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December 2015

Dec 13, 2015 1,219,019 notes
#I swear to queue I will be there
“When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had arrested him beside Fantine’s death-bed, had escaped from the town jail of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. Javert’s zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Angles. M. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert’s patron, had the inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem strange for such services, honorable manners.”—

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Chapter X, Book 5


I’M LAUGHING SO HARD, OH MY GOD

VALJEAN IS THE ENTIRE REASON JAVERT GOT TRANSFERRED TO PARIS

Therefore, Valjean is indirectly responsible for Javert getting a promotion. Which is fucking hilarious, because if we rewind a few books to when Javert was trying to get himself dismissed, we get this line from Valjean (Then the mayor):

“Javert, you deserve promotion instead of degradation.”

AND VALJEAN ACCIDENTALLY GETS HIM PROMOTED

I’M CRYING

(via autumngracy)

Dec 3, 2015 164 notes
#brick

November 2015

Nov 23, 2015 106 notes
“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.”—Victor Hugo Les Misérables (via halluzinogen)
Nov 23, 2015 4,582 notes
Nov 19, 2015 22 notes
#Hayden tee
Nov 10, 2015 52 notes
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Nov 5, 2015 241 notes
#fuck you I'll post whatever I want #video #valvert

October 2015

“Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed forever as among malefactors of the most dangerous sort, was a magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and to unveil them suddenly at the last.”—

Les Misérables 2.5.10

Javert was afraid of being deprived of his convict.

Thank you Victor Hugo.

(via esteliel)

Oct 19, 2015 42 notes
#Javert ur gay #brick
Oct 19, 2015 17 notes
#Art
“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him–he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”—Victor Hugo on Javert, Les Misérables (via anything-but-one-straight-line)
Oct 13, 2015 256 notes
#brick
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#jeremy secomb
Oct 7, 2015 232 notes
#Broadway #Ramin karimloo #will swenson
“

Of course, Javert is very much moved in the end, with the revelation of Jean Valjean’s sublime qualities. But while Marius responds to the same discovery by trying to make amends, Javert commits suicide. Having abandoned his own quest to bring the outlaw to justice, the policeman triggers a series of reflections that flesh out his psychological profile. The man with no inner life is amazed to find that he has “under [his] breast of bronze something preposterous and disobedient that almost resembles a heart” (1325). He has learned to understand, to empathize with, and therefore to care about another.
In consequence, he has rendered good for good without any regard to external factors. Perhaps most puzzling, he has been able “to sacrifice duty, that general obligation, to personal motives, and to feel in these personal motives something general too, and perhaps superior” (1320). Public affairs have yielded to personal concerns of equal, if not greater, weight. The dichotomy between the particular and the general has suddenly dissolved, as private emotions have become invested with the sense of universal value previously reserved for the legal code.


This capacity for discerning and affirming a unique identity brings not joy and liberation but terror and disorientation: “Javert’s ultimate anguish was  the loss of all certainty. He felt uprooted. The code was no longer anything but a stump in his hand… . Within him there was a revelation of feeling entirely distinct from the declarations of the law; his only standard hitherto” (1323).

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—Les Miserables: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption by Kathryn M. Grossman (via mightbebeautiful)
Oct 7, 2015 73 notes
#meta
Oct 3, 2015 59 notes
#andrew varela #us tour
“‘If you believe me, you will come in full force.’
The inspector threw Marius a glance such as Voltaire would have thrown at a provincial academician who had proposed a rhyme to him.”
—les misérables, victor hugo
(via itsquotational)
Oct 1, 2015 6 notes
#quotes #brick
Oct 1, 2015 507 notes
#Earl Carpenter

September 2015

autumngracy:

neroushalvaus:

Javert really isn’t alert all the time. And it’s kind of adorable.

I mean, during Fantine’s arrest he is so shocked about the whole situation that he just stands there for a moment and doesn’t snap out of it before he hears the sound of the latch when Fantine tries to leave. And at that point he has momentarily forgotten all about Madeleine being there and that the Mayor already said that Fantine is free to go. 

Again at the barricades, when Javert is working undercover. He has been observing the revolutionaries like a hawk, and when he’s done doing that, he just sits down and spaces out. He “doesn’t seem to see anything that’s going on”, doesn’t even notice Gavroche circling around him, and when Enjolras finally asks who he is, he just kind of startles awake. 

Javert is a daydreamer pass it on.

Well he is described as a “melancholy dreamer,” so …

Sep 30, 2015 254 notes
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#I'm not even going to tag everything here
Sep 28, 2015 161 notes
#will Swenson
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Sep 25, 2015 39 notes
#video #who is this guy anyway I think he's great
Facts about Javert‘s Jobs

autumngracy:

Okay so the other day I was casually rereading the brick again and at one point Javert says he was an adjutant guard.

Here is the definition of that courtesy of Google:

1. a military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

  • a person’s assistant or deputy.

According to Wikipedia is corresponds roughly with a staff sergeant or a warrant officer.

Another site said that when addressing the adjutant guard the senior officer would say “mon adjutant” so basically “my assistant”

Anyways basically this means that yes brick Javert would have worn that guard outfit with the snazzy hat (no, not the bicorn; the other one):

But also it means he was some other guard’s assistant and I find that really interesting?? Like, he becomes a temporary assistant/bodyguard for the (then) secretary to the Prefect of Police later, which is why he is in M-sur-M … Does he have like this network of officials that give him referrals?

Also on a sort of unrelated note I found out that the gendarmerie, which was pretty much like the military force charged with police duties in the civilian population, kind of had a rivalry going with the local police (because they would sometimes have to fight over whose jurisdiction something fell under maybe??) And also the symbol of the gendarmerie was a flaming grenade. Silver laurel leaves seem to be a theme in the French Police (I think they’re worn on the collar?).

Wikipedia says: “There are two national police forces called “Police nationale” and “Gendarmerie nationale”. The Prefecture of Police of Paris which provides policing services directly to Paris as a subdivision of France’s Ministry of the Interior. Within these national forces only certain designated police officers have the power to conduct criminal investigations which are supervised by investigative magistrates.”

So is Javert actually higher ranking than a regular police officer? I had always thought he actually ranked below them, being given risky spy missions and such, but now I’m thinking the opposite. It does say he has subordinates in the brick.

Sep 24, 2015 45 notes
#brick #honestly idk what to tag this bc it isn't really meta
Sep 23, 2015 74 notes
#Art
Sep 23, 2015 34 notes
#art #russell crowe
Sep 20, 2015 338 notes
#Art #Norm Lewis
Sep 11, 2015 111 notes
#Art

August 2015

Aug 29, 2015 40 notes
#jeremy secomb
Aug 20, 2015 470 notes
#earl carpenter
Aug 17, 2015 22 notes
#hayden tee #les mis oz
Aug 7, 2015 132 notes
#Philip Quast

hatarlakrits:

russellcrowemygod:

but why is there no sexy bara Javert?

oh but there is

(gifs by chocolalf)

Aug 7, 2015 70 notes
#I never needed to see this #but it's going on the Javert blog #booty of the law indeed
Aug 6, 2015 295 notes
#James grant

July 2015

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#adam pearce
Jul 26, 2015 27 notes
#Philip Quast
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Jul 10, 2015 161 notes
#will Swenson #les Mis bway
Jul 10, 2015 27 notes
#Sören Lillkung #Petja Lähde
  • javert: a memory stirs . .
  • javert: you make me think of a man
  • javert: he was kinda hot
  • javert: heavens above i cannot believe i said that out loud javert out
Jul 9, 2015 255 notes
#so many people reblogged this I'm gonna put it here too do you want to fight me over it
Jul 9, 2015 67 notes
#will Swenson #Russell Crowe
  • what she says: im fine
  • what she means: i wonder if people understand javert is supposed to be one of "les miserables" aka the miserable of society. he's as much a victim of society as any of the other character in the novel. do they know javert was never meant to be a villain, but another victim? is it willful misinterpratation im order to have an easy villain to blame the tragedies on? he is described as a fanatic, but always with the best possible human traits: his sin lies within his error, and hugo describes it as being pitiful and miserable; it caused him to kill himself as soon as he realised it. why simplify him to a villain when he was never written as such? the villain in les miserables is society itself, and how it ruins the people who live in it. javert is one of les miserables why make him the villain i dont
Jul 9, 2015 17,424 notes
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#Anthony Perkins #Philip Quast #geoffrey rush #norm Lewis #Russell Crowe #will Swenson
Jul 7, 2015 71 notes
#Andrew love
Jul 3, 2015 7,645 notes
#art
Jul 1, 2015 706 notes
#will swenson #im like 90% sure on this ok and ive seen him three times in person

June 2015

Jun 29, 2015 68 notes
#omg what a cute i like him #jeremy secomb
Jun 20, 2015 681 notes
#dnd
StarsDavid Thaxton

michaelsouschek:

David Thaxton’s last performance of Stars.

[download full audio. if you want to trade it, please credit it as fall of man trading’s master. full cast list here. please do not share outside of tumblr]

Jun 13, 2015 281 notes
#audio post #david thaxton #stars
Jun 13, 2015 89 notes
#David thaxton
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