#les mis trans week 2019

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My second contribution to #lesmistransweek with my favourite trans headcanon!

[thepiecesofcait]

Happy Les Mis Trans Week!  To celebrate, here’s Non-Binary!Jehan and Trans!Enjolras comparing the shirts their boyfriends made them for Pride! (Enj’s banner is ‘Fuck the Binary’ in binary)

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

“And when the sun rises, I’ll be miles away from here, and my side won’t hurt, an I can cut my hair, bind my chest, and call myself, Enjolras. And no one will fucking stop me. No one.”

From Enjolras Rising 

It’s @lesmistransheadcanons week and I’m in love with all trans headcanons. Chopping all your hair off can be so liberating. I’ve always thought about how Enjolras probably had really beautiful long hair, but it a fit of rage at being misgendered for the 1800000th time, he cut it all off. That shit can be really emotional, but in the end it’s so fucking worth it. 

[lesmistransheadcanons]

September is here!

The second Les Mis Trans Week will happen this September, 16-22. All headcanons and fanworks of all kinds (fanart, fanfic, edits, podfics etc) including any of the Les Misérables characters as trans (including nonbinary characters headcanons). This is a project to spread positivity and to give to the trans/nb people in our fandom more love and representation. All posts must be tagged as #lesmistransweek or #les mis trans week or #les mis trans week 2019.

Created by: @petit-alouette, @bewarethefaeries and @queerfave. 

Any questions, just contact one of us.

Rules:

- All triggering topics (such as dysphoria or prejudice) must be properly tagged.

- NSFW fanwork is allowed, but must be properly tagged as well.

- Any forms of fanwork is allowed, but it must focus on a trans character.

- Any character can be included.

- Non-binary people are trans too, all non-binary headcanons are obviously allowed and included.

- If you’re curious if something accurately represents trans people and doesn’t harm them (ie stereotypes), ask one of us if it’s okay before posting, not after.

-  If you don’t think x character is trans, don’t look at trans content for x character. Respect other people’s headcanons and works. Last year everyone was very nice about other people’s works, let’s make 2019 nice as well.

- Don’t use the week tags for discourse or hate on any artist, blog or headcanon. The tags are for the fanworks and appreciation only. 

- Romantic fanfictions are allowed, as long as at least one the characters involved in the ship(s) is trans, because this week is about them.

- It’s ok if you headcanon a character as a different gender from which they were presented in the Brick, as long as the character is still transgender (ie trans woman Grantaire, trans man Éponine).  

Useful links:

List of LGBTQ+ Vocabulary Definitions

LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary

UCSF Resource Center General Definitions

Thank you and we can’t wait to see your beautiful art works again.

PS: We’ll keep posting stuff after the week ends, so don’t worry if you post things late this year. Our blog will be sharing fanworks during the rest of the year from now on.

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My contribution to Les Mis Trans Week 2019: Enjolras and Grantaire have very different hospital experiences, told by Combeferre. 9.5k Words.

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Look who posted!

Finally got ready with my fic for @lesmistransheadcanons week! Yes, I’m late, I wanted to post another story, which is a bit longer, so I decided to write a totally different story and post that. I hope you will like it!

This is also in the same au I tend to write in these days, so if you want to know more, read this post and the previous installments (not necessary, but it would make me - and possibly you - happy)!

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Les Mis Trans Week 2019 – Les Amis Headcanons

Enjolras (he/him/his) is openly and proudly out as a transman, even before he starts Les Amis. He has started socially transitioning since his teenage years, with full support from his childhood best friends Combeferre and Courfeyrac.

A few months after Enjolras tells his best friends he’s trans, Combeferre (she/her/hers) also comes out – first to herself, then to Enj and Courf not long after. Enjolras is in the process of trying out names, so he and ‘Ferre decide to switch names for a while. The names don’t stick, but it is a weird month where Enjolras answers when people call ‘Ferre and vise versa. Eventually, they get fed up and decide to just go with their last names.  Courfeyrac does the same in solidarity because the poor baby still doesn’t know yet. When Les Amis starts, everyone picks up on it and it become their ThingTM.

Jehan (fea/fer/fers) is not the only non-binary person in Les Amis, but fea is the first to come out. This prompts other members to also come out or start questioning if they are really cis. There is a time where Les Amis starts every single meeting with someone - sometimes multiple people - yelling “Wait I have an announcement to make!” Long story short, none of them is now cisgender, and Marius is the token Cis FriendTM. 

Courfeyrac (he/him, she/her, they/them - depends on the day), who up until this point still identify as a gender-nonconforming cis man, realizes that oh my gosh I can be neither a man nor a woman? They have never felt like they fit neatly into either category. So, they pull Jehan aside after fea comes out. The two of them sit down together, have a heart-to-heart about gender identity, and Courfeyrac comes home and do a ton of research. Jehan sends them a [non-binary flowchart] – and even though following the chart doesn’t really help them find their identity, they also get the vocabulary to start reading up on different non-binary labels. So now we have a glittery genderfluid theater child who race across the gender spectrum in sparkly, neonlight-flashing heelys.  

Bossuet (he/him/his) has changed labels and pronouns four times in one month and still hasn’t found what fits him best. He is using he/him pronoun at the moment for the sake of convenience, but it doesn’t mean he likes it.  

Joly (ze/hir/hirs) is a demigirl. Ze leans toward the feminine side of the spectrum but doesn’t completely identify with womanhood. 

Grantaire says gender is fake and a social construct and uses no pronoun because I say gender is fake and a social construct and also use no pronoun.

Neutrois and Genderpunk Bahorel (ey/em/eir) who destroys gender norms everyday with perfect eyeliners and jean jackets, onto which Feuilly hand-embroils roses and daisies and lilies. Eir hands might be pretty with nails painted in shiny red and pink, but those same hands are also capable of punching transphobes black and blue.  

Feuilly (they/them/their) who everyone jokingly calls a straight-A person because they are aracial, aro-ace, and agender. (From [this fic] by Feyland)

Bonus:

Eponine (she/her or he/him) is a lesbian, with no gender description added. Her only connection to gender and/or womanhood is her attraction to woman. 

Cosette (xe/xir/xirs) is non-binary. Xe presents very femininely and is comfortable with how xe presents. Xe cringes everytime someone calls xe “she” or “ma’am” and gets slightly defensive when people seem to assume xe is cis. 

Musichetta (she/her/hers) comes out as a transgirl when her sister Combeferre comes out to her. The conversation goes something like this: “I’m a woman.” “Me too!?” They help each other figuring things out, go shopping for clothes together, and just generally be good siblings for each other. When Chetta comes out as polyamorous, Combeferre has an initial freak out session because holy patria her sister is dating? but ultimately supports her like the amazing sister and human she is. 

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Courfeyrac arranges for Grantaire to go on a date with Enjolras, and it honestly could not possibly go worse.

Warnings: implied transphobia (not shown), language (English), language (Portuguese), mention of a domestic abuse situation (no details)

Inspired by (and written with permission of) @permets-tu-pls and their post.

[brightbeautifulthings]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (trans. Robin Buss)

"'I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.'"

Year Read: 2019

Rating: 3/5

Context: Last year’s year-long Les Mis read went so well, I decided to choose another intimidating classic to tackle in the same fashion this year. I know myself, and if I don't deliberately pace out a book like this, I'll try to read a thousand pages in a week, and it will just be a miserable experience. (That's not to say some classics aren't miserable experiences regardless of how you read them, but that's another issue entirely.) The Count of Monte Cristo was calling to me from the shelf, and by pure luck, I already owned the edition I wanted to read (plus a B&N abridged version that promptly went into the donation box). Reviews overwhelmingly praise Robin Buss’s translation for ease/modernity, and the Penguin Classics haven’t let me down yet.

For my less coherent updates in real-time: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. My review is spoiler-free, but my updates are not, so read with caution if you’re not familiar. Trigger warnings: In a book with a thousand pages? Everything, probably, but for sure death, parent/child death, suicide/suicidal thoughts, severe illness, guns, abduction, poisoning, slavery, mental illness, sexism, ableism, grief, depression.

About: When forces conspire to have sailor Edmond Dantès arrested for a crime he didn't commit, he spends years in a hellish prison, fighting to stay sane. Through bravery and good fortune, he manages to escape, and he assumes a new identity for himself: The Count of Monte Cristo. Under this guise, he inserts himself into the lives of the French nobility, vowing revenge on those who wronged him.

Thoughts: Like most thousand page novels, there's no reason this novel needs to be a thousand pages, but the one thing I can say about them, collectively, is that I come away feeling like I have a relationship with them that I usually don't get from a shorter book unless I've read it multiple times. And it makes sense: I've been reading this book for a year. I've had relationships with actual humans that were much shorter than that. Dumas's prose (helped along by Buss's translation) is accessible and not overly dry, if not quite as humorous as Victor Hugo’s. Thanks to both of them, I now have a rudimentary understanding of the French Revolution and the difference between a Royalist and Bonapartist (because truly the only way to make me read about history is to put it in a novel).

Dumas proves himself more capable of staying on topic though, with one or two exceptions. The only margin note I cared to write was, apparently, "Horrible digression", and I stand by that. As soon as the novel leaves Dantès’s perspective, it gets less interesting, beginning with Franz encountering Sinbad the Sailor on Monte Cristo and continuing with the Very Weird and Terrible Side Anecdotes about bandits in Rome. Otherwise, much of the storyline is more or less linear, without the intricacies of Waterloo or the Paris sewer system. It grows more chaotic as the book goes on though, with frequent digressions into every character's backstory.

The plot takes such a drastic turn that it's almost like reading two different novels with two different main characters. At the beginning, it’s most like an adventure story. There are sailors, prison breaks, and buried treasure. Yet, for all those things, it’s surprisingly un-suspenseful. Dumas has a very stolid way of story-telling. The pace is almost supernaturally consistent, so that even things that probably should have tension in them are presented as a matter of course. (Or maybe I’m just hugely desensitized by media.) I wasn’t as excited as I thought I should be during some of the more compelling parts, but there’s something reassuring about Dumas’s relentlessly straightforward story-telling.

The middle takes a major dip in interest. Cue a lot of long and tedious backstories, plus Monte Cristo's elaborate set-ups to take down his enemies. It basically devolves into a soap opera of the various dramas of Paris’s rich and powerful families. Monte Cristo barely needs to lift a finger to destroy these people, since with a few mostly harmless suggestions, it looks like they're all going to self-destruct at any moment without outside help. The ending never really recovers from the action of the beginning, thanks in large part to the characters. There are more than it's worth keeping track of, including a lot of side characters, family members, and name changes. A detailed, spoiler-free flow chart of how everyone is connected to everyone else would have been helpful. (But be careful about Googling those because spoilers.)

Edmond Dantès is an easy hero to pull for, since he’s honest, good, and capable, and he has a kind of earnest faith that things will work out that’s endearing. He goes through a fair amount of character development in prison, and his father/son relationship with Faria is especially moving. On the other hand, it's difficult to like his alternate persona, The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas goes a bit overboard in making him filthy rich and knowledgeable about literally every subject, and no matter how generous he is to his slaves, they're still slaves. Whether he’s playing the part of a pompous ass or is actually a pompous ass is sort of irrelevant by the end. There are a couple of flailing attempts at character development in the last sections where he wonders whether he had the right to do everything he did, but it's too little/too late to make much of an impact.

The story wouldn't work without some Shakespeare-level villains. Danglars is Iago whispering in Othello’s ear, and Villefort is even more insidious because his upstanding citizen act is so convincing. Caderousse is just a coward, and it’s interesting to see how jealousy, ambition, and fear all play an integral part in condemning an innocent man. Mercédès is a bland love interest; Valentine and Morrel are basically the Cosette and Marius of the novel, but at least there are some decent people on the page to pull for. Much as I dislike all the descriptors of Eugenie as “masculine” (because she must be less of a woman if she has a mind of her own), she's a powerhouse, and I was living for her lesbian relationship with her piano instructor.

It's clear Dumas has no idea when to end a story, since every time I thought we'd wrapped up a plot with a certain character, they'd resurface a few chapters later to spin it out a little further. Though everything (and I do mean everything) moves much more slowly than necessary, I was satisfied with the way it all played out. It's hard to come back from a main character I can barely stand though, and I happen to not like novels where nearly every character is terrible. While I found Les Mis surprisingly relevant on its social commentary, I’m struggling to see why Monte Cristo has stuck around. Only the first parts could reliably be called an "adventure novel," and the rest is purely middle of the road.

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A Tale of Two Surgeries

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by AnnaBolena

Grantaire falls into step with Combeferre easily, delivers a smooth greeting. “Good evening, doctor. I seem to be suffering from an acute lack of sufficient intoxication. What do you suppose would constitute adequate therapy?”

“Power through and abstain in the future,” he answers honestly. Grantaire makes a show of looking disapproving.

“You did ask me as a doctor. I’m sure Joly would say the same."

a.k.a. Enjolras and Grantaire have very different hospital experiences, as told by Combeferre

Words: 9431, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Joly (Les Misérables), Feuilly (Les Misérables), Bahorel (Les Misérables), Jean "Jehan" Prouvaire, Bossuet Laigle

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire, Combeferre/Courfeyrac

Additional Tags: les mis trans week 2019, Modern AU, It's been a Hot Minute Since I've Written Modern AU stuff, I know babes, Have a sip of this, Trans Enjolras, Grantaire being Grantaire, That is to say: Warnings for alcohol and graphic descriptions of what alcohol can cause, Hopeful ending though xx

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[twink-with-an-agenda]

Okay so I saw that "les mis trans week" is apparently a thing? Anyway I got kinda excited since trans!Enjolras is a headcanon I do like quite a lot.

Here's a little contribution from my end, I also plan to post some art in the same vein throughout the week.

[eirenical]

Les Mis Fandom Calendar Update (August 2018)

Link to the calendar

Happy August, everyone!  Lots of fun still to come on the calendar -- this month, we have Les Mis Ladies Week!  Have fun, everyone!

August 2018: July 30-Aug 6: Poetry Smash (Bahorel/Jean Prouvaire) Week ( @poetrysmashparty; mod: @pilferingapples) – tag: #poetry smash week 8-15: Les Mis Ladies Week ( @lesmisladiesweek; mods: @starfieldcanvas, @ombreferre, and @mardisoir) – tag: #lesmisladiesweek

September 2018: 2-8: Bossuet Week ( @laughedateverything; mod: @adorablecrab) – tag: #bossuetweek or #bossuet week 16-22: Les Mis Trans Week ( @lesmistransweek; mods: @prouvairism, @prouvaires-paintbrush, and @queerfave) – tag: #lesmistransweek or #les mis trans week

October 2018: 14-20: Logic and Philosophy (Enjolras/Combeferre) Week ( @logic-and-philosophy; mod: @oilan) – tag: #logic and philosophy week 21-27: Feuilly Appreciation Week ( @feuillyweek; mod: @eirenical) – tag: #feuilly week

November 2018: 18-25: Fantine Week ( @fantineweek; mod: @papercrane-wish) – tag: #fantineweek and #fantineweek2018

February 2019: 10-16: Ace Mis Week–tentative ( @acemisweek mod: eirenical) – tag: #ace mis week

(And, as usual, if I missed anything or if anything is wrong on here, please let me know!)

[lesmistransheadcanons]

Many thanks to everyone who decided to contribute this year with their art, cosplay or written headcanons! It was very much appreciated. If anyone still wants to send something even though the week is ended, just tag this blog and your post will be here too. - mod Jean

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A Tale of Two Surgeries

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by AnnaBolena

Grantaire falls into step with Combeferre easily, delivers a smooth greeting. “Good evening, doctor. I seem to be suffering from an acute lack of sufficient intoxication. What do you suppose would constitute adequate therapy?”

“Power through and abstain in the future,” he answers honestly. Grantaire makes a show of looking disapproving.

“You did ask me as a doctor. I’m sure Joly would say the same."

a.k.a. Enjolras and Grantaire have very different hospital experiences, as told by Combeferre

Words: 9431, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Joly (Les Misérables), Feuilly (Les Misérables), Bahorel (Les Misérables), Jean "Jehan" Prouvaire, Bossuet Laigle

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire, Combeferre/Courfeyrac

Additional Tags: les mis trans week 2019, Modern AU, It's been a Hot Minute Since I've Written Modern AU stuff, I know babes, Have a sip of this, Trans Enjolras, Grantaire being Grantaire, That is to say: Warnings for alcohol and graphic descriptions of what alcohol can cause, Hopeful ending though xx

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Patchwork Evening

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by ShitpostingfromtheBarricade

Courfeyrac arranges for Grantaire to go on a date with Enjolras, and it honestly could not possibly go worse.

Warnings: implied transphobia (not shown), language (English), language (Portuguese), mention of a domestic abuse situation (no details)

Words: 13400, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Enjolras (Les Misérables), Grantaire (Les Misérables), Courfeyrac (Les Misérables)

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables)

Additional Tags: Grantaire pov, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Get-Together Fic, les mis trans week, les mis trans week 2019, lesmistransweek, this is a story about a trans man not about a man being trans, trans enj, writing confident flirty trans Enj honestly gave me life, also this is from April, I just never wrote the final scene, and also it needed so much editing

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Saturday mornings

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by a_Wreck

“I asked where he got those cool scars. Did you get into a fight? Or were you born with them? Florette said that some people are born with scars” he turned towards Enjolras.

“No, not all those things” Grantaire lifted his son in the air for a second to gain back his attention. “Though it would be cool if he had a scar from a fight. It would make him even more of a rebel. It would even give him some pirate vibes. I would love a pirate husband.”

“I do have a scar on my left toe” Enjolras muttered quietly.

...

Henri asks Enjolras about the scars on his chest and Grantaire is awesome.

Words: 1896, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of enjoltaire parents au

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Enjolras (Les Misérables), Grantaire (Les Misérables), Original Child Character(s), Jean "Jehan" Prouvaire - mentioned

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Parents, Gay Parents, Trans Enjolras, grantaire is a great husband, and a great dad, les mis trans week 2019, enjolras has a scar on his left toe, Nonbinary Character

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