we’re reading les mis in class and one girl was confused about grantaire’s obsession with enjolras and the teacher immediately was like NO it’s just to show enjolras is charismatic, it’s not like… romantic or anything. (also one time i overheard her talking with a student about javert and all i heard was her saying javert is basically asexual, but at that exact moment as it came out of her mouth we locked eyes& it was the funniest thing)

mutantapologist:

the book: Still, this skeptic had a fanaticism. This fanaticism was not for an idea, nor a dogma, nor an art, nor a science; it was for a man: Enjolras. Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras.

the book: a skeptic adhering to a believer is as simple as the law of complementary colors. What we lack attracts us.

the book: Grantaire, crawling with doubt, loved to see faith soaring in Enjolras. He needed Enjolras. Without understanding it clearly, and without trying to explain it to himself, that chaste, healthy, firm, direct, hard, honest nature charmed him.

the book: there are men who seem to be born to be the opposite, the reverse, the counterpart. They are Pollux, Patroclus, Nisus, Eudamias, Ephestion, Pechméja. They live only on condition of leaning on another; their names are sequels, only written preceded by the conjunction “and”; their existence is not their own; it is the other side of a destiny not their own. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the reverse of Enjolras.

the book: We might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In the series O and P are inseperable. You can, if you choose, pronounce O and P, or Orestes and Pylades.

the book: yet returning, [Grantaire] said of Enjolras, “What a fine statue!”

people, somehow: this is heterosexual, it’s not like… romantic or anything, grantaire was a straight man

theonlycheeseleft:

vivelafizz:

mizzerablyquotes:

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Vol 3, Book 4

#’they look at one another #they know one another’#excuse me while i never stop sobbing #because courfeyrac and marius’ friendship is such a beautiful thing #a beautiful blossoming thing #courfeyrac would’ve been so good for marius in the long run #lightening him up #making him smile and laugh #helping him relax and have fun #teaching him that you can take things seriously without being serious #and marius would’ve been good for courfeyrac too #grounding him #giving him somene to take care of #because courf thrives on helping people #hell he invited marius to live in his house before he even knew him #courf is at his best when he is helping others #can you imagine them growing up together?#courf keeps clinking his glass and making marius and cosette kiss at their wedding #marius names courf the godfather of their first child #courfeyrac and cosette going shopping for marius together and basically gossiping like a couple of schoolgirls #courfeyrac and his wife moving into a house close to marius and cosette #sorry i’ve just got some ruined potential in my eye (via theonlycheeseleft)

#Courf dancing with Cosette at the wedding though #and he can see that Marius is getting weird about it #so he thanks Cosette #and goes and dances with Marius instead (via vivelafizz)

YOU MADE IT BETTER/WORSE.

raeldaza:

so today I learned that in the french version of I Dreamed a Dream, instead of “and still I dream he’ll come to me and we will live the years together,” it says something closer to “sometimes I dream of him still and he begs me and he regrets” which let me tell you I like so much better.

shitpostingfromthebarricade:

probably-pride-related:

bromos-of-the-barricade:

Whenever in public they always lose Combeferre which doesn’t make sense cause he’s like 6’2" it’s like how???

Its cause hes always kneeling looking at bugs on the ground so no one can see him

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

enjolra-s:

enjolra-s:

I mean it’s clearly Victor Hugo’s handwriting so he must have written it himself and it must be canon, right?

@wi-fier he wrote it in two languages so that more people could understand it and learn the truth

ange-l-of-musicals:

beeth0ven:

Have you ever thought about how weird the plots to musicals are? For example:

-Singing and dancing about an ex-con and bad revolutionaries who all die

-Singing and dancing about teenagers who commit homicide

-Singing and dancing about broke people dying of AIDS

-Singing and dancing about disfigured opera singers

-Singing and dancing about the early American government (and certain treasurer)

-Singing and dancing about HUMAN MEAT PIES.

There’s some weird shit, y’all…

op is not ready to hear about something rotten

toomblr-user1234:

Being in the les mis fandom consists of two things: seeing the same post 6 times in a row on your dash because all the active blogs follow each other, and clicking on a post to find the source, only to find out that the user who posted it deleted their tumblr in 2013

permit-it:

Monsieur Thenardier: My son refuses to call me dad, only calls me “OP”.

my-amis:

Les Amis as fanny packs

Enjolras:

Courf:

Grantaire:

Combeferre:

Joly:

Bossuet:

Feuilly:

Bahorel:

Jehan:

Marius: