"... this slim, beflanneled, perversion of masculinity ..."

Bites you bites you bites you bites you

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

your protégé jerks off to the thought of surpassing you

wait Fritz has been dead for exactly 240 slutty years hasn't he

✨️240 slutty slutty years✨️

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

They existed *before beetles*

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

struggling to articulate this but there is something so tragic about the way that jean valjean & fantine sort of parallel each other but because of the circumstances & situation that they meet each other that parallel is always disjointed (offset?) & only partially ever recognised. like they both undergo a perceived 'moral fall' which can't be recovered from & for which they're alienated from society & mistreated & can't earn a living etc, they both do this to support children, they both end up in a sort of desperate & despised state etc. but the problem is that at the point where this is happening to fantine (at least the later part) jean valjean has already faked his identity and has accrued an amount of status and wealth that sets him in a privileged position over fantine through which he unwittingly does her harm (a very similar sort of harm which had been done to him!!), and in which position the other characters consistently view him as her better, and because of that privilege and his hm. uncertainty (?) neglect (?) around women & women's issues he doesn't realise this harm has been done for a long time. and so rather than there being a sense of understanding or connection like you get with some character parallels you only get this miserable mismatched situation! and like i think eventually when they do meet I think jean valjean at least on his side probably very much sees some of himself in her and visibly does really feel for her, but even then it's one sided & fantine til she dies sees him only as first a privileged man who has done her harm and then as a privileged man who is helping her (and then the line about his being a convict is part of the outburst that kills her). it's not until jean valjean has revealed his identity and fantine is dying/dead that this sort of likeness between them is really acknowledged (besides javert, who has e.g. the slightly vague "on the other hand, at the very bottom of his thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as to what this mayor might be" and then "'It’s a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where women of the town are cared for like countesses!'") & even then it's from third parties who don't understand or feel for them at all, framed as a dismissal. "Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the town."