#olympe de puget

[sherwoodknights]

Song 48 for Spotify Wrapped — any of the Scarpim or 1789 gang, delight me, horrify me, surprise me

48. You Love Who You Love // Olympe du Puget

She has a knack for it, she supposes. It's a strange thought, and utterly unprovoked, but true all the same.

Olympe du Puget has a knack for falling in love at entirely the wrong time.

Ronan she could explain away. In a few years, she'd be able to look back and say that she'd been swept up in the passion, the excitement of it all, the fierce fiery thrill of a first love, a love full of danger and secrets, forbidden, and yet so addictive that she kept finding her way back.

But this? To fall in love with Ronan's sister, and in the middle of a civil war to boot, was most inconvenient.

It had begun on that fateful day, at the Bastille. Their grief for the boy who lay dead on the floor was shared by many that day, and the weeks that followed. But as the world moved on, and Ronan became little more than a symbol of courage, a life taken far too soon for the cause of freedom, the pain bled away. For all but two, it seemed. Only two souls, out of the mob that mourned him, that called on his name to cry for justice, justice, only Olympe and Solène, against all odds, united in their grief for the man, not just the name.

And it grew. It grew from acknowledgement, to understanding, to companionship, to sisterhood; a feeling of solid ground that they both seemed to crave. And just when Olympe felt the push to maybe something more-

The infighting was not just between the people anymore. It had spread to those who ruled now, in the name of the people, who seemed unable to decide what the people wanted anymore, and any safety Olympe could claim was falling fast from beneath her feet.

Which was how she ended up with Solène at her door in the dead of night, papers in her hand that she would not explain how she acquired, begging Olympe to take them and go, far away from Paris, away from the revolution that had gone too far. You must go now, before dawn, before they come for you both.

Won't you come with us? If anyone knew what you'd done for us, you'd be in such danger-

I'll make do. I always have. But you have a father to care for, and I have my brother's name to protect me, for as long as it still means something to them.

Please, Solène, don't leave me.

Perhaps one day we will meet again.

Hidden by the darkness of the moonless sky, Olympe does what she supposes she has wanted to for a while, pressing her lips against Solène's, and praying that they find no resistance.

Solène... I need you to know that I-

You must go.

Thank you. For everything.

Look after yourself, Olympe.

And you.

What a tragedy, she thinks to herself, as she and her father sit silently in the carriage, that you don't choose who to love.

~~~

My first time writing Solympe! I've had an idea of a similar scene floating around in my head for a while, and thought, what better time to finally write it. I ended up going more off the vibes of the song more than anything, but I think it turned out okay!

[olympedupuget]

“They are very close. There is a lot of affection between them. Marie considers her to be a little bit like her little sister” 

 Roxane le Texier on the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Olympe du Puget

[wild-icarus]

Olympe du Puget/オランプ・デュ・ピュジェ, Act 1/First Costume (神田沙也加/Kanda Sayaka) 1789 Les Amants de la Bastille Jp Toho 2018 (3/9)

Costume Note: The ax she is holding is a prop used by one of the ensemble women during "Je vous le monde."

Olympe: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

These two are also masters of not drawing attention to themselves. 

[calimera62]

Revoir 1789 : Les amants de la Bastille, c’est aussi se rendre compte que Ronan et Olympe couchent ensemble juste après les funérailles du dauphin, alias le fils aîné de Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette, à l’intérieur même de la nécropole.

[teatreefox]

Additions for Seattle-Tacoma area:

If you drive a manual, either be very confident in your ability to drive on steep (i mean steep) hills or consider switching to an automatic for your own sanity. This whole area was once under an enormous glacier (which is how the Salish Sea (aka Puget Sound) was formed), and that glacier's movements carved large rolling hills into the landscape.

There's volcanoes everywhere, and they're all active. While Tahoma (settler name Rainier) is mostly dormant, and we love her dearly, if you live in the Puyallup/White River valley, you MUST have an emergency evacuation plan for you and your family & pets because if she decides to go up, the lahars she'll make will flow directly down that river valley.

There are lahar sirens in the Puyallup/White River valley towns/cities. They sound like air raid sirens, and they do tests of them every month or so.

The Cascade and Olympic ranges are a direct result of the Cascadia subduction zone of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. We have earthquakes a lot. They're usually small, but be prepared for much larger ones.

Most city/town/place namesare anglicized First Nation names - Seattle, Puyallup, Quilcene, Steilacoom, Chimacum, Quileute, Yakima, Nisqually, etc. Many aren't pronounced exactly how they look.

There's construction happening everywhere all the time at all hours.

Seriously, the pedestrians don't look before walking into traffic.

There's water everywhere.

If you wanna go to one of the islands, be prepared to make it a day trip in case the ferries are delayed.

Coyotes, raccoons, opossums, and deer are common sights, even in the middle of the city.

Our public transit kinda sucks. It works to a point, but if you don't drive or bike it can take a long time to get where you wanna go and you'll probably have to either take multiple buses or walk for a decent leg of your journey.

Get used to people saying, "The mountain is out." It's how we say the weather is nice lol

Any advice for someone thinking about moving to the Pacific Northwest?

That kinda depends on where you are moving to! Here are the things I've found useful to know about moving to Portland:

I moved from Philly, where people tend to be more kind than nice, and here, people are more nice than kind. What I mean by this is that people in Philly will call you a jagoff while pulling over to change your tire in the rain, while people in Portland will smile while they keep driving. (This isn't universal, but it's real.)

Oregon has no sales tax. You'll pay a bunch of different income taxes in April, though, so make sure you pay attention to your mail in the beginning of the year so you get all your local taxes done.

Locals tend not to use umbrellas much. I tend to not just bc the rain is rarely hard enough to require one. Get a good raincoat.

Portland was one of the first places in the US to be wired for home electricity. Therefore, the grid needs upgrades, and a lot of the big lines are not buried as they are in other places and are vulnerable to ice. Make sure you have good home batteries for when we have ice storms.

Ditto, the streets don't get treated for ice. Make sure you have good boots and YakTrax or similar.

Pedestrians don't fucking look before they step out into the street. If people acted in Philly like they act in PDX, they'd get hit. If you're driving in the PNW, act like every pedestrian is about to do the most foolish thing ever.

Ditto PNW drivers. I'd rather drive to EWR on a Friday at 5 pm than try to cross the Willamette at rush hour.

TriMet still has a lot of room for improvement, but it's a lot better than any other city I've lived in. Get your Hop set up when you get here so you know you have money on it and all, even if you don't ride often, just in case.

The Oregon Zoo membership has an exchange thing where every month there are different local places you get free admission to. Getting a membership is generally less expensive than going twice in a year, and also, there's a bunch of other stuff you can do with that membership.

Choose where you wanna live as the place you're gonna do pretty much everything. Portland is largely set up so you can do everything you need within your neighborhood, which is nice. Pretty much the only time that I leave my neighborhood is when I have to go to a specialist doctor or to hang out with my cousins who live in SW or go to a special event.

Portland has a lot of cool shit you can do in your neighborhood - honestly more than I've seen anyplace else I've lived. There are hiking groups and bike rides and soap box derbies and all kinds of shit. Join local FB groups, look for posters... you'll see 'em.

If you consume weed regularly & qualify for a medical card, get one. The taxes on marijuana add up a lot faster than you think.

Some of the best food in Portland is at the strip clubs. No, I'm not joking. There's a law in PDX that if you serve alcohol, you have to serve Real Food, which has led to bars and clubs competing over how good their food is.

Food cart pods are the shit. Research your local food cart pods. You'll get some of the best food you've ever eaten and can take a huge group of people with different food needs to a local food cart pod and just have everyone go to different carts and get their own shit.

Look into who owns your local weed store. There are good Black-owned stores, and one of the most popular "chains" is/was owned by some deeply shady people who essentially bribed one of our Secretaries of State. So it does matter.

Be nice to the crows. There is a huge huge huge local murder & crows tell other crows if you're an asshole or you're cool.

I'm sure there's more stuff, but that's what I can think of while I'm listening to a podcast and my wife is driving us home.

[lavender-lizzy]

La Sentence ~ 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille

[lehetsz-kiraly]

Olympe: Ronan, we are at a FUNERAL! A child's funeral!

Ronan: So...is that a no then?

Olympe: I...didn't say that.

[fandom-hell-ferrylass]

hey, if anyone is still alive in the 1789 fandom ...

what would you say to a film adaptation script of the stage show? I'm a screenwriter and been kinda fiddling around with the notion ...

[unofficial-sean]

Wolf eel!!!!!!

[sherwoodknights]

No thoughts

Only lots of French people singing about

REVOLUTION

And thinking about

TAP-DANCING ROBESPIERRE

Also Camille Lou and Louis Delort being

✨adorable and in love✨

Why, yes, I have been listening to 1789: Les Amants De La Bastille non-stop for two days how could you tell

[olympedupuget]

French Musical 1789, les Amants de la Bastille Challenge [Day 6/30]

Favourite Actress: Sayaka Kanda (Toho, D’Espoir Cast)

[wild-icarus]

Ronan Mazurier/マズリエ・ロナン and Olympe du Puget/オランプ・デュ・ピュジェ (Various) 1789 Les Amants de la Bastille Jp Toho 2016+18 (9/9, 9/9)

Ronan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Olympe: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

俺たちは敵同士...

[la-rue-nous-appartient]

1789: Les Amants De La Bastille

Told by an incorrect quotes generator

The real story of how Ronan met the Revolutionary Gang:

You can't tell me this isn't the entire scene before Hey Ha:

This happened. This is canon:

So did this. In my head, anyway:

How the ending scene actually went:

+BONUS: some quotes I didn't know what to do with but thought were funny

[margridarnauds]

Insolent creature.