better than an opera

she/her | I write for Les Mis

[sharigax]

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

[rukafais]

[mostmagical]

sorry if you read my fics and you see the same very specific phrases over and over again

[just-french-me-up]

me, haunted by yet another idea for a 250k fic i have neither the energy nor the free time for, but that shall rattle its chains at me for the foreseeable future nonetheless: i wish it had never come to me gandalf

[vhen-harel]

[blckgirlacid]

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

[just-french-me-up]

the urge to write is like a cat meowing for dear life for someone to open the goddamn door, who then shows utter disinterest in said open door

[cactusringed]

(writes something) god this sucks so bad. this is awful. i'm the worst writer ever. this is nothing. (rereads it a while after writing it) oh dude this is fire. i'm the god of writing. (writes something again) god this sucks so bad. th

[fivie]

i just read all of umw in a day and oh my god. oh my god . i hope you know you’ve crafted something insane and im obsessed with it. holy shit

😭 ah thank you so much! These were delightful to receive on a dreary work day 🥹 welcome back to Being Insane About Les Mis Island! All the best with the production you're working on!!

[fivie]

seconding the last ask bc i found umw in like 2020 and immediately made all my friends (who weren't even in the fandom) read it. i watched supernatural later and can confidently say umw is wayy better lol

Ahahaha yeah there are mixed reviews on whether UMW is a successful gateway into Supernatural 🤭 glad you enjoyed the fic even if the source material didn't quite work for you!

[fivie]

rereading umw and i still really do think it's the best thing ever. generational les mis fic

🥹 aww thank you!! Glad you enjoyed the reread :)

[havingapoemwithyou]

Prayer for werewolves by Stephanie Burt

[ijlii]

[potatosonnet]

:)

[uservik]

- v. hugo

[sevaria]

Make me the subject of your desire

[aanthonyvb]

It’s barricade day and I just couldn’t help myself-

[batcii]

A Group Which Almost Became Historic 

It's been over a decade since I first read Les Mis, and first drew this, (which still floats around in reblogs, the original post now being deleted with my old blog) and I thought I ought to finish this for Barricade Day. At the time, that illustration was the most ambitious I had ever drawn.

In the last ten years, Les Mis has perhaps felt more pertinent than ever. In Australia, where I live, bigoted, far-right political parties that were previously considered fringe are leading polls on the back of racist, anti-immigration rhetoric. I donate regularly to a charity that supports refugees that is local to me, the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, and am going to do so again today. I encourage you to do the same, either to the ASRC, or to an equivalent charity in your area.

"So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth... books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use." — Victor Hugo