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Watching the The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976 - 1977), a grim, hopeless, 70's British adaptation that looks like it was shot in an empty supermarket - lots of empty, dark, "minimal" background. Pretty faithful to the book, great characterizations, almost a full cast (Gudule is missing as usual and also no Louis XI). Come join us and get depressed, yay!
#The Hunchback of Notre Dame#stream#Notre Dame de Paris#Victor Hugo#Quasimodo#Esmeralda#claude frollo#and the whole gang
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I really LOVE the symbolism of Jean Valjean giving up his National Guard uniform at the barricade.
In earlier chapters, the National Guard uniform represented Jean Valjean’s disguise as a “respectable law-abiding citizen.” It was something he wore to reassure himself he was safe whenever he was frightened of his secret coming out.
But one of Jean Valjean’s character flaws is that he’s become unhealthily obsessed with worshiping these symbols of “bourgeois social acceptance”/ “respectability.” He worships them in large part because that shallow appearance of respectability really is the only thing keeping him out of prison. His survival depends on how well he can keep up his act. His freedom depends on whether he can look and dress like a bourgeois.
Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois.
But not only does he see the National Guard uniform as a means to an end— as something that will help him pretend to be respectable— he also, tragically, sees it as something that will make Cosette love him.
He doesn’t understand that Cosette loves him for his kindness. He seems to think she loves him for his shallow surface-level facade of a “proper gentleman.” He looks at wealthier men on horseback with even fancier uniforms and thinks that if he had uniforms like that, Cosette would love him more:
He once chanced to see a general on horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice for Cosette…..
After Jean Valjean and Cosette see the chain gang, Jean Valjean is violently thrown back into trauma-filled self-loathing and terror that he’ll be “found out.” As a result, he spends the next week trying to distract Cosette by taking her out to festivals— and wears his National Guard uniform to them:
Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking himself to shelter.
The National Guard uniform is basically the symbol of Jean Valjean’s disguise as Fauchelevent. It’s the tenuous “shelter” he finds in symbols of bourgeois respectability.
So when he gives it up at the barricade, he’s finally sacrificing all of that.
The barricade rebels are in a situation that’s basically a more extreme/exaggerated version of what Jean Valjean has been living through. Anyone who has a National Guard uniform will be seen as a respectable law-abiding citizen, and be able to walk past law enforcement unharmed. Anyone who does not have that shelter of respectability will be marked as a rebel/criminal.
So when Jean Valjean gives up his coat to save someone else, it shows that he’s finally giving up that shelter. I think it’s one of our first clear signs that no matter what happens at the barricade, he will never be able to go back to being “Monsieur Fauchelevent” again.
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Robert Doisneau, "Un petit gang de Paris en 1950"
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Broaden Your Horizons 2024
A Non-Fiction Rec List by Salvadorbonaparte
Books
Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture - Jeffrey Shandler
A Good Man in Evil Times: The Heroic Story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes -- The Man Who Saved the Lives of Countless Refugess in World War II - Jose-Alain Fralon, Peter Graham (trans.)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
Erebus: The Story of a Ship - Michael Palin
Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language - Daniel Tammet
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life - Ian Gibson
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in - Roger Fisher, William Ury
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition - Paul Watson
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny - Amartya Sen
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating - Alan Alda
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Gaston Dorren, Alison Edwards (trans.)
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film - Harry M. Benshoff
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest - Wade Davis
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour - Kate Fox
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She - Dennis Baron
Documentaries
Bowling for Columbine
Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America
ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Podcasts
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Freaks and Psychos: The Disability in Horror Podcast
Lingthusiasm
Ologies with Alie Ward
Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
The Sewers of Paris
#non fiction#nonfiction#book recs#podcasts#documentaries#documentary#podcast recs#book recommendations#podcast recommendations#rec list
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OTD 2006, a 23-year-old French-Moroccan Jew by the name of Ilan Halimi was brutally murdered for simply being Jewish.
ה׳ יקום דמו 🕯️
His killers, a gang that went by the name of Les Barbares or “the Barbarians”, kidnapped Halimi, held him hostage for 24 days before burning him alive and dumping his body near a train station in the Paris suburb of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois. Halimi was found alive by a local, still fighting for his life, with 80 percent of his body deformed and disfigured by acid burns, an ear and toe cut off and his genitals mutilated. He died on his way to the hospital.
During the investigation, key members of the group confessed that they believed that all Jews are rich, which motivated them to target Halimi, although he came from the same lower-class, Parisian suburb as the abductors did. The abductors also threatened the Halimi family to send money from the “Jewish community” and “rabbis” if they could not afford the 450,000 euro ransom.
This instance of the re-emergence of old antisemitic canards associating Jews with money and power demonstrates the lethality of bigotry towards Jews.
The aftermath of the Ilan Halimi case unfortunately only gained French national attention. Reactions from the global community were scarce, with only the United States Helsinki Commission holding a briefing recognizing the omnipresence of antisemitism in the modern world.
While all those directly implicated in the abduction of Halimi were sentenced to heavy dues for their crimes, a Halimi relative quotes, “The important thing for me is not handing out heavier jail terms, honestly. The important thing is to open this to the press and public and make it a learning experience”. Unfortunately, when the world sits silently as Jews are murdered overtly, clearly the world holdsno intention for a lesson to be learned.
The cases of the murder of Mireille Knoll, Sarah Halimi (no relation) and others that followed Ilan Halimi’s serve to prove that lethal antisemitism is very much alive in France today.
May his memory be a blessing
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you said to an anon yesterday that lestat would probably feel relieved that louis is with armand as it means that louis will be protected. what did you mean by that?:) how does armand protect him in the books and in the show as well?
i’ve only read iwtv so i only know that much really. i’m sorry if this makes it a silly question, i just don’t absorb books very well or show material as my brain gets muddled. also, this isn’t armand hate, i adore him:)
All good. :)
Armand is a very complicated character, and he often does things that he thinks are right, even though others may see it... differently. :)
Lestat goes to Armand to ask for blood in the book, but also tells him about Louis (and Claudia), in a desperate attempt to save their lives. Because he knows of the old rules, he knows Armand. When Armand falls for Louis there it means that he will not kill Louis.
That is an aspect of that in (the) IWTV (book).
Later on there is a phase where Louis lives with Armand in New York, at Trinity Gate. It's after Lestat has let the "ever-multiplying" vampires drive him from NOLA... because he is loathe to kill them. Armand had roused him in his coma once to get rid of the riff raff, but later, after Merrick Lestat does not like going after them anymore:
This is from "Prince Lestat" (which Rolin has already stated to take from):
The mavericks multiplying everywhere were causing trouble for one another, and their gang fights and brawls have made life ugly for the rest of us. And they think nothing of trying to burn with re or decapitate any other blood drinker who gets in their way.
It is chaos.
But who am I to police these preternatural nincompoops?
When have I ever been on the side of law and order? I’m supposed to be the rebellious one, l’enfant terrible. So I let them drive me away out of the cities, and even from New Orleans, I let them drive me away. My beloved Louis de Pointe du Lac left soon after, and from that time on lived in New York with Armand.
Armand keeps the island of Manhattan safe for them—Louis, Armand, and two young blood drinkers, Benjamin and Sybelle, and whoever else joins them in their palatial digs on the Upper East Side.
No surprises there. Armand has always been skilled at destroying those who offend him. He was after all for hundreds of years the coven master of the old Children of Satan in Paris, and he’d burn to ashes any blood drinker who didn’t obey the vicious old rules of those miserable religious fanatics. He’s autocratic, ruthless. Well, he can have that mission."
Armand protects Louis. Armand keeps New York "safe". I think we are looking at a mix of Merrick and PL era with the show's Dubai penthouse.
Armand protects Louis, even "from himself", too, as was stated rather plainly in season 1. It was also already said by Assad and the others (and I mean it's been clear now through the trailers and teasers) that Armand has at least influenced Louis' memories... probably to keep him from (fatally) painful ones. Armand is a big spell and mind gift user after all :)
I honestly think that all Armand has done/will be shown to have done to/with Louis was to protect him - in the way he saw fit.
That is how Armand, as a centuries old coven master operates - he deals with things as he sees fit.
Loving Louis... means Armand won't kill him. Will protect him, too.
Unfortunately (for Claudia, and others) it is as simple as that. Because Armand could not love her.
#Anonymous#asks#ask nalyra#amc iwtv#iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#interview with the vampire amc#iwtv amc#iwtv 2022#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#the brat prince#iwtv lestat#iwtv louis#louis de pointe du lac#beautiful one#iwtv armand#armand#trinity gate#prince lestat#book quotes
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Carmen Miranda - The Brazilian Bombshell
Carmen Miranda (born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in Marco de Canaveses, Porto on February 9, 1909 – 5 August 1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", she was known for her sass and signature fruit hat outfit that she wore in her American films.
Miranda was introduced to a composer while working at her family's inn, and she soon recorded her first single ("Não vá Simbora") in 1929. She then signed a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, the most popular Brazilian station of the 1930s. Her rise to stardom in Brazil was linked to the growth of a native style of music: the samba.
At the invitation of US show business impresario, Lee Shubert, who saw her perform in Rio's Cassino da Urca, she came to Broadway and starred in hit musicals: The Streets of Paris and Sons o' Fun.
Her fame grew quickly, and she was formally presented to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a White House banquet shortly after her arrival in the US.
When news of Broadway's latest star (known as the Brazilian Bombshell) reached Hollywood, Twentieth Century-Fox offered her a contract in 1941. Her most memorable film performances are in the musical numbers of films such as Week-End in Havana (1941) and The Gang's All Here (1943).
After World War II, Miranda's films at Fox were produced in black-and-white, indicative of Hollywood's diminishing interest in her. As a result, Miranda decided to produce her own films to limited success. Although her film career was faltering, her musical career remained solid and she was still a popular nightclub attraction. She continued to tour the US, Europe, and Latin America.
After filming a segment for the NBC variety series The Jimmy Durante Show, where complained of feeling unwell, she died at home from a heart attack. She was 46 years old.
Legacy:
Chosen by former Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas as a goodwill ambassador in the United States
Was the first contract singer in Brazilian radio history; subsequently, the highest-paid radio singer in Brazil in the 1930s
Was Hollywood's highest-paid entertainer and the top female taxpayer in the US in 1945, earning more than $200,000 that year
Has a museum in Rio de Janeiro, Museu Carmen Miranda, established in her honor in 1976
Received the Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique Grande Oficial, a Portuguese order of knighthood, in 1995
Has a square in Hollywood named Carmen Miranda Square with a ceremony headed by honorary mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant and attended by Brazilian consul general Jorió Gama in 1998
Was one of 500 stars nominated for the American Film Institute's 50 greatest screen legends in 1999
Honored by the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in 2005 and the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo in 2006 with a Carmen Miranda Forever exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her death
Bestowed the Ordem do Mérito Cultural by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil in 2009
Was a part of a set of commemorative US Postal Service Latin Music Legends stamps, painted by Rafael Lopez, in 2011
Honored in the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony with a tribute
Was the first Latin American star to be invited to leave hand and footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Was the first South American honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures in 1960, located at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard
#Carmen Miranda#The Brazilian Bombshell#Brazilian Bombshell#Samba#Chiquita Banana#Cantora Do It#Ditadora Risonha do Samba#A Pequena Notável#Silent Films#Silent Movies#Silent Era#Silent Film Stars#Golden Age of Hollywood#Classic Hollywood#Film Classics#Classic Films#Old Hollywood#Vintage Hollywood#Hollywood#Movie Star#Hollywood Walk of Fame#Walk of Fame#Movie Legends#Actress#hollywood actresses#hollywood icons#hollywood legend#movie stars#1900s
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The Panther / The Vampire
My favourite poem is "Der Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, an Austrian poet that wrote a beautiful but very sad poem about a panther in enclosure that's slowly losing it sense of self and the world around it. It reminds me a lot of Astarion and we know he likes poetry, so I wanted to share. English translation first, then the original German text:
The Panther (In Jardin des Plantes, Paris)
His gaze against the sweeping of the bars
has grown so weary, it can hold no more.
To him, there seem to be a thousand bars
and back behind those thousand bars no world.
The soft the supple step and sturdy pace,
that in the smallest of all circles turns,
moves like a dance of strength around a core
in which a mighty will is standing stunned.
Only at times the pupil’s curtain slides
up soundlessly — . An image enters then,
goes through the tensioned stillness of the limbs —
and in the heart ceases to be.
Der Panther (Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris)
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.
Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf –. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille –
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.
(Source)
#astarion#astarion ancunin#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#der panther#the panther#poetry#rainer maria rilke#feels
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POSITIVELY GEEKING ABOUT THE IWTV S2 TEASER TRAILER
HERE ARE SOME THINGS I’VE NOTICED BECAUSE MY BRAIN IS SO FRIED
-Armand is now sitting at the interview table-his identity is revealed, and thus he no longer stands by Louis’s side in his servant Rashid persona.
He looks up at Louis ominously-controlling what he says?
He now has a voiceover-he is now an active participant in the interview? He describes Paris FOR Louis “Paris was XYZ for Louis”, taking away his agency. I guess we can pretty much assume the “Armand is controlling the narrative” is canon lol
He’s wearing white!!! (no longer matching with Louis’s off putting minimalist goth)
-VAMPIRE BIKER GANG!
I wonder if we’ll see Killer again
-DELAINEY! She looks so cool! Of course I’ll miss Bailey’s performance but I cannot wait to see her!
Claudia seems to be wearing significantly more childish clothing, which we know she resents. She’s even performing in the theatre in a very doll-like roll. Is it her own choice? What’s her motive? Perhaps playing up her innocence to avoid suspicion of Lestat’s murder?
-MADELEINE! I think my theory that they’re changing Madeleine to be Claudia’s lover instead of mother may be right-I saw a lot of longing glances 🫣
-EVERYTHING about the Theatre and Armand. The fashion? The spectacle? The horror? YUMMMMMM. YUMMMMM!!!!!!
Armand seems to have a different accent here than when he was masquerading as Rashid. As Rashid, he had a very posh English accent but he seems to have a vaguely French(?) accent in the teaser (what Armand’s accent would be is also a wonder to me because he’s Ukrainian but spent the majority of his life in Italy and France).
Him pronouncing Paris and Lestat de Lioncourt really excessively Frenchly threw me through a loop. Lestah de Leeoncourh. Parieee. Lol.
-THE LESTAT PAINTING
God Louis can never catch a break lmaooo 😭 The CO-FOUNDER
Also HE’S WEARING THE WOLF CLOAK 🥲 We know Nicki was casted. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT FLASHBACKS???
As you can tell I’m very normal and well-adjusted
#iwtv s2#iwtv#armand#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#claudia de pointe du lac#jacob anderson#sam reid#assad zaman#delainey hayles#sdcc23#interview with the vampire
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I found it interesting/useful to make a list of all the songs in Heartstopper Season One paired with what's happening in the show while the song plays, so I decided to do the same for Season Two! Obviously, spoilers ahead:
1. Shatter - opening scene, Charlie and Nick texting and meeting at school
2. Out of My League - sleepover!
3. Pressure to Party - sleepover dancing!
4. The Beach - Charlie telling Tori he'll make sure it's better for Nick; end of episode one
5. Coming of Age - beginning of episode 2; parent teacher conferences
6. Paradise - playing with Nellie in the park and then kissing and looking at the photos
7. Welcome to the Sidelines - Elle at the art school open day making friends
8. You Wouldn't Like Me - sad texting about being grounded and it being hard to come out; Nick's reassuring voice message; Tao looking at posts of Elle and her new art school friends
9. Retrospect - exams, easy writing, Tao looking up how to ask out Elle
10. Things Will Be Fine - cinema date
11. The Sound - arriving at the end of term party
12. Le Temps de L'Amour - in the cinema
13. Miss U - the party continues; Tao and Elle are sad, Nick is unwell
14. Lovesong - Charlie holds Nick; end of episode 3
15. Obsessed - beginning of episode 4; loading up the busses
16. Trésor - arrival in Paris and driving past the sights
17. Un Peu Plus Souvent - wandering around Paris in pairs
18. Mona Lisa - Tao and Elle explore the museum
19. Freak Out - Charlie sees the hickey and almost says fuck; end of episode 4
20. Nobody Really Cares - beginning of episode 5; Nick texting his dad then checking on Charlie; resumes to go down to breakfast
21. Doesn't Matter (voleur de soliel) - climbing the Eiffel Tower
22. Fall in Love With a Girl - first kiss!!
23. Never Be the Same - Nick and Charlie run through Paris to meet Nick's dad; end of episode 5
24. On Était Beau - beginning of episode 6; Nick and Charlie meet Nick's dad
25. Bros - Paris Gang explores together
26. 3D Feelings - Tara's birthday party
27. Then It All Goes Away - Party continues; Tara is unhappy, Tao and Elle are in the bathroom, Isaac is surrounded by couples, Nick and Charlie see Ben
28. Hot & Heavy - Isaac goes back to the party after kissing James; Nick and Charlie on the balcony
29. Pretty Girl Lie - Charlie shuts the door on Harry; party plays spin the bottle/truth or dare
30. Deep End - Mr. Ajayi and Mr. Farouk talk; fade to black; Nick and Charlie sleep; bus back to England; end of episode 6
31. We Can Be Anything - beginning of episode 7; Tara and Darcy have a sleepover; Nick looks through his photos and worries about Charlie; Charlie looks at photos and gets message from Ben; Elle gets into Lambert; Tao dances around his room
32. People Watching - prom outfit shopping
33. Cry! - the gang arrives at the art show and they find out Elle got in
34. Crush Culture - Isaac looks at the piece on being aro/ace and gets his leaves moment! Continues through Imogen arriving and Darcy leaving
35. Skin - background while Tao and Elle talk
36. Blush - Nick googles eating disorders; Darcy's mom yells at her and Darcy leaves; end of episode 7
37. Colors Of You - beginning of episode 8; Nick wakes up and looks at pictures of him and Charlie and posts about being boyfriends and bi
38. Run Away With Me - Tao and Elle agree to be boyfriend/girlfriend; prom setup
39. Young - the gang arrives at prom
40. Happy New Year - prom; Tara is looking for Darcy
41. Just Like Heaven - Tao and Elle dance, Mr. Farouk arrives, Isaac takes the ace book, Imogen watches Sahar play
42. All the Things - prom continues; Nick and Charlie hold hands and decide to leave; Darcy arrives
43. Seven - Tara and Darcy say "I love you" and the gang has their own prom party
44. UR So Pretty - Charlie and Nick kiss and Charlie leaves; contemplates texting "I love you;" end of season 2
#heartstopper#heartstopper soundtrack#heartstopper season 2#heartstopper spoilers#music#I DID like the Season One soundtrack better but Season Two is still very solid
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ARMAND IN THAT WHITE LONG SLEEVE SHIRT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF LOUIS AND DANIEL. LOUIS IN THE SHORT SLEEVE SHIRT ARMS OUT LIKE A SLUT..CLAUDIA!!!.. THE VAMPIRE BODY PARTY??? CLAUDIA ON STAGE???? MADELEINE ON THE MEDICAL TABLE BEING TURNED AND CLAUDIA ASSURING HER?? WHILE BEING TURNED? LOUIS AND CLAUDIA IN PARIS. ARMAND AND LOUIS IN PARIS. THE BIKER GANG. THEATRES DES VAMPIRES. SANTIAGO SAYING WELCOME! TO THEATRES DES VAMPIRES. ARMAND’S … HALFOPENED BLOUSE. SLICKED DOWN HAIR. SMOKING. GLASSES. THEYRE IN THE RAIN. THE REVENANTS(??) JUMPING LOUIS ? ??? THE COFOUNDER OF THE THEATER. LONG STORY SHORT: ITS OVER!!!!!!!
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Today's Les Mis chapter describes Jean Valjean's sentencing and subsequent journey as a part of a chain gang to the galleys of Toulon. Published from 1782-1788, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's work, "Tableau de Paris" is a multi-volume book in which he paints a picture of all aspects of Paris and Parisian life. Here are some excerpts from his eye-witness account of a typical galley chain gang leaving Paris:
"The Chain of Galley-slaves.
It leaves twice a year, on May 25th and September 10th. The galley slaves are held at the Château de la Tournelle until their departure for Toulon, Brest, and Marseille."
"On the departure day they are placed in long carriages. The same chain connects and binds them all to the wagon. Eight policemen lead 120 wrongdoers this way. They leave, imploring help from their fellow people, towards whom they were violent and unjust. They leave; and the conscience, that indestructible judge, cries to many that their torture is light, and that they escaped the death that they have merited."
Mercier then goes on to ruminate on his feelings seeing the men bound for the galleys:
"Oh! How I would like to be able to read to the depths of their soul which is the most criminal or the most innocent! I would like to know why, how, and to what degree they have shown contempt to virtue. Is there, in these individuals, as in others, an equal balance of virtue and vice? Human laws are so heavy handed! And then is the moral perfection of society possible, and to what point?"
Noticing an older man in particular, he wonders how he came to be there, with some distinct parallels to Jean Valjean:
"Is he a hardened criminal who has escaped the justice of men all his life? … Is he a poor soul thrown into the abyss for a partridge, a pinch of tobacco, a few pounds of salt; for among us Christians, the law of taxation is the most sacred of all; and we know that a partridge or a rabbit is worth infinitely more than a man, even if he is the father of a large family! This is what tears my heart, but the wagon is going to take them away, and with them their justification and the mark of their trial."
He ends with his views on the death penalty and the morality of sentencing men to such a fate for these crimes:
"Maybe one day we will feel it less necessary to take away the life of a man who is only guilty of the crime of theft, and rather conserve a citizen than make of gold an idol to which we sacrifice human victims."
The volume of Tableau de Paris that contains these excerpts can be found on the Internet Archive.
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ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔇𝔩 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔦𝔯 𝔣𝔞𝔳𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔰
*Descriptions from Letterboxt and quotes from IMDb
Yui: Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The waiting is over...let the fantasy begin.
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love.
Shuu: Goldfinger (1964)
Do you expect me to talk?
No, I expect you to die!
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox – and obliterate the world’s economy.
Reiji: The Seventh Seal (1957)
My body is ready, but I am not.
When disillusioned Swedish knight, Antonius Block, returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Laito: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Kanato: Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart (2013)
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters.
In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh finds a way to save him by replacing his heart with a clock. So he lives and remains under the midwife’s protective care. But he must not get angry or excited because that endangers his life by causing his clock to stop working. Worse than that, when he grows up, he has to face the fact he cannot fall in love because that too could stop his delicate heart.
Ayato: Pulp Fiction (1994)
You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Subaru: The Crow (1994)
And I say, "I'm dead," and I move.
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven – watched over by a hypnotic crow – returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Ruki: Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A new face, a new identity.
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane’s.
Yuuma: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together!
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of ’63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Kou: The Menu (2022)
You will eat less than you desire and more than you deserve.
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Azusa: Parasite (2019)
You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all.
All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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WIP guessing game - “Fight”
For the WIP Fanfic Game: Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in.
I'm choosing one of my Many Picard!Seven Meets Her Voyager!Family.
Janeway, Tom, and B'Elanna jump forward in Time and meet Seven. Post-Stardust City Rag.
“I assume you’ve participated in bar fights, Mr. Paris?” Janeway asked, sotto voce.
“Practically lived in bars once upon a time.”
“No offense, but this is a lot more dangerous than a bar fight!” B’Elenna said after a snarl.
Janeway had no doubt B’Elenna cut an intimidating figure befitting her Klingon heritage.
“We can all just walk away,” Janeway said in a placating tone. Still hoping to de-escalate. It’s a different matter being on a ship with phasers and torpedoes, another matter when it’s just them. Janeway shifted her weight, but they’re not going to go down easy either.
Janeway hates losing in anything. And her priority is to get her crew out of here, safe.
Somewhere behind them Janeway heard someone swear, the sound of breaking glass.
Someone stumbled into their group, knocking Janeway back to the side, into B’Elanna. B’Elanna caught her arm and steadied Janeway.
“Watch it!” One of the Romulans growled.
The interloper wore a battered brown leather jacket and reeked of alcohol. “You’re in my way.”
Janeway blinked and turned her head, the person was hunched over and even if she didn’t see who it was, it seemed they’d had better days. Aside from the heavy stench of alcohol, the stringy dirty blonde hair was all over the place preventing Janeway from seeing any discernible features.
“Mind your business.”
“Funny,” the interloper said with a rasp to their voice. “That was what I was trying to do.”
And then almost suddenly, the leather jacket interloper bashed their head against the lead Romulan. The Romulan reared back falling against a stool and crashing to the floor.
The cronies of the Romulan roared to retaliate but their leather-clad savior already had two guns out. One of the guns was aimed at the lead Romulan’s head and the other to keep away the others.
“These Starfleet trash are my bounty.”
Janeway felt her jaw drop when she finally saw their rescuer’s face as she stood at her full height.
“What the hell!” She heard Tom whisper.
“This isn’t your business, half-meat!”
Instead of answering, a heavy boot stomped on the leg of the Romulan gang leader. Janeway cringed, hearing bone break.
The Romulan yowled.
“This is Ranger business. They’re my bounty. And if you call me that again,” Seven, and it was Seven. No one else had that profile, that distinctive Ocular implant. But the expression on her face was wholly alien. “I’ll tear your arm off and beat your friends with it.”
The tension was palpable but the energy had shifted in their favor. Seven turned her head tagging each and every occupant in the room and they visibly recoiled.
And then she turned her gaze at them and Janeway found herself, not recoiling exactly but taking a startled step back. Janeway was used to being on the receiving end of Seven’s furious stares but she was used to Seven's furious stares in a placid facade. There was a rawness in her expression that reminded Kathryn far too much of the first time Seven of Nine woke-up in the sick bay after her exo-plating was removed.
Tom was not used to Seven's glares. And seemed to have taken a step back almost behind B’Elenna.
“Let’s go.” Seven threw some credit chips on the bar and then swept away. She clearly expects them to follow. At least that part of Seven had not changed.
Janeway looked at Tom and B'Elanna and then nodded her permission to follow Seven. They stumbled out of the bar into a chilly and sandy street. Seven was a few steps away from them.
“What the hell is going on?” B’Elenna demanded.
“I have no idea,” Janeway admitted. “But we have to catch up with Seven.”
“Or someone who looks like Seven,” Tom said.
“Either way, we have to go,” Janeway said picking up the pace.
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Why Am I Like This- Phantom Collector Edition
I’m a completionist and an obsessive so I need all the different versions of a thing so here’s a list of where I’m at right now. I wish I could say that I was anywhere near done but there’s always more phantom stuff to collect
Books
Gaston Leroux x51(This includes all 6 English translations, 8 different languages, and three levels of French)
Gaston Leroux signed by Broadway Cast
The Underground’s of the Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Bathtub
Night of the Phantom
Embrace the Night
Lessons from the Phantom of the Opera
Song of a Maiden
Madrigal
Phantom
Unmasqued
Phantom of Manhattan
Ruinsong
Roseblood
Beyond the Masque
Chanson de L’Ange
Sing Me Forgotten
The Angel of the Opera
The Phoenix of the Opera
The Phantom’s Opera
The Phantom of Paris
The Phantom’s Apprentice
Where Dreams Descend
The Phantom Cat of the Opera
Phantom Pop Up Book
George Perry’s Complete Phantom of the Opera
Phantoms of the Opera
The Trap Door Maker
Phantom Graphic Novel x2
The Phantom Cooks
2004 Companion
Geronimo Stilton
Thea Stilton
My Phantom
Phantoms in the Night
Phantom of Pemberly
Phantom of the Auditorium
Behind the Phantom’s Mask
The Phantom Returns
Phantom erotica
Book cassette
Souvenir edition OLC
Emoji of the opera
Phantom 2020
Phantom Phantasia
Songbird
The Phantom’s Lullaby
Phantom of the Little Russian Theatre
Masked Love
Treasures of Egypt
Victory
Venetian Romance
Susannah’s Secret
The Man in the Shadows
Love in the Spotlight
Let the Dream Begin
A Phantom’s Promise
Destiny’s Curse
Phantom by David Bischoff
Mini Leroux
L’Opera de Paris
Paris National Opera
Palais Garnier
Peeping Duck Gang
Out of the Darness
L’Opera De Paris Coulisses etc secrets du Garnier
Claude Rains Book
Movies/CDs/Media
Lon Chaney
Claude Rains x2
Herbert Lom x2
Phantom of Hollywood
Schell
Robert Englund
Charles Dance
David Staller
Julian Sands
2004 x17 (English x2, French x3 Germanx2, Greek, Spanish, Italian, limited(English and German), deluxe, and Ultimate, Special, Collectors(English and French)
Angel of Music
25th Anniversary
Love Never Dies
A Monster in Paris
Phantom of the Grindhouse
Anthony Mann
Phantom of the Theatre
Unmasking the Masterpiece
Love on Safari
Faust
1987 Cartoon(dvd & VHS)
Mystery Legends Phantom Game x2
2004 digital press kit(English and French)
OLC (cassette & CD)
CDs x59
Phantom of the Paradise Record
OLC small record(wywsha&motn)
Long box cd
Long box 2004
2004 VHS
Movie/book set
Long box OLC cassettes
Karaoke cassettes
Highlight cassettes
Robert Englund VHS
For Your Consideration 2004
Book casettes
Stage Fright
Props/Signed/Similar
Love Never Dies audience gift notebook
1992 tour Auction book prop
Jerry Mitchell signed LND after party invite
Phantoms Note from BWay x2
Don Juan Music from BWay x1 1/2
Ticket to 25th Anniversary Party
Majestic Theatre Phantom Barricade Cover
Photo cards, signed x16
Signed LOBs x2
Robert Englund autograph
Laird Mackintosh autograph
BWay 29th anniversary cast gift beanie
KAV’s dressing gown shoes
Manager’s BWay newspaper prop x4
Cast board name placards x3(2 BWay one Vegas)
Reopening cookies x2
London 35th anniversary rose petals and card
Il Muto page boy stockings
OBC cast member costume gloves
Printed cast member email
Cast made calendars 2006 and 2007
Full cast signed poster with Hugh
Signed trading card
Signed Michael Crawford Face mask
Signed Crawford Article
Signed 35 Poster
Signed Mask
Scrap of Christine’s wedding dress
Scrap of phantoms suit
10th anniversary invite
Opera glasses cast gift
Magazines
24/7 Magazine featuring Crivello
NYC City Guide 2014 & 2016
TODAY featuring Vegas
What’s On Vegas
Time Out New York
German LND
Theater Week 1988
In Theater 1998
Casino Player Magazine
Fate Magazine
Broadway Spotlight
Other
Megstine notebook
Mugs x7
Cups x5
Water Bottle
Ornaments x5
Phantom harmonica
Red death figure
Lon Chaney figure
Phantom Nutcracker
Phantom and Christine Barbies
Tote bag x4
Phantom creamer tops, complete set
Postcards x6
LOBs x2
Magnet x5
Stickers x12
Phantom Cat sticker set
Chibi phantom sticker set
Angel patch
Greeting cards x2
Posters x5
Art print
Calendar
Ramin based doll
Phantom doll + Ayesha
Snerik
Pen
Mardi Gras coin
Felt Raoul and Erik
Francœur bean
Small hand painted canvas
25th Anniversary limited edition boxed set
Canada gift bag
Mexico phone card
Japanese train card x2
Trading card
Lon Chaney money
Lon Chaney stamp
Pencil
Phone case
Gift bag
Japanese posters x6
Herbert Lom ad stamp
Complete LND London draft script
Blanket
Operetta
34th Anniversary blank playbill sticker sheets
Goosebumps pen
Goosebumps magnet
Goosebumps stickers x9
Bendyfigs phantom
German postcard
Angel of Music coffee
Where Dreams Descend popcorn holder
Raoul and Christine art print
Large paper bag
1994 calendar
Ireland phone card
Movie screening invite
German something?
Frame
Vegas key card
Angel of music bear
Tea towels x2
Mask sticker
Blockbuster card
Phantom press invite
Mini 2004 scrapbook
Playing cards
Assorted Japanese 2004 film memorabilia(10 pieces)
2004 film poster and booklet
1999 ticket info
2023 newspaper clippings
Gingerbread ornament
Aussie keychain
Phantom/Christine blanket
2011 wall calendar
2012 wall calendar
2013 wall calendar
Angel ornament
Universal Erik doll
Sarah/Steve Ad
1993 calendar
2004 Mylar
1995 calendar
Italy confetti
Crawford ornament
Halloween figure
Matchbox
Soap?
Heart frame
Jewelry
Pins x11
Charm bracelet
Necklace x2
Key chains x14
Replica Ring
Hair bow x2
Think of Me hair clips
Jewelry pouch
Music Boxes
Square black jewelry music box
Il Muto
Limited Edition boat scene
Boat Scene
Phantom and Christine wedding
Porcelain signs x2
Limited edition mirror scene
Mirror scene
Mirror
Limited edition MotN
Red Death
Throne water globe
Music water globe
Phantom w/ stick water globe
Rooftop water globe
Russian egg(?)
Mirror scene water globe
Phantom w/ stick
Phantom in throne
Monkey music box
Limited edition Jack in the box
Boat scene water globe(broken globe)
Russian egg (?? Missing top)
Small music box(no music)
Universal Phantom and Christine
Phantom and Christine with Marni
Opera House
Phantom Automata
Madame Alexander Christine Doll
Broken Mirror
Erik and Christine porcelain figure
Music pedestal
Clothing
Socks
Glow in the dark boxers
Night shirt
Phantom BWay x2
Sydney Harbour shirt
Christine dressing gown VTC
Peacock dress
US tour grey shirt
Christmas Sweatshirt
Toronto shirt
Candy of the Opera
1988 mask shirt
Phantom of the Opry shirt
New York shirt
Mask sweatshirt
Ghost Red Death Shirt
35th anniversary shirt
Italy shirt
Programs/Playbills/ETC
Loose understudy slips x14
Ticket stubs x11
Newspaper clippings
Mini flyers x6
Flyers x40
Ken Hill souvenir program
2004 film souvenir program
ALW souvenir programs x49
BWAY playbills x63
Signed playbills x12
Tour playbills x20
London programs x18
YK phantom playbill
World tour playbill
Melbourne playbill
Robert Englund film souvenir program
Italy program
Sweden program
Music Books
ALW piano x3(easy, intermediate, expert)
2004 film
YK phantom
LND London
I can honestly say this may not even be everything because sometimes I forget to add new acquisitions to the list. If there’s anything on the list you wanna see pics of, I’m happy to share!
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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🥖
"Un petit gang de Paris"🗼1950
Photo de Robert Doisneau
#photooftheday#photographie#black and white#vintage#robert doisneau#paris#baguette française#enfants#bonjour#bonnejournée#fidjie fidjie
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