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('v')👍 I think I nailed it this time!!

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A Reflection of Starlight Review

(TW: brief mentions of COVID, cancer, and suicide) (spoilers for Les Mis but no spoilers for AROS)

Please indulge me as I tell a bit of a personal story.

I took French all throughout high school and also participated in French club. I was also really into musical theatre (and I still am) so I was interested in the musical Les Misérables. I saw it live once and it was incredible. Sometime during my sophomore year I tried to read the original Brick but didn’t get very far, it’s just kinda not my thing I guess. But the characters were so charming and endearing to me and I was primarily moved by the stories of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. I was moved by how their characters and stories mirror each other and how they’re so alike but their differences drove them to very different places. During my senior year of high school we watched the 2012 Les Mis film in French club one day. At the end when Javert kills himself, almost everyone in the room cheered, but I did not. While Javert did many bad things, had a very narrow worldview, and made things so much harder for our protagonist, I still felt pity for him. I felt pity that he lived by this one doctrine all his life because he kind of had no other choice and when faced with the idea that he may be wrong, he was so distressed and had no one to turn to, so he took his own life.

Earlier that year, I started reading a fanfiction called A Reflection of Starlight by AutumnGracy, and I was quickly sucked in. For those unaware, it is a continuation of the Les Mis book that starts with one big difference: Jean Valjean saves Javert from drowning after he throws himself into the Seine. From there, the two grow closer and Javert learns to live with the fact that the law isn’t infallible with the help of Jean Valjean.

I started reading this fanfic in the spring of 2019 and I didn’t finish it until today, January 15th, 2024. Over four years. To my credit, it is a HUGE work, spanning over 379,000 words; that’s longer than the entire Hunger Games trilogy, which is about 301,000 words in total. A lot has happened in my life since I started reading that slowed my progress. The COVID pandemic hit, I got diagnosed with cancer, beat cancer, started college, had a cancer relapse, beat the cancer relapse, and got a boyfriend all in the time that it took me to finish this thing. This is the longest text that I have ever read.

And there’s a good reason why I stuck with it: it’s absolutely amazing. While I didn’t read the original Brick, the wording and structure of the story seems very appropriate for the original time period and story. It’s extremely well-written and tells a compelling story all on its own that gives all of the main characters a resolution to their pasts and a hopeful and happy ending. It’s kinda plot-heavy, there’s a lot of original stories and plot lines taking place, but it is all engaging and wraps up really nicely.

The center-point of the story, however, is the growing relationship and eventual romance between Jean Valjean and Javert. From beginning to end you see how this beautiful relationship slowly develops and grows. And I mean SLOW. This is literally the slowest burn that I have ever read. But it’s worth it. Even before it’s explicitly romantic, there are lots of cute, endearing moments between the two that kept me hooked. They’re even asexual which makes my aspec heart so happy. This is probably the greatest fanfiction that I’ve ever read.

@autumngracy thank you so much for such a wonderful work. Your authors notes throughout were entertaining and made me feel like I was experiencing this story along with you. Your writing is phenomenal and I hope you know how great your skills are.

[pepprs]

acnl is a superior game to acnh in almost every way except the graphics. it’s actually making me mad

[madamescarlette]

Maybe ace attorney is the same thing as that critical role quote about how one day someone will pray for a miracle and that miracle will be you that I heard once and it lodged itself in my heart forever. Just a thought.

!!!!!!! YOU'RE SO RIGHT IT STUNS ME. Maybe it should have been more obvious to me since it's a series about, well, a public defender, but I just think it's so so so beautiful that as a story it always goes back to this heart of when you feel abandoned and you feel like no one in the world will listen to you and when you have nothing left to you but your own will to live that's when Nick shows up like a beam of light and honesty and he'll see you through it to the end, no matter how hard-won that may be!!

That quote lives in my heart always as a reminder of like, we don't know how or when our prayers will be answered, but in the same vein we don't know how or when we might BE the answers for somebody else, and there's a mystery and beauty to think that if your great work is to believe in other people despite constantly being shown the worst of humanity, sometimes your only guide is to believe the best of people even when that seems like the foolish option (when in fact it's the very hardest path to take). idk I'm not making sense anymore but EVERYTHING to me!

[goldenmusicmoments]

Top 10 Albums Of 2023:

Ryan Beatty - Calico.

Hazlett - Bloom Mountain.

Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance.

Brandon Ratcliff - Tale Of Two Towns.

Samia - Honey.

Cannons - Heartbeat Highway.

Boygenius - The Record.

The Aces - I've Loved You For So Long.

Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black.

The Japanese House - In The End It Always Does.

Once again narrowing down to ten albums from the initial list of contenders proved to be quite the challenge. There have been some phenomenal releases this year and many that didn't get the recognition they deserve. These ten albums stood their ground for various reasons. Ryan Beatty's album 'Calico' is definitely 2023's Album of the Year. The rest of the albums aren't placed in a ranking order. If you haven't yet heard any of the records on this list then you have to do so immediately.

It will be exciting to see who is gearing up to release new music in 2024. We already have had a few announcements for album releases and then there are predictions of who could potentially be coming out with new music. However as usual it will prove to be quite the stressful task selecting the ten standout releases.

Happy New Year to you all!

[animalcrossingshowdown]

[4m4zing-gracie]

After playing some NewHorizons, I just wanna say.

Is no one gonna question how a fuckin' GIANT CLAM can somehow out-swim a human in terms of speed? Like how the frick does it do that, it rarely moves in real life as far as I know, correct me if I am wrong--

[ruxashes]

Guarda "I miss you, I'm sorry | Nancy & Ace" su YouTube

I don't wanna go, we've been here before

Everything i know brings back to us

[elapach24]

I really miss here, but I barely have enough time for 1 social media at the time, and I haven't even downloaded tumblr on my phone, so this is the most abandoned one.

I want to come back and, specially, be more active on my fandoms, though I don't have many mutuals or know how to effectively interact in here hahaha

[parallelfoxii]

[REUP] Old art // Animal Crossing

°• TIP JAR •°

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☆ NO REPOST / WRONG USE / EDIT / AI ☆

[oideyo-animalforest]

New icon btw. ww Gracie w transflag colorpicked off her (a different render but shhh)

[rosiewalks]

Dolly intro: LOL

This post will include both the bigger OMGs and the midsize Tweens. I do have a bunch of the little tots, but I don't really consider them part of my doll collection.

OMG

Loretta I got used in a big lot. I love her hair; it's a very nice texture and I love to just twirl it around my fingers. I got her at a time when I was having a lot of anxiety about driving places with my cranky baby, so driving an hour to pick up this doll lot was good exposure therapy.

Miss Royale. The blacklight features! the bonkers themeing! I don't take nearly enough pictures of her for how much I love her.

Ace and Ursula (with bonus Loretta), the beginnings of my LOLler derby team. More to come on that in a future post.

Gamma Babe -- I kept everything from her: all clothes and accessories, her box, her other box, the little shoe boxes. I absolutely adore this retrofuture space babe.

Tweens

Haribo with bonus candy tots. I love her over-the-top design, and especially her little gummy bear belt! Though I'm always afraid of losing the bears; they come off really easily.

Gracie Skates is precious.

Aya , another one with perfect themeing.

Cora with all three of her heads. I'd love to have more in this line; the headswap mechanic is so fun!

[pepprs]

another year of failing to catch an arowana in acnl 😭💔

[robinniko]

i gotta admit the song us by gracie is such a good song lmao, like the entire song to me is good not just taylor’s part as well, which i am admittedly picky when it comes to taylor’s features but like this song just fits both of them very well