever won a spelling bee? No
73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy? I cry from laughing sometimes and I came really close to crying when I met Benjamin Alire Saenz
74. What is your favorite book? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and Les Miserables
75. Do you study better with or without music? I don’t study but I do usually listen to music
76. Regularly burn incense? No
77. Ever been in love? Probably not
78. Who would you like to see in concert? I want to see Darlingside again but I also think it would be cool to see the Lumineers
79. What was the last concert you saw? Bastille!
80. Hot tea or cold tea? Like.. lukewarm
81. Tea or coffee? Tea
82. Favorite type of cookie? I don’t know
83. Can you swim well? No
84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose? for a few seconds sure
85. Are you patient? I misread this as “are you a patient” and I was so confused… I’m not impatient but I’m not really patient either
86. DJ or band, at a wedding? I don’t care it’s not my wedding
87. Ever won a contest? Yeah I used to win coloring contests sometimes
88. Ever have plastic surgery? No
89. Which are better black or green olives? Black
90. Opinions on sex before marriage? I could not care less
91. Best room for a fireplace? I don’t know where do fireplaces usually go
92. Do you want to get married? I don’t know maybe but mostly for benefits

thecandlesticksfromlesmis:

vivalamusaine:

thebreadfromlesmis:

thecandlesticksfromlesmis:

grantairelibere:

Concept: someone takes up the URL @thebreadfromlesmis and dukes it out with @thecandlesticksfromlesmis over who the true main character is

we brought new life, bread brought much strife

candlesticks – 1
bread -0

bread is a staple of society that managed to stay relevant after the lightbulb was invented :/

jvj went looking for me, you were a tragic afterthought

Even though that is a well timed and effective burn from Bread, there is no need for you two to fight. 

You both occur in a turning point in Jean Valjean’s life, and the effects you have on him are equally important. 

Bread-  Jean Valjean sought you out because of his families and his own starvation, and he attempted to take you. Trying to procure you landed him in Toulon and begun his year journey as a convict, which shaped his mindset once he was freed from Prison.

Candlesticks- you were freely given to Jean Valjean because of the Bishop’s compassion and kindness, and were the beginning of Jean Valjean’s journey for redemption and moral compass. You began to shape his mindset when Jean Valjean was freed from his past. 

You are both two sides of the same coin, alike in effectiveness and importance but for two very different reasons.

Besides, all of this arguing about which of you is actually the main character is irrelevant, because the true main character- protagonist, antagonist and anti-hero of Les Mis, is and always will be- society. 

thank u ….bless u

we do not want to fight. we are simple candlesticks doing the lords work

angualupin:

laissezferre:

threadbaremillionaire:

Was it just me or were these lines cut from the current production? Someone with a better memory please reassure/confirm. Either way I felt like drawing it.

screeaaamss yes, the lyrics were cut back in 2000. combeferre used to sing his lines as he stopped the others from pointing their guns at javert, and grantaire was… somewhere

The score is also really interesting here:

The lines sung by Courfeyrac, Feuilly, and Bossuet, when threatening Javert (take the bastard now and shoot him/let us watch this devil dance/you would do the same Inspector/if we let you have your chance) are to a line of music that is elsewhere only seen in two places: it is usually sung by Javert when he is pronouncing judgment on other characters; for example, it is the tune to which I have heard such protestations/every day for twenty years/let’s have no more explanations/save your breath and save your tears is sung during Fantine’s Arrest. The only other time it is used is when Gavroche is mocking Javert. The musical cues, therefore, tell us that this action by the Amis (the desired shooting of Javert) is judgment and that is also wrong; the Amis are employing the same blind condemnation of others that makes Javert the villain.

In contrast, Combeferre’s response (though we may not all survive here/there are things that never die) is sung to the same tune as Fantine’s there’s a child that sorely needs me/please m’siuer she’s just that high, which tells us that Combeferre here is acting as the voice of compassion. It is, in essence, as much a plea for mercy as Fantine’s; more importantly, it’s a plea that must be headed if the moral rightness of the tale is to be followed. Javert, ignoring Fantine’s plea, was acting wrongly; the Amis, while they might have been wrong in their initial leap to take the bastard now and shoot him, respond to Combeferre’s plea in a way that Javert does not respond to Fantine’s, and thus, they ultimately choose the moral path. So by cutting this minute of run time, Cammack wasn’t only cutting a nice bit of Combeferre and Grantaire characterisation that Amis fans might miss, he was also cutting another lesson on judgement vs. mercy, which is ultimately the heart of the story.

(As for Grantaire’s following what’s the difference, die a policeman/die a schoolboy, die a spy, it’s harder for me to tell — I don’t have a copy of the original score, only the 2010 tour score, so I can’t do a bar-by-bar comparison — but I think it’s a unique line that is a play off the plea line but falls more emphatically, making it something like “a despairing plea”, which would fit for what Grantaire is trying to say. But I’d have to have the actual music in front of me to be sure.)

I’ve said it sixty-zillion times before and will say it again: the musical, with all its flaws (and they are many), is still the best adaptation that isn’t a 10+ hour miniseries not that that guarantees you’re a good adaptation, yes I’m looking at you Shoujo Cosette because you can communicate so much more in five minutes of song than you can in five minutes of dialogue. The kind of musical referencing seen here is just one example.

PS If you want to listen to the uncut version, see here, about 3:40 in. It’s the ‘99 London production, with JOJ as Valjean. The entire thing is worth a watch, and not only because it’s pre-cuts.

les-amis-de-l-abaisse:

inauspicious-bossuet:

marthur:

so there are a lot of reasons I’m not particularly into Les Mis modern AUs, but one reason is that the ~student activism~ portrayed in all the fic I’ve read comes across as completely unrealistic and kind of idealised? as such, I thought I’d make a short list of True Life Student Activism Stories envisioned as happening to our fave dead french revolutionary dudes. if anyone includes them in a fic I will be really happy.

  • Courfeyrac uses up ten solid minutes at the beginning of an hour-long meeting discussing which hand signals it is correct to use to indicate agreement, disagreement, and contributions to a discussion
  • Bossuet and Joly forget to weight the bottom of the banner they’re hanging illegally from a prominent college window and it flips over in the wind so no one can read the message on it
  • at the end of a meeting Enjolras asks “who wants to go about implementing the action proposals we’ve agreed on for this week?” and is met by a very long awkward silence as everyone averts their eyes and mutters about being very busy
  • a demo ends two hours early, so everyone just files resignedly into the nearest pub and complains about the state of the left over beer all night
  • Bahorel spends half a day making mocking photomanips of the university authority figure they’re campaigning against and facebook-messaging them to Grantaire, who then prints them onto placards he’s stolen from the art department
  • Jehan earnestly starts a conversation about the values of kidnapping as a direct action tactic in the middle of a cafe; random people nearby begin to look increasingly worried, none of the others are sure whether he’s serious or not
  • Joly: “I think we should set up a working group for the open meeting as soon as possible —”
    Combeferre: “no, we already decided on having another meeting in a week to plan the open meeting.”
  • every week Enjolras ends up glaring at the guy in the corner who thinks it’s necessary to bring up “Marxist dialectics” at least once a meeting
  • a demo preparation session devolves into everyone complaining at the top of their voice about the other activist organisations at the university and how dramatically misguided and inferior they are
  • during a march Enjolras Combeferre and Courfeyrac attempt to stage a sit-in in the middle of a road and are promptly moved on by a group of disdainful police when no one else joins them
  • in a flash of mid-protest inspiration, Jehan rewrites the lyrics to ‘Call Me Maybe’ to be about student debt and gets everyone to sing along
  • Bahorel spontaneously throws an egg at a visiting politician. no one knows why he had an egg on him at the time.  
  • I’ll stop now but I COULD GO ON

as a student activist i have some ideas to add

  • Joly and Bossuet attempting to form anti-2001 a space odyssey. they also attempted to create a pro-homocidal robot contingents of the organisation when Feuilly accidentally used this picture from portal 2 on the facebook event for a rally
  • no one remembers who came up with the chant “education should be free not just for the bourgeois” but they love it
  • before his morning coffee Enjolras makes a lot of really bad, monotone chants and gets really passionate about trying to convince everyone to use them
  • courfeyrac legitimately printing a tiny picture of marx poking out behind a picture with the word “radical” in comic sans on all of the pamphlets
  • Jehan wearing their hideously unique rainbow outfit being asked “if you’re a socialist, do you think everyone should have to dress the same, like in grey outfits and stuff” Jehan: looks into the camera like they’re on the office
  • bahorel gets denied a gift bag and lollypop on orientation day from the right wing political group because he’s an activist; this grudge never leaves him

As a tiny first year at my university I don’t have a lot of stories, but adding on to this as another student activist (all based off real scenarios):

-Ferre explaining that he will indicate when the three minutes everyone gets when called on are up by tapping his pen so they know to wrap up what they are saying… cut to Ferre tapping his pen continuously for over a full minute after Grantaire has gone over the time limit until Enj rips the pen from Ferre’s hand and chucks it at Grantaire while shouting “SIT DOWN YOU’RE DONE”

-Getting really weird looks from other students as they discuss (in the middle of a cafe) “is violence necessary in the impending revolution, and if so how much can we condone?” 

-Ferre: So what do we want to do about this issue… (cut to half of Les Amis softly chanting “barricade” as Ferre gives them an exasperated look)

-They have a lot of weird not-serious-just-for-fun revolution plans from just hanging out together because they’re best friends

-One day someone new at the group says it might be time for a revolution, to which Joly shouts “Quick, I’ll grab the waffle mix,” while Bossuet shouts back “Great, and I’ll get the kiddy-pool!” (cue very confused person who never returns to another meeting)

-(Fun fact: it takes 109 boxes of waffle mix to fill a kiddy-pool with waffle mix, which will in turn make over ten thousand waffles… don’t ask me how I know this…)

-Someone (probably Grantaire) doodled memes on a bunch of their posters

-The interpreter never showed up so Marius (an interpreting major) tried his best to fill in, but half way through some of the speeches (I’m looking at you, Enj and R) he got lost because they were talking so fast, so Cosette decided to just start having a conversation with him and asking about what his ideas were instead, which later led to her asking him out on their first date at the end of the meeting (ok, so the date thing didn’t happen in real life in my group, but the whole poor interpreting major now trying to keep up and slightly failing is real)

-Marius: So, I joined a political activist group on campus that’s centered on protecting minorities and improving the rights of the working class

 Eponine: So you joined a socialist group

 Marius: *sighs* yeahhhhh…..

ereini0n:

spacestationtrustfund:

There’s a post going around that’s talking about One Day More. It talks about how Valjean, Cosette, Marius, and Eponine are all “singing about emotions,” whereas Enjolras singing about revolution, France, the republic, etc.

Enjolras is singing about emotions. This post does a pretty good job of explaining why, but to summarise: Enjolras isn’t “emotionless” and “incapable of loving”; he is, in fact, the opposite. It’s not that he can’t love, it’s that

this is him being in love, he’s getting the same fulfillment out of devoting himself to the republic that Marius gets out of devoting himself to Cosette, or that Bishop Myriel gets out of devoting himself to the service of God (x)

It sounds corny to say “Enjolras is in love with liberty” or “Enjolras is dating France,” but it’s right there. The marble lover of liberty. But he hasn’t replaced love of people with love of liberty and revolution, he’s appended it. He loves his friends, and he loves liberty and revolution. It’s not an either/or situation.

It’s also all in the phrasing – he calls it “the barricades of freedom”, and ‘freedom’ is meaningless without anyone to enjoy it. It’s a fabulous concept, that encapsulates many different things. It’s a feeling that when one is truly free, one can achieve anything.
On the next day, he gets more pragmatic and violent. But “One Day More” is all about an emotional preparation, and reason for the violence to come.

I’m not sure how to explain my thoughts about Enjolras dating France correctly.
But it’s like, I think he actually believes that he does – for him, who is much more comfortable in the world of metaphors, he sees Patria, the idea of a woman, as a real, flesh and blood woman. That in the same way that nuns are the Brides of Christ, Enjolras is the Groom of France.
It’s the reason, I think, why he has no earthly connections to women, why he denies himself any and all pleasures of the flesh. He’s like a monk, caught outside of the monastery.
Like a warrior Knight Templar – his quest of freeing his love from bondage is like their quest to free the Holy Land from the infidels. And no means are too harsh, no matter how he may punish himself afterwards. The flesh is only that. His little life doesn’t count at all.

Saving the life of Prouvaire is his “if I had to choose between betraying my country, and betraying my friend, I hope I shall have the guts to betray my country” situation.
Javert knows things about them, and if they were to survive this, it would’ve led to their execution. But it didn’t matter to him – when it came to one of his friends, another moment of his life was more valuable than possible harm coming from it.
But I don’t believe it was strictly an emotional decision – prisoner exchanges happen all the time in war, it’s good for morale.
Only Enjolras is a creature of old-fashioned, honourable battle, not a fight on the streets against people who’d rather be at home. The other side doesn’t play by his rules.

The Worst Les Mis Playlist

pilferingapples:

spacestationtrustfund:

With links to YouTube because I know nothing about playlists! 😀

Valjean – I Fought the Law by The Clash (breakin’ rocks in the hot sun / I fought the law and the law won / oh, I fought the law and the law won)

Javert – Laying Down the Law by The Law (laying down the law / that’s what this badge is for / keeper of the peace)

The Bishop – Take What You Want by ONE OK ROCK (take what you want / take what you want and go / take what you want)

Fantine – The A Team by Ed Sheeran (light’s gone, day’s end / struggling to pay rent / long nights, strange men / and they say, “She’s in the Class A Team, stuck in her daydream / been this way since eighteen”)

Cosette – A Whole New World from Aladdin (a whole new world / a dazzling place I never knew / but when I’m way up here, it’s crystal clear / that now I’m in a whole new world with you)

Marius – Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen (hey, I just met you / and this is crazy / but here’s my number / so call me maybe? / and all the other boys try to chase me)

Eponine – Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee (you’re so stupid and perfect and stupid and perfect / I hate you, I want you / it’s a shame, it’s a shame, it’s a perfect shame / creep under my door and we do it again)

Gavroche – Break the Rules by Charli XCX (I don’t wanna go to school / I just wanna break the rules)

Enjolras – What’s Up by The 4 Non-Blondes (and I try, oh my god do I try / I try all the time in this institution / and I pray, oh my god do I pray / I pray every single day / for a revolution)

Combeferre – I Am Not a Robot by Marina & the Diamonds (guess what? I am not a robot / guess what? I am not a robot, a robot)

Courfeyrac – Lovalot by M.I.A. (they told me this is a free country / I really love a lot but I fight the ones that fight me)

Joly – I’m Yours by Jason Mraz (I’ve been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror / and bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer)

Bossuet – Lucky by Jason Mraz (lucky I’m in love with my best friend / lucky to have been where I have been / lucky to be coming home again)

Bahorel – Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds (don’t you forget about me / don’t don’t don’t / don’t you forget about me)

Feuilly – He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands by Glen Campbell (he’s got everybody here in his hands / he’s got the whole world in his hands / he’s got the whole wide world in his hands)

Prouvaire – The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha (no matter how hopeless, no matter how far / to fight for the right without question of pause / to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause)

Grantaire – Fuck You I’m Drunk by Flogging Molly (you ask me why I’m writing this poem / some call it a tavern but I call it home / fuck you I’m drunk)

Montparnasse – Victorious by Panic! at the Disco (I’m like a scarf trick, it’s all up the sleeve / I taste like magic, waves that swallow quick and deep / throw the bait, catch the shark, bleed the water red / fifty words for murder and I’m every one of them)

Les Thénardier – Paper Planes by M.I.A. (all I wanna do is [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] and [kching!] and take your money / some some some I, some I murder / some I, some I let go)

Georges Pontmercy – Waterloo by ABBA (at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender / oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way / the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself)

the one for Bahorel, I AM SLAIN XD

everyworldneedslove:

northstarfan:

ayellowbirds:

lavishness:

decourfeynated:

lastwingedthing:

swanjolras:

(now rebloggable by request!)

COULD I

yes. yes i could.

this handsome-ass motherfucker is george gordon lord byron, romantic poet, ladies’ man, lords’ man, greek national hero, and all-around beautiful fuckup. yes, he’s dead. yes, he’s wearing a laurel wreath. yes, those bedsheets are artfully draped as fuck. don’t question it. this shit happens.

in january of 1816, byron’s wife left him, mostly because he was pretty terrible to her. a former lover of byron’s, lady caroline lamb, decided that this was a fabulous opportunity to ruin his life. (lady caroline lamb was… a lot like byron, actually. she liked to dress up as a dude, which byron found sexy as fuck, and be scandalous, which byron… also found sexy as fuck. after she and byron broke up, she made a huge bonfire in the english countryside, in which she burnt portraits of byron and things he had given her. then she had local village girls dance around said bonfire, singing a song of her own composition. contrary to popular belief, this song was not “we are never ever getting back together”.)

byron had told ms. lamb quite a lot of things he shouldn’t have; the most pertinent were that a) he was getting it on with a fuckload of dudes and b) he was also getting it on with his own half-sister, augusta. caroline lamb, being caroline lamb, told byron’s newly estranged wife. at which point the sodomy and incest made it into the divorce papers. at which point the entirety of england was suddenly talking about it.

soooooo amidst a cloud of scandal byron swanned off to switzerland with a cute young doctor (though not before throwing a goodbye party of viking proportions, which actually involved a cup made out of a real human skull that he had found on his grounds) and settled in a gorgeous house by a lake to do some artful lounging. 

while byron had been sleeping with everyone in sight, percy shelley and mary godwin had been having troubles of their own. mary’s dad was a leftist radical, but wasn’t a big fan of his political followers (i.e., percy) coming around to sleep with his daughter. percy and mary did not give a fuck, and proceeded to make out on mary’s mother’s grave. this is literally true.

unfortunately, percy was already married, so he and mary proceeded to fuck off to switzerland with mary’s stepsister claire clairmont, whereupon they got their own house by the lake and decided to make friends with their new neighbor.

so, among byron, his doctor, percy, mary, and claire— well, mary and claire were not sleeping together, and i’m pretty sure the doctor was only sleeping with byron? but. apart from that.

other interesting events of those months were mary shelley inventing science fiction, byron hypnotizing the doctor into jumping off a balcony, and the doctor and byron sort of accidentally co-inventing what would become dracula.

it was a hell of a summer.

anyway, byron proceeded to get claire pregnant, and percy’s first wife died, and the doctor got pissy about being generally left out of everything fun and went back to england, and everyone sort of wandered over to italy and almost got arrested a few times, and then byron stole his baby from claire and stuck it in a convent, where it died.

then percy got caught in the middle of a storm and died, dramatically, and they burnt his body on the beach. mary got to keep his heart, which remained unburnt. they found its remains among her belongings when she died at the ripe old age of 53. it was very romantic. capital r.

and then byron decided it would be a great idea to help liberate greece from the turks, so he went to greece and got stuck in the middle of a fucking swamp doing literally nothing except giving people money and being sexy in order to get other english people to give greece money. and then he caught some fucking swamp disease, and his doctors were terrible, upon which he died.

there’s more— byron’s fake gay autobiographical poem, percy’s fondness for explosives, mary’s sassy feminist mother— but this has gotten long enough. i sure hope it’s been helpful, though!

mary’s sassy feminist mother? mary motherfucking wollstonecraft. nbd tho!

also ada lovelace is the spawn of lord byron so yeah there’s that too

HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW THAT ADA LOVELACE WAS BYRON’S DAUGHTER? LIKE, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAD NEVER LEARNED THAT?  Dude, this whole family is amazeballs and should be canonized in an 8-part HBO miniseries called “BYRON RUINS EVERYTHING BUT SOMEHOW YOU DON’T CARE”.

This clique of what would nowadays basically be a bunch of mall goths are ultimately responsible for some of the most influential works of speculative fiction, on top of being the forebears of the first computer programmer.

There’s a reason Ada’s mom didn’t want her associating with poets.

This seems like an excellent time to remind people that Sydney Padua’s delightful take on Ada Lovelace is available in graphic novel form:

Also check out this really amazing kid’s mystery (with slightly smudged timeline but the author explains it all in the afterward including the ridiculous entanglement of relationships)!

thecandlesticksfromlesmis:

ouiapollo:

brohorel:

ouiapollo:

mardisoir:

pilferingapples:

thecandlesticksfromlesmis:

like??????¿¿¿¿when the first few notes of Les Mis start to play and…..?? Ur. Heart. Stops. !!!!! And ur CHEST FEELS WARM AND LIGHT and tears ARE THERE!! And you’re like HOLY GOSH DARM DAMN!!!!!!! I am. Home. I AM HOME. i am home.

#talk to me about what makes you cry in les mis and let me cry with u (OP)

Fantine when she’s angry and trying to fight and hang on! It really varies by performer, but geez a good fierce Fantine can break my heart ten times in the factory scene.

(Also, obviously, the heartbreaking emotional performance of the candlesticks. It’s a tough role, but a good performer can steal the whole show right there.)

They will come one and all, they will come when we call!
– everything after this point is just Ugly Crying

oh christ they will come when we call just plunges me into despair lmao.. sometimes just thinking about the bishop being so nice makes me a little tearful. wtf.
tell cosette i love her and i’ll see her when i wake – instant tears.
i will stay with you til you are sleeping. also tears. she’s not going to sleep marius. she’s dying. i am so sad. 
the moment. the. you know the one. we all know the one.
the turning song without fail gets me choked up lol. like even if i’ve been fine through the rest of it.. someone used to cradle them/and kiss them when they cried is guaranteed ugly crying.
then honestly? to love another person is to see the face of god. the whole rest of the epilogue. i just weep my way through it. it’s awful. this whole thing is awful oh my god why do we do this to ourselves

“He told me that I have a soul, how does he know?” is always a sure way to break me.

Also, “our little lives don’t count at all!” and I’m kind of surprised I haven’t seen people talking about this line more because I feel like it is a really big deal? That is an intense opinion, and I know Enjolras is Mr. Intense, but like. Life has to count, otherwise what are you fighting for. I dunno, I think I read too much into it, but it always feels to me like an offhand comment that actually says so much more, and it hurts my whole heart.

And then of course, Javert’s Suicide, because it is the most heart-wrenching thing in the whole entire world to me.

our little lives don’t count at all! actually really gets to me too now you mention it oh … man it says so much about enjolras as a character and the practically superhuman level of his devotion to the cause and how he may come across as self-righteous but really is probably the complete opposite, actually, he’s probably about as selfless as it gets & seems to treat himself as a vessel more than a person .. okay you thought you read too much into this ? what am i doing i need to stop derailing this post lma o

thank you all for your tears

but the correct answer was The Candlestick’s performance so ten sadness points to @pilferingapples  

how did you feel about the supergirl flash musical?

well..

so let’s start with what I liked:

-the concept
-Kara and Barry interacting is always fun! they’re both such cute little nerdy balls of sunshine
-any Jeremy Jordan singing is better than no Jeremy Jordan singing
-the Music Meister
-the looks on Kara and Barry’s faces when they saw not-Mon-El and not-Iris were honestly so gold
-the Superfriends song
-the ending scene with Barry singing to Iris oh my god I don’t even watch The Flash and I thought my heart was going to burst that was so cute

It was pretty great in a lot of ways! It was ridiculous and I love that! I don’t like serious things. I like Kara and Barry and musicals!

But overall I was pretty disappointed?

Most of my problem with it was just that I really don’t like Mon-El and Kara together, so I was just really not into the whole thing with their love saving the day and being the center of everything. Like I’m one of the people who actually doesn’t dislike Mon-El, and I don’t think he should never be forgiven, but I think that he’s terrible for Kara romantically and I think the forgiveness should have come like.. more than 24 hours later. The episode was also just a whole lot more alloromantic and straight than I signed up for.

Also, I wanted more of the characters involved? Like I know that technically it was an episode of The Flash so it makes more sense for more of those characters to be there but it was a crossover so I was expecting to see some Supergirl people there? I’m so glad not-Winn was there but he was barely there and they could have had some others. I deserve to see Lena Luthor in a musical in Kara’s head, damn it.

My other issue was that for a musical I wasn’t crazy about the musical aspect. There wasn’t really as much song as I expected and the songs that did exist were mostly really uninspiring. I was kind of surprised that most were pre-existing songs kind of just thrown in? I don’t know, I just thought the transitions from not singing to singing were really awkward and I know it’s because it’s not a real musical and they were confused but as a musical fan I was just like Oh :(. I almost fell asleep during the song the three dads sang.

So like I didn’t hate the episode but I’m super resentful about the way the Mon-El situation went down and the music was underwhelming

i found this post in my drafts and have ZERO memory of writing it (thank u alcohol) so im gonna put it in my queue lol

eve-baird:

  • ok but imagine 
  • Bitty comes out to his parents but he doesn’t tell them about Jack, thinks it’s for the best, maybe to ease his parents into things or maybe to keep the pool of People Who Know as small as possible 
  • and like yeah Ransom and Holster are super oblivious but Suzanne Bittle is not, not when it comes to her son, because she is a certified Nosy Southern Mother and she can see he’s been acting differently, happier but quieter, always on his phone and blushing when she asks about boys
  • and he talks about the team a LOT 
  • Jack’s one of his best friends and he’s just started his NHL career, so of course Bitty’s never gonna shut up about Jack
  • (Same goes for Shitty and law school. And eventually Ransom and med school. Dicky is proud of his friends and wants everyone to know. He gets that trait from Suzanne, she understands)
  • but he keeps talking about this one Boy, how sweet he is and how his smile is like a sack of puppies and how bitty’s always making this boy do things with him like baking and getting froyo and going shopping and Suzanne is like. Yes. This must be Dicky’s secret boyfriend. 
  •  the next family weekend or whatever, Suzanne demands to meet this Chowder boy who’s stolen Bitty’s heart
  • Bitty is both confused and mortified

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