i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar
now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends
we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…
i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave”
at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it
Something I love about Victor Hugo’s characterization of Les Amis is his knowledge and use of the social and cultural context in which Les Amis were living. Enjolras’ politics couldn’t have developed at all before the end of the Thirty Years’ War, full-stop. Feuilly’s politics couldn’t have developed before the end of the Thirty Years’ War, because before that point, there was no sense of nationhood as we know it now.
Grantaire’s boxing is not just some sport, randomly chosen, to round out Grantaire’s character. Boxing was a relatively inexpensive and new sport in the nineteenth century that served as an example of the “commercialization of leisure.” It had begun in the villages, and only recently evolved into a competitive sport with stringent rules.
Joly’s declaration that “man is a magnet, like the needle,” is not some random “cute” thing Joly’s come up with. The idea that man was like a magnet was a popular theory among urban elites in the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century. Jehan’s romanticism is in line with his time, and he’s perhaps even a little ahead.
Who’s the total hipster? Jehan’s the total hipster.
Props to Victor Hugo for his meticulous use of detail in his characterization of Les Amis. Nothing is random. Every detail tells you something about the characters. Everything is set to depict Les Amis in a very particular social and cultural context.
Me: Jean Valjean is a strong man who can deadlift 450 pounds, served 19 years of slave labour, and he could kill a man if he wanted too
Also me: jan valjeen is a smol baby, needs hugs n kisses, so smol so cute I mean look at those chubby cheeks, he drinks tea and eat cakes he so cute neve rhurt a fly he an angel bean
victor hugo really wrote 500 words just to call enjolras a twink huh
yea sometimes in rps i take 500 words to do that too everyone needs a reminder from time to time
it’s very important to accurately describe a twink
honestly u cld just spend like… 500 words of “hes a twink” repeated over and over again
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Wow, you’re right, I really feel like Enjolras’s character has been established! But will historians get it?
