J o h n   A d a m s October 30, 1735 • July 4, 1826

i would never work as a gothic heroine which is a shame because i’ve got the looks for it but the firm presence of mind to gtfo from anything unpleasant

The Phantom: I have heard you sing. I have heard you, my child. I am the A—

me as Christine Daaé: [under my breath as I gather my things hurriedly] Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name

rogue master of the manor: [begins making flirtatious veiled threats towards me]

me, a poor governess: [immediately makes plans to get a different job]

ruined aristocrat who has a dark reputation spoken about only in whispers: May we speak alone for a moment?

me, Aware of things: No thank you, we’ve only just met. My aunt is my chaperone and a lovely conversationalist. Please do come and discuss her seventeen dogs

dark brooding guardian: [makes borderline asinine comments about my blossoming beauty]

me, packing my bags: Time for finishing school!

The whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With sad and innocent sagacity of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss that separated her from that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a princess, to have a “thing” like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, “How happy that doll must be!”

#it’s a shame this costume is barely visible when she wears it in the movie  #bc I love the idea of adult Cosette dressing like her beloved doll  #symbolic of how far she’s come: she’s crossed that ‘abyss’ and has realized the ‘vision’  #beautiful dress; smooth hair; loving father - how happy that doll must be!  #cries about it   (via)

Honestly most b o oo f the costumes are barely visible thanks to all the extreme closeups.

Which is a real shame, because the costume designer did a great job making accurate Romantic gowns...but the audience can hardly see them.

But this particular blue one is hardly visible more due to the lighting (and Cosette's extremely brief screentime) than to the camera angles.

Droopy Sleeves and Tiny Bonnets: Watering Down the Romantic Aesthetic in BBC’s Les Mis

I wasn’t exactly blown away by the costumes in the BBC production of Les Mis, and Cosette’s in particular, cute as Ellie Bamber is, were thoroughly “just okay.” But I didn’t put much more thought into it…

Well, not until Gentleman Jack–set in the exact same time period–blew BBC’s Les Mis out of the water with its costume design. Then more recently, when I started researching the fashion of the early 1830s, all the ways in which poor Cosette’s costumes fell short became glaringly obvious.

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In this publicity still, you can see what appears to be a genuinely accurate 1830s dress (red, on the left)! Complete with properly giant sleeves AND a bonnet. (The blue and navy dresses also appear, though it’s more difficult to tell, to have much more accurate silhouettes than anything Cosette wears--and bonnets!)

So why the heck did the costume designer decide to screw over just Cosette, the would-be best dressed woman in Paris???

Anastasia Romanov was the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicolas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia and the sister to Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Alexei. She was born 18 June 1901, and was murdered on 17 July 1918. About ninety years later, the last of the four grand duchesses’ bodies was found, and through DNA testing and rigorous scientific research, the myths that persisted that one of the sisters escaped was finally and conclusively proven false.

With the new musical Anastasia now out, it is important to remember the real young woman be hind the mythology and legend, who died a brutal death at only seventeen. 

i’ve been informed that powerpoints are a dying artform so this will likely be the last one.

cosette is great and i hope that this does her justice.

From the first moment she saw him, the mermaid was keenly aware of having violated some sacred and ancient law among her people. She was supposed to lure him from the great ship; instead, a single smile had been enough to lure her from the water. She sought magic long since forbidden if only it meant claiming him for herself.

oh boy

I should not have looked at the Frock Flicks page for the newest Les Mis

it’s full of a lot of Cosette hate

and lmfao halfway through the article they start calling her “Fantine” instead of Cosette, which is all kinds of “what the fuck are you guys even doing”

Aaaaand from the peanut gallery:

Les Mis is not a competition between Cosette and Eponine, are we NOT over this yet? And yeah, why would Cosette have reasons for “timidity and mild milquetoast tendencies”? (Which she does not have in the book...she is literally described as “wild and brave at heart,” lmao.) Could it be the fact that she was beaten, starved, and terrorized from the ages of ~2 to 8?!?!?! Jesus. So many Les Mis adaptations go above and beyond to show the horrors both Fantine and Cosette endure in Cosette’s childhood, then everyone forgets that adult Cosette is the same little girl who was being abused and basically enslaved by the Thenardiers!!!

Cosette...the girl who makes sure her father eats good bread and sits in a warm house??? Not saying she comes off as selfless as she is in every adaptation, but holy shit do some people miss the point.