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[oilan]

@spicehobbit replied to your post “Adaptations will do whatever they want and it doesn’t matter, but my...”

Courfeyracian stuff? Are you taking up cosplay?

Nnnnooo, not really? I would LOVE to do a Courfeyrac cosplay some day, but I mostly want a costume for nerdiness’ sake, and because I own zero costumes for Halloween or parties or anything, and that is just sad!

[pilferingapples]

@spicehobbit replied to your link: Gävlebocken (@Gavlebocken) | Twitter

Swedish person here! :-) Wanna make a bet? How long will it survive until someone finds the matches? ;-) After all, it´s kinda tradition… well not really, but that´s what usually happens…

I LOVE THE ETERNAL PHOENIX YULE GOAT SO MUCH a true expression of the seasonal Mood, in so many ways

[kcrabb88]

For the book meme: 11,19, 27 and 28 :-)

11. The worst book hangover you’ve ever had?

Ahh hmm. Probably a tie between Harry Potter and Les Mis? After I finished the last HP book someone in my family wanted to borrow it and I eventually just bought them their own copy because I couldn’t stand how slow they were going and wanted to read it again. 

I finished Les Mis the summer after I graduated with my masters, and it was sort of a weird time in my life and it was a Friday afternoon after work and I just laid in my bed clutching the book feeling like my entire life was changed and my cat (who was a kitten at the time) was like R U OKAY MOM. And now I’m…well you all know I obsessed I still am with Les Mis so. The NEVER ENDING book hangover, really. Literally changed the landscape of my life like nothing else. 

19. The book with a twist that felt like a blow to the chest. Tell me about it. (But warn for spoilers if necessary!)

Answered! :D 

27. The book you’re embarrassed to admit you’ve read

…I went through an…unfortunate Nicholas Sparks phase in college. None of my friends in college were as nerdy as I was (like nerdy but not fandom nerdy) and I was like hmm well this is what Girls Read right? I should read these? I got rid of most of them a few years ago ahem. I mean, no harm! I don’t mind if people like them I just. I realized they are not actually what I like to read. 

28.  The one where the fanfic was better than the original (and the relevant AO3 links, pls)

I’d have to go digging for the links, but one that comes to mind is Phantom of the Opera? Like the original book is good! I do like it. But I read it because of the musical for backstory, and I have definitely read some more emotionally powerful fic in that fandom. Gaston Leroux was writing a mystery novel and didn’t expect me to fall in love with Raoul and Christine, so I think I love the story for reasons other than intended. I mean the same is possibly true of the musical, ALW wants me to want to marry Erik and I HELLA DON’T so. But man. Once I was going on a road trip and I stayed up all night reading this Phantom fic called “Puzzle Pieces” and I literally slept for an hour maybe and then once we got to the location I stayed up late again reading and my friends were like Katie omg what is the matter with you??? It was like 80 chapters? One of the best things I’ve ever read, fic or otherwise. And R/C focused CAN YOU IMAGINE. 

[kcrabb88]

spicehobbit said: Isn´t Barricade Day supposed to be about “sad”? ;-)

Ha, it IS, but this idea my top my own threshold 

pilferingapples said: BREAK OUR HEARTS

Hahaha well if you say so, Pilf! 

bobcatmoran said: I mean, it IS barricade day…

It is INDEED. I feel encouraged. What a strange fandom we are. 

[kcrabb88]

(flame) Enjolras!

This is not so much unpopular as it is historically inaccurate, so anyone who likes accuracy in their canon era Enjolras will probably cringe at me, but I literally cannot picture Enjolras in my head without long hair that he can tie back. A lot of people DO draw him like this, but I know it’s not correct to canon-era standards. I of course enjoy all drawings of Enjolras, but when I’m writing him he has long hair that’s tied back in my head, that’s just how I inevitably picture him even though I know that’s not right in the 1830s. 

I’LL GO TO MY GRAVE WITH IT I just can’t help it. 

[oilan]

@spicehobbit replied to your post: “So uh… Does anyone have any Courfeyrac-centric canon era fic recs? (Or...”:

What about "Acquaintance with responsibility" (give or take a typo or two) on ffnet?

I’ll have to check it out! Characters having kids isn’t really my thing but beggars can’t be choosers I guess. ;)

[pilferingapples]

@spicehobbit reblogged your post:@spicehobbit replied to your post: ...

Good for smacking things with, eh?! Make it two, then! Let´s go smack some serious 2016 ass!*more hugs*

HERE TO HUG AND FIGHT!<3<3

[darthfar]

spicehobbit reblogged your photo and added:

Oh dear, so many disasters waiting to happen… :-)

Bahahaha, I concur. Nothing good could possibly come of having that many candles around in a room that isn't meant to hold a crowd that includes those people.

pilferingapples reblogged your photo and added:

ahaha,  Far everything about this room is amazing.  And who let Grantaire have an accordion? Oh noooo!

(also yes, I see what you’re doing with that composition, and it’s a decided improvement over the original XD)

pilferingapples replied to your photo “Parisians were not, as a rule, given to celebrating Halloween at the...”

THAT POOR CAT. THE SKULLS. BAHOREL IN THAT OUTFIT (yes I rememberXD). And ahahaha the Trois Gloreuses flag painting on the fan! All your details are really amazing!)

I'm not sure if it's "who let Grantaire have an accordion" or "why did Jehan have an accordion in his room, and where did he get it in the first place?" But y'know, it could just as well be Bahorel's... And ha, I'm pleased you spotted the Léon Cogniet copy! I felt that Jehan had to have a painted fan in *his* apartment too.

At least we get to see exactly what Jehan did with the skulls he pilfered from Combeferre. ;)

edwarddespard reblogged your photo and added:

I am SO well chuffed to see Halloween Amis make another appearance…Enjolras trying to work in the middle of this and getting distracted, Combeferre and Feuilly having a learned discussion….carved rutabagah Jack-O’-Lanterns….all the Harvest/Samhain accoutrements and the detailsof the room….and Jehan Prouvaire, Master of Ceremonies! Each character clearly themselves :)

Cheers! The lanterns are actually made of turnip, in homage to the excellent fic @bobcatmoran gifted me last year, Jacques Au Lanterne, as well as their errr, industrious mutilation (and subsequent charring) of an actual turnip. But your mention of rutabagas has reminded me of your own carved root vegetable from several years past -- and I'm fairly certain I remember you drawing Jehan with a rutabaga as well?? I need to go rootle in your art thread.

(I suspect that the book Combeferre and Feuilly are discussing is George, First Baron Lyttelton's Communication With The Other Side...)

Speaking of which... "Industrious turnip mutilation" should be an official tag for anybody drawing carved turnips in a Les Mis picture. ROFL.