let us endeavor to tell.

"I only understand love and liberty" // a Les Mis sideblog: lots of valvert, meta, and me yelling about my feelings // mainblog @transfemmbeatrice // icon by @muiromem

[lizardco1827]

More art of my favorite Parisian police inspector

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

my 2 favourite reviews of the brick from the past month

somehow makes it sound like this 1,400-page epic historical novel is a bland self-help book ("practical"?)

honestly, contender for funniest sentence of all time: "it feels as though the author has no definite opinion on politics, religion, or even the central plot of the story."

VICTOR HUGO???

NO OPINION?

bonus runner-up, because i like how it makes it sound like javert is the one droning on about the sewers:

[korliguess]

Likely thing for him to do

[bogusbyron-arthall]

Commission for @cannibal-squirrel. Thank you so much!

[imadetheline]

guy who's only experienced real life watching les mis for the first time: wow this is really timely and has many real-world connections and applications

[eventhedarkestnightwillend18]

started putting my doodles in an actual notebook (yes it's not a sketchbook shhhhhg it's ok) and redid a few of the old ones; here's the first page :D

"the IRS" is my pen name for comics; it's from an old inside joke about taxes (don't worry about it)

disclaimer: some of the words/captions in these were inspired by memes/posts, but I fear I don't remember the sources; credits to the OPs of those ofc

[piierogis]

[piierogis]

Who is pictured on this Les Miserables cover art?

Fantine (wrong hair color as usual)

Jean Valjean (red prison shirt)

Javert (in his pyjamas)

Marius(' new coat with Marius inside it)

Enjolras (red and black)

Cosette (let a girl have some fun)

Eponine (these are rags)

Victor Hugo (yassified)

Gillenormand (that's just how he looks)

Bishop Myriel (that's his misspent youth)

Someone else?

Voting ended onFeb 1

[aaronstveit]

today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

[pylades-drunk]

this is probably so nit-picky and annoying, but whenever someone calls javert a bad cop it makes me go a little bit insane. it completely undermines his character and his entire reason in the story. he is the perfect cop, and that is why he is a bad person.

he is ruthless and cruel. he thinks entirely in black and white and follows the letter of the law like it is gospel. in the book he is our conduit into the justice system, he is it’s face and its name. he is the law personified. shaped and moulded into the perfect blank slate, being fed information and believing it blindly, doing exactly as he’s told without question. he is exactly what the system was made to create.

by calling him a bad cop it removes the very purposeful intent behind his character. it makes it seem as though the systematic violence and oppression which he enforces, and the ways in which he enforces it, are personal choices - even mistakes. when in reality they are the actions of a completely unjust governmental system, working as it is intended to.

"bad cops" are not made by personal choice, they are moulded and formed by the system to have no mercy or kindness. the worst people make the best cops, because cops were never meant to uphold societal niceties.

[secretmellowblog]

Okay but the moment after Jean Valjean sets Javert free, and Javert unconsciously begins referring to him with the formal “you” indicating respecting rather than the “informal” you he’d used before, but without Javert himself realizing it or recognizing the change…. Homosexual behavior.

[piierogis]

any post seine fic when Valjean tries to mope himself to death

[cccchestnuts-blog]

I'm sorry

[bam-bo0zle]

My Very Own Leather Man <3

[television-bodies]

reject modernity (enjolras actors in any way acknowledging enjoltaire) embrace tradition (“I remember thinking of talking to Aaron about the subject as we started filming, and as I was about to talk to him he was interrupted by someone else, and then suddenly I understood. That was the perfect example of what the dynamic between us should be. And I realised that actually NOT talking to Aaron about it at all was the perfect way to create that subtextual thing between Grantaire and Enjolras. And actually, I didn’t talk to anyone about it. Not even Tom. I just kept it a secret and thought that if people can read into it, great, and if people don’t notice it, that’s also fine because it’s not the main focus of the student plot. I still don’t know to this day if Aaron even knows about the whole E/R relationship, but it doesn’t matter, because I don’t think Enjolras should.”)

[tales-from-the-abbey]

Favorite character from Les Misérables

Marius

Valjean

Fantine

Enjolras

Javert

Eponine

Cosette

Gavroche

Grantaire

Bishop Myriel

Other

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Voting ended onJan 10

Yes it is about the book

[lesmiserabelles]

i love that the past years of beggars at the feast line changes have created a narrative starting with 'thenardier is homophobic' to 'thenardier has given it some thought, realised some things about himself and is now bicurious' to the current 'thenardier has finally given gay sex a go'. and the thing is that literally nobody asked for this to happen

[lesmiserabelles]

speaking of things that literally nobody asked for... i do think the best way to experience this journey is to hear it for yourself. so, presenting, the evolution of bisexual icon thenardier:

1. the classic

as a reminder, here is the line as it originally stood. this is from the live recording of the all-star staged concert, where it was still in place:

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transcript: here comes a prince / there goes a jew / this one's a queer / but what can you do?

2. the quiche

enter the staged concert of 2021. there had clearly been a behind-the-scenes conversation that went along the lines of 'this line is problematic, we must update it for a modern audience'. and this was the baffling result:

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transcript: here comes a prince / he's nouveau riche / this one looks queer / i bet he likes quiche

3. the bicuriosity

quiche made it over to the west end revival and stuck around for a couple of years, but by mid 2023, thenardier had done some personal reflection:

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transcript: here comes a prince / there goes a jew / this one looks queer / i might try that too

4. the bicuriosity: part 2

by early 2024, thenardier is actively seeking new experiences:

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transcript: here comes a prince / there goes a lord / i'll keep him in mind / in case i get bored

5. diversity win!

which leads us to the current line in which we have a thenardier who is out and proud

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transcript: here comes a prince / mais entre nous / this one's a queer / and i've tried that too

anyway, i can't wait to see where this story takes us next! i'm holding out hope for turnchetta finally going canon

[j4v4r10]

Diversity Win! The Criminal Who Snuck Into Your Wedding Is Bi!