iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 8h

Getting shamed by my newsletter platform Yes I am very aware it's been a while thank you

Screenshot with text saying "Welcome back, Sharon! You haven't sent an email in 3 months. Today's a great day to end the cold streak!" with a button for writing a new email.

3170

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/07/2026

Zoom has informed me that it orchestrates now, big if true

Screenshot with text reading "Meet ZoomMate, Your AI teammate that searches, orchestrates, and completes work on your behalf"

4401

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15/07/2026

I did not know that my life was missing a Fanny Hensel composer bust and then @henselpushers.bsky.social gave me one and now I can’t live without her

Photo of a miniature white bust of composer Fanny Hensel

2443

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 22/06/2026

Amazing discussions happening in the classical radio chat

Screenshot of a comment in radio station Classical California's live chat, in which a user named RevSteve says "As a person with little musical ability and training, I do not pay attention to key. I will let the musicians deal with it."

2190

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16/06/2026

I found some info about the Armed Services edition, and this image which clearly states “This is the complete book—not a digest” but idk if “complete book” precludes it from having been edited Source: blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/2017/03/...

Image showing the armed services edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, where text along the bottom says “this is the complete book—not a digest”

210

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16/06/2026

The way the bar of the “e” lines up perfectly with the color break, absolutely sublime

Closeup of the “e” on the cover, in which the horizontal bar of the e lies right on the border between purple and white.

180

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16/06/2026

The semi-retired graphic designer in me is melting over how good this cover design is

Photo of my hand holding sheet music for Grazyna Bacewicz’ Sonata No. 2 for piano. The cover is full bleed purple with a wide white margin at the top, the name “bacewicz” in lower case is typeset in a gorgeous rounded serif typeface across the purple-white border, and text with the name of the piece in multiple languages is set in a clean sans-serif whose rounded ends echo the serif composer name, separated by clean repeated lines.

6362

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/06/2026

I’m just super relieved that they didn’t have to make further revisions to this chalkboard

050

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 05/06/2026

This entire article is kind of amazing

Pretty soon it seemed Vanilla Ice was the only one left.
He said in an interview with The New York Times this week it was a shame everyone couldn't stop, collaborate and listen.

He lamented the whipsaw state of politics in 2026. "It's like everybody's got a fishing pole with a carrot, and you're the rabbit, and they're pulling it right, and pulling it left,' he said. "This country is not what it was in the 90s, man."
He added, "I don't vote, OK?"

1121

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/05/2026

Also someone replied to the video of me playing Florence Price here and I have been puzzling over it for way too long wondering if I’ve just suddenly become illiterate

160

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/05/2026

This is so relatable. The quintessential Asian woman experience 😭

Chan said she has often faced resistance from orchestral musicians when they first meet her. She stands just over 5-foot-1, by her own account, and looks younger than her age, so musicians have a tendency not to take her completely seriously on first encounter.
"But then I say, 'OK, let's go, and the whispers stop," she said, with a smile. "They start to say, 'Oh, my God, she's serious."

[Photo of Elim Chan in action, in which, I’m not gonna lie, she totally looks like a high schooler]

Conductor Elim Chan, 39, has been named the new music director of the San Francisco Symphony, replacing Esa-Pekka Salonen after a two-year search.

27210

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 08/05/2026

The OG Jean Valjean really only had one name, Jean, but people would say “It’s Jean!” when they saw him and over time a mangled version of “It’s Jean!” became his surname hence “Jean Valjean” and I cannot believe Hugo created this level of lore for this name

Jean Valjean's father, Hugo explains, was also named Jean Valjean, and the "Valjean" likely came from people saying "Voila Jean!" ("There's Jean!") when they saw him, which got shortened over time into
"Valjean," meaning that Valjean's dad's name was basically French "John There's
John."

140

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 08/05/2026

Jean Valjean was named for his father Jean and by an unnecessary coincidence his mother was named Jeanne and then they named their daughter Jeanne so everyone in the family was named Jean(ne) Valjean for no discernible reason lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/23/1...

So to recap, this is the Valjean family:
Dad: Jean Valjean
Mom: Jeanne Valjean
Daughter: Jeanne Valjean
Son: Jean Valjean
How is this considered a serious book.

1100

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 08/05/2026

Yeah because once you’ve practiced your little heart out and shown up to a gig with two people total in the audience, nothing can possibly hurt you

Headline that says “Study Reveals Musicians Don’t Experience Pain Like the Rest of Us”

1863754371

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15/04/2026

Not to be That Person, but in this caption did you mean Orion Miller? I went running off to Google to see if Orion Weiss did a heel turn and took up playing bass

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15/04/2026

Goddammit now the Steinway Society is using AI to write their concert promo emails

Screenshot of an email from the Steinway Society in which the standard copy touting an artist’s credentials has been replaced with a list of bullet points headed with emoji in the exact style and format that ChatGPT typically uses.

What sets her apart:
3 An internationally celebrated career
• First Prize winner at the Concours
Géza Anda
• Performances at major venues including Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, and Suntory Hall
Ip. A fearless and imaginative programmer
• Known for pairing beloved masterworks with rarely heard gems, creating recitals that feel both familiar and newly discovered
• Brings elegance, insight, and vivid storytelling to repertoire spanning Mozart to Gershwin
Virtuosity with depth and
connection
• Praised for her expressive sensitivity, tonal color, and dynamic stage presence
• Connects deeply with audiences, whether in intimate recitals or on the world's largest stages

1121

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/04/2026

Wow first time I’ve seen a 0 used for fingering

Photo showing bars 63 and 64 of Brahms 118 2, in which, because a C# is being claimed by both hands, the right hand fingering suggests that the pianist play with finger number zero

16474

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/04/2026

Hate to hand it to this man but “You merely Othered us Normies” is an incredible sentence

2170

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/04/2026

Finally did the sensible thing and nuclear blocked but this was the original post

Post by mrtoads.bsky.social

I'm a "normie".
' I mean, I live with being like
all other Whiteys and Males and whatever label lazy thinkers want to use to create an Other category to hate, but "Normie"?
Really?
You can do better than that.

020

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/04/2026

Finally did the sensible thing and nuclear blocked but this was the original post

3110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 03/04/2026

How does Clara Schumann keep being the most relatable person ever. The struggle of not having a piano while traveling, the multiple explanation marks when you message your friend because you’re so excited to finally have a piano again

For part of her summer travels, Clara Schumann had not had a piano at her disposal; on 23 August she was finally able to inform her friend Brahms: "Now you can send more things again!!!",

1120

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 01/04/2026

Anyway I have said this before and I’ll say it again, any competent wedding planner could have blown this farce out of the water www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

Photo from the NYT article linked in post showing a big gray warehouse with a few sad Barbie props (flat pink house, patch of Astroturf, empty pink picnic blanket plopped on ground) as a photo backdrop

The event marketing had led Ms. Kerr to believe that the activities would be appropriate for adults, so she was surprised to find that the bike course consisted of "cones on the floor tied together" and a few children's bicycles with training wheels, she said.

111

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 01/04/2026

Enough of these events have happened (e.g. Wonka and Bridgerton events, Dash Con, obviously the OG Fyre Fest) that I think this entire genre of event failures is ripe for analysis

Screenshot of a photo taken from the article, showing a bunch of sad cheap plastic shelves and tables with various Barbie merch, labeled with signs printed on 8.5x11 printer paper, all in a gray concrete warehouse

171

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 30/03/2026

“Sharon what’s the best decision you’ve ever made with your newsletter, was it removing the paywall and making it pay-what-you-want or taking it off Substack” no it was hard-coding the font so I could have this

A super zoomed in screenshot showing a gorgeous uppercase Q in a serif typeface where the tail of the Q is so long that it’s lined up with the base of the cup of the o in the word “Quote”

1241

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/03/2026

Even Mozart tried the subscriber-only content creator model and it didn’t work

Of the seventeen piano concertos Mozart composed in Vienna during his last decade, most were written for public performance, rather than publica-tion, though five would also appear in print during his lifetime. In 1783 Mozart set out to sell three piano concertos-K. 413, 414, and 415-directly to subscribers in handwritten copies but had only limited success. A few months later, he offered them to the music publisher Sieber in Paris, who apparently declined. The three concertos were finally published in Vienna by Artaria in March 1785. Artaria reprinted them periodically over the next several years.

1165

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/03/2026

Guys I think this “Mozart” guy isn’t actually that good at music, he doesn’t even know which side of the notes the stems are supposed to go on

Photo I took of a fragment of Mozart’s original manuscript for his piano concerto no. 21. All the half notes above the middle line have stems on the right side instead of the left.

2212

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/03/2026

Someone on here posted about the Mozart exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum the other day and I would like to thank you for doing so

1362

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 25/03/2026

Did you know there was a French military figure named Louis Bro

Colonel Louis Bros, Colonel of the 4th Lancers who led a famous charge at Waterloo

Portrait of a pretty dashing guy with an extremely rocking mustache

2104

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 25/03/2026

Me: that doesn’t sound right Wikipedia:

After the Battle of Vitoria, Beethoven's friend Johann Nepomuk Maelzel talked him into writing a composition commemorating this battle that he could notate on his 'mechanical
orchestra', the panharmonicon, a contraption that was able to play many of the military band instruments of the day.

290

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

We’ve now moved on to Book 8, where Chapter 1 opens with more proof for my “Valjean is a cat” theory as well as a new unhinged way for me to analyze literature lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/03/11/6...

Fantine, though her breathing is labored and poor, is serene in sleep, possessed of a fragile beauty indicating that she's on the brink of death. Madeleine is praying by her bed. It is the exact same scene that opened Book 6 two months ago, except Fantine's hair is now gray and Madeleine's hair is now white. Omg, are Books 6-8 basically Sonata-Allegro form?? We're at the recapitulation, baby!

(It is important to me that you all know that I seriously considered making a
"Books 6-8 of Les Misérables Part I are the three parts of classical sonata form and here's why" analysis and pulled myself back. There's something there, I swear.
Javert is the secondary theme. The Champmathieu Affair is the wandering development. Fantine is the tonic. I'll stop now.)

140

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Last chapter of Book 7, and I loved every bit of it. It’s comedy, it’s drama, it’s Hugo’s favorite light imagery and obvious Christ allegories! Also a deliciously world-rocking narrative shift lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/03/10/6...

At this point everyone is so overcome by what they're seeing that they straight up forget their roles: judge, prosecutor, all of them reduced to shocked bystanders in this drama. Every person there "saw a great light shining"—ah, yet another callback to the divine light of the bishop! I'm learning that Hugo LOVES to thematically bathe his morally heroic characters in light.

Despite the confusion and shock of everything going on, it is instantaneously clear to all present (well, save one) what is happening: that the real Jean Valjean is sacrificing himself so that another man does not have to suffer. Good lord, could the Christ allegory not get more obvious?
This is the one "immense luminous fact" that has everyone "dazzled" because once Hugo is on a whole light-imagery-metaphor thing he just won't stop.

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 10 is both incredible drama and a sobering illustration of how those most in need of help are most likely to be ignored or demonized because of how improper their speech and behavior is to polite society lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/03/10/6...

Hugo really understands a horrible paradox about human nature, which is that the people who are most marginalized or beaten down by society are often their own worst defenders—their rawness, messiness, and appearance of disorder (in short, the authenticity of their suffering) come across as too chaotic, distasteful, or incoherent for "cultured" people to parse.

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 9 is where this book has straight up become a courtroom drama and it is clear that the legal system is not a great one lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/28/6...

The lawyer does not disprove that Champmathieu is Jean Valjean, and more or less admits that it's totally possible, and
his weak-ass argument is that
Champmathieu's stubborn denial—against his own lawyer's advice, he won't admit to being Valjean—is proof that prison has affected his intelligence, and that the jury has to take that into account.

So to get this straight, this man's argument is more or less that Champmathieu's insistence that he is not Jean Valjean is really proof that he is Jean Valjean and has just become too stupid to say he is Jean Valjean.

I don't know where these public defenders come from, but they're not sending their best.

100

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 8 proves my hypothesis that Madeleine/Valjean is just Chidi Anagonye lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/27/6...

So as it happens, the judge is a big fan.
When the judge is told Madeleine is there and wants to attend the hearing, the starstruck dude writes a note presenting his respects and has it given to Madeleine.
This is kind of an amazing setup for the eventual reveal and presents such a stark contrast between how beloved Madeleine is
and how reviled Jean Valjean is.

The usher leads Madeleine into an empty chamber off of the court with a door that leads to the seats of honor, and leaves him in there. Madeleine proceeds to equivocate worse than Chidi choosing between two hats.

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 7 has our protagonist just wandering a strange town asking NPCs for help lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/26/6...

Madeleine, for reasons a therapist could probably tease out but I don't want to,
wanders the town refusing to ask for directions. I love the implication that he's just walking around looking for a sign saying LAW COURTS THIS WAY.

Of course he gets lost, so he finds a friendly rando who happens to be going in the right direction and walks with him. On the way, the guy drops the detail that the building the law courts are in used to be a bishop's palace. First of all, I love that we keep getting these quiet contrasts between how bishops usually are and how our bishop was, reminding us that Myriel was really one of a kind.

Second of all, an enormous, grand bishop's palace? This is why you guys had a
revolution.

120

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 6 is a reminder that the “good” characters in this book all keep behaving like little cats and it gets me every time lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/24/6...

Madeleine shows up each day at 3 PM on the dot, but is a no-show today. Fantine waits expectantly—just like a little cat—in vain. At 5 PM, with no sign of the mayor, Sister Simplice hears Fantine say quietly, "But it's wrong of him not to come today, since I'll be gone tomorrow."

😭😭😭

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 5 has it all: old-timey travel logistics, horse body-shaming, and a character thinking their story is over when it’s only just begun lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/24/5...

All of this-the impossibility of the task, every option blocked-is clearly a sign from above that he was simply never meant to go, and it's not for lack of trying: "He had made every possible effort to continue his journey." There's nothing he could have done; God just doesn't want him to be at the trial. Having made an effort in good faith to do the right thing, and been stopped through no fault of his own, Madeleine thinks, he can just go home having done his duty. It is exactly the same vibe as Frodo telling Sam they can go home now that they've brought the One Ring to Rivendell in Fellowship.

Just as we, the audience, are fully aware that Frodo has two and a half movies more
to go, we the reader can see that there is SO MUCH BOOK left and, unfortunately for Madeleine, this is not where the story ends.

100

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 4 has Hugo demonstrating that he’s fully capable of writing gothic horror and also that early morning travel has always been like this lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/23/5...

When he wakes up, he looks out the window and sees a tilbury and small white horse pulling up outside, and he wonders who the heck is out so early. His caretaker knocks on his door and announces that the tilbury the mayor ordered has arrived, and he's like, what tilbury?
This is hilarious and so relatable. As someone who has gone "what the heck is going on" when my alarm has gone off at 5 AM so I can catch a flight, I wholly sympathize.

100

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/03/2026

Chapter 3 was very very long but also fantastic in that 1) it has a bafflingly amazing opening line and 2) it dives into the moral agonies of a trolley problem to end all trolley problems, or what I call “a philosophy professor’s wet dream” lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/19/5...

Anyway. The last time we "gazed into the depths of that conscience," it was the last chapter of Book 2 and Madeleine was Jean Valjean. "The moment has come to take another lo0k." Oh goody! I love this thing we're doing where we keep checking in on this poor guy in the moments of his greatest turmoil.

120

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 10/03/2026

Chapter 2 had me getting way too attached to a smol white horse and also featured a pretty amazing dad joke I was frankly not expecting lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/18/5...

(I also want to mention the fantastic dad joke Hugo gets in, where Madeleine asks how much the horse is worth "on top of the tilbury" and Scaufflaire goes, "In front of the tilbury, monsieur le maire," which is GREAT. I did not realize there was Dad
Humor in this novel.)

110

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 25/02/2026

Getting cooked in the Instagram comments

Screenshot of comments on Lebrecht’s latest Instagram post

ethanh_composer_
We stand with classical musicians who aren't misogynistic, thank you very much.

chloeddare
hitting send on that email was crazy i hope you step on lego

spookyviolin
How unfortunate that you haven't touched the hearts of the general public the same way yuja has...but no need to be so
dramatic

issaalsaleh
I think we can all just be grateful that he's old. It's hard for people who were at some point culturally relevant to come to terms with the fact that "revising their opinion" just doesn't have the same weight it may, gratuitously, have once had.
I only hope that sending angry finger-wagging emails isn't how I spend my time in senility.

savannahbell222 2h
bruh WHY WOULD U ACTUALLY HIT SEND ON THAT EMAIL

daannydz
I think yuja has touched enough people's hearts to not need to rely on opinions from bully writers

2240

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/02/2026

Clicked on a tweet a friend sent me which forced the X app open and WHAT is happening here

Screenshot of what my phone screen looked like when the X (formerly Twitter) app opened for the first time in who knows how long. It’s an ugly black menu aggressively upselling me on a premium subscription for which I will get a verified check mark and “Enhanced Grok access” aka a direct hookup to the CSAM generating machine

190

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 19/02/2026

Context on the Mozart thing

Screenshot of one of my old tweets where it says “Once Mozart had to write for a singer he disliked who moved her head up and down with the notes when she sang so he gave her an aria with a bunch of quickly alternating high and low notes so that she would bob her head like a chicken and that my friends is pettiness as art”

080

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13/02/2026

Book 7 begins with an introduction to the nuns who run the hospital, who happen to have perfect girl cat names, and I think Hugo’s way of writing about them is pretty hilarious lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/13/5...

The stark difference between how Hugo writes about Perpétue and then goes into
raptures about Simplice reminds me of all the great memes about how Denethor feels about his sons.

Screenshot of the meme that goes
“The breakfast Denethor prepared to his sons.” The first image, labeled “Boromir,” shows an exquisitely cut teddy bear head made of toast, arranged in a bowl with an assortment of fresh fruit. The second image, labeled “Faramir,” shows the remainder piece of bread after the teddy bear has been cut out, lying unadorned on a plate.

But Simplice isn't perfect, Hugo wants us to know, just as the bishop had his own
"fatlings." She has "two shortcomings: [...] she had a sweet tooth and she liked to receive letters."
How. Are these actual shortcomings. Wanting a cupcake every once in a while doesn't make you a lesser person, much less a worse nun, and how is liking
correspondence a "shortcoming"??? Everyone likes getting letters! Why is everyone here so weird about getting letters—am I missing something?? Hugo being all, "this lady isn't perfect, she likes sweets and letters" is big "I gave my Mary Sue clumsiness to make her relatable" energy.

260

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13/02/2026

Chapter 2 is kind of amazing. Javert oozes “punish me, Daddy” energy, I am unsure what his game plan is here, and we get so much fascinating insight into the fascist mindset that I really think this book should be required reading for these times lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/12/5...

When Madeleine finally deigns to talk to him, Javert asks to be fired for the
"unpardonable offense" of the disrespect a police officer (him) showed a magistrate (Madeleine). He doesn't deserve to remain in his post, he says, but refuses to resign. "Resigning is honourable," he says.
"I've done wrong. I should be punished. I must be sacked."
I'm not sure how I feel about Javert's
"punish me, Daddy" energy-this is taking Les Mis in a direction I'm sliiiightly uncomfortable with.

Not the point, but it's kind of funny imagining how Javert thought this would play out. He's a police inspector about to offer testimony putting a guy away for life, and on the eve of that happening he's coming to the mayor and begging to be fired. Can you imagine that courtroom drama?

Judge: Please state your full name for the record.
Javert: I am Disgraced Former
Police Inspector Javert, and I was fired yesterday for being super bad at my job. For some reason you should still believe me when I testify to something I did in the job I was so bad at.

140

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13/02/2026

I do have to hand it to the New York Times for accurately nailing the vibe of Culver City

Luke Dennerline, a 36-year-old talent agent, lives in Malibu but often spends time in Culver City with his family. He sat beneath an umbrella on a patch of faux grass. "I mean, everyone is smiling and happy," Mr. Dennerline said, surveying the scene.
He was nearly done with his crushed iced coffee from Erewhon. "We doctored it up a little bit, too," he said.
The doctoring wasn't from any booze.
There was a carton of pistachio milk on the table.
"It just makes it so creamy," he explained.
It was that kind of day, on the mean streets of Culver City.

1143

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13/02/2026

We’re on Book 6 now and there’s a lot going on. Fantine is dying in the hospital! Madeleine is doing the equivalent of paying off strangers’ GoFundMes! The Thénardiers keep on scamming! lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/10/5...

Madeleine also writes a letter that night (boy, the postman was probably like "why is everyone writing letters all of a sudden") to the Thnardiers, giving them
300 francs to pay off Fantine's 120-franc (and totally fake) debt and then some, and asking them to bring Cosette to Montreuil-sur-mer immediately. If these were any other people, they'd be happy at getting easy money and left it there. But these are the Thénardiers, who have an
unfortunately admirable level of savvy for grifting that probably means they'd be doing super well in the federal administration in 2026. They clock, correctly, that they can get SO MUCH MORE MONEY if they hang onto Cosette and bleed whoever this new sucker is, so they
respond with a fake medical bill for Cosette's fake illness.

Madeleine, who if he lived today would be paying off random strangers' GoFundMes, sends them 300 more francs and asks them
once again to bring Cosette. Mr. Thénardier (does the guy have a first name?) refuses to give up the child, who he now sees as a cash cow.

130

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13/02/2026

Chapter 13: omg, I loved this chapter so much. It’s peak comedy with Madeleine breaking two people’s brains over and over again, but is also so beautiful in its humanity I can’t stand it. I also get a little exasperated with Hugo’s whole schtick lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/02/01/5...

As it so happens, a little while ago, a man had quietly slipped into the room and listened to Fantine's story. We are not told who this man is, but come on. It's so funny and borderline exasperating how Hugo keeps doing this thing where he's like "a man I shall not name arrived!" and we're like, ok buddy, we all know it's Jean Valjean, you really don't have to keep doing this.

The “they don’t know” party meme where the guy standing alone in the corner goes “they don’t know this guy is Jean Valjean” and all the dancing couples are going “we all know, dude,” “yeah just cut it out already”

110