#LE Guest

[barricadescon]

Jean Baptiste Hugo announced as Guest of Honor at Barricades 2024

Barricades 2024 is pleased to announce Jean Baptiste Hugo as one of our Guests of Honor for this year's convention. Jean Baptiste Hugo is the great-great-grandson of Victor Hugo. He has extensively photographed Hugo's home in exile on Guernsey, a project about which he said this: “In 2014, I was about to start a series of photographs of Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo stayed in exile for 15 years. I had the intention, picturing in my mind the dark gothic rooms, to use the legendary black and white 400 Tri-X Kodak film, known for its grainy quality and its rich black tones. It just happened that around that same period I started looking into the extraordinary colour possibilities offered by digital photography, having considered it for years , I must admit, as very inferior to black and white film. The introduction I was given to digital colour photography inspired me enough to try and capture as faithfully as I could the colourful atmosphere of my ancestor’s folly on Guernsey and, I am glad I did, as it allowed me to engage in an exploration of colour and texture in a very creative way which I am still pursuing today through other photographic subjects.”

[queer-ragnelle]

Do you have a guide/a recommended reading list for getting into Arthurian legends? I’ve been really getting into it in the past few months but I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of the foundations of it. (If you don’t and this is too big of an ask totally feel free to ignore this lol)

hello, anon.

i don't currently although i have plans to add another page to my blog listing medieval texts as well as links to download pdfs of them. i have english translations of texts originating in belarussian, dutch, french, german, hebrew, italian, latin, middle english, and last but not least, welsh.

in the mean time, i've collected for you some key texts that are readily available to read for free online!

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory [part 1] [part 2]

the history of the britons by nennius [here]

the mabinogion translated by lady charlotte guest [here]

four romances by chrétien de troyes [here]

parzival by wolfram von eschenbach [part 1] [part 2]

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle translated by thomas hahn [here]

sir gawain and the green knight translated by j. r. r. tolkien [here]

better translations/formatting forthcoming! enjoy. :^)

[demon4dilfs]

the theme for @valvertweek, “between dog and wolf” immediately made me want to do something with the song “i’m your man” by mitski. so i put together some collages with the lyrics and some brick quotes.

caps are from a west end bootleg featuring earl carpenter as javert and john owen-jones as jean valjean

[a-ramblinrose]

I bought myself a fancy new copy of ✨️The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin!!!✨️

[odds-cu-blog]

What would happen if you shoved your favourite to traumatise character into therapy along with other aus where they're JUST ast traumatised??

This. This is the answer.

[petit-papillion]

The caption on this photo is cracking me up:

Guests attend the Game Changers Exhibition at The Ferrari Gala: Ferrari's game changing spirit pays homage to NYC at Hudson Yards on October 17, 2023 in New York City.

Guests? You mean Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz ogling the 2023 Le Mans-winning Ferrari 499P Hypercar?

📸 Jamie McCarthy

[philibetexcerpts]

On 11 February 1953, the Queen and Prince Philip attended the premiere of the film Les Belles de Nuit at the Rialto Cinema.

[wrishwrosh]

night watch aka john keel’s terrible horrible no good very bad revolution

[probably-enjolras]

i accidentally mentioned AO3 to my dad because i was rambling about les mis and he works in AI and data analysis so he decided to test one of his tools to understand how AO3 works and im just watching him look beyond confused and im like pls don’t ask me my account OR my search history just trust me on this one

also he knows i adore hozier and i told him titles often are named after song lyrics even if they aren’t entirely connected to the fic and i said hozier lyrics are really common and he said “maybe it’s the other way around” and the idea of hozier getting his lyrics from AO3 titles is my version of the darkest pit of hell. unreal unearth may have been inspired by the layers of hell but nothing compares to this idea jesus fucking christ

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Hey hey, i have a prompt, please and thank you, if u're open for those right now. Okay here it goes: ExR (or whatever that parts actually secondary) with E being a politician and R being a reporter for a political satire-show. In the German Bundestag (if you're comfortable with that). It's just ... it's a vibe .. like a heute-show reporter crushing on a little too witty politician like. (In crack-format). I think i need that. I would really appreciate it but also understand if you don't have the time or think this is not up your lane. Hope you have a great autum time. Happy thanksgiving or whatever americans are celebrating this time of year (you're american right?). Toodles

After having read @thelibrarina 's absolutely perfect fanon version of this prompt several years ago, I don't know that I have anything I can add to it. Canon characterizations get a bit rougher because I simply do not believe that Enjolras would be satisfied working within a government he is trying to overthrow.

Hahahah, I am American, but I've only lived there one year since 2016. Happy late Samhain/early Yule! Enjoy the harvest festival, all who celebrate!

[definegodliness]

Chief Snoot

[comradecowplant]

Love that the discourse is so rancid that cishet men are the main character of pride this year! Great job everyone!!!!!

[barricadescon]

Barricades: A Les Mis Convention is pleased to announce Guest of Honor Bonnie Gleicher

Bonnie Gleicher is a songwriter, playwright, and arranger whose music is heard off-Broadway, on TV, and on Youtube. Bonnie is the creator of Gavroche, a new take on Les Miserables told from the POV of Gavroche Thenardier featuring a contemporary pop score. She is also the composer/lyricist of off-Broadway’s Addy & Uno, has written music for Hulu’s MarMar Land, and her song “Love” was sung by Taylor Louderman for Write Out Loud. 

Bonnie’s Barricades session will feature a discussion about her original musical, followed by a Q&A. If you’re curious about the creative choices she made, the process of adapting Les Mis into a contemporary musical, or anything else, be sure to attend! 

[frangipani-wanderlust]

I was today years old when I realized that "Be Our Guest" (Beauty and the Beast) and "Les Poissons" (The Little Mermaid) have the same tune.

[generic-doomsday-villain]

THERES PROFIT TO BE MADE FROM THE RECENT DECEASED (lyrics r from "grave robber at large" by creature feature :3 i actually made this drawing like 2 nights ago im just posting it now) (also proship dni)

[savefrog]

seeing something list “Guilt and shame at not being able to keep clean” as an ADHD symptom...bitch what if i dont feel anything about it? Certified to not have ADHD because I revel in the chaos. I leave something on the floor and forget about it and when it finally renders in my vision later I’m like “Fuck yeah!!! Environmental Storytelling!!!!!”