phee nailing why sometimes one wants to write/read fic in which one's fave characters are wildly unhappy https://twitter.com/popplioikawa/status/1245930843840733191

but, and i can't stress this enough, the most common source of my desire to write slash imagine brutally unhappy fic is the same dumbass sixteen year old who was like SO heart horny for people dying heroically on the battlefield

you know how as your palate ages, you get into black coffee and straight whiskey? it's literally just this but for eponine and "a little fall of rain" that is all this is