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Now, as we have Les Misérables musical covering the plot, why don’t we have another one, covering all the digressions?

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Post-Seine Javert be like

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I fundamentally disagree with Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. "Never use two words when one will do," "don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do," I'm going to turn a single sentence into an essay and it's going to cost five hundred dollars per word because those are the right words to get across what I mean without ambiguity and misunderstanding, thankyouverymuch

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upon meeting marius courfeyrac calls dibs on him in front of all les amis and everyone is like… courfeyrac NOBODY but you wants him

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i think that Grantaire being canonically attracted to men can hardly be disputed because he's very explicit in his attraction and love for Enjolras, to the point where i hardly ever see anyone deny this (even outside of the fandom i mean), but i do think that it's actually very very clear we're meant to interpret Enjolras as homosexual?

of course it has always been interesting to me how Victor Hugo chose to introduce Enjolras as a wild Antinous (emperor Hadrian's gay lover), only to tell us a few lines later tells us he wasn't aware that there was a being on earth called woman and like, yeah i guess that's pretty gay but there's still some space for debate. how on earth are we supposed to interpret the following sentence though

"Evadne's bare bosom would have moved him no more than Aristogeiton; to him, as to Harmodius, flowers were good only for hiding the sword"

so in his first introduction, like in the same fucking PARAGRAPH he's compared to not one, not two but THREE different gay men, and one of those comparisons is there to explicitly say that he wouldn't care if a woman showed her tits to him. it's an INSISTENT analogy that only gets stronger when we get to grantaire's part, with them being pretty much two sides of the same coin, getting compared to even MORE gay men

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here's to pretty girls who went to our heads here's to witty boys who went to our beds

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victor hugo should have written another edition of les mis where he explains every single word and why he chose to say it like that and every single alternative idea he had for that part and every single thought of his ever

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my favorite thing about les mis is that every couple of chapters Victor Hugo likes to go oh! who is that mysterious old man?? who could it be???? its a mystery! he's super buff btw, but who is it! Oh! sacre bleu! It's Jean Valjean! who would have ever guessed!

I did, Victor. I guessed.

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this is the definitive piece of enjoltaire fanfiction to me and it’s just some rando’s tweet from five hours ago about her own dating life

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obsessed with how javert is the ultimate anti-copaganda cop. just like absolutely nasty person, horrible to be around, not heroic at all, has a mental breakdown about his job yet still writes a memo about how to make the police more efficient before he dies. a perfect character.

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It's always "spill the tea" and never "tell me quickly what's the story, who saw what and why and where, let him give a full description, let him answer to Javert!"

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nothing will ever be funnier to me about jean valjeans ONLY slip up in the whole becoming gods servant and being compassionate lifestyle being just the faintest hint that some dude might have a crush on his daughter and he just goes batshit

some perfectly nice guy in the general vicinity of his baby (17 y/o) girl: *smiles*

jean valjean *fighting every urge in his body to not go ballistic*: i want him dead

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Is this part important to the plot?

No, but it is important to me.

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a little fall of rain (colorized)

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What would you even do if you were one of the National Guard soldiers preparing to kill Enjolras?? Like, you’re some regular old schmuck and suddenly they’ve cornered the leader, he tosses his weapon away and is like ‘go ahead. Kill me.’ And then another soldier is like ‘shit this guy’s so hot I almost don’t want to kill him.’ THEN this other guy pops up out of nowhere, hungover as fuck, does this whole scene of declaring himself a revolutionary (and let’s be real, Grantaire was hungover, he was definitely not walking straight) and then leader guy takes his hand and they have this moment— and they’re fucking dead! I feel like I’d go home and sit down and just. Sit there like ‘what the fuck was that.’

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yknow sue me but I feel like this isn't actually true

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If there's any character in this world who suffers from literary Ken-ification it's Patroclus. Especially in the zeitgeist of today (thanks tsoa), it's always Achilles AND Patroclus, never just Patroclus. Who is he? Why does he exist? He is Achilles' boyfriend! What's his job? Death! In the sense that he just. Dies. That's just his job now. Death. Death and Achilles' boyfriend. That's it.