simaraknows reblogged
A reason why i can't normaly read Balzac
and, when
Balzac: this novel is called "Father Goriot" because it's about the tragic altruism of a dying father
Me, an intellectual: this novel is called "Daddy Vautrin" because it's about an escaped gay convict who's trying to get a sugar baby
JS&MN AU were Drawlight, after being freed from prison goes “screw this I’m outta here”, migrates to France, meets Vautrin (aka Jacques “my type is twinks with ambigious morality and money problems” Collin) and thus get’s himself a proper sugar daddy.
#christopher drawlight#jonathan strange and mr norrell#vautrin#jsamn#balzac#literature#oh look I fixed two franchises at once#just imagine drawlight guest-starring in pere goriot#I dare you#he'd be best buds with eugen and later lucien#the possibilities#it's so wild that those two characters could have met#it's almost as wild as the fact that javert and vautrin are almost the same age and would have been the ultimate sassy duo#aaaaaah#let's be real Drawlight is EXACTLY the kind of pretty boy vautrin would have swooped up along the way#hooray for vautrins worrying tendency to randomly collect stray young men#damn I need this fic#vautrin is such a gift#canonically gay master criminal who cannot not flirt with random twinks#after reading bits of la comedie humaine I'm pretty much convinced that Drawlight should have been a balzac character he fits so well into t#into that whole 'society is cruel but yeah money how do I get some' mess#cross-country dandy team-up
calling out the Balzac fandom for collectively refering to Vautrin as “gay Mephistophilis” because implying that Mephistophilis was ever straight is just... rude