To describe my life, I’ll take a favorite quote from The Brick (doesn’t that look formidable in bold).

“Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics; I understand only love and liberty.”

I am bad at math, which is unfortunate in a family of math geeks. But alas, there are dreams that cannot be!

Fun fact: Victor Hugo hated math. His father wanted him to be an accountant and to give up on writing. Oh, the irony.

I started writing Les Mis fanfiction because the way it ends is just not fair, and the sewer system gets more attention than our beloved characters. (Years into this fandom and I’m still in denial)

Writing is frustrating because I try to keep characters canonically correct, and more often than not I’m procrastinating and reading someone’s way better stories and brewing in envy. :) But I review as much and as honestly as I can. I give the attention to details I want from reviews, so I’m sorry if it ever seems like I’m nitpicking. I am also determined to never desert a fic, no matter how long it is since I’ve updated.

There are a lot of fandoms I hope to write for, and these are some of them.

Musicals: Phantom of the Opera, The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, Newsies, Anastasia, Moulin Rouge, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Bonnie and Clyde, Next to Normal, Mamma Mia, and Wicked.

TV Shows: Doctor Who, Sherlock, The Office, Glee, and Supernatural.

Books: Les Miserables, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Three Musketeers, anything by Jane Austen, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Giver, etc.

Don’t be afraid to give me an honest opinion of my stories! If my story is deserving of being slammed down with honesty, bring it on. Really, criticism helps me. It can be anything, writing style, plot development, character depiction... does a chapter make you feel something? That’s what I want to know.

There’s a point, however, that characters stop and become their own people. I want happy endings, yet for some reason I love books with sad endings more. Why? Is it so I can torture myself with the deaths of these beloved characters? So I may spend years in denial, hiding my obsessive self from the world only to bring it out in writing such as this?

Fiction inspires me every day, as do the people that come with it. These are my favorite quotes from my favorite books.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”—Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often cane back with two.” —Les Miserables

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” —Northanger Abbey

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” —Les Miserables

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” —Les Miserables

“The soul has illusions as the bird has wings; it is supported by them.” —Les Miserables

“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?” —Les Miserables (Grantaire’s drunk poetry)

“There is on spectacle grander than the sea; that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky; that is the soul.” —Les Miserables

“To be free.” —Les Miserables

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” —Jane Austen

“To define is to limit.” —The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” —The Picture Of Dorian Gray