Chris McCarrell as Marius in Les Miserables 2nd Broadway Revival 2015/2016 brochure.

Les Miserables The longest running musical 30 years

My mum about Javert, watching Les Mis for the first time (via elphabadaae)

Les Miserables costume porn - Enjolras

les mis modern aesthetics ➥ joly

les mis modern aesthetics ➥ grantaire  

Les Amis Headcanons: Why You Don’t Want to Share Their Bed

Enjolras: Ultimate cuddler. His limbs wrap around you and never let go.

Combeferre: His bed is full of Stuff. You roll off the sweater, you roll onto the book; you extract the geode, you find a month-old burrito. You ask for a sleeping bag.

Courfeyrac: You don’t know who else has been there since he last changed the sheets.

Jean Prouvaire: He talks in his sleep. In five different languages.

Bahorel: His sleep habits are nonexistent. Sometimes he’ll turn in early evening, other times he won’t go to sleep at all. And he’ll probably forget that you’re there, covering your head with a pillow at 4:30 AM.

Feuilly: He has to get up early in order to be in time for work, so unless you like rising with the sun, you’re out of luck.

Bossuet: He sleeps on the fold-out bed in Joly’s apartment, and every week or so it spontaneously folds up with him inside. You don’t want to be in there with him when Joly’s laughing too hard to extract you.

Joly: He snores so loudly that he wakes himself up. If you’re lucky, he’ll only spend a few minutes musing on what might be causing this snoring. No, Joly, I don’t think uvulas do that.

Grantaire: He may not be the most attractive of face, but when it comes to body temperature the man is hot. Did he swallow magma as a child? No one knows, but it almost hurts to touch him.

what do i stand for?

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I also love “Marius, what’s wrong today?” because I always hear it like “What’s wrong today?”, which implies that there’s something wrong with Marius most days.

Which is, as we know, probably true.

#today you look like you’ve seen a ghost#yesterday you looked like you’d seen a dinosaur#and the week before well I’m pretty sure that was the giant millipede face(via maedhrys)

Well gosh, Enj is gonna need a Granterrier to round up all those small animals….

So I did this

WHO BROUGHT THIS BACK

I wonder if they’ve seen it yet

HEYO I HAVE INDEED

and let me just say that after seeing the movie, seeing the US tour twice, seeing the broadway revival, and doing the show, I’m still pretty sure the whole revolution was really about javert’s hat.

Les Amis headcanon

Les Amis run an animal shelter.

One day, on a walk home from the Musain, the Les Amis walk past an animal shelter that’s closing down. Enjolras gets enraged, and within the week he’s found the money to buy the entire thing, without really telling any of the others or having any plan of what they’re going to do. They somehow make it work.

Combeferre is the one in charge of all of the paperwork, which is something he doesn’t really understand well, but he does it anyways because everyone else just gets pulled right into the trap of the adorable animals. He gets frustrated every once in a while, but just goes and talks to the cats when he can’t concentrate anymore. He gets even more cat hair on his clothes than usual, but surprises everyone when he also goes in to play with the dogs quite often.

Joly is keenly aware of just how many diseases these poor animals might have, so he runs around trying to find vaccines for all of the animals. Unfortunately, they’re incredibly low on money so he goes to the medical department at the college and convinces them to help buy the vaccines and necessary medical procedures for the animals. He takes a peculiar liking to a certain cat with a broken leg, and he plays with her every day he can manage to.

Bossuet is ridiculously allergic to the cats. It’s not even funny just how bad they turn him. He starts sniffling immediately when he gets in the same room, and if he gets within two feet of them his eyes will water uncontrollably. Unfortunately, he absolutely adores the kittens and almost tries to convince Joly to let him buy one. Joly, unsurprisingly, says no.

Bahorel has an immensely soft side for birds that nobody saw coming. He sees them and immediately starts whistling to them, petting them, feeding them, adoring them. When everyone looks at him strangely, he puts the bird on his shoulder and gives him the worst death glare he possibly can. Courf snaps a picture, and makes a joke out of pirate Bahorel. He doesn’t really mind.

Jehan will read his poetry to absolutely anything that will listen. He used to do it to the walls of his dorm room, but the animals are a far more captive audience. He likes to think that they can understand what he’s saying. They do understand his excitement or sadness, and they mimic his emotions. He can lay on the floor and just read to them for hours on end, writing enough poems to make a book just with the help of the animals.

Feuilly just loves taking pictures of all of the animals that he can. He makes folder after folder of all of the animals, naming each and every one of them. For everyone who comes in to adopt one of the animals, he gives them an expertly taken picture as well as a name suggestion. He eventually ends up making posters for awareness about the shelter, posters even Grantaire fully approves of.

Enjolras finds the animals incredibly calming. Whenever he comes across someone who frustrates him beyond compare, he just turns around and pulls up a picture of one of the animals he was playing with the day before. After a while, the Amis find that his temper has decreased significantly after he bought the shelter. He doesn’t even need to look at one of the picture anymore. He also pretends to have just bought the shelter because, but some nights Combeferre comes looking for him and finds him adoring the puppies. 

Courfeyrac accidentally brings a bouncy ball into the shelter and bounces it, before he realizes that he’s standing amidst a bunch of puppies. They start looking up at his hand and he absolutely melts. Combeferre hears feeble yells for help amidst unstoppable laughter, and walks in to find him covered in puppies pawing at him and licking his hands and face incessantly. 

Grantaire’s never owned a pet in his life before. He has no idea how to interact with them, and is scared by the big dogs and anything that makes loud noises. It’s all rather overwhelming, but he still stays in there because he can see just how happy it makes his friends to be in there. Whenever he’s in there, he just snoops around and watches how his friends react with them, but he just ends up sketching animals instead. Eventually, Enjolras asks why he won’t play with them, and holds Grantaie’s hand while Grantaire approaches the animals. After that, he isn’t afraid of any of them anymore.

Can we just take a minute to appreciate the Les Mis fandom

Because most fandoms have characters who die tragic deaths and whatnot

But Les Mis ends with nine out of ten barricade boys dead and no one ever comes back to life

And there are three major incarnations of it in the brick and the musical and the movie

And everyone dies horrible deaths in every incarnation

And still all I see on my dash is cheerful posts about Courf handing out Valentines and Bahorel wearing a scarf Jehan knit for him and just wow

The level of sheer denial optimism is astounding

Slow clap it out for the Les Mis people

a lankier grantaire than i usually draw; just as scruffy tho