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[aporeticelenchus]

18, 20?

18. characters you want to wrap in a blanket and tell them they’re going to be okay?

So many characters from the books I've been reading lately! But for shared fandom, I would like to do this to Fantine and then also make it true, please.

20. name a song that reminds you heavily of a specific fandom or character.

I know I have been on the record about this before, but every single time that A British Tar from HMS Pinafore come on my shuffle I think of Enjolras and cackle. Yes, sure, the setting is all wrong, but the blend of intense 19th century ~manly~ earnestness mixed with prose that sounds straight out of a Victorian erotic novel is so right. I mean,

His nose should pant and his lip should curl, His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl, His bosom should heave and his heart should glow, And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow.

Tell me that doesn't sound like something out of one of Hugo's rough draft Enjolras-centric text walls (or possibly from the NC-17 fanfic sequel)!

[kcrabb88]

@nelayn replied to your text post: I wish I can be as awesome as you by the time I'm 30 (which is getting closer and closer by the minute, but I have hope)

Aw, you are so sweet! Thank you. You are and will be awesome!! I feel sure of it :D

@bootsssss replied to your text post: Nah, being 30 has definitely been better than my 20s for me, for all the reasons you cited. I don't know what all the horror is about, most of the people I know who have recently turned 30 feel positively about it tbh.

Yeah my late twenties sliding into 30 have been some of the best years of my life! The weird thing too, is that most of my friends locally are 30+ and that is actually what helped me not have weirdness about turning 30, so they’re not weird, but like, some friends I’ve known longer, or like, older people or coworkers are the ones making the jokes I don’t like and I’m like stoppp I’m HAPPY being 30, thanks. 

[kcrabb88]

@aflamethatneverdies replied to your text post: He's not at all personally ambitious and that's what I've always thought of as the main quality of Slytherins. He doesn't even want leadership. He's just very focused on the overall outcome. Also he's very brave, has a strong concept of justice and would do anything for his friends, even making, what might have turned out to be, a bad judgement call on the barricades, to save Prouvaire. He's very Gryffindor in my books. :D

All good points! :D I definitely have always felt he was a Gryffindor too! But fandom has kind of reduced that house to like, loud, boisterous but nice bros who rush into fights? I get the attention tends to move from Gryffindor in fandom because we see a lot of them in canon, but I still take issue with the way fandom talks about Gryffindors. 

@bootsssss replied to your text post: Yeah, I think he's not utilitarian enough to be a Slytherin, if that makes sense? He's very thoughtful about the means he's willing to use to achieve his goals.

Yes, I agree! And I think that’s the thing, is the means. He’s very aware of how the revolutionaries are perceived, knows they are held to a higher standard than the people they’re fighting against. And I guess people could offer Le Cabuc as an argument for him being a Slytherin, which I’d get, but also there’s a Gryffindor argument there because he found the courage to take that terrible burden on himself? Plus then there’s the artillery sergeant?