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future-boi · 6 months

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Doctober 2023 Summary

Completed 24/31 prompts!

List of all the prompts I did for Doctober 2023 below

So happy to be done 🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

1. Sunrise: Tbh I don’t feel any which way about this one and I think it’s because I created it to be a companion piece to Sunset. So its like lowkey half-assed but also far from it. I’m very happy with how that turned out so that’s something…

2. Desert

3. Gun Fight😜🤧☠️: Ah, the first meme post. I felt shaky posting this. Cherry, I hope you know I did it for/because of you

4. Light Blue😈: Ah yes, the first Hell Valley angst post. I’ve always been super proud of it and I’m really happy that others are still liking/reblogging to this day! Almost a month later

5. Alarm Clock😜☠️: AH YES, the first post to really give me anxiety about posting. I was like this ain’t a SIMPLE meme anymore, ITS GOT COMPLEXITY.

6. Ticking Time Bomb

7. Family😇: This one was super wholesome and the first time in a long while drawing Jules and Verney!

8. Outatime😜💛: This one was a fun one! There was a moment where I wasn’t sure if I should do a background… I’m glad I still had fun with it, it took a lotta work hahaha

9. Zipline

10. Nuclear

11. Briefcase😜☠️: We back doing goofy shit again… but I really liked this one and had a lotta fun with it. definitely up there with Rear View Mirror.

12. Train Tracks

13. Photo Album😜: This one was fun and gave me a break from drawing (aside from the days I didn’t do anything…)

14. Coffee😇💛☠️: This one’s so wholesome. But Im biased af

15. Invention😜🤧: This is the first certified half-assed art piece LMAO im sorry to admit it but I gotta speak the truth

16. Stage

17. Einstein😜: This was really fun, I love poking fun at Biff but who doesn’t?

18. Letter

19. Memory 😇😈: Didn’t like the linework on this one I think that’s why I was feeling so negative about it… or maybe the composition… overall, I think I can do better.

20. Rearview Mirror😜💛🔥☠️: This one’s definitely the funnest one I’ve worked on and still makes me giggle.

21. Improvement😇: I was stressing over trying to finish it so I don’t have the happiest memories of working on this one…

22. Constellation😇💛: This one’s special to me so I was gonna love it no matter what lmao. I really enjoyed working on it even though I wish I had more time.

23. Nostalgia😇💛: One of the faves and always will be. The vibes are on point.

24. Record Player😈: The return of Hell Valley angst

25. Café😇: I’m happy with the color palette. I want to revisit this one some other time cuz I feel like I could do more if I had more time. Not sure if I should categorize this under half assed attempt or not.

26. Anniversary😇🤧: Yeah this was another half assed one, sorry

27. Thunderstorm😈: Angst and Hell Valley are synonymous at this point. I really liked this one, especially how it transitions from colored to black and white

28. Metallic😜☠️: Nimona. That’s all I gotta say. Nah jk I wasn’t going to do this but the no pines timeline was really interesting to learn about… and by interesting, I mean scary. But hey, it gives us another angle to the bttf storyline.

29. 2023😇😜🤧: Talked about the musical. Drew a few doodles. Hair style reveal?

30. Sunset😇⚡: Gives all the warm fuzzies, how could you hate it? Very happy with my use of color here.

31. Free Day (Halloween)😈🎃☠️: We don’t talk about this one… It’s the number one rule of the club 😉

What the emojis mean:

🤧 Half Assed

😜 Funny/Meme

😇 Warm Fuzzies

😈 Angst

☠️ WHO LET ME COOK

💛 Top 5

🔥 Funnest Prompt

🎃 Spookiest

⚡ Personal Fave

My goal for this prompt list challenge was to focus on quality over quantity. There’s a few half-assed art pieces that snuck in, but it could have been worse. By quality, I wanted clean line art, backgrounds, and if I have enough time, color!

What drove me to create art: Showing other people that are in this fandom (most notably ⚡@cheriboms). I’d love to interact with other mutuals on here. Shout outs: 💛@bttf-dork 💛@synthsays 💛@alex-a-fans. I feel like I’ve been doing that more towards the end of the challenge, but yall give me motivation! And sometimes, inspiration!

What I learned:

🤔 I can actually draw backgrounds if I actually try [wowowow who'da thunk] It’s much easier to draw a background from a reference rather than coming up with one on your own. So I need to keep that in mind whenever I feel discouraged.

🤔 I feel like my work is very dramatic. Like melodramatic fr. Or at least it can be... I blame watching those tv dramas with my mom when I was a kid. But then again, if you want to incite emotion out of an audience, you gotta know how to frame stuff and do all the fancy cinematography work. So you gotta be dramatic to an extent. I got really really bored with my ideas that weren’t telling a story(or rather a more interesting story…). And that effected my motivation.

🤔 Looking back at the list, I noticed that my top 5s are all either silly or wholesome and I’m glad and relieved about that. I said that I’m really dramatic and there’s quite a bit of angst in there, but ig I’m not THAT edgy (or maybe the prompts didn’t allow me to be🤔👀)

Things that I want to improve on: COLOR THEORY. Brush theory/line weight. I’ve been experimenting a tiny bit with this throughout the month, but I want to delve into it. Since I didn’t work on something for more than a day, I felt like I was throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.🤪I didn’t get to really study what colors work well and why and experiment with it.

A lot of the ones that I’m not very proud of could be chalked up to not having enough time to work on it/make it better, so that’s an interesting dilemma.

TL,DR; I talk too much. Gotta work faster smh git gud 🙄

#doctober 2023

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wench-and-jezebel · 1 year

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Dark Angel Reaction: FLUSHED

Jezebel (@typicalopposite) reacts [with occasional asides by Wench (@scripted-downfall)]

I… I don’t even know what to say to that. She’s so… boo hooo. Idk

Gotta blaze

Next scene: fire

Bitch, he clearly already made it. just eat

I’m sorry. Some drunk slaps me, and I could kill him with my pinky? Well. Ya, he wouldn’t be slapping any more

Jesus hell, her smile tho ☠️☠️☠️ Between her and Maze I’ve done began questioning my damn sexuality ☠️☠️

Also. The cliche “I’m ok” until the whole “stay with me” line then *poof* sleep. That’s not how seizures work ma’am.

The hell selfish af! Just stole the money! [THIS IS WHERE I STARTED GETTING ANNOYED BTW] Is this how she acts here on out? [Yes] Ew

[Okay, so now we’ve got a running total of: her random one-day boyfriend and Normal who know that she doesn’t sleep; like half the random population who have seen her magical strength; and who-knows-how-many thugs who’ve seen her blur + some other combination of Manticore powers. Yeah, she’s reallllll subtle.]

Bitch flung him out like a tooth pick

Intervention. Gotta love it.

☠️☠️☠️ Bruh tell them you have seizures you dumbo. Like tf

That damn magic knife again

[Oh, and now… a random hospital orderly, too.]

Well damn. What a douucheeeeee

Wait, her actual name is original Cindy? [Or it’s at least the main name she goes by. Or O.C.]

WOOOOOW NICE MAX

WAIT. wait who is he? The one that told her to clean herself up. [The actor?] Yeah. [I'll send the IMDB page later.] Okay.

[Getting arrested is going to go amazingly well given that she’s from. You know. Manticore. The secret place she’s not supposed to reveal she’s from.]

Coppppsss 😤

Dead feet

SOMEBODY SAY SHE HAS FUCKING SEIZURES

THANK UOU!! JESUS FUCK!!! like 😤😤😤😤

☠️☠️☠️ They put men and women together lol Wot.

WOT. ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Cannibalism?

Oh my ☠️☠️☠️ Cops in heels. Sounds kinky

– – –

Midpoint Judgement: So Maxs attitude is like so fucking annoying in this one. But also I half kinda sorta feel bad for her cause ya know seizures. BUT SHE COULD HAVE JUST TOLD THEM. INSTEAD OF ROBBING THEM. AND GETTING THEM KICKED OUT. Like, talk about selfish!! [You know how we’ve been talking about how Max had been bodysnatched by a nicer person in the first episodes? This is the Max that most of the rest of the series deals with.] Ew.

– – –

She looks so tiny. Next to him, and holding that big ass jar

Does he get dead? [Uh… don’t think so?]

Uh oh. They saw the barcode

Wait, how’s Logan driving? [Uh. Um. I. Don’t actually know. No clue, honestly. That. Huh.]

“She’s a good girl.” Boy, hush

Umm! Ummm? I love OC

Oh noooo sob story

Oh shit. Oh no. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[I continue to be unclear on how he was driving.] THANK YOU

They say you've got a thing for her cause it’s obvious. You dummy

IM HER HOME GIRL TOO! IM deaddddd! [I love him.]

Oh shit.

Oh. It’s a flash back, but still.

Awww. I’m not supposed to like her, dammit *insert “I’m soft” gif*

Bruh. Mennnnnn

Poor new girl is like: tf you talking about?

Ohhhhhh creeeeeeeeep ewwww

Whaaaat the feckkkk I didn’t sign up for this

Ewww he’s a creep too. Gross.

Lintlickerrrrrr *insert “You lint-licker” gif* [No, literally. There’s a lint-licker gif. Okay, then, the world is stranger even than I knew.]

Poor girl ☹️☹️

Oh man. *starts typing* [“Six-inch, black, patent-leather pumps in your future” scene?] 😂😂 Yes: the intensity

Oh shit. Her face. That was lowkey creepy af.

Kill ‘em.

Her. Fecking. Attitude. Ew.

Should have let her kill him

Well shit she got got

And now he’s got got

“I broke your lock. Sorry.” Wot. Wot. WOT.

WAIT. WAITTTTT. DID HE. IS SHE. MAAM. IS OC. [SPEAK, MA’AM. IS OC WHAT?!] WENCH. DID HE SHOOT HER. [NO.] Ok 🙂 [Ma’am.] *innocently* What???

I love OC.

[Max is still smiling. What tf is going on.] *Simultaneously* Oh, better attitude

She probably wouldn’t

That’s one way to say it. [Oh, look, SHE’S SPILLING SECRETS AGAIN.] She did tho ☠️☠️☠️☠️

😂😂😂😂 Yesss Logan! Respect

😂😂😂😂 I love it. Take that, Walter!

☠️☠️☠️ And a pony. I love it

Why don’t I hate this show? Hmph. Hmph I say Wench. [You haven’t even seen Jackles yet.]

Wow. That, Max. That was low. “You gonna just sit there” BITCH THATS ALL HE CAN DO

And ISSSSSSSSA WRAP ON 3!!!

#dark angel #dark angel reactions #reactions #episode reactions #s01e03 #flushed #max guevara #logan cale #original cindy #jezebel (pr)

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meltwonu · 2 years

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| 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒 | CHAPTER 10

pairing; camboy!seokmin x female!reader

this chapter’s notes; camboy!au, university!au, camshows, camboy!seokmin, dom!seokmin, (mutual)masturbation, sex toys, mentions of exhibitionism, dirty talk, sending of dirty photos/audios. Omg WE ARE BACK YET AGAIN!!😮‍💨😭 The last chapter for Neon Dream was in Nov right before I went to those bts concerts and then the rest of dec went to shit lmao ☠️ Altho January is kinda pickin up where dec left off in the shit zone so y’know, it is what it is lol… 😗🥲 Anyway, thank you so much for your patience and support with Neon Dream, I’ve very excited to get back into it! I know this chapter went up a day late and I am too sorry for that too, I had some business to attend unfortunately 😭 Thank you all for always putting up with my bullshit lmao... 😭💕 Enjoy ch10! And have a lovely rest of your weekend! 💕

chapters; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - ?

You’re nervous.

So much so that even Seokmin is concerned.

“Hey… Should we cut the fitting short, you look so… Preoccupied? I’m worried.”

His eyebrows furrow and his eyes are filled with concern as you kneel in front of him – shaky hands holding a needle in one hand and thread in the other as you gulp.

“H–huh? N–no, it’s okay, sorry I’ve just–just had a lot on my mind. We’ve been so b-busy with musical stuff so I feel like I’m just not, um, g-getting a lot of sleep, that’s all. It’s making me jittery, I think.”

You laugh nervously as Seokmin bites the inside of his cheek, nodding as he stares off into the mirror.

“If you need a break, just let me know, okay? I know it’s a lot of work but we’re allowed breaks too, y’know?” He laughs lightly under his breath – the action calming you a little as you join him.

“I know, it’s honestly not really hard work either, I think my brain is just always somewhere else lately. Or really, no where at all.”

“D’you wanna talk about it?”

You thread the needle, sighing as you start to hem one of the pant legs as Seokmin does his best to stand still.

“I mean, it’s just, I dunno – I think it’s just stress.” You sum it up as simply as you can; somewhat embarrassed to say any more than that knowing that a lot of your real frustrations lately were mostly sexual in nature.

“Like, from school? Or…?”

Seokmin peers down, eyeing the back of your head as you lean down to sew.

“I–I guess so… You know how it is.”

He nods gently, laughing as he remembers his debt to Jihoon being the cause of most of his stresses.

“Yeah, I–I get you. I’ve been thinking about quitting some of my part time jobs, it’s kind of getting to be too much and I’ve already missed so many shifts with all the musical rehearsals and stuff. Kinda feels pointless, y’know? To have them rely on me and I can’t show up.”

His cheeks burn knowing that half of that was a lie – but he doesn’t say more in fear of exposing himself.

Except it’s already too late.

“I thought you owed Jihoon for vocal lessons? And weren’t your extra jobs for rent bills ‘n stuff?? How are you gonna afford it, Seokmin? Did you get a new job?”

In a panic, he shifts slightly, almost kicking you as you yelp and fall backwards onto your ass on the carpeted floor.

“Fuck! I’m so sorry, hold on,” He helps you up and makes sure you’re okay, “Sorry, I’m so clumsy, I shouldn’t have moved like that when you’re literally holding a needle!”

You shake your head, giggling as you put the needle away for now; Seokmin being secretly glad that his little ‘fuck up’ seemed to have distracted you from the answer you were looking for, only moments prior.

“It’s okay, let’s take that break real quick, huh? And then I can finish hemming your pants and we can get out of here early.”

“Sounds good!”

But when you’re by yourself is the hardest part – being left to your own thoughts and imagination when you laze around in bed, in and out of sleep.

You hadn’t posted any more anonymous photos of yourself and you’d actually been too scared to listen to Dokyeom’s last stream in fear that he might’ve found out who you were.

It’d been a few days since your fitting with Seokmin and he’d been too busy with his vocal lessons and actual musical rehearsals to meet up with you – even going so far as to postpone a fitting session with you in favour of more vocal rehearsals.

But two things had come from that.

You’d realized that you were starting to really, really miss being around Seokmin.

And also that you couldn’t function without Dokyeom’s audio streams to get you off.

“This is so stupid…!” You scream into your pillow; legs thrashing wildly against your bed as you groan.

You had a real attraction to Seokmin and an obsessive fixation to a voice who apparently belonged to someone on campus – someone who could be anyone out of thousands.

“Maybe I can… Find out who he is... Get him to tell me so I can get over this...” Mumbling, you sit up, eyeing your laptop as you drag it closer.

“Yeah, yeah, maybe this will work…”

You load up Dokyeom’s chat window in a hurried panic; quickly making a decision before you completely regret it.

‘Hey, this is going to sound crazy but… In that one audio stream you did… The picture you were talking about was me. I just wanted to let you know.’

Dokyeom doesn’t respond for hours.

And you convince yourself that you’ve fucked up whatever it was you had with him. But you tell yourself you can then just focus on Seokmin instead; laughing maniacally to yourself as you sat in front of your laptop.

“It’s fine, it’s fine – Maybe this is better for me since I—”

*ping*

Your breath hitches – cheeks warm as your laptop screen lights up with multiple message notifications.

Dokyeom: Oh?

Dokyeom: Is that so?

Dokyeom: You know I’m going to need proof of that right?

Your mouth hangs open, unsure of what to do next.

You genuinely hadn’t thought about what you’d do if he actually responded.

Dokyeom: Sorry I didn’t reply sooner

Dokyeom: I was at work~

“Oh, f–fuck, wait, wait, wait…”

You scramble off of your bed as your eyes dart around your room; you could take a picture of the pink dildo that was in your photo as proof but you had to make sure nothing else in the photo had anything distinguishable.

“Okay, just—just one photo…”

Seokmin waits patiently as he twiddles his thumbs.

This meant a few things to him.

Mostly that he had a chance in meeting whoever ‘b@d_dream’ was and that they were closer to him than he ever thought.

‘I do want to meet her,’ He thinks to himself – cheeks warm with the thoughts of actually meeting the person who’d been able to help him find his confidence.

b@d_dream: [attached image]

b@d_dream: is this proof enough?

b@d_dream: or do you need more?

Seokmin clicks on the photo, eyes wide as saucers as he takes it in.

It was the same pink dildo and the same bra with the same purple and blue butterfly charm in the middle.

The same one that made Seokmin cum hard thinking about.

Dokyeom: Hmmm…

Dokyeom: Maybe… Can you send me a little more?

Dokyeom: I’ll reward you too~

Your body buzzes with electricity as you snap photo after photo for Dokyeom – adrenaline making you hurriedly put the lingerie set back on before easing onto the bed with your toy.

You snap a photo between your legs; the toy sitting right against your clothed mound much like it’d been in the photo and you check to make sure your face isn’t visible in it before you send it off.

“Oookay, deep breath, deep breath, what’s the worst that can happen?” You giggle nervously as shivers roll down your spine with the toy resting against your warmed skin.

And it takes a second for Dokyeom to respond back but when he does, it’s with an attached voice message that you weren’t expecting.

‘Hmm, oh my~ It seems like I’ve found my ‘lil princess after all, huh? What were the chances, sweetheart? Hah, you’ve gotten my cock so hard with these pictures… What do you think we should do about that, hmm? I’ve been thinking about you so much~’

You let out a mewl as you replay the audio – fingertips reaching for the toy while simultaneously trying to push your panties to the side.

You’re already embarrassingly wet when you glide the toy through your folds; soft cries on your lips at the desire to already slide it into your needy cunt. But you try to hold back as you snap photos of the toy glistening with your wetness – the images more revealing than anything you’d ever sent to anyone.

b@d_dream: [attached image]

Dokyeom: [attached voice note]

‘Oh? Already wet too? Tsk, what’s going on in that head of yours, huh? ‘Cause I’ll tell you what’s going on in mine’

There’s a moment of him shuffling around; the sheets rustling as he gets comfortable before you hear his long drawn out moans filling up the air.

‘I’m thinking about how good it’d feel to fuck you on campus now that I know we go to the same one – in one of the rooms where it’s just you and me, sweetheart~ How cute you’d be bent over one of the lecture hall tables with my cock deep inside that hot ‘lil pussy of yours… Fuck, I couldn’t stop thinking about that photo.’

Your breath hitches as you max out the volume to hear the slicked noises of Dokyeom’s hand sliding up and down his cock. He was touching himself too.

“Mmngh, D–Dokyeom…”

‘Mm, how cute it’d be with you trying to keep your voice down while I pound your ‘lil cunt… You wouldn’t want someone to catch us, would you? Or maybe you want someone to see how good you fuckin’ take it~ How your body jerks against the table when I’m fucking you good~’

Impatience gets the best of you as you make sure the dildo is thoroughly wet before you position it at your entrance – head thrown back when it meets no resistance when it slides right into your wet cunt.

Your shaky hand reaches for your phone again as you start to thrust the toy in and out with your other hand; the photos a little blurry when you send them to Dokyeom.

“Please, please, please…”

The two of you continue to exchange videos and messages as you get off together and Seokmin’s hand tightens around his cock; hips thrusting up into his enclosed fist as he stares at the multitude of photos you’ve sent.

The pictures of your pussy stretched around the thick dildo making his head spin.

He’d never done anything like this but the excitement was almost enough to make him cum.

“God–fucking–damn it…” Groaning, he imagines it’s his cock instead when he hits the record button on his phone.

“Mm, so you can take all of that toy inside your pussy, hmm? That means you’ll be good ‘n ready to take my cock too – after I make you cum with that toy~ Ah, sweetheart, you’re making it so hard to not cum… I wanna get you so dirty with my cum inside and on your pretty ‘lil cunt...”

His eyebrows furrow as precum leaks from the tip of his cock; his grip tightening when he starts to feel it start to throb.

“Ngh, please tell me you’re close too?”

You let out a cry as the dildo grazes your g-spot; your fingers sticky and wet from how much you’d been thrusting the toy in and out imagining it was Dokyeom’s cock instead.

b@d_dream: cklo s e….

Your eyes flutter shut imagining the scenario he’d fantasized about – toes curling at the idea of being fucked in such a public space with your panties just pushed to the side when he made you cum.

“Oh, mmnh, p-please… I need to, a-ah, cum so bad… I w-want it inside...”

Your walls tighten around the toy and you see one last voice message from Dokyeom as your shaky hand hits play.

‘Then cum. Right now.’

Crying out, you hastily open the camera app one last time before the pleasure washes over you completely and your back is arching off of the bed sheets – incoherent garbles rolling off of your tongue as you finally ride out your high.

“Oh?”

It takes Seokmin by surprise at the 8 second video you send him.

Eyes wide as saucers at the silent video that only shows the toy thrusting into your pussy all the way up to the base – the clip enough to send him tumbling over the edge of an orgasm as rivulets of cum paint his torso and his hand.

“Fuck! Fuck!”

It replays on his phone screen over and over as he rides out his pleasure and he goes so far as to time the movements of his hand to match the way the toy thrusts into you so that he, too, can imagine it’s his cock fucking you instead of the toy.

Seokmin rides out his high as sweat slides down his forehead, unsureness making him groan as he peers down at his phone.

What now?

b@d_dream is typing…

b@d_dream: I

b@d_dream: sorry i have to go

b@d_dream: i have an important meeting tomorrow so i have to go but

b@d_dream: can we talk about this next time? I promise

Seokmin laughs under his breath, nodding off with his hand still loosely wrapped around his cock.

Dokyeom: you owe me an explanation next time, okay, sweetheart?

Dokyeom: you can’t run from me forever~

#seokmin smut #dokyeom smut #seventeen smut #svt smut #seokmin scenarios #seokmin imagines #seventeen imagines #svt imagines #svt scenarios #seventeen scenarios #dokyeom imagines #dokyeom scenarios #seokmin #dokyeom

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wench-and-jezebel · 1 year

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The Musketeers Reaction: The Challenge

Jezebel (@typicalopposite) reacts [with occasional asides by Wench (@scripted-downfall)]

Now with BONUS: meta analysis :) (But Wench might post that separately later too... she hasn't decided)

[Oh, no, a prisoner transfer! That always goes badly; just ask CTU (from 24)]

Well shit

Well…. SHIT THIS MAN A BEAST [Yup!]

“Stay out of this, damn you” Let us get our asses kicked by one man.. on our own [Red Guards be prideful dumbasses]

Wot? WOT?! WHAT!?! [Tenth Doctor-coded, you are] ☠️☠️☠️ [But also, agreed. They explicitly warned the Red Guard. And then tried to help. Not their fault the RG didn't listen 💀] Right!?!

No one asked you, man child

WHAT, ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN??? [Yes]

OOOP- awwwwww [Dangerous for him and Constance to do that in broad daylight tho]

Well their relationship has escalated

[OH, LOOK, HER HUSBAND; WHAT. DID I SAY.] ☠️☠️☠️☠️ [Awkward, that is.]

Blech

Sweet lord [Indeed]

Do they not get paid? [Kinda but also... money got spent… It's not much, I don't think]

[They're Tinder-ing in church ☠️] Im dying [Porthos swiped right on the widow alkdsfj] Trying to say something and these two are distracting me [I adore them] Ok, so anyway… I’m guessing D’art does it, wins, and then becomes a Musketeer

Poor d’Art

Y’all two really trying to swindle money from grieving women… MEN [Only one was grieving. The other was having an affair, since those are highly common] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Imma. Oooop… Second-hand embarrassment [She's covering for him :)] ☠️☠️☠️

☠️☠️☠️ Oooop she ain’t grieving too hard [I'm sorry, but they're kinda cute] They are

“You’re cute”

☠️☠️☠️ Aramis is gonna get the money and Porthos is gonna get a wife [adslkfjlksadjf]

Candle sniffer? Is that a person? ☠️☠️☠️ [Candle snuffer, dear] I know 😂

["Too often, you let your emotions get the better of you" "Can we just get on with it" Sir, that. Proves the point] ☠️☠️☠️

Oooop, I see what you’re doing, Athos

Blech

[I love Peter Capaldi]

Oooop. That might not go well

[Love lines like "I can see you are a man of quick intelligence"... they’re always passive-aggressive digs]

How did he not see him? Or hear that? They are quite incompetent

[OH SHIT I REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THIS]

Oooooop

“You killed my father” [he’s making a habit of this] “I mean, burned down my farm. Prepare to die”

Well damn [This has gone badly for young d'Artagnan] d’Art, how do you really think this is gonna play out

[Of course Athos had to save him ☠️] ☠️☠️

Awwww [They turned it in a different direction, but I usually detest "I'm not like *you*" statements]

“Get some rest!” How about dry off?

Bruh where did the rain go?

Bitch (Milady), why ain’t you ded?

[This is what I meant by “I remember what happens after this” btw] Let me breathe on your mouth for a moment [Shut up]

“Leave me alone, Athos” Ma’am you came to him??? Womennnn

“I thought you had brains, but clearly not.” Athos, what has he done for you to think that? [alskdfjlsakdjf This is a valid question]

– – –

Jezebel: Welp! First off the level of ack I feel about friends having to fight each other in a competition is like…. Skyrocketing. Idk if it’s gonna be as awkward (they each think they will win, disappointment if they don’t) but I feel awkward about it lol!

Wench: You underestimate their loyalty, dear… I'm reasonably — like 90% — confident that they're only, like, half-competing. Because this is the current main way they know to get d'Art his commission and he's running out of time. And these three are, it's heavily implied, the best of the regiment so it’s kinda foolish to send a new recruit unless it’s more about getting him the commission.

Jezebel: Ohhhh they letting him win?

Wench: I suspect they've already gone to Treville and been like. “Don't consider us for the tournament.” I don't know for sure, but that's always been my interpretation. Also, it's less "letting him win" and more "nudging him in the right direction and giving him sway with Treville." Buddy's from Gascony and got that hot-headed pride thing going; he wouldn't accept their charity any more than he'd accept their money

Jezebel: Ohhhhhh! I see!! I love them! 🙂

Wench: At least Athos, since he's heavily training d'Art to compete. I'm less sure about Flort because they seem to kinda need the money 💀

Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Gonna be another: (Athos) “We weren't gonna try to win” -> (Porthos) “Weren't we?” -> (Aramis) “Next time let us know” things

Wench: aslkdjflkadsjf Exactly!!!

Jezebel: It feels like as of rn they have put Milady in the ep…. Just so she’s in the ep ☠️ Not that I’m complaining she’s aight but she just seems random

Wench: You ain't seen shit yet. Also, in case you missed this, they're Heavily paralleling Athos and d'Artagnan in this ep. Her being there is definitely intentional.

Jezebel: Yes! I have 😂 Athos even said it ☠️

Wench: Ma'am. He said one overt "you're more like me than you know"; that is not paralleling ☠️ And, if it were, it’s not the extent of the paralleling either

Jezebel: Aight lay me out the parallels 😂😂

Wench: I'll tell you in endpoint; it's easier to avoid mincing my words

Jezebel: Speaking of tho! I LOVE ATHOS TRAINING DART SM OMG!!! And Flort are just fucking chaos. ☠️☠️ I love them! Porthos trying to talk to the widow tho was fucking adorable

Wench: I adore them all

Jezebel: Ready?

Wench: Yup!

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Ooooop

Ma’am!

She is so pretty tho 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Oooooop! Oooooooooooooop!!

No, she didn’t

Oh nooooo ["Who else is just going to walk up and hand me 30 livres" Well, ya see-] THIS IS WHY YOU ARE DUMB [Constance was]

PORTHOS!

OOOOP she’s giving him that look

[never trust "it doesn't matter"s]

HE BRUSHED HER HAIR BACK WITH HIS PINKY!? THAT WAS ADORABLE

Ooooop!

[I kinda adore them; sorry to your Portamis plotting ☠️ ] (Porthos) “What was I supposed to be getting again?” (Aramis) “….. NOT THAT”

[Shocker, the marksman won the shooting competition alksdfj] Aramis and that damn hat ☠️☠️☠️ [Oh, and the close-combat dude won the close-combat skirmish; who knew? :)] OH THIS GIF SET!

Athos watching all proud [*simultaneously* Also, in point of fact, I'm not actually sure Athos is competing at all]

Angry face

HE DIDNT FLINCH

“No control….” Buddy. You knew this. Ahead of time. Why are you acting like it's new???

I see what you’re doing… Le gasp! CARDINAL YOU ARE INSANE!

PORTHOS!

Dawwwww

Ma’am! SO ARE YOU

Okay, not the last one. But two out of three isn’t bad!

[Whoops]

Ma’am… It- Y’all- Sir. THEY ARE SO PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER [Because they're so dumb? :)] Yes

OOOP

He gone beat the hell out of herrrrr… Those things were allowed back then

Oooop

OOOOP

[Protective!Athos unlocked asldkfj] Ooooop!

Treville knows he’s letting the guy fight huh? [Not saying :)]

POOR DART! [Poor Constance] I KNOW

💔💔💔💔 The break in his voice when he said I want you

POOOR CONSTANCE

“Her name’s Alice” Oooop- [Callback to your earlier “Aramis is gonna get the money and Porthos is gonna get a wife” !!!] Jealous Aramis

The Musketeers are like WOT

[Bruh. Swordsman??? It's a. Sword contest. I know Athos didn't seem to be competing in the initial bracket. But also. If the point is to win. ???]

They look like guard dogs ready to attack

[Once again, a very Doctor Who score… (Again, same dude, but it especially shows here)] lol!

There goes the hat

[Also, gotta love Athos getting ready to throw hands the second Treville's arm got injured alksdjf] Yes!!! [Man was taking off his cloak in 0 time]

Welp ok. King making up for all the childish behavior

[d'Artagnan needed to have his heart broken to not let it sway his actions ☠️] 💔💔💔💔

Ooooop! He’s doing the thing! The thing Athos did! [:))))]

Whoooop whooooop! [I must say. It's. It's kinda biased. To have the King. Judging an assessment. Involving the King's Musketeers] ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Oooooo! Whoooop whoooop!

[Adore the fact that Athos gets to give it to him]

Ooooop! She’s been had! [Why is she surprised that the scheming, manipulating, control-freak Cardinal was being a scheming, manipulating, control-freak??] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ [Also, I'm sorry, but the Athos/Milady storyline is something that is so delectably twisted I can't even... I'll explain some in endpoint] ☠️☠️☠️☠️

“d’Art is the key” ‘Cause he’s dumb

Sighhhh, womennnn

💔💔💔💔💔

Ack! DON’T DO IT

HE DONE IT

HE DIDN’T DO IT

OOOOP! She’s confused!

– – –

Jezebel: Basic summary: Poor d’Art! But also YAY D’ART! But then poor Constance. No really 💔💔💔💔 POOR CONSTANCE. But Miladys face when he didn’t get in the carriage? stunned 😀

Wench: Indeed

Jezebel: Also I didn’t absolutely hate the king this episode. He seemed competent ☠️☠️ I retract my earlier statements about him 😂😂

Wench: Ma'am. He was still being the same childish king he's always been; he just happened to be childish in favor of the protagonists.

Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️ ok fair

Wench: He just threw a competition as a way of proving that his men were better than the Cardinal's, and then he rigged that competition, and then he took the prize money on top of that laksdjf

Jezebel: This… is also true 😂😂 Anyway 😂 ummmmm… oh yeah! Porthossss 💔💔 he was so soft and non-tough-guy with Alice it was adorable. And the “Who’ll look after you?” to Aramis???? 💕💕 (When she leaves)

Wench: Yeah :)

Jezebel: And Papa Treville! And how they all was like yeah fuck the competition soon as he got hurt! I love it! And I did mention up there the look on Milady’s face when the lil dummy she was so sure she could seduce didn’t take the bait ☠️☠️ Now that may change I guess! But that was satisfying that he wasn’t like “well, bye, Constance; hello, Milady!”

Wench: This is true, and it's nice that he's not fickle... Fits in with his character, though, for the most part, so I'm not horribly shocked

Jezebel: Athos tho! I loved him this whole episode! And his little "get down there before he changes his mind" (with a smirk)

Wench: Yesssss

Jezebel: Uhhhhh… the only thing I can say about Athos and Milady’s scene together was already said in the react, but how she was all “lemme stalk you” and then all “HMPH stop stalking me”... Like!?!?

Wench: You still don’t see the parallels?

Jezebel: Nope ☠️☠️ Just tell me

Wench: *sigh* Okay

Jezebel: 🙂

Wench: For reference, btw, we only have two more s1 episodes left. Now, first, some contextual parallels: Have you noticed the running theme of scarring/binding/tying in Athos' and Milady's backstories?

Jezebel: Um. I- no? Maybe? You say that and all I think is her being hanged but I can’t remember where else it is happening or do you mean figuratively

Wench: Yes and no. That’s the obvious example. She was hanged. She still "bears the token of [his] love" in the scar that remains. She covers it up with a fine necklace --- a choker --- to obscure her past. But less obviously... He still wears her locket. She says that he gave her a necklace, and he still wears the chain that represents her around his neck. Half the time he's drinking, his head is literally bowed by it. Also, in his intro, the locket is the first real thing we see of his character. He's hungover and drinking first, yes, but the second he gets his bearing/sits up, he pulls out the locket. And that's before he even gets dressed/does his wake-up ritual. Within that locket is a pressed forget-me-not (or an icon of the flower, but the point remains... a forget-me-not). Additionally, the first time we see her, she's manipulating things so that he gets imprisoned --- weaponizing justice the same way she feels was done against her --- and quite literally manacled in the process. Et cetera, et cetera.

Jezebel: Ok, so see! This is what I mean by I may see a parallel but would never see it that deep! I would see he wears her locket with a forget me not inside and be like ohhhhh he is like tormenting himself. And this I would not think about it again. I would have never caught the choker being symbolic just that she needed something that fit to her neck… or she couldn’t hide the scar

Wench: And that's shown in their interactions too… In "Commodities," for example, when they both are back at Pinon: after she’s knocked him to the ground, she literally pulls him up to meet the dagger by the locket chain.

Still Wench: And yet it’s also why she can’t go through with killing him; she's so distracted by it that she takes too long and d'Artagnan shows up.

Jezebel: ☹️☹️☹️☹️ see now I caught that that threw her off ☠️☠️ I’m not fully unaware! 😂

Wench: Not surprised by this, but the scene still means more in context of the larger symbolism. Then you've got the episode we just watched, where you have the alley scene, in which she literally tugs him closer via the chain.

Once again back to Wench: But even beyond the literal symbolism that's emphasized overtly on screen, it's their literal storyline… They're each orbiting the other, unable to let go completely but unable to forgive and forget and move on either. Tied together by their mutual scarring --- whether literal or metaphorical --- and the literal ties that bind.

Jezebel: ☹️☹️☹️☹️ that is so sad and makes so much sense once pointed out omg

Wench: So. Why have I spent so long yapping about this? Because all of this context boils down to Milady deciding to sponsor d'Art. And what does she do for him? She gives him money, BUT. Attached to that money. Is nothing less than:

Still Wench: A necklace. More than that, a forget-me-not pendant on a chain.

Jezebel: I meant to mention that more! I think I was like oooop or something but at first I thought it was THE locket! Like i thought she’d got it off Athos

Wench: It's not, but what it is is a cheaper-quality pendant. It's not a locket; it's just an oval with a carving. It's stark and cold, harsh and engraved. Molded. Like, one might say, a woman who's been through shit and decided to embrace the role of criminal she feels shoved into. Athos', meanwhile, is a locket. It's got the actual flower, soft and natural and encapsulated in time. A happy memory encased in pendant form. But it's also not intact. It's old and withered and slightly tarnished: the necklace equivalent of that warm and happy glow they always use for the Athos/Milady flashbacks.

Jezebel: I am sitting here reading this like…. Bruh, these are blink and you’ll miss them moments and here she is just pulling full detailed parallels out of her ass…. But they make sense and make the characters so much deeper and sadder… ack

Wench: I'm boutta add a bit more, whoops :) Because this shows up in the context of Milady offering to sponsor d'Artagnan, right? She's offering him money. But the chain comes with the money. Her influence comes with the money. They have to go together, or they don't go at all. If he takes that money, he becomes even more indebted to her than he already was. And he does take it. And he takes the necklace (her "care," her influence, his debt to her) too. AND… this is what gets him and Constance in trouble. It's Bonacieux seeing d'Art and Milady together and discovering that necklace that prompts him to follow d'Art. It's Milady's meddling influence that keeps screwing things up for them. BUT it’s not all bad because, when the necklace goes missing and Constance asks about it, he dismisses it --- her influence, his debt to her --- as unimportant. He lets it go. She does it again --- not with a necklace, but still --- at the end: she offers him a ride in her carriage, and it’s just a simple offer, but with strings --- literally --- attached

Jezebel: (I was waiting cause it seemed you were gonna add more to that! Since he declines the offer)

Wench: Oh, no. Nothing immediately attached. But I will say... The more I (re)watch, the more I realize that she's got a lot of the archetypes of the devil figure. (That's the character who offers a temptation but gets control of you in return)

Jezebel: Oooooo! 👀 I can see that

Wench: She consistently offers things to people --- love to Athos, power to the Cardinal, a hodgepodge of things for d'Art --- but it's not as easy as it seems. With the sole exception of the Cardinal (because he's an unstable force that she can't fully manipulate), she gets nearly interminable power over the people who take her up on it

Still Wench: Anyway, that's the main but extensive parallel between Athos and d'Artagnan in this episode. Athos outright says, "you're more like me than you know" (paraphrased), and they show it, bit by bit, with this running symbolism. They're alike, but not the same. They have similar necklaces --- similar ties to Milady --- but not identical ones. d'Art hasn't and never will have the same opportunity to be influenced by her as Athos did --- he first met her when she framed him for murder, so he's not quite as inclined to trust her as Athos (who met her when she was either not the same person or pretending to not be the same person, depending on your interpretation) --- but he's nonetheless swayed by her. Similar, but not the same. See?

Jezebel: Yes! I do! 😂 though I never would have before! So thank you 😂😂😂

Wench: :) np! Any overall responses though? ☠️ I kinda took over

Jezebel: More of a question… Am I just seeing her look confused he didn’t get in the cart, or is that gonna play into this little “she can sway Dart to come to the Cardinal men” thing she had because she doesn’t have the hold over him she thinks?

Wench: Wot

Jezebel:

Wench: Hellooooo?

Jezebel:

Wench: Good night, dear

-- -- --

*the next morning*

Jezebel: I was falling asleep ☠️ but I can’t remember if you ever commented on if there was a point to be made about him not getting in the cart with her. Like he can resist her and she didn’t expect that, or something. And because it seemed like you hadn’t responded I was asking basically if I was looking too deep into it. Like sure maybe she was like: oh ok then. But to me she looked legitimately shocked, as this came right after her telling the Cardinal it would be easy to sway him in their favor. If that makes more sense ☠️😂

Wench: It does a bit, yeah, and, to answer… I kinda adressed it, but only a bit, with the "She does it again --- not with a necklace, but still --- at the end: she offers him a ride in her carriage, and it’s just a simple offer, but with strings --- literally --- attached.” It's another way of drawing him closer/getting him under her influence. And she's feeling Really Confident --- as you said --- about her skill at influencing him. But what he does is a) show loyalty and b) show love. (Both for Constance, but still). This is particularly important because, if you think back to the pilot when they *coughs discreetly behind my fan* laid together, he saw the scar around her neck, asked about it, and, upon hearing that her husband had her almost killed, offers to kill said husband for her. So what we have here is a conflict between her influence and the other people in d'Artagnan's life, and she's been counting on her influence being strongest. (Which is partly because that's how it worked with Athos... even now, buddy can't move on.) But she just got proof that it's very clearly not. He just prioritized Constance (someone who'd just broken up with him, too, and seemingly very cruelly, even if Milady didn't know that) over her, and that's a sign that maybe she's too used to her own allure working and she's misjudged d'Artagnan's character, But it's just a minor thing, so it's not panic yet, just confusion. Does that make sense?

Jezebel: Yes! 🙂

Wench: Good... I feel like half of this shit is not what it is in my head laksdfj

Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ doubt it, because everything you say makes so much sense

Wench: ☠️😭

Jezebel: The emojissssss

Wench: Shut up But I have had months to think about this. And more since the book.

Jezebel: That was all I had for endpoint though! I just really wanted your two way more than two but I love it cents on that look

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Wench edit, many days later: It's occurring to me that those "oop"s are very incomprehensible but idk what they referred to, so I can't put in signal phrasing... sorry :] (Blame Jezebel)

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