lesgles’ biggest fan right here

I lied. We’re going to talk about how the basis for most people shipping Montparnasse and Jean Prouvaire is that both characters are described as effeminate. We’re going to talk about how the fandom has reduced Prouvaire’s character into a flowery twink and Montparnasse’s character to a charming bad boy twink. We’re going to talk about how Prouvaire is described in the book as one of the most valiant members of the ABC and who in fact died alone, and how Montparnasse is selfish and ruthless and has killed several people. We’re going to talk about how being effeminate doesn’t make Prouvaire weak or Montparnasse a good person. No offense to Jehanparnasse shippers but I do not really agree with them.

just saw the US tour of Les Mis in Boston, and holy wow. Something really neat I noticed was, unlike in the movie, after Fantine scratches Bamatabois (in this production she bit him???), the other prostitutes pull her away from fighting him more. & later when Javert comes in and Fantine is on the ground, one of the lovely ladies runs to try to help her up, but Javert pushes her away. Yay women supporting women. Especially since in this production, Bamatabois fully just beat up Fantine with his cane

“I asked ChatGPT-“ yeah okay I asked Victor Hugo and he talked about Waterloo for five hours

what do we think of Icarus Grantaire and, well, Sun Enjolras. I think there is potential here. Grantaire died when he was closest to Enjolras, so like

mmm allow us to consider a universe where, instead of Lesgles’ bad luck killing him instantly on the barricades, his bad luck is making him the last to die. he watches every other ABC get struck down and his last thought is that it was his bad luck rubbing off on them and he should never have gone to the barricades in the first place and it is his fault that all of them are dead. allow us to consider.

with how much overanalyzing the Les Mis fandom does, I’m a little surprised there aren’t more Lesgles + Prouvaire shippers. I mean guys, after Prouvaire is killed, we literally have a paragraph that’s like “everyone sat below the barricade, except for Lesgles, who sat on top of the barricade and spoke sadly about poetry”. And THEN the love poem that Prouvaire wrote that the ABC recites has the line “lawyer without a case”. An unlucky lawyer, maybe? Maybe?? Sounds like someone I know…

breaking thought: Javert is the immortal snail, but when he catches Valjean, he’s the one who dies.

mhm. and what if I was the sad dark haired cynic artist and you were the angelic revolutionary leader who believed in the people. and what if the people never stirred. and what if I stirred from my slumber to hold your hand when we died. what then. what then.