Constantine AU🥵

My young Javert collection 🎩

can’t have les mis in 2025 smh😔😔they made the thenardiers WOKE it’s no longer the thenardiers now the WOKEnardiers

It but instead of Pennywise living in the sewers it’s Victor Hugo. Via @honhonhonlafayette [x]

Inktober day 23. I know I’ve been slacking, I’m the worst.

Bishop Myriel walks his garden

Or: “‘The beautiful is as useful as the useful’, he added after a pause ‘Moreso, perhaps.’”

why you so nervous?

the big three questions of media analysis: what the author wanted to say, what they actually said, and what they didn’t know they were saying

Grantaire had some pretty sexy fantasies before he began dating Enjolras 😏.....alas their lives are a bit more swamped with work than he imagined it'd be 😔

But at the end of the day, they still get to snork mimimi/honk shoo together ❤️

A quick little series of doodles for @lesmisshippingshowdown too 🙂‍↕️

“He might be your brother.”

“He is.”

would anyone like for me to ramble about how enjolras and grantaire are performing masculinity in opposite ways, with enjolras being a stereotypical "pretty boy" while grantaire is the more rugged, masculine, drunk type of typical man.

that could hint at their upbringing, with enjolras's being very obviously bourgeois, while grantaire's allows more leeway. a strong, ugly alcoholic can be found in all social classes with varying amounts, but beautiful intellectuals are usually a higher class staple.

and, to say more on the performance of masculinity thing, i would argue that both enjolras and grantaire subvert their respective stereotypes in their own ways.

enjolras rejects his wealth and works for the people, but even more importantly (in discussing gender roles), he is very much not interested in women. and not in a marius way, a way virginal and messy, but still generally heterosexual. no, enjolras devotes himself to his patria, trampling over societal expectations in the process.

i will not be touching on things such as enjolras shedding a tear over killing the artillery officer or other ways he expresses emotions, as 19th century france is still a time in which emotions were yet to be a taboo for men. and they're maybe-possibly a saint just reference.

grantaire's biggest act of defying gender roles and his stereotype is, quite clearly, his adoration of enjolras. even, if one argues against it being love (and i do believe grantaire loves enjolras, as unhealthy at most points in the brick that love is), there is no denying that such deep infatuation with a man, and not his ideals or anything, is not standard in 19th century france.

plus, to mark a thought, grantaire also makes quite a lousy nihilist. in his brick introduction, he is specifically stated not to care for ideas or himself, but to care for his friends. "his mind could live without ideals, but his heart could not live without friendship". so even presenting as a guy that does not believe in anything, grantaire fails, because he loves his friends and believes in enjolras.