Between Xanadu and Eldorado

I’ve already wished you all a Happy Barricade Day yesterday. So have a Maybe-A-Little-Not-As-Happy Barricade Day today. ;)

Since we all know (by now) what a cheerfully heartless, lying, impenitent bastard I really am, here, have a highly, highly abbreviated version of Combeferre’s speech on me. I realise it’s not what his actual speech is about, but I was thinking about what Hugo said about Combeferre not being an orphan and about to get himself killed, and decided that what I really wanted to do was to frame his speech mainly in the context of the named Amis* and what would follow in the days after their deaths. [— That, and if I actually illustrated his speech in its proper context, it would have taken far more pages, and a finger that was Actually Functional And Very Much Not In Pain.]

Why, for gods’ sake? Because I can.

[And yes, I’ve snuck in people and things all over the place. Also because.]

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“A National Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras lowered his gun, saying: ‘It seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower.’”

to a gentler year 🐎

In every lifetime.

Legacy 🌄

Happy 40th anniversary to the Legend of Zelda series!!!! My favorite series of all time; here’s to many more years of adventure!!

Went to go see the movie bout some pretty amazing digging

this was my favourite part

My spicy hot take is that Caine’s art is fine, and it’s also shit. What I mean is: it’s fine that Caine’s art is shit. The actual bad thing is that he pressures/forces the humans to engage with it against their will. there’s nothing wrong with Caine creating cringey stupid self-indulgent art that humans don’t like, and that’s not a problem in need of “fixing,” even though Caine has been trained to believe that…..because the actual problem isn’t the quality of the art itself, it’s Caine’s relationship to the humans and to his own personhood. He feels imprisoned into a purpose he had no control over choosing, and his art is what he does have control over, which leads to him becoming wildly insecure & defensive over it, resisting the humans “taking control” over it with their suggestions.

IMHO the thing Caine actually needs to learn is that “no one is going to horrifically punish you for being bad at art. Anymore. And also “you’re not just a content generation machine & are able to interact with people in other ways; You won’t be abandoned alone forever if you don’t have ‘good’ content to share. Anymore.”

Caine not realizing these things is why his relationship with the humans is so broken. Any time they try to criticize him for being unkind or careless, all he hears is a criticism of his Content being bad—- and all he hears under that is an accusation that he’s defective, and a threat of abandonment/punishment.

North West basement 3

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