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For the recent Sewerexchange run by the Sewerchat discord server, I did an illustration for akatonbo's awesome Valvert fic It's Empty In the Valley of Your Heart. In honor of my recent return to Dreamwidth, I did a long behind-the-scenes post detailing how I put together the illustration, if anyone's into that sort of thing! There is a bit of discussion of French garden design. The fic involves Valjean gardening to his heart's content in the afterlife—it's interesting to contemplate how his gardening ambitions might take shape over time.

(This is my first time posting to a Dreamwidth comm in...maybe ever, actually? Hopefully I'm doing it right!)

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So I took a lot of notes on my Kindle while reading the Brick and apparently a lot of my Valjean and Javert feels are wrapped up with Hugo's symbolism, which I guess is no surprise because Hugo is not exactly subtle there. Umm. I feel like this has probably all been said a billion times already because Hugo is just that unsubtle, but as I am late to the party and Tumblr must just be the worst place possible to find old meta, feel free to point out if I'm wondering about stuff that has been rehashed a hundred times already.

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