#i got valvert

[lenievi]

forgot to mention that I went to see Les Misérables, the musical, again and the highlight?

Valjean threw a WHOLE chair at Javert during the Confrontation 🪑

[24601orwhatever]

NICK REHBERGER & STEVE CZARNECKI AS JAVERT

two of my favorite american javerts side by side :) 📷: @medium-observation

[thefrenchbrick24601]

um….

[awholelotofsad]

hands are made to hold and choke

(alternate comment: this wasn’t meant to be something i’d post but i. got a little carried away and it ended up being one of my better pieces. 🗿)

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

shoujo cosette be like

some police guy: hey, so i think we should do our jobs or something. sounds great, right?

javert: yeah, sure

javert, internally, in the most sensual whisper the voice actor could manage apparently: damn that jean valjean! i won't rest until he's found and kneeling before me, that bastard!

[demon4dilfs]

no dollaritas were consumed 😔

[russell-crowe]

taming the wolf

[for-the-love-of-javert]

Valvert in sepia tones.

For all you Valvert shippers/fans

Javert finally gets his hands on Valjean not giving a f**k if he's dirty and stinks after trudging through the sewers with Marius over his back. He's even doing a moob feel.

Screenshot from Barricade/Les Miserables 1925

Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean & Jean Toulout as Javert/Touvert

I think I've posted this pic before but Idc.

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

hey, what if I actually posted something on AO3? that'd be wild, right?

anyway, here's some madeleine-era valvert:

I've posted the first two chapters to kick things off.

here's a snippet:

[secretmellowblog]

Tomorrow I will be posting a Les Mis fanfiction largely inspired by this post!

Unlike everything I’ve written before, it’s beta read and also written in a style a bit closer to Victor Hugo’s. Mark your calendars, etc etc 😂

[catboyrightsdefender]

getting a bit more understanding of why my art is the way it is and id love to talk about that with my therapist but that would involve me showing her old men and ghosts fucking and uh am i really ready to do that

[mo-moomin]

The "God above" expression???? It's so on point!! And I ADORE the sense of motion that seeps from every part of this. Also, I am so, *so* down for hands used to convey emotion and you deliver ample of that and so bloody well, too (I am "god above"-ing every time I see an update and ohhh I need to properly go through the newes one again :'))

Book Four - Final Touches 2

[next page] [first page] or read the finished pages on [AO3]

I really don't think this needs to be labeled as mature content (maybe the next ones), but let me know if you feel otherwise. Enjoy! <3

[bogusbyron]

MARIUS AND JAVERT BLAST

as you can tell ive had a couple of muses in this last month. the marius sketchpage is literally from when i was in holiday in france. the random misc les mis doodles i did during the show in august. the rest...... stuff .

got my old wacom screenless tablet working so i can finally use that again interchangably (still getting the hang of it.. its been 3 years). sorry for no valvert art i cant share the art i did actually do of them

[awholelotofsad]

normally this is the part where i make some kind of caption that's funny or related to the video, but honestly i'm just so glad i got this done in time

anyway happy valvert week part 2. the song is 命の食べ方 by eve

@valvertweek

[susandsnell]

did you see the current US les mis tour? i'm thinking of going (though i haven't bought tickets yet) and i'm curious about what might be in it for valvert enjoyers (including myself)

OH DID I EVER, FRIEND. It came to Canada this past summer and I cannot recommend getting tickets enough; it's possibly the best the show has ever been, and the cast is incredible. I didn't think I'd still be crying at it at this age and bam, Act 2 rolls around and there goes my painstakingly winged eyeliner.

Valvert is imo the most played up it's been, if you want to go in unspoiled I'll leave it at that, but I'll put more details after the cut. Spoilers/me being a cringe parody of myself below.

They've gone with both a lot more physical blocking between the two of them and a much more humanized Javert + book-accurately violent (albeit For Good Reason) Valjean than previous productions, all of which lends itself very well to the ship. Lot of lingering gazes in prison/grabs at each other, a genuine rapport between Maire Madeleine and the Inspector of Montreuil-sur-Mer, and then there's the Champmathieu trial through the Confrontation. Javert actively lunges for Valjean after his confession and the two leads I saw had such an intense chemistry you could see their eyes burning through that part.

As for the Confrontation, it's been choreographed/blocked to be a lot more suggestive violent than previously; there's a barely concealed smirk on Javert's face during "you'll wear a different chain" that I remember made me think "...my 12 year old self is thriving right now." Valjean doesn't snap until Javert tries to shackle him, at which point it goes into the whole "I am warning you, Javert!" bit. He uses that incredible, Brick-accurate Valjean strength to break free, deck Javert, and garrotes him with his own chain at the song's (heh) climax, until the man goes down to his knees, and if I'm not misremembering, he half-straddles his shoulder to keep him down. Before it gets into the "And this I swear to you tonight" bit, there's a good several moments of Javert left rolling on the ground writhing, gagging, and moaning (this would become a persistent thing as the show progressed) while still crawling towards Valjean, half-conscious and half-mad with obsession, reaching towards him. And then Valjean smashes his head into a wall, Liam Neeson in '98 style. I don't know what you go to the theatre for, but personally I do to see old men cry and beat the shit out of each other homoerotically.

Not much more happens in Act 1 (though the Intervention through Stars has as much reverence to it about the sanctity of their chase and their dynamic as it does the very structures Javert cannot fathom Valjean existing outside of - I think he presses his fingers to his lips a little on "Lord, let me find him" after crossing himself), but Act 2 at the Barricades is where things go wild again. There seems to be an Objectifying The Inspector agenda behind the scenes of this new production and I am here for it. Thus, please know that the Valvert barricade scenes take place with the mainstay of Javert having his shirt needlessly torn open/almost off by Les Amis / his ponytail getting dishevelled / him throwing his head back and moaning / panting at some points over the singing because he got his ass kicked again. Heavy, heavy appraisal in Valjean's "give me the spy Javert"/tugging on his bonds as he pulls him away to ostensibly take him out back like Old Yeller (for show for Les Amis, sure but I sensed a bit of spite/something else). And then Valjean's Forgiveness is just. Okay, so I got good enough seats to say that Javert is licking his lips during "How right you should kill with a knife."

What really made my jaw drop was that Javert, being played a lot more emotionally and erratically at this point, actually reaches with both hands once freed of his bonds to grab hold of Valjean's rifle by the mouth and pull it up to his head/press his whole chest into it on "shoot me now, for all I care". Which, yes, Imagery, but then you have them having a legitimate moment where Valjean firmly but gently pulls the gun away/him away from the gun, and holds his face/shoulder in a way I think was? Deliberately meant to echo the blocking of the Bishop during the whole "I have bought your soul for God" in the prologue. "There's nothing that I blame you for" is almost played as a realization despite the anguish Javert has put him through. As for the sewers through the end, each man is played as having increasing realization of how much they are two sides of the same coin, but during the Soliloquy, you have Javert screaming out/sobbing some of his lines about Valjean and how dare he transcend the very structures that gave sense and shape to his world. It has to be seen to be believed.

Outside of this -- there's actually a lot more work done outside their interactions to parallel them. Javert and Gavroche are given a rapport meant to run alongside the Valjean-Cosette relationship where you see a Javert who's a lot more indulgently annoyed towards this cocky gamin than aggressive (they have such a cute, funny moment together after Look Down/Javert's Intervention bit, Javert's not even mad and more 'are you fucking kidding me I lost to an 8 year old' when Gavroche blows his cover). It pays off because they worked in him paying respects when he sees his body during the Bring Him Home instrumental as they did in the movie (albeit more organically, because the scene is staged from Javert's POV seeing all the bodies at the barricade + he stops over Gavroche, kneels to close the boy's still-open eyes, and with a stricken expression, makes the sign of the cross over his body), to the point that you absolutely get the impression Javert is seeing his younger, disadvantaged yet striving self in Gavroche. With the instrumental cue being Valjean's song of paternal feeling for Marius, the staging really drives home that Javert had so many opportunities himself to go through a similar journey of personal growth through fatherhood. And there's power in these parallels when they're not interacting, too!

All in all, they went all in on every character relationship in this production and I cannot recommend it enough. The costumes are beautiful, the sets/effects are phenomenal, and the orchestration reveals just how beautiful the score really is. Go see it!!!

[moonywings]

anyone got any les misérables fics with Joly & Grantaire friendship??? i feel like R needs so much therapy and talking about his depression and drinking issues with his friend could be so so helpful

additionnally, if you got enjoltaire hurt-comfort i'm taking it too i need to heal from canon

also good valvert recommendations...i think they're gay bye