In this talk Nemo presents findings from their quantitive study of 1525 works of fanart from over 200 artists posted on tumblr between 2012-2021, cataloguing the formulation of racial identity in Les Misérables fanwork. Nemo argues that fanartists see race as skin-deep and non-specific, easily interchangeable and without consequence, rarely as active cultural or ethnic identities. Nemo compares these representations to ‘canonical’ mentions of race in the novel by Victor Hugo.