Even More Toad

Even more toad

I wish you all the *happiest* barricade day!! combeferre's death should be talked about more!!!

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on this day 10 years ago George Blagden posted a cover to his yt channel. the world hasn’t been the same since.

happy 10th anniversary to “?”, I made a little something to celebrate :)

This is one of my favourite chapters in the whole book for many reasons (not least because I am an ExR girlie through and through), but I always enjoy this passage in particular:

Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, in his own mind, with Combeferre’s philosophical and penetrating eloquence, Feuilly’s cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac’s dash, Bahorel’s smile, Jean Prouvaire’s melancholy, Joly’s science, Bossuet’s sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. This was well.

Firstly bc a) 'Enjolras was content' it's all I want for him fr.

But also I just love how well it shows that Enjolras values the other members of Les Amis, both in their contributions to the Cause, and as his friends. Like a good leader should, he clearly knows their strengths and how to play to them, and it's one of those moments where you really understand how Les Amis work as a unit (Grantaire's contribution notwithstanding...)

"Surely, the result would answer to the effort. This was well." He's so full of hope I'm screaming crying throwing up

eyyyyy that's me!!! come watch me overanalyze adaptations and be a huge nerd about les amis & the barricades! and of course check out all the other awesome panels :D

Depictions of the Barricades in Adaptations of Les Miserables by Percy

Les Misérables has a long history of adaptation in just about every possible form, but while many adaptations faithfully reproduce the emotional themes of Jean Valjean’s character arc, fewer manage to give the barricades and their significance to Victor Hugo’s message the attention they deserve. This presentation looks at how portrayals of the June Rebellion and Les Amis de l’ABC differ across adaptations and how adapters make changes to the book’s material to further different political views, focusing on the development of Les Amis’ characters, the amount of historical context included around the rebellion’s motivations, and the visuals and revolutionary symbolism used to characterize the rebellion.

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barricadescon has got So Many les mis thoughts circling through my brain. anyway I realized I haven't drawn a good Grantaire in a while so here he is.