Bread & Barricades: A Les Mis Podcast
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Bread & Barricades: V.viii, HUGUANO OOZE
Cw: sinophobia, discussion of sewage, We dive into the sewers and for the first time ever, Hugo might be right about science, and also teaches us some new words?? We say the word cloaca about seventy thousand times, the English are respectable, and we fi
Bread & Barricades: V.vii, Sad Boy Deaths
Cw: discussions of death, blood, battle woundsOpen 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'
Bread & Barricades: V.vi, Respectful Pronouns and Progress Pauses
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
brat & Barricades: SPECIAL, brat summer
Cw: descriptions of break-ups, drug use and addiction, body dysmorphia and weight, self-hatred, alcohol drinking, suicide mentionTwo people who are, at heart, sixty years old, go to the digital club to give YOU the rundown of which Les Miserables charact
Bread & Barricades: V.v, Javert Moe Gap
Cw: drug mention, child death mention, description of child poverty, starvation, blood mention, injury description, suicide mentionWe discuss an album that was not made for us (but which becomes increasingly more imprinted on our souls), another person h
Bread & Barricades: V.iv, Enjolras' Mistress! Not Clickbait!
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 h
Bread & Barricades: V.iii, Barricade Fancam
Cw: description of death, war mention, misogynyThis 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
Bread & Barricades: V.ii, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…
Cw: mention of plane crash, war mentionNemo 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
Bread & Barricades: V.i, Blind Date Leftist Infighting Edition
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,
Bread & Barricades: IV.xxv, Little bit of Sumo by my side
Cw: threats to a child, descriptions of gun warfareThis 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 Mar