#(Aka Poisson d’avril)

[mylove-thresher]

at the april. where the fools at.

[prongsiess]

What’s this? More incorrect marauders quotes as stuff my friends have said??

Peter, sighing and looking wistfully into the distance: I haven’t seen them since 1910

Regulus: I will not get bossed around by a FUCKING SNAKE (I hc that the skittles had a pet snake called Reginald) that’s CONSTIPATED half the time

Lily: James and Sirius are the reasons I don’t want to go into teaching

James: I’ve just glammed up ADHD *flicks non-existent shoulder length hair over his shoulder*

Mary,gesturing dramatically towards remus: remus could be fucking a fucking trash bag on the side of the street and still pull!

Evan at a slytherin party: time to go bartender on these bitches

Remus: chocy milk make pain go away

Mary glaring at peter after he stole her last cookie: the loathing I’m developing for a certain individual *side eyes pete*

Remus before he came out: I’m not gay but I’m gay for Monty

Marlene: the metaverse, Minnie, the future!

James about Marlene after Minnie told them to stop wrestling in class: I would say there’s no love but… no *glares* there’s no love

Dorcas, to Reg, Evan and Pandora: I want to marry your cousin (talking about Andy)

James pulling 6 plates infront of him after quidditch practice: I’m gonna munch this like a hippogriff

Peter: you know I don’t give A FUCK ‘cause i’m a RAT

Regulus, mocking Sirius who’s thirsting over Remus: *on his knees pleading* OUI PAPA OUI PAPA ( yes daddy yes daddy in french)

Barty to Pandora during an argument about Reginald (the skittles’ pet snake): wait until I take away your rights to vote!

Barty: I LOVE WOMEN! LET’S HERE IT FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE!!

Mary to James: go get yourself checked your weird-ass macaroni man

James: if I had my fly swatter you’d be dead by now

Remus, in a prefects meeting: i’m telling you, harassment is the best technique *gets hit over the head by lily*

Marlene at a party, drunk and wrestling with James: i don’t like that my wrists fit into your hand, this is why I like women

Lily, walking around with a blanket around herself, sleep-deprived as fuck after pulling an all-nighter: my blanket is more comfortable than looking presentable, rem

Regulus, trying to find the english word for april fools: april first! You know, the fish day! (April fools is called “poisson d’avril” aka fish day in french… i know it’s a dumb name, I don’t make the rules)

Regulus: it’s weird crying but not wanting to kill myself

Lily dumping the marauders at Minnie’s doorstep after finding them mid-prank: tag, your it, have fun!

(For some of these, I changed the wording to fit the wizarding world better and translated a few of them from french but the essence of the quote stays the same)

[tofuart]

Lithuanian in the Mail

No Easter eggs in the mail, but Mindaugas Žuromskas assembles old supermarket receipts to make collages. If I could read Lithuanian, I might be able to figure out the price of eggs in Vilnius.  The fish, or are they Poisson d’avril, come from France.  More Lithuanian including a streetcar ticket in a collage from Peter Müller in Germany, also some nice local work that did not travel so far to reach me.  The mail shown here includes:

Victoria Gray – Nevada

Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California

Peter Müller – Germany

Artist in Seine (aka Dean Marks) – France

Rani Goel – California

Mindaugas Žuromskas – Lithuania

[shellcollector]

A year and a month in fandom

I asked @vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo if they minded me copying their New Year’s tradition, to make my own list of what I’ve produced in the last year. They said to totally go for it, so I have. There will be fewer useful maps here and more silliness in general, but all the same, it’s nice having the things you did laid out like that. I’m adding the last month of 2015 because -- well, I only finished reading the book for the first time ever in October, and so these were almost my first real forays. Also, I’m posting this on the 9th of January because what is time anyway.

December 2015

Why I find Les Misérables heartening, (as someone who cares about politics but worries I am Not The Ideal Person to Do Things)

The Lesbian Communist Cosette fic you never knew you wanted

January

Marius’ Guide to the Friends of the ABC - this comic grew out of a few offhand comments in the readalong group, as many of my Products tend to. If I had to do it again I would do better and more accurate jokes, and in an ideal world better pictures, but it made a few people laugh at the time.

Les Mis Themed Birthday Party 

The Saddest Sorting [also on AO3]

February

Sad Bini Comic, from a poem by John Frederick Nims (warning: sad)

Is Grantaire The Character You Actually Wanted To Be Writing About, a flowchart

Joly and Courfeyrac, patching up a wound [also on AO3]

March

Bahorel and Enjolras, reading a book together (aka the Hegel-bashing fic) [also on AO3]

Circles of Sad Bini Hell, probably the best meta I will ever write, I should just pack up my bags and go home now

April

Some poor soul got me for Poisson d’Avril and in response to their obviously-intended-to-be-jolly prompt I wrote a sad barricade survival fic. (NB: this was the point of the exchange... kinda)

Battling Linkrot in the Dept of Grantaire Studies post

May 

Fic for vapaus’ Jehan and Bahorel Are Literal Skeletons AU [also on AO3]

June

The Artisan, which I wrote for the canon era fic exchange

Pictures for Unravel, a Big Bang collab with the amazing @takethewatch​

Cats AU comic

Enjoliver ficlet for rarepairs week

July

I went to Paris to meet up with some random weirdos I met on the internet and didn’t even die. (although there was some Weeping, mostly history-related, some boardgame-related, some farewell-related. Why does geography: an ongoing complaint.)

August

Cuddling in a blanket fort, Joly and Bossuet

Cuddling in a blanket fort, Jehan and Joly

September

A translation of the prospectus of “L’Artisan, un journal de la classe ouvrière”, from 1830

October

Éponine illustration for the Les Amis 2017 Calendar

Weird Combeferre watercolour

November

Bonds of Friendship, chapter one of a thing about early Ami meetings, a late submission for the A Force d’Amitié fanfest 

December

The Morning Star, The Evening Star - Éponine is a ghost haunting Paris, Cosette keeps returning to Paris, 136 years of angst ensues

January is going to be Awesome for a number of reasons! I have some Guests coming and I have a craft project I have been keeping under wraps for Reasons, and Watch This Space is all I’m saying.