Hello all! Just thought I'd come on here with some notes as the event approaches. Everything will run basically the same as last year.
Requirements for participation: two features that any work should include are 1) Les Misérables-related content ; 2) At least one main Asian character, setting, and/or perspective.
Accepted works:
Drawn art & other art forms
Fics (links accepted)
Cosplays
Videos, GIFs, and other visual media
Reviews
Translations
Research
Political or Cultural Analysis / Readings
Archive
Or any more you can think of!
Accepted places
Some optional prompts for you to ponder...
Folklore & Mythology
Resistance
Diaspora
Ceremonies
Land & Nature
Childhood
Clothing, Textiles, and Jewelry
As the week approaches, please don't hesitate to send over any questions you may have! Happy creating, friends!
Hello everyone! Welcome back to another year of #Barricade Week! We’re excited to announce our official prompts for 2026!
Check out our Ao3 Collection here!
Feel free to join in however you're able-- creating fanworks or sharing/ commenting on other people's work are both equally important!
You can also repost old art/fanfic that you have previously shared, especially art/fanfic people might have missed the first time around! And while we've been talking a lot about art and fanfic, ALL fanworks are fair game for this event-- song playlists, literary analysis, video essays, high-effort shitposts, Tiktoks, cosplay, etc!
Follow the prompts if you need ideas, or do whatever you want! Make as many or as few pieces as you would like! For each day, the prompt is to do something relevant to what happens on that day--and (optionally) follow the bonus prompts related to important symbols from that chapter.
June 4th:
"The Day Before the Barricades" (Eponine defends Marius)
Prompts: "Tomorrow is the judgment day" Families
June 5th:
"The Barricades Rise"
Prompts: "To days gone by" First blood
June 6th:
"The Barricades Fall"
Prompts: "Tomb flooded with the dawn" Execution
June 7th:
“The Aftermath” (the rescue of Marius/death of Javert)
Prompts: "Intestine of the leviathan" Chance meetings
i’m making a post to talk about this with all the main information i feel is needed, so what’s happening to start? At the end of the month a new Les Misérables album is releasing, this recording is of the 40th Anniversary Cast from the WEST END. The cast listed are all entirely from the west end. Except for Jordan Shaw.
Instead Jordan has been replaced with a white actor, James Gish, now while i don’t want to place this blame onto Gish nor say anything against his performance, it’s INCREDIBLY disappointing and honestly ridiculous he’s the enjolras listed. James was NEVER at any of the 40th shows in the west end, the entire time it was Jordan Shaw playing in the role of Enjolras and he never missed a single day throughout the whole run. Jordan would’ve been there for whenever they decided to record, as even Killian Donnelly (Jean Valjean) said this was recorded live! They have INTENTIONALLY removed and replaced him.
[Cast List, Jordan Shaw’s name is nowhere listed despite the rest of the 40th Anniversary company being here]
Cameron Mackintosh (The Producer of the musical) did an interview with WhatsOnStage where he’s said he’s decided to splice the two 40th anniversary shows (the west end and the arena tour) but the ONLY songs that have actually been switched are only songs where Jordan would be singing as enjolras. Doesn’t sound like a coincidence right?
This is clear discrimination against Jordan Shaw. The fact they have chosen to remove one of their black principals KNOWING fully well how much this role has meant to Jordan and many other people who take inspiration from him, as well as the fact Jordan has helped to pave the way for us to get more POC enjolras actors! And not to even mention the fact Shaw won an award! An award in the role of Enjolras! He won “Best Supporting Male Actor” ! And it is so incredibly rare for this role to even be recognised especially in this way! Ap surely this would be something they want to promote right? But no, they have chosen not to and instead replaced him. I can’t even begin to imagine how disappointing this must be for Jordan - to see everyone else you worked so hard with get to be apart of this album and seeing that you’ve been the only person cut.
The fact they believed that no one in the fandom would even notice jordan’s removal is incredibly disrespectful and disappointing to me, the fact they thought we would simply turn a blind eye is disgusting. So please, talk about this. Jordan deserves his talent to be recognised.
So what can we do?
Good question! Sadly there isn’t loads, but i don’t think that should stop or discourage us.
Leave comments on every official les mis post you see - and constantly! they have been consistently deleting comments with any mention of Jordan’s name as well as even turning off the comments which shows they know exactly what they’re doing.
Send emails! Talk about how disappointed you are in seeing Jordan being removed without any explanation as to why! You can email directly to cammack: [email protected] or you can email the distributors themselves: https://www.warnerclassics.com/contact
And if you’re feeling kind, maybe send Jordan a little message over on instagram! i’m sure he’d appreciate knowing we as a fandom support him and love his Enjolras (if you haven’t seen it, i’d recommend watching this performance from west end live!)
Official Date for Valvert Week 2026 set: june 21st - 27th
The week will have both a theme (pick belowwww) and an even more optional prompt-list based on said theme (I'll be coming up with the prompts myself because we're running very close to the deadline!!).
As usual, being on-theme will be optional but it *is* more fun.
Pick a theme
Major Rivers Of France
Genres
"Maybe in another life"
Supernatural/Fantasy AU
Parents
Identity
Fairy tales
Resurrection or Death and rebirth
Tree Pruner x Heart of Wood
Role reversal
Pre-Canon -> Books 1-5 -> Post-Canon (one a day)
Voting ended onMay 18
Propaganda below the cut:
Major Rivers Of France: this one was a joke but I'm including it. "love the major rivers theme too, I'm going to drop javert into water in various scenic locations"
Genres: "you could do genre themes (scifi/fantasy/slice of life/whatever)"
"Maybe in another life": "Is it a sad goodbye? Is it the start of something new? Is it a rebirth/reincarnation AU? You decide!"
Supernatural/Fantasy AU: "May it be mermaids, fairies, vampires, werewolves, superheros or whatever you like - put them in situations! And in alternate universes"
Parents: "Did they raise Cosette together? Or maybe have other kids too (multiple AUs possible here too? Make Valvert parents ❤️❤️❤️".
Adding my own two cents here: both of them have really complicated feelings on their own parents too.
Identity: "It can be looked at from many different angles - sexuality, gender, Javert's background and his acceptance/refusal, becoming parents/grandparents, what to do now when my life got destroyed, how to continue my live when my daughter got married, how to share a house with the one who used to be my jailor, trying to connect Valjean from now and Madeleine from the past, questions of identity in Toulon, or just a simple identity porn in Montreuil-sur-Mer, and so on.
"Who Am I?" & "Who Are You?" throughout the ages."
Fairy tales: "Put our old men in your favourite fairytale" "Yes, Beauty and the Beast time!"
Resurrection or Death and rebirth: "These guys r always being abnormal about death & not feeling truly like one of the living. People could take it in a symbolic or in a magical direction. You see the vision."
Tree Pruner x Heart of Wood: Valjean is a tree pruner and gardener and Javert is literally said to have a heart of wood. "there’s probably a more poetic way to phrase this as an Official Theme Name but i’m obsessed with this particular parallel"
Role reversal: I would be fire.
Pre-Canon -> Books 1-5 -> Post-Canon (one a day): Self explanatory I think.
Okay hello!!! this is an Incredibly early post i know! but i’m seeing a lot more themed weeks pop up and i don’t want to miss my chance to get the date for this one out there so….
26th October - 1st November is JehanParnasse week!
more information will be available in the coming months!
Hello!! I do really want Barricade Day Week to happen again, but I'm not sure if I have the bandwidth to do it solo-- if anyone here on tumblr wants to help, feel free to reach out! It'd be just a lot of, making announcement/reminder posts and then reblogging people's stuff!!
Feuilly Appreciation Week very early announcement post!
(Because, damn it, I am NOT forgetting this year! ;D)
All fanworks are welcome: fanfiction, fanart, photosets, gifsets, fanmixes, fanvids, polyvore sets, cosplay, moodboards – you name the medium, it’s welcome. ^_^ The only requirement is that your fanwork be centered on Feuilly.
Gen works are welcome. Ship works are welcome (platonic or romantic). As long as Feuilly plays a starring role in whatever you’re creating, anything else can fly. ^_^
The week will run from October 11th to October 17th.
The tag for the week is #feuilly week or #feuillyweek.
I will be doing my best to track the tag and reblog everything posted for the week to this blog, but tags are still not the most reliable, so if you really want to be sure I’ll see it, please @ this blog in your post!
If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the blog ( @feuillyweek ) or the mod’s blog ( @eirenical ). My only request is please don’t use the messages function on the feuillyweek blog. I don’t check the blog regularly and I’ll probably miss it. Please send an ask instead.
For more information, please try the FAQ.
And please feel free to signal boost this elsewhere (Discord or Twitter or wherever fandom people are congregating) if you feel comfortable doing so!
I fell off the wagon of keeping the calendar up to date for two reasons: 1) people stopped @'ing the calendar blog and I didn't have the time or spoons to keep up with the general tag and 2) I was being a bit obsessive about making monthly "here's what coming up" posts and it got overwhelming, especially since I've been down the C-drama rabbit hole lately and haven't come up for air from that for several years. 😅
But I've been having a lot of Les Mis feels lately and I'd like to dip my toe back into at least maintaining the calendar a bit more proactively. What I don't want is to end up so obsessive that I get overwhelmed again. So, here's my compromise.
Rather than maintaining the "here's what's coming" posts, I'm just going to
reblog announcement posts (with @glassiewithab 's help ^_^)
add events to the calendar with their blog name, so people know where to look for more information
I am also going to try to keep better tabs on the tags. I've added all the events that I could find in the tags and on the blog, but if you know of an event happening and don't see it on the calendar, please feel free to send me an ask and let me know!
could i perhaps ask for courfius week (august 2-8) to be added to the calender?
Absolutely! And I'm glad to see it back! :D
I have gotten lax about actually putting events on the calendar because most of the announcements pass by me these days, but maybe I should start doing that again.
Quick reminder to everyone that the calendar exists and I'm happy to put your events on it if you @ me to let me know that they're happening. ^_^
hello, and welcome to courfius week!! here's what you need to know :)
as expected, it's an event centered around the relationship between marius and courfeyrac from les miserables! all fanwork types are permitted. literally. make a freaking friendship bracelet for them or something. it is a free world!
the event will run from august 2-8, so put those dates in your calendar! there will be 3 prompts per day (with the 8th being a free day) and an ao3 collection will be opened for the event as we near the actual dates for it. prompts will be crowdsourced through a google doc
official guidelines can be found here, and the google doc for prompts will be open until the first of june.
prompts for courfius week 2026. fill out as many of the spots you would like (and feel free to fill out the form multiple times) with prompt
(also the pfp is by @crowbarrower please show their awesome art some love)
Hello and welcome to the first ever (hopefully annual) Fantine Week!
What is Fantine Week?
As the title suggests, it will be a week in which we will all come together to create fan works centring everyone’s favourite girl. Literally anything you can think of will be accepted including traditional fan works like art and fics, video edits and gifsets or even analysis posts and historical references. As long as it’s about Fantine, I want to see it!
When will Fantine Week take place?
(hopefully) 22nd to 28th June 2026
This is subject to change but hopefully this gives you all just under two months to create some works and shouldn’t overlap with barricade day too much. If you want to participate and this date is a genuine obstacle for you please let me know and I’ll see about maybe changing it.
What are the rules?
- Tag your works with #fantine week 2026 and @ this account so I can see and reblog them. Ideally post your works within the week but I will reblog late submissions up to a couple of weeks after the event is over.
- If you are posting to ao3, please make a separate tumblr post linking to your fic or send it to me via ask so I can post it on this blog.
- Other characters can be involved in works as long as the focus is on Fantine. Romantic, platonic and familial relationships involving Fantine are all acceptable.
- NSFW is accept as long as it is tagged appropriately on both tumblr and ao3 if applicable.
- Sex work is a part of Fantine’s story so it naturally may come up in fic and analysis posts. While terms like “prostitute” and “whore” may be appropriate in canon era fic or when quoting from historical sources, I do ask that in analysis posts the terms “sex work” and “sex worker” be used. Just be mindful that anyone can see your posts and keep it respectful.
Prompts?
I am planning to release a list of completely optional prompts corresponding to each day of Fantine week a bit closer to the time. While I have a few ideas in mind already, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Finally, feel free to reach out with any questions you may have about this event!
