emmajekyll:

Before anyone plays Eponine in Les Mis they have to write an eight page essay on why she is not friendzoned and how she is much more than her love of Marius.

(Source: bananasummers-blog)

unhooking-the-stars:

Favorite scene in the brick was probably eponine’s daughter of a wolf speech.
I’m stuck in the office of my moms school, I made use of the children’s markers and ancient white out pens around me.

courfreyacc:

grantaire reading jehan’s favourite poems to him over the phone on nights when jehan finds it hard to sleep because he wasn’t sleeping anyway

grantaire visiting fantine’s grave with cosette every year because even though his family sucked he knows the opposite was true for her

grantaire cancelling plans so he can watch over gavroche because eponine needs a night off more than she knows, and the kid isn’t that bad anyway.

grantaire getting a winning scratch card and slipping it in bossuet’s bag because the guy deserves some good luck, come on

grantaire dressing up as jean valjean and helping marius figure out how he’s going to survive through dinner with the man without breaking something because as much as he teases marius about it, he knows how much cosette means to him

grantaire convincing feuilly to move in him, because he doesn’t always remember to pay his bills or wash the dishes, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the split rent would mean feuilly might actually manage to get some rest between his shifts at work, nothing to do with that at all

grantaire sparring with bahorel even though he’s tired down to his bones and still has bruises from the last time they sparred, because he’s the only one that’ll spar with bahorel and everybody needs to let off some steam once in a while

grantaire asking joly to come with him while he picks up his prescription for his anti-depressants, because he knows that joly forgets about his coughs and colds just for a little while when he has the chance to help others

grantaire taking combeferre to a butterfly garden and finding a bench that he declares is ‘too comfortable to get up from’, that just so happens to be where the moths are, because combeferre was starting to get that furrow between his eyebrows again.

grantaire spending nights at courfeyac’s house pressed up against him watching awful action movie after awful action movie, because he knows that sex and intimacy are two very different things, and sometimes courf needs the latter more.

grantaire letting himself into enjolras’ apartment and restocking his fridge while he cleans the place up, because enjolras has that big debate tomorrow that he’s been stressing about for weeks and he knows how much the blond likes coming home to a clean and tidy apartment

grantaire grinning when he sees a smile on his friends’ faces because he put it there

grantaire taking care of his friends without expecting a thing in return

grantaire

micaelaruth:

micaelaruth:

kuranosaffron:

carapacefoodkitchen:

doctor-remus-giles:

Friend zones Eponine 

I’LL

it was only a matter of time

WHATMAKESYOUHAHAHA.MP3

i think it’s time for a little lesson in appreciating eponine thenardier as a character.

get ready for a truth bomb comin’ at you: eponine is fundamentally selfish, her feelings for marius were not genuine sustainable romantic love, and they would have been a complete disaster if they had ever been something resembling a couple. you are doing it wrong.

i’m sorry. she’s not some fallen disney princess, and i get SO FREAKING MAD when people romanticize her character. it’s not totally the audience’s fault, and the people running the musical have over the years tended to cast actresses who could easily play both roles, type-wise, and that would have been UNTHINKABLE in the original cast. because eponine is an unwashed, possibly mentally unstable street urchin who follows marius around and sneaks into his apartment and eats his leftovers while humming to herself. lea salonga’s casting was maybe the worst thing that ever happened to the character, and i love lea salonga. but if there’s a fallen disney princess, IT’S FANTINE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

let’s get one thing straight: the poor little eponine bullshit is getting old.

she shouldn’t see herself as some tragic poor soul whom the world has broken. the best actresses have not played her this way. she is not self-pitying. have you even LISTENED to on my own? that shit is not bemoaning. she is not blaming marius. she gets mad and does the little you know little you care shit, but on my own, her big song, is not a fucking pity party. she is realizing that she loves him and that THEY WILL NEVER WORK OUT. it’s not “why doesn’t he love me.” she knows she is not even remotely in his field of romantic prospects and yeah, it hurts, but she’s not blaming anybody, especially not cosette or marius. don’t fucking simplify her to that level. she has her selfish indulgent moments but she has balls and strength and grit. she stands up to the father who most likely doubles as her pimp and who rules her life and whom she has until now been aiding in criminal activities IN ORDER TO PROTECT MARIUS AND COSETTE.

she even says it! it’s the title of the song! “i love him, but only on my own.” ON MY OWN. she does not expect him to love her back! she wishes she did. it hurts that she doesn’t. but she is on some level aware that she is idealizing him into this vision of what her life could have been like, and what she wishes her life could be like.

for all that sympathetic portrayal i’ve just given you, i’m gonna drop another truth bomb: she continues to interact with him in an unhealthy possessive manner, and in the book she wants so badly to be with him that she tricks him into going to the barricades, hoping he will get shot. obviously, this doesn’t occur in the musical. she also jumps in front of a bullet heading for marius in the books, so i mean on a cosmic level i guess it evens out. but her death in the musical? she’s not risking her life to save him. she’s not even intentionally risking her life. she’s caught by a stray bullet trying to climb back to him to tell him she did what he asked, in a move that is clearly meant to endear her to him further. she didn’t do it for him. she did it for herself, because she wants him. despite having recognized and accepted that they will never happen.

and the cosette thing? the girl-hate perpetuated by this fandom’s segment of eponine lovers is positively disgusting, and the term mary-sue comes up a whole fuckton of a lot. if you think about it for like three seconds, a mary-sue is a female character who is too perfect, and most often it goes way beyond criticizing bad writing and into hating female characters. i’m sorry, since when are we criticizing people for being awesome? if it were a dude in the same position, you’d never say he was a gary stu. in the book, cosette is a fully developed character who is more sympathetic and interesting than eponine, and in addition to several years of staring at each other from across parks, cosette and marius have been meeting in secret for weeks. i understand that she was simplified and fucking shafted by boubil and schonberg into someone without much personality at all. that doesn’t make her some kind of horrible harpy bitch who is stealing marius from poor righteous devoted eponine. she had the audacity to fall in love with him and to have him fall in love with her.

but besides all that, you don’t get to ~get the guy by completing a series of tasks or being more devoted or loving him better. the HOW DARE HE CHOOSE COSETTE OVER EPONINE WHO LOVED HIM SO MUCH!!! argument is getting really fucking stale, and it’s been that way since, like, the nineties. you’re late to that party, the ship has sailed, leave your internalized misogyny and immature notions of how relationships and affection work at the door. she isn’t entitled to marius, and her entitlement sure as hell shouldn’t be interpreted as in comparison to cosette. it should never BE cosette OR eponine. they’re not on the same level. 

for all that, i still really like eponine. i like the eponine that you should be liking. i like the eponine who stands up to her father, who refuses to stop dreaming despite horrifying circumstances, who is selfish and immature and spoiled and maybe a little unstable. i like the eponine with character, with layers—not the 2d teenybopper taylor swift bullshit misogynist self-indulgent brat you identify with because she gets spurned romantically. stop blaming the guy. stop blaming the other girl. marius did nothing to hurt eponine on purpose. cosette sure as hell didn’t, and there’s no evidence that eponine hates her, so why the fuck do you? she’s desperate and grasping and selfish, but she doesn’t hate either one of them. 

in the end, dying in marius’s arms is her happy ending. she knows it. she honestly accepts that this is the best she’s gonna get. that’s her tragedy. not that she didn’t get the guy and died for love. no. stop that bullshit before you even think it. and she is honestly happy to be there! she is legitimately thrilled to get that much. she’s got fight. she’s got practicality. she’s got strength and flaws and qualities and this interpretation of her absolutely KILLS them all as well as the characterizations of cosette and marius (admittedly not fucking helped by the casting trends as a whole). 

you want a good eponine, check out frances ruffele. her voice is squeaky, but the character sure as fuck isn’t who you’re thinking she is. try to get a hold of footage of celia keenan-bolger, because she’s the closest to book!ponine and maybe the best-developed eponine i have ever seen. she doesn’t turn on my own into her BIG SHOWSTOPPING ALL-ABOUT-ME number—it’s a number among many others that gives us insight into her character and she sure as fuck doesn’t stop to have a pity party. the fandom and the franchise have absolutely gutted a great character, and she didn’t deserve that shit. don’t try to sell it to me.

another rant for another day is the fact that THIS LOVE TRIANGLE IS NOT THE FUCKING POINT OF THIS MUSICAL. it’s a slice of so many characters and lives intersecting at these few moments and it’s meant to criticize what was happening in society at the time of its publication. it is an epic. it is way bigger than your fucking romantic intrigues, so stop simplifying it to that. you will never get me to cry more over eponine’s death than the barricade scenes.

tl;dr: this macro is a steaming pile of horse shit, and so is the interpretation eponine it represents.

caninecompanion:

éponine and grantaire both aro spectrum, lithromantic, Nice

punkbossuet:

les amis at an 8th grade school dance

musichetta dancing with bossuet and she’s a foot taller than him. he keeps looking down at their feet bc he’s trying not to step on her feet but he ends up stepping on her feet anyway

marius and cosette at arms length barely touching each other and making…

whiskerfruit:

i have lost all control of my life

catsmagiccastle:

Grantaire & Eponine smoking on a fire escape. 

And when I’m in the confines of crawling walls, you hold me in place,
The ripples on the ceiling the avenues, unsugared taste,
Waste away the evening, the afternoon, the afternoon’s hat,
Together we’ll find something to direct some laughter at.

sclez:

I have legitimately seen more posts about how Éponine and Grantaire are bad people for being messed up than I have posts about people acknowledging that the Patron Minette are actually a murderous gang of thieves.

People are entitled to their opinions and have every right to dislike R and Éponine and they’re nor above critique or reproach, but just for the sake of perspective;

A criminal gang gets less hate than an impoverished girl driven to desperate measures and a scarcely functioning alcoholic with depression.

That just strikes me as being kind of odd.

megafaunatic:

éponine is perf and i love her

in the brick she’s… super duper fucked up, and the musical kind of??? dropped the ball??? a lot w that, i think (antoine boublil: messing up characterization since forever)

like musical ep is sad and pathetic, sure, but she also tends to come across as being in love selflessly, which… just is not the case

i know “a little fall of rain” helps a little bc it’s her singing IM HERE DYING, IM DEAD, IM DYING FOR U, IT’S BC YOU DIDN’T LOVE ME, which is a little more like it tbh

brick ep is wily and beautiful and manipulative and unapogetically selfish, and she loves marius in a really unhealthy and obsessive way, and she’s essentially not a very good person— and that’s okay. it’s definitely realistic for her situation, like damn

basically gavroche is the only accurate musical thénardier (altho idt that the musical ever even implies his thénardierhood…)— which is another thing that gets my goat. the thénardiers in the musical are evil, yeah, but they’re ABSURD. they’re disney villains. they physically and emotionally abuse their children and each other (and fantine!), and frickin monsieur thénardier ends up going w azelma to america to be a slaver. they’re NOT funny characters. monsieur t gets a couple funny/ironic scenes, but we never root for him. but in the musical, we have both parents thénardier being almost LIKEABLE throughout “master of the house,” in an antihero sort of way, which is just… no. pls. no.

as for fanon éponine… it kind of depends! i’ve read some hilariously disappointing eps, and some just SUPER on-point eps. at this point i think the biggest popular discrepancy is éponine giving any sort of shit about gavroche, which… i’m kind of willing to accept tbh! she never got the chance to know him— he kinda fucked off as soon as he got the chance, and the other two thénardier boys were THROWN OUT. but éponine definitely does have a tremendous capacity for love, and i like to think that if her situation were better (such as in a modern au, where child services are a thing), she would be able to take care of and bond w gav (and the others)

tl;dr i love éponine she is my dark fierce selfish princess of the night

#les mis #abuse mention

IM GONNA GO CRY IN A CORNER NOW