⚔ En Garde! ⚔

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

[tatzelwyrm]

[sirblakeney]

“I have loved you. I did my best.”

— The Theory of Everything (2014), Dir. James Marsh (via veinings)

[aseaofquotes]

Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

“She wants to live for once. But doesn’t know quite what that means. Wonders if she has ever done it. If she ever will.

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Alice Walker

[evilvillain123456789]

What if I killed you

[de-morte]

Oh, I can hate horrendously, but I also can love like a massacre.

Channing M (via de-morte)

[antigonick]

Living unloved, to die unknown, Unwept, untended and alone.

Christina Rossetti, excerpt of Sappho (via antigonick)

[majorxmaggiexboy]

People, Doctor Lemay

I need to talk about my man, my buddy, Monsieur le Docteur Lemay

look at this precious dork

Specifically, I want to talk about him and Constance, and the wonderful arc that played out there.

When Doctor Lemay first met Constance Bonacieux, he paid her…exactly zero attention, actually. I don’t think he registered she was there until she started questioning his methods, at which point he brushed her off because “Um??? I am a trained professional? Who are you? I don’t need? Advice from a woman?”  overall not a fantastic start

but

it turns out Constance was right. She’s in a metric What Ton of trouble for sneaking off with the Dauphin, but Lemay realizes…the Dauphin is getting better, and he’s aware it isn’t from his treatments. He openly admits that Constance had the right of it, which, coincidentally saves her life actually. She’s won his respect.

So much so, in fact, that he cites this new trust in her judgement and requests her assistance in treating M. de Treville’s wound later on, and prior to that agrees to test Emilie’s broth for her.

Basically, we see him go from totally disregarding her, to respecting her…he sees her as an absolute equal before the end.

And that’s not the best part.

Lemay develops such a regard for Constance, that he wants to marry her. And the way his proposal is phrased, it’s as if he’s seeing the two of them as married friends, essentially, “I like you a lot, I think you like me, we should live together; it’d be fun” And now the best part.

Constance turns him down, and his reaction?

He doesn’t get angry doesn’t argue with her, doesn’t splutter or protest or in any way give the impression that she’s wrong to turn him down. Instead, he’s even more impressed with her for making her own choices and doing what she wants to do.

I love this man.

[majorxmaggiexboy]

In addition, I find it so interesting how Lemay’s arc with Constance compares to d’Artagnan’s, both in similarities and differences.

D’Artagnan actually started out pretty much the same way with her; his first meeting with Constance wasn’t the best first impression, a random kiss for his own purposes, blatant rudeness rather than simple disregard, though he apologized shortly. In the Garrison, he says aloud, “I don’t need a woman to protect me,” But,

then Constance helps him with Gaudet (which…he was pretty audacious to ask, but she wanted to help Athos) and it starts; the beginning of respect.

And the ball keeps rolling. D’Artagnan starts to see Constance in a different light. She’s courageous, and kind, and a bit rebellious, as he finds out in The Good Soldier when she asks for shooting lessons.

So d’Artagnan develops a respect for Constance, which turns into admiration, which, before long, turns into love. Just like Lemay.

But with the similarities, there are also notable contrasts.

Lemay is a little older, with just a bit of gray to him. D’Artagnan is the opposite; a hot-blooded youth five years younger than Constance.

D’Artagnan is all fire and passion tinted with boyish sweetness, Lemay is a soft, slow song.

Most notable however is that where d’Artagnan is impatient, and one to get angry, (as seen at least twice in S2, when in a heated moment he calls Constance a coward, and then after Bonacieux’s death snaps that he might not wait for her) Lemay calmly and even gladly accepts Constance doing what she feels best.

Of course, the circumstances of these scenarios are different as well; with d’Artagnan, he knows that Constance’s choices, though reasonable, ultimately make her unhappy, hence part of his frustration with her. Just the opposite, Lemay gets to know that Constance’s choice not to be with him is for her happiness, which he gladly accepts.

I just feel like these two and their arcs with Constance are near-perfect complements and foils of each other.

[becumsh]

I found an old post about Lemay, and isn’t it a good start to be submerged again in this hellhole.

[tatzelwyrm]

[milathosdaily]

Milathos scenes from the 2x10 episode script.

[amikoroyaiart]

3 years later and I still have Milathos feels Based on their last scene in season 1 

[radiophile]

Thirsty work being a #Musketeer [x]

[radiophile]

has this been done yet

[antigonick]

I had wept for a night and a day over my loss, ripped the cloth I was married in from my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawed at the burial stones till my hands bled, retched his name over and over again, dead, dead.

Carol Ann Duffy, excerpt of “Mrs Lazarus”, in The World’s Wife (via antigonick)

[cartonmanettedarnay]

No one can kiss me like you do.

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne  (via cartonmanettedarnay)

[de-morte]

I was drowning in her eyes, and her voice lured me in, coiled I wrapped my cold skin around her pale frozen flesh, what an untamable creature like me, holds no part of himself- for a beauty that destructive.

Channing M (via le-immorte)

[mousseketeers]

i can’t even begin to describe what a complex, tragic and intriguing character milady de winter is, and how maimie’s portrayal is perhaps one of the most visceral, raw and galvanizing portrayals of the character to ever grace our screens; i would truly, without a doubt, watch an entire series centered around maimie’s embodiment of milady, and personally, i feel dumas was at his best when he was writing milady’s chapters, you could really feel his talent as a writer shine through when he was describing milady and her thought process