R

He/they || Big fan of musicals and art!! ||

[halfamournin]

WIP

Noli me tangere/el filibusterismo fandom are you guys alive

[bagolllll]

ref study & les mis doodles :3

[nexttohisteeth]

that exr post about them making Meaningful Eye Contact™

[halfamournin]

I remember rushing to finish this a few weeks ago bcs i was getting insane fomo bcs i was late to barricade day LMAO

[spongyllama]

Final Moments @valvertweek

Oil paintings based off photos of Nick Rehberger and Nick Cartell from the North American Tour souvenir program (photos and details below the cut) which I got at the show this month

really just needed an excuse to paint my two favorite characters (Javert's wig and the silver candlesticks)

No but I'm utterly taken with the contrasting imagery: the dark cool tones as Javert deliberates drowning, cold, alone, and afraid; and the warm heavenly light surrounding Valjean as he prepares to be embraced by God. And the fact that each photo has two lights, but Javert is facing away from the light and Valjean looking toward it.

tbh it's an utter coincidence that my motivation to paint these lined up with Valvert week but I'm glad they did because it gave me a healthy deadline to actually finish them instead of letting them sit in WIP hell with my 24,601 other projects

but God you would not believe how hard it is to photograph a wet god damn oil painting where half of it is matte and half of it is shiny because you may have finished it but you can't actually FINISH IT (i.e. varnishing) for like 3 months

anyway here are the references and some WIPs and various stuff; as you can see I opted for Javert's whiskers (my third favorite character) over Nick Rehberger's lovely beard (so don't look too closely at his mouth and chin, I don't want to talk about it), and I gave Valjean a hint of white in his own beard (only a hint because I've gotten a lot better at color theory but once you put oil paint down it's not always the easiest thing to color correct if you mess up...)

^you see, earth pigments like browns dry very matte and flat until you reshinify them, and it just ends up being patchy and varnishing fixes all that but I can’t varnish any time soon so I had to dab oil all over the thing which could lead to yellowing in a few years but whatever I gotta get that tumblr clout after all

[starlesscastellation]

I'm back in the building. ignore all the places in which it is bad.

[lesmis-animated]

Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk [Animatic]

“Long live the Republic! I am one of them.”

Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man.

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.

Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed.

Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt.”

- ‘Les Miserables’ (Victor Hugo) : Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 23 [‘Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk’]

This animatic was created as part of my honours year at university studying Animation! I specialised in Storyboarding, and wanted to board this scene as practice. Creative liberties were taken for the sake of dramatisation, such as there being more bodies in the actual cafe than there probably was then. Either way I hope people enjoy this

Happy (maybe not) Barricade fall day.

[luchigeon]

expectations

[halfamournin]

Tumblr is truly an amazing place for people with niche interests like, oh you think your entire fandom only fits in a schoolbus??? Get on tumblr and the bus is driving you to a stadium packed with fans

[proletenpassion]

forget-me-nots

@barricadeday

[bearmoon41]

What tattoos I think Les Amis would have:

Combeferre: Just a couple of nerdy ones. Primarily some birds he likes and references from his favorite books (maybe a quote?)

Courfeyrac: None on his arms, his mom told him it would ruin his career prospects and he just internalized that. But his legs? Oh his legs are covered with stick-n-poke tattoos (most of them were done by Jehan). And he probably has a Pokémon tattoo. Lots of colours.

Enjolras: Only Black. No colours. All of them are on his arms. Most are famous leftist imagery(i.e. Cherries in reference to Le temps des cerises, a black cat, etc.) And he has "La liberté ou la mort” tattooed on his rib.

Bossuet: Now, this is a man who has a rose tattooed on his hand. I don’t make the rules. He probably also has some Roman numbers in the back of his neck that aged very badly. Classic stuff.

Joly: zero tattoo. This guy does NOT trust the hygiene practices of tattoo artists. Especially not drunk Jehan and his stick n pokes.

Grantaire: Obviously, the man, the legend. Everyone loves giving R tattoos in modern AU. Me included. His arms are covered with them. Entirely in a patchwork style. And he also has a couple on his legs from Jehan. Most importantly, he’d have barbed wires tattooed over his top surgery scars.

Feuilly: He would have a sleeve in a traditional style. And maybe a big piece on his leg. A tiny stick n poke on his ankle.

Jehan: Most of their tattoos are in an illustrative style. There’s a lot of flowers, animals, but also some abstract stuff. Loves being their own canvas and has lots of stick n poke tattoos.

Bahorel: Has a cool Lion on his calf and some word in Latin on his forearm.

[anastheseus]

dragon sickness

[nexttohisteeth]

Omg hello help i just realised that ur piece with tattoo and eyeliner grantaire actually inspired me a lot in making my modern era grantaire !!! ^^'

ARE U KIDDING!!!! oh my god i am so honoured my sad wet dog emo boy grantaire inspired such a masterpiece

[louisa605]

Permets-tu?

I realized I haven’t drawn this scene before, have I?

The way death is portrayed in the movie and the book is different—this version should be closer to a place where one could die standing up (?)

In the Repo, Harry-Enj is shown laughing as he dies—indeed, Enj would be more than willing to die for his ideals, right?

(Though Enj wasn’t really injured before his death, he probably would still look a bit disheveled (?))

Well, overall, it’s a smiling Enj and a more serious R, who isn’t smiling but instead staring intently at Enj!

(Supporting Enj’s fashion freedom—I love him in black, though red is also great!)

Please comment if u love it！♡

[louisa605]

I recently came across some argument posts about the differences between the Les Misérables novel and the musical, and it inspired me to share some random thoughts. The following is entirely my personal opinion—feel free to take it as nonsense.

First, if you know me, you're probably aware that my love for the musical is about equal to my love for the novel. The musical led me to reread the novel, and that rereading made me fall in love with the Friends of the ABC in the book. Recently, I've noticed some conflicts centered on accusations that the musical's portrayal of the ABC characters is out of character. This has even extended to fan works about the musical's ABC characters being criticized as OOC.

Honestly, I find this a bit absurd. For me, no matter how much I adore the ABC group, I can't deny that they're just supporting characters in the book. And anyone who has read the novel knows just how impossibly long it is. When I first read it at around nine years old, my attention was almost entirely on other characters; I barely noticed most of the ABC members. I mean, if I had to choose between "The Paris Sewers and Napoleon" and "The Friends of the ABC" as the main focus, I'd pick the former (maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get my point). Condensing such a massive world classic into a two-and-a-half to three-hour musical inevitably requires some compromises.

It's only natural that the ABC group gets diluted—this is a story about Jean Valjean, not the Friends of the ABC. Under these constraints, simplifying the ABC into a symbol is the most straightforward approach. A few of the more fortunate characters, like Enjolras, get expanded upon—he becomes a blend of Combeferre, Courfeyrac, and Bahorel in the musical (and perhaps to compensate for poor Bahorel, who doesn't even appear, they gave Enjolras his signature red waistcoat). Then there's Grantaire—well, this guy didn't even participate in the revolution, and he has no real connection to Gavroche (Bahorel does, his spirit lives on!:P). But this is really just a matter of making choices. Of course, I'd love to see the ABC get more detailed treatment, but in just a few hours, the focus has to be on Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and others. The stories of the ABC group alone could fill an entire TV series (strongly recommended is the 1972 French adaptation of Les Misérables—you'll see the best Courfeyrac there, in my subjective opinion). Do you really expect to see Feuilly belting out "How does a bastard, orphan, son of a wh—" in those two and a half hours?Come on, that level of detailed introduction is reserved for the protagonist in THAT musical.

Anyway, I've digressed. The point is, under these circumstances, it's no surprise that the ABC characters in the musical are far less nuanced than in the novel. I mean, Marius in the musical becomes a youth driven to revolution! Fun fact: in the novel, Éponine has a hoarse voice. Actors also interpret their roles based on personal understanding, and some unwritten "rules" emerge from nowhere (like the friendship between Grantaire and Gavroche in the musical—don't get me wrong, I like it, but it's definitely not in the novel). Given all this, it's natural for people who've only seen the musical to create fan works based on the musical's portrayals. (I'm not saying the musical is bad—I love it—but the ABC in the musical is vastly different from the novel. Still, I sometimes enjoy incorporating musical elements into my own fan works.) This leads to all the so-called "OOC" criticisms. But you can't expect everyone to read a book heavy enough to be used as a murder weapon, right? And there's no rule requiring someone to have read the book before creating fan works. I can understand why some people who've only read the novel might disagree with certain fans' portrayals of the characters. But can you say those fans aren't true Les Misérables fans? Of course not! And are you paying for those fan works? No! So what's the point of attacking them? Is it to flaunt that reading the novel makes you superior? Come on—the one who wrote the novel is the truly superior one.

[halfamournin]

ilove ur grantaire so much!!!!!

AWWW THANK YOUUU!!! LOVE MY GRANTAIRE SO MUCH TOO THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME

I am way too attached to this degenerate (affectionate)

[halfamournin]

I love modern aus guys 💔 i love how in denial creative the fandom is ykwis