Joly: hi my name’s joly with a B and i’ve been scared of insects my whole li-

Combeferre: stop stop stop. where?

Joly: hm?

Combeferre: where’s the B?

Joly: THERE’S A BEE ?!

A Les Mis commission for @wellavellan! A protest Joly! Thank you so much!

I’m taking commissions y’all!

cosette-defence-squad:

headcanon that joly’s only skill at musical instruments is playing the guitar with a baguette and will never fail to serenade muschietta and lesgle with it

Hi! So you’re one of the more knowledgeable Les Mis people on my dash, so I have a question. In “Preliminary Gaiety”, Hugo is describing how Bossuet and Joly share everything. And he says “They were what, among the Chapeau Brothers, are called bini.” What is that a reference to? And what IS a bini? Because I googled it and all that came up was some cultural group in Nigeria.

pilferingapples:

How flattering! While I’m nowhere near the ranks of the most well informed, I am ALWAYS willing to talk about Les Amis and I love Joly and Bossuet a lot, so let’s go!

It seems to be a term that’s fallen out of use; the closest I was able to come when I looked for it myself was binitarianism, which, well, take it away Wikipedia:

“Binitarianism is a Christian theology of two personae, two individuals, or two aspects in one Godhead (or God). Classically, binitarianism is understood as strict monotheism — that is, that God is an absolutely single being; and yet with binitarianism there is a “twoness” in God.“

Which to me says that Joly and Bossuet are operating as an absolute unit, but also as two separate entities. Notice how in that chapter Grantaire tends to speak like he’s addressing one person– and all right, that’s Grantaire, but also notice Enjolras only sends the message about the gathering to Bossuet (who is certainly the more physically distinct of the pair). Grantaire in his sulk assumes it’s because Enjolras was dismissing Joly, but in context it seems more likely that Enjolras just knew/assumed that a message to one was a message to the other.

The Joly/ Lesgles partnership is really underexamined; on the most obvious level, if Joly can be seen as the science of the revolution and Bossuet its optimism, then that’s quite a statement on the link between hope and progress and one I think holds up well. But there’s all sorts of comments on interdependence and social contracts and character studies to be had there too, and DON’T THINK I WON’T TALK ABOUT IT I will but it’s not what you asked! So, uh, there. "Bini” is probably just a short way of saying “one entity but divided” in that religiously allusiony Hugo way.

Marking time until one of fandom’s actually knowledgeable people corrects me. Please…?

aradia-jones:

my favorite part about the les mis movie is joly looking vaguely confused about everything almost the entire film

romanifeuilly:

now I want a fic where Grantaire forgets his sketchbook one day and instead of Enjolras finding it and seeing it’s full of pictures of himself he finds it and it’s full of pictures of Joly and Bossuet as different types of dinosaurs