Lady of the Refrigerator

Adventures in Fic Writing

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A Matter of Public Service - Chapter 2

A Matter of Public Service (2204 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean Additional Tags: Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues, Valvert Week 2026, Hand Jobs, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Toulon Era (Les Misérables), First Time, POV Javert (Les Misérables), Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Top Jean Valjean, Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Valjean (Wilkinson), Internal Conflict Summary: It was not as though Javert enjoyed challenging the mayor’s authority, but as Madeleine had not come from the ruling class and thus could be unaware of the intricacies of the law that Javert had learned by tireless necessity during his own rise in rank, Javert decided it should fall to him to inform Madeleine of these matters whenever such conflicts arose. It was a matter of public service.

for @valvertweek

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A Matter of Public Service - Chapter 1

A Matter of Public Service (869 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean Additional Tags: Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues, Valvert Week 2026, Hand Jobs, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Toulon Era (Les Misérables), First Time, POV Javert (Les Misérables), Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Top Jean Valjean, Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Valjean (Wilkinson), Internal Conflict Summary: It was not as though Javert enjoyed challenging the mayor’s authority, but as Madeleine had not come from the ruling class and thus could be unaware of the intricacies of the law that Javert had learned by tireless necessity during his own rise in rank, Javert decided it should fall to him to inform Madeleine of these matters whenever such conflicts arose. It was a matter of public service.

For @valvertweek

[ladyoftherefrigerator]

trying to come up with a title for a valvert week fic and...

whoops, i've used that one already

ah, the downside of having many fandoms with characters who have identity issues...

[ladyoftherefrigerator]

reread keening and rapture because they popped up in a kudos email and i'm in a weird headspace and kept catching myself thinking about this thing or that thing happening next but i haven't finished those chapters so it's not in the posted version yet and oh my gosh i've left y'all hanging so bad

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Firm Resolve of a Determined Soul (54104 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent Additional Tags: Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Jean Valjean (Wilkinson) - Freeform, Javert Lives (Les Misérables), Javert's Confused Boner (Les Misérables), Post-Seine, Jean Valjean Lives, Top Jean Valjean, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Valvert Week 2025, Suicidal Thoughts, Masturbation, Touch-Starved, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protectiveness, First Kiss, Awkward First Times, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Crisis of Faith, Affection, Flirting Summary: “Wait!” Valjean very nearly shouted again, despairing. “You would have me bear witness to this?” His voice carried strangely, surrounding Javert where he stood upon the parapet, not quite an echo. It settled warmly in his chest, like sunlight on a spring day to his deciduous heart. He could not account for this feeling. It grated against his misery, teasing at something like hope in his own sorry breast. What a cruel trick it was, to try to steal his hopelessness. “I did not ask for you to be here,” Javert said, his own desperation beginning to bleed into his tone of voice. “You are free to leave me at any time.” “Surely you must know I cannot do that.” “Avert your gaze, then,” he said, near to a growl, “and let me be.”

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The Firm Resolve of a Determined Soul - Chapter 14

The Firm Resolve of a Determined Soul (50799 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 14/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent Additional Tags: Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Jean Valjean (Wilkinson) - Freeform, Javert Lives (Les Misérables), Javert's Confused Boner (Les Misérables), Post-Seine, Jean Valjean Lives, Top Jean Valjean, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Valvert Week 2025, Suicidal Thoughts, Masturbation, Touch-Starved, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protectiveness, First Kiss, Awkward First Times, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Crisis of Faith, Affection, Flirting Summary: “Wait!” Valjean very nearly shouted again, despairing. “You would have me bear witness to this?” His voice carried strangely, surrounding Javert where he stood upon the parapet, not quite an echo. It settled warmly in his chest, like sunlight on a spring day to his deciduous heart. He could not account for this feeling. It grated against his misery, teasing at something like hope in his own sorry breast. What a cruel trick it was, to try to steal his hopelessness. “I did not ask for you to be here,” Javert said, his own desperation beginning to bleed into his tone of voice. “You are free to leave me at any time.” “Surely you must know I cannot do that.” “Avert your gaze, then,” he said, near to a growl, “and let me be.”

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Reconciliation (50703 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 16/18 Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent, Toussaint (Les Misérables) Additional Tags: Post-Barricade, Javert Lives (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean Lives, Bathing/Washing, Hurt/Comfort, Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Valjean (Wilkinson), Sexual Tension, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Unconsciousness, Devotion, Reconciliation, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, First Time Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Top Jean Valjean, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables) Summary: “It is well. Go upstairs. I will wait for you here.” Javert knew as soon as he had spoken those words to Jean Valjean that he sounded odd. If he sounded odd even to his own ears, to a man who had known him as long as Valjean, he must have sounded like he was speaking in a little-used foreign tongue. To an extent, he was. Lying well required a comfort with deception that Javert had never possessed, and he had not miraculously acquired it even in this late hour, no matter how convenient it would have been for him to have done so.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Stars, Hide Your Fires (52875 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 22/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Jean Valjean, Javert (Les Misérables), Fantine (Les Misérables), Cosette Fauchelevent Additional Tags: Montreuil-sur-Mer, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Top Valjean, Autistic Javert (Les Misérables), Light Dom/sub, Enemies to Lovers, Timeline What Timeline, implied suicidal thoughts, Demisexual Characters, Eventual Smut, Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Valjean (Wilkinson), Found Family, Fix-It of Sorts Summary: Weeks upon weeks passed in a blur before Valjean even had a spare moment to notice the newest mark upon his back, the flesh thick and scarred like a brand in the shape of a well-formed handprint, layered over top the latticework of lashes he had earned in Toulon. Valjean’s stomach turned as he tried to catch a proper glimpse, twisting to see his reflection in a smudged bit of windowpane by the meager light of a flickering candle. It had happened, then, at last. After many dark and grueling years on his own, he had finally encountered his soulmate…

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Firm Resolve of a Determined Soul (46829 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 13/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent Additional Tags: Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Jean Valjean (Wilkinson) - Freeform, Javert Lives (Les Misérables), Javert's Confused Boner (Les Misérables), Post-Seine, Jean Valjean Lives, Top Jean Valjean, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Valvert Week 2025, Suicidal Thoughts, Masturbation, Touch-Starved, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protectiveness, First Kiss, Awkward First Times, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Crisis of Faith, Affection, Flirting Summary: “Wait!” Valjean very nearly shouted again, despairing. “You would have me bear witness to this?” His voice carried strangely, surrounding Javert where he stood upon the parapet, not quite an echo. It settled warmly in his chest, like sunlight on a spring day to his deciduous heart. He could not account for this feeling. It grated against his misery, teasing at something like hope in his own sorry breast. What a cruel trick it was, to try to steal his hopelessness. “I did not ask for you to be here,” Javert said, his own desperation beginning to bleed into his tone of voice. “You are free to leave me at any time.” “Surely you must know I cannot do that.” “Avert your gaze, then,” he said, near to a growl, “and let me be.”

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

boy, fifteen or so years ago when i picked up the poseidon adventure novel to rifle through its pockets for lore, i really should've picked up the screenplay instead

that right there is exactly the kind of stuff i was hoping to find

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

drama! between nonnie and her brother! mind-boggling!

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aw, man

doubt acres would've fared any better, but they could've let martin bandage his knee

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

honestly making up for how fucking unlikable all the characters were in the book

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

what

what

WHAT

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

this scene!

WHAT

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

on the one hand, them not kissing in the actual filmed version gives more room for my fic

on the other...

they kissed???

[ladyoftherefrigerator]

i figure i should archive this on the sideblog to refer back to later

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by some funny fandom happenstance, i spent the better part of a decade writing fic about a character called red played by an actor named james and my current fandom side quest has me writing fic about a character named james played by an actor called red

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Firm Resolve of a Determined Soul (42947 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Javert (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent Additional Tags: Javert (Quast) - Freeform, Jean Valjean (Wilkinson) - Freeform, Javert Lives (Les Misérables), Javert's Confused Boner (Les Misérables), Post-Seine, Jean Valjean Lives, Top Jean Valjean, Bottom Javert (Les Misérables), Valvert Week 2025, Suicidal Thoughts, Masturbation, Touch-Starved, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protectiveness, First Kiss, Awkward First Times, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Crisis of Faith, Affection, Flirting Summary: “Wait!” Valjean very nearly shouted again, despairing. “You would have me bear witness to this?” His voice carried strangely, surrounding Javert where he stood upon the parapet, not quite an echo. It settled warmly in his chest, like sunlight on a spring day to his deciduous heart. He could not account for this feeling. It grated against his misery, teasing at something like hope in his own sorry breast. What a cruel trick it was, to try to steal his hopelessness. “I did not ask for you to be here,” Javert said, his own desperation beginning to bleed into his tone of voice. “You are free to leave me at any time.” “Surely you must know I cannot do that.” “Avert your gaze, then,” he said, near to a growl, “and let me be.”

[ladyoftherefrigerator]

the 'is the beginning of this chapter too wordy?' vs 'it's les mis fic' vs 'but it still feels like a slog to read it' vs 'you have read it approximately five hundred times' conundrum

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i've picked up listening to the audiobook of the brick again and have, in a few days, been viscerally reminded i have not even begun to hit 'too wordy' in relation to canon

i started at ~38 or 39% and am now thisclose to taking another break solely due to numerous fucking lists masquerading as sentences. (in audio form, it sounds fucking endless when characters speak this way specifically, less so when it's not a character speaking)

good god, i annoy myself sometimes with my tendency to write in repetitions of three, and weird myself out when i deliberately choose more or less to avoid being too repetitious, but for les mis fic at least i should try to tamp down that worry

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fyi, those AI-accusation fic bashing guest comment bots have reached valvert fics

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they're spamming the everloving shit out of my most recently updated valvert fic, so i'm doing an experiment and turning off guest comments for that fic only to see if they move on to something else

it's interesting because my most recent update wasn't a valvert fic and that one's not being targeted

do they just go through fandom by fandom?

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fyi, those AI-accusation fic bashing guest comment bots have reached valvert fics

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dog Days (6103 words) by Lady_of_the_Refrigerator Chapters: 3/4 Fandom: The Blacklist (US TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elizabeth Keen/Raymond Reddington Characters: Elizabeth Keen, Raymond Reddington Additional Tags: Summer, Hot Weather, Temperature Play, Season/Series 06, Underwear, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Ass Play Summary:

“God. It really is muggy, isn’t it?” Lizzy fished a piece of ice out of her glass and ran it from the pulse point on her throat down to the hollow of her neck, humming with pleasure at the cooling sensation; Red swallowed his mouthful of tea, his eyes wide as he followed the progress of the melting ice cube.

[set sometime during Season 6, if the prison arc never happened]

[ladyoftherefrigerator]

i've been working on a wip that i'm determined to finish before the end of summer and it's funny because i've been stuck on the last nearly-finished chapter for literal years despite the fact that it's basically just a smut fic so i should be able to have them fuck one more time and be done with it but noooo

every summer, i try to finish it and every summer i fail, but i finally had a breakthrough tonight regarding a conversation they're having and it might very well have bridged the gap?

and the topic of conversation hadn't occurred to me even once in the 4 years since i started writing the fic? until tonight?

also

nice