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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
~ the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
seven: in which andy makes arrangements, and they do some good along the way.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
six: in which nicky is done with booker's shit, booker is done with booker's shit, and a long-overdue conversation is had.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
five: in which obfuscation helps no one, even if they have the best of intentions.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
four: in which some dots are connected, and nobody sleeps well.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
three: in which we get some introduction flashbacks, and lord boreal is up to no good (again).
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
two: in which copley may or may not be in trouble, and nile reaches out to a friend.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
one: in which nile settles into her new family, and the team takes care of an arms dealer.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
prologue ii: in which booker gets more than he signed up for, and andy visits the land of the dead.
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"We may not have all the answers, but we do have purpose."
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the old guard 2/force multiplied & his dark materials s2 ; kaysanova & book of nile & andromaquynh ; multichapter ; rated T.
part 3 of the dæmons series.
prologue i: in which the first knife bearers of cittàgazze discover its potential.
rolls up a year and a half late with starbucks and part one of the kaysanova getting-together fic series, in which nicky develops a conscience and absolutely no one gets together except to kill each other some more
forgot to put it up on tumblr, whoops. chapter one of part two of the series, lead-up to the battle of ascalon. in which the lads begin to pine for each other like idiots without yet being able to discern that the pining is mutual, and also there’s a bit of espionage, just for fun
chapter two of part two, the battle of ascalon and its immediate aftermath. in which they get their battle couple on, and nicky hits the self-destruct button (not literally)
has anyone else made this joke yet
My point was with your phrasing which implied Fantine had forgotten how to appear fine, and had known that before, when before that she was a young street urchin and then working in the country, where it would not have been a concern as it was in the city. And I did say I agreed with the rest. Obviously it wasn't constant grinding misery.
? ?? ?? ?? okay? i interpret her character one way, you do another. i don't know you from adam's housecat, so like, it's all fine. yeah? go have an ice cream or something. i'm gonna eat one with m&ms in it. enjoy the rest of your day.
1. I didn't say Javert wasn't poor, but it was decidedly better to be a policeman than a factory worker.
2. I don't think Fantine forgot how to live on nothing, what she had to learn was to keep up appearances of doing okay, which before working as a piecemaker she wouldn't have known.
Other than that I agree.
ngl i'm a bit puzzled here. if after being fired she needed to keep up the appearance of doing okay, doesn't that mean that before being fired, she had the substance of it as well?
also, and i realize this is subjective, but constant grinding misery without any relief at all doesn't mean anything. i'd prefer to think that fantine had a little sunlight before the storm clouds came back. maybe you don't think of working in a factory as a bright spot, but (meme voice) it's honest work. and for a little while, it took care of cosette. and those things are important to fantine, so i'll take it as a win.
that's all i got. have a good day man
Casual reminder about Javert, published 1841 in ‘Pictures of the French’ by J. G. Janin.
No shiny uniforms, ponies, or hordes of obedient underlings there.
That last line is gold.
And Hugo even specifically stated that Javert wasn’t given to pondering because of how painful it was. Tom Hooper, why did you try and put such a rift between Javert and the rest of Les Miserables?
Because I guess to him it was the story of the rich vs. the poor, and Javert protected the rich, ergo he had something to gain from it materially. It’s total anti-canon BS, of course, since Javert gained absolutely nothing except the knowledge that he did the Right Thing.
This is something for people to keep in mind when they write Javert’s character as cold, wrathful, anti-social, misanthropic, spurning contact with others, etc. Hugo may have written that snuff served as Javert’s only connection to the rest of humanity, but he neglected to spell out why: snuff was the only object in his universe that didn’t hate him.
“Stop, Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I should be a blackguard! Those who say, ‘That blackguard of a Javert!’ would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.”
Javert has to force himself to exercise punitive functions with respect to non-violent criminals. It doesn’t come easy to him. Being kind would come easily, but he can no more be kind than a prosecutor can be kind towards the man he works to convict: that’s not his job. No more than it’s the job of a defense attorney to work to convict his client if he thinks the client committed the crime in question. The police and the judicial system divides its labor for a very good reason. Javert’s job is to locate and arrest suspected malefactors. That’s what a cop does. It’s not the cop’s job to be judge and jury. He is happy enough to pursue and apprehend people he considers a genuine threat, like Valjean or the Patron-Minette gang. People like Fantine, not so much.
It must make such a job a great deal more difficult when you are not allowed any outlet for kindness even outside of your work. Javert had no one to be kind to, since no one would have him in any capacity, as friend, as lover, etc.
The world conspired to make Javert a bastard. He bore it well so long as he could justify it by a) being as severe with himself as with everyone else and b) assuring himself that his unkindness serves a greater Good, namely security and order. Valjean destroyed both of these justifications: as a magistrate, he did not allow Javert to punish himself, which rendered him a hypocrite, and as a convict, he opened Javert’s eyes to the fact that the Law sometimes destroys the lives of good people for trivial offenses.
Saying Fantine 'got out of the gutter' is a bit of a stretch, no? She's a factory worker paying a couple to house her child, and is forced by circumstance to become a prostitute the moment she's fired. She dies of a venereal disease at twenty-some and is buried in an unmarked grave. That's hardly out of the gutter. Javert makes what is a deeply unlikely ascent, but an ascent nontheless: he's born in prison and becomes a police officer with a steady income. He definately rises higher than Fantine ever did, even if he started a bit below. Of the three, Valjean rises the highest, out of a combination of sheer luck and trickery.
ok, i haven't posted on this blog in ages, but here we go. i agree that she definitely died in the gutter, and didn't have all that far to fall back in. it was a very tenuous situation! that's part of the whole point of her story, how thin the breaking point is. ditto javert and valjean. if you think javert lived in anything but poverty even while licking the boot, well. to say nothing of valjean and his whole Deal (tm). they're three faces of the same problem! in this valvertine essay i will
but i have difficulty with the idea that she didn't make it out even a little. there's a bit in the brick where her neighbor marguerite has to teach fantine how to live off nothing, like making her petticoat into a coverlet and so forth -- which is to say, as a kid fantine knew how to live on nothing, but at some point in her paris life, she forgot, because she wasn't living on nothing. she had a job as a piecemaker, which didn't make her Not Poor but it did give her enough to like, you know. have a little left over to buy millet to feed birds at her windowsill, and spend the time it takes to care for her appearance (which when you have hair that falls to your knees is nothing to sneeze at). she could afford the kind of personal maintenance that would accent her natural beauty and catch a law student's eye. and even after tholomyes dumps her, even though she has to give cosette up, at the factory she is still making a living! not law-student-allowance living, but still! one of her lines at her arrest, that sticks with me a lot, is 'i used to have linens, so many linens.' you know? a fall hits harder if you make it off the ground first.
will never actually ''officially'' participate in nanowrimo because who's got the time. however, want to get back in the habit and therefore have made a little spreadsheet with graphs, and am actually writing again for the first time in months. numbers go up, brain goes wheeeee, story gets progress. feels good.
published the first new chapter of my ghost fantine fic in four years🎉
more ghosts whaaaaat
rolls up a year and a half late with starbucks and part one of the kaysanova getting-together fic series, in which nicky develops a conscience and absolutely no one gets together except to kill each other some more
forgot to put it up on tumblr, whoops. chapter one of part two of the series, lead-up to the battle of ascalon. in which the lads begin to pine for each other like idiots without yet being able to discern that the pining is mutual, and also there’s a bit of espionage, just for fun
