Ahhhhh I’m so pleased you’ve asked me to do this! It means SO MUCH to me when people are interested in my fics, I get SO MUCh validation from it so thanks for giving me a chance to promo myself lmao! Comments are SO WELCOME and make me want to MARRY YOU.
BTW these are all exr and my Enjolras is always trans, just so you know –
Anyway;
Modern AU;
To Have And To Hold; my most popular modern AU fic. Enjolras’ parents are trying to marry him off like something from a period drama. Enjolras, however, has panicked and said he’s already married – now he needs a husband to fool them. Marrying a friend for tax benefits is fine, right? No unresolved sexual tension there, no sir…
100 years; Grantaire wakes up with no memories and somehow all of his memories all at once. He recalls the thundering of cannons and the flash of muskets, and then nothing. But it’s 2018, and Enjolras is in bed beside him telling him he should remember a whole lot more. Both a past life and memory loss AU. (WIP) (tw trans pregnancy)
Restless Spirits; Combeferre thinks his and Enjolras’ shared apartment is haunted, and enlists Jehan’s help to find out for sure. It turns out to be a bit less paranormal than first thought…
First comes love, then comes marriage; Cosette and Marius are getting married, and the ensuing celebrations leave Enjolras – perpetually a bachelor and secretly pining – sharing a room with Grantaire. It’s fine. Obviously.
Word A Thousand Words; Les Amis do a nude calendar for charity in the hopes of keeping a local homeless shelter up and running. Poor Grantaire is designated the photographer due to his artistic background, which leaves him battling the moral dilemma of the century; how is he supposed to photograph Enjolras without it being wrong?
Code Red; Short one-shot. Enjolras is missing, and that can only be bad…
Canon Era;
Hold My Hand As I’m Lowered; my first ever fic, so be gentle. Amid the plans for the June rebellion Enjolras finds himself struggling with dark secrets, terrible sickness and a torrid love affair (tw for sickness, miscarriage, and major character death)
The Colour Of Desire; Shameless canon era smut from the same universe as ‘Hold My Hand As I’m Lowered’.
A Familiar Feeling; arranged marriage AU. Grantaire’s father is tired of his ways bringing a stain upon the family name.Enjolras’ family is determined to marry off the difficult only ‘daughter’ that refuses every suitor they present.It so happens that these two situations coincide in a way that both families cannot refuse.It also so happens that Enjolras’ secret double life of sneaking out to the Musain each night is about to come back to bite him when the cynic is presented to him as a suitor. Fortunately, it could work out quite convenient for the both of them.
Ghosting; In wake of the June rebellion and the death of his friends, Marius Pontmercy takes it upon himself to settle the affairs of the dead. He soon learns some of the group had secrets – particularly their leader. Now, burdened with guilt and a sense of responsibility, Marius finds himself faced with an impossible task; raising the son of a revolutionary, gone before his time.
Chasing A Ghost; Eight years have gone by since the failed student insurrection of 1832; eight years, and much has changed. Combeferre tries to pick up the pieces of a fractured life, unable to forget the friends he lost that day in June. When he and Courfeyrac hear rumours that Enjolras survived the barricades and fled Paris, Combeferre finds himself drawn to investigate, only to find that Enjolras has been leading a very different life…(WIP) (tw trans pregnancy, mention of trauma etc)
Chasing A Memory; A prequel for ‘Chasing A Ghost’, from Grantaire’s POV. Fills in the 8 years before Combeferre finds Enjolras. (WIP) (tw trans pregnancy, mention of trauma etc)
Complimentary Colours; Similar to ‘A Familiar Feeling’, a one shot fic that inspired it, somehow my most popular fic!
One thing I love about Star Wars is how physically affectionate everyone is. You’d expect it from Luke, maybe, but you wouldn’t expect it from Han, nor Leia, and yet. Most of what comes out
of Han’s mouth is sarcastic comments or flirty remarks or complaints, but then you see him hug Leia or Luke or casually pat Chewie on the head or lean into him, and that’s far more genuine. Same goes for Leia, really.
It’s such a trope-defying thing, too, if you think about it. Snarky mercenary who only cares about himself… likes to hug people he’s only just met when he’s happy because he just can’t help himself. Snarky, haughty princess who is absolutely in charge… will absolutely hug the insufferable smuggler, and his giant furry sidekick, even though she’s pretty much done nothing but insult them both since she met them. Two guys who just blew up the Death Star and saved the day… hugs all around, nary a manly nod in sight.
And that’s not even mentioning the giant fluff ball of affection that Han turns into once he knows Leia is actually into him.
No one holds grudges about any of what’s been said because that’s just words. They all know they care about each other and no one’s scared to show some affection.
AND also, by the way – never once is it used against anyone, or interpreted as something it isn’t. It doesn’t come up when Han is trying to goad Leia into admitting that she likes him. Nor when Leia wants Han to admit that he cares. The fact that Leia hugged Han doesn’t mean she can’t yell at him two minutes later when he does something stupid again, and it doesn’t mean she likes him, and it doesn’t occur to Han (nor Leia, nor anyone else) to even try to interpret it that way.
Okay, so maybe the film guide says he was born in TA 87, but looking at clues from HOME and the Silmariilion, he’s at the very most a bit over 2000 years old at time of The Fellowship of the Ring. He’s the youngest elf that we know about in that time period. ARWEN is older than him. He’s creeped out by Fangorn being so old but he calls all mortals children because he’s a little shit.
Tolkien would get super pissed off when Legolas was shown in illustrations as “pretty or lady-like” and insisted that he was the biggest, roughest, toughest of the elves and the most hardcore of the Fellowship. Legolas is like the freaking Schwarzenegger of the elves, nbd.
Best friend is a dwarf whose father was literally imprisoned by Legolas’ father and yet he still brought him to the Undying Lands for the most awkward family reunion because screw you Thranduil. And let me remind you that a) Gimli is the only, only dwarf who got to make the trip and Legolas invited him. Other people had to get permission from like the literal Valar and Legolas was like I want to bring my mortal bff yeah he wasn’t a ringbearer but whatevs. Also b) most of the people who left in TA 3201 went on like these fleets of beautiful vessels with a master shipbuilder but Legolas was like nope, going to build one myself, never built one before but it can’t be that hard, right?
While Sindarin is the most common Elvish language by the time Legolas is alive, it’s considered really ugly and and unrefined, but here Legolas is running around probably not even able to speak the language of his ancestors, and I imagine him super proud of what must sound like an awful accent to his people.
Also super explains how useless he was at Moira trying to decipher the door because he doesn’t have time to deal with those snobs.
All the Fellowship got useful gifts or ones with spiritual meaning but instead Galadriel was like no, Legolas, I’m going to give you this big ass bow that’s bigger than the Mirkwood ones and it’s going to be so sick yeah it’s like taller than you are BUT ITS GOING TO LOOK SO SWEET.
are you telling me that Legolas is like… the baby gay dudebro redneck of the elves?
yes my friend, that is exactly what I am telling you
like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal “normal girl falls for mysterious brooding antihero” story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though they’re at his literal house
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