#edwarddespard

[oilan]

@edwarddespard reblogged your photo and added:

He is fabulous and I am in LOVE with his sleeves. And snowman :) 

Thank you! I’m very jealous of Enjolras’ awesome coat. And the snowman too.

@twofrontteethstillcrooked replied to your photo “I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season and, if it’s...”

I WOULD READ THAT BOOK SO HARD ��

ME TOO. If only it existed. XD

@roseinapril reblogged your photo and added:

Enjolras and his Snowcitizen XDDDD

Did he it by himself? I didn’t know Enjolras likes this things! He’s full of surprises…

I guess he did make it... perhaps even Enjolras needs a little bit of fun in life, haha!

@pilferingapples reblogged your photo and added:

Does the Snowcitizen come to life and take him on a journey to a magic snowland of representative government?:D

(this looks great! really has that Overcast Winter Day feeling!)

Yes, the Snowcitizen does take Enjolras on a magical adventure! But only if the magical snow republic also features a lot of singing... of revolutionary holiday songs maybe?

(That overcast feeling in the background is an ink wash with a light glaze of watercolor on top... I’m quite happy with the effect! It helps the foreground stand out too.)

[darthfar]

spicehobbit reblogged your photo and added:

Oh dear, so many disasters waiting to happen… :-)

Bahahaha, I concur. Nothing good could possibly come of having that many candles around in a room that isn't meant to hold a crowd that includes those people.

pilferingapples reblogged your photo and added:

ahaha,  Far everything about this room is amazing.  And who let Grantaire have an accordion? Oh noooo!

(also yes, I see what you’re doing with that composition, and it’s a decided improvement over the original XD)

pilferingapples replied to your photo “Parisians were not, as a rule, given to celebrating Halloween at the...”

THAT POOR CAT. THE SKULLS. BAHOREL IN THAT OUTFIT (yes I rememberXD). And ahahaha the Trois Gloreuses flag painting on the fan! All your details are really amazing!)

I'm not sure if it's "who let Grantaire have an accordion" or "why did Jehan have an accordion in his room, and where did he get it in the first place?" But y'know, it could just as well be Bahorel's... And ha, I'm pleased you spotted the Léon Cogniet copy! I felt that Jehan had to have a painted fan in *his* apartment too.

At least we get to see exactly what Jehan did with the skulls he pilfered from Combeferre. ;)

edwarddespard reblogged your photo and added:

I am SO well chuffed to see Halloween Amis make another appearance…Enjolras trying to work in the middle of this and getting distracted, Combeferre and Feuilly having a learned discussion….carved rutabagah Jack-O’-Lanterns….all the Harvest/Samhain accoutrements and the detailsof the room….and Jehan Prouvaire, Master of Ceremonies! Each character clearly themselves :)

Cheers! The lanterns are actually made of turnip, in homage to the excellent fic @bobcatmoran gifted me last year, Jacques Au Lanterne, as well as their errr, industrious mutilation (and subsequent charring) of an actual turnip. But your mention of rutabagas has reminded me of your own carved root vegetable from several years past -- and I'm fairly certain I remember you drawing Jehan with a rutabaga as well?? I need to go rootle in your art thread.

(I suspect that the book Combeferre and Feuilly are discussing is George, First Baron Lyttelton's Communication With The Other Side...)

Speaking of which... "Industrious turnip mutilation" should be an official tag for anybody drawing carved turnips in a Les Mis picture. ROFL.

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@edwarddespard reblogged your photo:

This is SO gorgeous! I love animals, but have never had a cat (just dogs, horses, tarantulas, salamanders, hermit crabs….every but a cat, in short). The feline characteristics Hugo identifies in Courfeyrac, however, work so wonderfully in fiction, art, etc. One of my friends has a big black gorgeous Burmese with brilliant green eyes, and whenever I’m with him I just think of Hugo’s kitten/tom cat descriptions of Courfeyrac - he’s a darling. Sleek, confident, irascible and charming. One of the most sociable animals I’ve ever met - he looks at a party as a chance to go lap surfing, starts purring the moment he claps eyes on me when I visit, will push the dog aside to get in my lap, and exudes an air of knowing he is utterly magnificent. This cat could be his ancestor, and I can see a mutual appreciation society between Kitty and Courfeyrac. 

Aww, your friend’s kitty sounds like a sweetheart! My cat is very similar, and she’s a tuxedo cat, so she’s very well dressed. XD Hugo really picked the perfect animal comparison for Courfeyrac!

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@edwarddespard reblogged your photo and added:

I will never tire of your inspired and inspiring Enjolras :)

Aw thank you!! :) I can (and will) certainly say the same about your Enjolras--he’s splendid every time you draw him!

[pilferingapples]

on the post about the amis and privilege, you say of them really have true privilege because of the oppressive regime, but then someone responds that grantaire is extremely privileged, so now i'm confused? is grantaire much more wealthy than the other amis? does he have some sort of social privilege that the rest of them don't have? i haven't read the brick so i'd like to know more!! thank you!!

Oh, okay! I think you mean the expanded conversation here? It sounds like the confusion is over the fact that different sorts of privilege are being discussed in the conversation. Let me see if I can clear it up!

My (original) post is, or at least is meant to be, not so much about the Amis and privilege per se as the difference between their era and ours, and one of the (Grantaire-specific) ways it makes translating their particular group dynamics into a modern setting tricky (in this case, the constant threat of institutional violence to every member of the group, including Grantaire, whatever his professed politics).  The comparison I was making was between their situation and that of people in a modern, democratic society not currently in civil war. The basic point is that just translating them into modern middle-class university students doesn’t work for also translating their political involvement, etc. 

So, for instance, the Amis don’t have the privilege of being in a peaceful democratic society, or of assuming that they won’t die of cholera,or having any socially safe mode of free speech, etc-- but all of them have various advantages relative to some of the other characters in the story. They’re all men, they’re mostly bourgeois, they can all read (not at all an assumed advantage outside the bourgeoisie!), the students have a certain amount of free time, etc.  

So for someone writing a modern (US) AU who wants to keep some of the same political/social overtones*, there’s a certain challenge to find analogies that offer both the same relatively secure status along with the same constant presence of institutional violence bearing on those same people. It’s not at all impossible, but it’s more complicated than just taking a group of college students then and making them college students now.

And within the group itself-- which is what Despard’s talking about-- there are some pretty significantly differing levels of privilege. And--yeah, Grantaire’s in a pretty good spot. With what we know from context-- his educational level, his hobbies, his apparent family background-- he’s got sheer financial status privilege in relation to Legle (who’s broke and homeless) , class status privilege in relation to Bahorel (who’s from a peasant family) and class and financial status advantages relative to Feuilly (no family--which is itself a significant hit-- working class, pretty financially limited).  Grantaire has time and money to burn, and I for one don’t blame him for burning it--but yeah, it does mean he has, relative to his culture and even in his social group, a somewhat privileged status. 

I hope that helps explain it? Let me know if I need to clarify more! 

*by no means the only way to do it! But it’s the particular story challenge under discussion with this  conversation. 

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edwarddespard reblogged your photo and added:

This is fantastic - Enjolras’ rather serene with just a hint of bemusement expression captures what I imagine he looks like when something non-cause related but rather charming intrudes into his world. Friend gives him unexpected pie? Mix of serenity, bemusement and pleasure. Courfeyrac slings his arm around him? Same. Giant cat purring under his nose? Same. 

:D YES and YAY!

Also, I want fanwork featuring Enjolras getting unexpected pie. 

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edwarddespard reblogged your link and added: “My Friends Are My Republic - notfromcold - Les Misérables - All Media...”

Fantastic to see chapter 2 up! Was just thinking...

So glad you’re continuing to enjoy it! Feuilly is a favorite of mine.

Lots more Enjolras and Combeferre coming up in Ch. 3! Enjolras, though still feeling pretty rough, will be doing a bit better (the workshop owners should be very worried about this). We’ll also get to see the rest of Les Amis and watch Courfeyrac (try to) study for exams ;)

[pilferingapples]

RESURRECTING THE BOUZINGO HAS UPDATED I AM SO ECSTATIC