??? at the barricade??

the 40th anniversary album of les mis pre-order is out, and on this, jordan shaw (the black actor playing enjolras) has been replaced with a white actor. the entire thing is directly recorded from the stage 40th show, and yet they've cut out jordan and replaced him with james gish. ONLY jordans songs have been changed!! no shade to james because he's also extremely talented but hes not jordan? he didn't play enjolras in the 40th? and the fact that only jordans songs have been changed makes this just UGH. this is terrible and we need to do something about it

i am also not the type of person to say "we need to do something about this" and stay silent, so do something! I sure as hell am!!! make a fuss about this!! post about it and yell about it and find the "contact us" page on the distributor form, and if you're feeling kind, shoot jordan a kind word on insta at jordanshawuk. this is bullshit and something needs to be done.

somehow makes it sound like this 1,400-page epic historical novel is a bland self-help book ("practical"?)

honestly, contender for funniest sentence of all time: "it feels as though the author has no definite opinion on politics, religion, or even the central plot of the story."

VICTOR HUGO???

NO OPINION?

bonus runner-up, because i like how it makes it sound like javert is the one droning on about the sewers:

i’m not gonna let a dumb thing like not actually being in front of a computer during barricade day stop me from celebrating it!!

so hello to all of you from this past monday! i hope you are not crying too hard, because there’s still at least twenty-four hours of heartbreak and sorrow left in this fandom holiday and you’re gonna need to ration those tears! please accept this little doodle as my contribution, although it isn’t strictly canon-compliant due to the decided lack of gavroche and decided presence of team get-wasted-and-skip-lamarque’s-funeral.

POV: You are Marius entering the back room of the Café Musain

Yes I did use Phoenix Wright as a pose reference. I’ve never played Ace Attorney but it felt appropriate. Happy Barricade day

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