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disliking the Les Mis movie in 2024 is embarrassing. ''they weren't broadway singe-'' get over it. ''russell crowe wasn't good-'' what if I ate your spleen.

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Vol. I Fantine: tallies and stats

The translator with the greatest number of popular translations for Volume I is: Isabel Hapgood!

Numbers under the cut.

out of 64 votable chapter titles, each translator won this many times:

Hapgood: 32 (+ 1 possible win from a tie being re run)

Walton: 19

Donougher: 18 (+1 possible win from a tie being re run)

Wilbour: 18

FMA: 18

Rose: 15

Wraxall: 12

Denny: 7

Hapgood is definitely a very frequent victor (badum tshh) on this blog. Half of all the polls had her among the winners! Very impressive work!

In terms of the vote, most of the polls were decently split. But we had a few definite sweeps, with 6 polls having a winning translation with over 90%. These all ended up being in cases where there have been only two translations of the title, with only 1-2 translators going against the grain, and in these cases of massive sweeps, the votes all aligned with the more widespread translation.

Now, to be clear, I'm by no means implying that translators are copying each other whenever they translate something the same way! But I also thought it might be interesting to tally up the times when being individual/different won a translator the vote.

Hapgood: 10

Donougher: 8

FMA: 7

Rose: 3

Wilbour: 2

Denny: 1

Walton: 1

Wraxall: 0 😔 tragique

Also, one reminder: nearly every translation had someone going to it. At a quick glance, only about 6 of our 64 polls had an option with 0% of votes. That's pretty impressive! I'm glad we have a group of folks with a variety of opinions-- it makes running these polls worthwhile and reading the tags a lot more interesting and fun! And I'm glad that every translator has someone rooting for them.

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I wish for this to become the fandom lingo

And the whole barricade clapped.

Like this.

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cosette does get to see valjean before he dies! just barely. which is a great moment for marius, succeeding this time where he failed with his own father.

crying thinking about the parallels between marius and cosette’s parental figures and the vicious cycle of trauma and how they give and receive love without always knowing how to.

- fantine parting from cosette for her daughter’s own good, only to unintentionally leave her in an abusive household / colonel pontmercy parting from marius for his son’s own good, only to unintentionally leave him with an emotionally abusive grandfather

- gillenormand separating marius from his father without marius knowing, leading to resentment on marius’s end / marius separating cosette and valjean without cosette knowing, leading to resentment on cosette’s end

- colonel pontmercy hiding in the church just to catch a glimpse of his son / valjean taking walks into cosette’s new neighborhood just to watch his daughter’s house

- marius never getting the chance to see colonel pontmercy before he dies, but his father leaving him an explanatory note / cosette never getting the chance to see fantine or valjean before they die, but valjean leaving her an explanatory note about her family

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look, I'm a tired demographics student with too much time on their hands and an undying love for polls, so..

I'm also deeply interested in fandom demographics... from my 4 long long (yet relatively short) years in this fandom I've noticed that the Les Mis fanbase does tend to be older than other fandoms I've been in, (though this obviously depends on the platform you're on, for example, the falsettos fandom on tiktok seems to have a lot of 12-15 year olds, to my great surprise) and I just like analysing why that is! I know other fandoms have/have had sort of "fandom demographics" polls which I've always found super interesting... while I'm not necessarily trying to recreate that, I do find this interesting to look at!

Needless to say the more people see this the more representative and accurate the results will be so PLEASEEE reblog thiss and make my little demographer-to-be heart happy

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LES MISÉRABLES (1925)

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the night of a day’s tramp deserves more love! it’s a play on words! valjean is wandering into town after a long days walk and *he is a tramp*. i think wilbour deserves some credit for this one

I.ii.1 Le Soir D’un Jour De Marche

The Night of a Day’s Tramp: Wilbour

The Close Of A Day's March: Wraxall

The Evening Of A Day Of Walking: Hapgood

The Close of a Day's Tramp: Walton

End of a Day's Journey: Denny

The Night After a Day's Walk: FMA, Rose

The Evening After a Day's Walking: Donougher

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Okay so I have decided to go back and properly do the former polls, I know it'll take a little longer but if we do indeed wind up with Enj vs. Cosette, I'll use the results from before. I deleted today's earlier post, so I'm redoing the intro here lol. If, say, Fantine wins over Enjolras, then we'll pit her against Cosette, etc. Sorry about all this 😭

Anyway. I'm currently SCREAMING because of the last round. Poor Grantaire, barely winning over a literal tunnel of crap. And thank you, @shitpostingfromthebarricade, for your contribution. Now, back to Enjolras vs. Fantine!

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marius is so “oh no! anyway” about eponine confessing her love and then immediately dying that 1862 girlies could have started using “and by the way, monsieur marius, i believe that i was a little bit in love with you” as a preface to announce major geopolitical events

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important news i bring you what we’re now dubbing the yogi bear au. some are calling it the most important of our time actually

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today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

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Bricktober day 2., magic @lesmis-prompts

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my offering to les mis fans

probably click for better quality

(isolated layers of javert and the dog under the cut!)

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based on the hungarian les mis production with szaszák zsolt as enjolras i saw last weekend, specifically inspired by the begginning of one day more where each character stood under harsch spotlight and i wanted to scream

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being disappointed by valjean acting choices at the barricade if he’s being oddly violent or mean to javert….. he should be treating javert like a weird bug in his house……. he’s gently trapping him in a cup and putting him outside

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At the barricades of freedom *vague sizzling of cooked meats*

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Drawing by me, thank you @thegreatgaygay for the idea

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