24 - 30 November

An event where participants adapt scenes from the brick into a modern setting! This can be any medium, so long as what happens in the brick scene is reflected in it!

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 November on your calendars for

2024 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 November under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2024 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week! Our 2024 collection link can be found here for those uploading to AO3.

[secretmellowblog]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

For @brickrenouveautions 2024 I have created: a modern version of the awkward carriage ride scene. Finally, the awkwardness of Javert and Jean Valjean silently dragging a hackney coach driver into their relationship drama makes it to the modern day.

[brickrenouveautions]

Hello! I’m having trouble submitting to the 2024 Ao3 collection— it doesn’t show up when I search the collections, as I’m trying to post my little short fic to it. Do you know what might be causing that?

Hey! That sounds frustrating!

We didn't make the post this year, but this is actually a pretty common AO3 issue when trying to add to collections. Here's a guide from previous years (just swap out 2024 for 2020), but most people feel most comfortable posting directly to the collection (as pictured below) as a means of circumventing this problem.

Hope this helps!!! If this doesn't work, please reach out again, and we'll try to figure out another solution.

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 November on your calendars for

2024 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 November under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2024 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week! Our 2024 collection link can be found here for those uploading to AO3.

[brickrenouveautions]

Brick ReNouveauTions 2024 is now open!!!

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 November on your calendars for

2024 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 November under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2024 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week! Our 2024 collection link can be found here for those uploading to AO3.

[brickrenouveautions]

Hey all, this opens on Sunday!

[brickrenouveautions]

2023 Brick ReNouveauTions Master List

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in 2023, we saw some amazing works produced. I missed making a master list for last year's work despite many incredible submissions, please accept my apologies. If I missed any submissions from last year, please tag this blog or send a DM.

Without further ado!

1.7.5: Obstacles (Hindrances) by @thelawsofdaylight (AO3 quillsand) (fic) (ao3 link)

3.4.2: Blondeau can suck it (Blondeau’s Funeral Oration) by @grantaireapologist (AO3 a_freaking_lenon) (fic) (ao3 link)

3.8.22: (The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume 2) by @kittycattscathy (illustration)

4.12.8: (Several Interrogations Points Concerning One Le Cabuc, Who Perhaps Was Not Le Cabuc) by @alicedrawslesmis (illustration)

[brickrenouveautions]

Hello everyone!

Life was happening So Much that our usual Brick ReNouveauTions dates (final full week of September) passed us RIGHT by. As such, this year, Brick ReNouveauTions will be taking place the final full week of November (24-30 November 2024).

Keep an eye out for more information in the coming days, see you then!

[thelawsofdaylight]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

He had opted for the old bike in the garage over a car for one simple reason: he did not know how to drive. Getting a taxi may have been the next logical step forward, but none were available until three hours later. To wait until the taxi firms opened for business would have been to delay his decision, which would have been it's own decision. He had not come to a suitable conclusion about the whole Champmathieu affair; he didn't know where he was going or to what end. He would, in all likelihood, end up in Arras, for he felt compelled to travel in that direction, but what he would do when he got there was unknown to him. *** A modernisation of Les Miserables Volume 1, Book 7, Chapter 5, 'Hindrances': Jean Valjean travels to Arras but encounters many obstacles along the way- including a flat tyre, a horrendous traffic jam, and a broken down bus.

Ta-da! At long last and three years in the making, here is, finally, my modernised take on 1.7.5 for @brickrenouveautions. It's ever so slightly ridiculous and I now know the route from Montreuil-sur-mer to Arras like the back of my hand.

[kittycattscathy]

Les Misérables, 3.8.22

“Why, it’s the old lady,” said the lad. “Good day, Bougonmuche. I have come to see my ancestors.” The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:— “There’s no one here.” “Bah!” retorted the boy, “where’s my father?” “At La Force.” “Come, now! And my mother?” “At Saint-Lazare.” “Well! And my sisters?” “At the Madelonettes.” The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma’am Bougon, and said:— “Ah!”

At last, my contribution to @brickrenouveautions

[alicedrawslesmis]

trying something different for the brick renouveautions because they said modern but they didn't say HOW modern

[alicedrawslesmis]

OHOHOHO look at that with all the other layers accidentally taken out

[alicedrawslesmis]

"The tragic picture we have begun would not be complete, [...] if we were to omit in the outline sketched here an incident full of epic and savage horror"

"Enjolras did not take his eyes off his watch; he let the minute pass, then he put his watch back into his fob. This done, he took Le Cabuc, who was writhing against his knees and howling, by the hair, and placed the muzzle of his pistol at his ear. Many of those intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of enterprises, looked away. They heard the explosion".

Les Miserables, 4.12.8: Several Interrogations Points Concerning One Le Cabuc, Who Perhaps Was Not Le Cabuc (FMA transl.)

for @brickrenouveautions

[grantaireapologist]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

ohhh what's this? 👀👀👀

well well well if it isn't a retelling of 'Blondeau's Funeral Oration' (3.4.2) in a modern setting

@brickrenouveautions

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 September on your calendars for

2023 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, and 2022 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 September under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2023 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week!

[brickrenouveautions]

One more week until this event opens!!!

If uploading to AO3: Please upload to the 2023 Brick ReNouveauTions collection!

If uploading to tumblr: Please tag this blog.

Happy creating!!!

[brickrenouveautions]

2023 Brick ReNouveauTions is now officially opened.

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 September on your calendars for

2023 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, and 2022 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 September under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2023 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week!

[brickrenouveautions]

One more week until this event opens!!!

If uploading to AO3: Please upload to the 2023 Brick ReNouveauTions collection!

If uploading to tumblr: Please tag this blog.

Happy creating!!!

[brickrenouveautions]

Mark 24 - 30 September on your calendars for

2023 Brick Renouveautions!

Pick one scene from The Brick to recreate a modern version of! This can be a fic, art, video, or anything else you think of! We had some fantastic submissions in 2020, 2021, and 2022 that you should absolutely check out when you get a chance!

There are no sign-ups required, but if you intend on participating it is requested you claim the scene you want on this Google Spreadsheet or PM @brickrenouveautions to update the doc with your intended scene. This is not required to participate, but it will go a long way in avoiding too many duplicate scenes! Instructions on how to claim a scene can be found here.

To summarize:

Participants will modernize one scene from the brick

Anyone can participate, and sign-ups are not mandatory (but encouraged!)

Modernizations can be in any format the creator sees fit

Works should be uploaded 24 - 30 September under the tag #Brick ReNouveauTions (not case-sensitive) or #2023 Brick ReNouveauTions (or you can simply tag this blog), and they’ll be reblogged here throughout the week!

[brickrenouveautions]

2022 Brick ReNouveauTions Master List

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in 2022, we saw some amazing works produced. I somehow missed than I never made a master list for last year's work despite (and perhaps because of) some incredible submissions, please accept my sincerest apologies. If I missed any submissions from last year, please tag this blog or send a DM.

Without further ado!

1.1.1: Un Juste (A Just Man) by @shitpostingfromthebarricade (fic) (ao3 link)

1.5.6: (Father Fauchelevent) by @nopeemi (illustration)

3.1.5: (The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist) by @graciemakescomics (illustration)

3.4.2: Never Leave Bossuet Alone in a Chatroom (Ever) (Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet) by @zeldainhiding (fic) (ao3 link)

4.12.2: (Preliminary Gayeties) by @quiteexoteric (illustration)

[zeldainhiding]

Never Leave Bossuet Alone in a Chatroom (Ever)

summary: A short, chaotic, and very very stupid retelling of Les Mis Volume 3.4.2 (Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet). Told via texts, because fuck it.

genre: comedy, found family, general cuteness

wc: 3.7k

characters: mostly bossuet and marius, significant cameos from courf and grantaire

read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41729787

for @brickrenouveations