#post: les miserables

[natgoodmans]

here's to them, and here's to you.

[genderfeel]

valjean: come to that, can you be sure that i am not your man?

the dubious inspector javert:

[aaronstveit]

today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

[corvidcantina]

“i was born afab!” “i was born amab” well i was born inside a jail I was born with scum like you I am from the gutter too

[syrups-against-enver-gortash]

I feel like a lot of English les mis fans are missing out on some devastating detail. Did you know Turning’s title and chorus is actually a reference to a french nursery rhyme « tourne tourne petit moulin ». They are singing one last song to their dead children.

[thisfeebleheart]

He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: "Do you permit it?" Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

[ashleyslorens]

Les Misérables (2012) dir. Tom Hooper The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel

[johnatron9000]

Boyy if you don’t stop yearning and get to the barricades rn….

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

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...

[piierogis]

today i'm shaking his enclosure violently

[natgoodmans]

↳ make me choose: jenna hunterson or cosette (asked by @katebeckets)

moreover, cosette was not very timid by nature. there flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. it will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. there was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her.

[genderfeel]

it’s honestly crazy that like. in theory literary icon jean valjean would do crazy numbers on tumblr, fanfics, etc. he’s a dad. he’s canonically hot and ripped. he has a tragic backstory and self esteem issues. he’s got nuclear levels of catholic guilt. he’s even unmarried so you can old man yaoify him to your heart’s content. man was built in the blorbo factory. but the book he’s in happens to have 20 college age twinks and the musical film based on the book came out in 2012, creating the perfect storm of oncelerfication that defines the fandom at large to this very day. anyway they could never make me shut the fuck up about you jean valjean

[jeena-says-hi]

[syrups-against-enver-gortash]

Very late and almost not valid participation to barricade week ! This was so fucking fun I literally just blacked out and the illustration appeared. Forgive the many mistakes I'm noticing as we speak it is wayyy too late I should be snuggled up in bed snoring rn

[thisfeebleheart]

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

@barricadeday 2025: Do you permit it?

[deathanddogs]

Enjolras and his three character traits per his introduction:

Hot (yellow)

Will not fuck you (green)

Revolution (red)