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what if star trek fan fics had covers like modern airport romance and pop-sci novels?? | part 4 (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

Connecting Flight (AOS Kirk/McCoy) by @fruitsboots

The Futures We Build (AOS Spock/McCoy) by estelraca

For What They Are (TOS Spock/McCoy) by stealthestars

There was a sense of panic in his eyes, his voice.

“What a ridiculous joke. You’re in no position to be left by yourself. Now come on—”

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Offering 2 fics, 1000+ words each (I have a tendency to get wordy) Fandoms: Les Miserables, Ace Attorney, Star Wars (Rogue One, Original trilogy, Sequel trilogy), tokusatsu (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, Garo).  If you’ve seen me geek about something else, feel free to ask and I might be willing to write it. Starting bid: $5

Since the writers have been revealed, the fic I was gifted by the lovely @estelraca. It has Prouvaire, Bahorel, Bahorel’s laughing mistress, a seance at the catacombs of Paris and references to actual Romantics. 

Ahahaha half of these are going to kind of hedge actually answering, but I’ll explain my reasoning as I go.

who’s the cuddler: Oooh. Hmm. Once he gets used to things, Sebastian may be the cuddliest, but he is very much a cuddlee and not a cuddler. I think Klavier is the one that, at base, would start the most physical contact, but not by too much. They can be a little tactile group.

who makes the bed: Klavier is surprisingly neat. He is the most likely. =D

who wakes up first: Ahhhh. Depends on the day. Kay keeps slightly odd hours, so she’s a wild card. Klavier often likes to go for a run  before breakfast and will be up early, but Sebastian is the one who sets an alarm even on days off.

who has the weird taste in music: Define “weird”. Sebasian mainly listens to classical, Klavier’s is probably the most ecclectic, and Kay likes strong beats and catchy melodies no matter where she can get them.

who is more protective: Probably Kay. You don’t touch Kay’s boys. (Though Klavier will also get quite growly if anything he holds dear is in jeopardy. He is a very close second.)

who sings in the shower: Who doesn’t sing in the shower? Sometimes Kay doesn’t because it’s good training to see what she can hear in an immediately noisy environment, but singing! showers! Fun!

who cries during movies: Sebastian cries during everything.

who spends the most while out shopping: Depends on the trip. Klavier will buy more expensive things, but fewer of them. Kay will pick up more random things that won’t be too much for any one specific item. Sebastian doesn’t understand either of them.

who kisses more roughly: Kay/Klavier kisses tend to be more rough than anything with Sebastian involved. That boy needs gentle love.

who is more dominate: Kay. Again, Klavier is a relatively close second, but Klavier thrives at being a beta and it’s really hard to get Kay following anyone but herself.

4- Who gave the thrill-seeking, rule-hating, death-courting sensation junkie A MOTOR VEHICLE. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. 

…honestly in any City he’s gonna find Driving  to be HORRIBLY DULL. Traffic jams and even just normal flow of traffic don’t allow for daredevil driving. Why this? Why build a thing meant to Go Fast and then lock it into a system where it’s forever idling, trapped, DENIED ITS PURPOSE LIKE HUMANITY DENIED ITS LIBERTY BY SOCIETY’S COWARDLY DEMANDS FOR ORDER–

…he ends up selling the car to someone who lives where there are Lots of Open Roads who promises to take the curves Fast. He doesn’t need an Existential Metaphor that he has to pay for parking about. 

5- ahahahah aaaah hahahah oh gad 

Song I wish was longer: Hakuna Matata. Not because it needs it, but because then we could all groove to it for longer.

Song I wish was shorter: Idk. Maybe Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

The one song I always skip: Anything involving Symba and Scar together. Even if it’s instrumental. >.>

Song I sing the best: I... have no clue whatsoever. Not a musical I break out into a lot, which is not to say it’s not great. Also, to sing some of the best songs, you need a group of people who understand how harmony works and are working together to make it amazing. So, I may not be able to sing a song the best, but I and a group of other awesome people could!

Song I still don’t know all the words to: Circle of Life. ...I’ve never learned the Zulu. Should work on that. (I know enough things in Swahili after all...)

Song that honestly deserves an award or five: Circle of Life. Especially the Broadway verison.

Song that’s terrible but I still love: BE PREPAAAAARED

Song that’s really good but I hate: idk. Can You Feel the Love Tonight maybe?

Song I think could change the world: Circle of Life, He Lives in You, Hakuna Matata? There’s options.

Bahorel:

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life|  I feel personally targeted and attacked by this character’s existence hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang | Hugo doesn’t specify but metacanonically what a hottie |  also so much my personal type that I am Offended hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff DEFY SYSTEMS , WHO ARE A BUNCH OF OLD WIZARDS TO DECIDE WHAT HIS ASSOCIATIONS SHOULD BE best quality:the capacity to Care a Whole Awful Lot about, apparently, every topic always constantly??   Like, the kind of caring that actually results in doing things?In  face to face confrontations??? it is entirely possible that I would just let my own house burn down rather than Make A Phone Call, so  I am duly impressed.worst quality: Impulse Control, Willful Lack Thereof.  It’s of course terribly Romantic, which is the point, but is not something made to ensure that life is Easy. ship them with:   lowkey nearly anyone, because it’s funny, highkey Fantine and in Romantic complicated way Prouvairebrotp them with:  Gavroche especially, and pretty much all the Amis, and I mean lbr, Bahorel is everyone’s Terrible Influence older brother at the drop of a hatneeds to stay away from:  GUARDS WITH BAYONETS?? I feel like this is an obvious one but we’re here today because SOME people *glares* couldn’t stay alivemisc. thoughts:  while I think Bahorel, like the Amis in general, is archetypal enough to translate broadly to a variety of scenarios, I think a WHOLE lot of the specific context surrounding him is lost to most modern readers (not because modern readers are notably ignorant in a general sense, or anything, but because The World Moves On and context that could be Assumed Knowledge when the book came out is now a matter of dedicated research) . Both the Romantic aspect and the relevance of his peasant background are really easy to lose, and it’s too bad (and not something that can really be repaired, I think–you gotta research and it’s fair that most people won’t be doing that!) .  Mostly I am sad about this because it means a lot of people are reading this without really fun and/or politically radicalizing context, and these are things which haunt my nerdy soul. AND,  I am really really glad that current fandom trends seem to have swung away from the “dumb jock” perception, given that the text isn’t even counting on context for  that, but comes right out and SAYS he’s smart and a thinker, wtf with people reading the book and going on to think “oh well but he’s not Refined and an Academic, clearly that means he’s a meathead” .  He’s a WEIRDO is what he is, almost professionally, but he’s not anti-thought or anti-learning. He just doesn’t trust or defer to the official institutions of learning, which, you know, neither does Combeferre, because they’re messed up.  

…I have a whole lot of Miscellaneous Thoughts About Bahorel, so I’d better stop there. 

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