[antigonehappy]

he's a pacifist. he brings guns to a funeral. he's passionate about education. he forgets about his own mother. he's studying to become a doctor. he can give an epic one-line takedown of an opponent's argument. he gives expression to revolution's natural right. in history he would've been known as the wise man. he goes up to his friend during a battle to talk ethical dilemmas. he's "selfish". he can draw a moth from memory. he tries to rescue an enemy soldier. he corrects the dictionary for fun. combeferre lesmisérables, everyone.

[pealeii]

of course you would say that vicky

[aaronstveit]

les mis fanon ignoring how much of a grade A Hater jean valjean is breaks my heart… bro wasn’t kind because it was easy he was kind because it was hard. he spared javert’s life DESPITE hating him. he carried marius through the sewers DESPITE hating him. the only person he actually loved was cosette, everyone else was neutral at best to him. that’s what makes him compelling: how much he struggles to do the right thing despite his natural disposition toward haterism. canon jean valjean you will always be famous 2 me.

[secretmellowblog]

I love how the “Year 1817” chapter opens by repeating that it is 1817 three times. Just to make completely Sure you know it’s 1817. It’s the most 1817 to ever 1817

[lizagranger128]

Guys, we’re less than 600 views to 1mill. What are we doing to celebrate when it hits that?? Maybe George Blagden gives us a Spotify recording 😫

[aarontveit]

AARON TVEIT as ENJOLRAS LES MISERABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

[nortism]

éponine in fanfiction is so often portrayed as quiet and brooding while éponine in the brick is a professional yapper, you cannot shut the girl up. she’ll be talking one hundred miles an hour while marius stands there like 🧍

[isolarya]

an enjolras who has seen and experienced the worst parts of humanity but chooses to have hope anyway not because he is naive but because he has seen the best parts as well

[bam-bo0zle]

and here we have comically stretched marius pontmercy

[greywhistles]

eponine died before she got to come out as a lesbian 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[hater-era]

in all timelines, in all possibilities, only you

[jbm-week]

JBM WEEK 2025

HELLO FRIENDS :D

I keep forgetting to get this out there, but the dates for this year’s JBM week will be April 28 - May 4!

More information to follow soon!! I just want to get the dates out before it suddenly becomes April and I’ve forgotten!

[lesbian-thesbian]

they are just the sweetest ever

🎥 @medium-observation

@thesonneting

[l832]

yeah combeferre likes moths and rocks. he also likes medicine and anatomy. the way light moves and the fixing of images. the railroad. protosocialist movements. firearms. And. he likes enjolras

[thisfeebleheart]

He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: "Do you permit it?" Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

[secretmellowblog]

Adaptations always make Jean Valjean the main POV character of Les Mis, but that’s not true in the novel! The novel has a genuinely fascinating narrative structure where we spend most of our time with other POV characters, viewing Jean Valjean “from the outside.” To explain—-

The general structure of Les Mis is that

We meet a new character and learn about their daily life, personality, and backstory

Then we see this character meet Jean Valjean, always under a different false identity and alias. We see how the new character interacts with Valjean and how both of them are changed by the encounter.

Smash cut to Jean Valjean’s Pov as he has an emotional breakdown about whatever happened

We meet another character and learn about their life and backstory —

Rinse and repeat!

The novel begins by introducing us to the life and backstory of Bishop Myriel, and then we see Myriel meet Jean Valjean. After that we meet the grisette Fantine and learn about her abandonment, and then we see her meet “Mayor Madeleine.” After that we meet Cosette suffering under the Thenardiers, and then we see her encounter a mysterious “Threadbare Millionaire. Then we meet Marius all absorbed in his love for a girl, then we see him encounter her strange father “Monsieur LeBlanc.” Etc etc etc

So we get this really interesting structure where Jean Valjean IS the closest thing the novel has to a “main character”— But we also spend most of the story viewing him from the outside, through the eyes of other people.

[leonardcohenofficial]

today in things that would make fandom more bearable if people understood that words mean things: i am begging people to learn the difference between queer coding and reading media through a queer lens (i would also add in disidentification as described by muñoz but we can add that nuance once we get a handle on the difference between the first two) because while not mutually exclusive the former is a storytelling technique that requires deliberation and intentionality on the part of a creator and the other is a critical lens through which you can examine and analyze a work