when the period cramps start hitting so bad you have to pretend that you're on a barricade in 19th century france bleeding out from a wound dying in the hands of an unrequited lover

valjean being a thenardier hater and showing incredible self restraint

🎥 @medium-observation

I think I'll do some "would you rather" questions (as per @permetutotheworld's suggestion) next!

Would you rather crawl through the Parisian sewers or be temporarily buried alive to get out of the convent?

Propaganda for crawling through the sewers:

It's basically tourism! I speak as an American: why do my people feel the need to endure experiences they will inevitably bitch about (long plane ride, jet lag, being asked to walk places, neophobic reactions to benign unfamiliar everyday objects, the international tendency towards lukewarm beverages)? Let's list some off, and Hugo can back me up on why the Parisian sewers check the boxes.

Seeing places with centuries of history: "all that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the maillotins in the fourteenth century, the tire-laine of the fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin’s illuminated in the seventeenth, the chauffeurs [brigands] in the eighteenth."

Visiting sites associated with historical figures: "Louis XI. is there with Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying to make the traces of their actions disappear."

Experiencing the thrill of possible danger: "To try that unknown thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of discovery in that abyss—who would have dared? It was alarming."

The chance to find and bring home a souvenir: "If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. [. . .] Bruneseau held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: LAVBESP"

We love a beach vacay—no chance to make it to the coast? The sewers got you: "Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, the diver may disappear there."

Concerned about venturing into shadier areas? No worries, the sewers are patrolled (ACAB): "It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer."

Eating novel and regionally unique snack, such as: "the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding evening"

Encountering unfamiliar geological features: "This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a fontis, in the special tongue. What is a fontis? It is the quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer."

Finally, as any who have read Les Misérables know, you can never predict: fate loves a coincidence, and you might meet an old friend while spelunking who will be happy to share a bit of local lore and a helping hand (or bit of rope and key, as the situation demands).

The grave is a fine and private place, but the sewers have history, thrills, souvenirs, snacks, and pals! Crawl through them today!

Propaganda for being buried alive:

Have you ever fantasized about shutting off the world, where none of the noise and bustle of the latest revolution-in-the-making could reach you?

Have you been a little less than prudent in spending your fortune, and are suddenly encountering insistent debt collectors asking for your whereabouts, carrying suspiciously heavy sticks?

Are you embroiled in an affair more complicated than the taxation system in 1789 and more blown up than the sleeves of the fashion of the day?

Are you working on a romance that just needs an accurate depiction of a mournful cemetery to clinch that end scene?

Do not wait any longer!

Speak to Fauchelevent & Frere about a bespoke funeral with all accoutrements, including a coffin carefully tailored to your height and girth, cushions of linen or damasque according to your means and preferences, verified air-holes on top and around the sides, and a grave digger to be selected from Affable Drunk or Intellectual-Down-on-his-Luck variety! All horses are trained not to jostle the carts on the way to the cemetery, though we cannot be held responsible for the state of the pavement.

Low rates, satisfaction guaranteed - nobody has returned to complain yet!

Ain't no way Victor Hugo was in his 40s when he wrote the most tragic French yaoi to grace the page

oh I’m obsessed with this little moment I found!!! cosette (eden mau) THANKING javert (nick rehberger) during the robbery!!

I love all the interesting little layers and implications!! she’s literally thanking javert for protecting her father. OH IF SHE ONLY KNEW

look, I'm a tired demographics student with too much time on their hands and an undying love for polls, so..

I'm also deeply interested in fandom demographics... from my 4 long long (yet relatively short) years in this fandom I've noticed that the Les Mis fanbase does tend to be older than other fandoms I've been in, (though this obviously depends on the platform you're on, for example, the falsettos fandom on tiktok seems to have a lot of 12-15 year olds, to my great surprise) and I just like analysing why that is! I know other fandoms have/have had sort of "fandom demographics" polls which I've always found super interesting... while I'm not necessarily trying to recreate that, I do find this interesting to look at!

Needless to say the more people see this the more representative and accurate the results will be so PLEASEEE reblog thiss and make my little demographer-to-be heart happy

FOUND ANOTHER ONE !!!!

here is my collection

🎥 @bikinibottomdayz

52 year old Javert at the barricade like

(idea courtesy of @aftershocked )

oh let me just get back into drawing with this ungodly piece. 10 hours and the depletion of health in my wrist later 🪦🪦

names for each disembodied arm under cut because it is very thought out -

let’s have an IMMERSIVE LES MIS where you’re REQUIRED TO BRING A PIECE OF FURNITURE to sit on for the show. and then top of act 2 you have to THROW YOUR FURNITURE ON THE STAGE AND SIT AT THE BARRICADE while people ACTUALLY SHOOT YOU with REAL BULLETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was "today-years old" when discovered that Les Misérables was adapted into a Brazilian soap opera in 1967. Not only that, but it was also the FIRST soap opera to premiere on that television channel - the channel having been inaugurated on May 13, 1967, the same day that the 1st chapter premiered.

To my surprise, the cast of the soap opera had actors who are quite prestigious in Brazil today, I'm serious about this, the actress who played Fantine must have more than fifty credits to her name - and that's just in other soap operas - she has also participated in films, plays and even voice acting (she voiced Betty Rumble in The Simpsons, from 1963 to 1966)

The sad part is that it's very unlikely that I'll be able to find much information about this adaptation. I mean, it was the 60s, televisions were new, and basically luxury items...

So...is someone going to do a remake at some point, or am I going to have to become writer, director, and producer and do the whole thing myself?

Not-so-funny historical fact: At the time this soap opera was on air (May 13, 1967 – August 25, 1967), Brazil was going through a period of military dictatorship, which would only end in 1985. It was a very difficult period in the country's history, in addition to the persecution of those who opposed it, there was also a lot of censorship in films, music and other types of media.

It was during this period that some Student Movements emerged. As the name suggests, they're composed mainly of college students. They protested, held marches, distributed pamphlets and fought against the situation in which the country found itself. Many were persecuted, tortured and killed (as were the families of some of them)

Woah I don’t think I’ve heard of this one, and I’m obsessed with finding obscure Les mis adaptations— where did you learn about this?

I've talked about this one before! unfortunately this soap opera is straight up lost media, there's almost no info on it. No photos either. Which is very weird because this channel (Bandeirantes) is still one of the largest networks in the country. To get info on it you'd need to find someone who worked on it. And it's unlikely that they saved anything

But I found this one site in portuguese with a quote by creator Walther Negrão (who wrote the whole thing himself) saying he based each chapter of it on a comic book instead of the brick asdfghjkl. He says he "read the book when he was young" but yeah the soap opera was based on a comic book adaptation made by "Edição Maravilhosa".

EDIT: this same site says external shots for this soap opera were filmed outside this historical Lacta chocolate factory, nice

One thing I love about the Valjean-Cosette-first -meeting chapters is how both of them are obviously Poorly Socialized, and not really sure how to talk to people normally. They’re both such strange little creatures

“A National Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: 'It seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower.'” - Les Misérables V.I.XXIII

“This is the flower of the partisan / Who died for freedom” - Bella Ciao

les mis enjoltaire fans will find the worst, grainiest, blinded by stage lights, most corrupted 30 seconds of bootleg on the world wide web and go "THEY HELD HANDS HEREEE"

anyway so

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

The French guy was Konrad Curze

rip grantaire you would have loved margaritaville by Jimmy buffet

made this before capitalism steals my idea