#mabeuf

[helyannis]

Barricade Day 2025

[lesbianslugreaction]

T-shirt that says I ♥️ M. Mabeuf from the 1862 hit novel Les Misérables

[midasinc]

happy pride month to whatever enjolras and mabeuf had goin on

[thepigeonsart]

Every once in a while I am reminded that the only person Enjolras canonically kisses in his entire life is the corpse of an eldery man he didn't even know. God I love this book, it's so unnintentionally funny

[deathanddogs]

Ideal first kiss: he's 55 years older than me and lost it all. I don't know that. All I know is that he came with us to the barricades. My friends beseech him several times to withdraw and warn him of his peril, but he has retreated into himself and cannot hear them. Stuff happens. It seems that my hope for the future has fallen after the flag when it seems nobody is brave enough to plant the flag on the barricade again. Then, he starts up and makes his appearance on the threshold of the wine-shop. He walks right up to me and tears the flag out of my hands. My insurgents all withdrew out of terror from his path. I'm too shocked to do anything. He starts mounting the barricade himself and everyone takes off their hats to watch the frightful spectacle. With his amazed, open mouth, his decrepit face, his white locks, his lofty, wrinkled brow, he raises his aged arm bearing my red flag and shouts "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! and Death!" He's shot in a discharge of bullets to my barricade. He falls back on the pavement, gazing at the sky. We think he is a member of the Convention, a regicide, a spectre of '93 emerged from the earth. My friend tells me he's anything but. His political opinions consisted of a passionate love of plants and books. He didn't believe in hatred over politics when there are, in the world, all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs to look at and so many folios to turn over. He is a passive agent of providence. He has the heart of Brutus. I make a symbol of him for my revolutionaries. I bend down and raise his head. I bestow my first kiss to his brow and take his bloodstained coat as my flag.

Any takers? Does no one volunteer?

[kim-the-miserable-rat]

LES MIS INCORRECT QUOTES

(PART 7 -yeah, they're back)

THE BISHOP WHEN HE OFFERED 24601 SOME BREAD AND WINE (Jean Valjean responds, obviously):

BOSSUET:

COMBEFERE:

MABEUF:

INSPECTOR -touch starved- JAVERT:

COURFEYRAC:

GRANTAIRE:

BAHOREL:

JOLLLLY:

[pureanonofficial]

I appreciate that this Barricade Day more people are appreciating the weird yaoi potential of Enjolras/Mabeuf. We need to do Enjolras/Le Cabuc next.

[transrevolutions]

we need to see more m. mabeuf getting involved with the abc in modern aus. a leftist group without at least one elderly member who's read every book under the sun and will talk your ear off about sustainable agriculture or w/e for 3 hours straight is like an angel without wings.

[timetestedtimeapproved]

A little unfinished barricade day sketch of my favorite miserable old man and my favorite human personification of the ideal

And @barricadeday :D

[lesmisscraper]

Marius sat at the Wrong Seat. Volume 3, Book 3, Chapter 5.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[jolys-cane]

let's settle this once and for all

perhaps reblog and tell me who you voted for :]

[torn-coattail]

HAPPY BARRICADE DAY

please enjoy my first ever full animatic!! this song has always been so les mis-coded to me. please understand I have been daydreaming about making this animatic for literal years. it's, ah, a bit messier than I'd intended since I did Not practice effective time management and didn't start until june 1, but I'm SO GLAD I finished it!

hope you like it :D

[lesbianslugreaction]

Victor Hugo loves his old man characters to have these three traits:

1. Sad

2. Self-destructive

3. Virgin

[whenthewindhasblown]

hello les mis fans

in french, mabeuf loosely translates to "my beef"

have a nice day

[thepigeonsart]

Les Mis au where they all live in the same building (The Lore long post™)

This is too niche but if you know me you know I’m obsessed with les mis, and I’ve been binge watching the six seasons of Aquí No Hay Quien Viva (a very famous spanish comedy show from the 2000s) (in which btw Daniel Diges aka spanish Enjolras is in like two episodes) so I had to make it an au. You don’t have to watch the show to understand it because it’s more a “I’m stealing the entire concept and using it for my modern les mis headcanons” than an au, but you have to know that the show is about a building and the people who live in it. This means I’m taking the characters of les mis and putting them all inside a building as if I were playing Tomodachi Life.

In the original the building is called Desengaño 21 (Disappointment 21), so to make it more les mis coded in the au it’ll be called Misery 32. I once said that les mis can be a comedy if you try hard enough and I want to prove it.

I made a doddle to organize in which floor each character would live and with who but this will change as the au advances. This is just how it is at the beginning. I added an extra floor, in the show there are only 3, but les mis has too many characters

Inhabitants of Misery 32, by order of flat:

1ºA: Joly, Musichetta and Bossuet. Musichetta is a middle school teacher, she was Joly’s girlfriend until he caught her having an affair with his friend Bossuet, since then the three of them are happily dating each other in a polycule. Joly is a surgeon and Bossuet works at a videoclub next door to the building. They live in the first floor because Bossuet is clumsy as fuck and they don’t want him to accidentally fall from the balcony and get hurt (it has happened before), and because Joly is a cane user and the elevator of the building is always broken.

1ºB: Valjean, Javert and Cosette: Valjean is an ex convict and Cosette is his adoptive daughter, as in canon. Javert used to be a police inspector but quitted his job after redeeming himself (not entirely, he’s still an asshole with everyone who isn’t Valjean). All of this is kept in secret from their neighbors, they tell them Valjean used to be a factory owner and mayor of a town (which is true at the end of the day). They tell people (even Cosette) that they are just friends as they think they are too old to come out of the closet and Javert is lowkey gay and homophobic, but everyone knows they fuck. Valjean is named president of the community against his will for his past as a mayor, he hates that position, but if it’s what his neighbors want he accepts it. Cosette has a crush on both Marius and Éponine. They live on the first floor because Javert has tried to throw himself from tall places before, better safe than sorry.

2ºA: Magloire, Baptistine and Hucheloup (or how their neighbours call them: The Golden Girls): Baptistine is the sister of the late Bishop Myriel. Magloire and her are two spinsters who may or may not have something sapphic going on. Hucheloup is their friend who started living with them after her husband passed away. She is the owner of the Corinthe, a tavern on that same street. She used to live in the 3ºB when her husband was alive but now rents it to two of her waitresses and a friend of theirs.

2ºB: Enjolras and Combeferre. And they were roommates. Combeferre is a pediatrician and Enjolras is a social worker. They’re best friends and have known each other (and Courfeyrac) since school. Enjolras is the founder of Les Amis and the others join progressively. (Also, amis relevant fact: The Musain isn’t a café, it’s a videoclub (in the show there is a videoclub next to the building and a group of friends who live there have their reunions there, they are called “the wise men council” and they even have a 12 year old too lmao)). At some point Enjolras and Cosette figure out that they are half siblings, which is a scandal in the entire building. The joke of them looking alike got too far💀

3ºA: Éponine and Grantaire. That flat used to be the home to the entire Thènardier family, until the parents got in legal problems. They hid in the basement for a while, until they got caught and sent to jail (this happened before Valjean, Javert and Cosette moved to the buildinghere). Since then Éponine has been living there since she is the only adult of the Thènardier children while her siblings are in foster houses, they visit her very often and she’s trying to adopt them. Grantaire is a friend who’s living with her. He’s a painter with a failure of artistic career and has a big crush on Enjolras, the guy doesn’t seem to notice him tho.

3ºB: Louison (the waitress of the Musain, I'm pretty sure her name was something like that but maybe I just made it up, who knows??), Matelote and Gibelotte: Matelote and Gibelotte are Hucheloup’s waitresses at the Corinthe. Matelote hates Grantaire because he called her ugly once at a neighbors reunion. She and Gibelotte are girlfriends. Lucienne works at the Musain (the videoclub) with Bahorel.

4ºA: Feuilly, Jehan and Montparnasse: Jehan and Montparnasse are dating, no one really knows why, they are so different. Everyone loves Jehan but Montparnasse is a dick who doesn’t beat the vampire allegations, everyone’s scared of him (except for Jehan and Éponine who apparently had a situationship with him). Feuilly is the doorman of the building, he hates his job.

4ºB: Courfeyrac, Marius and Mabeuf: Courfeyrac and Marius met at law school (yeah, law school, but they are only there because their parents (grandfather in Marius’ case) forced them). Courfeyrac used to live alone but when Marius had a big fight with his grandfather he went to live with him. Mabeuf just kind of joined them later, who doesn’t love to have a 60 year old roommate?

I think I forgot about Bahorel 💀

That's it for now!! I'll keep not being normal about this au. It lives rent free in my head

[fillsta]

LES MIS CHARACTERS THAT DESERVE MORE ATTENTION

Monsieur Mabeuf

I CANNOT stress this enough, I LOVE him. He's just this nice old man that likes plants and books, what MORE do you want??

Azelma

I don't care if Victor Hugo didn't care enough to give her a storyline like her sister, I CARE and so should YOU

Madame Houcheloup

I think she deserves it, with all that shit she went through plus auntie figure for les amis

Dahlia, Favourite and Zéphine

I just feel like we completely forgot about them as a whole after Tholomyes happened but they have SO much potential + Fantine deserves to have girlfriends

Georges Pontmercy

Yeah, yeah, he's supposed to be dead but so are Les Amis and we all sure don't seem to mind that. I know we love the whole 'Marius doesn't have a dad now' thing because you know, angst, but come on!

Patron-Minette

Montparnasse gets attention, why shouldn't the other silly criminals get some too?

Petit-Gervais

He is Feuilly, I'm sorry, if you don't believe me, you're wrong, take a look at my research

Bonus: That one feminine guy Eponine swapped clothes with before she went down to the barricades

I know, far fetched, but we can do SO MUCH with this