was @grantairicade

mid 20s / inactive “main” blog for many others - go to real main @satancheeto - Simply haven’t done the logistics of transferring all my old stuff onto this account, may take decades to actually happen. But I rarely post here

[apolloamongothers]

Could also be the other way around tbh

[aka-satancheeto]

(also Monsieur Le Maire)

[alicedrawslesmis]

rip Grantaire you would've loved using AI for your assignments

[aka-satancheeto]

I’m half torn between whether I think you’re so correct or completely wrong….

He would like no having to put any effort into something. But I also feel like he’s the type of person to actually put effort into something, just the completely wrong kind of effort. Like those hilarious papers you sometimes see online where someone did take the time to write the world’s most confusing and poorly written essay about like, wether Mario is a capitalist symbol or if he’s secretly a corrupted icon of anti-consumerism.

I do feel like he’d rather turn in a nonsensical but funny dumpster fire of something he actually wrote and get an F on it, than get a C for a poorly argued AI written essay that technically is still within the bounds of the assignment and real sentences someone might normally put in an essay.

I don’t think he’d care significantly either way about any moral or ethical or ecological etc. concerns with AI, so i definitely think he’d use it occasionally to some extent. I just think that he believes bullshitting nonsense is like the highest form of both art and comedy. But I was specifically thinking about that essay guy recently, and wondering like. Why would anyone ever even bother to put in the effort to write that and turn it in instead of just turning in nothing, which would have the same effect of a zero grade but wouldn’t make you look insane and stupid. But I think this person just thinks they are hilarious (tbf this is correct) and that they are the main character of College. Both of which seem like what Grantaire would see himself as.

[secretmellowart]

Some thoughts on Cosette's fashion! I think it's really interesting that Cosette is meant to a bright joyful dawn-like character but she always dresses in black. The first dress she receives when she leaves the Thenardiers is a small black mourning gown, and I wonder if that has something to do with it. Anyway...Goth Cosette?

[alicedrawslesmis]

I know I just said I didn't want to just be complaining about everything so I'll try to word this in a more constructive way asdfghjkl

It's hard to be an Eponine fan in a world where the musical -and On My Own specifically- is sooooo mainstream. Because imo as much as On My Own itself is kind of a half-decent, if simplified, encapsulation of Eponine's struggle with her love for Marius if you analise the lyrics in isolation, the musical as a whole, her role in the narrative as the unrequited love diva (I'm also simplifying here. I don't think this is super fair to the anglo musical, but compared to the book there's no question of how they reworked her into a glamorous 80s diva contralto because musical theatre has usually very strict gender roles), did her so dirty. So dirty. And imo often her character is reduced to her pining in fandom as a result. And I don't like that, personally.

I love that girl so much. I love that she is just young enough to still be a child but adult enough to be aware of her social role. She has one foot in the gamin life and one foot in the adult world. I love the tragedy that is the fact that she likes the beauty and pomp of high society girls and wish she could have silk shoes but knowing she can't.

And also being super resigned to her class despite it, she doesn't believe she ever will have any of that. She resents that too, somewhat. The tragedy of her knowing that she couldn't be with Marius because of his social class and her accepting that (angrily? sadly?). I love her self-banishment as his guard dog because of this. I love her drunk sailor voice. I love how manipulative she is and that she isn't Marius's friend at all. He's just her one neighbor who wasn't a total asshole one time. He was, later. But not at first. And she can't be in his head and know he thinks she's kinda despicable because crime because Marius is a judgemental little shithead.

And Eponine isn't an idealist, she's resigned to her position. I understand why she gets paired with grantaire in fics but her canon narrative parallel is Javert, they both believe they are excluded from society from their outcast position and so become the watchdogs for it. Eponine a kind of guardian (in her own words a devil, not an angel) and Javert the same. That's why he's the one person who sees her in the barricade, he's the same as her. Marius saw her but that's only cause he had a use for her in that moment, as soon as she didn't he forgot all about it.

I think also Gavroche, with his ability to be kind of a figure above the narrative, with his gamin skills of being almost omnipresent is something Eponine used to have, but with her age she's starting to lose that. She's starting to grown old enough that she's required to be IN the world and not supercede it. Gavroche is also almost there, if he had been allowed to grow up he would've lost that ability too. They both inhabit this sort of magical surreal world superimposed on our own.

A lot of Les Mis and Notre Dame de Paris can be kinda described as magical realism, I would go so far as calling them urban fantasy. And characters like Babet, Thenardier sometimes, Gavroche, Eponine (and Javert sometimes as well) are inhabiting this magically charged layer. This reality that's imposed Over the real world.

Talking about that One Series Of Wizard Books is a bit passé rn so uh. Doctor Who. Particularly the initial New Who seasons before they got that huge budget. That's a good parallel to what I'm getting at. The real world is still the same but there are certain characters that inhabit this mystical overlayer and are able to transverse from one to the other (Javert can't really because he is stuck forever outside and the second he understands that you CAN'T be an unbiased outsider who only enforces the norm without participating he freaks out and literally dies about it). Eponine is right in the eye of the storm tho. She manipulates reality to get her way, to die with Marius, because that's as close as she can get to being with him. And she manipulates reality to protect him too. Contradictions be damned. She has many contradictory feelings that make her complex and cool and an awesome character whom I love and wish would stop being reduced to the glamurous mysical theatre role with a single black stain on her face and a beautiful actor and a big unrequited love song about a random boy (whose personality was also changed for the musical and I argue is probably the character that was most fucked up by it in the public perception because he's such an weird little self-insert of an even weirder guy. But I get it, the musical is long enough as it is).

Anyway, I wish eponine could be more of a mongrel, a little gremlin. A little rat child that's just beginning to grow into an adult and is self aware of her role in the narrative society. She's a teenage girl which already sucks to go through when you're not constantly starving and cold and being forced by your father to work and do con jobs. Marius is the object she attaches herself to, but it could've been literally anything. Javert did that with the social order, he protects and guards it. She just chose Some Guy instead. Which, we all have that one friend who does that too. Like girl you're too good for him. Come on let's get you sone ice cream. And clean clothes and a roof. Literally anything. Bread.

I think if Eponine had a roof over her head and like, food on the regular she would forget Marius exists. Same as Cosette if she had moved to England. Like he'd be that one intense crush they had as teenagers. Can't say the same for him tho. He would hold onto that for the rest of time.

[secretmellowblog]

I just thought of the best Javert first name headcanon in the shower. He doesn't have one. Nobody bothered to give him a name. (Wouldn't be the first time that's happened in Les Mis.) He leaves it blank on official documents. There's a running joke among the police force that they're on a first-name basis with Javert (by which they mean every time he passes by they ignore him in silence until he goes away.)

You sent this ask before I reblogged that post about how Javert’s early life probably would’ve gone, which mentioned that foundlings raised by the state (which Javert almost definitely would’ve been) were only given One (1) name...........so everything you wrote in your ask could be canon actually. In fact I have decided it is canon now

[javertfitzjavert]

i am once again thinking about the "missing" scene from Les Miserables (1978) wherein Jean Valjean escapes from a coffin...I've seen gif sets of it, and the gist is that two versions of the movie exists-the theatrical cut and the tv cut. and one one of those is fully 20 minutes longer. and i've never been able to find the full version, literally anywhere online.

[secretmellowblog]

wait what????? There’s a secret extended edition of 78???? With the coffin heist!!

Can anyone else confirm??!

[javertfitzjavert]

I swear to GOD this is real I’m not trying to spread misinformation I saw gif set of the scene on tumblr so long ago and I’ve done a lot of research into this….someone just needs to cough up the full version

[demon4dilfs-deactivated20250801]

hold up even better....someone uploaded the extended version of the move in pieces. this one contains the coffin scene:

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

I dug around on archive.org using that video url and pieced together the unlisted videos into a playlist:

LM78

[javertfitzjavert]

OH. MY. GOD.

[oldbookist]

So originally I was just going to write a post indexing my favorite resources…but it ended up being way too long to be a post.

I am delighted to share my latest project that I think will be much more useful: Les Mis Resources, a quick and easy way to access Les Mis-relevant sources for whatever you may need.

So far the site catalogues nearly 200 resources, most of which you can read for free! Some highlights of the collection:

An English guide on how to live as a student in Paris

A book on the police force in the early 19th century

Links to the original manuscript and first drafts of Les Mis

Every major English translation of Les Mis

…and much more.

If you’re an artist, there’s also fashion plates and extant examples of clothing from museums—not just pictures, the museum links often include more angles and information on them!

I really had a lot of fun and learned a lot putting together the sources for this site, and I hope you guys will also find it useful! And if you know a resource you think I should add, just shoot me a message.

Maybe try searching your favorite character and see what comes up?

[tenlittlebullets]

*bursts into the room flailing and shouting* HERE IT IS I FINALLY GOT IT UP OFF THE GROUND– *trips, falls on face*

…okay, try again.

The LES MIS ANNOTATION PROJECT is a freely-editable wiki meant to crowdsource all the footnotes and literary/historical references and stuff that fandom can possibly track down. All of them. All that communal nerd knowledge. As obvious or as nit-picky and obscure as you want. All, hopefully, in one place.

THE PRICE OF ADMISSION: …guys. Guys. There are 365 chapters in this book. And even though I love it to death and got frissons of awesome just from the chapter titles while I was setting up the tables of contents, that is more copy/format/paste grunt work than one person should have to do when anyone can edit this thing. So the price of admission is: if you want to add footnotes for a chapter that doesn’t have a page yet, please please please take the time to set up the page properly and copy the chapter text in. There’s a template and formatting instructions and Project Gutenberg links and everything! Let’s get this sucker filled out and kill those pesky red links.

FEEDBACK: Always welcome! The format of the pages is still totally up for revision if it’s not working for people.

(Sorry for posting this to the Brick!Club tag–a lot of the people who’ve expressed interest in this before are participants, and plus, I’m guessing this is relevant to the interests of most of the people who check it? I promise this will not devolve into repeated spam posts.)

[marjorierose]

I was just saying that something like this ought to exist, and apparently it does!

[tenlittlebullets]

Oh hey! A flurry of interest, awesome! Just popping my head back up to say that I may not be very active in the fandom anymore and I know the site on the main domain has succumbed to Wordpress plugin update hell, but the annotations wiki is still running, and if you’re having trouble submitting edits or the wiki software is going funky on you, I’m around and can try to get it fixed.

[lakesbian]

the rule of fandoms is that if someone has a character in their url or bio they either understand that character well enough to give a 3 hour unscripted lecture on the subject OR they're really obsessed with their version of that character thats an entirely different made up guy. and theres literally never an in between

[lakesbian]

everyone in the notes saying 'skdfskdffhkshkshkfhs i hope im the first one but sometimes im worried i might be the second!!!!!' is the second one

[alicedrawslesmis]

Red!

[alicedrawslesmis]

#Grantaire miku binder @pureanonofficial

dammit I was done with this joke

[alicedrawslesmis]

ok NOW I'll stop

(for the record, I think making fun of the miku binder post is lame, this is 100% done out of love)

[Image transcript: The 'miku binder jefferson' meme replaced with Grantaire wearing a waistcoat with an anime Robespierre print. The text on it says:

"Grand-Erre ♂️(he/him); fre/lat/ger; a french flag and a red flag; art? major; 5'3"ft, 27 y/o @/unhookthestars RED waistcoat - Born and raised to suffer - Taking art lessons with Grois (misspelled) - Thinks he can't do math but can. - Claims to have dated at least 50 people. They 'go to another school' - Obsessed with Enjolras - Knows a guy for everything - Joly is his dealer - Drinks absinthe. A lot. - Never finished a painting - Pretends to hate the classics - Bad at literally everything except naps... - He is NOT upset that Enjolras assumed he was too drunk to help and he didn't take it personally.

end of transcript.]

[oatoast]

Excerpt of the lesson of the moth by archy by Don Marquis. Rushed.

[mechromage]

[alicedrawslesmis]

hugo: being a hypocrite makes you a hermaphrodite

me: ...

me: ...care to elaborate?

hugo: sure. See there are these rocks called Douvres

me: are you gonna elaborate on the gender comment or are you just gonna talk about rocks again

hugo: just rocks

me: ok yeah, just making sure

[aka-satancheeto]

Well……Hugo was definitely known to be quite hypocritical about some things, so……….

[alicedrawslesmis]

Best Non-canonical Les Mis Character

Robert (1952)

Tutti (LM Musical)

Judi Dench's barricade character that one time she went

Lesbian poet (LM Musical)

Axe lady (BBC Les Mis)

Rivette (BBC Les Mis)

Chou Chou (Shoujo Cosette)

Alain (Shoujo Cosette)

Ponpon (Arm Joe)

Other (sound off in the tags!)

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2023

[alicedrawslesmis]

the result of this poll will be forever canonized

[alicedrawslesmis]

looks like we have a clear two candidate lead an- OH WHAT IS THIS? IT'S THE LESBIAN POET COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

[alicedrawslesmis]

BY THE SLIMMEST POSSIBLE MARGIN! WE HAVE OUR WINNER

congratulations everyone, the lesbian poet fandom that almost dethroned Judi Dench... this was the most exciting poll I made for sure

[ldioticisland-deactivated202401]

it’s 11:59. Seconds before the clock strikes 12 and it’s officially my 18th birthday. “18 year olds and older, DNI” i post onto tumblr, swiping and killing half of my followers and mutuals. the clock hits 12. “Minors DNI” I post. going in for the second attack, swiping and killing the other half of my followers and mutuals.

the dust clears. the battlefield littered with bodies. only leaving the spare porn bot and sugar daddy. I’ll be celebrating my birthday alone this year.

[ldioticisland-deactivated202401]

what the fuck happens in deathnote

[alicedrawslesmis]

I drew some amis instead of doing work, don't worry bout it

[makabunni]

Spent a long time on this art resource/reference masterpost! Finally starting to edit to add more. This will be REGULARLY updated so it’s gonna get huge. If you have a request for resources for me to find OR have a resource you want me to add, just send me an ask :D

General Anatomy/Human stuff:

body quick tips

painting/drawing straight hair

how to draw eyes

arm squish/bend tip

chest/pecks with raised arms tip

long hair how to

male torso anatomy (back)

learn manga male anatomy (torso & arm)

male torso anatomy (front)

head and hair tips (scroll  a bit, it’s in one of the images!)

how to draw noses

ears tilty tip

arm tips

two tips for drawing women’s hair

drawing teeth

anatomy tips

random hair and mouth ref anime

leg muscle anatomy ref

arm muscles anatomy ref

knees reference

arm ref study

quick arm tut tip

how to draw arm

shoulders n sleeves

Poses:

umbrella poses

random female poses

random anatomy pose thing

chibi sleeping in hands pose

laying poses

elf (?) with staff poses

holding phone half bod

peeny wolf pose set

perspective pose sheet

anatomy poses 

crossed arms ref sheet

holding baby poses

Hands:

how to draw hands 1

hand refs & tutorial 2

hand tutorial 3

hand tutorial 4

36 hands

how to draw hands in 10 minutes

hands ref 2

hand gestures and simplifying the hand

arm & hand ref

500 hands

Diversity:

stop drawing natives red

wheelchair tutorial

drawing fat people

vitiligo notes for artists

darkskin palms

epicanthic folds

biracial characters

do’s and don’ts of thick lips

Animals/Creatures:

how to draw falcon beaks

canine studies (broken down into parts)

feline tiger ref

Insect wing venation

Musculature of a T-Rex

Pony bodies tutorial

Hyena Nose tutorial

horse reference

drawing horns

Flesh tutorial

bird tips

wing basics

making mythical creatures look realistic

pony heads tutorial 

dragon designing tutorial pt 3/3

pony wings tutorial

hedgie bodies

Furry/Anthro:

dogquest’s pixel tutorial

furry portrait tutorial

furry pants tutorial

how to draw paws/pawhands

fur direction reference

anthro tips

muzzle shapes

furry styles

anthro expressions

f2u chibi-ish furry base

furry / cartoon head tutorial

f2u furry base/pose w three different ears

drawing humans! for animal artists

Backgrounds:

how to draw debris

fire tutorial

night sky tutorial

materials study with notes

tree tutorial

water tutorial

tangents??

ocean painting

clouds tutorial

bubbles

painty background studies tips

peony tutorial

lakeside tutorial

quick flowers for the lazy

mistletoe vs holly

Perspective:

foreshortening coil technique

foreshortening tutorial

Webcomic:

medibang comic panel tutorial

how i make webcomics/webtoons

how to color comics

the art of lettering comics

comic/doujinshi paneling

in depth webcomic tutorial

Coloring:

The colorpicking problem

72 Color Combinations

How ViPOP uses color

Hair coloring tutorial by rosuuri

Gurochii moe quick eye tutorial

Anime eye tutorial

Mermaid tail tutorial

Grayscale to Color painting tutorial

chibi eye walkthrough

skin tone tutorial 1

curly hair tutorial

color palette

coloring tutorial

light, it gets everywhere

comfort color

skin coloring tutorial

holographic tutorial

dappled lighting effect

cute/bright coloring tutorial 

pattern trick

arcana character coloring tut

Expressions/ Meme / style:

small body language study

expressions reference

how to cute

Platonic cuddles meme

expression reference : nervous

flustered expression meme

drawing expressions tutorial/key

Pixel Art:

Pixel icon tutorial

Ice cream

Moving clouds tutorial

50x50 pixel doll tutorial

pixelin’s pixel process

pixel expression ref

pixel eye blinking tutorial

how to pixel liquids

Clothing / Accessories:

Shoes

Fancy color tip / ref

Chainmail

short reference

learn manga basic pleated skirt tutorial

learn manga basic frills

random clothing refs

chainmail brush

clothing ref masterpost

pinstripes tips

cloth texture tips

how to clothing folds

Misc:

Sketchfab 3d Models

Mikeymegamega on YT for anime/ecchi/etc

Gentei_sozai on twitter for chibi poses

S0zalsan on twitter for random poses

mecha basics

75 tutorials

Obvious art tips you might have forgotten

Mosaic effect

how to draw a cute chibi

fighting artblock

cute pikachu base

painting a face tutorial

volume commissions mini tutorial

arcana characters tutorial reference

notes from the “animators survival kit”

concept art tutorial

another art resource masterpost

MS paint tips and tricks

Reference table for drawing CONSISTENT faces

@hanari0716 on twitter for HELLA references

animation guide for beginners

Brushes:

Foliage brushes

cityscape brushes

ghibli brushes

clip studio paint assets

PS brush pack