#les miserfeels

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Family's viral Les Mis lockdown success

Watch one Kent family's lockdown-themed rendition of Les Misérables hit One Day More.

GUYS THIS iS! INCREDIBLE!!! Go to the link and watch the video. Just. Trust me. 

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Ok so, Rogue One Les Mis AU: 

Option 1: 

Cassian is Enjolras, Jyn is Grantaire, chirrut is marius (stupid hothead nerd), baze is cosette (more sensible than his bf, has lived a life of adventure. i mean cosette had like been on the run from the law? close enough!), Bodhi is Feuilly, Galen is Valjean, Lyra is Fantine (obvs baze is not lyra’s son and isn’t raised by Galen, this isn’t like, an exact match!

Option 2: 

Galen is Valjean, Bodhi is Cosette, Jyn is Eponine (Cassian is Marius?)

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Ok, but like. If you weren’t on here/weren’t following the right people back when les mis happened to us all let me tell you about it!

Lenin and I went *HARD* for that fandom. There is a word document with a complete casting of les mis singing roles using just Lenin, our other roomie Hanada, and me. I wrote Les Amis de Greendale. We all cried about the revolutionaries. WE BUILT A SNOW BARRICADE AND TOOK PICTURES OF ME IN MY RED COAT DRAPED OVER IT AS IF I HAD BEEN SHOT. Madi (steelplatedhearts) made some post that somehow turned into the sisterbuddies universe where Valjean was like ‘UM! EXCUSE YOU THENARDIERS! YOU ARE TERRIBLE PARENTS I AM TAKING YOUR OTHER CHILDREN TOO YOU ARE NOT FIT PARENTS???’ We all cried about every fanvid. THERE WAS SO MUCH! WE WANDERED AROUND SINGING DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING (in case you are wondering I assume that by this point campus had gotten used to Lenin and I wandering around singing as we had a spell that was shorter but probably almost as intense first year with Book of Mormon). 

e/R had meaning and you capitalized the R because “grantaire” sounds like the french version of ‘capital r’ and so people call him “R” in canon so e/R=enjolras/grantaire because that was ofc obvious! LIKE!!!! Coufeyrac/Jehan Prouvaire was a thing! I DECIDED THAT ALL THE MALE CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL EXCEPT MARIUS HAD ‘JEAN’ AS THEIR FIRST NAME!

EVERYTHING HAPPENED SO MUCH AT OUR FACES!

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Helpful reminder that I fundamentally believe that the first name of every male character in Les Mis is Jean with the sole exception of Marius. We know it’s true of the one ami whose first name we know (Jean/Jehan Prouvaire, where Jehan is an archaic form of Jean that he likes b/c big R Romantics are silly). But like. In my headcanon we’ve got Jean Enjolras, Jean Grantaire, Jean Javert, Jean EVERYONE! This is why it works in my modern aus of les mis for all the amis to go by last names - it’s by necessity. Marius is the odd one out. (Maybe gavroche is his middle name? idk)

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It has suddenly occurred to me that double-oy-7 was not yet on tumblr during the great Les Misening of 2013, and so like. Maybe some of you have not yet put together how my flails about eponine and gavroche were very much a result of projection and my own feelings about my own little brother and like. I think I probably mentioned it at the time, but! That’s a thing.

(i literally just said to lenin “and the only kind thing the world ever does for her is letting her die before gav does” on the topic of eponine, so like, if you’re wondering how fucked up I am about that sibling relationship, I am crying in public at the theater next to a man who didn’t clap the whole time and hardly clapped at the end when eponine died and gavroche tried to follow as they carried her body away and grantaire had to hold him back. SO!!!!!! THAT IS WHERE WE ARE ON THAT!)

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Fandom shuffle thing: Les Mis?

Oh gosh, we’ll see how many of the songs that come up are from the musical…

1. Touch the Sky - Julie Fowlis (Brave soundtrack): Les Amis at the start of the barricadeI will hear their every storyTake hold of my own dreamBe as strong as the seas are stormyAnd proud as an eagle’s scream

2. Voice Mail #2 (RENT): Marius b/c it’s Joanne’s parents clearly having different priorities for her life than her and so I’m drawing a parallel with Marius and his grandfather.

3. You and Me But Mostly Me (Book of Mormon): Marius and Coufeyrac (obvs Courfeyrac is Kevin)You and me, but mostly meAre gonna change the world forever‘Cause I can do most everything(And I can stand next to you and watch)

4. Fantine’s Arrest (Les Mis): Well. I mean. 

5. The Best Day - Taylor Swift: Cosette to ValjeanI don’t know why all the trees change in the fallI know you’re not scared of anything at all

6. Defying Gravity (Wicked): Eponine deciding to go to the barricade (”you can’t defy gravity forever”, helpful comments brought to us by leninmeringuepie)Too late for second-guessingToo late to go back to sleepIt’s time to trust my instinctsClose my eyes and leap!

7. Javert’s Intervention (Les Mis): I mean. idk what you want from me here. 

8. I Know Places - Taylor Swift: I’m changing the context of the ‘baby’ to Valjean comforting Cosette as he secrets her away as a child. Baby, I know places we won’t be found And they’ll be chasing their tails tryin’ to track us down

9. Ch 4k Treebeard - From The Two Towers Disc 3, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, read by Rob Inglis: Contains the passage where Treebeard brings Merry and Pippin back to his house and gives them ent draught. I’m going to say that it’s the fact that we see Eponine and Cosette as kids and then as adults (or teens idk), because the ent draught makes Merry and Pippin grow taller. LOOK I DID NOT HAVE A LOT TO WORK WITH HERE. 

10. Nobody Compares - One Direction: Marius and CosetteNo one ever makes me feel like you do when you smile

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related to the idea of e/R reincarnation fic where Grantaire ends up on the other side of the gun: 

What about reincarnation fic where Enjolras usually half remembers/has a sense of failed revolutions of incarnations past, and each iteration of him becomes more and more cynical and bitter and starts to see how futile the fights of the weak are and joins more and more radical and aggressive groups, until he's fighting just to be fighting, and slowly some of the amis start not showing up in the groups of revolutionaries he's involved with and he doesn't get why, and it's a little upsetting, but only really hits him at all in his moment of death when he remembers the lives that came before and realizes properly that these people are missing. And then there comes a revolution where his group is angry, so angry at injustice, but also so ineffective, and they plan this huge revolt, maybe replacing the government, and it works, and he and his band of militants take over, and they run the country, and if they're harsher than he envisioned the world being when he was dreaming, well, they're doing it to help, they're doing it because no one else can be trusted, they have to root out dissent, because if they don't then the wicked will take power again, they have to violently shut down the peaceful protests that start happening in response to growing reports of police brutality, of the brutality of the young man who led the rebellion, who seemed to have such promise. And he's still hands on, he still fights, convinced that he's fighting for the people, or for his party, but that's the same thing, right? 

And then he is woken in the middle of the night: someone has started building barricades throughout the city. He and his men march out to attack, and with their superior forces there is little question that they will succeed. And then he walks up to the barricades, because he has always been charismatic, always an impassioned speaker, and he thinks that maybe he can settle this, explain to these people why there needs to be peace, how important it is to keep the peace. And then he looks up. The people who built the barricade are standing high up on it, so that he can see them, and as he goes down the line he sees some unfamiliar faces, sure. But then he sees Bahorel, and beside him is Grantaire, and he realizes why he hadn't heard about it because he'd thought that  those two were on his side. Then he sees Jehan, Joly, Lesgles, Coufeyrac, and with each one he remembers a little bit more of the revolutions he has fought beside them, and seeing each one facing him down like he's the enemy now feels like a bullet in his chest, and he knows that goes back to something but he can't remember what, and when he sees Combeferre, the man who was always closest to him he thinks that nothing can hurt more than this. And then, at the end of the line, is Feuiily, the ultimate man of the people facing him down with a gun in his hands, and in that moment, he remembers everything, and he looks down, to see that indeed there are eight bullet holes in his body, and he falls to his knees, with the knowledge that he has become the kind of ruler he so hated, and he knows suddenly that these bullet wounds mirror the ones inflicted in his first revolution so long ago, when he first met these men and died beside them, and that each one of them has, just now, shot him. And he dies as he did then, with those same eight bullet holes in his body, staring up at the friends he has betrayed. 

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ZERO. 100% FAIL BECAUSE HOW COULD YOU DO THIS to MEE? LES MISERFEELSSSS.