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| Fantine |
Are you serious?! | ||||||
| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Are you talking to me? If yes, then ... sadly, yes. I'm completely serious. |
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| lesmisloony |
Haha, LM-related dreams... those are good fun times. | ||||||
| EponineMNFF |
Ooh I've had dreams of being in Les Mis before!
It was one of the happiest moments of my life. 
You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you name your computer Grantiare. You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you should "DRUNKEN BASTARD!" every time your computer freezes. |
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| mastachen |
I had a dream that I was onstage singing On My Own with Mandy Bruno's voice.
Dream? I meant nightmare. |
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| lesmisloony |
NNNGAH! MY OLD PRINTER BACK HOME WAS NAMED GRANTAIRE BECAUSE IT WAS ERRATIC AND DRUNK! My monitor was Bamatabois because it was evil and toyed with my emotions, and my big whatchamathingy... the PC?... I'm a technological idiot... was Tholomyes. For the same reason. And it was breaky and ugly. Clearly, I had no love for those machines. I'm considering naming my laptop Listolier... OKAY LET'S KILL SOME TIME TOGETHER. Things Loony has named after LM-related things: Montparnasse--slim, dark viola bow... kind of a waste of the name, no? especially since the bow exploded after a month and I had to replace it with one I called Haldir... Raoul Enjolras--sexy blond-red viola Grantaire--crappy printer Tholomyes--PC thingy Bamatabois--screen thingy Listolier (?)--laptop Victor--my parents' car Hugo--my beloved deceased minivan which I miss EVERY DAY Claquesous--viola case WOW. I know there are more, but it's late and I can't think of any. Meh. My future daughter I will never have is called Cosette. ...I want no children. But if I did... |
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| Orestes Fasting |
I have actually had this thought process: "I never want kids. Ever. If I have one it will undoubtedly be by accident and she will probably end up up for adoption. ...it would be too cruel to call her Cosette in that case, wouldn't it?" |
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| EponineMNFF |
Hahahahahahahah! 
Oh I thought of another one about Grantaire the computer. *Pets* You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you're scared your computer, Grantaire, is going to die because your friend's computer died. Your friend's computer name is (was  ) Enjolras.
Shockinly, good ol' Grantaire has outlived Enjy though. *shrug* I don't have too many gadgets named after Les Mis characters. My calculator's name is Eponine though (that's proof of how much I love my calculator). But I did have a rat named Azelma! She died tragically early though. Oh! I have another one! You know you're obsessed with Les Mis, when you out trivia Les Mis actors with very basic brick knowledge. I was at the stage door, and the actress playing Eponine asked me if I had any pets named after Les Mis characters and told me that she had cats named Marius and Eponine. I was like, "Nah, I don't have any named Eponine. But I do have a rat named Azelma!" She paused and finally asked, "Who's that?" 
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| mastachen |
HA! I've always wondered if the actors knew more about the book than people on here. Was that Megan McGinnis? |
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| lesmisloony |
YKYOWLMW... you started imaging a scene where a virus was coming for all the computers in that area, and it was coming for the Enjy computer and the R computer came crashing into the... scene... and was all, "V1V3 L4 R3PUBL1QU3! 1 AM 0N3 0F TH3M!" ...hahaha, idk, it's 2:30 in the morning. ALSO ALSO ALSO! Megan McGinnis? Was telling us about how she didn't know the students had individual names when she first got cast. I'm all, WTF YOU ARE NOT WORTHY! But... then she said she had read/was reading the Book, and that Montparnasse was her favourite character, so I forgave her. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Some of the actors have read the book, some haven't. What's obsession for us is a job for them, and while it can help to do research on your character, it takes a certain amount of dedication to wade through 1500 pages of French romanticism. I mean, it's always nice to discover that your favorite Les Mis actor has read the book, and nicer still when it impacts their performance, but I doubt the show would have had such a long run if every actor in it had to read the book. Let alone be familiar with all its minor characters.
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| lesmisloony |
 You're very collected at 3:00am, Orestes. That's pretty enviable, I'd say...
*is actually bordering on incoherent* |
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| Orestes Fasting |
Haha, I'm not collected, just verbal to a fault. I've been known to get drunk, spew all sorts of stupid crap, and then be unable to convince anyone I was sloshed because I was perfectly coherent and not making any typos. Though 3am's a little late even for me, which actually would explain my splendid case of foot-in-mouth disease over on the off-topic board. | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
...Cyber-Grantaire? 
No, seriously, now it's 3:30. And I am going to bed for real. ...because everyone should know what I'm doing, I think. |
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| Fantine |
Haldir is pretty sexy too though (although obviously gay). I didn't name my new computer after a Les Mis character but I named him after a Kingdom Hearts 2 character... I just thought 'Xemnas' was very fitting. |
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| lesmisloony |
Haha, don't tell Galadriel! Whoa, I haven't been a LOTR nerd in a long time... |
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| Fantine |
Why? What is their relationship? (I have never read the books). |
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| lesmisloony |
Oh no! You're totally right. I had him confused with Celeborn... 
D'oh. All these non-Legolas elves... |
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| bigR |
he, he, it's not very nice of me, I know, but everytime I see an actor performing a character from a book I love in a way I don't like at all i can't help but have really mean thoughts like: "what the hell, plenty of actors dropped out of school at 16 and have not read a book just for the sake of it in their lives. The fact that they can pull faces or cry in a convincing way does not mean that they are able to read a book and understand what the author though about their character... so I guess they just go and trust what the director tells them about it". But even if I know that many actors are not interested in anything even remotely intelectual it always amazes me who can anyone have so little curiosity. i don't think that actors should be nerdy, but come on, if you have to play a character you don't know nothing about, there isn't something in you that makes you look for the original source and try to find out as much as posible about it? Maybe that's why I feel SO grateful everytime I see that an actor understood a character from a book... |
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| Electricity24601 |
There was a teenager at the stage door one day named Cosette. You could tell her parents were maaaajor fans. They were like "Cosette, tell Ali who you were named after!" |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
So apparently I'm not the only one who would name her kid Cosette? ... I'd definitely use it as a middle name, at least. | ||||||
| mastachen |
HAHA how embarrassing for the teenager. |
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| bigR |
So, am i the only one who thinks that cosette is an ugly name? 
It always makes me think of "chosette", like "small thing" in french... Now, there might be some thing of mme th�nardier in me, but I could consider an Azelma... |
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| Fantine |
I always think that people shouldn't give their children really exotic names.
Like, Robin for a Dutch person would be okay, but the English pronouncation of Kate or Holly would be a no-no. (Even though I completely adore those names! )
Same goes for French names in the English culture. |
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| Tenalto |
Really? Why? Would they simply never get pronounced correctly, or do they mean something dirty in Dutch?
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| Orestes Fasting |
There are lots of French names that wouldn't screw with English pronunciation at all, though--Cosette among them. (Naming your kid Guillaume, on the other hand, would just be cruel.) |
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| bigR |
i don't think it is because of that. i guess that it just sounds ridiculous. I said that thing about Azelma myself, but I was only kidding. In my country to give a child a foreign name (unless one of the parents is foreign himself, of course) is seen as extremely tacky. I guess it is the same thing in the netherlands? fantine? |
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| lesmisloony |
Oh no, there's no question. If something apocalyptic happens and I have a daughter, her name will be Cosette.
And she can hang out with your daughter Cosette, soprano! It'll be... amazing. We'll force them to wear black dresses and watch my LM cartoon. I actually used to like the name Eponine for a future kid. I was going to shorten it to "Nina" and everything. I had it allll planned out. ... Actually, I tell people that I'm going to have twins and name them Papageno and Papagena, but... definitely Cosette. And if I have a boy, Jehan. And if I had another girl for some reason.... Josephine. And yes, I will be calling her Zephine. ... *is not planning on having kids anyway* So I guess these are all actually future cats' names?
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
So, little Cosette's life looks pretty good right now, Loony. ...Considering I won't be having kids for probably another 10 years or so, my taste in names might change. But Cosette is so pretty, it may stick around. It couples nicely with a lot of things as a second name, too.
Teehee. Your kids are going either love Les Mis or hate Les Mis. There will be no in between. For a girl I like Lilith, too ... even though it's totally non-LM related. It shortens nicely to Lilie. And ... |
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| mastachen |
My kids will be making fun of your kids. | ||||||
| Tenalto |
Loony, I think I love you. <3 |
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| lesmisloony |
 After subtext = buttsex, I love you too!
Hehe, I've actually given raising my non-existent future-children thought. I've decided that I'm going to expose them to LM like crazy until they're, like, five, and then I'm going to just... stop. And someday, they'll rediscover it for themselves, and they'll love it the way I love Magic Flute! (which... I listened to when I was tiny, then lost the tape of, rediscovered about a year ago, and became rabidly obsessed with.) I don't know if you've ever rediscovered something from infanthood, but it's a very amazing sensation. |
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| Fantine |
Oh it's just my personal opinion, but yes, it does have to do with pronouncing. Holly sounds really cute in English but if you'd pronounce it in Dutch you'd get: Wolly Kate would be Khaht (well something like that). I just think it would be tacky. We have some names that are "changed" into Dutch versions such as Charlotte. |
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| Tenalto |
I have, and it was actually Les Mis related. When I was six, an older girl sang "Castle on a Cloud" at our elementary school talent show. I remember thinking that it was one of the prettiest songs I'd ever heard and that she was supposed to be Cinderella. Then, eight years later, I was paging through a book of showtune piano arrangements at a friend's house -- CoaC was in it and the title caught my eye for reasons I couldn't define. I asked her to play it, which she did. Within two bars, I recognized it and my eyes got all big. Later that evening, she had me listen to the OBC version of "Attack on the Rue Plumet," and I was hooked. Even though I thought Francis Ruffelle had an incredibly weird voice. 
[/random reminiscence] |
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| lesmisloony |
When you see a brand of socks called "Vejan" and think it says "Valjean," see a store called "Haverty" and think it says "Javert," and then hear a TV spot for some move and swear you hear them say something about Javert but realise they just said "Lacy Chabert" or something like that... | ||||||
| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
And Lacy Chabert = Little Cosette! And Gavroche! | ||||||
| EponineMNFF |
I KNEW I knew that name from somewhere!
You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you have this fantasy about going to see the show that they're an ensemble member down and for some mysterious reason all of the swings are sick, so they ask the audience for the person with the most knowledge of the show and of course it's you, so you get to go on in the ensemble. /longwinded Yeah. I had a dream about it and now I secretly hope it happens every time I go to see the show.
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| Electricity24601 |
I've done that! ^
When I was younger I used to like to pretend that one of the young Cosettes got sick right before the inn scene... so I had to go on for young Eponine
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| lesmisloony |
YKYOWLMW... you're on a constant prowl for people to cast in your mental LM movie cast. For instance, you're watching Across the Universe and the whole time you're trying to figure out whether or not Evan Rachel Woods would make a good Fantine someday (I don't like her as Cosette solely because I always picture Cosette as having more of a heart-shaped face, like Virginie Ledoyen, who I loved as Cosette...) and every time you see the gorgeous guy who played Max (I think his name was Joe Anderson) you're like, OMGENJOLRASENJOLRASENJOLRAS. | ||||||
| Orestes Fasting |
I've been known to partake in that guilty fantasy too. The sad thing is that I knew the Broadway ensemble tracks so well that the only thing tripping me up--literally--would be maneuvering on the turntable. And the ten-second costume changes, haha. Not that it's possible, of course. When there are more ensemble absences than there are swings (or when the swings are out), they go into combo, which means that the absent person's lines get split between the rest of the ensemble members. Back at the beginning of September half the cast was sick, so most of the ensemble were either out or understudying for absent principals, and the combos were insane. One of them joked, "It's no wonder we lost, there were only eight of us on the barricade." |
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| Kragey |
Nah, they'll be too busy making fun of mine, who will be getting an asston of family names (and two middle names apiece). |
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| lesmisloony |
Way to go killing everyone's dreams with your goshdarn logic, Orestes...
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| Orestes Fasting |
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| Kragey |
...please. Have my children. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
I would, darling, except I hate kids. I plan to exorcise any maternal instincts I may develop later in life by adopting cats and naming them all after gay 19th century poets. | ||||||
| Kragey |
Can't stand babies, but I do love kids. I don't think of my instincts as maternal...my friends call them my "nagging habit." |
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| EponineMNFF |
That reminded me of my other Les Mis fantasy! You know you're obsessed with Les Mis when you dream of having a whole BUNCH of cats and naming them all after Les Mis characters until you have all of the named characters. My friends are convinced that I'll become a cat lady, so it's possible. <.< |
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| lesmisloony |
Hahaha, nice font, Orestes!
ZOMG, mine too! But I'm definitely never going to name a cat "Cosette" just in case, as I've mentioned, apocolyptic things lead me to having a daughter. Because I love Cosette and her name a lot. Actually, I have a friend I converted, and she has a cat named Cosette... but whatever, that won't stop me either. |
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| lesmisloony |
Double-posting cos I'm annoying like that.
YKYOWLMW... you read this on a site of crappy baby names: "Thazel is a name I've wanted to use for either a boy or a girl. Is that name too weird? It's a combination of my grandmothers who pasted away just three weeks apart. (Thelma and Hazel)" and you immediately think "WHY NOT NAME IT AZELMA?!?!???" HAZEL + THELMA = AZELMA. Edited because I'm an idiot... |
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| Kragey |
Does that equation make the Thelma part void, since Azelma = Azelma works, too? =P |
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| lesmisloony |
Fine, fine, I'll edit it... | ||||||
| Fantine |
Lol
I really like the name 'Hazel'. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Thazel ... ouch.
Much better to go with Azelma. You should post that in response to that lady, Loony ... I'd much rather go through life named Azelma than Thazel. Hazel isn't a bad name. Just leave out the T. YKYOWLMW your best friend has taken to calling you Cosette because you have a better response rate with that name than with your own. |
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| EponineMNFF |
That's so funny!
One of my friends calls me Eponabby.
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| Electricity24601 |
YKYOWLM whe...
You name the airplane you're flying on Euphraise to help you get over your fear of flying. |
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| lesmisloony |
Aw, that's brilliant!
I'm becoming more and more obsessed with Cosette... |
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| Catherine |
Same! I really like Cosette. I've been fangirling Javert as well... |
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| lesmisloony |
I fangirled Javert about four years ago... then I switched to Montparnasse.
(Y'all probably didn't know that Montparnasse is my favourite character, but he is.) Within the last year, my second-favourite (Book) character has ranged from Madame Thenardier (don't ask...) to Valjean to Fantine, but I do adore Cosette. So I think she's a pretty sold second-favourite from this point out. Now I have to wonder about my third... I think I stopped loving on Javert because I got intimidated by all the other Javvie fangirls who study the character and such. If I can't confidiently write the character, I have trouble fangirling him/her. |
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| EponineMNFF |
Javert fangirls are really scary. They remind me of really intense Snapewriters in the HP fandom. I love 'em, but I can't even try to meet their skill. I think us Valjean fangirls are a lot less intimidating, but I don't think there is much fic about Valjean, is there? Not too much to write about, I guess. *Shrug* |
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| lesmisloony |
Well, I *would* write Valjean, but this guy I know called Vicky Hugo already did just about everything there is to do... | ||||||
| Orestes Fasting |
They are, but at least we know they're sane enough to pass the "If your favorite character jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" test by the fact of their continued existence. |
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| EponineMNFF |
That is true, but it's not like he jumped off a bridge three quarters or the way through a series or something. *Thinks of some friends who said they would kill themselves if their favorite character died in Harry Potter.* O.o |
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| lesmisloony |
That's... a bit... extreme... 
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| Fantine |
If I had said that, I would be SO dead. |
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| mezzo_soprano |
Who was your favorite? One of my favorites died, the other survived. | ||||||
| Fantine |
Snape
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| Catherine |
Can't WAIT to see Alan Rickman in films 6 and 7. I hope he doesn't disappoint me. I never fangirl characters so much that I write fanfic or study them really really really indepth. I think its good to have a healthy balance. |
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| Fantine |
I can't wait either!!! Characters I've written fanfiction about/made videos/websites: Fantine, Rinoa(FFVIII), Princess Garnet(FFIX), Mikoto(FFIX), Inspector Lynley, Les Mis in general, and some other small fandoms. |
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| mezzo_soprano |
My favourite character who died was Tonks. My second favourite who lived was Hermione. | ||||||
| Fantine |
You know what sucked? That she spent like 10 words on telling us that Tonks and Lupin were dead. 10 f-ing words! That's so unworthy! | ||||||
| mezzo_soprano |
I know 
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| Fantine |
The saddest parts for me were the deaths of Dobby, Hedwig and Snape. 
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| Catherine |
I've never ever cried at any Harry Potter books, but when "Here lies Dobby. A Free Elf" came up, I was sobbing. I was teary when it came to Snape, but I couldn't really cry to that, I was kinda shocked. |
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| mastachen |
I GOT ONE TO BRING THE THREAD BACK!
You change your facebook network to NY to stalk Les Mis's actors' facebooks. |
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| Fantine |
Hey we can chat about Harry Potter if we want to
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| mastachen |
Oh carry on, I just wanted to throw that in there, because I know people who do that. lol |
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| Catherine |
This has kinda like become the Les Mis forum Random Facts Thread. | ||||||
| Fantine |
I cried at the 'Snape's Worst Memory' in book five. |
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| mastachen |
I cried when Harry said to his mum, "Walk with me" when he went to go sacrifice himself. | ||||||
| Catherine |
That was sad as well, I've just never been able to cry at Harry Potter books, they don't seem real enough.
Ah well. |
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| lesmisloony |
I was very unhappy when Hedwig died. But I don't really fangirl Harry Potter anymore. Or even dig it that much. But I definitely did like Hagrid and Neville... and probably some others, I don't remember.
I may be stoned for saying this, but now that I've read all the HP books, I'm going to pretend that there are only three. Loony to future kids: Um, there's something I've never told you. I'm the one who puts present under the Christmas tree and exchanges your teeth for money... and... uh... there are four more Harry Potter books. |
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| Orestes Fasting |
I wouldn't go that far, but I definitely like the first three the best. I don't know if it's the fact that they're self-contained, or that book four was when her editor started slacking off and we wound up with books that should've been two hundred pages shorter. Deathly Hallows was the best of the final four by far. |
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| EponineMNFF |
My favorite character is Neville, so I'm pretty happy. I'm basically the female embodiment of him. When I read book five, that chapter, "Christmas on the Closed Ward" had me SOBBING.
Though I adore Snape, so that wasn't great. Oooh yeah and when Harry saw his parents. I was pretty much a wreck after this book--HP is kind of what my entire childhood was about. Butttt yeah. Oh I've got one to be on topic. You know you're obsessed with Les Mis, when you type too many Ts and instead of thinking of a butt, you think of Jennifer Butt. |
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| lesmisloony |
YKYOWLMW... it occurs to you that, of all the sketches you've done in the margins of notebooks over the past five years, only four of them weren't LM characters.
ONLY. FOUR. That's like once a year that I don't draw a LM char. |
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| herkind |
And how many of them were Montparnasse?  Seriously, I'd draw him too if I felt I could do him justice.
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| lesmisloony |
I went through and counted.
13/53 are Montparnasse. Methinks t's actually rather surprising how much Cosette I've drawn... And no, none of my Monty sketches do him justice. |
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| EponineMNFF |
Oh I'm so guilty of that one.
My math teacher noticed the drawing of Cosette on my notes the other day. Oops. <.< |
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| lesmisloony |
This is a picture of Cosette I drew in French lit the other day (as you can probably tell by all the scribblings about Baudelaire and Hugo that surround her)...
I kind of dig this picture. Just to let you know, all my art is really cartoony like this, although Cosette's eyes are particularly Disneyish and large here. |
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| EponineMNFF |
OMG That's so cute!
Way cuter than my drawings. More, more, more! |
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| lesmisloony |
Aw, thanks... 
Actually... that's probably the best fanart I've ever done... so anything else I show will just make you think less of my, ahem, artistic abilities... But I started an account at deviantart somewhat recently... |
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| Fantine |
I love it! It's so cute I can't draw people at all.
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| mezzo_soprano |
That's so cute!! | ||||||
| lesmisloony |
I can draw absolutely nothing else. No straight lines, no furniture... it takes me ages to draw a top hat... | ||||||
| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
LOONY your Cosette has my hair. I love that.
YKYOWLMW... You cause the friend who introduced you to Les Mis and previously was a die-hard Eppiebopper to acknowledge the Marius/Cosette relationship as "perfect and adorable." Said friend, who first labeled herself as "obsessed with Les Mis," voices her concern for your mental state over your obsession with Les Mis. Your broom is named Euphrasie. |
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| lesmisloony |
Squee! *promptly christens Dustbuster "Alouette"* |
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| mezzo_soprano |
Do you sweep with it while singing Castle on a cloud? |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Yes. |
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| lesmisloony |
Dustbusting and singing COAC loses something...
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
Very true. I wouldn't recommend it. Vacuuming while singing isn't a worthwhile pastime, either. |
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| Fantine |
Awww but I like that!
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