what were we hoping for

just another secret les mis tumblr.

[barricadeur]

look, i can’t say for sure that the “lobster les miserables” snl sketch was john mulaney’s doing, but based on these photos from his wife’s instagram... i’m pretty confident.

[barricadeur]

John Mulaney is hosting SNL, and they just did a lobster-themed “Les Misérables” parody.... the world is a beautiful place.

[barricadeur]

The New York Times, May 18, 1938.

Never forget that Jews fleeing Hitler in 1938 were accused of being “so-called refugees” who “hate our institutions and want to overthrow them.” Never forget that security concerns about a secretive foreign “menace” are always used as a pretext to turn away vulnerable and desperate people deemed racially undesirable. Never forget.

[barricadeur]

This Western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it again but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers… This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle…. All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

[badspacebabies]

i need to make this post because we’re three hours away from the first polls closing in the united states federal election, and if i don’t do it now i’m just gonna start anxiety-chugging a bottle of pinot, so.

Some of you are already aware, but maybe some of you aren’t: my best friend, my soulbuddy, my sister from another mister, @reserve / Chloe has been working tirelessly (and holy fuck fuck fuck do i mean tirelessly) over the past month+ for the Clinton campaign. She’s been all over the country, met hundreds of people, learned a thousand new skills, and worked for extremely long hours making sure that Hillary and the rest of her team were able to have the most flawless, smooth, and effective public rallies, meet-and-greets, and private fundraisers possible.

She has sacrificed an immense amount of sleep, taken leave from her own job, and been separated from her husband, her sweet chubby slobbery dog, and her loved ones in nyc for weeks and weeks now—all so she could devote herself one-million-percent for a campaign and a presidential candidate she believes in, and not just because Hillary Clinton isn’t Donald Trump. Chloe first met the Clintons when she was a young girl, and she has always believed in Hillary’s progressivism, her true devotion to public service, and her iron-clad ability to continue to fight for what she believes is the best version of America. I know I’m not speaking out of turn when I say this has been a huge honor for Chloe to work so closely and so effectively for Clinton’s presidential campaign.

That being said, I would like you to join me in sending Chloe our support and congratulations, and our thanks—if you love her work, her blog, her support of fandom, her selfies, or literally anything she does, time to give her a shout-out and say “thank you!” and “we love you!”

Hey Chloe! No matter the result tonight, thank you for everything. It was an honor to cast my vote today for a woman, not just because of who Hillary Clinton is, but also maybe even more so because there are women like you who have worked so hard to support her. I’m so proud of you.

[barricadeur]

watching this election in paris and loving my friends, my candidate, my country deeply. <3

[et-in-arkadia]

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the unturning | les mis | enjolras/grantaire | canon-era, the barricades, first time, grief, angst, humor, mythology, sex, first time | rated e | 8k 

“Come, Grantaire, look not amazed: you who so often spoke of me as Achilles and Euryalus. Did you think I never heard?”

[barricadeur]

LOOK WHAT MY BEST GIRL DID

[red-patria]

I don’t see a difference

[girlbossjodiarias]

Alexander Hamilton's Google search history, continued.

how do I get un-banned from reddit how do I get un-banned from Fark is it incest if you sext your sister-in-law Dear prudence cheating AND political rivals was adam smith gay money scented lube Askamanager I called my boss daddy

[ruinedchildhood]

[eljido-deactivated20140202]

Nous dormirons ensemble

[abalem]

Que ce soit dimanche ou lundi Soir ou matin minuit midi Dans l’enfer ou le paradis Les amours aux amours ressemblent C’était hier que je t’ai dit Nous dormirons ensemble C’était hier et c’est demain Je n’ai plus que toi de chemin J’ai mis mon cœur entre tes mains Avec le tien comme il va l’amble Tout ce qu’il a de temps humain Nous dormirons ensemble Mon amour ce qui fut sera Le ciel est sur nous comme un drap J’ai refermé sur toi mes bras Et tant je t’aime que j’en tremble Aussi longtemps que tu voudras Nous dormirons ensemble. Louis Aragon

[typingtess]

[courcel]

Dear Mrs Woolf (That appears to be the suitable formula.) I regret that you have been in bed, though not with me—(a less suitable formula.)

Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf, 18 August 1933 (via courcel)

@aesriels

(via maelinoe)

[amorverde]

your mom is named mom…my mom is named mom… dude don’t freak out but i think we’re related

[exeggcute]

[marksmcmorris]

“I got this”

[adulthoodisokay]

Honestly, Canada, now you’re just rubbing it in our faces.

[barricadeur]

that feeling when you have thoughts about hamilton + 90s hip-hop culture in nyc (having grown up there yourself and written your thesis on it), but every brief glance at hamilton fandom on tumblr makes you think that it’s the only fandom even wankier than les mis.