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Bahorel when Joly starts lamenting his lady-problems:
Cosette: dad you can’t just move houses and adopt a new identity every time you’re sad!
Valjean: *sadly puts his disguise wigs back in his pockets*
an itemized list of things enjolras cannot do:
he cannot do long division
he cannot bathe without leaving bits of soap in his hair
he cannot tie shoes, ties, cravats, or anything of the fabric/scarf/accessory category
he cannot fold a fitted sheet (this has very little to do with the fact that he is from the 1800s and more to do with the fact that he’s stupid)
he cannot spell the following: defibrillator, restaurant, longevity, incomprehensible (there are many many many more also these are words i can barely spell its not bullying)
he could not tell you what the color chartreuse looks like
he cannot roll his tongue or whistle
he cannot grow a beard (canon)
he cannot understand why chairs, tables and fallen pianos are not effective against the national fucking guard
shaking my fist at whoever took away cosette’s goth chic in popular les mis culture via the stage musical costumes
enjolras is an absolute pathetic mess when he realizes he return’s r’s feelings im talkin throwing shit at the wall throwing a tantrum and crying his eyes out and courf’s like “bro what’s wrong” and enjolras whips around all snot faced and pitiful and goes “I LIKE GRANTAIRE I WISH I WAS FUCKING DEAD”
Enjolras: how did you know I like Grantaire?
Combeferre: you go from feral to disgruntled kitten every time he smiles at you.
Enjolras, pouting: I just think he has a cute smile.
Red! The color of desire. Black! The color of despair.
Les Misérables (2012)
did what i had to do
tried something but i'm not sure it worked haha
Grantaire would make little raincoats and put them on ducklings because “they live outside, Enjolras!”
<3
shoutout to 718472 layers that worked really hard and my pen which has gone through a lot thank you
L + ratio + you know nothing of Javert + I was born inside a jail + I was born with scum like you + I am from the gutter too
Time for some extremely funny news that feels fake but isn’t! In case you missed it:
Today on the almost-anniversary of the rebellion featured in Les Mis, the official Les Mis musical twitter account decided to celebrate by…….tweeting an enthusiastic endorsement of the Queen. This is despite the fact that the primary goal of the rebellion in Les Mis was to eliminate monarchy. Despite the fact that all the rebels in Les mis despise monarchy as an institution and consider it inherently evil/useless/tyrannical.
It feels like satire! The fact that they used an illustration of a poor starving child who in the novel symbolizes the Suffering of the French People under tyrants and tried to turn it into a piece of unironic pro-monarchy art is just? (???)
There’s something to say here about how everything political in Les Mis gets stripped away when it becomes a product for mass consumption, including the now relatively popular political belief that monarchy is a Bad form of government. Like the original novel DOES have issues with being overly middle-class/moderate at points— but there many aspects of the book that are radical and anti-authoritarian, and those aspects are always the first things to get sanded away. (See also: the way Les mis adaptations often portray police as Good Heroes fighting for Justice, which is the exact opposite of the ACAB point the book was going for )
But even putting aside all the political stuff—— the reason this fails is also because it’s Bad Branding? XD. If we’re gonna treat Les mis as a brand (ugh), then that brand is not about licking the monarchy’s boots. Les Mis’s brand is about the exact opposite of that. The kind of Jubilee joke I’d expect from a big corporate Les mis twitter account that understood its brand would be something like “Looks as if we haven’t got around to overthrowing that monarchy yet! But there’s still time!. ^_^ come see our next performance in {touring location}”. You know— a lighthearted toothless Revolution joke.
But we don’t even gET lighthearted toothless corporate Revolution jokes!
Instead we get this bafflingly sincere “I want to buy a queen plate with a picture of a starving child suffering under a tyrannical government on it.”
But YEAH my favorite thing about this tweet is the way everyone unanimously mocked it:
Ugh, okay. Unfollowing. I was a big fan of his tenure as mayor and subsequent adoption of a poor, orphaned child, had no idea that he stole a loaf of bread and broke parole
happy barricade day!!! i don’t have anything big to post, but here’s a 25th anniversary concert drink with me 💘
“Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous.”
“Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural whiteness. He loved the word citizen, but he preferred the word man.”
“Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance “
happy Barricade Day!
(and he permitted it
oh my god, he permitted it)