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I very rarely directly link any of my fics on here, but I just kicked ~6-months off writer’s block with a Les Mis ExR fic and the comments have been so nice that I’m saying ‘Fuck it, I’m proud, take a look’ and posting it here.

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Let Me Down Easy

Pairing: Enjolras & Grantaire

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Grantaire is the last person Enjolras wants to see when trying to evade the police, but he proves himself reliable in his own way. Grantaire continues to surprise him, and Enjolras quickly becomes enamored.

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I am always open to chatting if anyone wants to reach out to me about it here.

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writing these are addictive

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[Insert appropriate greeting] Barricade Day to you all. Here’s a little, er, early barricade cheer for our fandom holiday. ;) 

Hey, look! It’s a comic about someone who lived! For a change! That’s good, isn’t it? ……. ;) Anyway, this exists because of something @pilferingapples​ once wrote about how it was upsetting her that Marius was stuck in recovery for so long, by the time he was back up and running, “everyone else is long buried […] (bodies, June heat, etc) […] and after six months, surely everyone’s families/friends/etc would have been through their houses and cleaned up and cleared out personal belongings; landlords aren’t going to keep a tenant’s room as  memorial. […] The Amis aren’t just dead, from Marius’ POV; they’ve been erased.” And such a soulful, poignant lament simply begs to be illustrated, does it not? [Pilferingapples, I don’t know whether to use “credit” or “blame” in attributing this to you… ;) Take your pick!]

[Mind you, this is still probably a nicer alternative to what I’d originally had planned, before I changed my mind a little over two weeks ago… Which is not to say that it’ll never see the light of day either…]

Also - gasp! - Cosette openly displaying affection in public? The scandal! You will forgive me my artistic licence - I’d have drawn them in the privacy of their own garden, only it wouldn’t been as dramatic as having the Luxembourg for a backdrop. (And on that note, I couldn’t find enough information on what the gardens looked like back in the day - save that the statues came later -, so you will please pretend with me that it’s well, whatever I drew it to be, LOL).

Technical note: In case you were wondering about the weird size of page 3, it’s that way because, if it had been printed out, the page would’ve been rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise.

[Yup, drew my fingers half off. Again. What was it you said again, Pilf? “You are an Icarus flying too close to the sun on wings of ambition and highly questionable time management XD”… Er. Yeah. At least I get a little credit for managing to finish it by 5th June this year? Heheh.] —————————————————-

And! Shall we make this a little more fun? The first person to send me an Ask note naming the character I’ve managed to kill off the most times gets a drawing of their choice. ;)

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ONE DAY MORE!

Barricade Day in Real Time: June 4, Evening

In the Faubourg Saint Antoine, republican rhetoric is flowing freely and residents are arming themselves in preparation for Lamarque's funeral tomorrow morning.

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Les Misérables AU where Marius immediately breaks down after Valjean’s confession and tells Cosette her dad is a thief and she responds with “I know lmao??” because Valjean has been disappearing for weeks at a time and coming back with stacks of cash throughout her whole adolescence and it wasn’t hard to put two and two together. She has in fact been vastly overestimating his crimes and is almost disappointed to find out it was one loaf of bread almost forty years ago

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did i do it? did i do the meme right?

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I’m still into TPODG , Les Mis, and other classic literature, but my hyperfixation is changing, so…

If you’re into Greek mythology, especially if you’re also into Epic the musical, you should check out my sideblog @kindnessoftheruthlessone (that name is in honour of how often I’ve had the best time swimming in the sea)

I’m still going to be posting Dasil and Enjoltaire on here, but I’ll be more active on my sideblog.

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where does dorian gray buy his clothes?

at forever 21

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“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

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Cats getting caught doing crimes

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She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch

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Imagine that you marry the love of your life, and then a year later you find out that your dad, the kindest person you know, whom you were extremely close to, had always secretly hated him and considerd him an idiot. And you had no idea.

And now he got some old cop who makes fun of your husband all the time. I would bite.

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you guys will never guess who i’m drawing (hint it’s éponine)

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Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.

But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.

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im watching planet earth and theres this one small scene where the most round seal ever swims past and id just like to thank david attenborough for bringing us this good good orb seal

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it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like

WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???

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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.