marg

asexual lesbian | has a huge crush on characters played by lydia nicholas

[fiction-podcast-lover]

Modern writing advice: don't info dump! You can write it down for yourself if you need to but don't keep long world building info dumps

Classic authors : I'm going to write 50 pages of info dump for something that will be relevant for three sentences

[quantumstonegarden]

"However, this sceptic had one obsession. This obsession was not an idea, nor a dogma, nor an art, nor a science. It was a man. Enjolras. Graintaire admired, loved, and revered Enjolras."

"He needed Enjolras."

"Always snubbed by Enjolras, spurned, rebuffed and back again for more, he said of Enjolras, 'What marmoreal magnificence!'"

ah, thank you so much victor hugo for telling me how straight graintaire is. so straight. this definitely reads very straight man

[pealeii]

being an enjoltaire enjoyer is literally the best its like having a lifetime supply of yaoi cocaine

[jolys-cane]

les mis au where javert is pregnant the whole time

[jolys-cane]

"i must put you to justice, valjean! for the good of france, and..." [fingers graze tenderly against belly] "... and for my child..."

[jolys-cane]

the 8 year timeskip happens and javert is still pregnant

[combeferret]

hi i wanna hear about ur sailor guys. give it to us

so one day i was minding my business watching a les mis arena tour bootleg when i noticed that, during lovely ladies, my favorite enjolras and grantaire actors (as sailors) get a little... frisky.

turns out seeing your favorite enjolras humping your favorite grantaire every night unlocks a hyperfixation that's been building for the past five and a half months

i kept getting annoyed that i had to refer to them as "connor's sailor" and "andrew's sailor" (that's the actors names) so i was like "lol should we name them" .... and so we did

Philippe

Philippe is like if a peacock and a border collie had a 22 year old Jack-the-lad as a son. He isn’t afraid of anything at all. That’s why he’s a gabier, a sailor who does the dangerous job of working high in the rigging managing the sails.

He struts around the deck like he’s the hottest sailor on the ship, even if he’s bright red with sunburn, hair like a bird’s nest, looking like the runt of the litter. He uses his big blue eyes, ginger curls, and crooked grin to get away with as much as he possibly can.

Thing is, anyone makes even the slightest disparaging joke at his expense, and you trigger “pissy Philippe” mode. It’s well known that if you’re on watch, especially up top where it’s quiet, it’s not uncommon for the last hour or so of your shift to be relieved by Philippe — eyes red-rimmed, nose sniffling — with little more than a “fuck off, do you want a break or not?!”

The younger sailors think he’s the coolest guy ever. The older sailors think he’s a dramatic little rascal — one they have a deep soft spot for. The officers think that if he managed to keep his nose down and out of trouble, he’d be one of the best sailors on this ship.

He ran away to sea in his late teens, disowned by his family for reasons he absolutely won’t talk about. If you were to ask him about his life before the ship, he’d make up a new story each time — told with such theatrical flourishes that you’d not realise he sidestepped the question until after he was gone.

Pierre

Pierre is the ship’s cook, but, despite the fact he’s nearly 30, this is his first time at sea. He’s spent the past few years trying and failing at several career paths. He initially tried to go into the medical field. He was a fast learner in his studies, but when it came to the practical skills, Pierre discovered that he had a very weak constitution — fainting at the sight of surgery is not a good trait for a doctor.

So, it was back home, where he spent most of his days helping his mother in the kitchen. She’s a keen baker, and Pierre enjoyed learning from her.

However, his father was becoming impatient with having a son without a purpose in life. His friend from the old days happens to captain his own ship, so he pulls a favour to get Pierre on board, as a way for him to “man up” and make something of himself.

The men on the ship are loud, brash, and filthy. Pierre is shy and hairy and awkward, a fat cook who gets seasick (of all the things) — he feels he might as well have a “kick me” sign on his back. They get their food at mealtimes with little acknowledgement of him, which is probably better since Pierre wouldn’t have the first idea what to speak to them about anyway.

The captain was accommodating enough to give him this job in the galley, where he could work on his own. It’s his own safe space that he keeps as clean and organised as he can. He is also lucky enough to get his own private berth. It’s hardly enough for more than a cramped bunk, his things from home (some books, letters he writes to his mother, and some personal stashes of treats), but it keeps him from the snoring cacophony of the hammocks on the main deck.

It’s hard to hide yourself on a ship like this, but by god he tries. He keeps his beard well kept, but just long enough to hide his face. He passes the day sat down with the ledger, minding the stock — it gives him something to ease the anxiety as he counts down the days until this lonely voyage is over. Life at sea is definitely not how it was portrayed in the books.

[callsignhyena]

sorry to the kids behind me in geometry class who had to watch me sit in silence for thirty minutes watching Les Mis with only the subtitles

[sashaslesbian]

i fear world aint ready ruined fake dating fics for me forever bcs ive convinced myself nothing will hit the way it did

[thejpmforreal]

Enjoltaire ahh skittles

Before

After the “Do You Permit It”

[siniviuhko]

The problem with shipping enjoltaire is that with a lot of other ships if they die tragically you can be like “oh no that’s so awful it should never have happened they should have lived!!” But you can’t do that with exr.

It’s like yes, I love them, and also that was the only way it could have happened and the most meaningful way that it could’ve happened. Not just from a historical or even a character standpoint but because That scene was the greatest and only way their story could end.

[combeferret]

is your life just one more lie

[angezoskriptoria]

i deeply relate to grantaire because i too am traumatised, poor, depressed, cynical, self-destructive and would die for enjolras

[dykeionysus]

you’ll be doing objectively bad and then you’ll see a bootleg clip of grantaire kissing enjolras’ palm after it cradles his face and it’s like wow. ok. never kill yourself

[skeletonthecreator]

yippeeee! *dives into my bed at the exact right angle that i phase through the molecules entering the fabled bedtime dimension and become cozy forever*

[cryingsaltbaby]

Post-seine Valvert

[nortism]

At the barricade straight up “permitting it” and by “it”, haha let’s just say the death of the man who’s cynicism has been the thorn in the side of my revolutionary movement for years but who showed up to my execution at the last minute in a shocking display of courage and devotion

[spinosacha]

Maybe kind of hot take: Enjolras wouldnt violently overthrow just any goverment.

I get why people say he would: to overcorrect fanon liberal Enjolras and to try to extend the grace people give to him to contemporary revolutionaries.

I think in todays context, like in todays france, he would have concerns about whether overthrowing the goverment would be democratic, if it would be supported and makes sense. Violent insurrections was not an absurd idea in 1832, it definitely would be now and it would not be supported by the people. He didn’t live in a democracy. I think that’s a huge reason why violent insurrection is justifiable to him because there was no other way really.

Yes he is radical and willing to do a lot, but it is completely based on the context he is in. In the modern US he would act different than in modern France, than in 1832 france. I personally think he would do more movement building through non violent direct action and civil disobedience in modern france: not because he believes violent action is never necessary but because he is tactical and hugely concerned with proportionality and because he doesn’t want to be violent unless he sees it as absolutely necessary. Also he would be concerned if he was really representing the people if he was overthrowing something democratically elected. But then again, if that person was a facist, he would then act based on that context and change course of action.

[littlefallof-rain]

On Wednesdays we revolution