#i didnt read hundreds of thousands of words of les mis fic bc the book was good

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Listen. LISTEN. I did my research. I did a year long study on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I know his secrets. I know the depths of his book. And in my opinion. Its about the french. It's about revolution in some small part. It's easier than calling it, more accurately, Victor Hugo's very long book thats occasionally about somebody or something but is more about French artchitecture and structural disenfranchisement.

Tumblr making up a fake movie this, tumblr making up a fake movie that. As if Ao3 authors haven't spent years collectively coming to consenses on fake characters, backstories, plot points, etc. You think Les Mis has 24k fics about the real and accurate characters of Victor Hugo's french revolution book? You think Voltron is a good enough show to have 83k of fics that people would ever want to read?

Goncharov just cuts out the middleman of what fic writers have been doing for years: making up their own random bullshit and then mutually deciding whats canon based on vibes.