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the 20th century will be happier

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@megab asked for lesbian cosette, so I obviously drew her dancing at the pink pony club 💖

thank you for donating, I hope you like this 🫶🏻

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The three problems of the age - the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the atrophy of childhood by darkness.

Barricade Day 2024

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Joly actually died of the flu 0.1 seconds before a bullet pierced his skull

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It's commissioned work so no reprint or anything. I really love this one and praise who let me draw them on bottle caps.

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kicking my feet sooo there are these roommates...👀

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The great Turnchetta revival of 2025. Hugeeee shoutout to the mods of @lesmisshippingshowdown for enabling such a fun showdown <3 Also to the Courfius voters who made every 0.1% gained count, it was a thrilling ride all the way to the end!!

Turnchetta Nation, we may have lost the poll but we gained something much greater: the satisfaction of comitting to the bit until it's not really even a bit anymore and the thrill of almost 'Yes, and'-ing our way to the third round of ship battles <3

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What if we kissed on the 2007 Les Mis train

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"Let me dress your hair!"

It's Turnchetta. Realizing I ought to clarify after suddenly noticing a viewer could easily mistake this for Cosette/Éponine. I blame the damn chemise.

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I think he’s gonna be fine you guys

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A year ago today, I submitted the final version of my PhD thesis on same-sex desire and intimacy in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and its adaptations!

It's still available to read for free online, including the creative writing section, which is a 20,000-word novella reimagining Enjolras and Grantaire's relationship as an openly queer romance in nineteenth-century Paris. It draws on both the historical research I undertook as part of my PhD and Les Mis fanwork from around 2010 to 2020, which I also explore in the critical part of the thesis.

The creative writing section starts with a modern recreation of Enjolras and His Lieutenants and Grantaire at the Barrière du Maine before taking on a life of its own, so it seems doubly the perfect time to reshare, in honour of @brickrenouveautions !

To read, go to figshare here, and either scroll through the thesis on that webpage or scroll down to just below the thesis title and hit Download to download a PDF it as a PDF.

The novella starts on page 157 as it appears on the page in the PDF, but on page 165 out of 1070 if you're entering the page number of the PDF. Scrolling up a few pages before that will show you a short Preface introducing the creative writing section, if you'd like to find out a little more about my thinking behind it.

Enjoy!!

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teen & young adult

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Sometimes you get really into Les Mis and now you're pulling out maps and trying to figure out exactly where something happened knowing that information does literally nothing for you but make you more obsessed

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the "rip ___ you would've loved ___" format will never not be funny in a fandom where everyone is actually dead

that being said rip courfeyrac you would've loved brat by charli xcx