LINKDING

<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 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>“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>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>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>Canon feats Sister Simplice fixing things she can, and Fantine being alive.</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>“You'd better not be getting biohazards on my table.”</blockquote> ➤ more lunar base au

<blockquote>Anonymous asked: Hi! For the 5 times meme. Les Mis prison au...? (Prooobably not quite what you meant. This is the tale of how Bahorel assembles the Amis.)</blockquote> ➤ modern au where Bahorel keeps ending up in prison briefly and makes friends

<blockquote>Enjolras and Feuilly, on the moon as anywhere else, have certain preoccupations.</blockquote> ➤ lunar base au continues

<blockquote>Of martial arts both recreational and not, and of many kinds of roses.</blockquote> ➤ more lunar base au, in which Cosette learns la rose couverte!

<blockquote>Cosette lives in an asteroid with her Papa. The whole asteroid is theirs. She remembers, vaguely, when they first came there, that they were just living in one little dark cave with a rickety atmosphere plant, but every year they do something to make it better, and now she has gardens, and a domed balcony where she can see the sun, and a library, and oh! so much. They're mostly self-sufficient but every so often her papa has to take their little rock-hopper and go get the supplies they can't make themselves from Mars, and she's by herself for weeks.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cosette/Eponine, dragon AU</blockquote> ➤ in which Cosette is a human and Eponine a dragon

<blockquote>this is the AU where Valjean learned computers in prison, became one of the first silicon valley millionaires while still on parole, got sick and tired of all the media coverage about 'inspiring excon made good', sold his company to Yahoo and moved to a small town somewhere in America to raise his adopted granddaughter while her mother finished the fieldwork for a PhD, and he met Javert the local cop and promptly started turning his entire world upside-down. Enjoy.</blockquote> ➤ I particularly like the second chapter

<blockquote>In 1823, in the small, bare yard behind the inn at Montfermeil, there was a wolf on a very short chain. M. Thénardier maintained this wolf so that he could tell people it was his wolf-brother, from his days fighting with the armies of the Emperor; and tell how it had helped to carry a great general to safety amid the carnage of Waterloo.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It is good for a man to find his basheret. How long may he search for her?</blockquote> ➤ or: the Jewish soulmate au, omg, this is amazing

<blockquote>How can a being composed of calculations be so guileless? Favourite wonders. Fantine is a robot. Favourite isn't.</blockquote> ➤ omg I wish I could read a million words of this

<blockquote>So here is 2,000 words unpacking this old Tumblr post about e/R soulmark AUs, which still gets reblogged now and again ,and gets the best angry retags. Will there be more of this story ever? IDK does the world really need lots of depressed, cynical rambling about the classist/racist/colonialist assumptions that underlie “words on the wrist” scenarios and then everybody dies?</blockquote> ➤ aww yeah my kind of soulmate/soulmark fic ➤ also on ao3 at http://archiveofourown.org/works/3394883 where it is titled "J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste"

<blockquote>flytely asked: Eponine/Cosette & Pirate AU?</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night of June 5th, alternate take.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A chance encounter on the Mare Cogitum.</blockquote> ➤ the latest in the lunar base au

<blockquote>Cinaed: haha, jam asked for a merfolk/library Les Mis au Cinaed: maybe I should do one where Madeleine refuses to become mayor and becomes the town librarian instead (while running the factory), and Javert has to enlist his help because his squirrels are acting strangely and he’s gathered such a large collection of books </blockquote>

<blockquote>When Cosette attends Otakon 2014 and Valjean reluctantly accompanies her, the long pre-registration line Thursday night brings about an unexpected encounter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fantine is watching Cosette in the playground when someone she seems to know approaches her...</blockquote>

<blockquote>a daddy!Comebferre AU based on this drawing by SimplyIrenic. Since the barricades are, as tenlittlebullets once described it, Victor Hugo’s what-if-1832-was-1848 AU, we’re going to go with that. GUESS WHAT LOUIS-PHILIPPE YOUR REIGN ENDED AFTER ONLY TWO YEARS I’m sure this comes as a surprise to many 19th century historians. (Also I am not saying that Louis-Philippe’s reign kept us from having steampunk airships, but I am implying it.) </blockquote>

<blockquote>That night on the parapet, Valjean forces Javert to live. Some time later, Javert finds himself returning the favor.  "Do you think," Javert said slowly, in a tone that perhaps meant to mock but trembled with another emotion entirely, "that once you have saved a life, you must also save that man's soul?" "I know nothing of saving souls," Valjean said. "My soul was bought for God, not saved. But it is my belief that you are better than the fate to which you have consigned yourself."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Six weeks before the group stage of the World Cup, the French national team plays Patron-Minette in a charity friendly. It all goes downhill from there.</blockquote> ➤ wip through part 3 as of bookmarking

<blockquote>Epponina resents and envies her family's new slave girl. (A tiny snippet of Roman Gaul AU.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>November, 1943: Three years after the Germans marched into Paris, Grantaire is surviving the Occupation by drinking black market alcohol and trying to stay out of trouble, but his life is turned upside-down when he becomes entangled with a group of young Resistance members, including a laughing girl who jumps out of windows and a man whose blazing eyes convince him to do things he might not live to regret.</blockquote> ➤ wip through chapter 2 as of bookmarking