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Scrupulosity by Spongyllama
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
22 Nov 2025
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Curse him. Curse his name and this supposed gift he’d given of life. Even Javert’s final thought, submerged willfully in the cold waters of the Seine, was littered with the remnants of Jean Valjean. Let him be free. Let the water wash away the curse inflicted on his soul. Let him die now, too tormented to wait in agony for a natural death, even if it meant the remainder of his soul would go to Lucifer’s domain. Let his eternal life be one of misery, as he deserved. Perhaps Valjean would meet him there, but Javert did not think it so.
Rescued from the Seine by a determinably anonymous benefactor, Inspector Javert struggles to cope with the consequences of being left alive.
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- Part 1 of Scrupulosity
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04 Mar 2026
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an obstinate stain by reedroad
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Liveship Traders Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
26 Dec 2025
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A man called Tom finds himself the gardener of the Vestrit family.
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07 Feb 2026
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The Face of God by mothmage
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - All Media Types
28 Oct 2019
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"The thesis of Les Mis is that one act of kindness or mercy can move mountains within a person; Javert gets that at a young age, and everything changes." - @dandelioness
(Or: Javert meets Jean Valjean (and family) long before Toulon. This and other small changes shape him into a much more human version of himself than fate (or Victor Hugo) would have had him be.)
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- Part 1 of The Face of God 'verse
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28 Dec 2025
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“I know this is difficult. I know you do not like this. But you are starving yourself, Thomas, and God would not see you starved. I would not see you starved.”
Thomas wonders what it says about him that one of those means more than the other— and what it means that this does not bother him as it should, this blasphemous thought, this sacrilegious reprioritization.
“I do not wish to argue with you, my dear Vincent,” Thomas says, voice quiet. “Your concern is kind, but— I am afraid this is only how I am.”
Vincent squeezes his hands.
“You are not your punishments,” Vincent tells him, firm, warm, insistent. “You are not your denial. You are not your sacrifice, Thomas, nor your hunger. You are not your starvation.” His hands shake Thomas’s, a rattle to keep his attention. “You are Thomas. You are human, and you are starving, and you should not be.”
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20 Dec 2025
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After his relationship with Vetinari ends and his marriage starts to implode, Sam Vimes finds old habits coming back to bite him hard. Meanwhile, a boy has been murdered, the guilds are out for blood and someone is trying to kill Vetinari. Again.
Vimes and Vetinari have to decide what’s really important, and how much they’re willing to risk for it.
The Balancing Act series finale - this won’t make much sense if you haven’t read Balancing Act and My Friends and Smiling Enemies, at the least.
Please read the tags; starts dark, but the advantage to hitting rock bottom is that afterwards, the only way is up...
M rating is for mature themes and some fade-to-black smut in one chapter.Series
- Part 4 of Balancing Act Series
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07 Dec 2025