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arta-art · 1 month

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Any idea of user's name if Jean Valjean opens his Onlyfans account to earn some moneys to raise Cosette after his escape from jail in modern AU??? Certainly, deeply closeted the cop Javert finds this hot gay top Onlyfans account which happens to be JVJ...LOL

#les mis fanart #les mis #les miz #valvert #valjean/javert #jean valjean #javert #modern AU #les mis modern au #les miz modern AU

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ijlii · 20 days

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#les mis fanart #enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #les mierables #les miz #modern au #fanart #illustration #doodle #fan comic #life is pain #pain au chocolat #🍫

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fruity-pontmercy · 11 months

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Dont know if it’s too niche but every time I walk by the Luxembourg gardens in Paris (makes it sound like I go there often lol, the rare times I’ve gone there) I always think of how easy it would be to steal the chairs… anyway… I think Grantaire would have the stolen Luxembourg garden chairs as his home decor..

(And in case this headcanon is too niche, these are the chairs I mean)

#les mis #les miserables #les miz #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #les mis headcanons #litblr #grantaire #enjoltaire #modern au

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rpmaniac · 2 years

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Look down, look down

Toulon, 1815/2005

#les simserables #les miserables #les mis #javert #valjean #jean valjean #les miserables moder au #les mis modern au #modern les mis #les mis sims #les miz #les misérables #the sims 4 #ts4

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story-scenes · 1 year

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Weird GC names( this will be updated for less cringe later on)

enjolras:

Combeferre:

courfyerac:

jehan:

feuilly:

bahorel:

bossuet:

joly:

grantaire:

Marius:

cosette:

Eponine:

gavroche:

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abeautifulblog · 2 years

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longtime listener, first time caller, I gotta know how you feel about high school and college aus

...You know, I was about to say “not my jam,” in the same way that most modern, what-if-they-had-boring-jobs-and-no-superpowers AUs are not my jam. (And especially not high school AUs because I am just Too Damn Old for teenage drama.) But in thinking about the one high school fic that is my single exception to that rule -- and realizing that almost everything else I read in that particular fandom was a college AU -- it turns out the real answer is: it depends on the canon.

Case study: Les Miserables vs. The Witcher

So first off, Les Miz fandom has very little bearing on the actual source material—instead of the main story that the book/movies/musical tells, fanfic tends to focus on a group of minor side characters, the Les Ami, a bunch of idealistic young revolutionaries fighting for change and social justice.

The most popular pairing is Enjolras, the group's intensely passionate and charismatic (and really hot) leader, and Grantaire, a cynical alcoholic artist who shows up at meetings to be a smartass and troll Enjolras. Pretty sure the following is paraphrased from canon:

Enjolras: [to Grantaire] Why do you even come to meetings??

Grantaire: Cuz I lurrrrrve you.

Enjolras: [to everyone else] Why does he even come to meetings???

Everyone else: Uhm. Because he is like, ass-over-tits in love with you. Dude, he's not even subtle about it.

It's not that Grantaire doesn't support the group's aims, but he's a pragmatist in a sea of idealists, which makes him one of the few people willing to challenge Enjolras in any meaningful way. Moreover, Grantaire desperately wants Enjolras to notice him—and he'd rather have Enjolras riled up and yelling at him, if that's what it takes to have his attention, than to be just one more adoring fan lost in the crowd. It's a great dynamic.

(And I'm given to understand that regardless of whether Enjolras ever reciprocated his feelings, Grantaire was pretty overtly gay for Enjolras even in the original. And Grantaire—despite all his professed cynicism—does ultimately show up for the revolution, and he and Enjolras die in each other's arms, because it's that kind of book. (If I'm wrong, don't correct me. ✌))

But the thing is, “idealistic young revolutionaries fighting for change and social justice” is really easy to transplant into a different time and place—there has never been any shortage of social justice to fight for, and there have always been idealistic young people stepping up to the plate. Which is why most Les Miz fanfics are modern AUs, and mostly college age or recently graduated (with that one salient high school fic), because that's the age at which people have the most passion and resilience for challenging the system and trying to change the world. The specific issues the group is championing may be new, but the personalities, motivations, and dynamics remain identical -- the only difference is that now they've got iPhones.

It's great fun! I have zero familiarity with Les Miz canon, but I've nonetheless read a lot of modern/college AU fic of it, so clearly I do enjoy that trope under the right circumstances.

On the flip side: The Witcher.

It's pretty easy to translate Jaskier into a modern/college setting—his parents want him to be a responsible viscount business major, while he is causing them immense disappointment with his bardic aspirations music degree. It can hit all the same beats—staying true to himself in the face of parental pressure, rich parents threatening to cut him off financially if he doesn't come to heel, being a no-name musician struggling to hit it big, trying to find his niche as an artist.

But the other characters in the witcher universe just do not transplant into a mundane setting. Full stop.

Geralt, for one, is not a character who can be divorced from the context that created him—the central conflicts of his character, the elements that shaped his personality, are all entirely rooted in him being a witcher. What it took to become one, and all the intergenerational trauma of Kaer Morhen. How society treats him, how he struggles with having his humanity constantly denied by the people around him, and the staggering isolation inherent in that. Having already lived multiple human lifetimes, looking down the barrel of living who-knows-how-many-more, and how that's alienating too. Being the last of a dying breed, and feeling kinship with the very creatures that his entire reason for existing is to kill.

Without that, all you've got is an introvert who likes horses.

And sure, if it's an author I enjoy, and the story is ~10k words or less, then I'll read their bubbly musician + introverted horse-nerd romcom—but at that point, calling them Jaskier and Geralt is little more than a hook for getting readers into the story.

When a character is that much a product of their specific circumstances, even attempts at modern analogues invariably fall short—growing up in the foster care system is not comparable to growing up in Kaer Morhen; being a forest ranger might be Geralt's dream job, but it's nothing like the job he has. (Not to mention that they're trying to cram a hundred-year-old character into a college student, and my brain breaks at the idea of Geralt being younger than me.) It's changing too many variables—he's either not the same character anymore, or if he is, he shouldn't be, because he no longer has the history that shaped him in those specific ways. He's no longer grappling with the same conflicts; you're having to invent an entirely new set of issues for him, and his resemblance to his canon self grows ever more attenuated.

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Anyway, all of which is to say that I only like high school/college AUs when it doesn't take the characters too far afield from their canon incarnation. There are other people who have a greater tolerance than I do for characters-taken-out-of-context, and that is A-OK, it is literally nothing but personal preference.

And it's not like fanfic requires any justification for its existence beyond “I wanted to,” but high-school/college/modern AUs do have some practical benefits. It lets you channel your investment in the blorbos into writing what's essentially an original story with original characters, while still having a ready-made readership for it. It has a much lower bar to entry for young writers, because it doesn't require enormous amounts of research or real-world experience. And if you want to file the serial numbers off and publish it someday, you can do that too.

So yeah. This got kinda off topic from high school/college AUs specifically, and veered into Modern AUs, Part II, but them's my thoughts on the subject. :)

(Trope game! Send me an ask with some time-honored fanfic tropes, and I will share my opinions on them)

#trope game #am still getting around to answering them all #this is fun

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roxann-with-no-e · 3 years

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“Are you done darling?”

“A minute.”

Cosette needed a mirror for a touch up. As a good friend, it was only natural that Mussicheta would fetch her one.

#Cosette #cosette fauchelevent #mussicheta #this was for cosette week but I lost it #les mis #les miz #traditional art #modern au

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taiteilija · 3 years

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les amis

So I did it. And however some things may have been done better or differently, I'm still pretty satisfied that I managed to draw all of them. Well, I may not contribute much to Les Amis for I'm mostly in Valvert part of Les Mis fandom, but I need you to know I still adore my homosexual supporting cast of the barricade. I do. Every single one of them.

Here they go:

Enjolras – the single-child pretty rebel enby leader with strong lesbian vibe

Combeferre – wise, nerdy, peaceful gay leader

Jean “Jehan” Prouvaire – trans sweetie who loves plants, poems, looking at the stars and is so empathetic it actually hurts

Feuilly – a hard-working labourer and defender of every single poor country there is (like Poland; he loves Poland and I believe he would save it from its current shitty conservative government... Feuilly help us... please...)

Courfeyrac – charming, cheerful and good-natured bi leader

Bahorel – feisty punk-ish anarchist who looks suspiciously similar to some boy-ish version of Chloe Price

„Bossuet” Lesgle – walking and talking jinx with no hair, too many name variations and a wide smile despite his failures in luck department, here you can see him wearing shirt with three-leaf clover pattern for three-leaf clover gives you no luck at all, it's shitty and gives you nothing, but he still adores it

Joly – a real doctor-to-be cause sees germs everywhere (but damn he's right, they are everywhere!) and also he sleeps so that his legs are facing north and head is facing south cause he believes that man is magnetised like a needle of a compass or sth, hence he has compasses on his shoes so he always knows where the north is in case he sleeps in someone else's bed

Grantaire – drunk, gay & sceptic as hell, in love with Enjolras, finishes every sentence Enjolras starts... even if its on t-shirt

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ferret-not-microwave · 3 years

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Les Amis Modern AU: What They Wish Others Believed About Them (Part 2).

[I kind of wrote this in response to some general trends in characterising the Amis. There are some stereotypes which I'm not quite comfortable with. ]

Jehan:

• They get weirded out when people always expect them to present femme, wear flower crowns, flowing ponchos and skirts. They do love these, especially flowers. But they barely get time to slip on a T shirt over a pair of shorts and tie up their hair in a messy knot before going out for last minute groceries. Some days, they actually like wearing plaid shirts, hoodies, berets and jackets. And they did have a "I'M BORED WITH MY LONG HAIR LEMME CHOP IT OFF" phase. Or multiple such phases. They look amazing, both ways.

• They wish people stop perceiving them as tiny and fragile. They are actually pretty regular sized. They are actually taller than R and Joly, as tall as Marius and Courf, and can give a mean right hook to anyone who threatens to assault them and people around them. They get slightly miffed when people don't expect them to pack in a punch to defend themself.

• They really wish that people didn't assume that they have the solution to all their emotional problems. They are a mess too, yannow? With lots of tea, a few potted plants and a decorative skull. And they really wish that they could have a meltdown in front of some people in turn.

• They aren't always all calm and zen. Woe betide anyone who interrupts Jehan in a writing session. Or a proof-reading session. Or catches them hitting their head on the corner of the table while trying to clean the dust under it. And woe especially betide anyone who interrupts these activities of Jehan to pine for the umpteenth time.

• They don't always entertain valentine poetry requests just because they specialise in Romanticism. "Romanticism with a CAPITAL R", they yell, "ALSO includes poems like the Masque of Anarchy, and novels like Frankenstein! I'm NOT reading hours of Schlegel for this!" Some of their slam poems are fierce af , and rip the establishment a new one. Also, they don't write poems on every available surface (because they usually hide the more private and sweet poems).

• They wish that people wouldn't hover around them like helicopter parents when their date is edgy ( *Montparnasse*). They can take care of themselves, and will definitely come to people for help if shit hits the fan (that never really happened though). They want to let people know that toxic people can also materialise without leather jackets and piercings.

• They also want to let people know that their relationship dynamics with 'Parnasse is regular af, and not any chewed-out Sinner and Saint trope.

Feuilly:

• Is impatient. Anyone would be impatient if they are working their arse off in three part-time jobs, an Etsy business, classes and assignments. AND Les Amis work. He's tries not be rude, but is often blunt and brusque and has no time for the wounded sentiments of those he calls out for their privilege. Feuilly is hardly the quiet, angelic figure people initially think he is, and can be quite fiery in meetings. He feels frustrated when people don't quite get it.

• He goes out of his way to help his friends. That doesn't mean that he is a handyman for free. He does not have time to fix every article of machinery or furniture his friends happen to damage, definitely not for free. And his friends know that, and never stress him out. He does give them a lot of discounts, though, and is always there for any emergency.

• He finds a lot of rich-people-food tasteless. Lavender tea blends? Perfumed water. Champagne? Meh. Caviar? Nevermind. Canapes? Why?

• He's always afraid that his friendships will fall apart. He cannot hope to attend all meetings, let alone movie nights. He's terrified of dinners and parties, because he's worried about expenses. He cannot trust simple acts of service from his friends because he hates charity. He's also a little self-conscious about his old thrift-shop clothes. He's always terrified of losing his jobs. It takes a lot of time for the Amis to convince him to trust them, and they try their level best to make sure that they don't hurt him in any way, and help him as much as he permits (sometimes even more).

• He is learning how not to judge people for their apparent privilege without knowing their life-stories, and, whenever not tired, takes an active role in trying to know people's histories.

• Education is rough for him, because most professors insist on standards of work presentation which are usually learned by really privileged people. Even if he is low-key a genius who learns really fast and gives tons of content in his paper, he gets mediocre grades because of vague things like "colloquialism usage", "cluttered style" and "unacademic presentation".

• Sometimes has meltdowns and panic attacks, particularly at the end of the month. Feuilly knows what homelessness is like, and does not want to repeat it again, even though he's financially in a better place than before. He wakes up with nightmares about being passed out at the back of a subway train.

• Feuilly is an old soul. He knows when an Ami is sad, or in trouble. But he'll wait till he knows they are ready to tell him what's wrong. It can sometimes seem bordering on tough love. He hopes that no one thinks him to be insensitive because of that.

Bahorel:

• Likes bar brawls only when it involves kicking someone's ass for being creepy, homophobic, sexist, racist and similarly-ist assholes. He absolutely does not like gratuitous violence for its own sake. And FFS, he doesn't really like Tarantino.

• Wishes people don't look at him weirdly when he is doing regular stuff like groceries, parking his motorbike, playing with Gavroche or Azelma, or going plant-shopping with Jehan. He knows that people stare as though he was a ticking time bomb, waiting to go off in a reassuring display of toxic, hypermasculine machismo. He hates that. -_-

• Similarly, he hates it when people assume that he's all brawn and no brain, particularly after knowing him to be a law school dropout. He has a grim satisfaction in seeing a newcomer to the Musain look at him agape, expecting him to be some kind of tropey backbencher only there for brawling, but finding him actively engaged in articulate brainstorming while the others nod enthusiastically.

• He likes bar crawls. That doesn't mean he encourages R to drink. He's done a LOT of work helping R to work on his drinking problem and was one of the happiest when R got his first bronze sobriety chip.

• In fact, Bahorel is notoriously good at dancing in a bar, and often goes for the dancing only. In bars, he takes care of everyone - including the DD who lingers in the corner with a beer and their phone, uncomfortably anxious, and desperately needing company (looking at you, Ferre).

• Dropping out of law school has made him really uncertain about life. For the first few months after dropping out, he regretted every bit of it, cried himself to sleep after feuding with his anxious family over the phone, and had quite a few suicidal thoughts. It's not that he's completely certain that life is okay now, but he's much happier studying journalism.

• As a kid, he hated his height and build because he was considered too big for a certain really cute boat ride in an amusement park. He also had eating disorders in high school.

#les amis #modern au #jehan prouvaire #bahorel #feuilly #undo stereotypes #les mis #les miz #les miserables #feuilly is tired okay #non binary #ferret's freshly microwaved post

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cumbercookiebatchs · 4 years

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#enjoltaire #grantaire #les miserables #enjolras #les mis fandom #les mis #les amis de l'abc #enjolras and grantaire #les miz #Enjoltaire #Exr #courfeyrac #Eponine #Combeferre #les mis modern au #Les mis social media au by riri

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aromantic-enjolras · 3 years

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I was thinking... Beauty standards change with time, right? So logically, in an time-travelling scenario, the stuff a Brick-character would find attractive would not be the same as a modern age person... So you have an opportunity to write a character that is considered unattractive and ugly by modern standards, and a time-traveller who honestly cannot understand how they don’t have suitors popping out of every corner..

(And yes, this is because I’m reading a story where 1832!Enjolras meets modern!Grantaire)

#Les Misérables #text posts #prompts #Enjolras #Grantaire #Canon Era Les Miz #modern au #ExR

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marius-my-beloved · 3 years

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Chapter One

Summary: A foster kid, Cosette didn’t have the ideal childhood. But it seemed out of character for her to run away. Marius is willing to do anything to help her. As she stays in the shed in the backyard, they grow closer, friendship blossoming into romance as Marius tries to figure out why Cosette ran away.

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“No!” Red fingers darted out, making a stop sign in front of her. Even in this dark, Marius could tell her hands weren’t that color because of the cold. They were bruised. “No, you can’t”-she sucked in a breath-“you can’t tell Mr. Madeleine.”

If she didn’t want Mr. Madeleine to know this must be bad.

“Why not?”

“I just . . . I can’t. Could you let me stay in the shed? Just for one night. That’s all I need. Please.”

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#Les mis #les miz #les Mis fanfiction #fanfiction #my writing #Les Miserables #cosette fauchelevent #jean valjean #marisette #modern au #marius pontmercy #marius x cosette #cosette x marius

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ijlii · 1 month

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#les mierables #les mis fanart #enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #les miz #fanart #illustration #doodle #modern au

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fruity-pontmercy · 2 years

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I love you canon era fanon Les Mis, I love you period accurate depictions of the characters, I love you Barricade Day fix it fics, I love you fans who take the time to learn about the time period and manage to make work that is appealing and relatable to a modern audience while not sacrificing the context in which these characters were originally meant to exist, I love you

#and this is not to say that I think modern aus are bad #in fact I mostly dwell in the modern au side of the fandom #and I love to see people put effort into beautiful intricate pieces of art that look like 1830s fashion plates it just makes me so happy #les miz #les mis #les amis de l'abc #les miserables #the brick #musical theatre #les mis au #les mis canon era

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rpmaniac · 2 years

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At the End of the Day

M-- sur M--, 1819/2009

#les simserables #les miserables #les mis #fantine #les mis modern au #M-- sur M--#les mis canon era #les miz #les misérables #les mis sims #ts4 #the sims 4

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hiemssun · 3 years

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#jean valjean #javert #les mis #les miz #fanart #valvert #modern au #at long last #finally able to do some digital #aaand #i suck at backgrounds #and also hands #the backgrounds even worse in the second one #ah well #flower shop au

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