LINKDING

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

<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>Fauchelevent chats with Cosette and Valjean.</blockquote>

➤ adorable friendship hijinks

<blockquote>Bossuet, having a mistress, soon discovers that he also has a friend.</blockquote> ➤ I LOVE BOSSUET SO MUCH

<blockquote>I should note that, although the meme says that ‘malapert’ means “clever in manners of speech,” the dictionary definition (and the one I’m used to) means not only ‘clever’ but clever in a particular way that’s smart-alecky and sassy, with a connotation of insubordination. Like, in The Last Battle, when Tirian tells Jill that she’s the ‘bravest and most wood-wise’ of all his subjects but also the most ‘malapert and disobedient.’ I mention this because I’m using the definition that involves sass, since, well, Courfeyrac. This is shippy, FYI.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“What makes you like a person?” Jehan asked one evening.   They were at one of Jehan’s favorite shabby artistic cafés, and there had been nothing in their prior conversation to lead to this topic. “A willingness to defy the stultifying convention that one should only raise a subject when it is pertinent,” Bahorel said. Jehan took a moment to understand him, and then blushed rather charmingly, his dark face suffused with violet. “I…oh, curse you, Bahorel, you know what I mean, don’t tease me. I was asking you in earnest.” Bahorel grinned. “A person may tease, and yet be in earnest.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>“He is so serious,” Joly said, making a face, as if he were diagnosing Courfeyrac’s new friend with a life-threatening ailment.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Combeferre sighed, and Feuilly smiled politely, but Enjolras remained impassive. This annoyed Courfeyrac. To goad Enjolras, with a well-placed pun, into a display of temper, was always a pleasure; to win a smile from him was a small but thrilling conquest, a prize that Courfeyrac could quietly clutch to his heart and gloat over for weeks afterwards. But to be ignored! That was an insult of the most insufferable variety, and Courfeyrac resolved not to brook it for one instant longer. He would make Enjolras laugh—or shout—or pay him some sort of tribute, this evening, or he would go home a failure.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bossuet, having no fixed abode, ends up troubling Bahorel in the middle of the night.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Feuilly is grateful, at first, that no living being will mourn him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Musichetta gets the news from the barricade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>During a quiet moment at the barricade, Combeferre and Valjean have a talk.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Éponine goes on one of her nighttime jaunts, and has a more pleasant encounter than usual.</blockquote>