EstelRaca's Ramblings

One more try at the Tumblr beast…

Barricade Day is fast approaching, and as I’ve said on my ff.net and AO3 pages I’m quite happy to write prompts for people in celebration.  People will probably know me best in this fandom as the author of “To Follow”, “Dreamers in the Shadows”, and “Belonging and Believing”.  I tend to mostly write the Amis, though I like pretty much all of the characters and can try my hand at anyone.  I’m not picky about pairings, though I have a very soft spot for E/R, E/C/C (any combo of the central trio, platonic or romantic, is cool), E/Feuilly, asexual!E (or really ace any character), and Joly/Bossuet/Musichetta.  Prompts can be sent via private message here or at another site or reblogged, I am not particular.  Cheers to all!

The next chapter of “Dreamers in the Shadows” is out for anyone who’s interested.  Sorry for the delay; real life got a little hard for a bit.  In this chapter, more E/R, more shadow, and more Musichetta!

Dreamers Chapter 24

theonlycheeseleft:

GUYS GUYS I’M BACK I’M BACK.

Well, I’m mostly back. Thesis due in five days, so I probably won’t be meta’ing an epic meta or Brick!clubbing quite yet, but I won’t be completely MIA. And, to make up for it, I ficced!

According to my “what do you guys want me to drabble about” poll, aMarguerite wanted bini and everyone wanted cuddles (you guys, thank you, thank you), so, have some bini cuddles. More 100-follower-celebration-drabbles to come.

EDIT: HAHA OKAY so I did not realize how long this was, you are right folks, this is not a drabble. I CANNOT SHUT UP SORRY I FULL-LENGTH FICCED WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DRABBLING.

Title: Lend Me Your Wings (And I’ll Soar)

Characters: Joly, Bossuet (appearances from Musichetta, Bahorel, Jehan, and Grantaire?)

Summary: “Joly had not smiled in hours, and Bossuet ached for it.”

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This is absolutely adorable.  I have a very soft spot for traumatized-doctor Joly fic (…it’s a professional sympathy thing), and this was beautiful.  I love Bossuet’s focus on Joly smiling, his sorrow when it isn’t happening and his absolute joy when he manages to make it happen.  I love Bossuet and Musichetta taking care of Joly, cleaning him up after what happened.  And I adore your Bahorel and Jehan playing off each other, Jehan begging Bahorel to dance to with him.  That entire exchange just made me grin.  Thanks for writing and sharing!

ferain1832:

This discussion I saw has put in an AU mood.

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Just wanted to say agreed to pretty much all this.  Canonical stories are awesome fun.  In some fandoms all I want to write are canon stories—before, after, during, between events (hello, toku fandom).  In other fandoms, and this is very much Les Mis for me, the canon feels fairly complete.  Sure, there are gaps in which events can occur, and good writers have done some amazing things with them.  But for the most part the highlights of the characters lives have been hit.  But an AU or a reincarnation plot means that you can do anything, hit any emotional high points that you want, and it can be lots of fun to try to figure out what the core of a character is, what has to stay the same, what would change with the setting.  (It doesn’t help that all my favorite characters in Les Mis are very dead at the end, with their emotional character arcs fairly well fulfilled…)  Then again, maybe I’m just being overly defensive of AUs because I like to write them.

midshipmankennedy:

Jehan and Feuilly.

This ended up pretty sad, oops. But there is still hugging!

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I just wanted to say that I really liked this story and this AU setting.  Sci-fi dystopia is a genre that I love, and the idea of a society where touch isn’t allowed is beautifully chilling and well-drawn here.  I love the way you have Feuilly caring about all the children—it’s very Feuilly, seeing himself in every lost child, wanting to adopt the world as his family and save them all.  And Jehan, not able to find a word that properly encompasses the horror that is their world and the things they have to see, giving voice to Feuilly’s wish.  Really, really nice work.

(Also, having sad hugging in this world is perfect, as Feuilly points out, because at least sad hugging means that a transfer of comfort is being given.  It would be much, much worse to not have hugging.  Hugs for all!)

junebugjive:

Any followers going to Anime Expo? I’ve never been before and I’m not a particular fan of anime but I’m interested in any toku stuff they may have.

I wish I could be there!  Unfortunately I’m in the middle of the country, and fairly well stuck there right now.  I’ve had good luck running into toku people at the anime cons I’ve gone to here, though.  Granted, just a handful at each con, but we do exist!

One day I will get out to a con on the west coast, though SDCC is going to be my first stop… *dreams*

I think I finally figured out how to add an ask box to this thing!  (My siblings weep at my inability to use technology.)

In honor of that, and to try to get myself back into the writing habit following silly real life getting in the way, I’d like to offer to write ficlets for people.  Just throw me a character’s name or a pairing and a brief prompt, and I’ll attempt to write 500-1000 words for you.  Hopefully this will get me back in the mood to work on my plot-heavy, ridiculously long things.  For Kamen Rider I can write Heisei Riders and Black; for sentai I can write Shinkenger and Gokaiger.  I’d also happily attempt some Les Mis prompts, if anyone were interested.

(Jemmir, if you’re still in the mood for it, I do have an outline sketched for a Gokaiger fic with Marvelous/Joe/Ahim… it just got rather longer and more involved than I expected.  If you’d like something else now given how long it’s been, no problem!)