#ladyamis

you mean the ruby tandoh of gbbo???? who looks like this???

and alia shawkat of arrested development and whip it (amongst other things)??? whom i am IN LOVE WITH and have been so for YEARS???

consider, for a minute, freya mavor as enjolras. looks hella young, has a lot of freckles, is gorgeous. i have a weakness for gorgeous enjolras i'm sorry!! also maybe juno temple??

but she has this distinct, elegant and classical air about her. them all being passionate feminists, maybe even publishing a zine, like those old riot grrl zines were. bossuet with a shaved head, joly the doctor that always gets grumpy when people assume she's just a nurse (nurses are cool and everything but, you know.) and bahorel a power femme, fabulous in her doc martens and floral dresses and R the art student with no time to paint her own facade on with make up and therefore always having dark circles under her eyes. and boy jehan (i can't really see him as a lady, which is odd) and musichetta being a dude, yo! and everyone always assumes that he's The Man bc he's got two girlfriends (srsly, if u ever call them bitches you will end up with a broken nose, ego and an overwhelming feeling of shame for your terrible misogynistic ass) and they just laugh bc if the girls didn't make the first move they'd be all still pining

and oh god feuilly the single mum. like. can u imagine. how much shit does she get.

OH MY GOD, yes, this is amazing so much love for this whole thing. ZINES, fuckin hell, it was my dream all throughout high school to publish a radical feminist zine, and i hoarded newsprint paper and made printing blocks and stuff but... it never happened. so i LOVE THIS.

enjolras, ferre, and courf all sort of came together in high school and started publishing zines - enjolras wrote most of the more political statements, ferre edited and added some research and fun feminist facts, courf wrote her own pieces on pop culture and gender and stuff (and of course got everyone to buy copies, even the massive people on the football team who could have cared less). enjolras is a demigirl, something that she discovered one day when courf had put in a segment about gender identity, and even though she still goes by she/her pronouns she fully identifies outside of the strict gender binary.

bossuet either rocks the shaved head or grows it out to suit her. one time she grew out a little mohawk and spiked it up until she got bored and decided to shave her head again. sometimes she shaves her eyebrows too and does an amanda palmer and draws them on creatively with eyeliner. sometimes she gets grantaire to draw her brows, effectively making them a work of art.

joly is really fuckin tired of people assuming that she's a nurse - not because being a nurse is bad, but because the gender binary and assumed gender roles are shit and have no place in the workplace, but there they are. she's asian, too, which makes it so much worse for her in terms of stereotypes. she joined the amis with bossuet and that helped her find more of a voice to call out the bullshit at the hospital she works at. (she also dresses impossibly cute - sure she sees a lot of blood and injuries and disease at the hospital, but that doesn't mean that she can't do it whilst wearing an impossibly cute frock, like this one or this one.)

bahorel is the Ultimate Angry Femme, who dresses consistently like it's Seattle in 1994. She owns a lot of Raincoats records. She also takes boxing - not kickboxing, regular boxing - and flattens every guy who thinks she'll be easy to beat just because she's a girl. She's almost six feet tall, with dreadlocks and intimidating arm muscles, but she wears a lace dress at least once a week and really enjoys playing with the puppies at the pet shop. all of the puppies. she owns this dress. the amis have never seen her not wearing her dr martens, which are scuffed and worn in and basically the best boots ever.

grantaire is the kind of girl who doesn't give a shit about anyone's opinions (i mean, none of the amis do, but grantaire especially doesn't) - except for when she's going out. her everyday outfits consist of ripped skinny jeans, white, black, and grey t-shirts and three different hoodies in differing shades of green. she also wears combat boots a lot, and bahorel loves her for it ("boot sisters! we're boot sisters! this means we're superheroes now, and also you have to come to the gym with me this week." "bahorel you are awful, fine, but we're not superheroes."). but! when she's going out! she tames her hair and puts on red lipstick and eyeliner and incredibly slinky dresses and flirts with everyone and usually ends up punching an asshole guy in the teeth. it's everyone's favourite sport to watch.

jehan - well, jehan might not necessarily be a lady, per se (they identify as agender, with spivak pronouns) ((although i do have some headcanons for lady!jehan but i much prefer nb!jehan)) but e has long hair, wears a lot of really dark eye makeup, and can often be found draped in scarves and wearing a very strange hat. generally ey are kind if someone misgenders em, just because - well. people have their ideas about what long hair and makeup mean - but if someone's aggressively awful then jehan will waste no time in issuing a verbal smackdown and sometimes a physical one, usually aided by Bahorel. ey help courf with the gender bits in the amis zine sometimes, but usually jehan writes poetry that is totally incongruous with the rest of the zine, but the amis love em so obviously every poem gets published. but yeah, there are some days when jehan presents really femme, and some days when ey don't, but it's whatever. ey share a lot of clothes with grantaire.

musichetta is the most voluptuous sensual person ever. like, her personality communicates those facts, and everyone's completely in love with her. joly and bossuet are like, yeah. she's ours. whatcha gonna do. musichetta is also the unofficial group mother. she loves it.

DO I LIKE LADYAMIS

FRIEND THAT IS A GREAT KETTLE OF FISH RIGHT THERE

i really love ladyamis in a really bad way i have a tag for them and have written fem!e/r fic oooopssss

and that would be a nightmare honestly. a hilarious nightmare. except jehan would just sit and cackle because - does jehan even have a cycle? jehan is honestly a complete mystery because nobody knows where they came from, what they are made of, or why they are on this planet. and then bahorel, trans woman, is actually grateful for that one aspect of her life because she doesn't have to deal with that stuff, which is inconvenient (like, grantaire misses a full week of boxing, bahorel has no time for that shit). but fun fact enjolras is such a wimp about it, like, she doesn't have any medical conditions or anything relating to that but she still spends days solid in bed, whinging and begging grantaire to reheat the hot water bottle

here are my e/r ladies fics I've written:

boys of summer - "Enjolras needs a new board. Grantaire makes them. They come together over the sound of the crashing waves and the feeling of sand between their toes." essentially a very gratuitous and self-indulgent lady e/r surf au

hello, my old heart - "Enjolras has a haircut. Grantaire doesn't quite know what to do."

and I know I've written some in my ask box drabbles tag too