Preliminary Gayeties: Preparatory Materials for Interested Parties
Greetings, all! As you may be aware, @barricadescon (x) is happening this weekend. Myself (x), @shitpostingfromthebarricade (x), and @grantairelibere (x) will be hosting one of the social night panels, and we are BEYOND excited! Below, I’ve got a bit more information for you:
As you may know, Preliminary Gayeties is one of the chapters of the Brick, in which Grantaire, Joly, and Bossuet get a bit trashed while they wait for Lamarque’s funeral to reach the riot stage. The three of us have a fairly longstanding personal tradition of reading this chapter aloud and playing a drinking game whenever we’re together, and it is to this custom that we would like to invite all of you. Now, in order to fully participate, you may need some supplies! All versions of these supplies are equally valid, and certainly it can be played with simple water and any snackie of your choice. However, we find it is MOST amusing when you have a specific bev or snack to stand in for each one specified. To that end, we provide a guide below so that as many people as possible may be prepared to participate fully in our game!
First of all, we need some bevs:
The primary drink is (usually red) wine. For substitutions, we suggest: any wine you personally prefer, a wine cooler, grape juice, grape flavored gatorade/sports drink, any kind of purple drink mix, some water with red/purple food coloring in it, Just Straight Up Water, whatever speaks to you!
In much smaller quantities, the activity also calls for beer (specifically stout), brandy, and absinthe.
For beer, we suggest: any beer of your choice, a nonalcoholic beer, some lemonade, Just Some Bread, ginger beer, ginger ale, any kind of cola, etc.
For brandy, we suggest: brandy, whiskey, any dark liquor, Just A Shot of Maple Syrup, tea, a shot of coke or pepsi, etc.
For absinthe, we will do The Ritual, in which you put a small amount of absinthe in a cup, put a sugar cube in a strainer above it, and slowly pour water over the cube until it has dissolved. For substitutions, we suggest: any violently green energy drink, mountain dew, sugar water with green food coloring, Just Eat Some Licorice, ouzo, a straight shot of lime juice, or anything else unhinged that your little heart desires!
For snacks, we suggest you have some bread, along with…
Oysters. For substitutions, consider: smoked salmon/lox, any shellfish or seafood of your choice, some nice oyster mushrooms, oyster crackers, gummies shaped like shells idk do they sell those, frankly Swedish Fish, etc.
Brie. For substitutions, consider: any kind of cheese or faux-cheese, any kind of Bread Spread you prefer, butter, flavored butter, jam, marmalade, etc
Ham. For substitutions, consider: bacon, turkey bacon, turkey, any kind of cold cut you prefer, thinly sliced vegetables, veggie burger, etc
I had the unimaginable delight of partnering with @shitpostingfromthebarricade and @thecandlesticksfromlesmis for @thebanguette this year and am so extremely hyped to share the sum of our efforts!
You can read the (phenomenal) fic here and watch the (incredible) short film here.
This project was something so far outside of anything I’ve ever attempted before and it’s just been an utter joy to work with such a spectacular crew. I hope y’all enjoy it!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Sometime back in... June? maybe? I commissioned a fic from @shitpostingfromthebarricade and art to go with it from @thepiecesofcait through the @bishopmyrielfundraiser, and I’m finally posting it! (they are both wonderful and timely, I’m just a terrible mess re: executive function, so it took me a hot second).
The fic is We'll Live to Dance Another Day (10K, e/R, rated T) and y’all, it is SO SOFT. I asked for soulmate fic or wingfic, and they gave me BOTH, and it is just... so incredibly tender and good and full of love, and I cannot recommend you go read it enough. And Cait made this absolutely GORGEOUS art which is so unbelievably soft and tender and lovely, which I have already made my icon on twitter. You should definitely shower them both with love and appreciation and kudos! Huge thanks to them both for making such wonderful content 💕
“Sorry I’m late,” says a harried-looking Enjolras. “I was on the phone, my alarm must have silenced itself —”
“You’re fine,” Grantaire grins. “S’not like I’m going anywhere any time soon.”
Closing The Distance - a collab with @shitpostingfromthebarricade <3
It’s that time of year again kids! We have gone on two entire laps of the sun since that fated eve Shitposting put out a call for a beta reader and I (painfully politely) requested they sign me the heck up!
Little did I know how that interaction would influence so much of my life to follow! They are such a committed, clever, kind, hilarious, inspiring, [redacted] friend, and I am forever in debt to whichever CIA agent decided to cross our online paths way back in 2018.
This year we elected to collaborate (after learning last year that we’re a little too codependent for solo surprises) so here’s part one of my half!
You can see part two in Shitposting’s fic, which is, as always, spectacular and I cannot recommend strongly enough <3
Part two of my half from this years’ anniversary collab with @shitpostingfromthebarricade (part one is here!)
If you haven’t read Closing The Distance yet consider this my strong recommendation to do so! It is an utter delight and gives me many emotions of the ‘awwwwww’ variety.
A Cat called Trash Can by ShitpostingfromtheBarricade (wordcount: 12,025)
Since the day Enjolras had shown up on Grantaire’s doorstep, desperate and clutching a noisy, wriggling lump to his chest inside of an oddly purple sweatshirt, Grantaire can honestly say his life has only improved. Because of the cat, of course.
At any rate, it’s not as though he comes over that often, just when he’s having a bad day. Or a good day. Or a day that he’s been around too many people, or a day that he’s been around no one, or a day that he wants an excuse to stare at his uber-hot neighbor.
All told, he usually stops by Enjolras’s apartment a perfectly respectable several times a week.
