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Next Week!

It’s T-7 days to Cosette Appreciation Week (Sept 13-20).

What to do: Write fic, make fanart, share meta, build moodboards, start memes, or otherwise express your appreciation of Cosette Fauchelevent .

How to participate: Share and/or link your Cosette content with the tags  “Cosette Week” and/or “For A Lark”. 

Prompts: Strictly optional prompts for those seeking inspiration:

Flight

Garden

Holy

Music

Black

Exercise

New

Other Questions: If you have any, please send them along.

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That’s it for rec week!!

I’m thinking about having a regular rare pair week near the end of January but nothing’s official yet. 🧡

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FIC REC |  To Kingdom Come by  myrmidryad | M | Combeferre/Enjolras/Grantaire | 84800

“There are many more of us south of the Wall,” Feuilly told him, not bothering to hide his amusement as Grantaire absorbed the sight of a thousand tents set up in wobbly lines and irregularly-shaped clumps around small clearings where cook fires had been laid. “We did want to come north as soon as possible. We are looking for people we know…”

“Everyone is looking for someone,” Joly said tiredly. “Most of them, anyway.”

Grantaire is a Finonn Traveller who saves the lives of three Southerling refugees. With nowhere else to go, he stays in their camp for a while, and grows close to Enjolras and Combeferre, two Southerlings who have a complicated history of their own.

This fic damn near saved by sanity last May. I remember sneaking off to my car on my breaks to read it, trying to savor it while at the same time speeding through. It’s a whole ass saga and wonderful. It’s based off the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix but I might have read the first book back in the 90′s/00′s and that’s it and I was fine so don’t let that scare you off.

There is so much emotion packed into this fic. It’s a story about refugees and losing your home and people you love and everything that comes with it. All the characters are missing someone and I 100% read for longer than I should have when it seemed like a reunion was imminent. The Combeferre/Enjolras/Grantaire is delightfully complex and developed. Combeferre & Enjolras relationship especially got me. 

The cast is huge and impressively woven together in a family throughout the fic and that I think is my favorite part. (There are a couple warnings so make sure you read the tags.)

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FIC REC |  Firstborns: unexpected bargains, terrible tradeoffs and surprising gains by  les Amis DCD | T | Bahorel/Jehan | 21000

“The text was short, straightforward, and though they expected more enthusiasm and bumbling from Marius, there was nothing inherently alarming about “baby’s born!!!! Please come!!”, so Jehan did just that.

They weren’t sure what they expected; Jehan, who had a flexible mind and was nothing if not an enthusiast for the strange and the unknown, was very generous with their expectations. They did not expect the scene that met them upon their arrival.”

After a firstborn vow is mysteriously made, Jehan and Bahorel have to raise Cosette’s and Marius’ baby.

This fic is so fun (well, not that Cosette and Marius can’t see their baby obviously but everything else!!). The word is rich and interesting and I was on the edge of my seat with them waiting to see how the vow was made and how they would fix things. Jehan is perfectly Jehan and Bahorel is adorable with the baby. Jehan’s familiar is hilarious, especially with Bahorel. The rest of the bunch are absolutely wonderful rallying around them.

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FIC REC |  To Sail a Golden Sea by  estelraca | G | Courfeyrac/Cosette/Marius | 7900

When Marius is kicked out of his grandfather’s house for daring to have a political opinion, he goes to see his best friend Courfeyrac. If he had been paying better attention to what was going on around him, perhaps he would have noticed that the voyage Courfeyrac invites him on is a treasonous mission to find the only artifact capable of killing the immortal king who controls their homeland.

Hi, yes, I don’t know how it took me so long to read this fic because it’s absolutely wonderful. There is so much world building that I could easily read a whole series but the story is perfect just the way it is. It’s fun and adventurous and Marius’ POV which I didn’t realize I wanted more of until I read this. Coufeyrac, Cosette and Marius all work so well together and the supporting cast all shine without stealing the spotlight away from Marius. 100% read this while skyping friends and 100% ignored them for a bit because I got so invested (sorry!). 

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FIC REC |  Sculptures and Sunday mornings by  Children_in_a_Fairytale | NR | Feuilly/Grantaire | 3000

Grantaire takes a sculpture class, moves into a new apartment, and becomes Feuilly’s no. 1 fan.

It is a DELIGHT watching Grantaire and Feuilly’s relationship go from Grantaire bumping into Feuilly about town like he’s a local 3am supermarket cryptid, to classmates, to friends, to oh my god they were roommates. It progresses so organically and it’s lovely. ♥

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FIC REC |  I’m Almost Me Again, You’re Almost You by  jeremystollemyheart | G | Jehan & Joly | 7300

A party at Jehan’s place runs long. Joly never meant to be there in the first place, but then again he’ll do almost anything Bossuet asks him.

There’s something borderline mystical about Jehan. Joly doesn’t believe in the mystical, but he’s going to try. Because he has questions.

Or, Joly pines for Bossuet and Jehan reads tarot.

This is such a fun snapshot of Joly and Jehan’s friendship (and the whole bunch in general!). It’s cozy and warm and delightful. I loved reading Jehan explaining tarot to Joly and doing a couple readings for him. This fic is an ode to friendship and it’s wonderful. (Plus some super cute Joly/Bossuet which I’m always here for!!)

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a series of unfortunate events:

pilf tells me about rarepair week, i think “ooh that’ll be fun, maybe I’ll write some crack one-shots that aren’t just imagines” and then proceed to get my dates mixed up, lose all motivation + will to live and whenever i sit at my laptop have the post-it with my new rarepair ships staring at me accusingly. 

so! we are doing headcanons, because otherwise none of them will ever see the light of day:

Valjean X Magloire

Magloire is so disturbed by this CONVICT in her house that she finds herself constantly watching him

what she doesn’t realise until he looks her dead in the eye is that there’s ANOTHER reason she’s fixated on him

she’s alarmed and enthralled at the same time

Valjean, for his part, has never really had female attention so he doesn’t know what to do about his feelings

it definitely seems like something you Shouldn’t do when a nice priest has taken you in

but the way Magloire smiles and blushes when he looks at her….

that night she’s on her way to find him as he’s leaving the house

they run into each other in the dark and immediately know there’s no point resisting

they have sweaty, passionate sex on the dining table

for a while they lie enclosed in each other’s arms but then the sun rises

and Valjean leaves

she’s heartbroken and he’s wracked with guilt

when he’s dragged back to the bishop’s house he can’t look magloire in the eye

nor can he accept the bishop’s absolution when he has this dark secret

he’s only just beginning to get over it when he encounters Fantine and the sight of a woman whose lover has abandoned her brings all the guilt rushing back

he decides to help Fantine to honour Magloire’s memory 

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Courfeyrac/Marius Pontmercy Characters: Marius Pontmercy, Courfeyrac (Les Misérables) Additional Tags: Fencing, First Kiss, Love Confessions, Canon Era Summary:

Marius’ fencing practice with Courfeyrac goes different than expected.

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marius/courfeyrac/cosette fake married au?

“I confess, it was not my finest hour,” said Courfeyrac,collapsing onto the chair across from Marius; “I panicked, I prevaricated, I perjuredmyself, and in short I told my father that I wouldn’t meet his eligible societymademoiselle because you and I were passionately in love and soon to be married.”Courfeyrac let out a great sigh and mournfully added, “The damnable old fellowdidn’t even disown me.”

Marius paled; “But I’vejust told my grandfather I’m going to ask Cosette to marry me whether he likesit or not and I can’t pretend to be engaged to both of you at – Courfeyrac, whyare you smiling like that, this is serious!”

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Les Mis Rare Pairs Week, Day One: Joly/Bahorel, aka Sick and Tired

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I roll the window down And then begin to breathe in The darkest country road And the strong scent of evergreen From the passenger seat as you are driving me home.

Feuilly/Cosette | Les Mis Rare Pair Week 2016

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FIC REC |  Une Liaison Dangereuse by  BadassIndustries | G | Bahorel/Fantine | 13100

Felix Tholomyès, like any self-satisfied 18th century gentleman, thinks it only natural he hides his mistress away at his hunting lodge. Bahorel, who stumbles upon Fantine and her adorable daughter on his way home to see his family, disagrees entirely. He thinks Fantine should be free to make friends and enjoy herself, preferably far away from Tholomyès. Fantine just wants a safe place for her daughter to grow up and make friends. Cosette just wants to find worms with the chickens…

A mid-1700s adventure of wigs, silk dresses, respectful friendships and daring flights to freedom. 

Soooo Bahorel/Fantine is the ship I didn’t know I needed. This fic is the perfect AU, Fantine and Cosette get to be happy and loved, Bahorel gets to shine–he’s funny and adorable with little Cosette, respects Fantine’s boundaries and agency. Bahorel’s family is a dream and the community they build is everything I’ve ever wanted for Fantine. This is just a delightful fic that left me in such a good mood after reading it. ♥

Also Tholomyès gets what’s coming to him so, like, what more could you ask for? 

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sunshine daisies honey sweet your tender love makes me complete

Enjolras and Courf for the lesmisrarepairsweek

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FIC REC |  Enough by fraternite |  G | Courfeyrac/Feuilly | 9300

Courfeyrac worries he isn’t enough for Feuilly. Feuilly worries he isn’t doing enough.

Together, they work things out.

If you’re looking for a fic that focuses on communication this is a lovely one. Courfeyrac and Feuilly both have realistic and relatable fears (especially for right now imo!) and it’s so cathartic to read them working through them and coming back together to move their relationship and themselves forward. 

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Javert/Chabouillet for rare pair week and because I’ve read every fic in the tag and there’s simply not enough fluff!

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Les Mis Rare Pair Week - Bahorel & Enjolras: Minutes at the Musain

August 26: Friendship! (two days late)

Character Focus: Enjolras and Bahorel - (platonic)

Description: Bahorel and Enjolras are the only ones to show one night for Les Amis De L’ABC. In lieu of a meeting, they share stories of their friends, talk of old memories, discuss theoretical punches to the face and create fraudulent meeting minutes. Modern AU

Words: 2485

Hurrying into the Musain, Enjolras was expecting to be met with a boisterous crowd of tired and overworked friends ready to greet him, but opening the door to the back room of the cafe he was met with an almost empty room. Only one person was seated at the table across from him. Bahorel looked up from his phone and gave him a small wave.

“Are we early…. or late? or is everybody else late?” Enjolras asked with one more confused look around the room. The chaos and stress of exam season always had Enjolras slightly turned around and stressed for time, but usually les amis de l'abc was the exception to his frantic schedule. In the four years since he’d formed it he hadn’t once missed a meeting, and had only been late a handful of occasions that were completely out of his control. 

“None of the above!” Bahorel said with a grin and gestured for a bewildered Enjolras to sit in the free seat across from him, he did so with a curious tilt of his head, waiting for explanation. “Have you checked the group chat? It’s just me tonight. ”

“My phones dead,” Enjolras frowned as he placed his messenger bag on the empty chair beside him, another frightful side effect of his busy schedule was that he occasionally forgot to charge it overnight. “All I know is Joly and Combeferre won’t be here. I still can’t believe they’re actually interning at a real hospitals now.”

It felt like just yesterday he’d met them at an orientation party in their first year of university. Fresh faced and bold and excited for the future. They had all felt so mature and invincible then, but they had been practically children. 

“Ah, they grow up so fast,” Bahorel replied wistfully, pretending to wipe a tear from his eye. “Well, I have the full litany of pathetic excuses in the chat, let me enlighten you.” He held up his phone and cleared his throat loudly. 

“Jehan has come down with a touch of melancholy, can’t bring themselves to leave the bed. Feuilly just came back from a double shift and can’t function like a normal human today — his words, he sends his deepest apologies, Bossuet is desperately trying to cram last minute for his final tomorrow, Eponine is working and took Gavroche with her, Musichetta’s got plans, Grantaire’s dead, Courf is-”

“Dead?” Enjolras interrupted with a horrified expression.  

“Yeah, from last night. We went a bit overboard celebrating his guest spot in the gallery. All his pieces sold and all the champagne was free,” Bahorel grinned. “I tried to wake him up three times before I left but he wasn’t having it.”

“Oh,” Enjolras said with a relieved smile. “What were you saying about Courfeyrac?”

“Helping a friend outside of our group move apartments. Can you believe it? The traitor!”

“And let me guess, Marius and Cosette are on a date?” Enjolras said with an amused roll of his eyes. His annoyance was more for show than anything, he didn’t actually mind all that much that they’d missed the last three meetings to run off on some spontaneous romantic adventure together, he was happy for them. It was just becoming a little predictable. 

“Yeah, but they have to be forgiven this time,” Bahorel said with a knowing smile. “It’s the most important night of their romantic life for a very important question.”

It took a while for the meaning of these words to hit him completely, but when Enjolras realized what Bahorel meant his eyes went and his mouth fell open slightly. “Marius is proposing?” 

“No actually, Cosette is. I think she realized that boy would have to trip over himself for another two years before he could even think of mustering up the courage to ask, and she’s impatient as anything to get married. I can’t tell you how unbearable it is to watch ‘Say Yes To The Dress’ with her. That’s supposed to be my cool down show! It shouldn’t make me more stressed! Plus, she’s always talking over Monte to talk about her dream dress and that should be like a federal crime or something. I can’t wait to go gown shopping for her, I’m going to be such a bitch when she tries on her sweetheart neckline princess ball gown. I’ll cause a big scene about how it’s totally not the dress for her and I’ll guilt her into trying on an ugly poofy sleeved lace a-line.”

“No, you won’t,” Enjolras laughed fondly. “You’ll fold and cry immediately the moment she comes out in that dress.”

“Fuck, you’re right! I’m getting emotional just thinking about it.”

“Has it really been two years for them?” Enjolras placed his chin absentmindedly in his hand. “Everyone seems to be growing up.”

“Except for us, of course.” Bahorel winked. “Young, wild, and free forever! A youth unbridled by time and motivated for a fresh new world!”

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