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i! love! this!

Y’ALL! I finally put the first chapter of my fic out there! Obviously please heed the tags, but if it sounds interesting I would love if you check it out! This is my first ever fic and I’ll be updating every Sunday. I’m really nervous, since I sort of never feel like my work is ready for other eyes, but I’m also excited! Also message me with any thoughts!

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yay thank you!! also oh my gosh that it is so spooky! that is like 100% the PERFECT aesthetic board?? aaaa the vibe is immaculate - thank you so much for sharing that, I’m in love!! :D 

soooo I started writing my next e/r fic like 3 days ago and it’s already 10k words long omg. This is the cover! I’ll post when I’ve uploaded the first chapter, but the basic summary is: 

cottagecore les amis - strawberry farmer Enjolras meets city-boy Grantaire and everything is delightful. I can promise picnics, strawberry embroidered dungarees, YEARNING, pining and dreamy sunsets, baking and SOFT moments.

I’m ridiculously e x c i t e d for it!!

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old French press be like: yeh I ship Enjolras and Grantaire

to roughyl translate, I found these while looking up Grantaire on the website Gallica, which is a French website filled with archives of old documents (press, literature, essays etc) that anyone can consult for free. It’s pretty awesome caus you can get an accurate view of what informations people consumed at the time. Let’s also note this article came out 50 years after Les Mis’ publication. link to the article (it’s page two)

Anyhoo, this article is from the 20th-ish century newspaper Comoedia and it’s a repertoire of fictional characters who fall under the term “The Devotions” (les dévouements), separated in different categories of attachment/loyalty.

Grantaire’s category is, literaly: “Devoted as a result of an unrealizable love.” as I said, it’s a rough translation. I’m a bit unsure. In this case, devotion is caused in consequences to a love that simply can’t happen, there’s a series of events building up a one-sided love which will, somehow, still result in commitment.

So to have Grantaire in this category was not that surprising tbh, and if you look up the two other characters at his side (who are both male, it is written here there’s “no equal female example”) Quasimodo and Butscha are both, in similarities with Grantaire, ugly men who seem to only have flaws but turn out to be quite ok and somehow lose themselves in the shadows of someone else. (I won’t elaborate but please correct me if I’m wrong)

Obviously, the interpretations are open, I was looking up for 19th century press opinions and interpretations of Enjolras and Grantaire’s relationship because if it causes so many debates now, I can’t see it not provoking debates at the time of publication too. I’m fond of the idea that a journalist could have published an article, or at least mentioned the thought in a random paper and, sadly, I found nothing aside from the above piece. But in a way I like that. How someone acknowledged Grantaire’s love for Enjolras as what it is: love. (without mentioning worship or faith) In my mind, this little piece of article acknowledges that Grantaire was romantically attracted to Enjolras. He didn’t fall into the category of “devoted because of frienship” or “devoted because of brotherhood”. It’s no bromance. We French are clear : un amour irréalisable is a heart tearing concept, we’ve all been there. Grantaire was friendzoned and some 20th century journalist recognized it.

(find more rant under the read more)

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Would anybody else be interested in a farmer!amis au? I know that’s incredibly niche, but I feel like it would work. It’s also something I wouldn’t have to research a lot (which is great bc I am.... lazy) since I’ve worked on farms my whole life.

Like imagine, Lamarque dies and leaves his great-nephew/grandson/whatever, Enjolras his tiny farm (yes I’ve played stardew valley) in the mountains. And the farm is sort of rundown and Enjolras is determined to get it up and running not to mention ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY! Because you KNOW he’d have so many issues with the industrial agriculture scene.

And anyway he needs people to help him run it so he recruits Combeferre as a veterinarian and Courfeyrac as a PR guy and Feuilly to help him manage it and etc until somehow the whole gang is on board! The possibilities are endless.

And R is a local who, despite being very skeptical about what they’re trying to accomplish, becomes friends with them because hey! Other openly queer people in rural Appalachia are rare! And this only spurs Enjolras to want to prove him wrong and show him that not only is sustainable farming possible but also so is acceptance!

Am I projecting as a queer from Appalachia? Absolutely. But like, I feel like there’s a lot of potential for the the amis! Would anyone be interested if I actually attempted writing this?

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guys i’m having an emotion about grantaire again

i blame that post going around with the thing

but like, can we talk about how incredibly important it is that grantaire dies loved?  because i think that that’s really incredibly important, like important enough i might start crying

because hugo’s thing has always been about how important and wonderful love is and how it can transfigure people into something much more wonderful and transcendent and amazing and you look at enjolras, who is so beautiful because he loves so brilliantly and powerfully and unflinchingly, and he is loved, he’s beautiful because he loves and is loved, there is so much love and a fair portion fo it comes from grantaire

can you imagine how beautiful they were when they faced down the guard?  when they both were loving and loved?  even with everything else gone, they’re loving each other and they know now

it’s transparent now, that they love each other and they must absolutely glow in that moment.

i’m sorry i’m just having feels again i’m sorry i’m sorry

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soooo I started writing my next e/r fic like 3 days ago and it’s already 10k words long omg. This is the cover! I’ll post when I’ve uploaded the first chapter, but the basic summary is: 

cottagecore les amis - strawberry farmer Enjolras meets city-boy Grantaire and everything is delightful. I can promise picnics, strawberry embroidered dungarees, YEARNING, pining and dreamy sunsets, baking and SOFT moments.

I’m ridiculously e x c i t e d for it!!

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hollllaa! I just finished writing my second fic so I thought I would share it! in this crazy year, having a fluff-filled enjolras/grantaire ballet au was the only thing keeping me going! 

It’s a 75k, friends to lovers slow burn with LOTS of pining, social justice and les amis goodness!

If you would like to read it - it’s on AO3 here!

SUMMARY:  Grantaire has been making ballet shoes in a Parisian factory for the last three years. He does not like ballet, and he especially does not like ballet dancers.

Then, in strolls Enjolras, the lead dancer of the National Paris Ballet company.

Somehow Grantaire gets himself tangled up in the first ever social justice ballet troupe, and is surrounded by dancers at all times. He should hate it, but he can’t stop being distracted by a certain dancer’s charisma and unfairly pretty eyes.

hope you enjoy! please let me know if you do! <33

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31 out of 35 chapters now posted! So close to the end!

Grantaire has been making ballet shoes in a Parisian factory for the last three years. He does not like ballet, and he especially does not like ballet dancers.

Then, in strolls Enjolras, the lead dancer of the National Paris Ballet company.

Somehow Grantaire gets himself tangled up in the first ever social justice ballet troupe, and is surrounded by dancers at all times. He should hate it, but he can’t stop being distracted by a certain dancer’s charisma and unfairly pretty eyes.

Read it on AO3 here!

I have so very nearly finished my second long E/R fic! 

Please give it a read if you like artsy AUs, where Les Amis are just soft and sweet, and have SO much platonic banter. Also there is PINING, and FLUFF and lots and lots of LOVE. 

Let me know if you read it - every comment makes me SO happy! :) 

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this scene made me cry so hard i can’t believe we really waited 10 years and enjoltaire is finally canon 🥺❤️ thank you victor hugo

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i say im fine then i remember this part of the original hadestown nytw production

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Grantaire has been making ballet shoes in a Parisian factory for the last three years. He does not like ballet, and he especially does not like ballet dancers.

Then, in strolls Enjolras, the lead dancer of the National Paris Ballet company.

Somehow Grantaire gets himself tangled up in the first ever social justice ballet troupe, and is surrounded by dancers at all times. He should hate it, but he can’t stop being distracted by a certain dancer’s charisma and unfairly pretty eyes.

Read it on AO3 here!

I have so very nearly finished my second long E/R fic! 

Please give it a read if you like artsy AUs, where Les Amis are just soft and sweet, and have SO much platonic banter. Also there is PINING, and FLUFF and lots and lots of LOVE. 

Let me know if you read it - every comment makes me SO happy! :) 

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It’s Barricade Day!

We are NOT going to romanticize the current protests.

We are NOT going to use BLM for attention or as a springboard for talking about Les Amis.

We are NOT going to trivialize the issues we are currently facing in order to glorify the problems of fictional revolutionaries.

We ARE going to donate, protest, march, and sign every petition we come across - because if Les Mis taught us anything, it’s that we do not stand in silence when faced with injustice.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

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I’ve posted 5 chapters so far! Here they are if you want to give them a read!

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

I would love to know your thoughts :)

Enjolras visits the ballet shoe workshop, meeting Grantaire for the first time.

Grantaire usually hates visits from ballerinas, but for some reason does not hate this one at all.

Chapter Two available on A03 here: x

(Chapter one: x )

Hope you enjoy - let me know if you do! :) 

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love never dies but it’s just poto raoul beating up lnd raoul for 121 minutes

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self care is dropping a chandelier on a large crowd of people

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HADESTOWN Ask Game!

I’m sure there’s a thousand of these out there already, but I thought it’d be fun to make my own! Send me a number + question!!

1. How did you find out about Hadestown?

2. How long have you known/loved the show?

3. What’s your favorite song?

4. Who’s your favorite character?

5. Have you heard the New York Theatre Workshop live recording? What about Anais Mitchell’s original concept album? What are your thoughts on those compared to the Broadway cast album?

6. Have you seen the show live? Talk about your experience!

7. If you’ve seen the show, did you stagedoor? Who did you meet? 

8. If you haven’t seen the show, do you have plans to? 

9. What’s your dream role in Hadestown?

10. Who’s your favorite member of the cast?

11. Is there any version of any song you prefer over another? For example, do you prefer a certain song with the NYTW cast rather than the Broadway cast?

12. Do you remember the first time you listened to Hadestown? What about it caught your attention the most? Do you remember how that first listen made you feel?

13. Have you done any fanart or written any fic? Tell us about them!

14. If you’re an artist, who’s your favorite Hadestown character to draw? If you’re a writer, who do you connect with most when you write fics or headcanons?

15. What’s your favorite change from one version to the next (ie NYTW to Broadway, London to Broadway, etc)? 

16. If you could choose other actors for the show, who would you pick for each character and why would they be great in that role?

17. Does the ending still make you tear up or cry?

18. What was your reaction the first time you listened to the album and heard Orpheus turn around?

19. What’s your favorite song to jam to?

20. if you had the chance to meet Anais Mitchell, what would you say to her?

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Enjolras visits the ballet shoe workshop, meeting Grantaire for the first time.

Grantaire usually hates visits from ballerinas, but for some reason does not hate this one at all.

Chapter Two available on A03 here: x

(Chapter one: x )

Hope you enjoy - let me know if you do! :)