he's a pacifist. he brings guns to a funeral. he's passionate about education. he forgets about his own mother. he's studying to become a doctor. he can give an epic one-line takedown of an opponent's argument. he gives expression to revolution's natural right. in history he would've been known as the wise man. he goes up to his friend during a battle to talk ethical dilemmas. he's "selfish". he can draw a moth from memory. he tries to rescue an enemy soldier. he corrects the dictionary for fun. combeferre lesmisérables, everyone.

les mis fanon ignoring how much of a grade A Hater jean valjean is breaks my heart… bro wasn’t kind because it was easy he was kind because it was hard. he spared javert’s life DESPITE hating him. he carried marius through the sewers DESPITE hating him. the only person he actually loved was cosette, everyone else was neutral at best to him. that’s what makes him compelling: how much he struggles to do the right thing despite his natural disposition toward haterism. canon jean valjean you will always be famous 2 me.

éponine in fanfiction is so often portrayed as quiet and brooding while éponine in the brick is a professional yapper, you cannot shut the girl up. she’ll be talking one hundred miles an hour while marius stands there like 🧍

an enjolras who has seen and experienced the worst parts of humanity but chooses to have hope anyway not because he is naive but because he has seen the best parts as well

yeah combeferre likes moths and rocks. he also likes medicine and anatomy. the way light moves and the fixing of images. the railroad. protosocialist movements. firearms. And. he likes enjolras

today in things that would make fandom more bearable if people understood that words mean things: i am begging people to learn the difference between queer coding and reading media through a queer lens (i would also add in disidentification as described by muñoz but we can add that nuance once we get a handle on the difference between the first two) because while not mutually exclusive the former is a storytelling technique that requires deliberation and intentionality on the part of a creator and the other is a critical lens through which you can examine and analyze a work