The Department Of Grantaire Studies

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There is a lot, a LOT, of really really good Grantaire meta out there. Seriously, it’s brilliant, and this is my attempt to get it all in one place, and semi-categorised.

I’ve done my best to credit all the authors for each thing, but Tumblr being Tumblr I may have got it wrong in places. Please tell me if I did! (…also tell me if you don’t want your meta linked here, for whatever reason)


Grantaire’s cynicism/nihilism
Grantaire and Diogenes (gauzythreads)
Grantaire is not a cynic (yourstudentloandebt, punforrestpun, robertawickham)
“He sneered at devotion in all parties” (plinytheyounger)
Hugo sets Grantaire up for failure (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)


Regarding ‘R’
The obsolete word hère (okiswonderful)
R for refusé (punforrestpun)
Revolution, Romanticism and Robespierre (lecapunk)


Grantaire and mental illness/neuroatypicality
A conversation about Grantaire, depression and ADHD (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire, chain-of-prospit)
Grantaire and processing thoughts (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Grantaire’s perception of himself (gauzythreads)
Grantaire and ADHD (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Grantaire, art style and depression (gauzythreads, pilferingapples, kingmundsroyalmurder) [I’m missing the first part of this conversation, anyone got it?]
Speculating on how depression affects Grantaire (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Grantaire and hypochrondria (yourpontmercyfriend, nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire, barricadeur) added 16/2/14

Grantaire’s sexuality
R not being monosexual (sclez)
A little bit about Grantaire’s interactions with women (sarah531)
R being confused over his feelings for Enjolras (rose-and-valerie)
Grantaire’s misogyny (sclez) added 16/2/14

E/R
E/R History Class (et-in-arkadia)
The Obverse (tenlittlebullets)
Why Enjolras is so frustrated with Grantaire (killjoyras)
“Often, you give the heart, we take the body” (lecapunk, nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Two sides of a coin/What Grantaire can offer Enjolras (chainsawpoet, swutol-sand-scopes, robertawickham, sclez)
Chickens, eagles, humanity, determinism, and more! (gauzythreads, pilferingapples, lecapunk)
Grantaire’s happiness (pylades-funk, sclez, lecapunk)
The paradox of Grantaire needing Enjolras (melannen, pilferingapples, sinnaonthebarricade, lecapunk)
Romanticism, Revolution, and the Thematic Importance of E/R (lecapunk)
The bare bosom of Evadne [this is much more about Enjolras, but E/R features a lot] (tenlittlebullets)
How Grantaire interacts with Enjolras (faucheleventt, gauzythreads, punforrestpun, tenlittlebullets)
Why Enjolras and Grantaire are like Orestes and Pylades (ferain1832)
Love is what will bring tomorrow (ladysaviours)


Fun with wordplay
Swallowing a revolution the wrong way (punforrestpun, gauzythreads)
Lost women (sarah531)
Gross yeast infection metaphors! (gauzythreads, viventlespeuples, pilferingapples)
Dick jokes (gauzythreads)
The capitoul and master of the floral games (punforrestpun, pilferingapples, okiswonderful) added 16/2/14


Grantaire’s art studies
What studying under Gros was like (punforrestpun)
Grantaire and art and more! (gauzythreads)
Grantaire’s art styles (gauzythreads)
Grantaire, Enjolras & l’art pour l’art (punforrestpun)


Grantaire’s other talents
Grantaire’s fighting style (sclez, toastandbrokenpromises)
Who taught Grantaire fencing? (sarah531)

The Barriere du Maine
What might have happened at the Barriere du Maine (et-in-arkadia, seenonlyfromadistance)
Fog and dominoes (swutol-sang-scopes, pilferingapples)
Striking marble (tomisnom, pilferingapples)

 

Preliminary Gayietes (and the big speech contained therein)
Different translations of the speech (gauzythreads)
R, Joly and Bossuet (yourstudentloandebt, punforrestpun, nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Does it have to be you, too? (gauzythreads, pilferingapples)
Analysis of Grantaire’s speech (sclez)
More analysis, and some boobies (not that kind) (gauzythreads)
Grantaire’s drinking in this scene (punforrestpun)
More puns (punforrestpun)


Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
Two birds with one stone (sarah531, henryclervals)
Alcohol, rebirth and symbolism (spurioussymbols)
The comfort in chaos (etre-libre-dit-combeferre, nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Seeing things clearly (sarah531, dancetaire, punforrestpun)
Classical allusions (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire, sinnaonthebarricade, dancetaire)
The meaning of ‘drunk’ (lecapunk)
How someone falls when they’re shot (lecapunk)
Seeing each other as people (sarah531)
Important things keep falling at Enjolras’s feet (sarah531)
This fellow is one of them/Biblical references (sarah531, midshipmankennedy, pilferingapples)
Redemption (jehans, landofalwayswinter, edwarddespard)
More redemption (sarah531)
Why Grantaire dies (doeskin-pantaloons) added 16/2/14
Two stories (pilferingapples) added 16/2/14
God and the fallen man (fizzygingr) added 16/2/14

Deleted scenes from the book (no really!) / Victor Hugo’s original notes
Thank you (okiswonderful) added 16/2/14
Take my hand (flo-nelja, tansy-91, sarah531)
I am a swine (flo-nelja, tenlittlebullets)
What Hugo thought R looked like! (plinytheyounger)

Movie/musical exclusive meta
Ascending stairs (thelibrarina, lesbianjolras, sclez)
The hug during Drink With Me (sclez, lecapunk)
Grantaire’s scream after Gavroche’s death (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire) added 16/2/14


Misc
Why Grantaire’s important (lecapunk)
Some analysis of “A Group That Barely Missed Becoming Historic” and R in particular (swutol-sang-scopes)
Lots of canon facts about Grantaire (spoopyrac, gauzythreads, angualupin)
Grantaire representing Paris (lecapunk)
Les Amis liked R (ladyjolras, sclez)
Grantaire as the Reader (punforrestpun)
Hugo doesn’t believe in ‘lesser’ (lecapunk)
Grantaire vs Tholomyes (sarah531)
Grantaire’s flaws/lots about Floreal and women (les-amis-de-labuttc, sarah531, gauzythreads)
Grantaire and The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire, etre-libre-dit-combeferre)
Statues, Grantaire and Matelote (sarah531, nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire)
Grantaire’s ugliness (leyichka, 0fficialgrantaire, punforrestpun, pilferingapples)
Grantaire’s rambles (lecapunk, pilferingapples) added 16/2/14
Unpaving hell (nothing-rhymes-with-grantaire) added 16/2/14
Meeting R for the first time (sarah531, angualupin)
Imitation and French education of the time (punforrestpun)
We’re never as bad as we think we are (athousandswifts)


A little bit of extra stuff from me
Fictional characters who shaped my life
A post I am legitimately proud of