the experience of reading les mis as an annoying adult is that I came away thinking that if any fictional character would benefit from living in the modern era it’s Javert. the only reason he’s doing all that shit and is obsessed with “the law” is because the concept of BDSM didn’t exist in the 19th century and he can’t follow some goddess’s rules for subs. Bro needed to lick another kind of boot and he’d be fine. Born to be under the heel of a beautiful dom with a riding crop, forced to be under the heel of a shitty government

extremely funny btw. gavroche is like wait this adult is telling me i CAN smash streetlamps??? and valjean is like go wild kid. here's five dollars

Feeling normal about Javert and Eponine today

Enjolras's Death - Les Mis 2012

The Rue de la Chanvrerie barricade has been gone for 190 slutty, slutty years

It's that time of the year again! Remember to leave out bread and absinthe for Victor Hugo and he will leave you 50 pages on a subject that is off-topic but that he is vaguely interested in. Be safe out there!

hey sorry we put your boyfriends in a perpetual time loop. yeah they're fated to die tragically in a doomed rebellion on 5-6th june every year. sorry.

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

the fact that this exists concerns me and the fact that I got only 14 out of 20 concerns me even more like ???

Ehh

hey gang quick question when does the actual plot of les mis start

thanks guys

Lmfao

damn javert really went “wtf? morality exists in shades of grey? i am going to kill myself because of this information” and then he did

Cops follow this example challenge

If Hugh Jackman can deadlift 405 pounds, he shouldn’t have settled merely for Marius. He could’ve picked up Enjolras as well. You know what, add Eponine. Street gamines can’t possibly weigh that much. Man let’s just add the whole of Les Amis (including Gavroche). It’s Hugh Jackman. He can take it. 

#valjean just picks up the whole barricade and leaves

“yes my child I forgot what your booby of a young man looks like so please pick one from the pile”

*tries to subtly tilt the more sensible looking ones towards cosette* 

#but imagine him trying really hard to get her to choose combeferre

“Look, Cosette, this one is practicing medicine! And he seems to have an extensive reserve of facts on things from moths to space!”

“Papa, I think that is Marius beneath him.”

“No it isn’t. But look at this Combeferre, his glasses truly frame his face.”

“Papa-”

“Cosette. P L E A S E.”

The best part about this is that Valjean has no idea who his daughters dating, but damn it he knows it’s one of them, so he just takes everyone. The young doctor? Coming. The drunk one? Hopefully not, but bring him anyways. The small child? Might be the brother of whoever Cosette’s with, better bring him just in case. This young woman? Well, Cosette’s already proven she doesn’t tell Valjean everything, so she’s coming too.

And then the final confrontation between him and Javert. Valjean comes staggering out of the sewers holding a pile of people.

“IT’S YOU JAVERT, I KNEW YOU WOULDN’T WAIT TOO LONG!”

“Valjean, what the fuck-”

“THE FAITHFUL SERVANT AT HIS POST ONCE MORE!”

“How are you balancing all of them.”

“THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS GIRL AND THIS BOY AND THIS BOY AND THIS CHILD HAVE DONE NO WRONG, AND THE NEED A DOCTORS CARE!”

“I’m not dealing with this, just go.”

“COME, TIME IS RUNNING SHORT!”

“I said you can leave!”

“LOOK DOWN, JAVERT, THEY’RE ALL STANDING IN THEIR GRAVES! MAKE WAY, JAVERT, THERE’S ABOUT A DOZEN LIVES TO SAVE!”

“TAKE THEM VALJEAN.”

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

The real question though, is whether Javert still jumps into the Seine after this, or if he just goes straight home to have a bit of a lie-down.

@scottishdreamergirl

“Who is this man? What sort of Devil is he To have me caught in a trap And choose to let me go free?

It was his his hour at last To put a seal on my fate Wipe out the past And wash me clean off the–wait.

All of those kids were at that battle scene… The amount he carried out is just obscene!

How did he keep all of them in his grip?! How did he have them all firmly in place?! This whole affair is simply madness! There wasn’t a hint of strain on his face!

He handled them all without care! This is simply too strange for Javert!

And so I did allow that man To simply walk away from me This crazy man that I’ve now witnessed He took the leaders of the rebellion.

There’s nothing that I could have done Against his might That utter madman walked away And now I am filled with dismay.

But at least now I know How the protest ended: With their leaders all kidnapped Their efforts suspended!

I just feel so very tired Of all the nonsense I’ve endured But still, at least, one problem’s dealt with

I think I’ll just go Straight back to my home.

I just keep thinking ‘What the Hell?!’ And ‘Does he know That that should be impossible?’ Those are the thoughts that plague me so…

I am simply Just quite done. I just cannot give a damn As I look upon the world That created such a man.

I am done with all this madness. I just want to be alone. I am done with this whole day. I am simply going HOOOOOOOME!”

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER I LOVE IT

OMG THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING