Bread & Barricades: A Les Mis Podcast

Cw: discussions of death, blood, battle wounds

Open your death notes because it's time to catalogue some boy death! Someone is lost in translation, Marius is bloodied and Hugo is epic. Enjolras canonically kisses a man twice… and then the iconic scene we've all been waiting for.

Tumblr post mentioned: https://www.tumblr.com/killingsboys/759352148052033536

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: death mention, discussion of racism/colonialist mentality, 

Valjean and Javert explore some bondage together in the alleyway behind the tavern. We delight in this. And then Hugo reminds us that he was indeed a white man from the nineteenth century as he teaches us about protest and colonial power. 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: descriptions of break-ups, drug use and addiction, body dysmorphia and weight, self-hatred, alcohol drinking, suicide mention

Two people who are, at heart, sixty years old, go to the digital club to give YOU the rundown of which Les Miserables character corresponds to which song from Charlie XCX's album brat. Featuring angsty breakup ER, egg Marius and many romcom realisations. 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: drug mention, child death mention, description of child poverty, starvation, blood mention, injury description, suicide mention

We discuss an album that was not made for us (but which becomes increasingly more imprinted on our souls), another person has pissed off Hugo so we get another session of Opinion Time, and it's time to get sad about bread. We rejoin the barricade and witness the preparations of the barricade boys as the soldiers prepare their final assault – and Valjean offers to blow Javert.

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: descriptions of warfare, gun violence, death, child death, race riots, 

Nemo and Stevie boil in their own sweat as the barricade comes under cannon fire. Valjean performs some sick snipes, the National Guard cause unnecessary bloodshed, there's some hope – and then despair.

Pull the Trigger piglet https://iguanamouth.tumblr.com/post/72395907923 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: description of death, war mention, misogyny

This week Hugo predicts the 2024 UK election, the barricade is filled with autistic men who appreciate the engineering of a canon, and Gavroche makes all the boys tremble. And hold on to your garters because we have an extended portion where Victor Hugo tells us in extreme detail what he thinks of young womens' bedrooms. 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: mention of plane crash, war mention

Nemo and Stevie record the first cross-continental episode, we talk about Hugo's hatred of Taylor Swift's lifestyle, lions and phoenixes, and Hugo/Enjolras' hope for a united states of Europe. There's some thinking about politics and then Javert and Enjolras have some kinky times on a table with some rope.  

'The worse side, [Enjolras] cannot imagine. He’s part of it already. The blond hair, fair skin and fine profile that Hugo gives him’ adds to ‘his exclusive devotion to a political cause, the charisma he exercises over others more sensible than he is, his gifts for public speaking and for military action and his unshakeable faith in the purifying virtue of violence speak to us now of the kind of men who turned the twentieth century not into utopia but into sheer hell’  David Bellos, The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. Penguin Books, 2018, p. 201.

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: death, execution, children dying of starvation, sex work discrimination,  

Welcome to season 5, in which there are some new barricade men to ship, which Providence means Nemo has links to them. These barricades are inspired by our main boy barricade, which has some leadership issues. Mods are asleep, alcohol is banned, and some student boys do some pontification before choosing who should leave wearing a uniform.

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: threats to a child, descriptions of gun warfare

This episode is mostly about a Sumo!Grantaire AU. If you want to cut straight back to the actual story, it begins at 14:15. Valjean reads a letter and struggles with the overwhelming desire to murder Marius (mood) before getting dressed and heading out. The little King of the Barricades shows us how it’s done and takes us to the end of the fourth of five parts. We talk about the remastered 2012 film, have a retrospective about what we’ve come across in this Part so far, and come up with about 76 AUs. 

Bob the Builder Mambo no. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjERnmcjbAE 

Who’s Your Favourite Character poll: https://www.tumblr.com/oldbooksandnewmusic/742924029768400896 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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Cw: death, references to incest and implied pedophilia, 

Eponine becomes a mermaid, cursed Marriage AUs, and the most heroic child (and secret leader of the barricade) goes on a mission. We solve a mystery involving a blotter, and then Hugo gives us a moral conundrum to really chew on. 

This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin and Julian Yap. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi. It is a Captain's Collection Creation.

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