Saw Les Miserables US Tour Today. Feeling very Not Normal about Kyle Adams as Grantaire. His dynamic with Gavroche literally restarted my Les Mis unwellness. If you’ve been following me since my blog started (unlikely but I was live-in-tricolor) You know how Special Grantaire is to me and he just GOT it.

He has a way of moving and acting in a very, it was all in his body for real. His line in Drink with Me has so much anger ugh 10/10 understanding of a cynic who joins a revolution for the privilege of sitting next to someone who Only believes in the revolution.

His reaction to Gav’s death? Killer.

Now I have to also give my flowers to Haley Dortch’s Fantine she was mind blowing but this ain’t about her but it should be.

AND ANOTHER THING about les mis tour!! Below the cut because boy I have been spamming today

I loved the way they did gavroche’s death 😭 he climbs over the barricade, and he’s singing but we the audience can’t see him. And Grantaire walks up center stage facing the audience. We hear gavroche singing and the 2 gunshots that usually get him and we’re just watching grantaire react!! At the second gunshot he puts his hand to his side like he’s been shot and it’s just absolutely devastating. And then gavroche comes up the top of the barricade and he’s okay! And R is so relieved! BUT THEN of course gav gets shot at “when the pup grows-“ and he falls in enjolras’ arms and it’s a total pieta tableau and grantaire is just standing there unmoving for SO LONG. Until he finally takes gavroche’s body and then he spends almost the entire battle shaking him and telling him to wake up. Their whole friendship just GUTTED me tbh

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

Hi sorry I'm in love with the U S Tour of Les Mis it's the only right interpretation

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."

Victor Hugo was really out here introducing 1000 new characters in the back half of the brick and saying "oops sorry guys, here are some new little dudes you're gonna be obsessed with, yeah they're all just kids, yeah, you're gonna love them all, oh yeah also, they're all gonna die, in the same chapter yeah, sorry.."

enjolras for palette 41!! is it okay to request a 2012 reference for this? i have no preference but i’m just curious :D

I will never turn down an excuse to draw Enjolras in a warm color palette! Behold, the priest of the ideal.

Thank you for the ask! Prompt from this list.

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

the patron saint of the lost causes —

A lil 4am enjoltaire drama for the soul 🙏🏻😌

you all would’ve loved the rendition i saw yesterday.

gavroche and grantaire spent the whole show goofing around.

when eponine fell gavroche tried to run to her side but grantaire stopped him. he held him as she died and once she passed gavroche turned and buried his face in grantaire’s clothes.

after drink with me enjolras tried to comfort grantaire but he pushed him away. instead it was gavroche, who went to his side and pulled him away from the wall. gavroche eventually fell asleep with his head on grantaire’s shoulder.

when gavroche was shot at the top of the barricade, enjolras was holding the front of his shirt. he caught the boys body in his arms as he fell then slowly turned around and handed him off to grantaire. as the fighting raged on, grantaire stood center stage, holding the boy, staring at him. he eventually made his way off to the side where he collapsed to his knees and just held him, shaking his head, shaking gavroche, then just staring at his face.

cannon fire dropped enjolras to the ground and grantaire crawled to his side, begging him to stay. enjolras shoved him to the ground and climbed back up, grabbing a flag. as bullets made enjolras fall once more, grantaire kissed gavroche on the head, grabbed a bottle, and climbed to the top of the barricade. it looked like he tried to grab the flag but didn’t make it. he was the last to die.

these actors were incredible. i spent every scene he was in watching grantaire on the sidelines, either goofing off with gavroche or staring at enjolras. i was delighted at how they embodied these characters and the clear love grantaire had for enjolras. even from the back of the balcony, it was clear where grantaire was staring.

it was my first time seeing the show in person and i hope i have many more opportunities. but i don’t know if anyone will beat them. devin archer and kyle adams were the perfect e/r.

you're obsessed with being a martyr, with dying like a fucking saint and you are forgetting that there are real people who will be fighting behind you!

as Lucifer fell

The skeptic

Woah some Les Mis genius just made a tiktok diving into the canonical parallels between Jean Valjean and St Nicholas:

Or watch on tiktok to boost this excellent person in the algorithm! They are clearly trying very hard to produce quality analysis about extremely important Les mis things like “Jean Valjean breaking into people’s houses to secretly give them money,” but do not have a lot of followers yet! :

Just imagine getting ready for a day of paperwork and networking with all the glittering stars of Paris Officialdom when you receive a communique from your most no-nonsense shoeleather lieutenant out in the field that the mayor (completely respectable, thoroughly bourgeois, beloved by all) is wanted fugitive DB Cooper and he wants a SWAT team in a bearcat to come take his ass to jail RIGHT NOW.

It's already pretty weird. Then you look over to the other email you've received this morning telling you that they've got Mr. Cooper cooling his heels in the county lockup at this very moment. What would you even do.

my fucking les mis brainrot is back can you believe it.

marius jumpscare under the cut

marius be upon ye