Les Amis De L'abc - Blog Posts

I don't know if this is something anyone cares about but if you like fandom history you might find it fun?

I've been slowly and painstakingly digitizing all of my sketchbooks from 2015 until now and sorting the pages by fandom, so here's approximately 5 years of Les Mis sketches, starting in 2016 and with a few unknown dates. These are only some of MANY. ID in alt text for all of these. For any screen reader users, there are a LOT of sketches, so it's a lot of alt text to get through.

Eljolras. Study

The Picture of Agent Courfeyrac

My hedcanones about Bossuet and Jo(llll)y

Paris was set to explode.

Enough spark to light a fire

I was so inspired by les mis manga by Takahiro Arai, and decided to make my own piece of manga.

💥🇫🇷🇫🇷💥🇫🇷💥HAPPY BARRICADE DAY 🇫🇷🇫🇷💥🇫🇷🇫🇷💥

Alexandre Bahorel

Agent Courfeyrac

Happy barricade day!

can we pleeeaase talk abt the fact that jehan canonically plays the flute!! and it is mentioned in the brick once and never again!! :')

like. baroque enjoyer jehan gushing abt vivaldi and learning bach's badinerie and writing sheet music with a stupid amount of trills and grace notes because ornamentation sounds amazingg on the flute.

romanticism enjoyer jehan listening to arrangements of rachmaninoff's vocalise for flute bc like. its just wonderful

concert band flautist jehan getting new sheet music and looking at it in stunned silence because. dear god. dear god its so high up its barely within the human hearing range. whyyyyyyyyy.

Do you think Marius intended to invite all the friends of the abc at his wedding. Do you think combeferre was meant to be his best man. Do you think he kept them empty chairs at his wedding table. Just in case.

oh my god

hdjfhwhdjqks so ive finally picked up the brick again and and im nearing the deaths(tm) and my spotify decides right now and then to play empty chairs at empty tables

im reading the brick and im emotionally preparing myself for the deaths of the amis

i am so sorry for joining the uquiz trend but i had to and made a les amis one (gonna rb it with the link)

enjorlas w/ nice pristine red doc martens

grantaire w/ worn in, scruffed up, black doc martens

enjoltaire fic idea

(ik it’s wrong, it’s just a first draft)

enjolras starts out as political activist in the same way that lindsay bluth is from, “arrested development.” until he meets his first love, who shows him true faith & passion. eventually their relationship ends somehow, (i haven’t figured it out yet, but i’m thinking something tragic.)

then flash forward to a few months, or years into the les amis. he knows about grantaire’s feelings, & grantaire is doing that’s thing, that for some reason, guys do in tv shows where he’s trying to convince the girl, (well in this case the guy, but u all know what i mean,) to fall for him, & it kinda works after a little while. but enjorlas is confused by his attraction to grantaire, because he’s so different from the guys he’s dated before. he even feels ashamed that he could ever fall for someone like grantaire.

then he, “realizes,” that he must do the same thing to grantaire that his first lover had done to him. r thinks of it as just some playful banter, & their relationship evolves into something more serious.

r takes enjorlas to go stargazing one night, upon a beautiful hill covered with hyacinths. grantaire throws down a blanket right by a laurel tree. they look towards the stars. enjorlas’ pale golden ringlets lay within correspondence of one another, upon grantaire’s chest. r plays w/ each curls whilst expressing his adoring love for this beam of warmth & light, composed of a flaming crimson. finally resting his powers upon a cynic’s heart. not even truly saying the phrase, for it had felt almost as another breath. something he hadn’t the need to think about, something that was just done, “i love you, enjolras.” that’s how you knew if he was serious, if grantaire ever used the name engolras, which was infact an absurdly rare occasion. as brown met blue, with the slight upwards tilt of thou’s blonde head, the secrets in which it had been keeping began to spring out. “as do i for you.” although the cynic was poor, he had felt the power of all the king’s riches in his possession; once having seen that slight, yet enriching smile spread across a prophet’s face. “even though your progress aa been stunted due to your cynicism. i am willing help as we claw our way through, & i am extatic for the end result”

“my progress?”

“why yes, you’re progress.”

“enjorlas, what do you mean by my progress?!” enj could have sworn he had seen the flowers wilt, & the tree branches shake, as result of grantaire’s anger. “well, i thought i could help with create an exponential growth in your faith, your faith of the cause.” you could see the sense of betrayal consume r’s eyes, “i-i should’ve known,” that same betrayal had spread, creating a ripple through his voice, “i knew this was all too good to be true!” “how could i have let myself believe that you would ever truly be attracted to me?”

“no r, it’s not like that!”

“what then? what was this some beauty & the beast stalkholme syndrome bull crap? you know, you can leave the flat whenever you’d like! no one is keeping you there! you’re the one who insists on staying put to work on the cause, not me, not combferre, not couferyac, just you!”

“taire, you don’t understand!”

“i’m not your test subject, enjorlas! i’m not your next project!”

“r, you where born broken, & you don’t know how to work fixed. i just want to help you, & show you.”

“broken?” enjorlas had realized what he had done. his eyes widened with shock, as a result of his actions. “no no, not like that,” he started to stumble, “y-you know what i mean.”

“oh ya, i know exactly what you mean. oh & by the way, dr. enjorlas. you made an error in your last report,” “the patient’s faith did in-fact increase, it just wasn’t for the cause. it was for you.”

Les Mis Fun Fact

Ok so as you all probably know by now I am in love with the Jewish Grantaire hc. I would like to state the fact that a good portion of people who have played Grantaire on Broadway/tours/etc. are Jewish, including George Blagden (the guy who plays Grantaire in the movie).

Hi there, as a Jew (who LOVES Les Mis) I thought I should add in to this discussion. Regarding the statement that Grantaire being Jewish is harmful, in all honestly you’re over thinking it, trust me. Most of the time whenever I see things relating to Grantaire being ugly it is usually him calling himself that, which for me (& a lot others) is a common way of looking at myself. Because of Conventional European Standards of Beauty Jews are not seen as conventionally attractive, which shows its effects in me whenever I look in the mirror. I end up suffering from derealization & all I can see is everything I am told not to be. Also Grantaire’s numbness to social justice is another thing a lot of Jews suffer from, due to the fact that no matter which side of the political spectrum you go on either way people still hate us. On the far right its just n@z!s & on the far left its just a bunch of people blaming us for the Israeli & Palestinian conflict. Not to mention the fact that there has literally been almost no progress made in ending anti-Semitism it just ends up going back to how it was after a few years. A lot of us don’t really feel safe on either side because both of the radicals hate us. However even though we haven’t been getting much (sometimes if any) help with our fight for equality we are still going to help others. A lot of Grantaire’s struggles do reflect a lot of struggles a good amount of Jews have to go through has well. For me the hc of Grantaire being Jewish is very important to me. Considering the best representation we have (that I can think of off the top of my head) is Puckerman from Glee, oh god plz let us have Grantaire lol. Also regarding the nose thing, the more we normalize different noses the less likely a lot of Jews are to feel insecure about, but the making his nose cartoonishly abnormal is a lil problematic. However I do think we should normalize “uglier” traits outside of race/ethnic stereotypes, I just don't think it should start with Grantaire. 

Jewish Grantaire really gets me. I say we should have ugly Grantaire!!! I'm an ugly person! I don't think that's a bad word, it's of my personal opinion we shod destigmatize it, not attach morals to it, but that's my own rant. BUT. Having the ugly canon character be fat and Jewish? Why are you thinking of those traits as ugly?

GOD anon i have,,,,,, so many thinks and thots about “ugliness”??? I’m torn between LET CHARACTERS BE UGLY and THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS UGLY, ONLY NOT MEETING CONVENTIONAL STANDARDS OF EUROPEAN BEAUTY!! (Also, pop OFF abt that ugliness =/= morals rant, if you ever flesh it out send it MY WAY)

But until we can de-colonize the beauty industry, YEAH. UGLY RIGHTS. I’m ugly! It be like that! It’s not a bad thing! But It’s when we do things like equate ugliness to racial/ethnic/cultural stereotypes (for example, by equating characters described as ugly as Black, or Jewish, or any marginalized race/ethnicity) is when shit gets real harmful. Like you said, anon, “Why are you thinking of those traits as ugly?”

(Also, WOW, I have not taken the time to fully consider the harmful stereotypes of Jewish Grantaire. R’s thing with his nose, Fat R - not inherently ugly things in the slightest! great things to represent! But we have to ask ourselves why we don’t represent those things outside of the races/ethnicities they’re stereotypically linked with. ) 

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I had to draw Enjolras and Grantaire after @dorodraws showed me this shirt

Enjolras: You could make a religion out of th-

Grantaire: No dont

children of the barricade who didn’t last the night

BAHAHAHA Happy Valentine’s Day (I’m so sorry Eponine)

i saw les mis again last week and i couldnt stop myself from doing this

A story that began with these two pictures [one¦two] and very quickly spiraled out of control…