#my les mis writing

[uponthebarricade]

ok but what's even the point of the olympics being in paris if we don't get some les mis olympics au fics out of it. ignore all prior commitments let's get those pens to paper stat.

[erosyrup]

J/B/M

—I am wild over her.

Reference pic below, though I'm sure all the gay ppl on this site has seen it before:

[alilsakurablossom]

a valvert fic where javert really needs glasses and valjean takes him to the optician and it's called valjean at last we see eachother plain

[motions1ckn3ss]

went to my local art gallery to see my one of my favourite paintings (my profile picture lol) and it's been REMOVED FROM PUBLIC DISPLAY... did see this very dare i say grantaire coded painting though

[timidflowergirl]

Les Amis reincarnation AU but they don't all come back in a uniform timeline/form.

Combeferre is an old man. Courfeyrac is a cat (obviously). Enjolras is a righteously angry four year old with a full memory of his past life.

[the-lark-not-the-dove]

I feel like I'm the only one in the Les Mis fandom who CAN'T STAND Modern AUs in fanfics. I just...it takes away the fun of it for me, and I don't enjoy them at all. I just don't get why SO MANY Modern AUs are out there when they could easily be done in canon era. I could understand if there were a few, but the fact that it's almost every single one is what makes me mad. make more canon era fics!!!!!!!!!!

[secretmellowblog]

For me the ‘canon homoerotic subtext’ between brick!Valjean and Javert is really more about the parallels between Javert and Eponine, who are explicitly set up as character foils.

Brick!Javert isn’t obsessed with Valjean like he is in adaptations. He’s not psychosexually obsessed with hunting him down; he really doesn’t seem to think of him as being any different than any other criminal—- he doesn’t think about Jean Valjean much at all until after Jean Valjean saves his life.

But after the barricades, Javert’s sudden weird desperate emotions about Jean Valjean are like a twisted mirror of his character foil Eponine’s weird desperate emotions for Marius.

Some guy takes pity on them, and extends them a bit of basic impersonal kindness— and they react by descending into this violently self-destructive suicidal admiration built on self-loathing. They’re both described as making themselves the “dogs” of Marius/Valjean, the dogs of people who barely remember they exist.

And anyway! I think there is potential to explore things there in analysis and fanfiction

[clarisinne]

extremely random enjoltaire headcanons that are just v true to me

grantaire has an old ass phone like one of those old 2012 android smartphones, just because it's funny

grantaire fell first enjolras fell harder, purely because he is unable to half-ass anything

enjolras is, despite himself, a passenger princess

grantaire refuses to take his iron supplements

despite being hot enjolras is not hit on often because he has a very serious and scary case of resting bitch face

grantaire used to be obsessed with deep fried memes. enjolras doesn't get them AT ALL

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Happy Drink With Me 2024!!!! This year, I wrote Enjolras & Cosette friendship for the wonderful @syrupsyche, my fellow 'Enjolras & Cosette are siblings' ride or die! This isn't enjolsette siblings, but it's also not...not that.

@drinkwithme-exchange

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Summary:

“Why don’t we?” Enjolras says.

Cosette frowns. “Why don’t we, what?”

“Swap,” Enjolras clarifies. “The two of us can swap roles.”

Or

When Enjolras and Cosette are misgendered in the school play casting, the two of them take matters into their own hands.

Word Count: 12, 613

Pairings: (platonic) Enjolras & Cosette Fauchelevent, Cosette & Les Amis de l'ABC

[awholelotofsad]

(very big warning for flashing lights, this game has a lot of it!)

it started out as a joke from a throwaway line on the @/valvertweek post. the more i worked on this the less of a joke it seemed, and the further away it strayed from the point i intended to make. i'm sorry this video is longer than it really should be.

[doodledraw]

my cool down doodle yesterday ended up becoming….a little more than just a doodle when I took the chance to experiment a little stylistically. Whoops?

anyhoo, this is a doodle from the mind of @goddammitjim, who wrote a codywan les mis actors au fic. The description of Cody watching Obi-Wan sing Bring Him Home (conveniently my favorite song) on opening night (ch 10) has been stuck in my mind since I read it, and I’ve wanted to doodle codywan again so….here we are!!

I hope you don’t mind that I played in your sandbox a little! I’ll link the fic here for anyone interested, it’s a really great one!!

[herzgestolper]

I truly missed writing modern au LesMis fanfiction. I get to research fun things like:

- weather in Paris at all times of the year

- French party system (shout out to my old college lectures)

- How bad is the light pollution in Paris

- How did Ovid's metamorphosis start again?

- Symptoms of a skull fracture

- How long do certain broken bones need to heal

- How often do french people swear on average

- Cringe christmas card slogans

This years barricade day will be fun :)))

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

WAIIIIIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT HOW DID I JUST NOW LEARN AFTER ALL THIS TIME--

Like, I've known about the religious aspect of Javert's death! Catholic theology taught that suicide was a mortal sin, meaning a sin that would send you to hell--Javert, who is described as exactingly religious (viewing religion as another authoritative structure, in contrast to Valjean's personal faith), was so distraught over the error and failure of his worldview, that he broke what he'd regarded as a sacred rule to punish himself and condemn himself to hell. I've known this! And it's agonizing!!

But then I read a YouTube comment of all things, and maybe this is an old take but it just eviscerated me:

At the time of Javert's death, suicide was a crime in France.

His last act was to break the law.

Mr. Hugo, I'd like to retire now, you're giving me too many emotions to process.

[bobafish]

I’m still very fascinated by the melodies of “Come to Me”, “On My Own”, and “Epilogue” in Les Mis. Especially the last lyric/tune “To love another person is to see the face of God.” Because that's exactly what I think this whole melody means, and even the entire story. I got that from this video, analysing the melodies of On My Own, and I just couldn't help but add my own thoughts!

To love another person is to see the face of God can be applied to most characters I can think of, especially the suffering ones. And it doesn't even have to be interpreted religiously! Seeing the face of God as in finding meaning and light and hope in an otherwise dark and devastating world is what these characters are going through, and they’re feeling this hope and purpose through their deep and unconditional love.

Valjean is sombre about his life even after his redemption through Bishop Myriel. He is kind to everyone and lives life with good intentions but it's incomplete. He doesn't love anyone in particular to feel truly happy, that is until he comes across Fantine and Cosette, and that’s when his life is truly given a purpose by having Cosette as his adopted daughter. Fantine, on the other hand, has an optimistic start in her story, where she’s loved and is “loved” by her friends and Tholomyes. And even when she’s driven into poverty and prostitution, it's not all for nothing, because she still has hope, she still has Cosette. And that’s when she sings “Come to Me” as she is dying.

Marius treads through the difficulties of poverty, refusing assistance from anyone, because of his love for his father. And he’s made more peaceful and joyful when he sees (not meets) Cosette (even though his actions towards her were questionable). Eponine is aware of this and finds love in him because of it. Love and hope she couldn’t truly see in her recent life of poverty, and misery. With him, even though he doesn’t do much for her, she lives in a world full of happiness that she had never known. And that’s what drives her to do all the favours for him. It’s what keeps her going, what gives her bleak life a small, but precious purpose. 

 Enjolras, though he isn’t mentioned to be going through anything bad in particular (and despite saying that his one true love is his country, not a specific person), is ultimately also driven by the love he has for his friends. They’re more than just a political group for him to lead, they are, as mentioned, his family.  Each of the amis is driven by love, for the country, for their other loved ones, and for their friends. And they were willing to march to their deaths because they had hope, they had love. And in the end, Enjolras is nailed to the wall by eight bullets that take his life away, symbolizing each one of his friends that he died for, even Grantaire. And especially Grantaire, who was struck to the floor with one bullet as he died for Enjolras. He is drowning in a life full of absinthe and nihilism and the suffocating depths of hopelessness and Enjolras is the little light on a little boat far up in the surface. He stays with Les amis for his friends, yes, but he does so most especially for Enjolras who is the only hope in his life. That’s why his life has meaning, and why he gives one to his own death too.

But what about Javert? He hadn’t loved anyone in particular, and as far as I know, he was only attached (not truly loving) to the justice system he thought was fair. And this lack of meaningful love separates him from everyone else. That’s why he’s the only one who commits suicide. The life he thought was meaningful, the purpose he thought he had was all a lie. And he couldn’t ever live with that.

“Tell Cosette I love her and I’ll see her when I wake.” Is so full of hope, the hope that these characters still hold because of the ones they love. “A world that’s full of happiness that I have never known.” Is their misery, the struggles and despair they would have in their lives if it wasn’t for their love. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” Sums it all up. And I think that’s beautiful.

[yowzeight]

thinking about those youtube videos that are like "WHY THE MUSIC IN *insert popular musical* IS ACTUALLY SHIT!!!!" and it's just some guy discovering what a leitmotif is

[motions1ckn3ss]

perhaps the prettiest edition ever for the low low price of forty great british pounds

(also flipped open another edition randomly and look what it first landed on!)