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thecrenellations · 21 days
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Oh, you married the older sister (?) of the friend/crush you connected with on a dangerous adventure as a teenager? She has some gender stuff going on and was pretty much the only person who could get through to him when he was extremely ill after one of the most traumatic experiences of his life? On a scale of Jerott Blyth to Sounis Sophos, how well did it go?
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mametupa · 1 year
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“My God! She's doing this.”
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comicwaren · 5 months
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From White Widow #001
Art by Alessandro Miracolo and Matt Milla
Written by Sarah Gailey
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saisons-en-enfer · 3 months
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Marthe Alexandre on a vintage postcard
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thevisualvamp · 2 months
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rikdrawsthings · 1 year
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gw666 · 24 days
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Top Albums February 2024
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andreagrimes · 26 days
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saw this ig reel and thought of you immediately<3
i love u marth 💗💗
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thecrenellations · 22 days
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Top 5 Lymond ships?
I’m going to keep this to romantic* ships, but my list of top 5 Lymond relationships of any kind definitely includes some platonic and family ones (and is even more difficult to confine to 5).
*other or additional adjectives may certainly apply…
click below for spoilers and because my answers got long. Augh, these characters!
Francis/Will - The nicknames! The fights! The stars! Strip tarocco and its narrative implications! Then the wedding day sheep battle, the tactical cross-dressing, “everything there was to know about Lymond’s way with women” ?!?!, the ring, the way Will is there at Midculter when Francis comes home in DK… They’re such a disaster, in hilarious and serious ways, but they make it through to real trust and friendship in the end, and I just love them.
Francis/Philippa - Their relationship is always important and telling and entertaining, and after a certain point but before the suffering sets in, they just keep making each other smile and laugh, by accident and on purpose. Reading their scenes in RC is like genuinely being in the room with them, with banter and chemistry that is PALPABLE and makes me into a third wheel, but as a reader I also have insights that they don’t, so I’m in on it too? Or something. They love each other so much! And after everything, they get to be together. Francis, you fool, this is what you should be!
Francis/Jerott - if you’d told me when I was in the middle of reading the series that they’d be on this list, I’d be like, “Uh, ok, sure. Dorothy Dunnett has changed my opinion about characters before.” If you'd told me when I had just finished the series, I’d go, “Huh??” But here I am. There is so much wrong with both of them, and we know it all too well, but they are so important to each other, and Jerott is one of the characters closest to the story's heart. Getting Jerott safely out of the disaster that is DK is one of the things Francis promises himself, and he’s so glad when Jerott decides to stay. Their relationship, especially in PiF, becomes deeply devoted and strange and delicate and absolutely full of self-deception on both sides. But Francis never stops trusting him, even when he’s busy running away from all of his own feelings with increasing speed, even when Jerott is being awful to him. And all the desperate conflict within Jerott distills to the essential element of being there for Francis, every time it comes down to it. Also, the way Jerott calls him his first name more than anyone else (on-page, in the series’ scope) messes me up.
Marthe/Güzel - I REALLY wish we’d gotten to see more of them. For Marthe, PiF is (among many other things) this long, agonizing breakup, but we only get a few clear glimpses of it. That scene between them in Djerba! Marthe plays a song wishing misfortune on the brother she knows her girlfriend is zeroing in on, and she cries because Güzel has happiness (does she though 😬) and she has none! And I cry too! And the whole mess that web of relationships becomes is fascinating (and one of the clearest examples of how queer these books are, yay), and there's also the parallels with Francis and Margaret, to consider? Anyway, to quote @sophosthewisebunny, Marthe deserves better than the shadiest bitch in the Mediterranean/someone who would leave her for her brother, but their relationship is very interesting.
Francis/Güzel - Rereading RC, every scene between them made me feel dead inside, while also making me want to run around screaming and then return to my book to savor every word. There’s so much going on with them, hardly any of it good, and since I was just thinking about the previous ship on the list, I have to wonder how their relationships to Marthe affect how they relate to each other, because that’s an interesting question, too.
honorable mention to Francis/Míkál, entirely because of this, and Francis -ahem- Lymond/Richard Chancellor, because another thing that happened as I was rereading RC was that I realized just how much I’d missed about how important they are to each other, in such a rare and needed way (the first time, I was busy losing it about the brother prophecy and yelling at Francis to be friends with Adam and Alec again).
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unhelpfulfemme · 2 months
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Am I the only one who thinks Marthe became a little infatuated with Philippa here, and that this is why she was so gung ho about her and Francis in Checkmate? Because it's just the same thing all over. Francis once again getting what she wants and needs and desires and ungratefully squandering it, and the Dame de Doubtance siding against her own blood and in favour of her Bene Gesserit-esque eugenics programme, even post-mortem.
It also gives another layer to why Francis is so quick to move from Philippa to Güzel in that afterparty scene in CM. And to why her way of convincing him not to kill himself is "you must protect Philippa".
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sepvlcral · 3 months
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semicolonsandsimiles · 6 months
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angstober/whumptober day 3: solitary confinement.
Lymond Chronicles, Marthe near the end of Pawn in Frankincense
She was herded up a long narrow stair, down a short hallway, and into a small room. The mutes locked the door and left her.
Her tools had been left to her. One did not repair a harpischord with lock picks. For something to do rather than from any hope of escape, Marthe examined the small, high window; the stone walls; the sparse pallet; the low bench bearing a pitcher of water and a cup; the door and its lock. Then she lay on the pallet and failed to sleep.
Some time later the door opened and a mute bearing a tray of food entered. He shut the door and set the food on the bench, then remained standing in front of the door while Marthe forced herself to eat as much as she could. She did not expect any opportunity for escape to arise, but she still wanted to be physically capable of taking advantage if it did.
A mute - a different one each time - brought her food twice a day, always waiting in front of the door until Marthe finished eating. Occasionally a second came to carry the chamber pot away and bring it back, emptied. When she was not sleeping Marthe paced, or else sat half-insensible, trying not to think; there was nothing to think about.
She saw no one else. No one came to interrogate her on the message she had carried to Philippa; of course they did not. Kiaya Khatun was here. She had known all along Marthe's role with Lymond, had known all along he would attempt to rescue the child and the girl. Her plan, Marthe guessed, had begun even before the day they all converged in Lyon; Lymond's, desperately dependent on Archie and elephant dung, was foiled before it even began.
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saisons-en-enfer · 3 months
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servant-of-kaos · 4 months
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Marthe - I Ride Alone
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Marthe Alexandre on a vintage postcard
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