Let us greet together this new year which ages our friendship without aging our hearts.

Andrew Minyard, Literature Major ("Hell hath no fury" , "Jean Valjean") getting a PhD just to piss off Aaron so they're both Dr. Minyard is just--

To anyone struggling with their mental health this holiday season: read Les miserables by Victor Hugo

it won't help, but at least then you'll know about the sewers

you all talk about wanting your men to be sluttier but when i, victor hugo,

Scholars/Academics when someone suggests a fictional character who never once shows any interest in women and constantly rambles about how much they adore their male best friends and describes what they love about their appearance in intricate details (or vice versa if they’re a woman) and then fall into a deep depression when that best friend dies might be gay (it’s from the 1800s and gays only in modern Disney cartoon and Heartstopper) (you’re only allowed to speculate an old character is gay if they’re abusive and terrible):

rest in peace grantaire, you would have loved denny's

i consider myself a fairly calm person but seeing les mis (musical) lyrics attributed to victor hugo makes me want to commit multiple violent crimes

trying to dress jaskier in chapter one of my new fic vs knowing that describing a color as burgundy implies the existence of france

I'm honestly shocked that since Emotion/Representation aired I've yet to see anyone do anything at all with Felix and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein??? I think about it every day it's literally THE Felix piece of media. It's his entire character thesis. What are we doing guys

I KNOW I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT THE OTHER DAY

To be fair I have seen a few people headcanoning it as one of Felix’s favourite books (Which yes. Absolutely. 1,000,000%) but there hasn’t been any fics/art/edits/etc. about it yet to my knowledge. My copy is at my parents’ and in French but I am tempted to find an English PDF since it’s been public domain for a good while now. The web weave potential is insane.

I have many thoughts about Felix and literature in general… I have him quote Cyrano de Bergerac all the time in my fics, for example. I was thinking of starting a list of works of art and literature he’d enjoy, so I’ll take this as a sign to get writing! I can get my fandom friends to make some suggestions as well! 📝

Edit: @bittersweetresilience got us covered, our honour is safe 💜🦚

I finished Les Misérables last night and I have some thoughts-

I don't know if its a quirk of my copy from ~1930 and someone did some trimming, but the Waterloo digression was... not as excessive as I had been led to believe? And did play an (albeit minor) role in establishing characterization?

Similarly, I was expecting more time with Marius' friends- besides Courfeyrac, it seems like they just kind of pop up at the barricade, have some noble conversations, and die.

Frankly I found Marius to be rather annoying, and deeply stupid at times. I don't CARE if Thenardier may have "rescued" your father, HE IS PLOTTING MURDER. Of COURSE the mysterious man with the mysterious beautiful daughter changed their habits, you are STALKING them.

The sewer part, charmingly referred to as 'cloaca' in my translation, was... as expected. And at least had more narrative relevance than Hugo's architecture rant in Notre Dame de Paris.

Dang, Jean Valjean really loves his imitation jet beads.

i like how in the book when marius comes and threatens to blow up the barricade everyone is happy to see him and grateful, but in the movie everyone acts mildly concerned annoyed with him and enjolras takes his torch away like he’s a toddler

Rip Grantaire you would've loved saying "AUGH thenk I loike this luttle loife" every time something bad happens to you

After months of Art block I drew modern!Enj again 😩😩😩 as I procrastinate on my final Hw, I hope you like it! I feel like my art has become a lot more stiff but yk what I’m gonna work to fix it

when Victor Hugo said

Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for a health that is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after tomorrow the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them.

like congrats for reaching the same conclusions i did as a 12 year old girl..? did you get this from the blog i had in middle school?

this is literally the funniest fucking line ive ever read in a fanfic ever