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>Fantine goes out to a dance with Tholomyès, and meets an angry young man.</blockquote> ➤ first in a continuing series (Less Miserable, of which all is great series consists of: Angels and Devils A Smaller Surprise Behind the Curtain A More Joyous End Joint Venture

<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>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 finds work at the dragon breeding grounds of Vernon, with the help of General Georges Pontmercy and his dragon Hyacinthe.</blockquote> ➤ wip through ch 3 at time of bookmarking

<blockquote>When she wakes early and notices that her father is gone, Cosette slips out alone in hopes of finding some sign of Marius.</blockquote> ➤ NO COME BACK THIS SHIP REALLY WORKS

<blockquote>Favourite is used to putting on a happy face, but as the years go on and new lovers show up and old friends come back, she starts to question that habit.</blockquote> ➤ aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh everything about this is perfect and beautiful and so SAD in that making-the-best-of-things sort of way char-wailschar- ➤ I am so glad this fic exists because YES.

<blockquote>When Fantine is introduced to another patient, a Monsieur Pontmercy, at the Hôpital de l'Hotel-Dieu, she does not know quite what to make of him. The feeling is mutual.</blockquote> ➤ !!!

<blockquote>carmarthenfan asked: Prouvaire/Cosette, at the theatre? So this is a horrible prompt, because at what time would these two characters be alive and at the theater together??????!!!!!!!!!! <—- (THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE.) However, I have stretched some credibility and come up with an extremely silly and dashed-off scenario that more-or-less accounts for this. Please ignore questions that may spring to mind such as “Where did the tickets come from,” and “Why this play,” as they will only cause problems for you. Also this is probably equal-opportunity lightly implied Prouvaire/Cosette and Prouvaire/Bahorel.</blockquote> ➤ ao3 summary: <blockquote>In which the Fauchelevent family attends the theater, Bahorel breaks a lute over someone's head, Prouvaire does his impression of a dodo, and Romanticism wins a great and noisy triumph.</blockquote>

<blockquote>marius/montparnasse, bodyswap</blockquote> ➤ !!!!

<blockquote>Valjean/Favourite, first kiss over dessert</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bahorel and Bahorel's Laughing Mistress: the Cold War Spy AU.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cosette, unwilling to disturb Marius with her problem, is troubled by a ghost from the past.</blockquote>

<blockquote>On her way home, Favourite buys a shawl - a pretty thing, fine, expensive silk too light for the coming winter but with a deep rich color that will draw becoming highlights into her hair and match the tint of her lips. Settled around her shoulders, it conceals last year's now-unfashionable neckline and lends weight to her confident, carefree air; a weight she needs to hide the fluttering lightness in her stomach.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For the kinkmeme, prompt is "blood, love and rhetoric, either concurrent or consecutive." Prompt elaboration is: "Les Mis is all blood, love, and rhetoric, you see." So I tried to do the compulsory elements with absolutely zero Stoppard. And with Marius and Cosette with kidz.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the south of France, a group of young men once came together to teach, to learn, and to fight for the rights of all humankind.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"The punch was not as potent as one party Rosalie had heard of where the guess all passed out and had to be piled up in the basement, but everyone was about three sheets to the wind and listing about the first floor of the house wherever the zeitgeist blew them. Attempts by the Conservatory students at playing Romantic waltzes had disintegrated into the eclectic melody of ‘I got stuck in the moving sixths’ by the first violinist, ‘what the hell happened to my bow,’ by the second violinist, ‘what are arms’' by the viola player, and ‘what is consciousness’' by the cellist." Or, rather, Bahorel meets his laughing mistress at a crazy, counter-culture bouzingo party, and negotiates a pleasant series of social contracts.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Bahorel wakes up on Wednesday morning, the sun is shining brighter than it has for months, and he can hear birds chirping away like something out of a Disney movie. Then his mom calls up, “Bahorel, get ready for school!” and he thinks: Well, fuck that. It’s a beautiful day, and life is too short to spend it in school learning about economics and dead people. [Ferris Bueller's Day Off AU]</blockquote> ➤ OH NO HOW IS THIS SO PERFECT

<blockquote>Grantaire and Eponine get drunk and have sex while roleplaying as Marius and Enjolras, respectively.</blockquote> ➤ damn, how to tag pairings when the sex is one thing but the feelings are other things entirely?

<blockquote>A chance encounter in the Luxembourg causes Marius to realize that, once again, he's doing everything all wrong. It's only fair that Javert gets to ruin one of Valjean's plans for once.</blockquote> ➤ MARIUS EVERYONE IS SECRETLY JUDGING YOU, NOT JUST VALJEAN ➤ or: this fic captures Marius's damnfool well-meaning idiocy PERFECTLY -- I was LITERALLY FACEPALMING all the way through ➤ OH MARIUS