#AND WE GOT BARRICADE

[brinkle-brackle]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO TO CLASS TOMORROW AFTER THAT. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO LIFE AS USUAL AFTER THAT. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE

[bernard-the-rabbit]

Your boy finished artschool today!! Wahooo

[chrisrin]

my incredibly normal reaction to the crane wives playing curses at the concert.

[ditch-lily]

jeff. did this to me

[sylvianartist]

quick mcr doodles I crapped out + pete wentz space buns I am ILL

[thepiecesofcait]

For @barricadescon I'm presenting a panel about directing Les Mis at my local community theatre last year, and so if there's any specific questions anyone has about the process (or staging a particular part of the show or anything) I'd love to hear them so I can make sure they get answered! I'm too close to the project to know which parts would be most interesting to an audience that hasn't seen the show, so please - my ask box is open!

[pilferingapples]

as a big les mis fan, i have loved your blog for ages but recently you have especially piqued my interest - in your recent explanatory amis post, you referenced historical metacontext around jehan's death being first. i have a theory about what that metacontext is, but i am FAR from certain and hoping you could offer me some clarification

(also do you have any other pieces of interesting historical metacontext to share with the class)

OK you gotta tell me your Theory too!!! if it lines up or it was something totally different , I wanna hear it alllll

anyway! it's pretty solid that Prouvaire as he finally appears is largely an homage to Hugo's old friend Gérard de Nerval, who had died in 1855; a LOT about Prouvaire's description overlaps with how people talk about Gérard, and the conversation where he's arguing with everyone about the old gods still existing lines up EXTREMELY with conversations that other people remembered having with him ; there's THIS :

Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same confidence (LM 3.4.1, Hapgood)

“God is dead, perhaps,” said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of these lines, confounding progress with God and taking the interruption of movement for the death of Being.(LM 5.1.20)

(Hugo still trying to still have this conversation with his friend via novel guts me more than a little!! People are people and we never stop wanting to find the right thing to say oh geez I'm crying for real)

Bahorel , who dies in the same first-charge attack that takes Prouvaire, is also a (even more obvious) homage to a friend; Petrus Borel , who had died in 1859.

They're considered pretty minor figures today, but they were both really noteable names in their day, which is to say...about the late 1820s/early 1830s; they were two of Hugo's most trusted lieutenants in the battle of Hernani, held in French Romantic memory as a breakout event for the movement. And, importantly, they were the first of that core group of more radical Romantics to die.

So while i think there is a lot going on character- and symbol-wise with them being the first two Amis down, I also think there's definitely an Acknowledgement in them being the first of the named group to go; they get the sort of heroic deaths they'd have liked, and maybe the closest thing to Good deaths on the barricade until OFPD? and agh I'm emotional, QUICK tell me your theories before I start crying harder

[follies-and-feuillys]

The fact that Thernardier was lurking in the sewer trying to rob dead revolutionaries implies that he thought the dead barricade boys would be put down the sewer once they were shot or stabbed.

[sincaraz]

got jannik selfie I’m shaking

[jaarijani]

i dreamt we were all going to a kä gig together again but before the gig we had to solve a weird rebus puzzle thing and Krisu came up to me and asked if I had seen the gays and I replied "on occasion, yes." and i woke up to the high of having made dream krisu laugh

[whyisntketchupasmoothie]

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[frmtheroombelow]

unstoppable force (wanting to be at the barricade to possibly hand the eepies fun things to wear) vs immoveable object (my short stature and lingering bad feelings frm previous barricade concerts)

[raytorosaurus]

guys im just saying you don't have to believe literally everything you hear about second-hand online...also not everything needs to be Discussed Online and Made Public...there is a point where that just turns into cyberbullying...........

[sunshineandlyrics]

💝 Ross received so many gifts for Louis, including a personalised Seattle Kraken ice hockey jersey with fan messages for Louis.

FITFWT Seattle, 24 June 2023

[rimouskis]

yes yes very cool to see the video of chappel at lolla but seeing that crowd just made me think of the fact that I've been to lolla once and I highly doubt I will ever go back again lol. that is simply Too Many People

[next-semester]