#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

[procrastaenating]

When The Phone Rings as The Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes P4

P1 / P2 / P3 / P4 / P5 / P6 / P7

[cattyisokay]

French and English lit are my reason to live

[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???

[junibyrd]

Yaaaay It's a Pimpernel post again, I made 3 playlists a while ago and just wanted to share it with my fellow SP fans out there

Warning: yes, they may have songs from the musical but the inspo behind the lists is from the og books, mostly from the first one so there is no love triangle or anything that is not in the canon

I focused on the two lovebirds (and Percy as an individual) and the most important thing: the lyrics - so the music itself is not always in relation with the aesthetic of the book.

The sad list (as I like to call it): This is the pre-discovery era, it's the longing, it's the "where did I go wrong", it's the "I was a fool to trust you" it's the "I still love you though and it's killing me" Fun fact: the first piece is the aria that Margot listenes to during the talk with Chauvelin in the opera box.

The happy-end list: This is the ultimate second chance romance at it's best, it's the "things we didn't say before", it's the "can we start again?", it's the "I was a fool but now I'm here"

The Percy character list: I'm a huge classical music fan so this list is a combination of what I feel Percy sounds like in terms of classical pieces and the usual lyrics-heavy songs

Enjoy, aand I'm also curious - do you have a song or piece that has no connection originally to the SP, but reminds you of it?

Love u💋

[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

[margueritestjusts]

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

[0rczy]

Some Dndads drawings, heavily inspired by JJGGrt’s art style, that I tried to imitate (pretty obvious who my favorite to draw is lol)

Also found some very old ones, from back when I just started to listen to season 2:

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

“You have to fight your wallpaper”

My wallpaper:

Me:

[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

[procrastaenating]

When The Phone Rings as The Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes P3

P1 / P2 / P3 / P4 / P5 / P6 / P7

[balukabalu]

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