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[just_cant_lose]

 
Can I put in a pre-emptive request for Monday's bartending, please? It's Barricade Day, and the French boys want to throw a party. A happy party! Cheerful revolutionary death day! There'll be cake!

Thanks. <3

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[tu_vas_triompher]

PAR-TAY PAR-TAY PAR-TAY

[just_cant_lose]

THERE WILL VODKA JELLY. And cake. Revolutionary cake. And drinks! So many drinks. :D!

[manofbusiness]

Will there be Javert disapproving at all of it?

[just_cant_lose]

You know it! : D

[chanter1944]

Between this and D Day... Sariel will be there, though as a customer rather than a bartender.

Her mun, multigenre geek that she is, is also looking forward to this, in a bittersweet sort of way. Watch for falling WWII references in narration come Monday, probably.

[just_cant_lose]

Sweet! Courfeyrac for one has read up on future wars, so he might/should get at least one of them. :)

[chanter1944]

It'll probably be me making all the allusions, but Sariel might mention the WWII significance of the date directly.

[ceitfianna]

William will join them because he likes them though he does kind of suspect that maybe the rebs read their book.

[clayforthedevil]

Ha! "Lee's Miserables", yeah. The Confederate edition cut out all of Enjolras' speech. And pretty much everything else any of the Amis actually had to say about politics, too. Super subtle, censors!

(this is a real thing, and they would all be absolutely on-fire outraged if they read it.)

[ceitfianna]

Oh nice, I knew that it was read by the Confederacy but not the censoring. I've sort of played it that William is kind of vaguely aware that he might have read about people like them, but I think other books he knows better.

[clayforthedevil]

Oh-oh my gosh, I almost forgot this--

I am not sure exactly what year William is tagging in from , but he might know that someone wrote a song about Enjolras to honor Lincoln's death. You can read the music and lyrics and hear it performed! (it is a deeply goofy song.)

[ceitfianna]

He's from somewhere around 1870, the movie's timing is odd so I haven't pinned him down too much. That's amazing. I love historical details like that.

[wings_of_a_swan]

...now I'm cracking up at the idea of William hearing that song.

[ceitfianna]

He would be very confused because while he knows that Les Amis were involved with fighting for freedom, he wouldn't immediately connect them to Lincoln. Now I want to find a reason for him to hear it or come across it.

[genarti]

Someday I may stop laughing about this song every time I remember it -- thy lava kisses! Patria, I burn for thee!! -- but today is not that day.

(Alternately, someday I might have Enjolras find out it exists. Thus far, I've spared him that.)

[ceitfianna]

Hee, songs from that era are terribly vivid. Clearly there needs to be a reason for this to appear in Bar.