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Links for my own reference. Find me on AO3. Feel free to send asks!
Adaptation Takes
1925 (Fescourt) Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
1934 (Bernard) Part I, Part II, Part III
1935 (Boleslawski) Here
1948 (Freda)
1952 (Milestone)
1958 (Le Chanois) Here
1967 (Bridges)
1972 (Bluwal) Part I, Part II 1, Part II 2
1978 (Jordan)
1979 (Hisaoka)
1982 (Hossein) Here
1998 (August)
2000 (Dayan) Here
2007 (Sakurai)
2012 (Hooper)
2014 (Bedtime Story)
2016 (Arai)
2018 BBC (Davies)
Happy 24-6-01!
For the ask game --
39. Share a snippet from a WIP (requesting Loup Garou, pretty pretty please with sugar on top 🫶)
63. Something you hate to see in smut.
64. Something you love to see in smut.
39.
There are loves which spit: proud crudity, slime upon the face of society, a trail which catches a holy light. Marius Pontmercy would have carved Cosette’s name into his own living flesh, were he told this was the greatest sign of love; by marrying her, he’d undergone a mortification through publicity, far worse pain to him than any shed blood. Only the test he had made of her virtue, witnessed by God and the holed walls of the Gorbeau house, caused him more suffering. Yes, he spat; and he would have rather bled. It was a bad season, in 1833, to be a bourgeois lawyer with a convict’s-daughter wife, so that whatever kept him to his study for so many hours—we cannot account for it; he could not; clients did not. Of an evening that emptiness drove him out into the central courtyard, desperate for what breath of Spring could reach it, unconscious of the hour. It irritated him to find Javert lain out by his favorite bench, posed in such thorough embodiment of the guard-dog’s alertness that a passing artist, seeing him through the gate, fixed his image in charcoal, a sketch which later became a bronze statue first consigned to the back of the artist’s gallery, then faced to the wall, and ultimately melted down to craft a figure which less inflamed his fear of surveillance by the state.
Marius asked, “Do you earn the wages I pay you by watching the street?”
[ Good evening, monsieur. I understood it to be M. Valjean’s money. ]
“Cosette inherited it, and I am Cosette’s husband.” Marius gestured, meaning: therefore.
Javert grunted aloud.
Marius stepped over his tail and sat, then rested the book he had brought with him upon his knee, unopened.
Javert glanced back at him, the white showing in his eye. The animal intuition which keeps the rabbit still in the brush had served him well in his dealings with Marius: cognizant of his own lunacy, the loup-garou mimicked stability by silence. For the sake of dignity, he might have died as poor men did, from those fevers held in common on the street, or exposure when the winter came again; only, to be paid a decent wage as the servant of the revolutionary whose life he preserved by misjudgement seemed a proper excoriation of the soul.
63. I ain't gonna yuck someone's yum but also: disappearing wet spots. Where did the sweat and cum and """oil""" go? Where did all the slick get to, for that matter? Bewildering, distracting, and a missed opportunity.
64. Novelty! Gimme something I haven't thought about before.
. . .
Yeah ok also: wet spots.
4&11 for the asks? i really love the way you write your fics, the way you write it fascinates me(? does that make sense??) and i very much enjoy them at any rate :D
I get you, that's so kind! I'm glad my kinda weird choices have found an audience.
4. Where do you get inspiration for new ideas?
I read so much and always have. Fiction (professionally published and not), news articles, comedic blog posts, medical case studies, self-consciously snooty poetry, crass porn, history books, literary theory, more or less whatever's put in front of me. And I've been telling stories that whole time, too. Digesting the stuff that goes into your brain into ideas that can be tabled outside of it is really a matter of practice as much as inspiration.
11. Link as many of your three favorite fics as you want right now.
Currently updating, I am immeasurably fond of Ellen Fremedon's "In Which Is To Be Learned the Name of Enjolras' Fake Fiancée" and Rubberbutton's "A Just Impediment". For pieces I recommend as demonstrations of the transformative delights of fanfic, see ShitpostingfromtheBarricade's "en l'Année 2014". Justifying every sin of Crowevert, we've got "Toil Until the Old Colours Fade". For fics that I revisit, there's the orphaned but forever delightful "Tall Shadow Chasing After Me".
Get to know your fic writer!
Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?
Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?
Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic
Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?
Do you like constructive criticism?
Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?
How do you choose which POV to write from?
Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story?
Do you comment on stories you read?
Cltr+f "blinks" on your WIP & copy paste the first sentence/paragraph that comes up
Link your three favorite fics right now
how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?
what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?
how do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?
How do you write smut scenes? Do you get very visual or detailed? How important is it to be realistic?
How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?
What do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)
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Would you ever collaborate with another writer for a story?
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Best writing advice for other writers?
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Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
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Name three of your favorite fanfic writers.
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Share a snippet from a WIP
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How long is your longest fic?
What’s your total AO3 word count?
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Thoughts on cliffhangers?
Something you hate to see in smut.
Something you love to see in smut.
Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
How do you deal with writing pressure (ie. pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc.)?
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You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?
What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it?
Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of [Fanfic Name]?
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Modern AU:
Enjolras is placed on house arrest for his actions during the June Rebellion modernization. Jean Valjean, who includes in his roster of ties with charitable orgs* one that connects individuals on house arrest to services and essentials, finds himself tagging in for the guy who usually does the door-to-door piece. He is, to put it lightly, not at his best; there might still be some shit from the sewers stuck under his toenails; but one has obligations.
Enjolras does not need services or essentials, on account of having a robust social network**, but what he does need is some peace of mind, and he ain't getting that staring in the face of the old man he recognizes from the Modern Barricade, who might've been helpful but did also witness the Amis committing all sorts of crime.
Meanwhile, Jean Valjean would like to die, or go to prison, which amounts to the same thing, and here he is staring into the face of a young man who witnessed him do crimes. Javert did not perform before his expiry date, and this meeting feels like kismet, or in any case inevitability.
Two less ethical (and less self-destructive, in Valjean's case) men would blackmail each other into silence. Instead, Enjolras invites Valjean inside for a glass of water (it's a hot day, he looks wan, is he well?), to feel out the situation. They talk at length about social services. About gaps in social services. Enjolras recognizes that there's fire here, hidden. He says, Come back.
The primary crisis of the following romance? Enjolras' realization that he will never be able to extinguish Valjean's desire for bourgeois normalcy, no matter how much he rides that old man hog crazy style.
* For the record, after several years of thought, I prefer a modernized Valjean who is a shut-in, his experience being near-caught due to that almsing beggar business having him gunshy about distributing any of his wealth, and possibly unable to do so without drawing the attention of the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (or IRS if we're Americanizing), anyway. However, for the sake of the AU, we continue.
** If I wanted to be a real son of a bitch, I'd propose he's sole survivor of the modernized barricades or the only one not incarcerated, but, nah.
No no there’s a second primary crisis. It’s agony, for Valjean, to be both rejected as a caretaker and refused a subjugated position. Enjolras says, Get egalitarianized, bitch.
Modern AU:
Enjolras is placed on house arrest for his actions during the June Rebellion modernization. Jean Valjean, who includes in his roster of ties with charitable orgs* one that connects individuals on house arrest to services and essentials, finds himself tagging in for the guy who usually does the door-to-door piece. He is, to put it lightly, not at his best; there might still be some shit from the sewers stuck under his toenails; but one has obligations.
Enjolras does not need services or essentials, on account of having a robust social network**, but what he does need is some peace of mind, and he ain't getting that staring in the face of the old man he recognizes from the Modern Barricade, who might've been helpful but did also witness the Amis committing all sorts of crime.
Meanwhile, Jean Valjean would like to die, or go to prison, which amounts to the same thing, and here he is staring into the face of a young man who witnessed him do crimes. Javert did not perform before his expiry date, and this meeting feels like kismet, or in any case inevitability.
Two less ethical (and less self-destructive, in Valjean's case) men would blackmail each other into silence. Instead, Enjolras invites Valjean inside for a glass of water (it's a hot day, he looks wan, is he well?), to feel out the situation. They talk at length about social services. About gaps in social services. Enjolras recognizes that there's fire here, hidden. He says, Come back.
The primary crisis of the following romance? Enjolras' realization that he will never be able to extinguish Valjean's desire for bourgeois normalcy, no matter how much he rides that old man hog crazy style.
* For the record, after several years of thought, I prefer a modernized Valjean who is a shut-in, his experience being near-caught due to that almsing beggar business having him gunshy about distributing any of his wealth, and possibly unable to do so without drawing the attention of the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (or IRS if we're Americanizing), anyway. However, for the sake of the AU, we continue.
** If I wanted to be a real son of a bitch, I'd propose he's sole survivor of the modernized barricades or the only one not incarcerated, but, nah.
The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is...
❤️Jean Valjean/Javert's Dad❤️
They met in the bagne. Valjean is Javert's stepdad now.
Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville.
Do you ship it?
Yes (ironically)
Yes (unironically)
Yes (but only unrequited)
No
I prefer not to consider such complex family relations.
Eyes opened. Scrapping everything. The Éposette piece even will now be Valpèrevert in dresses.
OK, A/B/O people, you gifted us the proliferation of "slick" as a term for vaginal lubrication. Now can you come up with a solid dirty euphemism for "prostate", please?
NEW POLL VERY SERIOUS
Multiple members of the Patron Minette are :
Patrons Minette
Patron Minettes
Patrons Minettes
I don't know what's happening but I NEED to push a button
It’s actually Patroni Minette.
"Les Museaurables" - Marius and the Friends of the ABC
So, fun fact - I was an art student and for my final project I decided to make an Artbook based on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
The work is an adaptation in which every character is a different animal, based on this quote from the chapter "Vagues éclairs à l'horizon" (Tome 1):
«Dans notre conviction, si les âmes étaient visibles aux yeux, on verrait distinctement cette chose étrange que chacun des individus de l’espèce humaine correspond à quelqu’une des espèces de la création animale ; et l’on pourrait reconnaître aisément cette vérité à peine entrevue par le penseur, que, depuis l’huître jusqu’à l’aigle, depuis le porc jusqu’au tigre, tous les animaux sont dans l’homme et que chacun d’eux est dans un homme. Quelquefois même plusieurs d’entre eux à la fois. (...) Maintenant, si l’on admet un moment avec nous que dans tout homme il y a une des espèces animales de la création, il nous sera facile de dire ce que c’était que l’officier de paix Javert.»
-Which basically means that according to Hugo every person can be represented by one, or more animal species. I took that concept and ran with it, thinking hard about each choice and character design.
In my adaptation the world is also very steampunk and fantasylike for added interest and more design opportunities.
I decided to call the project "Les Museaurables" to combine the title of the book and "Museau", so "snout", in French.
I hope this was interesting!
Pictured is Marius with the Friends of the ABC at Café Musain.
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It turned out to be unnecessary that I had three long fics open in their entirety—but remember, kids, it’s better to be prepared.
reminder that there is no exam of entry for fandom. your love for a story and its characters is not inherently less than than other people's. they are yours to play with as much as they are everybody else's
so get cracking and create for that thing you love
@irishcomplexion prompted "irritating":
"More afraid to show her face than to make the moment awkward by lingering, she hides there, nose flat to his sternum, aware that he is big and warm and smells faintly of cigarette smoke and unfamiliar aftershave and irritatingly her father’s cheap soap."
For the WIP Word Game
Time
“You fantasizing about me sucking you off under this desk? Leave the suit on after work sometime and we can play-act it at home, eh? Or is it making me walk out past all those people afterwards the appeal? It would show, what I’d been doing with my mouth.” He sounds fretful, not at all like a man describing his own fantasies, and the line of his slacks remains undisturbed by any stirring of the flesh.
“I can see you don’t want that.” Jean Valjean takes pity, leaning back in his chair in wordless permission for Javert to put space between them. “Come back after hours, then,” he suggests.
“I’m not into that kink shit,” he complains, then asks, “What time?”
For the wip word guessing game: eternal?
“And where is your other devotee, then? I don’t smell wet dog.”
“He does not come by so often. I tell him there’s no need.”
“And for consequences of your independence you will see him wash his coat in the Seine again.” Grantaire fended off the old man’s effort to take the baskets. “This one’s too heavy for you, and I’ll weep upon your lap like an angel on the gravestone of her love should the bottles break and their spirits go to waste. —The beard becomes you; it’s quite romantic; do you plan to begin writing for the theater?” With which he leaned down, and deposited upon his lips a kiss altogether too insistent to be familial. “Here’s an aperitif for you. Having tasted my affections, do you not want at least a bite of bread to clear the flavor? Oh, I’m gleeful, there’s a little fire in the ashes at the tangled bush’s feet.” With which he laid his lips smackingly upon one lowered white brow. “Here! Let me lay a seal upon it, and may it burn eternally on choler, a more lasting fuel than passion ever was.”
WIP Word Guessing Game
Rules: Send me an ask with a word and I'll post a sentence or paragraph from one of my WIPs that contains that word!
If you manage to stump me, I'll write three sentences and share these.
If you want to play please feel free to reblog/repost this so people can send you words.
