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pilferingapples · 10 months

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ID : a tweet from the Siecle history podcast that reads "Some of the most detailed historical research being done today about 19th Century France is done by a small community of fans trying to make their fanfiction historically accurate."

#THAT'S US #GO LES MIS SQUAD GO #Barricades Con

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secretmellowblog · 1 month

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Les Mis Hidden Name Meanings: “Fantine” (posting here because it got popular on TikTok)

Every character in Les Mis has a name with a deeper symbolic meaning— here’s a video I made for the official @barricadescon TikTok about the meaning behind “Fantine!”

Transcript and Digressions I left out of the video, under the cut:

Every charcater’s name in Les Mis is either a pun, a reference to a historical/mythological figure, or had some deep symbolic meaning — and sometimes it’s all of them at on.

The name “Fantine” comes from the french word “enfantine” or “childike, infant-like.” Her name basically means “Baby.” And obviously this speaks to her innocence and niavetee. But also “baby” is kind of,.,, well it sounds more like an informal term of endearment than an actual legal name?

And that’s because– Plot twist– Fantine isn’t her legal name! What is her legal name? She doesn’t have one.

And the reason she doesn’t have one is directly tied to political turmoil of the era she was born into.

Fantine grew up an orphan living on the streets, without a family without parents. Hugo tells us the origin of her name:

“she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown. (...)She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained.”

This moment is adapted beautifully in the Manga adaptation by Takahiro Arai, which I recommend to anyone who loves Les mis, manga, or any combination of those things.

But now let’s talk about the Directory.

To wildly oversimplifly a lot of complex history: Before the French Revolution, the Catholic Church’s records of baptismal ceremonies were often used as a registry of people’s legal names. During the French Revolution, the Revolutionary government– including the Directory– put in place a series of policies we now call “dechristianization,” where they attempted to dismantle the power of Catholic church.

Fantine was born during the age of these dechristianization policies. So she was never baptised, her baptismal name was never recorded, so she has no recorded legal or family name. She’s slipped through the cracks of the legal system, and ended up completely anonymous.

It sets Fantine up as this anonymous child of the Revolution– a stand in for everyone who was left behind when the Revolution was left behind, and kings were restored to the throne.

Fantine’s namelessness is meant to show atomized . How she has NO support system. She has nothing to connect her to other people, nothing to connect her to a support system.

Finally, the way Fantine tends to “slip through the cracks” is something that follows her throughout her life. When she’s fired from her job at a factory, Maroy Madeleine never learns of it– Fantine has this tendency to overlooked and forgotten. She is born anonymous and she dies anonymous. At the end of the story, she is buried in an unmarked grave, with not even the name “Fantine” on her headstone.

It ties into novel’s questions about which people we consider worth remembering, whose lives are worth being records.

And obviously Fantine is not the only character in Les Mis whose name has a deeper symbolic meaning. If you have any other Les Mis character names you’d like to explain, leave their name in the comments below.

Thank you for watching!

From the description of the original tiktok, here are some things that were left out of the video for time:

How this all relates to Cosette’s name(s)

Fantine’s nickname “The Blonde,” and how this relates to the way she’s dehumanized by Tholomyes

How the 2018 Bbc series fundamentally misunderstands Fantine’s character, and how one sign of this is that they give her a full legal first and last name

How Fantine’s name shows up/is revealed is significant parts of the story (like when Valjean reveals her signature on a letter to Thenardier, allowing him to take Cosette away)

How Fantine’s inability to write ties into the way it’s difficult for her to record her own story

How some of Valjean’s last words are revealing Fantine’s name to Cosette

Thanks again for reading!

#les mis #les miserables #Fantine #:3 #tiktok #barricades con

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barricadescon · 11 months

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The full programming lineup is HERE! We’re excited to bring you a range of academic and fan panels, as well as meetups and our wonderful Guest of Honor, Bonnie Gleicher!

Click here to see the con schedule on our website, and here for tickets!

If the cost of a ticket would pose a hardship, just drop us an email at [email protected] to request a scholarship! No need to disclose your circumstances; all you have to do is ask for one! We currently have multiple unclaimed scholarships readily available, so don’t hesitate to reach out.

The full text of the programming lineup is under the read more:

Friday:

Show and Tell / Meet and Greet (Concom)

Make Your Own Tricolor Cockade (Melannen)

Welcome Session (Concom)

Canon Era Queerness (Siggi)

Eine Welt Ohne Raum und Zeit (Ruth Kenyon)

Theaters of Crime in LM (Anna)

To Love Another Person Is to See the Face of God (MKat)

Hugolatres and Haters (Pslam)

Characterizing the Amis (Barri Cade, Eli, PiecesofCait)

Musical Fans Meetup

Saturday:

Researching Canon Era Fanfic (Lyra, Siggi, Jehane)

Fandom as Mutual Aid (megab)

Barricades in LM Adaptations (Percy)

Original Characters in LM Adaptations (PureAnon)

Fanfic Writers’ Meetup

Cholera in the Time of LM (Karen Davidge)

Social Hour

Academics Meetup

Staging LM in Amateur Theatre (PiecesOfCait)

Under the Eyes of the Revolution (Madeleine)

The Limits of the Inexorable (Maya Chhabra, Katherine Nehring)

The Secret Name of All the Virtues (Raven)

Preliminary Gaieties (Rare, Perseus, Barri Cade)

History Geek Meetup

Sunday

The (Un)Making of A Human (Katrina Gomez-Chua)

From Bread Rioter to Communard (Elliot A. Davis)

The Canonical Racialised Language of LM (Nemo Martin)

The Convent Was Bad, Actually (Ellen Fremedon, PilferingApples)

Video screening / Closing Session (Concom)

Dead dog (Concom)

#les miserables #les mis #les mis con #barricades #barricades con #convention #barricadescon #barricades: a les mis convention

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hydravns · 1 month

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TRANSFORMERS (2007) Dir. Michael Bay

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shitpostingfromthebarricade · 10 months

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Hey! It's coming up fast, but please consider checking out @barricadescon 2023!!! This year's virtual con will be 14-16 July and features both academic and fandom tracks!

I personally am part of two panels this year:

featuring the fabulous @thepiecesofcait and @thecandlesticksfromlesmis wherein we discuss our processes for characterizing the Amis in our respective mediums (writing, art, and film), and

with @eldritchw1tch and @grantairelibere , a social event where we read Preliminary Gayeties, eat, and drink along with the characters.

Even if these events don't speak to you, I strongly recommend checking out the con's events page to see if anything piques your interest! It's only $10, the money goes toward a good cause, and there are many scholarships available to anyone who wants to attend but can't afford to!

#barricades con #jean valcon #les mis fandom event #les mis #les mis fandom #if you remember me saying I was going to present on 1817: no you don't #(no I was but my job has been so insanely hectic the past six months that I have barely had time for recovery on weekends)#(much less has the bandwidth to collect all of the sources to support everything I know about The Year 1817)#*have #(and find info on the things I didn't totally get)#but this was so much fun last year! I highly recommend it!!!#also if you have time I understand that they are looking for volunteers for this year and future years

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patron-minette · 9 months

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Barricades 2023 might be over, but you can still watch the panel I did: Theatres of crime in Les Misérables: Analysing the Patron-Minette over on YouTube (if, for some reason, you are interested in listening to me ramble on about these criminal characters for 30 minutes...)

[special thanks to @sadeyedlady-writes & @ueinra for letting me use illustrations sourced from their tumblr blogs in the presentation!]

#patron minette #patron-minette #les miserables #les mis #barricades con #theatres of crime #any spelling mistakes you see in the presentation... no you didn't

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astarion-dekarios · 10 months

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From Bread Rioter to Communard: French Revolutionary Women

Working class French women’s political consciousness developed earlier than their male counterparts along a continuum of struggle from the ancien régime to the Paris Commune. This presentation highlights the radical political character of the French working woman, focusing especially on women’s roles in the barricade warfare of the 1830s and ’40s. Through complicating the masculine positioning of the act of revolution found in Les Misérables and by extension its fanbase, this presentation aims to inspire fans to consider the ways in which their female characters may also think, act, and dream of revolution.

On Sunday, July 16th at 11:00 AM EST I will be presenting this lecture + discussion about revolutionary French women and their relationship to Les Mis. If that sounds like something you're interested in, you should register right now for the Barricades convention. Tickets are currently £10, and if that's a hardship for any reason there are plenty of "scholarships" available for no questions asked.

#les mis #barricades con #french revolution

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eldritchw1tch · 10 months

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Preliminary Gayeties: Preparatory Materials for Interested Parties

Greetings, all! As you may be aware, @barricadescon (x) is happening this weekend. Myself (x), @shitpostingfromthebarricade (x), and @grantairelibere (x) will be hosting one of the social night panels, and we are BEYOND excited! Below, I’ve got a bit more information for you:

As you may know, Preliminary Gayeties is one of the chapters of the Brick, in which Grantaire, Joly, and Bossuet get a bit trashed while they wait for Lamarque’s funeral to reach the riot stage. The three of us have a fairly longstanding personal tradition of reading this chapter aloud and playing a drinking game whenever we’re together, and it is to this custom that we would like to invite all of you. Now, in order to fully participate, you may need some supplies! All versions of these supplies are equally valid, and certainly it can be played with simple water and any snackie of your choice. However, we find it is MOST amusing when you have a specific bev or snack to stand in for each one specified. To that end, we provide a guide below so that as many people as possible may be prepared to participate fully in our game!

First of all, we need some bevs:

The primary drink is (usually red) wine. For substitutions, we suggest: any wine you personally prefer, a wine cooler, grape juice, grape flavored gatorade/sports drink, any kind of purple drink mix, some water with red/purple food coloring in it, Just Straight Up Water, whatever speaks to you!

In much smaller quantities, the activity also calls for beer (specifically stout), brandy, and absinthe.

For beer, we suggest: any beer of your choice, a nonalcoholic beer, some lemonade, Just Some Bread, ginger beer, ginger ale, any kind of cola, etc.

For brandy, we suggest: brandy, whiskey, any dark liquor, Just A Shot of Maple Syrup, tea, a shot of coke or pepsi, etc.

For absinthe, we will do The Ritual, in which you put a small amount of absinthe in a cup, put a sugar cube in a strainer above it, and slowly pour water over the cube until it has dissolved. For substitutions, we suggest: any violently green energy drink, mountain dew, sugar water with green food coloring, Just Eat Some Licorice, ouzo, a straight shot of lime juice, or anything else unhinged that your little heart desires!

For snacks, we suggest you have some bread, along with…

Oysters. For substitutions, consider: smoked salmon/lox, any shellfish or seafood of your choice, some nice oyster mushrooms, oyster crackers, gummies shaped like shells idk do they sell those, frankly Swedish Fish, etc.

Brie. For substitutions, consider: any kind of cheese or faux-cheese, any kind of Bread Spread you prefer, butter, flavored butter, jam, marmalade, etc

Ham. For substitutions, consider: bacon, turkey bacon, turkey, any kind of cold cut you prefer, thinly sliced vegetables, veggie burger, etc

#barricades #barricades con #barricades 2023 #les mis #les miserables #preliminary gayeties #shitpostingfromthebarricade #grantairelibere #perihelionicarus #rare remarks #les amis #breakfast club #barricadescon #drinking games #i am SO excited to share this with everyone #discorinthians #shitposting #perseus #percy

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askvectorprime · 1 year

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Dear Vector Prime, what was Armada Thrust's military career like before the events of the anime?

Dear Squidhead Scrutinizer,

Thrust's military career began well before Megatron's uprising. He was the star student at Cybertron's foremost military academy… or would have been, if not for his classmate, Dogfight. Though Thrust could do things like recite the legendary Barricade's strategies from memory, Dogfight had him beat in every practical facet of combat. To eliminate his competition, Thrust arranged an "accident" for Dogfight, and graduated with the top grade, his teachers none the wiser.

After graduating, Thrust rose rapidly through the ranks of Cybertron's defense force. He became chief tactical officer to Sentinel Prime just as Megatron began his rise to power. Here, Thrust again saw an opportunity, and betrayed Sentinel to Megatron, leading to the Autobot leader's legendary defeat at the Straits of Yuss and assuring Thrust a place at the Decepticon warlord's side.

From then on, Thrust became the Decepticons' leading tactical coordinator. It was he that arranged the sacking of the largest Mini-Con settlement in Tesarus, diverting Autobot forces by leaking false intelligence to them about a supposed all-out attack at the frontlines.

After the Mini-Cons escaped aboard the Exodus, Thrust began making plans for Decepticon invasions of alien planets. He organized the takeover of the Tlalakan homeworld, where he helped the Decepticon general Deadlock poison the planet's oceans and eliminate 75% of the population. More worlds fell to Decepticon control thanks to Thrust's strategies, furthering his reputation, with many believing his study of Cybertronian astrology to be the key to much of his victories.

Thrust's greatest victories, however, were on the planets Orga, Duke, and Vector, which all inhabited the same sector of space. Here he managed to bring all three worlds to their knees with almost no Decepticon casualties, by sending infiltrators to each world to orchestrate false-flag attacks that stoked resentment between them—until they erupted into interplanetary conflict. Once their military power had been mostly exhausted, Thrust ordered a three-pronged assault that swept through the battered defenses.

You know the rest: not longer after, Thrust was called to Earth, where he would again see an opportunity to further his own goals. This time, things didn’t go so well for him, and he was killed by Unicron. A key flaw of Decepticonism: you can only deceive so many, before you have nobody left to trust when everything unravels.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #unicron trilogy #thrust #megatron #dogfight #barricade #sentinel prime #yuss #mini-cons #tesarus #tlalak #orga #vector #duke

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koheletgirl · 7 months

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there's jbm in this chapter did you know

#often forgotten fact #anyway im literally not strong enough to actually read this right now #also last time i read it was drunk with shosh on barricades con :( sucha time :(#les mis letters #🤎

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ofpd · 8 months

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asked my dad if he knew what the revolutionaries' friend group name was in les mis (which was like tangentially relevant to the conversation) and he was like what, the abc? which is sooosilly to me like thats what they call themselves in war....

#one thing abt barricades con is that it made me start pronouncing les amis de l'abc like its actual french #i used to pronounce the abc part like it's english #but anyway. ''the abc'' is so war....#and a million other less important fics #txt

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secretmellowblog · 4 months

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A tiktok video based on @psalm22-6’s bold research into deranged 19th century reviews of Les Mis! Made for the tiktok account of @barricadescon, the online Les Mis convention.

It’s fascinating how conservatives were trying so hard to Own Victor Hugo’s progressive politics with Facts and Logic. You just know that if these people were alive today they’d be YouTubers making 4-hour videos about the how new Ghostbusters movie is bad because it has women in it. The only one in this video who has a point in the San Francisco reviewer, because they’re both not a weird conservative (afaict) and they’re also very right that the Wraxall translation is of deeply questionable quality.

#les mis #les miserables #barricades con #I think this video is quality content #and not jus t because I made it #feel free to watch on tiktok to boost the Barricades account in the algorithm!

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barricadescon · 24 days

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100 Days to Barricades!

We are 100 days away from Barricades 2024! All submissions for panels are in, and our programming calendar is currently in progress! Stay tuned for the complete schedule, as well as our final Guest of Honor announcement, coming soon!

If you have not yet registered, you can do so on our website . Tickets are £12, and scholarships are available upon request to [email protected].

#les mis #les miserables #Barricades Con #Barricades 2024

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hydravns · 1 month

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TRANSFORMERS (2007) Dir. Michael Bay

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baronmpontmercy · 10 months

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I made eggy toast for the first time in Literal Years this morning and it was a good idea

#setting my day off right #gonna alternate between drawing a comm and drawing a barricades con piece!

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patron-minette · 10 months

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Obligatory self-promo post because Barricades Con is only two weeks away!

Want to learn more about the sensational and theatrical influences behind the criminal rogues of the Patron-Minette (and a handful of their affiliates)? You can catch my panel on 14th July, 6pm UTC / 7pm BST / 2pm EST

#barricades con #patron minette #patron-minette #patron minette affiliates #les miserables #les mis #the brick #theatres of crime #historical context

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