#I just wasn't that fond of them???

[tbgkaru-woh]

The new generation leaders

#mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #jin zixuan #nie huaisang #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #my art #i redesigned them a bit again what gives!! #i always said i wasn't too fond of my jzx and nhs but i think i like these versions! #i really like nhs with shorter hair or hairdos #and jzx with straighter hair and these kind of jewleries look both rich but also humble which is exactly what i wanted to hit #jiang cheng would pop out more in full body ver but he's always kinda same-ish he just works #messy yllz wwx is the goat and i will not have him any other way thank you #also lwj being as simple and elegant and flowy as possible...yes please

[lovehours]

everyone has commented on this scene already but i just need to talk about how insane it really is. wilson giving up after trying to find furniture he’d truly love because he’s never really gotten attached to the places he lived before even with his previous partners… which is why he’d just let them do the decorating. he was opting more for comfort than actual care for the homes he would live in.

but this time he got something only house could use. something he knew house would enjoy. i love how he just affirms that he does let others define him... but it's house specifically who does so. like this is the guy who helped ruin all of his marriages after the first one (low-key ruined wilson's attempted reconciliation w/sam later too)... house is the most important person in wilson's life. no matter how much the things around them change, they’re a constant in each other’s lives and wilson is more than okay with that. the fact that he used furniture to communicate that is so... its just so them idk how else to describe it

i can only imagine the gay ass smile wilson had on his face as he picked the organ out and thought about house’s reaction when he’d come home and see it. just crazy. they really should have fucked here

#just finished rw this ep and i need to talk ab it somewhere so here we are #as if them moving in together and that 'everyone thinks we're gay' ep wasn't bad enough... then they dropped this #idk man houses queerbait is just insane this season #side note while watching this clip i noticed wilsons fond ass smile as house looks at the organ... hes SICK!! 😭 #hilson #house md

[sandovore]

I made a list of lifesteal things/people I wanted to draw, so that was the first one !

Mapicc is no longer an alien because i forgot he was still green when they traveled and died on the leo-moon

#im not fond of doing digital art #but i still have to get used to draw on my babygirl tablet again (i love that thing. mine.) #just take it #i didn't look for any astronaute suit reference at all #it also means that there wasn't any astronaut on tv for 3 weeks because i started it three weeks ago #im not good w/ colors these are here because i like them with white i swear #BECAUSE OF THE EXAMS I PASSED THIS MORNING #leowook #branzy #woogiex #mapicc #lifesteal smp #lssmp #lifesteal fanart #sando.draws

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Anakin truly set out the goal to marry Padmé as soon as he first laid his eyes on her. He didn't even interact with her that much to come to the conclusion that he wanted to wed her. As soon as they met again 10 years later, he wasted no time and put a ring on that finger. They didn't even take at least a month; they went straight to marriage. Their romance is essentially a Disney fairytale 😅❤️

#anakin skywalker #padme amidala #star wars #pt #meta #sw meta #txt #my characters differ from them in many ways but they too got married just a week after meeting each other #it was love at first sight #anakin had love at first sight padme didn' for obvious reasons but she still developed a fondness for anakin #it wasn't until anakin was already an adult that she went “oh damn you are hot now” #mine originally met each other as children (of the same age) but i eventually decided to change it to when they were already in their 20's #he is 3 years older than her. i changed it to make it even more fairytale-ish #they are the only couple in my story that experienced love at first sight #the rest have a more “realistic” approach to romance and took their time until they decided to get married #but these two? oh yeah they got married even though they just met #i know elsa would reprimand my oc for marrying a man she just met but i'm sorry but he is fine af and would do anything for anybody #it's a fairytale it's not meant to be taken literally in many ways #it's not a realistic depiction of reality but it teaches you about reality it's meant to be a metaphor more than anything #i went off a tangent again but yes #anakin and padme's relationship is essentially a fairytale #star wars is a fairytale it contains a good chunk of the elements. it's just deeper more detailed and extensive but the core is the same #anyway ramble over

[jamesisasimp]

Do you ever just imagine James and Regulus standing next to each other?

Like that's it, that's all I need, there's something so fucking special to me about that mental image

#like james charismatic smirk of the gods potter #going a little soft and bashful and just glancing over at him #regulus i hate the world and have no feelings besides tired black #who is letting some tension out of his shoulders for once and unconsciously leaning closer to him #and james poking or teasing him and regulus pretending to be appalled #it's nothing much #no one else really notices anything off because they're trying to act normal #but there's just that little ounce of fondness between them that wasn't there before that they just can't mask #jegulus #starchaser

[sandinthepipes]

So you're telling me the shows that trend more, for longer and have a ton of audience are those where there is queerness acknowledged outloud and in an accurate way, and not those who queerbait try to appease the entire spectrum of humanity making it unsatisfactory on both fronts?

Weird, it's almost like there's a starvation of content from a huge chunk of population who's begging to be exploited in exchange for good representation

#our flag means death #ofmd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #blood origin #i mean i dont want the rotten part of the witcher fandom to fond this but i am taking about blood origin flopping if it wasn't for jaskier #don't get me wrong i loved it it was actually a really cute serie #i just find it funny that nobody cared about bo because twn is a mess so at the last second they put the only thing that saves their ass #truly desperate times for them #inthepipes

[shima-draws]

Listen I know as pollrunner I’m not supposed to show bias but I’m actually HEARTBROKEN that Hiro is losing. He’s one of my favorite ATS characters of all time. It’s okay he wins in my heart

#I just put a lot of thought into his character and his backstory so. #He is Everything to me. Personally. #LOL #Shima speaks #I'm very fond of the entire Novune Quartet (Kaz Hiro Olivia and Ginni) so to see them losing this early is just 😭 #There wasn't any choice for Ginni since she was against Olivia in the last round but. #Anyway. #Among the Stars #ATS #Hiro

[dutybcrne]

Kaeya once jokingly referred to Bennett as 'Bennett Guildson' in lightly scolding him over endangering himself, and Bennett most Definitely considered making that his actual name on his official Adventurer's Guild paperwork, send post-

#hc; kaeya #hc; bennett #//Forver love the idea of Kae saying smth to clown; and the person going Wait a sec; you COOKED here- #//And Kae just flounders and/or laughs his ass off bc WHY are you listening to me of all people; I wasn't SERIOUS 😅- #//Dude can handle people being Done with his clowning or rejecting it; but taking it Seriously and it ACTUALLY working well??? #//Dude would be both stunned but also flattered #//This case however; he was very much caught off guard #//This is a Very Impressionable Kiddo after all! #//However between the two of them; the name did stick. Kae will call him that in the typical Full Named By Mom fashion #//And Benny will introduce himself like that at the start of training or when they play up dramatics #//Benny DOES want to make it official; but Kae did gently talk him out of it. For the moment #//Bc Kae thought Bennet might regret taking it on later; so he ought to let him think on if he might want one of his dads' names instead #//But won't press any further if Benny truly does have his heart set on it. Low key is down to give Benny his own last name if he wants #//And would be so happy if he'd want to take it; bc the kid; like Klee and Noelle; is sb he's fond of like family #//Benny actually likes Guildson tho; bc it includes them ALL. He might even make it official on/near an upcoming father's day #//Keeps forgetting to tho. or losing the paperwork when he does get it

[fooltofancy]

book 3 feels veeeeery much like someone tellin a story with beats they know they wanna hit but they're not QUITE sure how they wanna get there? so everything between the two or three mildly interesting bits of story is just filler.

#like. deeply uninteresting! could have been fun could have been something #..... mostly wasn't #miss sad wet failure detective from book one bring them back #sin like 'i have not been slapped by a twink in centuries and now i must flee' #ive only read m's route but 🙄 #idk i dont feel especially optimistic LOL #sort of a relief that imma be free of the brainworms tho tbh #fondness for m notwithstanding #twc3 #twc 3 spoilers #the stakes should have been so high and they were written like they were high but oh my god the detective just trippin over the bar it was #so low lmao

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Astarion refers to the other spawn he intends to create as his children and I personally HC it more like his consort spawn eventually plays the role of brood mother to whoever the favored "children" are for eternity. like they recreate a fucked up family unit. romanced player and the children have to compete for scraps while he spoils whoever his romance partner is. and the cruelty of it is that Astarion's consort has all the gifts to be in the sun, but Astarion now wants an eternal night for all of the children he intends to make (and force to live in the shadows).

#bat rambles #and like thats so poetic right? #he will burn down the world and make it so there ISNT anyone else beside Tav/Durge/Romance Partner in the world #just cattle and children cloaked in neverending darkness #also when i say poetic the entire thing is a tragedy #like it's so tragic to give tav/durge/his romance partner that gift to retain that part of their humanity #then make the world hospitable to normal spawn #i am team AA still remembers the budding love he felt but #it's a ghost of a memory and he thinks he's above all that now #but he will pretend to show love in small doses #just enough to keep them wanting more and keep them under his thumb #and the memory of what he felt corrupts with him as he shifts closer and closer to evil alignment and he becomes more and more possessive #and he does spoil tav/durge bc they'll always be his favorite #but it's more like they were the first pet and will always be the most beloved #but he does have other pets he is fond of but like #and like that love he felt for tav/durge made him feel too vulnerable so he has to make them feel so small #as small as he felt when he was cowering behind them #bc he won't ever let himself feel that small or let his edges feel that dulled again #it's about the corruption of the feeling for me #you sacrifice 7007 people to suffer in the hells for eternity #you're not gonna get off scott free #and i think the corruption of the love he feels - the love he used to manipulate tav/durge into helping him ascend - is like #just a tragic & poetic price to pay #bc it wasn't even inevitable bc he could have just ascended and not paid any price #but tav/durge/whoever was supposed to be his pillar and keep him grounded when he is tempted by his vampiric nature #bg3 headcanons #bg3 #astarion #ascended astarion

[starryserenade]

When I saw that the Topolino comics were making an adaptation of The Little Prince, I was soooo sure Minnie was going to make an appearance as Mickey's precious rose, and/or that we were going to get some whimsified version of that tragic ending.

The end result was still lovely--gorgeous gorgeous artwork and a really creative, beautiful story. But that doesn't mean I wasn't a little bummed that those other elements weren't at all present.

#if there's one thing I've noticed about those comics #it's that they don't seem to have much of a fondness for Minnie #she doesn't quite read like herself #and neither of them seem nearly as loyal to the other as they are in nearly all other media #which is kind of a bummer #because while their adaptations are a little crazy and sometimes weird #(btw I'm talking about the ones since Disney took over and NOT the really weird ones from way back when) #the artwork is always so pretty #and they do think outside the box in a really neat way #I just wish Minnie wasn't boxed into this little corner #they kind of write her like a brat #and it just seems they're missing that core essence of her character #which is her love #not just cheap romantic crush kind of love #but an overflowing compassion and care for Mickey and everyone else #ah #hold on #I think my Minnie mode has been activated lol #every now and then I switch back and forth between feeling really close with one or the other #right now it's Min I guess #xD

[battydora]

i am this close 👌🏻 to falling into a edgeshot brainrot if i already haven't fallen in it yet

#it's just UGHHHH #just like best jeanist.. when i first saw my hero academia i automatically fell in love with shinya and tsunagu at the same time!!! #like they've been my favourite pros since i even started watching the show two years ago #do you realize i've been loving these characters for two years (this year i got more fond of mha bc before i wasn't this much invested) #god i love them so much that's why i made polyamorous headcanons with them 🥺🥺 #i love u edgejeanist my beloved #mha #best jeanist #edgeshot

[radioactive-earthshine]

On the other hand Geoff Johns did to Tim and Kon what any fan probably would have done; immediately canonized their deepest and most fervent headcanons. He wanted them to be the bestest of friends soooo bad as confirmed in at least two letters to the editor he sent in the 90s.

#he sped run what could have been an awesome growth between them #like i get it #they did have fondness for each other and they were friends #but best friends was pushing it #they both had hangups and issues #they could have been resolved and it could have been an awesome comic story #buuuuuut he just didn't want to go that route and just.... established that they were besties #i get it i would probably do something similar if i just wasn't given the go ahead to show that sort of development #i would have preferred to see their bonding and growing closer than having bart's knee blown up #and him being thrown into a manic depressive state #but we all know what his opinion was on bart so...

[dandelionandkrindle]

MOTHERLAND FORT SALEM 2x01 | Of the Blood

#sarah alder #tally craven #talder #motherland fort salem #mfsedit #no doubt everyone giffed this scene when it happened but i wasn't here and it's one of my fave moments between them so #sarah just looks at tally with such unbearable fondness god

[nokhwa]

I'm on ep. 10 rn, and unless what he said to haeryung was actually about gicheol, I just don't think junmo ever cared for gicheol as friend. None of his actions or monologues indicate it.

#I think at least euijeong genuinely feels at least pity for gicheol but junmo… #i'm disappointed #Like insider and the Merciless have the undercover being genuinely fond of the criminal they looking into #But I think euijeong presence managed to avoid this which is very very interesting and I'm not mad about it because it's sound #But I did expect it to follow the #emotionally distressed good guy having his morals swayed by evil but disturbingly charming older man. #Formula #(well not necessarily older by age. Older within the ranks. Hanging some kind of seniority. You got it) #It's a nice watch by itself. My disappointment comes from the expectation of bromance. #It's very one sided and I'm feeling so sorry for gicheol #I think it's worse than mctna because Hwi was awful to seonho once he fully sided with bangwon but at least he wasn't insincere #And I'm convinced that Yohan and Hyunsoo were insanely heart broken over what seonoh and jaeho and I think both of them were ashamed too #Like there's a reason Kyungmin chose to kill himself with Jongseok and it wasn't just guilt.. #ANYWAYS #the worst of evil #I'm just SAD over gicheol

[capitainecorbeau]

L’air de la Misère/The Tune of Misery

Fantine’s first solo, that was scrapped in the adaptation and replaced with the song she sings on her deathbed, which isn’t a solo anymore, and is about something completely different, but at least it’s the same melody, so, yay… ?

Though before we start, I’d like to 1)thank people leaving nice comments in the tag, I’m really glad you’re enjoying those translations/sorta analyses ! And 2) specify that no, I don’t hate the adaptation, I’m just rather disappointed that it dropped important themes and defanged the original. I’ve been pretty critical, but that’s just how I interact with stuff I’m really interested in !

Anyway ! Let’s dive in !

J’avais de si jolis défauts/I had such pretty faults J’étais rêveuse, j’étais coquette/I was a dreamer, I was coquettish Un peu naïve, mais pas trop/A bit naïve, but not to much Pour ne jamais perdre la tête/So I would never lose my head Et je me faisais fête/And I would make a party D’un chant d’oiseau, d’un jour nouveau/Of a bird song, of a new day

The song starts gently and rather lightly, but that’s not gonna last. ‘Se faire fête de’ (litt ‘to make a party of’) usually mean to eagerly wait for, to anticipate something, but in this context it didn’t feel right. It sounds more like she’s enjoying the little things in life, but y’know, translation always has a degree of subjectivity and inaccuracy, so !

‘Coquet/te’ refers to someone who puts quite a bit of care and thought into their appearence (and is more often used for women than men because of course it is), often as a mean to attract attention. Can be used somewhat interchangeably as a noun or an adjective, but only somewhat, because as a noun it can mean a woman who’s a vain seductress, because of course it does. When applied to objects or decor, it means stylish, in good taste, pretty/beautiful, and can also mean ‘important’ or ‘big’ in a more abstract context. ‘Une coquette somme’ → ‘A pretty sum’.

Also Victor Hugo is kinda obsessed with with women’s ‘coquetterie’ in the novel. Very grating. Je n’ai plus qu’une robe grise/All I have left is a grey dress Qui sert aussi de couverture/That I also use as a blanket Quand le vent glacé de l’hiver/When the icy winter wind Tourne la nuit dans ma masure/Blows aroundin my hovel at night Et plus beaucoup d’honneur/And not much honor left De dignité au fond du coeur/Or dignity, deep in my heart

And there we go. Poor Fantine. The dress bit is directly taken from the book, where Fantine’s descent into abject poverty is described, where we’re told she learned how you only really need one dress, that you can also use as bed covers. ‘Tourner’ means ‘to turn’, or to go round something (and in the context pf food, it means ‘to go bad’). La misère n’est mère de personne/Misery is the mother of no one La misère est pourtant soeur des hommes/And still misery is the sister of men Mais personne sur terre n’en veut pour fille/But no one on earth wants her as a daughter Comme bâtarde née dans un cachot de la Bastille/Asa bastard born in a cell of la Bastille

Alright si, I’ll admit I’m a little lost concerning the metaphores of this paragraph. I have some interpretations, but they feel lacking, so if anyone has any suggestions !

My idea is that misery is no one’s mother because it doesn’t nurture or raise, it only destroys, wears down, and kills ? You could argue some mother are indeed like that, but I think it’s used in reference to what is usually associated with motherhood, rather than in the strict biological sence because in the parapgraph misery does give birth to something.

It’s men’s (men as in people, not just men the gender) sister because it accompanies them all their life ? I dunno, I’m rather confused by all these family metaphors, but I might just be missing something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The ‘bastard born in a Bastille cell’ is the part that baffles me most (here of course it’s ‘illegitimate child’ bastard not ‘asshole’ bastard). The Bastille was seen as a symbol of of the king’s unjust power, as he could send people there without judgement, and that’s partly why it was taken during the Revolution, the other part being they wanted weapons and munitions because a garrison was stationed there. But it wasn’t exactly a symbol of extreme poverty or extreme social distress, so, I’m really not sure what it’s doing here. A callback to the revolution ? A reminder of the monarchy’s responsability in the people’s distress ? Something very obvious that I’m completely missing ? I dunno !

La misère enfante la détresse/Misery gives birth to distress Bien des vices et toutes les faiblesses/Many vices, and every weakness La misère lâche la bête en l’homme/Misery releases the beast within man Et la mésange alors en chienne errante se transforme/ And the chickadee then turns into a stray dog

Oh boy was I relieved to learn there is another name for ‘mésange’ than ‘tit’. What is it with english and birds having boob names or vice versa. Anyway, this part is more clear (to me at last, again, I might just be dumb), and again refers back to some stuff in the book ! Victor Hugo talks at length about how misery and social distress creates a lot of society’s ugliness and you can’t fix the latter without adressing the former, either directly, in one of his many, many rants/essays, or slightly less so. Like when explaining how the bagne (forced labor) thoroughly traumatized and embittered Valjean, who got out of there hating everything and everyone and wanting to get back at something, someone, anyone for how much he suffered there.

‘Chienne’ is a female dog, but it’s not vulgar, nor used as popularly as an insult (or punctuation) than ‘bitch’. Like it can an insult leveled at women with roughly the same meaning, but it’s more rare, and seen as more old-fashioned. Il faut qu’on se sente survivre/One has to feel themselves survive Dans un enfant qu’on a fait vivre/In a child onegave life to Et qu’en sa source d’innocence/And in this source of innocence On noie notre désespérance/One drowns one’s despair Pour ne pas mettre fin/So as not to put an end À cette vie sans lendemain/This life without without a tomorrow/future

So, Fantine used ‘on’here, which is an impersonal third person pronoun. Usually used like a general you, but also just as a colloquial ‘we’. So it’s kinda disguised as a general statement, and it can be taken as one, but she’s mostly talking about herself.

‘Lendemain’ means ‘tomorrow’ (though more specifically it’d be ‘the following day’, or ‘the next day’, as it’s a noun. ‘Demain’ is the adverb), but is often used more broadly to mean ‘future’.

And there we go ! It’s a shame this song got scrapped, as it fits very well with the themes of the novel it’s adapted from imo ! But also I’m not surprised, the original is a story about social distress and people’s struggle, whether wmall scale and personal, or bigger, against the state. Jean Valjean is a main character, but his story doesn not take center stage. The adaptation, however, is Jean Valjean’s story, with the aforementioned themes still being present, but having more of a background rôle.

Just look at how the respective productions start ! The original one opens on the plight of factory workers, and focuses on Fantine for most of the beginning, as character who falls victim to poverty due to both personal, and societal cruelty.

The adaptation opens with Valjean, his origin story, his relationship with Javert. And while it does show the bagne as hellish, and also the stigma against Valjean as a former convict, there are steps of his journey, and not touched upon again later. So yeah, both version, while similar at a glance, are actually very different stories.

(Though I will say, Marius reprising this song later because he’s sad that he can’t be with Cosette does undermine the original theme and feels very disrespectful lol.)

Anyway ! Thanks for reading through, and next time I’ll tackle Fantine’s arrest and Javert’s introduction ! I’d like to cover the song ‘La nuit’, which became ‘Lovely ladies’, but sadly it’s not on the concept album so I can’t find the lyrics, and as most parts are sung by the ensemble I have a very hard time making out what they’re saying. If anyone has the lyrics or knows where to find them, I’d appreciate it !

#les miserables #les miserables musical #les miserables 1980 #long post #very long post #also regarding that last aside if it wasn't obvious before I'm not too fond of Marius OR plots that revolve around romance #I find 95% of romance to be at best unappealing at worst downright offputting #aka I dunno if I'm gonna cover all the songs about the Cosette/Marius/Eponine love triangle #might just translate them and that's it for completion sake