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she or they / adult / California

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Some Fics I Have Written

I decided that the time has come to have an easier way to find some of my stories. For now, this is it.

Les Miserables Fics

A note: With one single exception, all my Les Miserables stories are modern AUs and require zero knowledge of canon. I've included a few archetype notes below in case you're unfamiliar but intrigued.

ExR

Archetypes: Enjolras is a principled, charismatic leader; Grantaire (R for short) is the doubting lout who loves him.

Drive Me Home (2015, T, 12k)

Grantaire is a driver for hire. Enjolras is not great at taking a hint.

One Word (F/F AU, 2015, E, 10k)

Enjolras gets massages and falls in love with her masseuse.

Island Living and the rest of the Politics! AU (2016 - 2021, E, 75k)

In which I have a lot of feelings about US politics and express them through the ongoing antics of a political speechwriter and the disillusioned server he yells at in the coffeeshop.

Count ’Em (2017, E, 8k)

After being treated shittily by the guy he likes, Enjolras tries to not be shitty to the guy who really likes him.

Educational Videos (2019, E, 24k)

College AU in which Enjolras discovers pornography and finds himself drawn to one particular guy in the videos.

Meanwhile, A Glacier (2021, E, 71k)

The world is melting and everyone is the world's best climber.

E/R/C

Archetype note: Someone has to be the loyal and sensible brains of a group. Enter Combeferre.

Combeferre’s Tattoos (2016, E, 15k), Grantaire’s Tattoos (2018, E, 7k), and Enjolras's Tattoo (2023, E, 12k)

A three-man love story.

Cos/Ep

Archetype notes: Cosette is a cheery adopted orphan who's converted her acres of loss into a readiness to love; Éponine, raised to be a heartless criminal, is pretty sure there's nothing left in her worth loving.

Temporary Hold (2017, E, 22k)

College AU where Cosette decides maybe pretending to date will solve her focus problems. It does!

One (2018, M, 6k)

Cosette is cursed, but it's okay.

All and Everything and Enough (2021, T, 2k)

A small second-person story about how it is nice to belong.

Objectively Delightful (2022, T, 4k)

We're at the combination Climate Crisis and Global Pandemic. There are cabbages.

JVJ/J

L’Homme Armé (2017, M, 13k)

This is my only non-AU Les Miserables fic, and my only story about these fellows. Valjean saves Javert, and now they'll never escape each other. I had fun writing in Hugo's wordy style.

Simon Snow Fics

SnowBaz, etc.

Archetype notes: Simon is a proud and very magical orphan; Baz is a proud and posh vampire. Penny is smart as heck; Agatha is elegant. Because canon continued to develop after the writing of these fics, there are likely major divergences, but I think the stories below are good ones.

Watford without Watford (A Series) (2015, T, 38k)

My first fic, written after Fangirl; the Humdrum takes over Watford, and everyone has to flee!

This is Mr. Pitch (and the rest of the Teachers! works) (2016, E, 104k)

US teacher AU. There's magic and vampires and every teacher archetype, and, eventually, a lot of sex.

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

Climbers! updates today: Chapters 5 - 7 are up now! Stop on by.

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Posted Chapters 8 & 9 today! This portaledge is getting crowded. 

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Now up: Chapters 10 & 11. We are really getting somewhere. (Okay, literally we are staying in one tiny place. But shit is starting to happen! Watch out!)

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Chapters 12 & 13 went up today! (This is where some of the tags kick in.) 

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Okay, dang; I was trying to post the rest of this story today, but it’s just not quite there yet. Mayyyybe tonight if I really get my shit together–but it might be another couple of days. 

Deep regrets, folks.

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They’re up! It’s done! I cancel the regrets!

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Well, it’s happening, folks.

Venezuela becomes first nation in the Americas to lose all glaciers

Venezuela is the first country in the Americas to lose all of its glaciers.

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This is a thing I wrote eight years ago.

Since then, I have changed, and so have you, but the fights continue.

Some people have found helpful respite in this story (about being angry and wrung-out and exhausted by all the fucking wrongs of this world, and also about sex and love and the hope that keeps us thrashing up for air). If you think you might, too, please give it a try.

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

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Started crying in the shower about Kamala Harris.

More than half of the voters in this country said they’re cool with having a Black and South Asian woman first in line for the presidency. (A shitload of people who are in various ways denied the vote undoubtedly agree.)

Just. That’s fucking something. 

(Photo:  NOAH BERGER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

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Here to bump this post from 2020 (and this one too), and to offer some print-and-color Kamala Harris 2024 signs if you want them.

Harris 2024 Signs

KAMALA ☆ ☆ ☆ HARRIS for PRESIDENT 2024 ☆ KAMALA 2024 ☆ ☆ KAMALA 2024 ☆ ☆ KAMALA 2024 ☆ ☆ HARRIS 2024 ☆ ☆ HARRIS 2024 ☆ ☆ HARRIS 2024

(The spacing might be wonky on other computers, but you can make a copy and edit till it prints right for you!)

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

Climbers! updates today: Chapters 5 - 7 are up now! Stop on by.

[standalonefics]

Posted Chapters 8 & 9 today! This portaledge is getting crowded. 

[standalonefics]

Now up: Chapters 10 & 11. We are really getting somewhere. (Okay, literally we are staying in one tiny place. But shit is starting to happen! Watch out!)

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Chapters 12 & 13 went up today! (This is where some of the tags kick in.) 

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Okay, dang; I was trying to post the rest of this story today, but it’s just not quite there yet. Mayyyybe tonight if I really get my shit together–but it might be another couple of days. 

Deep regrets, folks.

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They’re up! It’s done! I cancel the regrets!

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Well, it's happening, folks.

Venezuela becomes first nation in the Americas to lose all glaciers

Venezuela is the first country in the Americas to lose all of its glaciers.

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good fan fiction has ruined me

Sometimes someone will tell me, "Hey, this published romance is great; you should read it!" And the truth is, it is usually fine, but never as good.

[clockheartedcrocodile]

I can’t really post it as a poll bc it’s more of an Essay Question, but I’m curious:

What was the first queer fictional character you can remember seeing or reading about? If you can’t remember the first, then just think back as far as you can. For me I think it was Captain Jack Harkness.

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all right, I finally did it!

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

[btaut]

Haardter Berg Schule, Februar 2023

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What the fuck about me, tumblr, made you tell me I would like this photo of what appears to be maybe student housing at some school somewhere in the world (that looks an awful lot like student housing at every school in the world I've every seen) that is, like, not an extremely popular or startlingly beautiful photo, just a nice everyday photo of a grimy modernish building that gets some good use, in utilitarian shades of gray and taupe but that also, the more I look at it, stirs inside of me a longing for knowledge and a sense that behind these quotidian exteriors, there lurk untold mysteries that are mine for the finding if I only dare to let the search consume me

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your enjolrai are perfect; would do many terrible things to see him again

This is a beautiful thing to say. Despite the recent writing drought, I hope that I will someday be able to grant you satisfaction (ideally, without any necessity for terrible things).

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Lance Reddick was a brilliant actor who could make any character believable. By all reports, he was also just a great human being. He didn't get enough funny roles--but when he did, he was hilarious. I am so sad that his time on Earth is over.

[mychildren]

Every midwit literary fiction novel from the past 5 years has been called something like The Little Things We Do To Ourselves or Back Then I Didn’t Think So Clearly or I Have Been Trying To Venmo You.

[judygemstone]

[codenamecesare]

Sorry You Got Bit :(

[liebelesbe]

[ID: Tags reading: "#new game your book title is the last text you sent #Okay Let's Do A Quick Drink at 7:30".]

[angelique-diabolique]

Lock girls up when home, please

[hobbular]

There Is No Week 8

[stealth-science]

I know I hate him I just haven’t figured out if it’s misogyny or assholery.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'll come home once everyone gets shot

[dduane]

do?

!

[roach-works]

look at this elephant

[knitbelove]

Yeah if you could send it again that would be helpful

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It was a secret

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That looking-over-your-shoulder feeling when out of nowhere a bunch of people like a story you wrote five years ago.

[supergraphicultramodernboy]

ok i just read something i cannot believe is breakfast for dinner an american thing

im american and i do brinner

im american and i have not had brinner but i know people who do

im american and wtf

im not american and i do brinner

im not american and i dont do brinner but i know people who do

im not american and wtf

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Voting ended onMar 5, 2023

if you feel so inclined, put in the tags what you voted, where youre from, and if you refer to it as “brinner” (as opposed to “breakfast for dinner”)

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There is nothing more precious to me as a writer than the comments left on AO3. Whenever I get that email notification, I wonder what kind of comment was left. To have a little fun, I'm going to sort the typical comments into a few different categories and share my reactions to them as a writer.

If you feel I missed a comment type, please let me know. I'm curious to learn what other classifications you think exist (positive comment types only please - let's not make this negative). Also, if you wanted to tag yourself, I'd love you know what type of commenter you think you are.

The Polite Conversationalist - Your comment confirms that you read and enjoyed the fic or chapter. You offer praise for the author's efforts and encouragement for them to continue. - If this is you, please know that I'm imagining us holding a book club together. I brought us snacks.

The All Caps Reaction - You left the most unhinged comment. - You were screaming as you read it? I was screaming as I wrote it. Let's be friends.

The How Dare You - The angst is real. And painful. And I'm sorry but the story needed it. - This is a compliment of the highest order and I'm so glad you left it.

The Conspiracy Theorist - You are so invested that you are trying to figure out what comes next. - I'm so excited to read your ideas. They let me know the story tracks for you. And I'm either smiling because you guessed right and I'm excited for you to read what comes next, or I'm grinning because I know the plot twist is going to blow your mind.

The Catch-Up - You haven't commented in a while and are letting me know you are catching up. - I'm so glad you are back! I missed you. I know life gets busy and it means a lot to me that you took the time to read my story.

The Giggle - You laughed at my jokes and let me know. - Did we just become best friends? I'm already making you a bracelet.

The Callout - You found my favorite line in the chapter or fic. - I love you so much. You just made my day, my week, my month. Seriously, all the love for the reader. xoxo

[celesticidal]

The Repeat Customer - could also be any of the above, but every fic, every chapter, there they are with something kind to say and a wish to see you again next week/month/whenever. The pfp/username combo you could pick out of a sea of people in an instant.

The Happy Insomniac - "I just wanted to let you know that it's 4 am and I stayed up all night bingeing your work" say no more fam, me and my keyboard are yours for life now

[marypsue]

The Book Report - You identified a major theme/motif/metaphor/all of the above that I was trying to draw out, and even found some clever use of language/character/symbolism that even I didn’t realise was in there - I am proposing marriage on the spot.

[liyazaki]

@dancinbutterfly you absolutely are The Book Report over any/all of my artsier VP sets & I LOVE YOU for it.

[dancinbutterfly]

everyone who has commented on Fuckboi Dream with Book Reports, I fucking see you. I fucking love you. Your Book Reports have produced idk 2 chapters in a week that are in progress or at beta I shit you not *looks pointedly at @reallyintoscience and a few other people who are getting gold stars from me but whose Tumblr names I dont fucking know including of course @avelera and @delta-pavonis what the actual fuck

also @eliazine your book reports are the reason I still give a single shit about Yakuza Vegas.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Very good so far. What a delightful voice.

[runawaymarbles]

...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust not to let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexer injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

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Ah fuck, the Climbers are going to have thoughts about this.