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since it's almost barricades days and i've seen new people joining our fandom, i would like to list u all some very nice adaptations i really like that u can watch (and that are better alternatives than the bbc adaptation) (and i included links!!!!!):

what to watch ?

- i feel like this is a classic, but the 2012 movie adaptation by tom hopper, obviously. while it's not the best adaptation, it is still really good (also i feel like it made a lot of us join the fandom in the first place)

- also pretty obvious but the west end musical by claude-michel schönberg and alain boublil (i'm pretty sure u can find decent bootleg on yt) + honorable mention for the 25th anniversary concert but i feel like u need to know a bit about the musical before seeing the concert

- a personal favourite, the 1982 french movie by robert hossein, it is three hours long tho, but it's worth it; the adaptation is really good, especially the portrayal of Les Amis (here's the yt link to the whole movie)

- shojo Cosette is also pretty decent, tho i've only watched the episodes with Les Amis (the barricades are heartbreaking just like we love)

- it's really obscure but the silent short film l'enfant sur la barricade (the child on the barricade) by Alice Guy. the sources diverge from whether it's an adaptation of les mis or an adaptation of a poem hugo wrote called "sur une barricade" and taking place during the commune of paris but the character could be inspired by gavroche

- Les Amis webserie, that u can find on yt, or here :

it's a web serie made by fans for fans and it's amazing

- All That's Left Of Us, another web serie made by and for fans. it's beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking. u can find it on youtube or here:

and on the overall anything that eli southern does about les mis is pretty amazing so i encourage u all to go check @thecandlesticksfromlesmis

(although i feel like u need to know a bit about the fandom before jumping right into the webseries)

- and obviously, The Brick, the original masterpiece that is Les Miserables by victor hugo; if u have the courage i promise that it's worth it

annnnd that's all ! at least for my favourite one, but there are a looooot of different adaptations for every taste i guess ! anyway have fun and take care of y'all during barricades days !

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The real tragedy about the barricade is that we don’t know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because we’ll never know. 

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liberté égalité bicuriosité

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It's that time of the year again! Remember to leave out bread and absinthe for Victor Hugo and he will leave you 50 pages on a subject that is off-topic but that he is vaguely interested in. Be safe out there!

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IN HONOUR OF BARRICADE DAY, A DISCOVERY

oh my god ok so ITS BARRICADE DAY (THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REBELLION ON WHICH A LOT OF LES MIS IS BASED, LIKE VICKY HUGEHOE MADE UP A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS AND STUCK THEM IN THE STUDENT UPRISING OF 1832 WHICH HAPPENED ON THE FIFTH AND SIXTH OF JUNE) SO IM CONSUMING NOTHING BUT LES MIS CONTENT TODAY WHICH HAS BEEN THE TRADITION FOR LIKE TEN YEARS FOR ME AND LIKE 191 YEARS FOR EVERYONE ELSE AND SO I WAS READING THIS NEWSPAPER FROM 1832 TALKING ABOUT THE REBELLION i was reading a newspaper about the rebellion and the paper was from 1832 and jesus, mary, joseph, and the cow you are not going to believe what i found, I THINK I MIGHT HAVE DISCOVERED THE INSPIRATION FOR GRANTAIRE????? OK SO. i m m e d i a t e l y after the article about the rebellion was this little mini-story abt this motherfucker:

LIKE PARDON????? OK BC AND LIKE ITS UNLIKELY BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT THAT FUCKING GUY THAT MOTHERFUCKER MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE INSPIRATION FOR GRANTAIRE?? BC LIKE. BEING IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR, ASSUMED TO BE DEAD, ONLY AT THE VERY LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT WAKING UP A N D DECLARING THAT HE'D NEVER GET DRUNK AGAIN BC 1 HE WAS GNA DIE WITH ENJOLRAS AND 2 HIS DRUNKENNESS WAS A METAPHOR FOR WHY HE WASNT LIKE NOBLE AND SHIT AND HIS CYNICISM BUT ENJYBABY TURNED HIM INTO A BELIEVER??? normalize believing very very very unlikely things bc it's funny shhh

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I ship Merthur to an inordinate degree. I wholeheartedly believe that they were meant for each other, yet whenever I’m reading fics about them and they actually get together, it feels wrong and I don’t like it. I think I might have figured out why. Merlin and Arthur loved each other, of course they did, but it was more than that. It was more than master/servant, more than friends, more than lovers, more than brothers. More than soulmates. In a way, I think it was all of it, all at once. Merlin loved Arthur in every way that it is possible for one person to love another, and more. The same was true for Arthur. They can’t be just lovers because that’s only a fraction of what they are to each other. Plus, I love Arthur and Merlin’s characters exactly how they are and neither of them would realistically do or say any of the stuff they do and say in the fluffier fics (or at least that’s not how I interpreted their characters). Arthur’s love for Merlin was boundless, but the most he could actually bring himself to express was general. It was what Merlin was, not what merlin was to him. You’re a loyal friend, a very good servant, very brave, incredibly loyal, not at all cowardly. Same with Merlin. You’ll be a great king, you’re special, there’ll never be another like you. Very very rarely do they actually express what they are to each other, and it’s with extreme difficulty that they say things that most people could say without a second thought. You’re the only friend I have and I couldn’t bear to lose you. Because you’re my friend and I don’t want to lose you. I thought I knew you. I don’t want you to change. I want you to always be you. So fics where Arthur is saying “I love you so much, you mean the world to me, etc” just don’t feel right. Almost cheapens it, for me anyway. Lmk if its just me lol

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TW: unsafe chest binding

transmasc enj, for barricade day <3

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happy barricade day to bahorel. they oppressed ur enthusiasm in the musical and i wont stand for it

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bonus relatable laura tiktok for barricade day ofc

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AT NOTRE DAME THE SECTIONS ARE PREPARED AT RUE DE BAC THEY'RE STRAINING AT THE LEASH STUDENTS WORKERS EVERYONE THERE'S A RIVER ON THE RUN LIKE THE FLOWING OF THE TIDE PARIS COMING TO OUR SIDE

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barricade day reminder that bahorel has the fattest ass

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us celebrating this has the same vibes as christians celebrating easter. what is going on.

barricade day tomorrow yay the gay french revolutionaries are dead

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all of this and also maybe dont put a fucking crown on a starving peasant child's head and celebrate the monarchy about it please im begging you I cant breathe

Formal reminder that les amis were communists. they opposed the monarchy because first and foremost they saw peasants suffering under harsh taxation and wealth inequality so great they could barely survive while members and friends of the monarchy lived in golden palaces and were doing nothing to stop it.

I love drawing the gay people and talking about barricade day every year and I think victor hugo would have wanted his book to be celebrated on that front absolutely, but don't forget what it stood for originally. Keep it alive with your actions in the real world, where people in the united states suffer from a wealth inequality equivalent to that before the french revolution, and where internationally the state of civil rights and workers rights are constantly being threatened. Use it to empower you; even though the June rebellion failed, it stoked the fires of revolution and were it not for the real june rebellion, the French Revolution would not have succeeded. Use it to inspire you to keep going, even when things seem hopeless.

In the words of Hugo (heavily cut down because that man could not be concise to save his life) "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

Happy Barricade Day!!!

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literally putting my person through actual hell today and they're being a very good sport

It is once again that time of the year.

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190 slutty, slutty years

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rip victor hugo i just know you would’ve loved to see how we’ve turned ur french revolutionary students into a bunch of gay sluts

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In honor of barricade day, I would like to make a psa that I still have not forgiven Tom Hooper for cutting Grantaire’s “Drink With Me” Solo