#d‘artagnan

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

✨ The Three Musketeers 2023 and friendship ✨

[dondalsy]

i love that d‘artagnan is a horse boy. boy loves horses. willing to die for his ugly yellow horse. accepts horses as a gift from buckingham. the iconic „shame on you, shoot a horse!“ scene from the bbc show. when he tricked bonnaire bc he knew how far horses could travel. just a horse boy through n through!!!!!

[kajaono]

Milady and d‘artagnan having sex and d‘artagnan seeing her tattoo, realizing he is having sex with Athos wife. The horror on his face. I am howling 😂

[lizzy-cassel-de-la-fere]

He looks stunning in this picture ♥️ i love him so much 😭♥️

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

I’ve been in a reading slump for the past two weeks. To get out of it, I’ve started rereading The Three Musketeers again, this time in French (I must be insane). Not sure if that was the best idea, but I’m enjoying myself so far.

Also not sure if anyone but me cares about reading updates, but here we are.

Chapter 1:

So 18yo d‘Art, son of a Gascon farmer, takes off to Paris with an old yellow horse, a sword and 12 sous in his satchel.

There‘s a heartfelt goodbye-scene with his parents during which his father tells him to seek adventures and duel as much as he can. Good parental advice. 😆

It strikes me how Dumas makes a point of d‘Artagnan senior staying firm and dry-eyed because Gascons Don’t Cry™️ when I know that, throughout the books, frequent (and fairly dramatic) crying will become one of our Musketeers’ greatest hobbies. Huh.

D‘Art is supposed to never sell his horse and keep it until it dies. As soon as d‘Art arrives in Paris, he sells it to the first person who will buy it. Good thing dad doesn’t know. Lol.

Luke Pasqualino as BBC d’Art really fits Dumas‘ description of d‘Artagnan: brown skin, dark eyes, lanky, with a quick temper and endless optimism. Only the nose, “crooked but well-drawn“, doesn’t match. (This is a good thing)

It’s also a good thing that Maman d’Artagnan has equipped her son with a balm that miraculously “heals all wounds that don’t involve the heart.” He’s going to need it, mom. (Like, in the very first chapter.)

Fainting isn’t reserved to damsels in distress in Dumas canon. In fact, d’Art faints twice in the very first chapter. Once because he’s injured. And then again when he sets his eyes on Milady for the first time (while still injured). Maman d’Artagnan should have packed some smelling salts for him as well.

Once more, I find the start of the novel really intriguing what with the nameless gentleman who first fights with d’Art and then steals d’Art’s letter of recommendation to Treville. Why? And who is he? (I know who he is, of course, my dudes, but maybe there is still some sweet uninitiated summer child here who doesn’t?)

And we have Milady’s mysterious first appearance. She’s on some kind of mission for the nameless gentleman. Again: What mission? Why? (She’s also blonde and blue-eyed, JFTR, although I always imagined her with the black hair of a femme fatale - hello, Maimie McCoy!)

The first chapter is so captivating with everything that’s going on - a farewell, a brawl (also involving a sword-fight), a theft, intrigue, whump and mystery, all of that infused with upbeat tempo and humor.

If I’d read this back in 1844, as the first chapter of a serialized novel in a magazine, I would’ve been hooked.

Who am I kidding. I still am!😊

[kajaono]

This is why I love that we get more modern adaptations these days, because they start to realize how fucked up that was.

I understand the approach BBC Musketeers took by saying: „Athos tried to hang Milady because she killed his brother.“ which gave Athos a real motivation for his action. But the blame was still on Milady eventually (at least in season 1). So I am not really satisfied with that

This is why I really like the approach the 2023 movie took. Because it never blames Milady for her past actions. We still see the story from Athos POV, yes, but it shows the viewer that Milady did nothing wrong. The 2023 movie shows us how Milady gets married off young (no to Athos btw), the guy assaulted her and r*pes her. She kills him in self defense and runs away. Scared and hunted by the police. When she married Athos she hoped to finally find peace and protection. When Athos finds out about her secret, he decides that his reputation is more important then his wife, and hence: tries to hang his Milady. Which a) already shows how fucked up that was but i love even more that it has b) consequences.

After Athos reveals all these details to d‘Artagnan the movie cuts over to the next scene. Athos is out of frame, explaining something to D’Artagnan. But he isn’t listening, only staring at Athos, deeply baffled by what was just revealed. When Athos turns around D’Artagnan gives him a slim smile and a tiny nod, but the moment Athos turns around and is out of frame again D’Artagnan keeps on giving him deeply confused „WTF dude?!“ looks.

And I so hyped to see how the movie will handle the Milady storyline in season 2.

People who think Book!Milady is the devil incarnate are so wild when:

She was 16 when she married Athos. A literal teenager

Athos hanged her when she was unconscious just on the basis of a fleur de lys on her shoulder. HE NEVER EVEN GAVE A CHANCE TO DEFEND HERSELF!

"But Milady seduced Athos!"

That's his word! We never hear Milady's side. He was the Comte of the lands, would she really have been in the position to refuse an order from the Comte to marry him?

In fact, throughout the books, we never get to hear Milady's side of the whole story. It's always the men's version we hear. The version from Athos, the "no women allowed" misogynist and the version from the executioner who obviously had a personal grudge against her

"BUT! BUT! ATHOS WAS SO SAD BECAUSE HE HAD TO (ALMOST) KILL HER! He at least regretted his actions while she regretted nothing >:("

Well, sucks to be him but she was the one who WAS ALMOST KILLED. And if she decides to throw away all regret and adopt rage and anger in response, well who am I to deny a girlboss her wish?

Like even Athos admits how fucked up his actions were (just before he is about to duel d'Artagnan, he notices how young he is and regrets that if he kills him, he would have killed two children)

SO WHY CAN'T YOU?! THE TEXT IS LITERALLY POINTING IT OUT

[filmabend]

Geheimcode M – Einer für alle, alle für einen – Film (2015)

Originaltitel: Code M

Geheimcode M – Einer für alle, alle für einen ist ein Familien- und ein Abenteuerfilm

In Geheimcode M – Einer für alle, alle für einen beschließt Isabel, sich auf die Suche nach dem Schwert von d‘Artagnan zu machen, so wie einst ihr Großvater.

Inhalt von Geheimcode M – Einer für alle, alle für einen

Ihren Großvater haben Isabel und ihr Bruder schon lange nicht mehr gesehen.

Nach dem Tod der Großmutter gab es Streit zwischen ihm und Isabels Mutter, seitdem lebte er allein auf dem alten Hof der Familie, vollgestellt mit alten Dingen: Eine Ritterüstung, alte Bilder und Karten.

Nun hatte er einen Autounfall, liegt mit Gehirnerschütterung und ein paar kleineren Verletzungen im Krankenhaus...

[girlofthemoon75]

Robeardo d’Artagnan - dedicated to my dear friend @firethatgrewsolow (actually she prefers Montreux Robert but hey 🤷🏻‍♀️😂) Love you 🖤

[deagle]

Here‘s to my favorite insolent little puppy:

ACT 1 D‘ARTAGNAN⚔️

CLICK FOR HIGH RES👉👈🥑🌟

Love Aaron in this role

Bonus:

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

I will probably not be over this any time soon.

[kajaono]

WIP „better with a hat“

A meta on the use of hats as a symbolism for the musketeers, based on a line uttered in a recent adaptation… sadly I do not know anymore in which adaptation… because I watched too many recently 🙈

Help?

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

“The ‘Dumas touch’ is reality. It means not just dash, suspense, and unflagging invention […] He is unmistakeable, because readers for a century and a half have felt the power of the irresistible personality that lies behind his tales, the generous spirit of the man with his contagious lust for life, his verve and perennial good humour. We admire Balzac. We may revere Beaudelaire and Flaubert. But we care about Dumas.”

David Coward, in the introduction to The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

[kajaono]

Yes! Finally someone gets it. May I add: „D‘Artagnan <—> will sleep with Rochefort later“

The Three Musketeers' Polycule, as illustrated by me

hope this clears things up =)

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

"‘Never,’ said Athos, slowly raising his right hand towards heaven—‘never, I swear before God, who sees and hears us in the solemnity of this night, shall my sword touch yours; never shall my eye have for you a look of anger; never shall my heart have a pulsation of hatred. We have lived together, hated and loved together, have spilt our blood, and perhaps, I will add also, there is between us a tie more powerful than that of friendship—the compact of crime; for we four have condemned, judged, and executed a human being* whom we had not perhaps the right of sending out of the world, although she seemed to belong to hell rather than this world. D‘Artagnan, I have always loved you as my son. Porthos, we have slept ten years side by side; Aramis is your brother as he is mine—for Aramis has loved you as I love you still, as I shall love you always. What can Cardinal Mazarin be for us who have forced both the hand and heart of a man like Richelieu? What is such and such a prince for us, who have established the crown upon the head of a queen? D‘Artagnan, I ask your pardon for having yesterday crossed swords with you; Aramis does the same as regards Porthos. And now, hate me if you please, but I swear that in spite of hate I shall have nothing but friendship for you...'"

-- Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas

[deagle]

>>The Luxemburg it is! Shall we say eight?<<

(YES EIGHT IS FIIINE)

(I‘LL MEET YOU THERE)

(THE PLEASURE‘S MIIINE)

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

Je les aime à perdre la raison. ❤️