#barricades 2023

[barricadescon]

Registration for Barricades 2023 has been extended! You now have until the morning of the con, July 14 at 5 AM UTC (find out when that is in your time zone here)!

There are still scholarships available to cover the £10 cost of a ticket - just email info@barricadescon.com to request one!

Your ticket will grant you access to all panels and chat spaces during the con, as well as the ability to watch all recorded panels for two weeks after (to catch any you may have missed). In addition, artists may sign up for Artists' Alley for no extra cost and display their work in a dedicated con space.

Visit our website to purchase tickets and check out our programming lineup, which includes panels and talks on everything from academics to history to musical theater to fandom! See you at the Barricades!

[eldritchw1tch]

Preliminary Gayeties: Preparatory Materials for Interested Parties

Greetings, all! As you may be aware, @barricadescon​ (x) is happening this weekend. Myself (x), @shitpostingfromthebarricade​ (x), and @grantairelibere (x) will be hosting one of the social night panels, and we are BEYOND excited! Below, I’ve got a bit more information for you:

As you may know, Preliminary Gayeties is one of the chapters of the Brick, in which Grantaire, Joly, and Bossuet get a bit trashed while they wait for Lamarque’s funeral to reach the riot stage. The three of us have a fairly longstanding personal tradition of reading this chapter aloud and playing a drinking game whenever we’re together, and it is to this custom that we would like to invite all of you. Now, in order to fully participate, you may need some supplies! All versions of these supplies are equally valid, and certainly it can be played with simple water and any snackie of your choice. However, we find it is MOST amusing when you have a specific bev or snack to stand in for each one specified. To that end, we provide a guide below so that as many people as possible may be prepared to participate fully in our game!

First of all, we need some bevs:

The primary drink is (usually red) wine. For substitutions, we suggest: any wine you personally prefer, a wine cooler, grape juice, grape flavored gatorade/sports drink, any kind of purple drink mix, some water with red/purple food coloring in it, Just Straight Up Water, whatever speaks to you!

In much smaller quantities, the activity also calls for beer (specifically stout), brandy, and absinthe. 

For beer, we suggest: any beer of your choice, a nonalcoholic beer, some lemonade, Just Some Bread, ginger beer, ginger ale, any kind of cola, etc.

For brandy, we suggest: brandy, whiskey, any dark liquor, Just A Shot of Maple Syrup, tea, a shot of coke or pepsi, etc.

For absinthe, we will do The Ritual, in which you put a small amount of absinthe in a cup, put a sugar cube in a strainer above it, and slowly pour water over the cube until it has dissolved. For substitutions, we suggest: any violently green energy drink, mountain dew, sugar water with green food coloring, Just Eat Some Licorice, ouzo, a straight shot of lime juice, or anything else unhinged that your little heart desires!

For snacks, we suggest you have some bread, along with…

Oysters. For substitutions, consider: smoked salmon/lox, any shellfish or seafood of your choice, some nice oyster mushrooms, oyster crackers, gummies shaped like shells idk do they sell those, frankly Swedish Fish, etc.

Brie. For substitutions, consider: any kind of cheese or faux-cheese, any kind of Bread Spread you prefer, butter, flavored butter, jam, marmalade, etc

Ham. For substitutions, consider: bacon, turkey bacon, turkey, any kind of cold cut you prefer, thinly sliced vegetables, veggie burger, etc

[alilsakurablossom]

the mojo dojo casa house of 1832

[kropotkindersurprise]

March 8, 2023 - Feminists clashed with riot police at the barricades around the National Palace in Ciudad de México on International Working Women’s Day. [video]/[video]

[tmlxsn]

29.08

[so-idialed-9]

Don't think I'll ever get over watching a joyous, triumphant Louis wrestle himself free from security, spy a 🏳️‍🌈 flag across the way, and take a running leap into the light at it with his whole soul

When I think of how he was made estranged from the lgbtq community for so long, to see this just makes me cry. Welcome home.

Twitter

[granhairdo]

the les mis fandom rn:

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

what he said: drink with me to days gone by could it be your fear to die will the world remember you when you fall could it be your death means nothing at all is your life just one more lie

what he meant: before the we all die does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me 👉👈🥺

[awesomefringey]

The Italian security guard saw a chance and he grabbed it by the waist. 🥹

[sunshineandlyrics]

When you've been mischievous!

FITFWT ​Columbus, 6 June 2023 @LOVElTAKES

[barricadescon]

Less than Two Weeks until Barricades 2023!

[ID: image of blue and white Barricades 2023 schedule lineup. Full schedule with panel descriptions can be found on our website at https://barricadescon.com/schedule-2023/]

Barricades: A Les Mis Convention 2023 is fast approaching! It will take place from July 14-16, 2023 and include a number of panels, presentations, and social gatherings all about Les Mis, from the academic to the historical to the musical to the fandom. 

If you have not yet registered, you can do so here. Registration costs £10 and includes access to panels and chat spaces, as well as the ability to watch all recorded panels for up to two weeks after the con (so if you are unable to make specific days, you can still experience the con)! At registration, you can also sign up at no extra cost for Artists’ Alley (a discord channel hosting virtual tables for artists to promote their work) and the Fans of Color Zoom room.

If the cost of a ticket would pose a hardship, just drop us an email at info@barricadescon.com to request a scholarship! No need to disclose your circumstances; all you have to do is ask for one! We currently have multiple unclaimed scholarships readily available, so don’t hesitate to reach out.

Lastly, we do still have need for zoom and discord mod volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering to help make this con possible, please fill out this form and join our planning discord.

We look forward to seeing you at the Barricade, citizens! 

[ancientbread]

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

Happy Barricade Day! here's my tutorial on how to make a three tiered les mis themed cake 🙂

[darthfar]

[Full-sized pic if you click] Sooo.... Back in 2018 I uploaded a series of Barricade Day pictures that somehow did not contain a single person in it. This year, it’s just a single picture that contains.... absolutely no sign of a barricade or fighting or dying WTF did you manage to forget what day it is. I actually did Have Serious Plans for another comic this year, just not the time to render it out fully, alas. So at least one person gets a reprieve, and you all get an incongruously, inexplicably cheery doodle of a bunch of inappropriately under-dressed guys sitting around at a cafe someplace. Or something. Y’know. Happy Barricade Day 2023? ;) [If you’d rather have angst from me anyway, here’s my collection of Barricade Day comics from years past] [Also, the map on the wall is a reference to an old fic by AMarguerite’s, whose link I cannot find, but has to do with finding Enjolras the perfect gift. If anyone can remember this, please tag!]

[lllemonsoda]

且容你在我之內的之內安睡

在藏銀色的草堆裡仰面做那普照十方的夢

——《我已將一切交付予太陽》

For you to sleep soundly within my soul

Dreaming of the world in the dark silvery mow

—— I have given everything to the Sun

[alicedrawslesmis]