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hey, idk if you're still on here, but I went through your ao3 cause I read your marius sexting fic from 2013 and I just wanted you to know that you're a fucking comedy genius and I love your fics.

I hope you don't mind me ranting to you, but this is the anon from the last ask about how I love your works and HOLY SHIT THE WORLD IS WEIRD. like, for all I know, you're dead by now. if not, you're like twenty three, and probably off tumblr by now. and that's just so strange to me. I mean, for all I know, you'll never see this, and it'll just sit in your inbox till the end of time. holy fuck. wow. I hope your day is nice, whatever day it is when (if) you see this!

hi! i had to go look up what fic you were talking about and i guess the former owner of this url wrote it. i have written no fics for the les mis fandom! but i liked getting your messages anyways. it truly is strange how you can get used to someone’s internet presence and then they leave and you have no idea what they’re doing. of course we aren’t owed anything as content consumers and we don’t owe anything as content producers, but it’s just wacky to think about the people i would talk to back in the day who are now gone forever.

 i’ll post this in case that author ever happens to check up on what their old tumblr url is doing now. (and although the sentiment was not intended for me, i also hope you have a nice day anon!)

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Courfeyrac: It's not gonna work, I'm not a snitch.

The National Guard: Fine, let's try something else. Tag a friend you recently started a revolution with.

Courfeyrac: LMAOOO @Enjolras

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hey i know it’s like january but picture this: every year for halloween, cosette and marius always wear matching costumes and when enjolras starts dating grantaire, he suggests they do a similar thing. enjolras thinks it might make r happy to go as famous artists so he tells r that he’s going to dress up as michelangelo for halloween and r should match because it might be fun. and it is fun, except for the fact that enjolras wasn’t specific enough about his idea and grantaire shows up to the les amis‘ annual costume party as leonardo the teenage mutant ninja turtle.

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ok but there’s so much sitcom misunderstanding potential in ferre overhearing courf complaining about liking his best friend and assuming he means enjolras

so as much as he likes courf he forgets about it because he’s never realised how blatant enjolras is about having No Romantic Attraction to courf before and courf just sits there and nods and smiles ugh courf you’re such a good friend 

ferre trying to hint to enjolras to stop complaining about grantaire to courf because it must hurt and courf’s lying upside down on the couch like ‘no ferre shuuuush i want to heaaaar’ ugh he’s just so strong so so strong god bless u courf 

ferre talking to enjolras about it because apparently he still hasn’t noticed and the thought of it is tearing him up (bc he likes courf but he’s ignoring that) and enjolras is just like ‘what in gods name are you talking about’ 

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i had to.  inspired by (x)

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If Les Amis Were In Bake Off

Enjolras: He would always be in the bottom two, he's a good baker!! he insists, his face red and sweaty hair tied back as once again, his dough has failed to prove.

Courfeyrac: The one with the ridiculous ideas. A bread in the shape of a giant psychic octopus? What if I put BEETROOT in a BLACK FOREST?? A fan favourite.

Combeferre: The national treasure. He creates puns that give Mary Berry the 'O' face. He uses syringes and various other medical equipment to ensure his bakes are "moist". He made a giant anatomically correct moth for biscuit week made of out five different kinds of biscuit.

Joly: He's the health nut. He makes Mary and Paul try strange things. Hemp flour. Low fat doughnuts. That kind of thing.

Bossuet: He would accidentally steal someone's custard and be all over the news. By the end of his run, he is covered in blue plasters.

Feuilly: He's the one that brings in home made tools and stands. Sue Perkins is obsessed with him. He's the only person who can stare deep into Paul Hollwood's eyes and live to tell the tale.

Marius: The panic baker. He tries lots of flavours from all over the world. Some work. Some don't. The only consistency is that every week there's a shot of his D: face alongside the countdown music. He once dropped his bakes.

Grantaire: He fails technicals. Every time. No matter what week it is. But he only gets to stay in each week because of his showstoppers; a real artistic lil fuck. Can build a lion out of bread. Makes a giant dragon out of chilli biscuits. Doesn't use organic/ethically sourced produce and has off screen fights about it with Enjolras.

Jehan: Jehan is the worst contestant anyone has ever seen. He doesn't know how to use the oven. His kneading technique is pitiful. He likes to add rose water and lavender to everything much to Paul Hollywood's dismay. He makes the funniest comments though and Jo Brand thinks he's the greatest contestant on Bake Off ever.

Bahorel: He's also a national treasure. He looks like a body builder but then his bakes are so delicate and he takes such great care. He's amazing at sugar work. You need something iced? He's your guy. Mary Berry worships the ground he walks on

bonus round:

Cosette: Aces the technical challenges; always gets finished early and helps out the others when their bakes go wrong.

Eponine: The type that chooses the back bench and watches what everyone else is doing to make sure she does it right. Has a rivalry with Paul Hollywood. Refers to him as "the male judge"

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21st century headcanons: les amis and social media

enjolras somehow manages to turn every social media platform into an opportunity for angry political rants (”enjolras, you know people don’t usually use their snapchat story for posting long critiques of the gender binary right?” “yes, so?” “just checking”). but he also posts a lot of candids of his friends with soppy captions that surprise people who don’t know him very well. 

combeferre uses facebook a lot but never really to write statuses - he just shares loads of articles and photos and stuff that interests him. his snapchat story is always full of photos of plants and insects - with the proper latin names as the captions - and group selfies, so many group selfies.

grantaire is really into memes, obviously - his fave is pepe, followed by the breadsticks meme. also he has a ‘secret’ side tumblr where where he posts lots of his art, mostly digital paintings of the amis (he’s really shy about it so they pretend not to know it exists but actually most of them check it at least twice a week for new pictures)

courfeyrac considers it his sworn duty to like/favourite/retweet/reblog every single selfie any of his friends ever post, and does so with impressive efficiency (”seriously courf i posted that like 30 seconds ago that’s impressive even for you” “you’re welcome”). he probably owns a selfie stick.

feuilly he really likes photography, and he’s also really good at it; his tumblr is a mixture of his two fav things to photograph: beautiful cityscapes and portraits of his friends, which are always super cute and well composed - like 90% of les amis’ profile pictures have been taken by feuilly. also he’s super into 8tracks and posts new mixes at least twice a week (he always makes mix CDs for peoples birthdays instead of cards)

joly he’s everybody’s best friend on snapchat because he sends all of them like 20 snapchats a day of random things that made him think of them (he does this even when they’re all together in the same room). he really really loves emojis, so half the time he’ll reply to messages with just a series of emojis that the recipient has to decode.

bousset his instagram feed consists entirely of loads of selfies with joly and musichetta on instagram with dorky inside jokes or puns as the captions. he and joly and grantaire have a vine account which is just them doing ridiculous stuff but somehow got really popular (they are now officially banned from vining during meetings because things got out of hand) - gavroche is their number one fan.

jehan they have like four different tumblrs all for different things: one where they post their own poetry and photos they’ve taken of the sky, a personal one that’s mostly just selfies and shitposting, a fandom blog, and one of those weird aesthetic blogs that just posts photos of plastic bags and smashed up plates and shit. also their snapchat story is always like 800 seconds long.

bahorel posts OOTDs on instagram like, every single day (feuilly usually takes them for him) and if he thinks one of his friends is looking particularly good one day he’ll post pictures of them too - it’s usually musichetta or cosette or jehan. constantly getting into arguments with people on social justice facebook groups, but he’s super good at debating so he usually wins. also, he snapchats the rest of les amis literally every time he ever sees a cat. 

musichetta she posted some selfies that got hundreds of thousands of notes on tumblr one time and then sort of accidentally became kinda tumblr famous, which she finds hilarious. she gets lots of questions from young girls about sexuality and body image and stuff and lovingly answers every single one. 

eponine runs a blog where she posts feminist critique of films and tv shows - chetta and cosette both write guest posts for her every now and again. she doesn’t have many photos of herself as a child so she makes a point of posting loads and loads of photos of gavroche and azelma on facebook and instagram. also her tumblr is unapologetically hipster af 

marius he uses old-style emoticons with noses like this :-) (everybody teases him about it but they actually find it really cute) and is really bad at remembering what abbreviations mean so courf usually has to remind him. he’s always the one who uploads photo albums to facebook after parties and stuff, always with a funny thing somebody said as the album title.

cosette she has a youtube account for videos of her singing (marius shares every one she ever posts, naturally, and valjean made her teach him how to use youtube so he could watch and like them all). she’s also super into tumblr astrology - she’ll constantly text everybody to inform them what kind of pasta or whatever they are according to their sign.

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the woman behind me in line at target was just buying 2 copies of les mis and as my stuff was being scanned her head perked up like she remembered something and she told the cashier “ill be right back i just have to grab one more thing”

and she came back with a 3rd copy of les mis.

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enjolras: (ง'̀-'́)ง

combeferre: enjolras no

enjolras: (ง'̀-'́)ง

combeferre:

combeferre: sighs

combeferre: (ง'̀-'́)ง

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Last Words [What they said last in the book]

Joly: ‘What is the cat?’ he exclaimed. ‘It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: ‘Hullo! I have committed a blunder.’ And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

Bossuet: ‘What have you done with your hat?’ Bossuet asked.

Courfeyrac: ‘They have finally taken it away from me with cannonballs.’

Enjolras: ‘Long live the Republic!’

Jehan: ‘Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!’

Eponine: ‘And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

Gavroche: ’Tis the fault of…‘

Combeferre: ‘There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.’

Grantaire: ‘Do you permit it?’

Bahorel: ‘Here’s the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!’

Feuilly: ‘Can any one understand,’ exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, ‘those men, who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and who abandon us!’

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“A Heart Full of Love” from Les Mis Dallas. Notable in that you actually want to ship this adorkable couple, and also Eponine is perfect. 

(Marius-Justin Keyes; Cosette-Dorcas Leung; Eponine-Elizabeth Judd)

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les mis modern aesthetics ➥ courferre

[for cutejolras & noahczernyes​ bc they are both so lovely and continue to give me the sweetest compliments on this series 💕]

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so today in my art of india class i learned “jehan” in some south asian languages means “world” (the moghul emperor shahjehan’s name literally means “ruler of the world”) and that got me headcanoning young jean prouvaire coming across the word when reading south asian poetry and liking it and thinking it’s clever to give themselves the nickname “jehan” 

and everyone just assumes it’s like a cutesy way of saying “jean” and jehan feels like it’s their own private joke, and after a while they even forget the origins of the name– jehan’s just what everyone calls them.

until they meet combeferre, who instantly cocks his head to the side with this amused grin and says, “really, ‘jehan’? someone thinks highly of themselves.”

and jehan gets all flustered because no one’s ever called them out on it but of course combeferre would know, but ferre thinks it’s clever and funny and launches into the history of 16th century india and they geek out over architecture together and from then on they’re besties

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combeferre being like ‘look i really don’t want to put you in an awkward position but i think your friend and i really hit it off and i was thinking of asking him out-’ 

and enjolras is all smug like ‘oh combeferre. combeferre, combeferre, combeferre. this is just what meeting courf is like. give it a little time and trust me, you’ll feel differently about it’ 

and then he’s at their fucking wedding and he’s like ‘oh christ i liked courf’