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[lenievi]

Hi, I like to ramble about many things. I’m currently into Javert, Valjean, Valjean/Javert, and Les Misérables, and there’s still a handful of TOS (re)blogging going on as well.

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Valjean/Javert fic: Chains That Do Not Bind (E) WIP

A touch that brought about change (E) (new)

In Your Embrace (E) (new)

[lenievi]

the other day I was really surprised to learn that Cosette actually doesn't call Valjean "Papa" in the book. It's so prevalent everywhere, because of the musical, I suppose, but she calls him "Father"

(in the translation I read, which isn't English, she uses a diminutive version of father, so I thought it would be the same in the original, but it's just "père")

[valjeansemble]

My first Cosette fic whee! I love her so much.

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

When Valjean disappears, Cosette sets out to find him.

In childhood, she'd been picked up by the roots from the woods that, too dark, had choked her; her papá had replanted her so carefully in the sunshine. He’d been the most tender and kindest of gardeners.

Why had he now abandoned her?

[lenievi]

yay, made WIP progress.

Now I need to get through Javert and Rivette scene. And then, the confrontation!

I wonder how to make it not about Valjean tho I probably need to be careful not to make Cosette comfort Valjean too much

But I'm also weak with the ending scene where he goes "You really love me?" And I want to include that.

also

"I'm not worthy of your love, I'm not worthy of anybody's love."

But I feel like it might not fit. Even tho maybe I need to make a few changes to stuff with Javert and Valjean, and it will. We'll see.

[lenievi]

sometimes it's fun going back to read what I thought about the miniseries the first time I watched it.

"I disagree with all of the Javert choices but the guy's just so interesting from fanfics writing standpoint" is the gist of it :D

[lenievi]

I think it's sad that there isn't much LM/valvert discussion happening on tumblr

(sometimes, because of likes spikes with no reblogs, I wonder if people just link my post somewhere and talk about it without me, or if it's just a coincidence that a few people came across a post in one day)

[valjeansemble]

Can't sleep so writing a new Valjean ficlet - time to see how many metaphors I can cram into a paragraph before it explodes! 😆 Is this anything

Jean Valjean was weary. 

It was not just a fatigue of the body. He had weathered countless exertions, perennial wounds of which his scars spelled out the story, but not a one of them compared to this quiet racking ache. He'd carried burdens all his life; bundles of branches in Faverolles which, once fallen, petrified to Toulon stone, to rocks and crates and beams and walls all borne upon his back. He'd held them up against the sky, at first with burning defiance, then with resignation, his former fire’s cooling coals. 

But this, this trial was different, this was a new ache that coursed within him, pulling like the moon towing the tide, and the sand under his feet rushed out beneath him; he wondered when he'd fall. 

Why did this so oppress him, he who had been numb, whose calluses encased his heart like armor? He could bear any weight, but this was new. He had been Atlas enduring, yet this single stone increased his burden to one he could not hold; it brought the titan to his knees. 

[lenievi]

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

The sound of footsteps disappeared. Javert rose from the desk in the corner of the room and circled Valjean; once, twice, his footsteps on the plank floor slow and regular. Valjean’s heart beat fast. No matter how many times he’d experienced the same, by now familiar, pattern of Javert’s summons, he could never feel completely at ease with him so close. One word from Javert could mean death. One word could mean a whip. That it hadn’t come yet meant nothing, and yet, oddly, Javert had never touched him, never laid a hand on him. The only lashing Valjean had received from him was verbal. But for how long? Javert leaned against the wall on Valjean’s left, keeping his distance. Neither of them spoke. The wind outside strengthened, and the sound of waves breaking against the hull grew louder.

Valjean/Javert, explicit, 7 646 words (split into two chapters; complete).

strange power dynamics, dub-con due to power imbalance (in more way than one)/dynamics, internalized homophobia

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This fic is pretty much a pwp, but I also think it's overall the best thing I've ever written; your mileage may vary, but I'm very proud of it.

[lenievi]

I published this today two years ago, so it gets a reblog.

[lenievi]

My procrastinating on my WIP made me read the only non-JV/J E-rated fic I have, i.e. Kirk/McCoy and now I'm very 🧐🧐🧐 about everything because

do I just have a sex scene type, or does my version (note the "my version") of JV/J just lead to a similar dynamic/behaviour – which I know sounds strange, if you think about it (or was my mckirk dynamic, perhaps, off, trying to match something I later found in 18!JV/J. Or if I were to write another ship would I still do the same thing no matter who the characters would be? I wish I had more fics for comparison. I wish I wrote McCoy/Spock sex, because surely that one would have to be different from McCoy/Kirk, right?)

I can pretty much track Kirk = Valjean (with their angst), and like the fact that I had Kirk go on his knees the same way I tend to have Valjean go on his knees was unexpected (I wrote this fic three years ago. I probably haven't read it since then, so I forgot all of it.) And I'm not exactly thrilled about this, because I feel like it's just a reminder of how if I'm not careful, I'll just center Valjean in my fics (even tho I'm not exactly sure if I've been successful).

Anyway, my fingers twitched to fix some of the wording of that mckirk fic, but I managed to stop myself. But I do think my writing improved. I think the Toulon fic is still a bit similar, since that was written around a year after the mckirk fic, but my recent fics feel different.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Prompt #1297

"You do not actually know me."

"But I do want to."

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Prompt #1310

"I'm going to ask you how you are and I would like you to answer me honestly."

[armandology]

so many unread books on my shelf. unsure which to start first so ill just read nothing

[lenievi]

I wonder if, when you write a chaptered fic and you take a random snippet out of it from some later chapter, and the characters don't feel like in the original (i.e. because they maybe say things they wouldn't, or show more understanding or whatever...), you basically failed at characterization OR if the context of the whole fic makes the characterization make sense

I kinda decided that I needed to accept that I would just feel that my WIP isn't IC in the way I'd like it to be, but I guess it won't stop me from thinking about this every other day lol

[aenslem]

We go together or not at all: [53/∞]

[lenievi]

I think it's unfair that if you want to read something you have to write it yourself 😔

[lenievi]

I've been thinking about book!Javert, and I wonder if things would be different if he came to M-s-M when Valjean had already become the mayor. Would he even allow himself to entertain any possible similarities between the mayor and that one convict he seemed to remember from twenty years ago?

Because I feel that the fact that Valjean wasn't initially anyone who had any sort of authority over Javert allowed him to pay more attention to him. Plus, the rumours and dislike of Madeleine in the town (especially from the "better" part of the town). When Madeleine became the mayor, most of that had been gone, so Javert might not even get to hear most of it anymore if he came to M-s-M in 1821.

[sg1]

SG1'S 1K CELEBRATION ☆ @formerdetective requested ↳ Sam/Jack + Touch + Palette