I just saw a post saying that sometimes people click out of a fic if their fave is suddenly good in bed asdfghjkl and it got me to think if we were to take les mis super realistically, Enjolras would be bad at sex. He's uninterested in it, maybe even sex-repulsed but if we were to assume he's explicitly celibate by choice and not by temperament, he's still a huge virgin who does not engage in the whole exercise

But! If we take les mis as intended with it's fantastical supernatural elements and the narrative symbolism, Enjolras would be so divinely good at sex that he would maybe cause people to orgasm so hard they go blind.

And he wouldn't even do anything special is the thing! He'd be like that bit at the end of the Arras trial where the public is in such awe of Jean Valjean that they let him leave, you know?

Enjolras could do everything wrong but it would be good because symbolically it only makes sense for it to be like that

At the barricades of freedom *vague sizzling of cooked meats*

Introducing Les Miserables Raffle For Palestine

We're running a Les Miserables themed raffle for a Palestinian family. Introducing Alaa Amsse [ @alaakh998 ] and her family!

Verification:

Alaa and her family have been verified by @/ibtisams as well as by @/90-ghost and the fundraiser is #307 on the Butterfly Effect Project Spreadsheet.

Donation Link

Artists Participating in the Raffle:

Rules for Participating in the Raffle:

Finally...

The raffle is now open, and will run until 7th November, 00:00 GMT (check what time it is in your timezone). We will be spotlighting individual artists who are participating in it very soon, as well as sharing samples of their work, so watch this space!!! If you have any questions, shoot us a DM at @les-mis-for-palestine-dms!

only €53 raised in the past two hours, and only two donations

there have been airstrikes in her area and she cannot wait for too long

€18,368 / €100,000

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.

Saw a production of Les Mis last night, and I need all my unhinged 2015-era Tumblr pals to know that they had the FRUITIEST Grantaire I ever did see. Coat swishing, prancing, running up the barricade to get himself shot bc everyone else is already dead and what does he even have to live for? You know regular gay things. 10/10. Great shit.

"Guy who knows the protagonist from way back when and just fucking hates them for some reason and is constantly trying to re-litigate some ancient beef" is an undervalued tool for expository worldbuilding.

it's a main character to ME

BARRICADE DAY 2024

- Les Miserables, “Saint-Denis”, Book XII, chapter VIII.

You know I have to quote that, it's perhaps my most favourite quote ever from Enjolras.

Well, in honour and spirit of Barricade Day 2024, I hope that I might be able to direct your attention and perhaps a bit of resources to help me raise fund for these 3 Palestinian families that I've been helping with in fundraising.

Even if you're able to donate the least of one cup of coffee then pass the torch, reblog to another, that'd be grand. Helps are greatly appreciated!

Here are the links to their GFMs:

Barricade Day Donation Drive!

1 Donation for Palestine = One Doodle

Shoot me an ask with proof you donated to Palestine this week and you can request a les mis doodle!

I'm opening up 5 slots and if I'm done with the 5, hopefully, I'll open up 5 more!

I’ve been meaning to draw this quote for years! Happy barricade day friends!

some les miserables fanarts

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

Once someone tagged art that I made with "woah" and I think about it at least once a week. Someone else said "oh neat" once. Someone else WROTE A WHOLE DAMN POEM IN THE COMMENTS. Anyways even just one word can change how someone sees their art. You don't even have to think about it too hard. You could put a keyboard smash and I'd probably cry from joy.

I'm also trying hard to interact more, I understand that it's hard to break away from opening your phone and being in Content Consumption Mode.

Hey man sorry I've not posted in a while, it's a funny story actually. I actually got arrested for stealing bread for my sister and her seven starving children. yeah, it was pretty bad. I tried to escape 3 times so yeah I got 19 years, yeah and then I broke my parole and now there's this slutty little man after me, yeah I think he has a crush on me or smt idk

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it's been decades in the making.

actually i think we need more reaction images from the brick

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