#LYMOND

[thecrenellations]

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?

[linovadraws]

"There must be something he wants. And whatever it is, by God, I'll find it and make a collar and chain of it with 'Douglas' in fine Gothic letters on the neck."

George Douglas has some A+ ideas in Game of Kings, no notes.

[mblematic]

HBO stop adapting game of thrones prequels start adapting chronicles of lymond challenge

[leojurand]

happy birthday francis crawford of lymond you are so annoying and i love you so much

[swordbreakerz]

Its hysterically funny to me that I was fully ready to accept I wouldn't see any homosexual activity until book 6 when I started the lymond chronicles since the fanart that finally enticed me into the pit is from checkmate and then I start the game of kings and will scott of kincurd and whatever the fuck is going on between him and lymond is placed directly into my lap. Thank youuuu ms dunnett I will cherish him forever

[lizziemothman]

oh no i fear i'll be obsessed

[thebirdscomeback]

"so did they yknow... go to moral philosophy school?"

[aspocko]

years ago i was a member of the official dorothy dunnett society which was mostly facebook literate elderly fans of the lymond and niccolo book series. having grown up very involved in fandom spaces, i mistakenly treated this group like any other fandom space, rather than engaging with it like the stuffy and official literary society that it actually was. things got super awkward and i got really annoyed so i dipped and haven't been back since.

but at one point during all of this my friend lucy who has no connection to the group and has not even read lymond but just wanted to cause chaos posts on my facebook wall "lymond is gay" bc everyone and their mother would see me talking about this book series and she just wanted to be silly.

someone from the dunnett group saw the post and got very huffy, and told my friend like "i don't think that's correct" to which my friend replied "no he's hella gay, the author told me. i just got off the phone with her and she said he's gay af." again lucy had zero context for any of this she was just being chaotic. but then in response, the huffy elder (legit a woman in her seventies) claps back with: "do you have a celestial phone?"

which is just the funniest response. obviously lucy had no idea who dorothy was or that she'd been dead for like twenty years. but just.... do you have a celestial phone??? i have never heard of a celestial phone. if i wanted to imply that someone was communicating with the dead, i'd mention a seance or a ouija board or something along those lines. never would the phrase "celestial phone" have entered my consciousness. to this day it makes me laugh so hard when i remember it.

edit bc i actually found the screneshot:

[etirabys]

if you fall in love with a character who is described as fabulously good looking in-text

and the author is on the record as headcanoning a particular actor as that character

and sixty years of beauty standards drift separate you and the author

beware of googling that actor

[thecrenellations]

@morethanfantasy : Jerott, lying: Lymond is an impeccable ally but there's nothing else about him I care for at all @cartograffiti : Now there's a Jerott meme in my head where he goes "I've had Lymond for ten years and if anything happened to him, I wouldn't care." But he's squeezing Lymond so tightly.

Jerott Blyth, circa The Disorderly Knights. He may be a slightly unreliable narrator…

accidental addition to these classics

[linovadraws]

I kept meaning to do art for @veliseraptor's fic gather frankincense so here you go!

[mblematic]

so weird that the lymond chronicles aren't more of a thing on here. most "author would have been posting jawdropping, DEEPLY psychologically upsetting m/m smut on ao3 dot org" books ever

[leojurand]

they were in love here

[swordbreakerz]

y'know those videos of ppl cracking like, creme brulee or tanghulu and shattering the sugar into a bunch of pieces to expose what's under it? I want to do that to lymond. crack open that hard shell he puts up around everyone and expose whatever the fuck is underneath it all

[softieghost]

So I did in fact use my powers (work at jewelry store) for evil (Lymond merch). It's simple but I love it 💕 me and @aspocko have matching ones 😁🤣

[orangeshipper]

A rare return to Tumblr, as it's the place to go when I have too many feelings about a thing that I need to express somewhere...

I recently read a 6-part series called The Lymond Chronicles, and let me tell you, I have FEELINGS.

When I say recently read, since I hit the point about halfway through the first book of being gripped, I have been utterly consumed. I devoured the rest of them, immediately went back to the start and read the entire series again, have now started (and almost finished) the first book for a third time and am enjoying it EVEN MORE.

I've laughed. I've cried. I've slammed the books shut needing to collect myself for a minute and breathe. I've bounced with giddy enjoyment. I've curled in a ball of overwhelming Feelings and felt like I could wail with the sheer beauty of these words and these characters and their emotions. I CANNOT EVEN. There we go, I said it, and I haven't needed to say that about a thing in ages.

It's been a very strange experience really. I did not expect to enjoy them. I started reading out of sufferance due to my mother's guilt tripping. They're her favourite books, and it turns out we have wild amounts in common of what pushes our buttons.

It's not a time period I'm massively keen on (Tudor), it's very hard to follow what's going on, you need to just switch your brain off and go with it and wish yourself luck but when it finally does click... THESE BOOKS.

Francis Crawford of Lymond (etc etc), you took me by surprise and have my heart.

I don't even know if there's an active fandom - if there is, hello??

I'm off to continue my re-read and further wallow in my feelings....