#les amis de l’abc

[antynous]

“He might be your brother.”

“He is.”

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 9 Group 43

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Les Amis de l’ABC: Enjolras, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Grantaire, Joly, Feuilly, Jean Prouvaire, Bahorel, Bossuet

Newsies: Jack Kelly, Crutchie, Davey, Racetrack, Spot Conlon (etc.)

Les Amis de l’ABC:

they're very silly ok. they're a little revolutionary group of students and they want to fight for The Cause and stuff??? i mean they all die but they all die together, yk? and they just,,, they care so much for each other i just know it. even though in the book/musical they're fairly minor characters? the fandom loves them and portrays them as a sort of found family. basically i love them very much and so do pretty much all my fellow les mis likers <3

Newsies:

they are just a bunch of kids but they strike against the most powerful men in new york and WIN together. they all support each other without even hesitating because they know that everyone is in it together. jack is going to leave them and move away from new york but then they're like 'what's santa fe got that new york ain't ? or better yet, what's new york got that santa fe ain't ? new york's got us, and we're family' so he stays and jdbdndfn they are amazing

[brightmetalonasullenground]

Some more e/R because why not :)

[television-bodies]

please indulge me. i’m curious

[aspic31]

[pickle-bandit]

“𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒， 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓， 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡， 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙， 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒，𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ．“

𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐

[sereendy]

So

[theatrey-bullshit]

Enjolras: How petty can you get?

Grantaire: I once edited a Wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about.

[dolphin1812]

“As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.”

It’s interesting that, in a novel full of drowning imagery, Hugo chooses to reference a shipwreck here (remember Jean Valjean drowning in societal neglect at the beginning of the novel!). It’s not just the intentionality in this shipwreck, or the general tragedy of one; it’s that we very specifically know what the worst part of a shipwreck – victims drowning – looks like. Just as intentional ship-wreckers leave countless to die horrifically by drowning, so do the “skillful” cause others to suffer (and also die) by choosing to prevent the further progression of the revolution. The intentionality is actually a bit shocking to read after the last chapter (which wasn’t that harsh on the Bourbons) with the knowledge that Hugo is generally far more critical of the Bourbons than Louis Philippe (remember how good-humored he was about the gamin’s pear portrait?), and it also contrasts with the unintentional drowning seen with Jean Valjean (where he isn’t seen or heard, just as the social order makes him and his suffering invisible). Then again, Hugo also says the “skillful” are just as aptly called the “mediocre,” so their destruction could be a mix of malice and incompetence (he adds “traitors,” so the malice is still there, at least for some).

I find the dynasty paragraph hilarious because of how he says “procure a dynasty.” I don’t know why, but I find the phrasing very funny. More seriously, I love how he points out the “mask of necessity.” As he said in the last chapter, part of the issue facing the Bourbons (and then Louis Philippe) was that the French no longer saw kings as being so necessary because they had lived without them. Of course, peace and stability were appealing after the tumultuous years of the French Revolution and Napoleon. But monarchy wasn’t the only option anymore, and justifying a dynasty as “necessary” because France was part of a “monarchical continent” seemed bizarre when France had gone so long without a king. It could still seem convincing in the moment, but it’s also easy to see how upsetting hearing that would have been when it’s clearly wrong. The image of swaddling the people is similarly funny, but I like the addition that it’s done to increase fear and suspicion, making someone out to be ill when they’re healthy to discourage action.

And then there’s this:

“Now, logic knows not the “almost,” absolutely as the sun knows not the candle.”

Going back to Les Amis de l’ABC: the “logic of the revolution” is Enjolras. He, unlike Marius, would certainly have been upset by 1830 (especially given the thoughts of Combeferre and, more dramatically, Courfeyrac, who are both presented as more “moderate” than he is). This sentence tells us why he’s so active. He can’t tolerate the “almost” of the July Revolution because small forms of progress can’t satisfy him. Only an actual republic – the sun in this case – can, and that “light” was greatly diminished by the July Revolution’s aftermath. He, along with “absolute right,” has “retired into the darkness” because it is only with concealment that he (and members of other republican organizations) can plan to continue “progressing” when the government is hostile to them.

Hugo’s insistence that the bourgeoisie isn’t real is a bit strange, but the idea of “halting” rather than “stalling” is interesting. As we saw with Les Amis, people are still organizing in hiding. It’s a “halt” to plan in that interest in progress never actually disappears or decreases; it simply becomes less visible, constrained to the realm of plans and theories until the opportunity to act appears.

[antynous]

Grantaire, in whom writhed in doubt, loved to watch faith soar in Enjolras.

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 30 Group 149

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Les Amis de l’ABC: Enjolras, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Grantaire, Joly, Feuilly, Jean Prouvaire, Bahorel, Bossuet

Lab Rats: Charlie Gordon, Algernon

Submissions are now closed!

Les Amis de l’ABC:

they're very silly ok. they're a little revolutionary group of students and they want to fight for The Cause and stuff??? i mean they all die but they all die together, yk? and they just,,, they care so much for each other i just know it. even though in the book/musical they're fairly minor characters? the fandom loves them and portrays them as a sort of found family. basically i love them very much and so do pretty much all my fellow les mis likers <3

Lab Rats:

Sorry, I got no propaganda for them yet :(

[brightmetalonasullenground]

A group which barely missed becoming historic (+ Marius)

[television-bodies]

terrible news everybody. the frog chorus kind of rules as a les amis anthem

[dogearedfriends]

i think i'm funny, at least

(translation, keeping the Vibe but not the exact phrasing: "cry about it, liberal!" "no, hey, i didn't mean that, it was a joke, i'm sorry-")

[pickle-bandit]

I love ur art! could you draw more enjoltaire, please?

Thank you!! Of course, more enjoltaire coming up! (>ᴗ•)♡ ︎

[fruity-pontmercy]

since loss mis 2012 is turning 10 year olds in December I think we should have TWO barricade day celebrations this year, not because of any historical relevance or anything I just think we as a fandom deserve to have two dedicated holidays