#notfromcold

[focsle]

Whenever I see a list of the duties our bosun performs on my ship I immediately think of your cat and imagine her doing them. "Bosun will communicate with the wheelhouse" Aaw, yes, she will meow at them over the radio.

Everytime Bosun is a little taskmaster and bossing me around during the day I'm like...as is your right, I guess.

[veliseraptor]

✍I feel like I've enjoyed writing of yours for fandoms I'm not even in (and then forgotten to comment because I'm bad at commenting). So I'll just be general and say I hope you write more whump!

adskljfaskdjf this is so incredibly flattering, I'm always sort of...astounded when people tell me they've enjoyed my work for things where they're not in the fandom...damn

anyway no worries about the commenting thing, I am also real bad at comments so I really cannot throw stones on that thing even if I was inclined to, which I'm not.

as far as writing whump...yeah, you betcha

[sugarbabywenkexing]

For the ask meme: 13

Lymond, Will Scott, Christian Stewart, Kate, Jerott.

13. Rewatch my favourite movie/show with

Kate, my beloved. We would watch things and eat slices of pie and make acerbic comments and adopt poor little meow meows. The dream.

Lymond would be very fun for something with a lot of literary allusions, or something very plotty with lots of twists and turns that I've seen but he hasn't. I'd like to see how he guesses what's going to happen next.

I would really like to watch some bromance danmei adaptations with Jerott. It would be fascinating to observe.

Christian, also my beloved. I think we'd get along well and have a lot of fun. May be more enjoyable to listen to a podcast/radio show/audiobook though so we both have the same experience?

For some reason I feel like me and Will would have very different tastes in TV. I think whoever didn't pick what we were watching would be complaining, and that'd make things less fun for the other person.

[pilferingapples]

1 for the fandom ask meme! :D

if you could hit any character without repercussions, who would it be?

can I hit Woodes Rogers with like. A Boat. 

[of-scythia]

To the HERE I AM GOOD LUCK anon: I am in a mood today and work is being frustrating but I've decided that everyone is just going to have to deal with me. HERE I AM GOOD LUCK. Thank you, anon, for improving my morale if not my mood.

as a life motto it really kicks ass!!!! 

[umeed-e-sehr]

JVJ or Enjolras for the ask meme!

This is a difficult question since when I first read the abridged version of Les Mis many years ago, I loved Valjean's story a lot. I still do. I love how he is allowed to be angry at society and violence inherent in the system yet still tries his hardest to do the right thing to his mind. I do get frustrated with the way he keeps things from Cosette about his life but Hugo is also very good at writing him suffering from trauma. 

And he finds love and meaning through Cosette and I adore how they become devoted with Valjean taking on the role of both father and mother.

He does have his short comings but also some genuinely funny moments with Valjean hiding wigs in his pockets but also sweet moments with him as a gardener advising about the use of nettles and his moments with Fauchelevant as convent husbands.

But much as I love Valjean, I think my fandom heart belongs with Enjolras. The first time I read the descriptions of the amis and how good Enjolras was and how much he was thinking fondly about his friends made me fall in love with him and his friends and here we are a couple of years down the line, I still cry over these fictional characters who are like my friends.

It also helps that he is endowed with the narrative symbolism in many ways.

He is a priest of the revolution which ties him back to Myriel and to the ideals of love and the place of revolution being hallowed grounds but he's also a Romantic ideal the way he possesses androgynous qualities.

He also reminds me of Fantine with her struggle to keep fighting and be reunited with Cosette whereas Enjolras and the others are fighting for a Republic. I like the singleminded focus he has.

Despite being a character with a lot of symbolism, I love that he argues with a kid who makes fun of him, makes terrible puns, his friends tease him on several occassions and he obviously listens to his friends, preferring to stay quiet unless he is motivated to speak. He is also capable of completing and correcting himself through his friends' influence.

His barricade speech is one of my favourite passages in the book amd he is such a dork with his random segue into 'goats of darkness.'

He also rejects the great man narrative. I love his focus and him working towards the Republic with everyone else and assigning/sharing leadership whenever possible. I would gladly follow him amd fight under him since he proves himself to be a really good strategist and fighter. I have a lot more emotions (I have been listening to barricade day playlists on repeat) and a lot more I can say about Enjolras but this is already long.

[corelliaxdreaming]

T for the ask meme :)

Tycho Celchu is still one of the very best boys!

Traced, because I wanted to draw him but just could not get it to work.

[kcrabb88]

notfromcold replied to your post “An older guy in my fencing class: So your favorite book is Les Mis,...”

Gods deliver me from this specific species of fencer.

Oh gosh are there more people like him in the fencing world??? I wanted to be like “’name me an 18th or 19th century rebellion that wasn’t violent, I’ll wait.” ALSO IDK he’s here learning a sport that was based on you know, Actual Swordfighting but sure.