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ohh, I want to hear about umw jehan!!

This was originally just the document I used for the Jehan POV chapter of Wayward Children but then I started scribbling down any other Jehan-centric bits I had ideas for, too, on account of my lack of self control 🙈 Right now the bulk of it is about the period pre-UMW immediately after Feuilly died, when Jehan is trying to wrangle Enjolras and the two of them are sort of figuring each other out. I like it and it's useful to me as just, like, a reference but it still needs a lot of work and also I feel like people are just starting to warm up to Enjolras again in UMW, it feels like it would be so mean of me to post a big thing about the one other time he was having a category 5 pissy bitch moment 😂

I can share a little bit of that, though:

"I'm not going with you," Enjolras says.

"Yes, you are," Jehan replies with a confidence he doesn't really feel.

"Leave me alone, Prouvaire."

"You'll do as I ask and come back with me," Jehan says, "because you owe me."

Enjolras turns his head very slowly to look at him. His eyes are cold and his thoughts are like barbed wire.

"I what?" he says, a dangerous edge to his voice.

"You owe me," Jehan repeats, and his voice does not shake, though he doesn't know how. "Because what you're feeling right now, this loss, this pain—" He feels a fresh wave of it from Enjolras's mind and does his best to ride it, to not let it knock him off his feet. "You gave that to me, Enjolras. You did that to me, when you decided you had to get rid of the ghost in my house."

Blind rage flashes through Enjolras's thoughts—if he were stronger, if he didn't hurt all over, he'd have lunged for Jehan in that moment.

"It was a ghost," he snarls. "It wasn't meant to be there, it was bound to go vengeful and hurt you, and maybe we should have let it since you're still too stupid to—"

"She was the most important person to me!" Jehan is surprised by how loud, how throat-shredding and raw his voice comes out, but not nearly as surprised as Enjolras, who goes silent and slack-jawed.

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groundhog prom??

Groundhog Prom is an original story I've been tentatively working on, it's about a girl who gets caught in a timeloop on her last day of high school. I called it that because people pitching their own story ideas always seem to do it in the format of "it's like X meets Y!" and I figured this story is sort of like Groundhog Day meets Carrie 😂

It does sound like it should be about a prom for groundhogs, though, which would be much cuter.

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once more, with feeling? the buffy fan in me is very very curious 👀

🙈 okay this one's a whole thing to explain (and has nothing to do with Buffy apart from me naming it after the episode 😭)

Uhh so way, way back in the day, I wrote YuGiOh fic over on fanfic.net (okay stay with me), and I had this big multichapter fic called Homecoming that was pretty popular and I never finished it and for this I will never be forgiven. I started posting it in 2008 (💀) and last I checked, as recently as 2022 it was still getting the odd comment, and honestly I feel so, so bad about it and more than once I've looked back at it and been like, could I finish it?

But I can't, because I was a literal baby child when I started it and it just doesn't work for me anymore.

So then I was like, okay could I rewrite it and make it less like something my baby child self wrote? But that didn't feel right either—people like the original for what it is, and if I rewrote it as an adult, it would change so drastically that it would really just be a different story.

So then I was like. Okay well if it would end up a different story anyway. Why not just write a different story.

😂 All this to say that Once More, With Feeling is sort of like a spiritual successor to that old fic. It's similar in a lot of ways, but also different in a lot of ways. I guess it's my way of asking 'okay, how would I tackle this now?' The title is in reference to uh, the fact that I'm trying this again and also that the characters have sort of been here before and now I'm making them do it all over, a bit to the left 😂

I can't say for sure whether it'll ever see the light of day, I certainly won't post it without writing all of it first. Not again 💀

I'll put a little snippet under a cut in case anyone is interested lol, but I know most people do not follow me for YGO content 😂

When Ryou enters his apartment's main room, he's hit with the smell of something delicious cooking. Malik has taken over his tiny kitchenette and is working at something with great concentration at the stove; Ryou goes and hooks his chin over his shoulder to investigate.

“Your landlord still hasn't fixed that burner,” Malik says with annoyance, jerking his head in the direction of the front right stove burner, which hasn't worked in several months.

Ryou shrugs. “I know. He hasn't fixed the hole in the ceiling, either, so I'm really not holding my breath about it.”

“I'm going to find out where he lives and put a brick through his window,” Malik mutters.

“He probably won't fix that, either,” Ryou says with a snort. He prods Malik in the side, making him jump and then look at him, narrow-eyed. “You're making pancakes.”

“Good observation,” Malik says, carefully flipping the pancake currently in the pan to reveal its perfectly cooked underside.

“You don't like sweet things for breakfast,” Ryou says, a fresh smile tugging at his mouth.

“Don't go mistaking this for a selfless gesture,” Malik tells him. “It's a blatant bribe to keep you sweet so you won't bail on going to see Yugi today.”

Ryou's face morphs into an indignant scowl. “I'm not going to bail.”

“Sure,” Malik says, leering at him with a very punchable smirk, the effect of which is somewhat undercut by the fact that he's still diligently making Ryou pancakes.

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Can I ask about the umw_bahorel? 👀 I was looking forward to him appearing in the story for so long, but now he is so unhappy I want to wrap him in a blanket and give him some tea

Aww I'm sorry I brought him before you in such a state 😭 That's kind of you to want to be nice to him though, I think most people want to smack him at the moment 😂

UMW_Bahorel is a thing I've been sort of working on that's like...Bahorel-centric, obviously, and it sort of jumps back and forward in time between him making his demon deal/the present day stuff we're seeing in UMW and like 10 years ago when he first met Feuilly, and shows a bit of how they got to know each other and what their relationship was like in better times. I do feel a bit bad about how wretched Bahorel has been in UMW so far and I guess I wanted to show he hadn't always been like that and hopefully will eventually not be like that again :')

Here's a snippet of Bahorel meeting a Mysterious Stranger on a hunt:

“Look, man, just leave this to an expert, okay?” Bahorel says.

The man scoffs, but doesn't take his keen gaze off of Bahorel.

“An expert,” he repeats, the word dancing mockingly over his tongue. “Is that supposed to be you?”

“I've been dealing with shit like this since I was a kid, so yeah,” Bahorel snaps.

“Well, I'm not exactly new to this game, either,” the man says. He hooks his thumbs in his pockets and looks Bahorel up and down, mocking, like he's trying to see exactly what he's supposed to be impressed by. “Does that make me an expert, too?”

Bahorel frowns. “How long've you been hunting?”

Another flicker of amusement in those eyes. “Hunting,” he repeats.

Bahorel can't take the feeling of being made fun of one second longer. “Well, what do you call it, asshole?” he demands, fists clenched. “How can you not even know what the job’s called?”

“Who decides what it’s called?”

That leaves Bahorel stumped, but in an enraged sort of way because he knows he's right—he's a hunter and he's never met anyone who does this job who called themselves anything different. But this guy is making him feel like an idiot for not being able to point to some kind of official document to prove his point.

“Everyone calls it that,” he grumbles finally.

The man tilts his head to the side just slightly. “So there are others,” he says.

Bahorel stares at him. “You mean besides you and me?” he says.

The man doesn't reply but, belatedly, the pieces are falling into place in Bahorel's mind.

“You've never met another hunter before?” he gawks.

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since I watched Supernatural because of UMW, do I have to read 6 of Crows because of the grishaverse au

Every time someone tells me they watched Supernatural because of UMW I feel terrible guilt for doing that to them BUT I love Six of Crows and think it's genuinely great and would readily recommend it to anyone so if you read it because of Grishaverse AU then I feel like that might balance the karmic scales for me just a little 😂

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I have to ask about the UMW Enjolras WIP 😇😇😇

😂 as you can maybe guess, this is my document for I Will Fear No Evil!

I've been chipping away at a new chapter that takes place during chapter 23 of UMW, particularly the part where Grantaire goes off to see Combeferre, and Enjolras is still in Lyon, grappling with the idea of Courfeyrac getting involved in the hunting world. A snippet:

The silence after Grantaire leaves them is horrible, but brief.

“Don't look at me like that, Enjolras,” Courfeyrac says. His snappish tone betrays how discomfited he is by Enjolras's visible horror, like he somehow hadn't anticipated it. “You look like I just killed your pet puppy. With a hammer.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Enjolras is vaguely aware of Cosette ushering Marius out of the kitchen and closing the door behind them. Jehan stays sitting at the table, a hand on Enjolras's arm.

“You can't—” Enjolras starts.

“Don't tell me what I can't do,” Courfeyrac says warningly. “This is happening. You should start getting used to the idea. Honestly, I can't believe you didn't see it coming.”

“I suppose I thought you had more sense,” Enjolras says.

Courfeyrac snorts. “More than you, you mean?”

“Yes!” Enjolras says in despair. “You're not supposed to be like me!”

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tried taking a lil inspo from the spiderverse character sheets... also just wanted to draw grantaire smiling

(zero points if you can guess who he's smiling at)

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oooooh grishaverse au!!!

Woo yeah!!! Yeah I love the Grishaverse books, especially the Six of Crows duology, and I wanted to put my beloved Les Amis into that world and cause problems for them and so that. Is what I did.

It's a multichapter story that I'm trying not to post until I've written all of it due to my UMW trauma, but it does have a much more streamlined plot than UMW so I'm hoping that at least first-drafting the whole thing before sharing will be achievable 😭 It's set in Ketterdam. Grantaire is a painter. Enjolras is a Heartrender. (Can I make it any more obvious 🎵)

Lil snippet:

“I know you're afraid,” Enjolras says. “I can hear your heart.” He absently taps his knuckles against the bedpost, in the exact frantic rhythm of Grantaire's pulse.

“Stop that,” Grantaire snaps, embarrassment and anger swelling to join the fear in his chest. “Of course I'm afraid. My friend was abducted, I got shot and now I'm the prisoner of a Ravkan spy ring.”

Enjolras ceases his tapping and ponders a moment. “You're right,” he says finally. “Apologies. You've had quite an evening.”

“Also I've never met a Grisha before,” Grantaire says.

“You met Joly,” Enjolras points out, and Grantaire remembers all over again that Joly is apparently also a secret Grisha. Has been all along. Part of him is still sure that Enjolras must be mistaken.

“I didn't know,” he says.

“Does it change how you think of him?”

“Of course it changes things. But…I don't know. He's still Joly.” Grantaire frowns as a thought occurs to him. “Wait, he's not a Ravkan spy too, is he?”

Enjolras laughs quietly. “No,” he says.

“Thank Ghezen for that,” Grantaire says. “I don't think I could take anyone else not being who I thought they were.”

Enjolras laughs again, more of a snort this time. “Was Eirik so important to you?”

“I liked his accent,” Grantaire says in a weak attempt at a joke.

“Ah.” Enjolras shakes his head. His Kerch is crisp and convincingly native—Grantaire doesn’t think he can hear even a hint of a Ravkan accent in it. Spies have to be that good, he supposes. “I'm very sorry to disappoint you.”

“You're not disappointing,” Grantaire tells him honestly. “Just terrifying.”

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WIP FOLDER GAME

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. tag as many people as you have wips. people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Tagged by @kvothes, ty!!

The contents of my WIP folder are as follows:

- UMW25 (and various other UMW subsidiaries including UMW Enj, UMW_Bahorel and UMW_Jehan but I'm counting them all as one lol)

- Grishaverse AU

- Once More, With Feeling

- Groundhog Prom

Tagging @shamedumpster @woxbirdie @sinnerbeam and uhhh anyone else who wants to share, sorry I'm one tag-ee short 🙈

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hello there! i just came here to say that umw is one of my top fics of all time and it has always been a delight whenever i reread it ❤️❤️

also i've been working through a full rewatch of spn and i just realized how fully i just integrated umw into my version of spn canon. i am watching winchester shenanigans on my laptop and half my mind is also just going "boy i hope enjoltaire is doing okay back in europe where they definitely are" and it does make the show more fun.

Aww thank you!! 🩷

Also that's so funny. Here's a quick and approximate guide for your SPN rewatch reference:

Season 1: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras is probably finishing up high school??

Season 2: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras starts university.

Season 3: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras becomes a hunter and meets Combeferre, Feuilly and Bahorel.

Season 4: Grantaire is moping around alone in the pre-apocalypse. Enjolras and Feuilly meet Jehan and successfully prevent one of the 66 seals from being broken (impressive but ultimately meaningless since the Winchesters goof up everything over in the US)

Season 5: Grantaire is moping around alone in the active, ongoing apocalypse. Feuilly dies. Jehan and Enjolras become friends after Enjolras nearly gets killed hunting alone.

Season 6: Apocalypse averted! Grantaire and Enjolras meet and start hunting and travelling together during this year!

Season 7: Combeferre, Enjolras and Grantaire see reports about God!Cas on the news. Grantaire feels God!Cas wipe out hundreds of angels. And then the story immediately stops running in tandem with SPN plotlines because I hated the rest of season 7 so much 👎

ENJOY!!!

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I was not around for the 2013-2016 les mis golden era but looking at George Blagden and Aaron Tveit it does not surprise me that enjoltaire went triple platinum, it’s like they made those guys in a factory specifically to appeal to tumblrinas of that era

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The Three Grantaires

A little illustration I drew for my fic Drink to Forget.

I don't really wanna spoil it in regards to why there are three of them but I will say that the protagonist Grantaire is the one on the right, showing off his lovely little sutures. Hopefully for those who haven't read yet maybe this will entice a little I guess.

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i have always held the belief that enjolras has this bizarre form of social anxiety where if u put him in front of a crowd he is incredibly persuasive and charming and charismatic. like public speaking is his calling . but the second u attempt to start regular conversations with him he starts internally flipping out and doesn't know what to do with himself. and people are always surprised by the fact that hes a secret endearing weirdo in person for a bit if they know him from public speaking and maybe think hes being cool. there are 4 million things happening in his head before he can answer the question 'how are you'

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And so Pacific Rim passes from futuristic sci-fi to alternate historical fiction...

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i literally dont care what your excuse for using AI is. if you didnt put your own effort into making it im not putting my own effort into interacting with it.

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everyone avert your eyes [expresses a standard human emotion] [illogically experiences shame even with only myself as witness]