Well hello, Darling...

germany's newly found hobby apparently: making anti-nazi protests so big they have to be shut down early for security reasons

French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday

Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.

The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.

Ich will den direkten Shit, wenn du ein Problem hast sprich es direkt an.

barges into the tag with the scruffiest propaganda for the Scratch = Seine quack theory

+ congrats! your evil doppelganger has pursued a higher education and has been awarded a BA in film studies!

For me the ‘canon homoerotic subtext’ between brick!Valjean and Javert is really more about the parallels between Javert and Eponine, who are explicitly set up as character foils.

Brick!Javert isn’t obsessed with Valjean like he is in adaptations. He’s not psychosexually obsessed with hunting him down; he really doesn’t seem to think of him as being any different than any other criminal—- he doesn’t think about Jean Valjean much at all until after Jean Valjean saves his life.

But after the barricades, Javert’s sudden weird desperate emotions about Jean Valjean are like a twisted mirror of his character foil Eponine’s weird desperate emotions for Marius.

Some guy takes pity on them, and extends them a bit of basic impersonal kindness— and they react by descending into this violently self-destructive suicidal admiration built on self-loathing. They’re both described as making themselves the “dogs” of Marius/Valjean, the dogs of people who barely remember they exist.

And anyway! I think there is potential to explore things there in analysis and fanfiction

So Tom Zane is a permanent resident at the Oceanview Hotel & Spa. And Casper Darling leaves his last message to Jesse (the Dyna-Mite video) at the Oceanview Motel & Casino. All signs point to them both being the same Oceanview, just different aspects of it (we even see the same door symbols in both), but I think there's a really funny implication here.

Tom Zane shot Darling's music video.

Man muss sprechen, um gehört zu werden, aber manchmal muss man schweigen, um geschätzt zu werden.

[Ich habe mir mein Leben einfach anders vorgestellt...]🕳️

And that is how the magic happened.

Art + Science

Takitomo kisses I drew for a dear friend

insp.