LES MISRABLES + TEXT POSTS

LES MISÉRABLES + TEXT POSTS

Tarot Card-esque piece based off of this book cover joey @0zzysaurus sent me!

Have a Creechur. Working on his design a wee bit I haven’t really got it right yet but I’m working on it I’m working on it

Making Christmas cookies with the homie.

yknow sue me but I feel like this isn't actually true

Cosette is a joy! Just imagine how much better the life could have been if only Cosette's men took her seriously, if they explained the problem to her. For her, unlike Marius, Valjean is a human being and her father, regardless of his past. But no—one is overwhelmed by self-loathing and self-destruction, the other by class prejudices. Poor Cosette must be utterly confused by this radical change in her father’s behaviour. Of course, he had his peculiarities before, but this is too much, especially when the cause of these changes is unknown: he refuses to kiss and embrace her, addresses her ‘vous,’ insists on been called ‘Monsieur Jean,’ stating that Cosette doesn’t need a father. All of this must have hurt Cosette deeply. No wonder she starts questioning her happiness: “Are you angry with me because I am happy?” And this is the only thing that shook Valjean and made him react momentarily as a loving father.

Valjean’s quest to slowly self-destruction begins: “Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept.”

And this passage—something Valjean says—makes me giggle, despite the sad context: “I saw a piece of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker’s. If I were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is pretty.” Of course, you would treat yourself to this! We already know about Valjean’s strange taste in furniture and design from the way he decorated Cosette’s room and the whole house on the Rue de l’Homme Armé. And it’s so queer!