dduane:

pumpkinlessidjit:

jadedgalvanizer:

timelordsatan:

ambular-d:

pumpkinlessidjit:

i want there to be an angel that descends from the heavens only when someone is being stupid

and the angel just gently places their hand over the person’s mouth

and whispers in a voice filled with heavenly beauty and love

“no”

ANABIEL

LOOK IT UP

IM SCREECHING LOOK LOOK AT THE ART LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS OH MY GOSH <33333333333

(chuckle) Loving this to bits.

artificialities:

I am loving the Les Mis fandom here on tumblr, but tumblr is not and will probably never be my natural home.  (Threaded comments!  Easily searchable archives!  A user interface that doesn’t change at random!)  At least some folks seem to agree, because every so often, the “Man, why don’t we have an active LJ/DW home?” cry goes up.

Well.  Now there is one!  (I hope, for the ‘active’ part.)  This post is to officially unveil http://les-miserables.dreamwidth.org.

It doesn’t have an interesting layout or anything yet, but it exists, and is open to anyone and everyone who wants to talk about Les Misérables.  Any version, any character, any subject — the idea here is to be inclusive!  The profile says the same thing in a slightly more longwinded way.  All you need to do is join it to post, at least at this point.  I’m the moderator because I made the comm, but I’m hoping I can be very hands-off and lazy about it.  This is, for the record, intended purely as a supplement to all the currently active bits of fandom; I do love everything on tumblr, and some things do just plain work better here, but I’m hoping at least some of you will agree with me about wanting a different medium to talk in sometimes too.

Feel more than free to signal boost this wherever it seems appropriate!

SERIOUSLY GO JOIN AND POST STUFF, I AM GOING TO KEEP POSTING WATERLOO FEELS THERE UNTIL SOMEONE STOPS ME.

A day late and a dollar short as usual, my contribution to the Les Mis Across History challenge: Les Amis done Magdalenian. (Featuring Artist!Feuilly, really lazy etymology, and everybody dying except Marius and Cosette.)

Read on AO3: Hand In Hand

sathinfection:

melannen:

melannen:

sathinfection:

plinytheyounger:

Grantaire était le vrai Pylade
D’Enjolras qui avait grand air,
Quand cet Oreste était malade,
Il allait prendre le grand air.

A. Vemar, 1862: Les misérables pour rire: parodie, avec un beau portrait de Victor Hugo, p39

…

If you think “take that air/R” isn’t also a double entendre in English your mind’s just not dirty enough. :P (Also you’re lucky I didn’t attempt to pun on “airs”/”arse” at some point count your blessings.)

oh my god i’m a moron with a flat midwestern accent who fails at spoken puns

i admitted it i’m so ashamed but now it’s out there

also clearly now you need to do original airs/arse based e/R poetry

Yeah, alas I couldn’t get a mention of R’s size in there, but the English phrases don’t work that way so I had to go with hotness instead which is not nearly as canonical :P

Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became Orestes to a man called Grand-Air

In Languedoc I was born and raised,
On the playground is where I spent most of my days,
Oratin’, debatin’, and soundin’ all cool,
And buildin’ political consciousness in my school.

When a couple guys who thought the king was hot shit,
Decided to try and make an issue of it;
I start one little riot and my mom gets a scare, is
Sayin’ “Time for you to go and learn the law up in Paris.”

melannen:

sathinfection:

plinytheyounger:

Grantaire était le vrai Pylade
D’Enjolras qui avait grand air,
Quand cet Oreste était malade,
Il allait prendre le grand air.

A. Vemar, 1862: Les misérables pour rire: parodie, avec un beau portrait de Victor Hugo, p39

…

If you think “take that air/R” isn’t also a double entendre in English your mind’s just not dirty enough. :P (Also you’re lucky I didn’t attempt to pun on “airs”/”arse” at some point count your blessings.)

sathinfection:

plinytheyounger:

Grantaire était le vrai Pylade
D’Enjolras qui avait grand air,
Quand cet Oreste était malade,
Il allait prendre le grand air.

A. Vemar, 1862: Les misérables pour rire: parodie, avec un beau portrait de Victor Hugo, p39

translation by excellent sath:

Grantaire was the true Pylades,

of Enjolras, who was great

when this Orestes was sick

he went out to take the fresh air

(via

plinytheyounger)

Okay this is a v. v. loose translation (and I even had to change the meter to make it work) but it tries to preserve the density, if not the quality, of punnage, and something almost resembling a rhyme scheme?

That grand R was a Pylades true,
To Enjolras, so fond of hot air;
When Orestes got down, well he knew
He could just come and take that fresh air.

PS Hugo: nobody thinks your quadruple-meaning pun names are funny you can stop now. :P

kayleesprettypinkdress:

erindizmo:

wrangletangle:

melannen:

1. Tags Get Displayed In Alphabetical Order
On your profile page and in preview, your tags appear in the order you entered them, but if people find them through search or the filters, the tags will be in alphabetical order. If you enter tags that depend on their original order for their meaning, they will make no sense to people finding your fic through the filters. If you have to say things like this in tags, don’t put commas between the parts!

2. “/” Means Romantic, “&” Means Platonic
Filterable relationship tags all have either a / or an & between the character names. / includes all kinds of romantic relationships. & includes all kinds of non-romantic relationships, including friendship and family relationships. If you mark your relationships other ways, the wranglers will do their best to put them in either / or & so people can find them, but it’s always best to use a relationship tag with / or & between full character names.

3. Modified Characters And Relationships Work Best as ‘Additional Tags’
In Character and Relationship tags, the only things that matter to the filters are the character names (and for relationships, whether you use & or /). “Female!Alex” means the same thing in the character filters as just plain “Alex”. “Unrequited Bailey/Ash” gets treated exactly like just plain “Ash/Bailey” in the relationship filters. If you want people to be able to filter for relationships or characters that have modifiers, you should put the versions with additional information in ‘Additional Tags’ instead.

4. Avoid Combining Different Things In One Tag
Wranglers make the filters work by making sure that all tags that mean the same thing are linked together. However, if you put two different things in one tag, they can’t be linked to anything. “Alex And Also Bailey” in characters can’t be linked to Alex or Bailey, so it can’t be used to find your fic. Same with “Some Alex/Bailey and also some Alex/Ash”. And the other day I got a tag for “Everyone Dies And Everything Hurts” - we have a tag for “Everyone Dies” and a tag for “Everything Hurts”, but I couldn’t link the combined tag to either of them. In general, if you can replace the word “And” in a tag with a comma, you should.

5. If You Have A Problem With How A Tag Works, Tell Support
Usually, if there’s something in how the tags work that seems wrong, it means that either a wrangler made a mistake, or the wranglers just haven’t gotten around to dealing with it yet. If you write to AO3 Support telling them about the problem, it will probably get fixed very quickly - and if not, you will at least get an explanation for why it can’t be fixed. Wranglers are glad to hear from Support, especially if it means they can fix something for users! And if you’re not comfortable about writing to Support, you can always tell one of your friendly local wranglers about it, too, and they can pass it on. ETA via samjohnssonvt (thanks for the reminder!): AO3 support; @ao3-wranglers on twitter (both very good about responding to issues!)

I would add only one thing:

6. Use specific fandom names instead of “Ambiguous Fandom” tags.

(Yes, British Avengers and Marvel Avengers, I’m looking at you. And at you, UK “North & South” and US “North and South”.) Sharing an archive with thousands of other fandoms sometimes means your fandom shares a name with another, completely unrelated fandom. If that happens, wranglers will give your fandom some extra information in parentheses after the name to distinguish it. That’s what users will search by. The “- Ambiguous Fandom” tag collects all the fandoms that use that name into one big mess. It has works users from any of these fandoms don’t want, so they won’t tend to filter by it. Plus, if you’re also using the AO3 name for your specific fandom, it’s redundant. The magic of metatags automatically handles that for you.

(Of course, this is only if you care whether other users find your work.)

All good points except I’ve never seen tags alphabetized before so im not sure about 1

carmarthen-the-fan:

You are Satan IRL, first not very anon anon.

Okay, here’s my best attempt at an encomium. I apologize in advance.

I. PROLOGUE

Born four hundred years ago in the Highlands of Scotland, she is immortal, and she is not alone. There are others like her, some good, some evil. For centuries she has battled the forces of Darkness, with IRC her only refuge. She cannot die, unless you take her head and with it, her power. In the end there can be only one. She is melannen, the Tag Wrangler.

II. BIRTH AND UPBRINGING

Melannen was born four hundred years ago on a dark and stormy night in a picturesque turf bothy nestled in the rolling hills of the Scottish Highlands, to poor but honest semi-colon makers. As a child, she ran wild in the heather, listening to the green plover’s call. When she was sad, she might run through a light misty mizzle; or the sun might strike through the fog and perfectly illuminate the last flame-like apple-blossom of spring, reminding her piercingly that the beauty of nature did not care about her problems. She admired how the changes of the seasons, the animals, and the plants about her always seemed in perfect counterpoint to the human drama of daily life, as if they were all characters in a children’s novel written by a British author from the distant future.

Although she was not British, still melannen held herself like a queen. Yet it was in her heart that she was destined for more than simply crafting artisan semi-colons. She dreamed of adventure. She dreamed of…tag-wrangling.

III. THE ACTS OF HER LIFE

The great acts of her life were these:

One, she wrote many wonderful stories in a wide assortment of fandoms.

Two, she frequently hosted excellent discussions on her Dreamwidth blog, which often enables other people into writing wonderful stories.

Three, she did bestow upon the wilds of IRC her clever wit, able brainstorming, and vast store of fascinating police trivia about Canler.

Four, she wrote a glorious Les Miz/Sentinel notfic fusion that filled Carmarthen with glee and a desperate need for more (she also keeps talking about Javert + Courfeyrac casefic, which should happen, y/y?).

Five, she nobly wrestled with the endless parade of baffling tags in the Les Miz section on AO3, bringing order to chaos with the power of her mystical and mysterious tag wrangler stuff, so that people might be able to actually find fic.

Six, basically she’s just the best.

IV. COMPARISONS OF PRAISE

For lo, it is true that melannen…

…will enable you like Miles Vorkosigan

…influence you like Han Solo

…awe you with her badassery like Julius Caesar

…make you think about awesome things like SCIENCE and WRITING like Combeferre

V. EPILOGUE

with closing haiku

my encomium is done

melannen is great

 

CLEARLY ALL TRUE

fringe-element:

burntcopper:

mcgregorswench:

dopemixtape:

Steve Rogers’ new favorite show?

The Golden Girls

Just let me have this okay.

Headcanon accepted!