Les Mis Podcast

YOU THERE AT THE BARRICADES!

Do you have a favourite blorbo from Victor Hugo's brick? SO DO WE. show that love off with these blorbo designs!

Artist: portal_of_happiness on insta

links in reblog so they appear!

The full programming lineup is HERE! We’re so excited to be bringing you this range of academic papers, fan panels, and a 19th-century style sneance (snail seance) - not to mention our fabulous Guests of Honour!

Click here to see the con schedule on our website, and here for tickets! 

This isn’t adding ice just for the sake of denial, it’s adding to the Earth’s albedo. This in turn actually makes the Earth’s climate cooler, and then more ice will be produced naturally because of this.

It isn’t a process we need to continue forever, in fact it’s one that needs to be calculated so that we don’t do it TOO MUCH. The only worry would be cooling down too much.

Ice caps are melting? Guess what! We know how to make ice. It’s not that hard. Designing mostly-automated robot ships to go to the poles and rebuild the ice caps is well within our current technical capabilities. We just need to fund it.

Deforestation on a massive scale? Destruction of other biomes? Guess what! We know how to plant trees. We know how to plant grasslands. We know how to take barren, lifeless land and turn it back into a viable biome. It’s not that hard. In a lot of cases, if there’s neighboring areas where that biome still exists, all you have to do is dump a few tons of biomass (plant clippings, food waste, etc.) on the barren land and stand back and wait. The biomass will provide nutrients and keep the topsoil from blowing away, and the plants and animals from the neighboring biome will move in. In two decades, even if you don’t do anything besides dumping the biomass on it, you won’t be able to tell what was the barren area and what was the still-existing biome.

Coral reefs dying? Now, coral reefs are a bit more fragile than most biomes, but guess what! We still know how to replant/rebuild them, and in fact are working on that in places affected by coral reef die-off! And we’re learning how to do it better every day.

Desertification? Guess what! We know how to turn desert back into green space. They’re doing it on a large scale in China and sub-Saharan Africa. There are several different techniques, none of which are even very technology-intensive. It takes money and time and labor, but it’s perfectly doable. We know this because we’ve done it.

Plastic in the ecosystem, particularly in the ocean? Guess what! There’s a lot of people working on this, both on “how to remove plastic from the ocean” and “how to reuse/recycle it more efficiently.” And the techniques are improving by leaps and bounds every year. This is a solvable problem. These are all solvable problems.

So if you’re crushed by the weight of the coming environmental catastrophe … don’t be. These are all solvable problems! We can stop things from getting worse, and we can fix the things we’ve broken. The issue is political, not practical.

On the political side, of course, is the need to tighten up environmental regulations across the globe. (What’s the statistic, that 90% of pollution is caused by 100 corporations?) And then of course, we need to fund these programs on a large enough scale.

In some ways the political aspect is the hardest, but consider this: we are at a tipping point. Things are changing about the way politicians talk about climate change and ecological degradation. More ordinary people are concerned about this, which means more pressure on politicians. One of the ways that things are changing is that people–even conservatives–are starting to talk about “job opportunities in new green fields” and switching the conversation so that it’s not “rainforest vs. jobs” makes political action a lot more possible. And no, it’s not going to happen on its own, but it can happen.

This is replacing the old masterposts, for the sake of tidiness, but will still be tagged as a masterpost. I’ll be editing this, rather than adding new works in reblogs. There will be multiple library posts, because at the time of changing to this system I have 70 written imagines.

For more posts, see Les Amis and Misc. & Minor Characters

Victor Hugo 

You and Hugo Visit The Spot Where He Was Conceived

you have a valentine’s day seance

you listen to hugo and juliette Get it On

hugo shower curtain voyeurism (personal favourite)

you have a forehead fetish

you are going to hook up with vicky in the sewers

you help victor hugo fuck face his fears with an octopus fetish suit (another fave)

You Do The Dirty With Hugo’s Remains

victor hugo does asmr

SNEANCE TIME

beau brummell edition: victor hugo invents jeans

You Visit A Sewer Spa (Request)

You Have A Vision Of Hugo At The Euroshuttle Terminal

You’re Dante, Hugo’s Virgil and He’s About To Show You Inferno

Hugo Reveals The Symbolic Meaning Of The Sewers

Hugo fills the sewers with orbeez 

Hugo is your maths tutor 

You Read The Sewer Digression As Foreplay

Valjean 

you are a loaf of bread

you work at valjean’s factory

you are a student and petit picpus and valjean is your sugar daddy

valjean rescues you instead of marius from the barricades

Valjean Gets Holy (Our Daddy Who Art In Heaven - Request)

You are mistakenly identified as Valjean at the trial

You and Valjean Hit It Off At Cosette’s Wedding

Valjean Is Into Masochism 

Jet Anal Beads

Javert

javert tells you his first name

javert interrogates you

Javert Pet Play (Request)

Easter Special: Javert Died For The Sins That You’re About To Commit

Different Javerts Fight Over You (Request)

Javert Is A Criminal

You Meet Javert At YiffCon

You Punish Javert For Being A Spy

Wolf!Javert and Lamb!Y/N (Request)

Javert On Christmas Morning

Marius

The Bloody Baron takes you prisoner

you find the Bloody Baron at the barricade

You Compete For Marius’s Affections (And Play Upon His Weaknesses)

You And Marius Have A Threesome With Napoleon

Marius Is Still Thinking About Ursule

You Get A Nose Job

Bloody Baron AU: Marius and Montparnasse fight over you

100 Follower Special (NSFW): Hugo gives you wedding night advice

Theodule Follows You To The Graveyard (And Gets A Surprise)

Absurdly Detailed Les Misérables Time Line

Absurdly Detailed Barricade Time Line

Cosette’s Timeline

Exhaustive List of Canonical Ships

Prices and Wages in Les  Misérables

The Mathening (cursed post), working out birthdays for Cosette, Eponine, and Azelma.

List of Every Appearance by Les Amis in Tome 3

That he was perhaps the greatest tragic and dramatic poet born since the age of Shakespeare, the appearance of Hernani in 1830 made evident

this thing 

the greatest of all tragic or historic or romantic poems in the form of prose narrative, Norte-Dame de Paris.

did they somehow get Theo Gautier to write this bio

the prose of Victor Hugo stands higher on the record of poetry than the verse of any lesser dramatist or poet

His pleading on behalf of the exiled family of Bonaparte induced Louis-Philippe to cancel the sentence which excluded its members from France.

The initial planning meeting is Sunday, 17th January at 5:00 pm UTC (see when this is in your timezone). If you think you would have any interest in attending an online Les Mis con, come join us! We’re looking for volunteers at all levels, and for input from anyone who might attend. 

Even if you’re not sure about attending the con, we’d love to see you on the server to chat about Les Mis. Are you a fan—of the Brick, the musical, or other adaptations? Are you a media fan who enjoys Les Mis (or had a fannish fling in 2013) and would like to find out more? Are you interested in attending or presenting programming on history, literature, media studies, fan studies, translation studies, or any other relevant disciplines in our academic track? (Independent scholars at all levels are welcome and are encouraged to submit.) Then join us at https://discord.gg/PJApYbCbnU! 

Feel free to signal-boost the link to anyone who might be interested–organizing a great convention means pulling together as wide and diverse a membership as we can. 

The Inception Committee: 

Took a bunch of candles from my church’s Christmas service because I am CRIMINAL

You do!

Specifically, you want to know which Ami of the ABC are you?

Link here: https://uquiz.com/AE2eOq