#Orczy

[0rczy]

The only thing keeping me sane during these last couple of episodes is the relationship between these two (I just finished episode 66. What the actual hell. How is this podcast genuenly so terrifying at times)

I tried imitating CarooDraws' artstyle for Ron btw!

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

The three layers of Sir Percy Blakney’s personality:

[dombest4friends]

Gyakorlo Street, Budapest. From the Budapest Keke photography.

[suzieloveships]

I'm a history nerd, don't get me wrong, but I always found it funny when people get like really really angry about period dramas being "historically inaccurate" because people from back then didn't gave shit about that. Do you know how inaccurate Shakespear's plays about War of the Roses are? For context War of the Roses happened from 1455 to 1487, Henry VI, Part 1 is believed to have been written in 1591. Best example of Willie not giving a shit is the fact according to him Richard III killed a guy in battle that really happend when he was 3.

And don't even get me started about the Scarlet Pimpernel (1905). You think Orczy cared about being historically accurate when writing abour French Revolution? No, she wanted to write about her Batman prototype. So stop complaining, it makes you look stupid

[burnsopale]

A Scarlet Pimpernel conundrum that lives rent free in my brain:

According to Sally Dugan, Orczy continued to write Pimpernel books mostly because her publishers kept asking for them and they were paying her bills (I call it Conan Doyle syndrome)

Dugan says that Orczy couldn't keep using Marguerite as the protagonist because convention demanded that she stay at home as a good little wife (boo!)

In her search for other potential POV characters, Orczy usually used one of the innocents that Percy is going to rescue, but matching them all in frequency is, unusually, recurring villain Chauvelin

(Quick aside to mention that the members of the League are usually out as POV characters because they know too much, note that when they are given the POV, they tend to be chafing against Percy refusing to share the details of his current plan with them. Percy is almost entirely out as a POV character because he's a trickster type hero and having access to his thoughts would kill the tension. That's also the reason why having the villain as a main POV character works; the question is never IF Percy will win, but HOW, so we must know all the difficulties in his way but not how he intends to overcome them.)

Once Chauvelin becomes a POV character he is immediately written much more sympathetically, from his very first scene in Elusive where he is shown to be vulnerable (threatened by Robespierre), cool (doesn't care about the threat) and admirable (his motivation is contrasted positively with Robespierre's). From this book onward, he has stopped taking snuff (trauma lol), stopped cackling evilly, and the hand-rubbing has gone from a diabolical gesture to a sign of his excessive nerves. He is shown to be increasingly traumatized by Percy's almost superhuman luck and skill, he is constantly exhausted and almost hysterical with nerve-strain, and he is continually contrasted as a true believer in the cause against his power-hungry, selfish, stupid colleagues. In Elusive especially he is heavily paralleling Marguerite. What I'm asking is, did Orczy miss her female protagonist so much she started writing Chauvelin the same way???

[hobgoblinsandpeachfuzz]

no stay i don't care what you've said or done, don't go away, not now when life has just begun. come back and be the woman who i knew, help me to believe in you...

what on earth am i to do?

nothing gold can stay

[junibyrd]

Sink me!

I found soooo many good memes on this lovely platform, that I've decided to contribute with my own! The last two is a pair, I came across this library tweet and I immediately thought about our Percy so I had to make that new version! (Also to me Percy gives off such golden retriever energy!)

The memes are also from the books so there is a tiny spoiler I guess in those😅 Honestly read them books!!! The first 5 is sooo good, there are also some really great things in other parts, jut read it! Btw I LOVE the fact that the audience at the time demanded all these new adventures and the Baroness was like listening!!! and serving!!! and gave us almost 15 books, basically fanfics about her own characters💅🏻

Also shoutout to the MUSICAL, (still pisses me off how forgotten it is!) Douglas Sills as Percy is pure perfection, the soundtrack and the LYRICS are just out of this world soo why are u still reading this and why aren't you violently typing it in Spotify or YouTube or Idon'tknowit'southerepeoplesodoyourselfafavorandgiveitalisten! Ok, Love u💋

[margueritestjusts]

that one descriptor in the elusive pimpernel that said chauvelin was greying at the temples from stress.... oh boy.... :(

[liminal-roses]

Rei Makoto as Chauvelin on SP press conference

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"I am only conscious of one hope, citoyen." "And that is?" "That Satan, your master, will have need of you elsewhere before the sun rises today." "You flatter me, citoyenne."

Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

[0rczy]

I don't remember seeing these characters in Tangled the seires...

(The part where the gang is stranded on an island reminded me of Riptide and so, I drew the pirates in the show's style. Or tried to, at least lol)

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

“You have to fight your wallpaper”

My wallpaper:

Me:

[balukabalu]

Tegnap esti @ablakmacska

[mariocki]

A final selection of Pat Troughton's varied looks in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (ITP, 1955 - 1956)

[soutsuji]

Happy pride month from the K. University Mystery Club

[burnsopale]

Can't stop thinking about Sir Percy continuing his Scarlet Pimpernel activities during the Napoleonic war. He's only 30 by the end of canon, and Napoleon comes to power 5 years later. The League could absolutely be running all kinds of guerilla operations in France or on the various fronts.

Imagine Napoleon learning to hate the little doggerel rhyme as much as the previous masters of France.

"They seek him-? Heaven or-? The nerve of this-! Who is this English devil?"

"Oh it's him, yeah we all hate him. Good luck, Monsieur First Consul, enjoy the gray hairs."

Not to mention that this leaves disgraced Chauvelin in a sudden position of power, being one of the few people who knows who the Scarlet Pimpernel is, and depending on whether you take Triumph or Hits Back as the final book in the series, he would either return to the hunt for his elusive nemesis, or himself become the hunted as he desperately tries to protect Percy's secret.