Valjean: You’re entirely literal. Metaphors go right over your head, don’t they?
Javert: Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.

Jean Valjean: “I have saved a life.”
Javert: “You fucked up a perfectly good police officer is what you did. Look at me! I have existentialism!”

thearchivalist:

The funniest thing in the Brick is the names of Valjean’s family.

His dad’s name was Jean.

His mother’s name was Jeanne.

And the name Valjean is slang that came about because people used to shout “there’s Jean” (voilà Jean became vla Jean became Valjean)

So one of the most integral characters in Les Mis has a name that roughly translates to “Jean There’s Jean”

secretmellowblog:

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: I hate adaptations that turn Javert into The Villain™

because they act like Valjean’s suffering isn’t caused by a corrupt society that oppresses its most vulnerable members, but by One Guy Who Is Mean. It’s not that “Book-Javert never did anything wrong uwu”: it’s that these adaptations shift Hugo’s criticisms of society at large onto a single dude

Hugo is like: “wow we as a society are really cruel to poor people and ex-cons!”

While these adaptations are like “wow that one guy Javert is really cruel to poor people and ex-cons! ~~and what do you mean this is actually a larger social problem caused by underlying issues of historical systemic oppression and institutionalized prejudice that affect everyone??~~!”

It’s a way of… stripping the deeply-political Les Mis of its political message, and it’s kinda creepy tbh

marquise-de-clarabas:

Les Mis 99

lesmis-plus-textposts:

les misérables + shitpostgenerator

cosettey:

and in order we see: jean valjean, fantine, and javert

euphrasieandcosette:

#bless valjean’s attitude in this scene/song #i really love the face he makes in the second gif #like “sacrifice my ass” #“you seriously think im gonna put up with your emotional bullshit????” #“after i literally saw cosette dragging a heavy ass bucket in the middle of the fucking night????” #“wearing rags?????” #“and don’t you dare i don’t know what you have been doing with my money and fantine’s money, you greedy shits” #but since he doesn’t like confrontations #valjean’s like #“alright take my money for your sAcRiFiCe, my dear fellows :):):)” #bc valjean is a kind old fellow #and he doesn’t want to scare cosette #jesus christ you can sense him ready to hit the thenardiers with the receipts #i just rlly love his whole attitude during the bargain #so fucking sassy in a passive aggressive way i s2g #bless you valjean #pls be my dad #ok but i will not stop talking abt this ever #bc jEAN VALJEAN STRAIGHT UP MURDERED THE THENARDIERS WITHOUT THEM KNOWING IT JFC #HE JUST PUT UP WITH JAVERT’S BULLSHIT ABT THE LAW AND HIS PAST THAT HE NEVER ASKED ABOUT #HE LITERALLY “DROWNED” HIMSELF TO GET TO COSETTE #YOU THINK HE’S PUTTING UP WITH YOUR BULLSHIT???? #HA BITCH U THOUGHT

The list of things that Jean Valjean deserved:

as-old-as-the-universe:

– better
– better
– better
– much better