World Ain't Ready

World Ain't Ready is a popular Enjolras/Grantaire fanfiction by idiopathicsmile. Sometimes abbreviated as W.A.R., it is a modern high school AU where Enjolras and Grantaire pretend to be a couple in order to make it easier for Courfeyrac to ask Jehan to prom. Considered a fandom classic, it is so well-known that reccers often note that readers have likely already heard of or read this fic themselves. As of February 2023, the fic has the highest number of hits, kudos and bookmarks and second highest number of comments in the entire Les Misérables fandom on AO3.
Idiopathicsmile has written a novel version with the serial numbers filed off, however it has only been published in Spanish. Posted 19 October 2022. A podcast version of it is currently being produced under the name Keep It Steady. The commercial version changes Enjolras and Grantaire's names to Gabe Navarro and Zach Wilson respectively, as well as changing the gender of a few of the characters.
==Author's Summary==
==Related Ficlets==
Starting 7 June 2020, idiopathicsmile volunteered to write at least 250 words of fic for $25 USD donations to any Black Lives Matter-related cause. Posted 7 June 2020. She also offered to do this again in 2022 for donations to abortion rights groups. Posted 7 June 2020. A few of these donations requested World Ain't Ready fics, which are posted on AO3 and Tumblr. Most of them take place after the story, but there are also a few Alternate POV fics.
*5 Conversations Around Enjolras's Family Dinner Table, Part One (AO3)
*World Ain't Ready Coda One: The First ABC Meeting After Prom (AO3)
*Little Dawn (AO3)
*World Ain't Ready Coda Two: The Art Museum (AO3)
*World Ain't Ready Coda Three: Grantaire, Eponine, and Gavroche (AO3)
*post-W.A.R. ficbit, in which Grantaire and Enjolras tell their friends the truth about the fake-dating (Tumblr)
*post-W.A.R. Summer ficbit (Tumblr)
*ficlet: W.A.R!Enjolras’s birthday party (Tumblr)
==Comments by the Author==
==Use of Fanon==
Like many modern Les Mis AUs before and after it, World Ain't Ready used many fanon tropes and characterizations. For some, this was a feature of the story, as it tied in to the active tumblr fandom and made the main characters more diverse. comment on fail_fandomanon. Posted 2 November 2023. Posted 27 November 2014. For others, it was an annoyance, to the point that they felt it was closer to original fic. Posted 13 April 2023. comment in fail_fandomanon. Posted 9 September 2022. Posted 28 June 2017.
==Removal of Harry Potter References==
At some point in late 2021, idiopathicsmile changed the book Grantaire asks Enjolras about in Chapter 4 from Harry Potter to Animorphs. A reader noticed this and commented all the other places in the story where Harry Potter concepts were referenced by the characters. Posted 3 January 2022. The author later confirmed that this was due to J.K. Rowling's Transphobia.
==Reactions and Reviews==
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==Inspired Fanworks==
===Fanart===
*World Ain't Ready Comic 
* by hatarlakrits
*so i have world ain’t ready downloaded as an epub… cover art by sleepnoises
* by meruz
* by snattacat 
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* by leascno 
====Example Art Gallery====
File:World ain't ready sketch hatnhousejacket.jpg|World Ain't Ready sketch by hatnhousejacket (2015)
File:World ain't ready joly sleepnoises.jpg|“He lifts his head from the depths of Courfeyrac’s couch, gestures with his cane...' by sleepnoises (2016)
File:World ain't ready asaethiel.jpg|after all these years it’s still you…. the Best Fanfic of All Time by asaethiel (2021)
File:World ain't ready Leascno.jpg|Cover art by leascno (2022)
===Podfic===
*[Podfic] World Ain't Ready read by fulldaysdrive
===Fanfiction===
*Steadiest of Pulses by aslightasthistledown
*World Ain't Ready - Unapproved Epilogue by irrelevantbutfabulous
*rose-colored boy by orphan_account
===Fanmixes===
* by bitterblue on 8tracks
* by feasted on 8tracks
* by achilliads on 8tracks
*world ain't ready by thestonedsoldier on Spotify
*World Ain't Ready by purewanderlust on Spotify, 
===Translation===
* by potomacin
===Fanvids===
*A fan music video (okay fine, a slideshow really) for World Ain’t Ready by vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo
==References==
Category:2014 FanfictionCategory:2015 Fanfiction
Category:Slash Fanfiction