Day One: lol who tf are all these people??? What’s a Bahorel?
Week Five: I WILL FIGHT ANYONE AT ALL WHO SAYS ANYTHING BAD ABOUT JEAN JEHAN PROUVAIRE SO HELP ME GOD AND ANOTHER THING ENJOLRAS AND GRANTAIRE ARE IN LOVE SO YOU CAN JUST GO AND FU—
(and when you have read the brick)
Day One: *sees enjoltaire content*
*gasps*
I knew it
Week Five: I WILL FIGHT ANYONE AT ALL WHO SAYS ANYTHING BAD ABOUT JEAN JEHAN PROUVAIRE SO HELP ME GOD AND ANOTHER THING ENJOLRAS AND GRANTAIRE ARE IN LOVE SO YOU CAN JUST GO AND FU—
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How we get there is different, but we all end up together in the end 🙂 ready to fight Victor Hugo in the sewers of Paris
There are more surviving images of Antinous than of any other Roman. Hadrian was Extra As Fuck. Can you imagine how many statues of Antinous he commissioned? Get you a man that does That.
And then 1500 years later Victor Hugo came along and was like “Enjolras was Grantaire’s Antinous” and people still be like “they’re friends!” Bitch, Hadrian did not have hundreds of sculptors carving Antinous’ beautiful calves for you to be spreading these lies.
Real Deep Lore from even before my day, Nonny XD @irenydraws , you want to take this one?
/PUSHES GLASSES UP NOSE
long story short, a small portion of old man fandom was watching the ‘72 les mis movie one night and we decided that the only explanation for bernard fresson’s facial hair, as seen here–
–was that he must be keeping squirrels under his hat. in a fit of inspiration i drew a small doodle and from there things spiraled wildly out of control.
face squirrel canon is as nebulous as a face squirrel’s tail, but the general consensus is that javert’s face squirrels are highly trained police agents, top of their class at the finest police squirrel academy in france. they are motivated primarily by the idea of justice and the promise of candied almonds, and are rather more tractable than their inspector.
here is a (by no means comprehensive) list of face squirrel fanworks. my personal art tag can be found here, and i have a small collection of face squirrels on my main blog as well.
i hope that helps, this has been your daily plunge into fandom history with ireny
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