all my babes keep dying :c

the blood of angry men > soul on fire

[rentzilly]

tag yourself i’m corn for rock

[babe-for-broadway]

i think you forgot grand hair

[foolishly-fond]

This cast is a gift

Happy Pride in London everyone 🏳️‍🌈

[babe-for-broadway]

wow does the world know about my endless love for emmet forrest? no? well my love for emmet forrest is endles

[sortamusicals]

this is so sad alexa play a little fall of rain

[whensunscollide]

Courfeyrac: What’s the gayest thing you’ve ever done?

Grantaire: Your leader.

[yoroshikus]

reblog if you love emmett forrest

[musicalcrocodile]

mom shut up im not obsessed with christian borle can’t you see THAT I’M IN LOVE, YOU CAN’T SAY NO TO A WOMAN IN LOVEEEE

[wow-very-emo-such-bands]

Grantaire: *talking badly about himself*

Enjolras: Hey! That‘s my husband you‘re talking about!

[striders]

fellas, is it gay to push your way through a firing squad to hold a dudes hand so you can die together?

[manapegged]

Only if one of you has a flag

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

favorite parts of the brick that weren’t in the musical

• jean and jeanne having a kid named jean valjean

• valjean stealing an incredibly minor amount of money from a kid right after being released from prison

• valjean becoming a gardener

• valjean being hidden in a coffin

• the amount of times victor hugo pretends valjean isn’t valjean

• victor hugo discussing how puns are in fact very serious

• bahorel first meeting marius like “hi, thanks for getting me out of law school”

• marius having no money and then sending back the money his grandfather have him so he can freeload off courfeyrac

• bahorel giving joly love advice by telling him to buy new pants

• marius, praising napoleon: “what could be better than having such an emperor?” combeferre: “to be free”

• marius obsessing over the handkerchief he thinks is cosette’s but it turns out to be valjean’s

• grantaire trying to impress enjolras by wearing a robespierre waistcoat (why does he even own that?)

• marius banging his head against a tree for two hours when he learns that cosette is going to england

• marius refusing to go outside in the day wearing anything but black

• anything with marius tbh

• bousset: “enjolras doesn’t even have a girlfriend” enjolras: “excuse you i have france”

[enjolrassuggestions]

tips for revolution:

• know what you’re fighting for

• fight to protect the people

• barricades? always a yes

• yelling helps

• singing loudly is even better

• make sure to be yourself and have a revolutionary time

[alto-angel]

a concept

les mis 2012 having the “do you permit it” scene and how perfect it would be with aaron and george

if only it wasn’t too late

[enjolrassuggestions]

“revolution isn’t always the answer” you’re right! sometimes revolution is the question and the answer is yes

[deanesque-deactivated20180507]

🔥heather mac

I’m always super vocal about my hatred of the fandom’s woobified redeemed mac characterization, so I’ll move onto something y’all are REALLY gonna hate:

I don’t think Mac was suicidal! She’s a follower, she calmly explains on the phone to the radio show host (a show she knows Duke and Veronica hang out and listen to, to make sure they know what she’s doing) that she’s failing math, she doesn’t think she’ll make it to Head Cheerleader, “her parents are divorced and stuff”, normal teen stress, and she’s looking around at the popular kids she’s based her ENTIRE popularity on copying, seeing them killing themselves to cope with their problems, and decides she needs to do the same. She’s not super emotional about it, even when actually doing it. The most emotion we see is her getting frustrated with the childproof caps. Ofc this isnt true in the musical, she’s super emotional, but y’all know I think the musical wrote mac and duke super ooc. The official description of the movie is LITERALLY about suicide becoming a trend because of Chandler’s suicide, and in order for that to be true there has to be evidence of it within the movie, right? Kurt and Ram don’t count, theirs were faked. So Mac and Martha’s attempts are the instances of kids following the new hot fad that we’re given. You could even take the fact that neither of their suicides, suicides which were mostly about them just following the popular kids’ leads, are successful and correlate some meaning there. Martha has more reasoning behind her suicide, probably has experienced depression and considered it before, which is why she is closer to success, but at the end of the day she’s still doing it out of inspiration from the first three.

[meetyourmarker]

A word

It’s really important that theatre teens who are just now coming into fandoms like Falsettos and Rent understand how important it is to not popularize AUs where the character(s) who died of AIDS are still alive and all is well. No, that character really did die of AIDS and you’re right, it wasn’t fair. Yes, their families and friendships really did suffer from it. Yes, it was painful. But even though these facts make you sad or uncomfortable, the purpose of these musicals was to bring a reality check to everyone who was denying them.

The AIDS crisis was an epidemic that occurred right in front of millions of Americans, most of whom turned their head and wanted to pretend it didn’t exist because of who it was affecting. In their eyes, this was gay men (the fact that straight men and women also got this disease seemed to slip their mind, I guess). These shows like Rent and Falsettos forced them to look at reality and see the pain of every person who had to watch their friend, family member, or lover die in their arms while nobody was doing shit about it.

I love fun AUs and ideas just as much as the next person, but please, please don’t let the message of these shows deteriorate underneath a shiny fix-it bandaid alternate universe. The AIDS crisis wasn’t as long ago as it may seem, people still struggle with this disease, and back in the times of these shows, it was a death sentence. Intense homophobia still exists. There are people in power who, given another chance today, still wouldn’t have done shit about the AIDS crisis.

Please understand the power of what you do when you overlook the message of these shows. America denied everything in the shows like Rent and Falsettos for years, so please try your hardest to not become a person who shares their mindset. Please don’t look away from the stories of the LGBTQ+ community that the rest of the world didn’t care about.

[betterbrighterbecki]

I really appreciate this post, as I think the Falsettos and Rent fandoms often need reminders that ‘uwu my little gaybies died” and “AIDS THE MUSICAL” aren’t okay and that AIDs was and is a major problem for the LGBT+ community. 

Rent, as some people might not know, was the first time that someone suggested the very idea that there is a life outside of disease. That your life doesn’t end with a diagnosis. People told Larson (the writer) that he was insane and ridiculous and it would never make it to Broadway.

The AIDs crisis is one of the most serious things in the world. That said, there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with fix-it aus. I think that they’re a sign of hope- that one day, the Angels and Whizzers won’t die. When you see yourself in fiction, you don’t want to see that character die. I think, when done correctly, these AUs can be a testament to the sort of people that people can become, if given the chance. 

In the 80s and 90s, the government didn’t give a fuck about people with AIDs and sort of ignored the problem. That’s twenty years that could have given government funding to finding a cure.

I see ‘fix it aus’ (like I said, when done correctly), as a tribute to those who couldn’t be ‘fixed. It’s rare to find gay musical theatre where the LGBT people survive. Until more people create that theatre, there’s very little wrong with reviving your gays (as opposed to burying your gays).

[a-maniac-and-a-queen]

Love is a fault; so be it.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Volume I, Book III, Chapter III (via a-maniac-and-a-queen)

[enjolrassuggestions]

sometimes a family is a group of french student revolutionaries who are set on overthrowing the government