LINKDING

<blockquote>Something had happened which Cosette did not immediately understand—but she thought, obscurely, that it must have something to do with fighting.</blockquote> ➤ a truly impressive arm joe fic integrating the stuff from the fighting game beautifully into worldbuilding in the novel

<blockquote>Her name was Ursule Javert, and she lived with the police inspector who was not her father. Once, she had been called Cosette, but that was in a time she tried not to remember.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three times Mabeuf didn’t befriend Valjean and one time he did, I guess??</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shortly after leaving the Convent of Petit-Picpus, Cosette encounters a group of children.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three girls that Cosette Fauchelevent never fell in love with, in the convent, in another universe, and in a carriage.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five times Marius Pontmercy failed to seize the opportunity, and one time opportunity seized him.</blockquote> ➤ Amazing, A+ Pontmercying

<blockquote>In a timeline where things go a little differently, Fantine, Javert and Valjean team up to recover Cosette from the Thenardiers, in an eyebrow-raising adventure that will help them all learn a little something about redemption, compassion, and judgey expressions. (based mostly on the 2019 BBC miniseries book tie-in cover)</blockquote>

<blockquote>A survivor of the barricade of the rue de la Chanvrerie, saved by a man who saves others.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Magnon wants a better life. It does not come about the way she expects.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Azelma looks forward to a pampered life in America, and resorts to fantasies as an escape from her life of abuse and neglect--but she finds that her father's plan to get rich through the slave-trade has implications she didn't consider.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The story of Fantine's bird.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Javert is assigned to discover a blackmailer within a public-house that caters to men who prefer other men, Valjean is unexpectedly drawn into the case. Together they must stop the blackmailer before any lives can be ruined...including their own.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He's sitting in a car with all of his belongings in the back seat and his hands wrapped around the steering wheel, admitting to himself that a stupid, dizzy firework of a one-night-stand with a man he'd barely known is one of the only bright memories he has right now. [In which Enjolras and Grantaire make some music, make some terrible decisions, and make a habit out of doing everything in the wrong order.]</blockquote> ➤ the grantaire-pov remix of The People Sing by littledust

<blockquote>Cosette, an aspiring musician, is certain she's locked into her terrible recording contract forever and the public will never get to hear her music. Then a mysterious DJ named Enjolras remixes one of her original demos. She follows his digital trail to a club called the ABC, where she's offered the chance to join the music revolution. What ensues includes romance, past lives revealed, the making of an album, and a protest concert.</blockquote> ➤ inspired by the DJenjolras twitter originally

<blockquote>Cosette begins to learn about her mother's past. Post-canon. (Sequel to Sub Rosa)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cosette gets drafted in the first round to the Washington Capitals. Eponine gets drafted in the fourth to the Pittsburgh Penguins and she can do this, she can totally do this.</blockquote> ➤ oh no this is so GOOD

<blockquote>Théodule's evening of fun turns out to be more complicated than expected.</blockquote> ➤ an unusual ship, plausibly and entertainingly done

<blockquote>“okay,” i say to myself like an evil person. “what if like, Fantine was happy, but there was still angst.” and thus this was born, don’t look at me please. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Marguerite draws Fantine out of her apartment for a day.</blockquote> ➤ oh noooo it's sad BECAUSE it's so briefly lovely and happy but the reader knows what's coming :( but also I'm just so delighted there's actually fic about Marguerite

<blockquote>Something would have to go very, very wrong for Courfeyrac to be in line for the family title-- and it does. Courfeyrac wisely uses his newfound privilege to punch Lafayette in the face.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Men who want to dress as women and women who want to dress as men know the person to ask is a seamstress called Musichetta. This unusual trade brings Musichetta in contact with Manon Lesgle and Anne Joly, two young women who wish to live as gentlemen in order to pursue their educations. But it's 1823: the King is dying, France is changing, and there is more to learn about the world and about themselves than either expected. Gender-swapped Joly and Lesgle AU. Written for the Les Mis Big Bang 2016.</blockquote> ➤ canon-era crossdressing lesbian poly! WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>A high-pitched shriek pulled Feuilly from his sleep.</blockquote> ➤ from the prompt: "Hot, steamy action very late at night, and loud enough to wake other people" and wilfully misinterpreted

<blockquote>A reinterpretation of Hugo's early declaration that the printing press had killed the cathedral, featuring printer! Enjolras.</blockquote> ➤ thoroughly enjoyable fic based on that meta discussion about how Enjolras doesn't actually necessarily have to be a student, based on what the brick says. I loved all the printshop stuff, but the Hugo parts kinda come out of nowhere

<blockquote>Being an account, in pastiche style, of a boy whose story may or may not be the embodiment of the hero’s journey, and who therefore encounters a call to adventure, a wise advisor, a mystical weapon, a road of trials, a rogue, a princess, and a villain (in that order); and who, over the course of fighting an evil empire, finds himself attaining his goals, both symbolic and literal. In space.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY SHIT THIS FIC. Apparently the author intends to write the entirety of the original trilogy of star wars in this style but even if they never get around to the rest of it I can die happy because as it is this is 17k words about Ben Kenobi and the history of Tatooine in the style of the digression about the Bishop that starts Les Mis and IT'S SO GOOD.

<blockquote>Based on some sketches by SimplyIrenic of Enjolras as a female Resistance leader. After being shot down over Calais in the Battle for Britain, Polish pilot Feuilly is rescued by a Resistance cell lead by Enjolras, a modern day Joan of Arc.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five encounters across the years.</blockquote> ➤ author's note: <blockquote>For melannen, whom I blame entirely for the realization that Enjolras is completely Methos's type, even though I've long ago lost the documentation of this. </blockquote> ➤ TRUTH.

<blockquote>Canon feats Sister Simplice fixing things she can, and Fantine being alive.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Valjean/Favourite IN ENGLAND</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bahorel meets Fantine in 1816 and is conscious of two things: how much better it would be if Fantine was his mistress, and how much Tholomyès needs to be punched. Things change dramatically as a result.</blockquote> ➤ YES PLEASE. ➤ wip through part 2 as of last check

<blockquote>This was the moment of his triumph. As sweet as these sinful pastries might taste, Javert was not here to indulge sordid desires. He was the law. And the law said that Unlicensed Living Pastry Prostitution was an illegal act, and to be strictly punished. A fusion with Chuck Tingle's "Glazed By The Gay Living Donuts".</blockquote> ➤ It was only a matter of time before fandom wrote fic of Chuck Tingle's oeuvre!