Tag: les mis

if you’re stlil firing the canons…will you do one of the MOST important characters: the sewers or the bread? :D

pilferingapples:

Headcanon: not a plain white loaf, but a good solid brown bread, probably even with a certain amount of bean and vegetable flour worked in but only enough for flavoring; a true artisan loaf but not so flashy as to seem like a real theft-level crime to a poor peasant looking for a meal 

Heartcanon: while it was never returned to its original owner, another one of the village’s poor children found it where it had fallen after Valjean dropped it, and took it to share with their family, because Something Something Providence

Gutcanon: probably a round loaf instead of a long baguette type

Spleencanon: was eaten as bread and not mushed together with a hundred other food and non-food substances into some horrific monster gruel Hugo

Les Amis flat earthers

the-night-that-ends-at-last:


unfollow me if you think the earth is flat:

enjolras, combeferre, joly, feuilly

seriously pretends to be a flat-earther to to antagonize anti-flat earther (see above):

bossuet, jehan

neutral, but makes polls to start fights “is the earth flat? 🤔 let’s discuss”: 

grantaire

NOT a flat earther but makes “the earth may be flat but this ass isn’t” jokes for viral tweets: 

grantaire, courfeyrac, bahorel

actual flat earther:

marius

I know grantaire is in 2 of these but let’s be real he would do both of them

couldbelesmiserables:

I’m sorry, but I’m currently in love with this paragraph in the brick: “One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You might just as well say O and P as Orestes and Pylades.”

Like, I have things to ramble about but also it’s like literally three am for me so this is short and probably confusing

If you’re part of the Les Mis fandom and hear E and R, you’ll probably think Enjolras and Grantaire. Aka, ‘you might as well say E and R as Enjolras and Grantaire.’ A modern version of the fame of O and P.

Also, there’s so much symbolism with the whole alphabet thing? Like, if we use the first letters of their names, P comes after O, making them ‘inseparable’. Apply that to Enjolras and Grantaire, you’ve got ‘EFG’. Not inseparable, but close together. And if E stands for Enjolras and G for Grantaire, F must stand for something. Maybe France. France, and it’s people, separates Enjolras and Grantaire, but also makes sure there is no space left between them. The cause keeps them together and apart.

The above doesn’t really apply if you take into account the fact that Grantaire is referred to as R (I just… live for puns, flawless naming on Hugo’s part, excepts for when he, you know, left out the first names of half his characters). It can be argued that in the original drafts Grantaire’s name was Grange (he would’ve signed as G that way). But if you stick to Grantaire deciding to sign as R, that also can represent a lot of things. Grantaire removes himself from Enjolras, he’s a rejected Pylades and he acknowledges it, furthering the distance between their two letters.