LINKDING

<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>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>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 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>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>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>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>Eponine is having a lousy night working the crowd at her usual speakeasy when in wanders a wide-eyed little rich girl, who promptly gets herself in a spot of trouble. Even the devil has to do a good deed sometimes. (1920s Chicago AU/slight crossover with Some Like It Hot, but you don’t need to know the fandom.)</blockquote>

➤ as of last update, contains: "The Pirates! In an adventure with threesomes," "Part two: In which the pirates receive an invitation to breakfast" "Part Three: The Pirates Encounter A Monster from the Depths of Hell"

<blockquote>"I can want to spend my life serving someone and not want to have sex with them," Grantaire says. "I am capable of that. My submission is capable of that."</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the Seine all previous convictions and habits lie in a rubble. Valjean saved Javert's life, but he can't give him the will to live on. With Cosette leaving to marry, it is hard for Valjean to find the energy to help. Now two old men have to learn how to navigate life anew, and try to cope without the certainty of the past before they drown in the dark waters inside.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This fic contains Old Men and squirrels. ...nope, that's basically it. That's the fic. Old men and squirrels.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You think you know someone, and then you discover what they have hidden in their bedrooms.</blockquote> ➤ nonsexual kink, people being friends with their friends, lovely and not a stressful fic at all

<blockquote>The problem is, Enjolras had promised Combeferre two months ago that he would deal with the curtains.</blockquote> ➤ part of the permets-tu series but bookmarking separately because I'm weirdly into this particular instalment? idek why. ➤ (hhhhhahahaha probably because it's endless negotiating about CURTAINS instead of sex like the rest of the series, oh I am so predictable)

<blockquote>Fantine lives after all. Not as much changes as you might think -- except for her.</blockquote> ➤wow so many feelings so much excellence, and it totally sounds like Hugo's narrative voice on top of it all

<blockquote>Written for the anon for the Tumblr meme "tell me about a story I haven't written" who prompted "Remember the one where Cosette goes to visit her father and meets his boyfriend Montparnasse?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Would you like to have sex with me?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Montparnasse finds that the perils of walking in the Rue de l'Homme Arme are twofold: first, that one might begin to think; and second, that one might come across a weak old man.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Brief scenes from a world in which Javert met Myriel, the curé of Brignolles.</blockquote> ➤ on first read I was so confuuuuuuuuuuuused because I could not see how the interactions in the first part would cause Myriel to not welcome Valjean? ➤ AND THEN ON CAREFUL REREAD I figured out what was ACTUALLY going on *headdesk*I should not be reading things when I am tired because apparently reading comprehension goes out the window

<blockquote>(Who will not be slaves again!) In other words, the Amis as 1960s Freedom Riders, based on the Nashville college students who sang so many protest songs in jail that, apparently out of annoyance, the Birmingham police drove them back to Tennessee. For the Les Mis Across History ficathon.</blockquote> ➤ defs have "Calypso Freedom" as sung by Sweet Honey In The Rock stuck in my head now.

<blockquote>Eponine trudged through the streets of Paris, the stinging scent of gunpowder still in her nose and blood still streaking her shirt, to tell Cosette that Marius was dead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Late one December evening, M. Isabeau catches a thief in his bakery.</blockquote> ➤ abandoned with only part 1 of 5 extant, but I rather like it as it is. ➤ (the prompt it is based off of suggests it will be going to Valjean/Javert places later in the fic, but right now it is lovely Valjean gen.)

<blockquote>Variation on a theme by Hugo: Enjolras and Grantaire have a contentious conversation about the legwork that goes into a revolution. Set in the run up to the April Revolution (Seoul, 1960), and genderbent, because.</blockquote>

<blockquote>During a meeting Joly accidentally lets it slip to Enjolras that Grantaire is in love with him. Told entirely through text messages.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Come on, come on.” Courfeyrac is leading the way. “Retweet them a few times, give some hugs, and you're a golden god. Then we get to party til dawn. Beauties on the bus.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>He says, "I have made mistakes." Javert looks at him. Javert, he thinks, can fathom neither mistakes nor regret.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five worlds in which Javert and Valjean never met, and one where they did.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Brick AU of the 'small canon divergence leads to slightly larger changes' variety, and also of the 'I have a lot of feelings about parallels between Eponine and Valjean' variety. Eponine throws a note at Valjean; she doesn't anticipate the consequences. </blockquote>