there is nothing new under the sun

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do-you-have-a-flag:

i can’t wait until we’re far enough in the future that nostalgic films start getting set in the 90s/early 2000s like what ridiculous crap are they gonna define that period with I’m excited for this are you?

it’s gonna be terrible

and amazing

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tenlittlebullets:

brickeponine:

yo éponine is all bones and angles and she is utterly ambivelent to the horrors that have occupied her past and present and she has this incredbible strength through hope and pride and complete, utter disregard for anything but herself she is almost absolutely shameless and wonderfully ambitious and in a sort of terribke way, pretty sucessful. and you know so is cosette, who does not have any sort of fear tucked into her bonnet. her strength comes from her hope and her pride and complete lack of shame and also her fists apparently. if you paired these two girls up they’d be more effectual than the whole of the french policeforce united

I’m actually gonna dissent and say that shame is a pretty powerful component in book!Eponine’s motivations. Shame specifically as opposed to guilt: any moral responsibility she might bear for being complicit in theft, fraud, extortion, and prostitution is heavily, *heavily* attenuated by the fact that her parents raised her that way and she was trapped in a living situation where those were the only practicable ways to put food on the table. But that doesn’t stop her from feeling fucking awful about it once Marius comes on the scene, in her matter-of-fact way: a nice boy like you shouldn’t be seen with a woman like me, we weren’t always meant to be what we became, no I’m the devil but it’s all the same to me.

The thing about Eponine’s shame, though, is that it’s not an inhibitor, it’s actually a spur to action. It’s what allows her to face down her father and Patron-Minette with utter contempt for what they are (what they made her into), and with no regard for her own safety. She considers herself a devil who’s defected to the side of angels.

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