Not titling this with song lyrics; you're welcome.

[melannen]

According to my ~highly scientific~ poll in my last post, approx. 30-40% of all Dreamwidth users have had songs from Les Miserables stuck in their heads ever since the movie came out.

I don't suppose those of you who are getting more active in the fandom would consider, as a kindness, "earworm warnings" for any quotes from the lyrics (including song titles)?

//just kidding

//mostly

//although it would be nice to be able to go more than 24 hours without hearing the people sing in the background of all I do. I've kind of forgotten what that's like.

Although I have gotten quite a lot of cleaning done while unable to concentrate on anything but listening to the soundtrack on repeat, so there's that.

(I tried putting on "Once More With Feeling" instead today; it only took about half an hour before One More Day was back.

I haven't tried Cabaret yet; that's the nuclear option.)

ETA: Warning: lyrics in comments.

Comments

[lannamichaels]

The problem with using ImpSec is that they're the intelligence service, not the police. There's Service Security as the military police and then folks like Lord Vorbohn's guard (don't have canon at hand to look up exact name). ImpSec are spies and such, they put down revolts, but they're not really policing, that's beyond their scope. They'll throw you in a dungeon for stealing state secrets, but not for stealing bread.


If you wanted to bring in Barrayar canon characters, I think you'd have to write them as the oppressive monarchists crushing the revolt.

You mean they're not already? ;)

...you could write it as a darker-path AU from the beginning of Vor Game where Miles didn't make the same choice on Kyril Island and there was an uprising of non-Russian-speakers as a result of all those Greek-speakers dying...

Which would result in such a massacre, although I'm not convinced they couldn't have kept it hushed up to begin with. Either way, massively repressive govrnment, remote location, highly controlled press. It'll be a massacre. The only hope would be Gregor doing something, whcih, considering Gregor's headspace in Vor Game, I'm not sure Gregor "doing something" would be "allowing protests over military things", esp violent ones. Unless he had a specific use for them, like ceremoniously holding someone accountable and having their head, and so clean house.


So long as it's AUing Miles, could keep him where he was at the start of WA. where he's all "let the counts die off, they're all musty relics anyway." Miles really Comes To Privilege in a huge way later on, but at 17, he might be willing to see the appeal, But he wouldn't hurt Gregor... although there's probably a point of no return there after which Miles would openly revolt.