this post was made almost 3 years ago and through the tireless effort on @shitpostingfromthebarricade ’s part it still gets new notes

congrats on the empereur’s mercy week i guess? keep on unsettling casual les mis enjoyers (like myself) and making unsuspecting tumblrinas who got too close to the sewers see your truth!

[ID: photo of a book. Some of the text has been highlighted. It says “It is a pneumatic machine that attacks you. You are dealing with a footed void. Neither claw thrusts nor tooth bites, but an unspeakable scarification. A bit is formidable, but less so than such suction. The claw is nothing compared to the sucker. The claw, that’s the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that’s you yourself who enters into the beast. Your muscles swell, your fibres twist, your skin bursts beneath this unworldly force, your blood spurts and frightfully mixes with the mollusks’ lymph. The beast is superimposed upon you by its thousand vile mouths; the hydra is incorporated in the man; the man is amalgamated with the hydra. The two make one. This dream is upon you. The tiger can only devour you; the octopus, what horror, breathes you in! It draws you toward itself and into itself, and, bound, stuck, powerless, you slowly feel yourself emptied out within that horrendous sack, that monster. Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive.” End ID]

and don’t forget his drawing of one.

Octopus bearing the Initials V. H., Victor Hugo circa 1866:

#this fully rules #like victor my dude octopi absolutely dont do this but this rules supremely

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

evidence:

lol

They're not actually monks, they're a cheese association with their own brie songs and sacred motto. And hats shaped like brie, because of course you need cheese hats to be a cheese association.

ALT

https://www.confreriedubriedemeaux.fr/

I'm kind of obsessed.

@pilferingapples Since 16something, according to these guys. I also found this absolutely amazing passage on the website:

"Louis XVI, en demanda une part à l’épicier Sausse après avoir été reconnu et arrêté à Varennes. La Révolution en fit le fromage du peuple. Un révolutionnaire gastronome de l’époque proclamait: « Le fromage de Brie, aimé par le riche et le pauvre, a prêché l’égalité avant qu’on ne la soupçonne possible ». Mais c’est en 1815 que ce fromage des Rois reçut sa consécration.

C’était au congrès de Vienne où Talleyrand, Metternich et les ambassadeurs de trente nations repartageaient l’Europe après les guerres de Napoléon. Un concours fut organisé pour désigner le meilleur fromage et, à l’unanimité, le Brie fut couronné « roi des fromages »."

"Louis XVI asked for a piece from the shopkeeper in Sausse, after having been recognized and stopped in Varennes. The Revolution made it a cheese of the people. A food loving revolutionary of the time declared, "Brie cheese, liked by both the rich and the poor, preached equality before we dreamed it possible." But it's in 1815 that this King's Cheese was truly consecrated.

It was at the Congress of Vienna where Tallyrand, Metternich, and the ambassadors of thirty nations re-distributed Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. A contest was organized to determine the best cheese and, unanimously, Brie was crowned King of Cheeses."

This is just. Amazing news

and now I'm absolutely sure that Hugo had Bossue and Joly eating ham and brie as a convoluted history joke XD