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@trinhdrawss saying she loves Lewis Pullman in episode 1 of lessons in chemistry and then we watch it and he's taking a shower girl —

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Pirates! The Penzance Musical - Opening day/ night 📷 @marmiddletonphoto

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The Les Mis performance for Trump just reminds me of how utterly hollow, toothless, and meaningless all “political” broadway musicals are. It’s especially weird because the original novel Les Miserables was an extremely specific and radical leftist political statement when it was published, and still is radical in many ways today— the musical has just sanded away all its rough edges into toothless hollow platitudes that anyone can consume and feel like it validates them. It’s frustrating how such a relevant political work has been converted into something so empty, so determined not to say anything. All the novel’s systemic criticism/satire of the police is eliminated, the rebellion is made generic and non-specific, the politics sanded away into nothing. The original novel was written as a call to action against Napoleon III, a “president” who declared himself emperor and began dismantling democratic institutions; the modern musical is written so that a president who is doing the same things can watch it and feel that he is the hero.

People criticize Hamilton, but at least when Hamilton did a performance where Mike Pence was in attendance in 2016 they stopped to address him directly and urge his administration to have compassion for immigrants. Hamilton might be liberal or “not leftist enough” but that’s radical in the extremely conservative billionaire-funded world of Broadway, where every musical is carefully designed to be utterly devoid of any coherent political statement.

And the actors, artists, and everyone involved in the performance were too spineless to even address Trump directly, the way that the Hamilton performers did. They make so much money off the shallow aesthetic of revolution while ignoring even the fundamental basics of the political statement that the original novel was written to send.

I don’t know how these performers do it—- the cowardice and hypocrisy would eat me alive.

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call me grantaire because man am i cynical and lonely and pathetic and just want to believe in someone!!!

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Les Mis quotes for Protest Signs

Not being heard is no reason for silence

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The brutalities of progress are called revolution

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

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LES MISÉRABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

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It's barricade day:

I laugh at the memes, I like the beautiful arts people make, and then I think about how the actual June Rebellion happened and how important it is to stand against oppressors, especially nowadays when we're watching all the suffering the Palestinians are facing (among so many other tragedies in the world), the fight is never really over.

May we keep the revolutionary spirit alive within us.

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- v. hugo

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Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

@barricadeday 2025: Do you permit it?

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GEORGE BLAGDEN as GRANTAIRE in Les Misérables (2012)

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Aaron Tveit as Enjolras LES MISÉRABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

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happy barricade day, when it doesn't surprise people that les mis fans still exist!

although i fear i do this shit the whole year

anyways i made this edit for tiktok... enjoy it if you please :)

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it's so fascinating how we joke about barricade day like it’s a time loop. are any other fandom holidays treated as such? are other holidays in general celebrated this way? every year by our own fanaticism it resets and we go down the same path and make the same jokes. "surely this year the people will rise." but that's the point isn't it ? we keep on going, just as the stage show is performed again and again. revolution does not end. injustice persists, the fight for change persists, and therefore so does our need for this story. "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use" and such...

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here it is, my contribution to barricade day 2025. glad i could finish it it time ;)

@barricadeday

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Spending 2025 painting the artworks my younger self always wanted to do~

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HAPPY BARRICADE DAY!!

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a common misconception