Rhyme of the Revolution

A les miserables blog by a mad history fanatic, Rachel. Lover of brick, musical and film. Jehan is a dear, and must be protected at all costs - I care not that Hugo appears to disagree. My second blog for random crap can be found here: https://thefrankensteinplace.tumblr.com/. My AO3 account for fics and poetry can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/WritingRevolutionary/pseuds/WritingRevolutionary/

[piecesofmeinyourstrawberries]

aaron tveit singing as enjolras in the year of our lord 2026 we have reached brand new levels of so incredibly back

[ashleyslorens]

[the-bard-of-the-barricade]

OH MY GODS. SOMEONE HOLD ME.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[harryjolrastruther]

i’m gonna be thinking about this for days…🫪🫪🫪

[harryjolrastruther]

they’re like one direction for queer mentally ill people

[harryjolrastruther]

ohhh my god i’m SICK

[ashleyslorens]

AARON TVEIT Les Misérables: Arena Spectacular World Tour Encore at Radio City Music Hall (July 28, 2026)

[noriaki-cos]

How are we feeling rn Les Mis fandom… I am genuinely freaking out at 5am

Harryjolras, aaronjolras, and christianjolras. My life is complete

[pinkponygrl]

AARON TVEIT JVJ IN THE BIG 2026?????

[victorianandthespian]

The body lowkey looks wrong, but that’s okay lmao

[victorianandthespian]

I forgot I painted this lol

I should try a redraw! It’s fun to see that this old design has some similar features to my current one. The roman nose, straightbrows and round-ish lips are practically still the same

Rip to that jawline lmao, I def softened his features to make him more androgynous

[dykedjarin]

les mis has always and forever will be cursed with godawful canva broadway merch disease but ☝️ the enjolras bear is really excellent. primarily because enjolras would hate it so so so so bad

[paupers-minor-chord]

i'm a fan of marius pontmercy from hit 1985 musical les misérables in the sense that he's sweet and has excellent angst potential and i want to give him a hug. i'm a fan of marius pontmercy from hit 1862 novel les misérables in the sense that i want to study him under a microscope like a bug.

[nortism]

According to Les Misérables (1862), once a man reaches his thirties he can either take up gardening (Jean Valjean, Bishop Myriel, Georges Pontmercy, Fauchlevent, Mabeuf) or become evil (Javert, Thénardier, Gillenormand, Tholomyès)

[prokopetz]

Since it’s come up yet again: no, Victor Hugo was not paid by the word to write Les Misérables, nor any of his other notable works.

While Hugo may have been paid a word rate for his early serialised fiction, by the time of Les Mis’ authorship he was sufficiently famous that he was able to command advance payment in a lump sum.

Indeed, he famously caused his publisher a great deal of anxiety by refusing to discuss how long Les Mis would be, leading to fears that he was planning to turn in a tiny pamphlet-length piece, then take the advance and run. His editors were reportedly extremely surprised at what they actually received!

The reason that Les Mis is the way that it is is because Victor Hugo is just Like That.

[chronically-hyperfixating]

Lmao. I’m currently reading the Waterloo side tangent, it kinda feels like reading one of my grandpa’s essay length texts. I guess Hugo just liked to yap

[louisa605]

(I can't draw R. He's not that beautiful)

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, "I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man."

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[phallicthimble]

I'll happily take this over a fifty five page detour about the Battle of Waterloo.

[aaronstveit]

the only documented case of anyone ever ACTUALLY having a gay agenda was george blagden on the set of les mis 2012