Caspian (Sirius’s version)

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[caspianloveslesmis]

happy barricade day!!!!

guess who finally remembered his password just for the occasion.

[dis-astre]

since it's almost barricades days and i've seen new people joining our fandom, i would like to list u all some very nice adaptations i really like that u can watch (and that are better alternatives than the bbc adaptation) (and i included links!!!!!):

what to watch ?

- i feel like this is a classic, but the 2012 movie adaptation by tom hopper, obviously. while it's not the best adaptation, it is still really good (also i feel like it made a lot of us join the fandom in the first place)

- also pretty obvious but the west end musical by claude-michel schönberg and alain boublil (i'm pretty sure u can find decent bootleg on yt) + honorable mention for the 25th anniversary concert but i feel like u need to know a bit about the musical before seeing the concert

- a personal favourite, the 1982 french movie by robert hossein, it is three hours long tho, but it's worth it; the adaptation is really good, especially the portrayal of Les Amis (here's the yt link to the whole movie)

- shojo Cosette is also pretty decent, tho i've only watched the episodes with Les Amis (the barricades are heartbreaking just like we love)

- it's really obscure but the silent short film l'enfant sur la barricade (the child on the barricade) by Alice Guy. the sources diverge from whether it's an adaptation of les mis or an adaptation of a poem hugo wrote called "sur une barricade" and taking place during the commune of paris but the character could be inspired by gavroche

- Les Amis webserie, that u can find on yt, or here :

Les Amis Web Series

Les Amis is a web series that puts the characters from Victor Hugo's Les Miserable onto a modern college campus. A documentary film club st

it's a web serie made by fans for fans and it's amazing

- All That's Left Of Us, another web serie made by and for fans. it's beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking. u can find it on youtube or here:

and on the overall anything that eli southern does about les mis is pretty amazing so i encourage u all to go check @thecandlesticksfromlesmis

(although i feel like u need to know a bit about the fandom before jumping right into the webseries)

- and obviously, The Brick, the original masterpiece that is Les Miserables by victor hugo; if u have the courage i promise that it's worth it

annnnd that's all ! at least for my favourite one, but there are a looooot of different adaptations for every taste i guess ! anyway have fun and take care of y'all during barricades days !

[jiubilee]

The real tragedy about the barricade is that we don’t know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because we’ll never know. 

[enjolras-in-valinor]

Charles Jeanne (who I think is probably actual real life Enjolras) wrote an in-detail account of the ACTUAL barricades in a letter to his sister after the fact

you can read it, tenlittlebullets translated it into English :)

it’s really graphic, he leaves no gory details out, just FYI if you’re gonna read it, keep TW: VIOLENCE  in mind

[tenlittlebullets]

#how is he real-life enjolras if he survived (via metellus-cimber)

I’m so glad somebody asked this, because the answer is: when they finally ran out of ammunition, Charles Jeanne rounded up everyone who was still standing, went, “look, if we’re going to die, we might as well die fighting,” and led a suicidal ten-man charge against an entire flippin’ infantry column, armed with nothing but bayonets. The first few ranks of soldiers were so unprepared for such a spectacularly insane attack that they were too surprised to shoot. They crossed bayonets and tried to hold the insurgents off in hand-to-hand combat, but Jeanne’s swordsmanship was apparently aces, because he held off a bunch of them at once and covered his friends as they tried to breach the ranks. And once they were in, nobody could shoot them for fear of taking out their own guys.

So the last stand that the insurgents had intended as a noble suicide ended in them breaking through the ranks entirely and winding up in the next street over, outside the combat zone, going “well shit, what do we do now?” (I’m guessing the infantry column wasn’t very deep; central Paris at that point was a rabbit warren of narrow twisty streets, and assembling troops en masse for an organized attack was a logistical nightmare.) Unlike the National Guard, the army weren’t total chumps and got themselves turned around to give chase and start shooting once they weren’t at risk of friendly fire any longer… and that’s when all the civilians holed up in their houses went “no way, you’re not getting your hands on these crazy bastards” and started hurling furniture and crockery down on the soldiers’ heads. Jeanne was understandably distracted at the time, but afterwards somebody informed him that the barrage of unlikely projectiles included a piano. A piano. That is some straight-up Looney Tunes slapstick right there. No wonder Hugo went for the heroic death scene instead; if he’d stuck to real life, he probably would’ve gotten complaints that he’d wrecked his readers’ suspension of disbelief.

Anyway, someone opened an alley gate for them to shelter in and take stock of the casualties–most of them survived(!!!), but a few were pretty nastily wounded. Their host then had to lock Charles Jeanne in to keep him from charging right back out and taking on the whole goddamn army singlehanded. He probably would’ve broken down the door if the poor man hadn’t pointed out that going back out would give away his wounded comrades’ hiding place and the identities of the people sheltering them. They sat there listening to the gunfire gradually slow and go silent, and then in the middle of the night the ones who could still walk were allowed to slip away one by one at long intervals from each other. Charles Jeanne went straight home, slept like the dead for a few hours, was woken up at five in the morning with a warning that he’d been denounced and the building was surrounded, and then slipped out in disguise and managed to evade the police for four months before a former comrade ratted him out and he was arrested.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Charles Jeanne’s letter is an absolute treasure that deserves to be available to anyone in Les Mis fandom who wants to read it. Incidentally, “how Actual Historical Enjolras survived the barricades by being too good at his suicide mission” is also one of the stories I tell when anyone asks me what the hell is so interesting about researching people nobody’s ever heard of from an obscure chapter of French history. 

[tenlittlebullets]

Bringing this back for Barricade Day! To answer a few questions that keep coming up in the reblogs: here’s my translation of Jeanne’s letter, which was my main source. Jeanne stood trial, was imprisoned instead of executed (because can you imagine what a martyr he would’ve made), and died of tuberculosis just a few years later. Despite his improbable survival story, the RL June Rebellion was not an everybody-lives AU–like the revolt in Les Mis, it ended in a hard-fought retreat into one of the buildings on the street, followed by a massacre. The guys who led a suicide charge and accidentally won were, unfortunately, the exception.

[bloodenjoyer]

liberté égalité bicuriosité

[podcastwizard]

how could this post be from two days ago when it is so clearly something i would have written under tasteful fanart of enjolras and grantaire going at it circa 2015

[lost-wandering-historian]

It's that time of the year again! Remember to leave out bread and absinthe for Victor Hugo and he will leave you 50 pages on a subject that is off-topic but that he is vaguely interested in. Be safe out there!

[caspianloveslesmis]

IN HONOUR OF BARRICADE DAY, A DISCOVERY

oh my god ok so ITS BARRICADE DAY (THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REBELLION ON WHICH A LOT OF LES MIS IS BASED, LIKE VICKY HUGEHOE MADE UP A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS AND STUCK THEM IN THE STUDENT UPRISING OF 1832 WHICH HAPPENED ON THE FIFTH AND SIXTH OF JUNE) SO IM CONSUMING NOTHING BUT LES MIS CONTENT TODAY WHICH HAS BEEN THE TRADITION FOR LIKE TEN YEARS FOR ME AND LIKE 191 YEARS FOR EVERYONE ELSE AND SO I WAS READING THIS NEWSPAPER FROM 1832 TALKING ABOUT THE REBELLION i was reading a newspaper about the rebellion and the paper was from 1832 and jesus, mary, joseph, and the cow you are not going to believe what i found, I THINK I MIGHT HAVE DISCOVERED THE INSPIRATION FOR GRANTAIRE????? OK SO. i m m e d i a t e l y after the article about the rebellion was this little mini-story abt this motherfucker:

LIKE PARDON????? OK BC AND LIKE ITS UNLIKELY BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT THAT FUCKING GUY THAT MOTHERFUCKER MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE INSPIRATION FOR GRANTAIRE?? BC LIKE. BEING IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR, ASSUMED TO BE DEAD, ONLY AT THE VERY LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT WAKING UP A N D DECLARING THAT HE'D NEVER GET DRUNK AGAIN BC 1 HE WAS GNA DIE WITH ENJOLRAS AND 2 HIS DRUNKENNESS WAS A METAPHOR FOR WHY HE WASNT LIKE NOBLE AND SHIT AND HIS CYNICISM BUT ENJYBABY TURNED HIM INTO A BELIEVER??? normalize believing very very very unlikely things bc it's funny shhh

[caspianloveslesmis]

I ship Merthur to an inordinate degree. I wholeheartedly believe that they were meant for each other, yet whenever I’m reading fics about them and they actually get together, it feels wrong and I don’t like it. I think I might have figured out why. Merlin and Arthur loved each other, of course they did, but it was more than that. It was more than master/servant, more than friends, more than lovers, more than brothers. More than soulmates. In a way, I think it was all of it, all at once. Merlin loved Arthur in every way that it is possible for one person to love another, and more. The same was true for Arthur. They can’t be just lovers because that’s only a fraction of what they are to each other. Plus, I love Arthur and Merlin’s characters exactly how they are and neither of them would realistically do or say any of the stuff they do and say in the fluffier fics (or at least that’s not how I interpreted their characters). Arthur’s love for Merlin was boundless, but the most he could actually bring himself to express was general. It was what Merlin was, not what merlin was to him. You’re a loyal friend, a very good servant, very brave, incredibly loyal, not at all cowardly. Same with Merlin. You’ll be a great king, you’re special, there’ll never be another like you. Very very rarely do they actually express what they are to each other, and it’s with extreme difficulty that they say things that most people could say without a second thought. You’re the only friend I have and I couldn’t bear to lose you. Because you’re my friend and I don’t want to lose you. I thought I knew you. I don’t want you to change. I want you to always be you. So fics where Arthur is saying “I love you so much, you mean the world to me, etc” just don’t feel right. Almost cheapens it, for me anyway. Lmk if its just me lol

[mxstxcwxsdxm]

TW: unsafe chest binding

transmasc enj, for barricade day <3

[midasinc]

happy barricade day to bahorel. they oppressed ur enthusiasm in the musical and i wont stand for it

[bunvert]

bonus relatable laura tiktok for barricade day ofc

[enjolraspdf]

AT NOTRE DAME THE SECTIONS ARE PREPARED AT RUE DE BAC THEY'RE STRAINING AT THE LEASH STUDENTS WORKERS EVERYONE THERE'S A RIVER ON THE RUN LIKE THE FLOWING OF THE TIDE PARIS COMING TO OUR SIDE

[carphoegras]

barricade day reminder that bahorel has the fattest ass

[godpilot]

barricade day tomorrow yay the gay french revolutionaries are dead

[caspianloveslesmis]

us celebrating this has the same vibes as christians celebrating easter. what is going on.

[absolutedestinyapocalypsse]

Formal reminder that les amis were communists. they opposed the monarchy because first and foremost they saw peasants suffering under harsh taxation and wealth inequality so great they could barely survive while members and friends of the monarchy lived in golden palaces and were doing nothing to stop it.

I love drawing the gay people and talking about barricade day every year and I think victor hugo would have wanted his book to be celebrated on that front absolutely, but don't forget what it stood for originally. Keep it alive with your actions in the real world, where people in the united states suffer from a wealth inequality equivalent to that before the french revolution, and where internationally the state of civil rights and workers rights are constantly being threatened. Use it to empower you; even though the June rebellion failed, it stoked the fires of revolution and were it not for the real june rebellion, the French Revolution would not have succeeded. Use it to inspire you to keep going, even when things seem hopeless.

In the words of Hugo (heavily cut down because that man could not be concise to save his life) "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

Happy Barricade Day!!!

[caspianloveslesmis]

all of this and also maybe dont put a fucking crown on a starving peasant child's head and celebrate the monarchy about it please im begging you I cant breathe

[othernonsense]

It is once again that time of the year.

[caspianloveslesmis]

literally putting my person through actual hell today and they're being a very good sport

[enjolraspdf]

190 slutty, slutty years

[whourfeyrac]

rip victor hugo i just know you would’ve loved to see how we’ve turned ur french revolutionary students into a bunch of gay sluts