Crying over Jean Valjean

❤️ Jean Valjean/Robert ❤️

If you have never seen the 1952 adaptation, hear me out. (If you did, chances are you're already sold on this idea.)

Who is Robert, you may ask? "I have read the brick multiple times, there is not a single Robert in there", you might be about to protest. Well, the movie adaptation of 1952 dared to ask what not many have dared: what if there are not enough characters in Les Mis? What if Valjean... had a husband?

The defining trait of the 1952 movie is that every man falls in love with Valjean at first glance. Robert is no exception to that. He runs a pottery studio - one day, a strange man comes in there, insults his product, then beats him in arm wrestling. Of course he falls in love. Madeleine gives him a few pointers, and together they transform his little shop into a successful factory.

Years later, having recieved the proposition to become a mayor, Madeleine comes clean to Robert about his past - only for Robert to reveal that he knew that since day one, and it changes nothing for him. After Arras, Valjean signs the factory to him, and entrusts him with Cosette's care.

After leaving the convent, Valjean and Cosette move back in with Robert. Valjean continues to confide in Robert about everything. Robert continues to be extremely protective - when Valjean and Javert arrive at their home with half-dead Marius, Robert tries to strangle Javert.

I cannot stress enough how canon Valjean's marriage to his buff potter husband Robert is. At least in the scope of this one adaptation.

more acrylic practice, background heavily referencing Poly Bernatene's (polybernatene) "El hombre que atraviesa las paredes"

cosette can have as many moms as she wants now. as a treat

myriel adventures (+husband this time)

Another steal for Fantine/Simplice for @lesmisshippingshowdown !

Inspired by favorite exploding trainwreck of an adaptation, LM 1948! What if Simplice were not just an honest nun but also a SCIENCE NUN with her own lab where she does Medical Research to try and find ways to help the people in her care?

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(and what if her experiments found something that helped Fantine actually recover from her illness and then they went and got Cosette and were fine and happy forever--)

I used to be ashamed of myself, always feeling inadequate. This year, I understood my inferiority complex and began to strive for betterment instead of feeling inadequate. I also came to terms with my own frustrations.

During the Les Miserables tour in Taiwan, I happened to be able to give a gift to Bradey Jaden. That same day, he asked me on Instagram do I take commissions, and later told me he loved my work.

I didn't receive many congratulations from others, maybe they thinks the whole instagram things is fake, but I knew I should stop treating myself poorly!

I started exploring new techniques in my drawings, and I feel like I've made a lot of progress. Having my work appreciated by an actor I admire is truly rare and precious. With this, I realized that I should have more courage to try more, whether it is my work or my life.

One Day More!!!

In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him back towards the Bishop’s holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the convent through humility.

Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed as he knelt before the sister.

It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God.