“It Was An Act Of Self-preservation — However Misguided It Was”.

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Mimi Romanelli

pick your poison LMAOOO

E/R is so funny to me as a ship abbreviation because it’s so non-obvious who it is referring to unless you read the Les Amis sections of Les Miserables pretty closely and remember them in detail, or are already deeply immersed in the fandom. I have never seen anyone refer to it as E/G.

I wonder if any newcomers to the fandom have mistaken it for Enjolras/Republic or Enjolras/Revolution (the only canon Enjolras ships 😆).

in all timelines, in all possibilities, only you

ok, little rant about a use of a leitmotif in les mis that i think has slipped under most people's radars!

so you the know the police leitmotif? the "tell me quickly what's the story/who saw what and why and where/let him give a full description/let him answer to javert!" tune that appears whenever somebody gets arrested?

now turn your ear to javert's suicide, specifically the "i am reaching but i fall/and the stars are black and cold" part. it took me a while to notice, but this whole section of the song is just a snippet of the arrest leitmotif:

but he never completes it. the snippet repeats and repeats. try as he might, he finds himself unable to sing the same old song of Justice and Law and Righteousness and Order. he's like a jammed cassette player spitting out the same second of music over and over and over and over again, unable to follow his old ways, but unable to let them go. he's stuck, but he will keep throwing himself against the walls of the cage.

javert is desperately trying to run on his old tracks of thought, but, as vicky h puts it, he experiences "the derailment of a soul, the shattering of an integrity irresistibly propelled in a straight line and dashed against God".

: )

the crushing weight of one manageable task

I think I was just born with something dark and ugly inside of me. Always waiting to be found out.

planetarium - adrienne rich/@twoheadedfawnn/ugly, bitter, and true - suzanne rivecca/a burning hill - mitski/a hora da estrela- clarice lispector/ @100493503004422/sharp objects - gillian flynn