You astonish me.

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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)

[ficwip]

this week's word is... 

✨ CHAIN ✨ 

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How to play: Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

[valjeansemble]

He'd spoken, and the pain had flared once more; he'd shown without a doubt that he was Jean Valjean, and his back had felt afire. It was as if his skin already felt the lash, the scratch of raw red wool, the burden of the beam, the collar and the chain.

[lenievi]

👀🥺.

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The last time I used chains in my WIP (I used the variation of the word 26 times so far lol)

The night before, there had been no reason for him to come here. Yet he had come and wrapped himself in the safety of those invisible chains, which bound him and Javert together.

[lenievi]

OK, I decided that my WIP will end with chapter 16. Now can I actually manage to do that? And in a nice timely manner? (in August, it will be two years of working on this. I need to be free!)

[lenievi]

fyi I have a pattern

James Kirk - loneliness, loves horses, dislikes small dogs, but would get followed by a small dog and so he would grudgingly accept it

18!Javert - loneliness, loves horses, dislikes small dogs, but would get followed by a small dog and so he would grudgingly accept it

[lenievi]

In a ‘verse where [Kirk&McCoy] buy a cabin in the middle of nowhere together, their house is very traditional, full of old stuff and very little modern technology. They also have two dogs - one big dog and one tiny dog. Kirk doesn’t like the tiny dog at the beginning (because he just isn’t a fan of tiny animals, see Tribbles), but it grows on him. The tiny dog might be a Papillon, and it always hops around Kirk and follows him everywhere. (X)

yeah, see, tiny dog hopping around Javert and following him everywhere would also be perfect

Javert/Valjean buying a cottage and having a tiny dog, a horse, and some chickens is how LM ended, isn't it? 😂

[lenievi]

remember this? Javert and a tiny dog now exist, courtesy of @valjeansemble

Go and read it!

[lenievi]

idk I guess a part of chapter 14 of my WIP needs to turn extremely sappy otherwise I'll never move forward

[gromqueer]

sometimes writing fanfiction is like building a fire because you're cold but then you find out more people are also cold so they gather around the fire and you all warm up together and then someone else builds a fire and you visit their fire and so no matter where you go, which fandom it is, what concept someone may be looking for, someone out there has a fire for you

[karmapasta05]

nostalgic my og duo

gintaka

[lenievi]

Despite the prior evidence, it was at that moment that Javert understood, fully understood, how important, how dear, this girl was to Valjean. It was at that moment that a terrifying thought emerged in his mind. Was Valjean… dear to him? (...)

Javert could never return to before. To return would mean to bring Valjean to justice, and that was something he was no longer capable of. But it did not make Valjean dear to him, surely. And yet…  and yet the word settled inside him and started to take root.

Look at him, giving words to whatever it is he's feeling.

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

My brother pointed out how committed Jack is to not having a power imbalance/conflict of interest regarding his feelings for Sam that even in a time loop where everything was going to reset anyway, he still resigned before he kissed her and I think that is hilarious and also awesome

[a-really-big-cat]

[elysean]

[lenievi]

funny how every time I rewatch Javert arresting Fantine scene in the BBC miniseries, I kind of tweak my opinion about it

The last time I talked about it

And so when the whole Javert, Fantine, and Valjean thing happen and when Fantine spits on the mayor, Javert's instinct is to punish her for that. And you know, you can wonder why would he, but I believe that at that point he really was resigned to just accept Madeleine as Madeleine. (X)

I didn't really elaborate, but another thing about it is: Fantine is poor, Madeleine!Valjean is rich. Javert believes that the money are fruits of his wickedness, but it doesn't change the fact that Madeleine!Valjean is rich, and so when Fantine spits on him, like in the book, Javert's understanding of the order is threatened, and so his instinct is to punish Fantine, despite his believing that the other party is Jean Valjean.

Javert was told off by his superior in Paris (also the way his behaviour is completely different in that scene, how his voice gets softer is like 💯 acting on Oyelowo's part), and so there was nothing he could do anymore, and like exposing a fake mayor would really be so good for him, but he learnt that people like that, public officials, are protected. That someone like Javert can't just easily accuse them.

And like I said above, he was resigned to just let Valjean be (imho) - but then this happened and he found a way how to expose Valjean again by telling him about "Jean Valjean" who has been arrested.

It's something David Oyelowo also mentioned in Masterpiece podcast (but it's about the "you astonish me" part more) that just jumped out to me from memory while watching Fantine spit on Madeleine, and I was like, right:

 ‘You are the mayor. Why would you spend any time dealing with this prostitute? Don’t you know which level of society you have achieved? You are a disgrace to your status to do that.’ And so there is a hypocrisy to it because, you know, if you’re a very rich man and you’re a criminal you should go down. But I’m not sure that Javert would concentrate as much on rich criminals as he does poor criminals. The reason being Javert hates himself, he hates that he was born in prison. He hates that he was born to criminal parents, he hates that he was born poor. So he’s constantly trying to kill himself. The existence of any vestige of himself is what he wants to expunge. Which is why he ultimately ends up the way he does.

I don't like listening to actors talk about how they played their characters, but literally everything Oyelowo said about Javert anywhere is exactly what is on the screen and how I interpreted all of his choices even before I listened to him talking about it. And it's amazing.

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[youandthemountains]

from Dagger of the Mind - the amount of times people go Oh That Sawbones, So Old-Fashioned when he's literally right lmao.

[lenievi]

ao3 stats complaining

I don't dwell on numbers when it comes to my fics (much), I also don't compare my stats to others, only to my own fics, and that's why I find it so confusing that despite getting over 100 consecutive hits on a completed one-shot, not a single person in those over 100 hits left kudos, and it's seriously so discouraging.

But mostly I just don't get it. Why do people stop leaving kudos after the first three days???

(The fic has over 200 hits, but I got the last kudos before it reached 100 and since then nothing and it's just strange and confusing because this just isn't the way it worked in the past.

My fic not even reaching those 200 hits by now would be more understandable than this.)

I don't like complaining about engagement, but getting so many consecutive hits and only silence just makes me sad. Kudos always stopped coming, but never this fast, and the hits/kudos ratio on oneshots was consistent.

And yes, I know that the fact that it's explicit makes people even less willing to "leave a mark" these days but also guest kudos exist.

idk maybe fandom blind people are just checking the intercrural sex tag and being dissatisfied that's skewing the number, but still. Sorry it's sad and not sexy.

[lenievi]

Right, I finished reading Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum the other day.

It was, overall, very average, but I also think that I wasn't the target audience for this, because the messaging and "you shouldn't just work" and "burn out is real" isn't something that I need to be told. I'm privileged in this (and just the fact that I do have time to read physical books is a privilege), but I do have a work-life balance and therefore a book full of common social media self-help-ish ideas didn't offer me anything new or challenging. And I don't read books to feel comfortable (why pick up something "cosy" then? No idea lol except for the fact it was compared to books I enjoyed in the past, but those just had more interesting issues and characters. And so far every single book someone described as "cosy" wasn't what I imagine under "cosy" and this one is a perfect fit imho)

But someone who is always overwhelmed and works for a corporate might find enjoyment in its calmness, no drama, no arguments, and simple, non-complicated language. Plus, it has very short, episodic chapters, so one can take time with it and relax. Also people who are interested in running a bookshop or a bookclub and people who love coffee might be more interested in it than me. I don't drink coffee, so anything about coffee – how it's prepared, its beans etc. – is also uninteresting to me. I liked learning a legend about goats and a goatherd who "discovered" coffee tho.

The book can introduce readers to the working life in Korea and Korean society's expectations and attitudes towards work, education, marriage, and divorce.

I enjoyed the last 80 pages the most.

[lenievi]

I wonder if a sequel to the oneshot would add more or if it would ruin the uncertainty and vibes

There were a few things I wanted to include, but then didn't because I felt ending it the way I did worked the best

but I feel like it kinda gives me an opportunity/background to write Valjean who pursues Javert rather than the reverse, which is something that I've been wanting to write for quite a while

[lenievi]

rereading my oneshot and WTF, both of the very last edits were mispelled omg. How does that even happen?

(I miss the times when people would point out typos in comments tbh)