#turnchetta sweep

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Les Amis as Reasons to Vote Turnchetta

Enjolras: it's what his friends asked him to do, and since it takes zero (0) effort and will make them happy, he does it

Combeferre: tbh he just wants to see where this goes

Courfeyrac: Courfeyrac doesn't want to be monogamous

Feuilly: International Women's Day was a couple of days ago

Jean Prouvaire: the Romance of two mirror souls — one named only in credits, the other appearing only off-page

Bahorel: a little lady called The Bit

Jolllly: simps for Musichetta

Laigle: Hey, two men can live and be monk ordinate brothers and fuck together without it being romantic!

Grantaire: Turnchetta is beastly! Turnchetta should be eliminated! Look at the fandom: they are weak of will and cowardly of heart. Show them Katara, and I will show you discourse. The fall of Hands cripples, the denial of the horn of Husbands drives deathly daggers. No, nothing but sweet nothings for the Les Mis fandom. Yes, this fandom, they love sweet things: if they have a write-in, they will submit "vanilla" — I have tasted the oysters of these masses, and they wreak of Bath and Body Works. Hold the "hurt" in their comfort, sprinkle cinnamon over their coffee shop AU — even the smut has whipped topping. Canon compliance is a drink too bitter for most to stomach. Not even I, strong Grantaire of the dark magic, can survive AUs set post-barricade. Consider Harris, consider Hillary, consider Sasha encountering Barbie: no woman will ever be enough. Two? It is decimals multiplied by decimals, and we know the Les Mis fandom's famous aversion to the rational and irrational alike. A rational fandom would vote Courfius, two characters who have spoken and interacted in canon. Who am I? Shall I chase the sweet aromas of friends to lovers? The easy way is at my fingertips, it is true — ah, but I have always been that daring drinker of dreams, and besides, a woman who is nice to me is not a woman I much like at all. All said: I Abstain! *wakes from drunken stupor exactly long enough to vote Turnchetta for one last troll before getting shot or something, idk*

Les Mis Shipping Showdown: Round of 16

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turnchetta art by @emmfairy (i can’t believe i found actual authentic 2013 turnchetta art on my second tag crawl. this is an historical artefact to me!!!!)

courfeyrac/marius art by @fluentisonus

[lesmisshippingshowdown]

Round of 32 Wrapped!

To tide you all over until the next round begins (although I hope you're all keeping busy getting started on your fanworks to steal some votes!), let's have fun with some statistics about the Round of 32 :)

Poll with the most votes overall: Combeferre/Courfeyrac vs Turnchetta (1,554 votes) What else could you expect from a contest between a veritable fandom juggernaut, inescapable as both a main couple and background couple on Archive of our Own, a true bedrock of fandom heritage... and Combeferre/Courfeyrac?

I jest. But it's great to see people turning out in honour of the great fandom tradition of getting a little silly with it. The question remains - how far can a novelty ship like Turnchetta (one could call her the Jedward of this competition, and I of course mean that with the utmost respect #JEPIC) make it in the bracket?

(It's worth noting that Turnchetta also takes home the prize for Round One's Biggest Giant Killing, defeating AO3's 4th most popular Les Mis ship by published works despite not a single fic coming up when I click their relationship tag on that website.)

Poll with the least votes overall: Joly/Bossuet/Musichetta vs. Bahorel/Éponine (546 votes) Again, perhaps this was unsurprising. J/B/M is a true staple of the fandom, and one of only 6 ships in the bracket with over 1,000 tagged works on AO3 (and that's not even counting individual pairings within the throuple!). Bahorel/Éponine, on the other hand, has only 46 tagged works and I wasn't even able to find fanart for them on a sweep through Tumblr tags. This was not a match up that necessarily spurred on hard fighting and intense propaganda, and turned out to be one of the round's most resounding sweeps.

Will J/B/M nation be forced to turn out in greater numbers for round two, or will they be able to rest on their laurels against a - once again - comparatively niche ship like Courfeyrac/Grantaire? And will Bahorel/Éponine's fandom turn out to be small but mighty when given a chance for redemption in the Great Round 2 Steal-Off?

Closest battle: Combeferre/Éponine vs. Enjolras/Marius (47.5% vs 52.5%) I'll say this outright as the bracket's resident infamously unbiased Enjolras/Marius shipping mod - Combeferre/Éponine shippers, I seriously underestimated your game. In a poll where most of Éponine's het ships fell dramatically at the first hurdle, you guys held your own against me constantly reblogging my own posts to yell "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE" in increasingly undignified ways. You stood behind Éponine's right to date a really nice nerdy man, and I'm very excited to see what you guys pull out of the bag in the Round 2 Steal-Off. I suspect this may not be the last we see of Combeferre/Éponine in this competition.

Biggest whitewash: Courfeyrac/Éponine vs. Cosette/Éponine (4.1% vs 95.9%) As Les Mis's most iconic relatably lovelorn everygirl, Éponine based ship wars have been a fandom staple probably since the actual 1860s. Whether she's battling for Marius's affections or accidentally playing a pivotal role in very, very 2013 discussions about queer erasure in fandom, when there's a ship war to be had in the Les Mis fandom our girl is normally at the scene of the crime. This match up, however, showed none of the fire of its predecessors. When asked if you'd rather see Éponine paired off with Les Amis' lovable centre or patching up her longstanding and complex relationship with Cosette, you overwhelmingly voted in favour of lesbianism. Got to respect it. Happy belated International Women's Day.

Winningest multishipping target: Enjolras (5 out of 6 ships progressed to the Round of 16) For a character who is canonically uninterested in romance to the point that I've seen large swathes of this fandom headcanon him as aroace, you guys LOVE it when Enjolras gets around. Not only did he have 6 ships entered into this bracket (for the mathematicians among you, that means 18.75% of the bracket involves Enjolras in some way), but he won almost every first round contest he was involved in. The only losing Enjolras ship in round one was Enjolras/Éponine, so I guess that's settled*. He really didn't know there was such a thing on earth as woman.

(*It is not settled. If you don't think we're getting a special Enjonine vs E/R face off at some point you don't know me)

Losing-est multishipping target: Éponine (1 out of 8 ships progressed to the Round of 16) Speaking of Enjonine, the other half of that ship suffered basically opposite fortunes. Poor Éponine appeared in a whopping 25% of all ships entered into the bracket, but only one - Cosette/Éponine, her sole femslash pairing in the contest - made it as far as the round of 16. It seems that homosexuality has mutually won out for both halves of 2013's most controversial het ship.

Other stats for the interested:

The average number of votes cast per poll was 770.5 - not bad for a first round! Can you up that number by encouraging your friends to pokémon go to the polls for the round of 16 next week?

In the Round of 32, the balance of different relationship types (going by characters' canonical genders) was as follows: 56.25% M/M, 34.38% M/F, 6.25% F/F, and 3.12% Multi.

In the Round of 16, the balance will be as follows: 68.75% M/M, 12.5% M/F, 12.5% F/F, and 6.25% Multi. I would say "I'm sorry, women" but to be fair both the yuri ships did sail through their respective match ups. Really, I'm sorry heteros. Especially Éponine's hetero ships. I know I keep saying this but it was a rough ride for her.

All of AO3's top 3 Les Mis ships (by tagged works) are still comfortably in the game - as already established, Courferre was this round's biggest loser. Could the Round Two Steal-Off, where the creation of fanworks is crucial to success, offer them a chance at redemption? Tune in next week to find out!

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Guys.

Guys.

Guys.

We need to talk about Turnchetta, the match made in heaven.

Let's talk in-text:

Musichetta has just lost both of her boys in one fell blow. Mademoiselle Turning #3 is already there mourning those lost. Musichetta becomes angry with her pessimistic attitude — after all, had it not been Memselle T3 who had turned her back on the rebellion in the first place? If she's near enough to be cleaning their literal blood, their metaphorical blood is also on her hands. Why hadn't she helped? Why hadn't anyone helped?

Mademoiselle Turning #3's hands find Musichetta's tear-covered cheeks and force eye-contact.

Why hadn't Musichetta done more to help?

Musichetta begins finding Mlle T3 when she's not working, just so she's not alone. They don't talk, Musichetta just sits there while Mlle T3 does her own work, but the silence is companionable, and eventually they do begin asking questions as they arise. Musichetta begins helping with some of the chores as she is able (it does seem awfully silly, sitting around with all of this work to be done), and as they work, talk turns philosophical, and eventually flirty, and eventually more.

Let's talk meta:

Musichetta exists only offscreen, Miss Turning #3 is named only in the credits, and LM fandom needs more wlw representation. It's nearly Les Mis Fem Fest.

Les Mis Shipping Showdown: Round of 32

turnchetta art by felicitymildradeworthington (deactivated)

[pilferingapples]

COME ON EVERYONE I'M BEGGING TURNCHETTA IF WE MAKE IT PAST THIS ROUND I'LL DRAW A BETTER ART FOR THEM PLEASE TURNCHETTA SWEEP IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY

Les Mis Shipping Showdown: Round of 32

turnchetta art by felicitymildradeworthington (deactivated)

[empressofkashyr]

turnchetta sweep!

Les Mis Shipping Showdown: Round of 16

Learn how to steal this poll here!

turnchetta art by @emmfairy (i can’t believe i found actual authentic 2013 turnchetta art on my second tag crawl. this is an historical artefact to me!!!!)

courfeyrac/marius art by @fluentisonus