LADY JUSTITIA MY LOVE!
Lady Justitia!
This is an image from Liu Kang's ending in MK vs DC:
Hi! This is different. I wanted to design a would-be god for Orderrealm, for content purposes with my friend :)
Doesn't the goddess on the left look cool, with her veil and all? Yes! But I didn't have my glasses on when I saw her. I thought her eyes were covered. I referred to her that way to my friend, who pointed out that Lady Justice's eyes are also covered!
And I was like that's brilliant! What an awesome redesign it would be, to merge this nameless goddess with Lady Justice and make her the god of Orderrealm! And it is! Even though it was an accident with my bad eyesight 😅
She's done now though! I'm calling her Lady Justitia. Justitia is the Goddess of Justice in Roman myth, and the origin(?) of Lady Justice. I think that's pretty cool!
* My doodles are not meant to imply that Havik is in love with her, not at all. It's a sort of, "I want to be the one to kill you," infatuation, you know? I know new timeline Havik takes Orderrealm very seriously, and it's like this whole thing, but I'll never be able to see him that way. To me, he just wants to show up and cause trouble, and drive Hotaru crazy. His major goal -- if anything -- is to kill Lady Justitia, and Hotaru is getting in his way. That's as far as their beef goes.
Please use Lady Justitia however you'd like. She is not by any means entirely original. I am not attached to her, I view her as an extension of something that already exists but hasn't been revealed. She is yours as much as she is mine!
Anyway, this was a lot of fun! I wanna do Kochal next :)
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CW: if you haven't read les misérables, there are mentions of violence, suicide, death and guns
hello, i just finished los miserables (1971), and i thought it would be fun to do a little review since i found it through tumblr!
if i haven't formally introduced myself before, my name is lunette (they/them). i'm autistic and my special interest is les misérables! my favourite character is javert, and i am marius' number one hater and always have been 😎
as for the miniseries, i would like to give it a solid 7/10!
so for the first bit of the series (from bishop myriel up to younger cosette), i found the plot pretty stable and accurate!
i enjoy bishop myriel. i love bishop myriel in every adaptation, but i like his little writing-a-letter scene. he's just a sweetheart in every adaptation. honestly, what more can i say.
i'd like to say that there really isn't that much special about this valjean. nothing really differentiates him from other valjeans, other then him being pocket-sized.
i hate, hate, HATE the pointless dream sequences in this series. they're a waste of time and take away time from other important scenes. i find these sequences happening a LOT with valjean, but there are so many better ways to show what he's feeling.
however, i LOVE his little friendship with javert at the beginning of the series. instead of javert being his usually broody self, he's actually very happy for valjean when he's elected as mayor and he's honestly a gentleman in this series sometimes which is a SURPRISE.
honestly, i have to say that i like this javert. of course it's important to have javert be a stern and strict man of the law, which this javert is, but it's also important to recognize that he isn't a terrible person, which this series also does! a problem i've had with other adaptations, such as the BBC miniseries, is that they sometimes add cruel things to javert's character that honestly don't make sense for him.
i like that they included how valjean got into the convent, it's such an awesome scene in the book that isn't always included.
nooooow we come to the point where the plot gets weaker. the second section of the series. warning, this part of the post will sound like i'm angry and complaining, but i'm just very passionate! i still enjoyed the series :))
a lot of the time with les misérables adaptations i find that they get weaker during the rebellion and the other important scenes before and after that. this series in particular, though, definitely had some trouble setting these scenes up.
first of all, i'd like to say that i just can't get attached to the characters in this second part. they spend so much time on marius and cosette that the amis just don't seem as important anymore. even important characters like gavroche just don't seem to matter, which makes their deaths so much less impactful. i didn't even realize everyone was dying when that scene started. they also aren't really mentioned again by marius or anyone after the rebellion, which i find a little odd.
speaking of marius and cosette, this marius did an AMAZING job of being a creep. again, if you haven't seen my previous posts, i hate marius. he is a 22 year old being a creep to a 17 year old, what more can i say? however, if you disagree, i am not looking to start arguments, so please do not come after me for my opinion. in this series, he tells cosette, "you're such a child" when she starts crying. THIS MADE ME MAAAAD. SHE IS A CHILD, MARIUS. there are many more scenes that just made me plain uncomfortable, including dream sequences and unnecessary comments made by marius. either way, there was WAAAY too much time spent on marius and cosette.
unfortunately, because too much time was spent on unnecessary scenes, VERY necessary scenes were cut shorter. whaaat was going on with the scene where valjean frees javert? they barely said two words to each other! it had no impact! the entire scene was:
"it is time for your revenge, valjean."
"you can go."
"be careful!"
"i don't know if you'll make it out alive, but my address is [insert address i can't remember right now]."
this was just ... uuuugh. more happened in that tiny moment we got in the novel!
okay, now to the part where it gets better!
the sewer scene was painfully long, like always, which is definitely accurate to the book. and that's the thing with this series, it IS accurate to the book for the most part, which is awesome for 16 episodes!
thénardier creeping up on valjean and grabbing his shoulders had me CACKLING. it was like the "guess who!" game. and also valjean being too short to properly carry marius was amazing. even THÉNARDIER was helping valjean lift that man up.
the carriage ride scene .... i am in TEARS laughing at marius laying on top of them. this is definitely awkward. i feel awkward FOR them, which is always good. javert looks sleepy as hell, though. get him a good night's sleep and maybe a hug.
i'm gonna need them to start making these marius scenes shorter, though. gillenormand i don't have TIIIIME for this shut your old ass up (i know this scene is accurate and important i'm just a marius hater).
JAVERT'S SUICIDE SCENE ... i looove how they include his new attitude in the novel of walking with his head down, and i love that they include him going back to the station to write his letter! the letter is different from the novel, but i really liked the line, "don't blame anyone for my death. i die because life has taught me something that, until now, i had been unable to discover."
this line shows a kind of growth within this character, just like the original letter.
however, i don't like that they chose to have him use a gun rather than jump into the seine. it takes a lot away from the scene, but i can't really explain it. it just doesn't feel in character for javert, for some reason. i still think it was well done, however, and i certainly cried over it, so that's good enough in my book.
i'm gonna be honest i tend to zone out during the gillenormand scenes because i just ... don't like him either. but from what i did see, the ending with marius and cosette is no different than any other adaptation, which is fine with me.
i do like that they include the scene with thénardier and azelma in the carriage, though! that's not something i see often.
they also include the moment where valjean cries over cosette's old clothes, which i've always found to be a very powerful scene that demonstrated valjean's love for his daughter. he could also use a hug.
for the last episode, i don't have too much to say. this isn't because they did a bad job, but it's just the same as any other adaptation, so i don't really have much to say about it.
i did enjoy the line, "no one is pursuing me. i'm pursued by myself. " i found it very powerful and important to valjean's character.
valjean's death was a little sudden, but it wasn't the worst i've seen of it. i did like the ending, where valjean talks about meeting bishop myriel again.
overall, this series was a good and powerful potrayal of les misérables, especially for one with a low budget. it did fall a little weak during the second part, but it still had an impact. the characters were also portrayed very well, and some were very accurate to the book.
thanks for reading, and let me know if you want any other reviews, as i've seen many different les misérables adaptations!
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