grantaire knew he’d probably never win enjolras’s love but he figured it was worth a shot
les miserables
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WHY HAS THE FANDOM ALMOST COMPLETELY IGNORED THE FACT THAT IT IS BRICK CANON THAT GRANTAIRE WAS NOT ONLY AWESOME AT KICKBOXING BUT COULD ALSO DANCE AND DO
I believe it also says he was decent at fencing? So yeah. Dude is awesome. *clutches protectively*
I strongly suspect that at some point he was all those things, and every bit the sort of man Enjolras could love (and hell, maybe at some point they really did have a relationship of some sort…probably not an actual romance, but something healthier than what their relationship became) but then R descended further into alcoholism and gave up on life and he didn’t become that person again until (ack, yes, wait for it…) about twenty seconds before he DIED
Procrastination Starts Here: WHY HAS THE FANDOM ALMOST COMPLETELY IGNORED THE FACT THAT IT IS BRICK…
WHY HAS THE FANDOM ALMOST COMPLETELY IGNORED THE FACT THAT IT IS BRICK CANON THAT GRANTAIRE WAS NOT ONLY AWESOME AT KICKBOXING BUT COULD ALSO DANCE AND DO GYMNASTICS PRETTY WELL TOO
I mean along with him being an artist and being intelligent enough to go toe-to-toe with Enjolras in debates, the guy was a fucking badass
the real tragedy of his character I think is not that he was desperately pining over Enjolras, but more can you imagine the man he could have been had he not been dragged down by depression and drink?
awake oh sleeper: another Grantaire fanmix
mad world gary jules (And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had)
people ain’t no good nick cave and the bad seeds (It ain’t that in their hearts they’re bad, they can comfort you, some even try)
old number 7 the devil makes three (So I’m watching as his wings spread as wide as could be, come on now and wrap them around me, cos all I want to do now is fall to sleep, come down here and lay next to me)
carry me home the living end (one more round is all I need, fill it up and let me be, it’s getting late I should’ve known, won’t somebody carry me home?)
life versus the lifeless the beautiful south (That’s what keeps you alive, the thought of undeserved death, that’s why cynics deep-sea dive, just to watch someone healthy lose breath)
alcohol the barenaked ladies (O Alcohol, would you please forgive me, for while I cannot love myself, I’ll use something else)
shiver coldplay (And it’s you I see but you don’t see me, and it’s you I hear so loud and so clear)
a drinking song the divine comedy (So don’t shoot til you see the reds of our eyes)
demons imagine dragons (Your eyes they shine so bright, I want to save their light, I can’t escape this now, unless you show me how)
awake oh sleeper the brothers bright (do you hear the lion roar, awake oh sleeper)
so apparently the internet can find yaoi ship in everything, even les miserables, I wonder what would Victor Hugo think about it
Well-
(He’d probably be quite pleased?)
-I think you’d have difficulty arguing that Grantaire’s fascination with Enjolras wasn’t sexual to some degree, he did basically follow him around all day talking about how pretty he was. (“What fine marble!”) Then there’s the frequent comparisons to classical gay Greek lovers, Grantaire being ‘an unaccepted Pylades’ but always ‘returning to the chase’, him staring ‘tenderly’ at Enjolras on occasion, and…ooh, just read this, it’s good.
I’m straight myself so I don’t want to speak for everyone on this, but surely it’s not too much of a stretch to decide that Victor Hugo wrote Grantaire as being gay/bisexual on purpose? In the full expectation that people would understand what he was trying to say?
Everyone has their own modern-day Les Amis dreamcast: meet mine!
Enjolras: Aaron Tveit
Combeferre: Richard Ayoade (IF I CONTRIBUTE NOTHING ELSE TO FANDOM I WANT TO CONTRIBUTE RICHARD AS COMBEFERRE HE IS PERFECT)
Jehan: Evanna Lynch
Feuilly: Ruth Negga
Courfeyrac: (the very, very adorable) Freema Agyeman
Bahorel: Gwendoline Christie
Bousset: Noel Clarke (anyone recollect his ‘let’s go liberate Paris’ line from Doctor Who?)
Joly: Hugh Skinner
Grantaire: George Blagden (can you believe, that was the ugliest picture I could find of him?)