There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.
In Les Miserables Jean Valjean spends years living under the alias of Madeleine, as a reference to Mary Magdalene. I’ve painted Madeleine and stinging nettles for the faith and fate theme of @valvertweek.
The Martyr
Or: “‘The beautiful is as useful as the useful’, he added after a pause ‘Moreso, perhaps.’”
ExR + touches
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Bonus:
hello enjoltaire nation, today I give you another offering
do people still value old men I wonder...
Enjolras sketches.
eponine thenardier they could never make me hate you
I HAVEN’T DONE ONE OF THESE IN FOREVERRRRRRR
Favourite color: green
Currently Reading: nothing yet, but I’m planning to pick up Fellside by M.R. Carrey
Last song: Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked by Cage the Elephant
Last Film: …I can’t remember. I don’t really watch films these days TvT
Last Series: this semester got me a little fucked, so I can’t remember the last thing I read or watched, but the last “series” I’ve read was ph taxation laws annotated
Coffee or tea: Tea!!! I genuinely don’t know how to enjoy coffee TvT
Working on: learning as many art mediums this summer before the next semester starts eating me up again. I sculpted and painted a bunch of aranaras this morning :>
AAA TY @rose-margaritas for the tagggg
Favorite color: pink, all day every day
Currently reading: I just finished Sunrise of the Reaping (after binding the Hunger Games series for the very first time right before), so I think my next book is going to be This is How You Lose the Time War
Last song: Tough Luck by Laufey (it has been on repeat ALLLLL DAYYYYY)
Last film: genuinely cannot remember, I am not a film person
Last series: Etoile (working on my third rewatch, this time with my theatre friends)
Sweet/savory/salty: Salty, generally
Tea or coffee: Redbull or tea, or just straight up eating espresso beans
Working on: Does finishing my degree count? That, learning to play 2 new instruments, and I’m 100 words into a fic (for the first time in years) that I cannot promise I will finish
Tagging (no pressure): @twisted-tales-told @robyngoesrogue @cinnamon-notes @aslongasitistold @giyuulatte @justcallmeemily @annafromao3 @my-name-is-jimmy (because I miss you pookie) @skuzzinfish
She turned to him with a stupefied air. “Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?” “Promise what I tell you!” But she did not seem to hear him. “That’s nice! You have called me Éponine!”
— Les Misérables, IV.II.IV Illustrated by Adriano Minardi (Italian Edition, 1930)
Enjolras
nel || 19 || they/them || aroace || every once in a while I scream about something other than Les Miserables || if you know me irl no you don’t
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