Les Mis Studies

Eposette kiss ☺️

I wanted to do something more elaborated, but uni has been killing me, so this has to be

Another steal for Fantine/Simplice for @lesmisshippingshowdown !

Inspired by favorite exploding trainwreck of an adaptation, LM 1948! What if Simplice were not just an honest nun but also a SCIENCE NUN with her own lab where she does Medical Research to try and find ways to help the people in her care?

Like So

(and what if her experiments found something that helped Fantine actually recover from her illness and then they went and got Cosette and were fine and happy forever--)

another steal for my queens ( • ̀ω•́ )੭ ✧´-

a steal for Fantine/Simplice for the @lesmisshippingshowdown!

Not a lot to say about this one, I had a sudden urge to draw chibis and how much Cute art do these two get? How much ANY art? Let's make them some more! The blue flowers behind Fantine there are supposed to be Cornflowers, which are in the song she sings to an imagined Cosette. Did you know: cornflowers are really fiddly to draw? SCIENCE FACTS :P

All black text is taken from the book. Other image and text sources are listed below.

🎨 Eugene de Blaas – A Nun's Flight of Fancy

🎨 Gabriel von Max – The Seeress of Prevorst

🎶 The Lumineers – "Gloria"

🎶 Dry the River – "New Ceremony"

🎨 Gabriel von Max – The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich

🎨 Henry William Pickersgill – The Nun

🎶 Natalie Merchant – "Kind & Generous"

🎶 Michel Polnareff – "Ballade pour toi (Ce que je cherche est en toi)"

🎨 Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann – A Wounded Danish Soldier (detail)

🎶 Dawn Landes & Piers Ficcini – "Heaven's Gate"

🎬 Mädchen in Uniform (1958), screencaps from Pinterest

🎶 Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (although I recommend Joan Baez's version)

🎬 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), screencap from Pinterest

🎶 Hozier, "Work Song"

🎬 Novitiate (2017), screencaps from Pinterest

🎶 Dry the River, "Weights & Measures"

🎨 Theodor Grust – Red Cross Nurse

🎨 Hermann Kaulbach – Sacrificial Candles

🎨 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette with a Rose (detail)

🎨 Julius von Klever – Bouquet of Cornflowers

🎨 George Elgar Hicks – A Sister's Consolation (detail)

A lil thing for the girls <3

ahhhh okay more sapphics yayyyy

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fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

Trans Aid Cymru - supporting trans people in wales

Queer Emporium - hub of queer businesses and events

And ones who operate in Wales but also across the UK

TIN Wadrobe - supplying clothes for trans and gnc people

Scottish Trans - Trans advocacy, information and social events. Run by the Equality Network, a broader Scottish LGBTQI advocacy group.

LEAP Sports Scotland - Sports charity that advocates for queer inclusion in sports, runs trans sports groups (Trans Active) in at least Glasgow and Edinburgh that I can absolutely recommend.

LGBT Health & Wellbeing - Not trans specific but includes trans specific, trans led and trans inclusive support and social events, and supports a variety of smaller community-run subgroups.

And another couple UK-wide:

Gender Identity Research & Education Society - Trans led charity supporting research on trans matters and education/training on trans inclusion. Does consultancy for public and private sector organisations.