#105 counts

[nakeddeparture]

Gemswick, St Philip. Roger DaCosta Smith walked off with $1.6 Million from Sagicor.

https://youtu.be/s8JRyVBWG1Q

People get 9-month sentences for picking up bottles and/or stealing bread. Let’s see how much time Watts gives Roger at the Hotel. Naked!!

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[blueteller]

...Well someone had to make that meme ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[shootingstarpilot]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Got tagged by the indomitable @laurabwrites, and a flare-up has kept me up long past my normal bedtime, so... what better time?

He hears a huff of laughter before Helix rises to his feet. “Drink your hot chocolate, kid,” he says, not unkindly. “Needle’s recipe. Get some calories in you. We’ll talk after about how we can stop that from happening again.” “Okay,” Ben agrees. Exhaustion is creeping up like ivy. “You should check Needle’s arm, though.” His vision is blurry enough that he can’t make out Helix’s expression, but the sudden stillness tells enough. Next to him, he feels Needle sigh, and pokes him. “You carried me.” “And I’d do it again, you horrible little gremlin,” Needle grumbles, and Ben turns his head to the side and smiles into Needle’s shirt. “Just you wait until you’re better. I’ll teach you hand-to-hand and then flatten you into the mat.” “You could try.”

Tagging @themonopolyhat, @drauthor, @shadow-pixelle, @aquaticflames, @foreverchangingfandomsao3, and... an open tag to anyone who wants the motivation! Best of luck!

[arceviste]

elegance

el·e·gance /ˈeləɡəns/ noun

the quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style."a slender woman with grace and elegance"

him.

idk about you but this screams priest cale to me

[every-koito]

[homosubtext]

i’m having so much fun reading lotr rn, legolas is so fucking odd i love him with my whole heart

[sophie-verte]

OK, but the parallel between Edmond taking Albert to his hide-out in Normandie to give him a bit of the calm before the storm and to watch after him because Edmond has compassion for the boy (and because Albert would definitely do something stupid if he stayed in Paris at the time) and the way he now takes Max to live with him so that, again, Edmond can watch after him and Max doesn't hurt himself. I love it so much.

[thebadthinker]

Character Deaths

You know a character's life has been fucked completely when you're low-key happy they died because now they can find peace.

[sskk-manifesto]

SSKK REAL

[alrightpetal]

in other news i finally got my dream bookcase

[invinciblerodent]

getting the training scene with Taash and Davrin after a good ten to twenty hours of wandering the countryside before embarking on anything approaching the endgame

[pedanther]

The Calendar of Monte Cristo: Chapter 105

c.1837: Maximilien Morrel and Valentine de Villefort meet for the first time. [R]

4 September 1839: Haydée departs Paris. [R]

5 September 1839: Funeral of Valentine de Villefort. Maximilien intends suicide, but is forestalled by Edmond, who reveals himself as the rescuer of the Morrel family and makes Maximilien promise to wait a month. [R]

Ahaha. I’ve been cheerfully counting forward from 29 August for over a month of elapsed story time, all the while knowing we’d be in for a wild ride whenever Dumas next got around to mentioning an explicit date – and he’s outdone my expectations.

He starts strong with Edmond’s “today is the fifth of September”, which is impossible – even if we ignore the three weeks Dumas skips over and count only the days we’ve directly witnessed, it’s been well over a week since Beauchamp told us it was the 29th of August.

(… though, actually, if we ignore Beauchamp and count from the last explicitly stated date before that, it kind of works. Hmm.)

But then Edmond adds “Ten years ago today, I saved your father”, which means either that Edmond is bad at elementary arithmetic or we’ve graduated from skipping months to skipping nearly an entire year.

[neobastard]

just wanted to show off my avatar and stamp collections 😎

[a-big-chicken-nerd]

it doesnt feel like ive drawn that much this year but apparently so far i have done A HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN finished drawings for the year

[charlies-storybook]

Love's a Choice

I watched my phone ringing

As my blood pressure was rising

I made a promise but promises are meant to be broken

Love is a choice, and yours wasn't chosen

I would do anything to get a date

But I was scared, I blamed it all on my mental state

Our stars weren't meant to be and I wasn't ready

I thought you'd understand but you only got angry

I felt bad because all she wanted to was help

I took the dagger, and made its tip sharp

Pierced my heart, and smiled when it bled

For you? I had no tears to be shed

@flashfictionfridayofficial

[sophie-verte]

Chapter 105. Wow. Just wow.

I thought the toughest chapters (about Albert and Mercedes) were behind me, but then, of course, the Morrels made me cry again. Every time Edmond reveals his name, it's touching and heartbreaking, but this one has a special taste to it.

And it's especially emotional when it's preceded with Max's outrage.

What I really adore about Dumas is that while I can predict what happens in the next scene or a chapter, I can never expect HOW he writes it. I'm in awe every time by the beauty of his writing and by how I can imagine the scenes so vividly.

AND ALSO! AND ALSO! Edmond cries for real here!! Look at him!! How good for him!!