I posted a silly audio thing on Tumblr a couple days ago:

A bootleg track from the (nonexistent) late ’80s all-female production of Les Miserables, featuring Le Bien de l’ABC, the Saint-Simonian lesbian feminist commune, on the eve of revolution.

And, as predicted by the Law of Tumblr that states that the less work, effort, and passion you put into a post, the more notes it will get, silly audio thing that I spent half an hour on (mostly involving playing with other effects in Audacity) has 178 notes as of time of posting this...

But it is fun to be able to use Tumblr's notes system to trace how a post spreads across the internet, so of *course* I have been keeping a close eye on the reblogs (and the tags on them), and as predicted by the Second Law of Tumblr, many of the tags on reblogs have either made it clear that people didn't actually read the post, or have shown that listeners are getting something out of it that I didn't.

(Mostly, what they've been getting out of it is 'wow, girl Grantaire', when I actually think that Grantaire's voice is the one that works least well? It was low-pitched and non-singy enough that, unlike Marius and whoever the first singer was, it doesn't really sound obviously like a female singer to me. ...of course, it does sound like a low-voiced woman whose voice has been roughened a bit further by bad alcohol and smoking, but still, all I can hear is that the pitch-shifting didn't work as well.)

Although I did get one comment to the effect that we need more lesbian Marius, with which I DEEPLY agree. Marianne Pontmercy, who storms out of her grandfather's house to honor the memory of her father, gets 'adopted' by Courfeyrec, stubbornly educates herself enough to support herself respectably (even if she has to do more of the same work for less pay than Marius did....), lives in made-over gowns and wanders Paris staring at clouds - until she meets a beautiful girl named Cosette and falls in love... and at that point the story starts to diverge from canon rapidly.

(I knew that if I started reading the book I'd wind up being most interested in Marius. Called it. Oops.)

...anyway, I am heading home from my summer of cat-and-flat-sitting in Chicago in a few days, alas. (yes, I did spend time I should have been packing on messing with Audacity instead.) I shall miss being able to walk or bike to interesting places whenever I feel like it, and I shall definitely miss being able to walk to the Lake.

A friend of mine drove up to pick me up as an excuse for a road-trip, so we're going to take it slow on the way back East. Anybody know of any fun road-trip stops - or, in fact, anything interesting - anywhere in the state of Indiana? We haven't found any yet.