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kickedshins · 8 months

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readalong riverdale playlist guide

songs have been added in no particular order. sometimes songs tie to broader visions of a musical episode, but some are just “they should have shoehorned this in somewhere in that classic riverdale way”. all songs are musical theater songs. yes i know they did superboy and the invisible girl but they did it wrong (sorry cami, you were great). this is an eternally updating playlist and guide. enjoy!

Corner of the Sky, from Pippin: Archie!!! This literally could happen anywhere at any point in time. What is this song if not Pippin going left Pippin going right. Put this wherever your heart desires. I want to come up with a Pippin musical episode plot because it’s so good. Jughead singing "Simple Joys" over a montage of Archie not dealing with his problems… I’m getting carried away.

Kind of Woman, from Pippin: Veronica would sing this in an entirely unselfaware way. I’m thinking early season two. Isn’t it a beautiful vision?

Superboy and the Invisible Girl, from Next to Normal: THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COOPERS SONG. I’m mentally rewriting the n2n episode with this being a Coopers song.

Could I Leave You?, from Follies: A timeskip Veronica and Hermione duet at their respective shitty husbands. It ends with Hermione resignedly going back to the minutiae of marriage and with Ronnie shooting Chad in the face. Don’t worry about how this messes with plot this isn’t about that.

Your Fault, from Into the Woods: Read this post and envision a beautiful ITW episode.

I’ve Never Been in Love Before, from Guys and Dolls: Okay honestly? Archie and Josie duet. Cuter than "Fight For Me", imo.

Mother Knows Best, from Tangled: Alice, duh. Season one or season seven.

Do You Hear the People Sing?, from Les Mis: Season six union stuff baybee! Hand in hand with "Bread and Roses". It also would be really funny to have KJ and Vanessa, who in my opinion suffer the most from iPhone Voice in the cast, to do such a grand musical-y song. It would not be very good but boy would it be entertaining.

Therapy, from Tick, Tick… Boom!: BUGHEAD DYSFUNCTION DUET YES PLEASE. Let’s say season four. "Exquisite Corpse" vibe, but suppress it all. Maybe the problem’s simply codependency!

Get This Right, from Frozen II: Okay hear me out this is one of the most stupidly romantic songs I have ever heard. An Archie song, obviously. Timeskip Varchie. Maybe he’s actually about to propose, maybe not, doesn’t matter. All that matters is how much I genuinely think KJ could have slayed this song.

Being Alive, from Company: Obviously go read Jughead’s Weird Fantasy right now if you haven’t already. But even in Riverdale canon I would want Jughead to sing this in timeskip. If we’re getting specific it feels very Tabby tucking him in after he gets too drunk at the key party. Sorry for nixing the gay subtext by putting it next to a Jabitha moment jail for a million years for me I know. It could also be after Archie calls him when he’s in NYC. There you go, gay people.

Something’s Coming, from West Side Story: Season one or seven Archie. Just feels very wholesome. I think it would be cute. Could be performed on stage if season one.

How Did We Come to This?, from The Wild Party (Lippa): A Veronica La Bonne Nuit performance that somehow becomes a group number (she’s the only one singing on stage though). Season three. No "Queenie Was A Blonde" tag. I could make an AMV to this song. I should not do that I already have three in the works. But I could.

Run Away with Me, from The Mad Ones: This is purely self-indulgent because I like on-the-road Jarchie and I have a soft spot for this mediocre musical for personal reasons.

Suddenly Seymour, from Little Shop of Horrors: Choni! Choni forever and ever amen. Season seven, I think, when Cheryl finally accepts that she’s a lesbian and is facing homophobia from her family/society/etc. Cheryl is Audrey which is funny because “mama was poor” lol no she wasn’t. They should go all the way and get the rights to change the lyrics to Suddenly Toni. Neither Madelaine nor Vanessa has the right voice for this song even a little bit. I do not care.

Partner in Crime, from Tuck Everlasting: Betty and Archie. In my wildest fantasies this is like a season four flashback to them as kids and we have kid Barchie sing this song but other than that I think this could be a number when they’re hooking up in timeskip. Even though I don’t approve of Barchie hooking up in timeskip because I hate straight people I do think they would slay this. KJ specifically I think would sound great on this, it’s not really a Lili song but oh well. Another version that would be incredibly funny but not as good would be having timeskip Veronica and Reggie sing it about, like, actual crime.

Totally Fucked, from Spring Awakening: Kevin-centric group number in the style of "In" or "Beautiful". Could be anywhere from seasons two to four. Maybe we include the “did you write this?” thing with Betty and Jughead as Melchior. They did some expose for some paper. You know how it is. I wish the Riverdale characters were allowed to say fuck so bad.

Moving Too Fast, from The Last Five Years: Timeskip Jughead. It almost fits but doesn’t in a way that’s oh-so-Riverdale.

The I Love You Song, from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Sad. Shared between Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl, but Veronica-centric (could be an unhinged La Bonne Nuit performance from her with cutaways to the other two, actually). Whenever the most amount of parents in this group are in jail. There’s at least one meaningful shot of Jughead reacting.

I’m Breaking Down, from Falsettos: Okay this one is sort of cheating because I don’t necessarily want to fit it into the actual canon of Riverdale I just think if Archie had come out in high school Veronica would have pulled a "The Ladies Who Lunch" and done this at La Bonne Nuit. I think Cami would body that.

What Is This Feeling?, from Wicked: Hear me out. Bret/Jughead duet.

For Good, from Wicked: Betty and Veronica, season seven. Or quad number in late s4/early s5 before the timeskip. I think Lili would sound gorgeous on this, especially the bridge.

Two-Player Game, from Be More Chill: Look Joe Iconis wrote music that was used in Archie: The Musical let me have this okay. Season one Jarchie. Jughead as Michael obviously even though he’s nothing like Michael and Archie is nothing like Jeremy. I just want to make Cole Sprouse say “favowite”.

Mother’s Gonna Make Things Fine, from A New Brain: I have a whole beautiful vision for an A New Brain musical episode that takes place in season four. It’s too long to get into right now but just know it’s there and it’s gorgeous and I’m going to fully flesh it out soon. Once again this is obviously an Alice song, except instead of well-meaning Jewish mom it’s overbearing evil (albeit MILFy) WASP. She’s fretting over Betty because Betty’s fretting about college or Jughead or something who cares. I just need Mädchen to do this.

Change, from A New Brain: This would happen about three quarters of the way through the episode. In classic Riverdale fashion they’d get a little insensitive with it and this would be a Ronnie La Bonne Nuit performance. Change the government kill the mayor! Say that! Even if the mayor is your parent! Especially if the mayor is your parent!

Brain Dead, from A New Brain: This is my favorite part of my A New Brain musical episode. It’s once again a Bughead repression duet. Just imagine the lavender marriage dream sequence anger tango they would do. I also think Cole Sprouse wouldn’t sound too horrible on this song. High praise. No lyric changes Jughead is saying “as the MD lifts me in his cruisy chiseled arms”. I’m getting angry about the fact that I will never get to see this on my screen I’m going to do some breathing exercises to calm down.

Take Me or Leave Me, from RENT: We’re gonna split this up among couples in classic Riverdale fashion. Timeskip, our Maureens are Kevin and Veronica, and our Joannes are Fangs and Archie. The Joannes don’t really work so maybe we’ll pull another classic Riverdale and cut their verses. Unfortunately the best line of the song (“Women, what is it about them? Can’t live with them or without them!”) has to be cut. I wish Choni could also sing this but alas it can’t work in this. Mostly this is an excuse to give Casey Cott more stuff to sing and I think it would be hilarious if he sung this.

Tango: Maureen, from RENT: Honestly, Riverdale both could and would do a really messy RENT episode. I should ruminate further on that. Anyway. I don’t actually know where or how this could work but I want it to be a weirdly sexually charged Vughead duet. But that makes Betty or Archie Maureen, and they are not Maureen… I don’t know. This one’s just in here because I like imagining Cole Sprouse dancing, and because I think Jughead is Jewish and it would be really funny to hear him say “Riverdale Jewish Community Center”. Let’s go with timeskip. She cheated! She cheated! Betty cheated! Fucking cheated! Oh, shit, could this be a Jarchie song in timeskip when Betty and Archie are hooking up? I think it could! Wow. Good work gang.

Razzle Dazzle, from Chicago: I’m also creating a beautiful Chicago musical episode that I don’t have time to detail right now but trust me it’s awesome. It’s in season four, Hermosa is relevant to it. Anyway this is another Kevin-centric group number where everyone is lying to different people about different things. Crucially, Cole Sprouse says the line “they’ll never know you’re just a bagel”.

I Can’t Do It Alone, from Chicago: Veronica’s asking someone to help her scheme!

Mister Cellophane, from Chicago: GAY KEVIN. NEED I SAY MORE.

My Own Best Friend, from Chicago: Beronica duet. Lives would be changed. They’re sort of fighting at this point in the episode so there would be an underlying current of potential hatefucking. But that’s sort of always the case with this song tbh. Also this isn’t on this playlist but imagine Reggie singing "Roxie". So bad. So good.

American Idiot, by Green Day/from American Idiot: Songs from jukebox musicals count too, right? Archie-led group number obviously. Let’s go with season six, but it could be season one or five, too. Maybe he is the faggot America. Jughead says the line “now everybody do the propaganda”. There’s a coordinated dance thing a la "Random Number Generation".

A Cockeyed Optimist, from South Pacific: Archie, duh. Season one, six, or seven. Probably sung directly to a Lodge.

Watch What Happens, from Newsies: Betty, season four. She's doing a piece on the community center that Archie and Mad Dog co-run. I think Lili would slay this honestly. I debated adding the reprise largely so that I could have Cole sing the snake line and to have an iconic "the poor guy's head is spinning" thing side note how can I make Davey and Jack about Jughead and Archie someone needs to shoot me. Anyway we'd cut the stuff about Katherine being into Jack in this song obviously because Betty is unhappily hetero with Jughead. Hashtag women in journalism.

Matchmaker, from Fiddler on the Roof: 50sdale girls. Really strong fun gay visuals exist in my brain for this one.

Anything You Can Do, from Annie Get Your Gun: Vughead. Neither can I!

Let Me Entertain You, from Gypsy: Ronnie duh. Season three-ish La Bonne Nuit Era. Or Polly Amorous.

I Cain't Say No, from Oklahoma!: 50sdale Betty sexual awakening era. I can SEE a beautiful beautiful dream sequence vision where she dances around flirting with Archie and Jughead and Reggie and Veronica can't you.

Tribulation, from Schmigadoon!: Yes this is a TV show not a staged live musical who cares. I don't like Music Man I'm not putting "Ya Got Trouble" on here. Alice gets a patter I don't think Mädchen would be particularly good at it but it would be extremely fun. Season seven most likely, but let's be real it could come at any point in the show.

Naughty Baby, from Crazy for You: You think I'm about to say Veronica or perhaps Cheryl don't you. WRONG Dark Betty. Oh it would be so cringe so painful so bad so terrible. It must happen. I don't know when in the show it happens it could literally be any time in s1-6.

With One Look, from Sunset Boulevard: Ronnie... I'm thinking s5 Riverbucks era.

that's all i have for now but there's more to come :]

#riverdale #kickedshins originals

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pilferingapples · 1 year

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[[ID: a poster of a bird on a sprig of leaves and flowers. the poster reads: Coming February , Fantine Fan Fest /end ID]]

Get ready for the February Fantine Fan Fest!

What: a whole month for all kinds of fanwork focusing on Fantine! When: the whole month of February! Wow! Where: Right here on Tumblr! We've got a blog here and everything (which I'll be fixing up very soon!) ! We'll reblog anything with the FantineFanFest tag through February! We're also looking at setting up an AO3 collection going for those who'd prefer that; updates on that as we go! How: Just make whatever Fantine fanworks your heart desires and tag them with the FantineFanFest tag!

Are there themes? : It's Les Miserables, we gotta have Themes!

Feb 1-7: Fun

Feb 8-14: Family

Feb 15-21: Fix-it

Feb 21-28: Fantasy

The fest isn't limited by the theme weeks, though-- post your Fantine fanworks on any theme, any time in February!

Why? Because Fantine is fantastic and deserves at least a month of celebration! And because that's when the Les Mis Letters readalong will be getting to her part of the story!

We hope you'll join us!

(image source for bird collage: Martin Gerlach's Decorative Groupings collection, all public domain !)

#Fantinefanfest #Fantine #les miserables #les mis

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eirenical · 6 months

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2023 Tumblr Top 10

I’m sure to no one’s surprise, 8 of my 10 top posts this year were Mysterious Lotus Casebook meta, gifsets, or fic. XD The other two were about the Bishop from Les Mis, which got a double kick because I did this after his first chapter in the Brick readalong came up again this year and... a very personal post that I didn’t want to shove in people’s faces again so I took it off the end.

Anyway, I just wanted to take this moment to thank the MLCB fandom, because this is the most interaction (and by that I mean genuine conversation not just reblogs and likes) I’ve had with people in fandom in a long time and I have been having so much fun with you guys. I have more fic and more meta (and if I have the energy, more gifsets) planned for this fandom in 2024, so stick around and by all means, come talk to me. ;D

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It's nearly two months after the Bicha poison has been purged from his system before Li Lianhua picks up a sword again. He'll...

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The rest behind a cut because this is going to be very long otherwise. XD

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Fang Duobing and names.

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I always forget how much I love the Bishop until I’m reintroduced to him at the start of every readthrough of the Brick.

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Having a lot of feels about Huli Jing tonight. Li Lianhua must have found him on the street, orphaned, abandoned, scrounging for...

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aflamethatneverdies · 1 year

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@coelenterata replied to your post “oh I wanna do any of those fandom asks things if...”:

I've also been fairly absent hi I'm glad to see (?) you!! Don't know what's happening either except the 2023 LM emails readalong thing. I do not have asks posts at hand but you have been reblogging blorbos I don't know and now I'm Curious, so that is my asks post unaffiliated ask

*waves* Hi!! Good to see (?) you too!!! I hope you'll be around for a while at least now? Ahh! I forgot the Les Mis emails were starting. I might sign up--I need to get back to reading fiction again-- I miss reading books. ;_;

ohhh-- where to even begin about blorbos lol!! I've been having a lot of discussions about the space pirate blorbos with @midautumnnightdream and working on a fic for them-- because what else do you do with feels, but I still don't really know how to describe them lol.

They're from a Super Sentai show called Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, and they're space pirates with an 18th Century Galleon in space (I don't know how it works and I have a lot of questions, but also I love it) and they are in opposition to the Empire called Zangyack, with a really spoiled aristocrat as well as his dad leading the Empire. Our story starts when the space pirates come to Earth to look for the greatest treasure in the Universe, and face the Zangyack who are also invading this backwater planet, lol, after having invaded most of the Universe.

From left to right: Luka, Ahim, Gai, Marvelous, Joe and Doc (and also Navi who is very much not a bird)

(Minor spoilers as well some of my general headcanons for them below)

The blorbos themselves all come from different planets that have been destroyed or colonised by the Zangyack Empire (except for Gai who is from Earth). We get traumatic backstories for all of them which made me love them even more. They have lived through so much before we meet them, but they get to be heroes and finally they accept the magicalness of the barricades in their final fight and become larger than life themselves, part of the Super Sentai-- while rejecting the label of heroes for themselves. As a result, they come across as very mature and understanding of what it takes to be a resistance group against a colonial Empire, and how difficult it is to promise anything like they can win.

Marvelous is the captain of the Gokaigers and also dresses extremely in an pirate aesthetic which I love and want so badly-- Autumn and I talk about pirate!gender to refer to whatever gender shenanigans are happening, because so much of all of them and especially Marvelous' entire aesthetic feels personally to me, like not fully fitting in gender binaries, someone once made art of a girl!Marvelous dressed exactly the same and it worked so well.

Since they are aliens and also outside society, there is no reason why they should follow the binary construct. Pirates do what they want. And they also reject gender roles to a great extent, Doc and Gai love to cook, so they cook but it's their thing, and no one is made fun of for that or belittled. Ahim has a cute feminine fashion sense but she everyone respects her as an important member of the team and a rebel/fighter in her own right, and this is especially true when her family's and her planet's murderer/destroyer appears in front of them-- she gets to go apeshit feral and seek revenge.

And so much of, because none of them have planets or families to go back to, they are all each other's most important people as well as a found family with really close bonds and it shows, they give each other space to do things, they know when something is wrong with one of them. They also don't seem to have any hierarchy on the ship as such that I can see in the series, and rely on consensus based decisions and listening to each other-- very anarchist pirates, lol!

I ship them in a polycule because they work so well in it, but they work so well as capital R Romantic friends too, especially because their whole deal is to make everything really showy and over the top.

Also, Marvelous and Joe get extremely flirty lines in the series as well as the ten year after film and even the actors in interviews were going, yeah, they are like that. And Ahim and Luka feel so close in ways that well, it's not not shippy. I like when the series gives us something but leaves a lot of it unspoken, so there are all these different ways that they can work if you want to ship them but they very much feel queer even without the shipping aspect. They constantly reject social norms and conventions.

They are all rebels who have come together to fight a colonising Empire, which also gives me soo many feels and the Empire is bad, and no one gives justifications for it, which feels soo cathartic honestly. It's also such prime material for worldbuilding of their home planets and to attach worlds I am already familiar with and give blorbos all of that to deal with. I have a lot of headcanons about their worlds too but this is already super long, lol.

I'm always willing to talk more about them though. Thank you so much for asking!! <3

#coelenterata #replies #thank you so much for asking #blorbos from my shows #I tried I hope this is sorta interesting lol

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elinordash · 1 year

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Greece's overthrown king just died, while I was reading Les Mis. This readalong is going great.

#personal #constantine glucksburg #immaculate vibes

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cest-la-faute-a-voltaire · 7 months

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i know theres a les mis readalong happening and that you guys are so much farther than what im talking about rn so these posts must be like what is she on about

#its true though i havent moved on from book 4 since 2018 #avril speaks

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primeideal · 1 year

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In a happy coincidence, Tumblr says I appeared to reach X number of posts I’ve liked, and X number of posts reblogged from me, where X is a nice round number, almost at the same time thanks to Les Mis stuff.

Good idea to remind/tell people that I can tend to develop niche interests and enjoy Nerding Out over stuff that I’m Into. I’ve read the Brick once before, although not as part of a Tumblr readalong, and I’m not sure whether the “one chapter per day” format will work for me (it didn’t with Dracula, although that was a different pacing). However, at the same time, I often regard myself as shallow/not great at picking up on Deep Nuanced Stuff, and so with great works of literature sometimes my approach can be “there’s no way I’m going to try to probe the depths of that, especially not for fun, it’s someone else’s problems!” So if I keep up with the Les Mis daily blogging it will probably be sporadic and more infodumping than trying to have Wise Thoughts.

Also, Yuletide just wrapped up, so if you want to see what I wrote with way too much rambly commentary, click here! (Fandoms: Project Hail Mary, Knives Out, Elder Race, Steerswoman, FTL, Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius.)

#blah blah blah #yuletide treasure #my fic

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secretmellowblog · 2 months

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Les Mis Canon-era Photos Part 1: The Gorbeau House

In the late 19th century huge chunks of Paris were torn down and rebuilt, in a series of construction projects referred to as “The Haussman Renovations.” So the Paris streets we see in Les Mis often don’t resemble the Paris streets of today….except! Shortly before/during the renovations, a photographer named Charles Marville took a series of photographs of the old city. While he took them thirty years after the events of the story (in 1860) it’s still fascinating to see older Parisian architecture.

The Les Mis readalong just made it to the Gorbeau Hovel, the small hovel where Jean Valjean and Cosette live right after they live the Thenardier’s inn. Hugo tells us the Gorbeau house is located in "the Old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux,” an area that is poor and isolated. Here are Marville’s photographs labeled Marché-aux-Chevaux:

Marville does not have photographs of many of the specific streets Hugo mentions in this chapter. One street he does have, though. Hugo says “Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of thunder, as in the melodramas." Marville does have a photograph of the Rue Croulebarbe!

For additional photo reference:

This is not a Marville photograph. But the 1925 silent film adaptation of Les Mis, directed by Henri Fescourt, features a Gorbeau house set that is extremely similar to its depiction in the novel:

#les mis #les mis letters #lm 2.4.1 #canon era photographs

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lesmisproject · 4 years

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SCHEDULE & READING

I’ll preface this by saying this is a long and slow project. The process of reading might have its delays on posting and readings. After all, this is all but a guideline of what sort of index to approach this massive book.

BOOK 1 - FANTINE

Week 1 - Book 1

Week 2 - Book 2

Week 3 - Book 3, Book 4

Week 4 - Book 5, Book 6

Week 5 - Book 7, Book 8

BOOK 2 - COSETTE

Week 6 - Book 1, Book 2

Week 7 - Book 3, Book 4

Week 8 - Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book8

BOOK 3 - MARIUS

Week 9 - Book 1, Book 2, Book 3

Week 10 - Book 4, Book 5, Book 6

Week 11 - Book 7, Book 8

[TO BE EDITED]

#les mis #les mis project #les mis readalong #les mis marathon #reading les mis #reading les miserables

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lesmisletters · 6 months

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Les Mis Letters Returns for 2024!

Les Mis Letters is a Dracula-daily inspired email subscription that sends you a daily chapter of Les Misérables for a year.

There are 365 chapters in Les Mis, most of which are short, and 365 days in a year— so the email subscription is a great way to make it through the Brick!

Subscribe to Les Mis letters at our Substack here.

You can also talk to other readers by joining our “book club” discord server here!

A masterpost of information, including the updated 2024 Leap Year email schedule, will be posted later today. For this year, Rachel has passed on administration of the readalong and social media to Mellow @secretmellowblog on Tumblr.

Thank you, and I hope you join us for this year!

-mod Mellow

#les mis #les mis letters #les mis letters 2024 #:3 #hi it’s me mellow!

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brightbeautifulthings · 6 years

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Les Misérables: Part IV, Book VI - Part V, Book I

I doubled up on Les Mis reading in September in preparation for the all-horror reading list of October, and then promptly forgot to update about it. Trying to remember what I was thinking during these sections is frustrating! I wish I would have done it sooner. There are plot spoilers ahead, but if you're familiar with the musical/movie, then you already know what happens.

Sometimes I completely forget that Gavroche is Thénardier's son. He's my favorite character after Éponine. I can't help loving a character who has nothing and still tries to help other people, and he's always got a smart comment ready at hand.

"There are six of you, six men and I'm one woman, but I'm not afraid of you. You aren't going to break into this house, because I don't choose to let you."

I don't usually enjoy love triangles, but the Marius/Cosette/Éponine one is so underplayed--and Marius is so oblivious--that it's almost not even there. (In my opinion, Éponine's sections also keep the sticky sweet Marius/Cosette romance from being totally overwhelming.) It's a little more nuanced in the book, and I enjoyed that a lot. She protects Marius by guarding him from Thénardier and his crew, but she also keeps Cosette's note from him. It makes her a more complex character, as most of the cast are. They're often actively selfless, but they make mistakes and selfishness still creeps up on them. Again, I can see why the characters have endured across centuries and mediums.

"'You know, Monsieur Marius, I think I was a little bit in love with you.'"

😭 😭 😭

Things pick up so much once the revolution starts, and it's so well-described I felt like I was practically there. These compelling sections made up for some of the boring ones in my previous update, proving yet again that when Hugo is on point, he's really on point. Enjolras is really in his element in these sections. I was a little nervous about Part V, Book I, since it's nearly a hundred pages long. I knew I was going to have to break it up into smaller pieces to get through it, but it ended up flying by. Almost every major character makes an appearance here, and I have the sense that things are finally coming together.

Only to fall apart spectacularly again, but wow, is it a wild ride. All my favorite characters are dead now, but I think if I didn't know how things were going to turn out with Valjean/Marius/Javert, I'd be on the edge of my seat. I may double up again this month to finish before the holidays kick into high gear. It's hard to believe I've read a thousand pages of this book, with only a little over a hundred left to go!

#les mis readalong #yrstruly #readalong #les miserables #victor hugo

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