Yet intrepid.

Breanne. 18. I'm dipping my toe into the loveliness that is the Les Mis fandom.

[lemeute]

I’m seeing a post or two going around about not “trivializing” June 5th and 6th by focusing on Les Mis. And I think it’s well-intentioned, but mistaken.

History is really important. It is really, really darn important.

But fiction is not innately trivializing.

And we can honor the real...

[szivbolszeretni]

Listen, my friend, Feuilly, valiant workingman, man of the people, man of all peoples. I venerate you. Yes, you clearly see future ages; you are right. You knew neither a father nor a mother, Feuilly; you have adopted humanity for your mother, and right for your father. You are going to die here, that is, to triumph.

Enjolras, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

aka that time that Enjolras stopped mid-speech to congratulate Feuilly on being Feuilly.

(via szivbolszeretni)

[susanspevensie-deleting-deactiv]

I just

Grantaire is such a beautiful character because he’s every single flaw that Enjolras rejects and denies and despises and looks down on and yet at the very end it’s Grantaire who dies at his side, it’s Grantaire who he accepts, and not because Grantaire loses his cynicism or his addiction or his apathy, but because Enjolras himself becomes a better person and accepts Grantaire as he is, as being worthy of the very same respect and dignity he offered to everyone else.

Because by all logic it should have been someone else dying with Enjolras, someone who cared about the revolution, but it was Grantaire, and Enjolras accepted him.

Enjolras accepted him.

Why is that not enough?

[xmcuallerdrake]

i know this is a practically ancient post but i have to say

it has a lot to do with the way hugo has created these characters both as people and as symbols of something greater

grantaire teaches enjolras the virtue of self-sacrificial love, when the sacrifice is for a person and not a people or an idea; he shows him that love can make a man do things that seem to go against the very grain of who he is

with grantaire, all of a sudden, what was right seems wrong, and what was wrong seems right.

grantaire upends enjolras’s expectations.  it doesn’t seem to enjolras that grantaire will come through — why would it?  grantaire hasn’t proven himself the most worthy emissary or revolutionary.  

but then grantaire comes to stand beside him.  grantaire could have lived, could have gone on.  by rights and by expectations, he should have.

but he didn’t.  and this is the great upending of enjolras’s entire understanding of grantaire, because here has been grantaire all this time, loving his friends and loving enjolras enough to die for them, and that had been the reason he had always been so bad at the revolutionary part of things.

and he has only moments to realize this.

and the beautiful thing about it is, his reaction to the realization, to realizing that he was wrong?

is to smile and take grantaire’s hand, and die in the middle of the smiling.

*rolls away into the sun*

[theoncomingstars]

“From the thoughtfulness of his gaze one might have supposed that in some previous existence he had lived through the turmoil of the Revolution.”

[makmeur-deactivated20160412]

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as much as I did with those guys. Killian [Donnelly] and Fra [Fee] and Alistair [Brammer] are three of the funniest people I’ve ever met. And it’s unintentional comedy, you know what I mean? It’s not like they’re telling jokes or anything. They’re just hilarious. There were times, though, that we’d musical-theater-nerd-out a little bit. We would just break into song, or break into harmony with a show tune, and the film actors were definitely looking at us like “What is wrong with you people?”

Aaron Tveit  (via tveitsy)

[karimloo]

I always thought I lacked the…well, the height to play Enjolras – but play him I did, and I didn’t even need to stand on a copy of the Yellow Pages!

Fra Fee (x)

[jenwunhui]

► Hugh Skinner

[feuilly]

‘Courfeyrac this waist is unbearable’

[lemeute]

AHHHH his precious face thank you lovely

[lorassed]

i think the point of les mis kind of flew over a lot of peoples’ heads

[ronansparrishes]

jehan (◡‿◡✿)

jehan (✿◠‿◠)

jehan (◕‿◕✿)

JEHAN (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[slippypantz]

you shall see

[brigantes-deactivated20131003]

“They caught him. Prouvaire has been captured!”

[epponinas-blog]

Les Mis AU: The Great Depression

Cosette & Marius

-I’m Miss Cosette Fauchelevent and this here is Mr. Marius Pontmercy. We rob banks.

[muirin007]

Pencil sketch of Anne Hathaway as Fantine. I loved her performance in this film so much. I cried like a baby  in the theater when she died. The lady next to me looked at me like I just escaped from a mental institution, but whatever, man. Pixie cuts and prostitutes make-a me cry.

[desviacionito]

javert for tansu c:

[maevewelch]

Behind the scenes with Samantha Barks Ten’s Europe (x)

[makeshiftmartyrs-blog]

have i found you -- a modern enjolras/grantaire/éponine mix

01. post break up sex - the vaccines 02. this - ed sheeran 03. save me - gotye 04. flightless bird, american mouth - iron & wine 05. durban skies - bastille 06. vienna - billy joel 07. now is the start - a fine frenzy 08. don't think twice, it's alright - bob dylan