#the musketeers spoilers

[dragongutsixofficial]

Thoughts on s2 episode 1:

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS

THEY DID IT AGAIN

TWENTY YEARS LATER WASN'T ENOUGH THEY KILLED RICHELIEU OFFSCREEN AGAIN

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY *yelling at the sky*

IT WAS ALREADY HARD TO LOSE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IN THE BOOK OFFSCREEN ONCE

BUT THEY DID IT AGAIN

I KEPT HOPING IT WAS A TRAP BUT NO. D E A D

I actually looked it up and the actor who played him got another opportunity so good for him !! Congrats dude !

BUT STILL I AM HURTING

I'm happy to see Rochefort but I am still destroyed. He will never be Richelieu

Also poor book!Rochefort is getting another villanous adaptation. Sorry my dude no luck

I was incredibly worried that Rochefort would keep his weird haircut throughout the whole season but then he combed his hair so it's all better now. I can accept that

ROCHEFORT BETTER MAKE RICHELIEU PROUD

But he's starting on the wrong foot. At least Richelieu really did it for France =(

Louis is so sad. He's lost his adoptive father and he won't even get a new one =(

Still no lackeys. I'm still sad about that=(

Missed opportunity to bring in Mazarin though.

I

I'm just so sad

This is still great ofc I'll be fine but I have been bamboozled misled betrayed like Miette

I feel like Miette in this Chili's tonight

[cor-lapis]

"so you know how my actions ended up being done by some random guy? weirdly the only effect of me retconning the timeline was that his grandson was never born, and-"

[el-ffej]

How it started:

How it's going:

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

Probably Aramis about Porthos: Sir, that‘s my emotional support pain-in-the-a**

[psychopomparia]

Roses & Musket event day 2 spoilers

AYATO HAS EYE WRINKLES??? I'm living my best life. He is old!! Like older man!!

Also is he insecure about it??? Please, nooo. That's kind of cute.

Anyways, I stay winning as someone who headcanons Ayato as older.

[ofsmokenandgold]

A is for Accident....apparently.

I will have more to say about the Land of Women finale in a bit, but I couldn't resist a post about Aramis, Anibal and Amat and their accidental babies.

(I realize that Anibal's accidental baby was not an accident from Ema's POV, but very much from his).

Credit for the last image to santiago.cabrera.fans Instagram account.

[yuesya]

Not me thinking that Focalors gambit of killing herself + Hydro Archon Throne to save her people would have been a lot less complicated if Shiki had been nearby and amenable to trying it, as I doubt she'd have a good opinion of Celestia (Ei must have told her about why she was pursuing 'Eternity'). Imagine of Shiki was just... capable of killing all the gnosis herself. Wtf from everyone involved who had to live under Celestia's rules.

I recently just finished the Fontaine archon quest the other day. Overall, I thinnk the cutscenes were really cool and there were various aspects that were done well! But I also have Complaints about the story haha. Especially the last segment.

Anyways, to answer this ask!

I think the gnoses are 'killable' for Shiki -in Sumeru Nahida threatens to destroy her gnosis when negotiating with Dottore, so we know that they're not indestructible. However, destroying one would potentially awaken Celestia, which is likely to be Very Problematic from what we know of Teyvat's history so far. Ei would probably warn Shiki/Ayase off from running around and destroying gnoses, so even if she ends up involved in the Fontaine storyline somehow they would probably look towards a different solution.

[endlessskymaster]

Navia official art.

R.I.P Melus and Silver 😢

Also, Navia has new subordinates. The two of them both have blonde hair just like Navia.

[lionheartedgirlanachronism]

Just got back from watching The Three Musketeers: Milady in the theater with @jennyforeigner. We had a lot of things to say about this movie, but one really struck me. (Spoilers for the movie if you want to see it. It was very good!)

There's a very small scene with Milady after D'Artagnan realizes that she's Athos' wife where we see her in her rooms, and she takes off her wig (!!! We did not previously know she was always wearing a wig, even when her hair is black) and is very clearly upset at what's just happened.

This to me is the first genuine unmasking of Milady, the first time we've seen her own emotions and not the emotions of the persona she's playing.

Later, after she's been arrested by Buckingham and is speaking to Constance, we discover that her natural hair is cut short, which struck me as interesting. In the moment, both Jenny and I wondered if the things she was saying to Constance were just another attempt at manipulation. But given that Milady is at her most vulnerable when her real hair is visible, I think we can assume that she is truthful in this interaction with Constance.

In the period in which this film is set, wearing your hair down would typically signify two things: either you're a young girl who is not yet of age, or you're a sex worker. A woman who wears her hair up is a respectable woman. No wig we see Milady wearing is in an updo, but her own hair underneath is pinned up.

Cutting her hair short is practical given the work she does, but I don't think we can assume that she wants it that way. She has been denied the opportunity to show her true self as visibly respectable through this social more as a result of the actions she is forced to take to keep herself alive, which is directly caused by the actions of the men around her: her abusive first husband, Athos, Richelieu.

But underneath the wig, her natural hair is up, and in this way she shows herself as a respectable woman: she knows it, even if no one around her does.

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

also, the plot of cinderella III is that lady tremaine uses the fairy godmothers wand to go back in time and make it so anastasias foot fits the glass slipper

and then she changes the princes memory so that he thinks he danced with anastasia instead of cinderella

plus theres a song in it called ‘at the ball’:

and another one, ‘more than a dream’, which is basically a combo of the necklace theory + riku looking for sora in his dreams after kh3 and using them to find him in MoM:

Cinderella: I...I don't understand. I- I've always dreamed That my life could be Like a fairy-tale A perfect fantasy Every day a new adventure On some undiscovered shore Was it nothing more Than a dream? Then one magic night With a single dance I found more than Just a storybook romance And for once my life was perfect As we glided across the floor And it was so much more So much more than a dream I could say it never happened Just a dream from the start But then I'd live my life With a broken heart Jaq: No no! No cry Gus Gus, Princey knows he danced with Cinderelly. Cinderella: Yes, of course he does! What if I'd just see him again? Jaq: Yeah yeah! See Princey! Cinderella: Yes! Everything will be alright! Jaq: Everything will be alright! Gus: Yeah Yeah! Cinderella: Cause in a Prince's arms I've found a love I can't deny If there's any chance to set things right I've simply got to try So I'll trust my heart What else can I do? I can't live in dreams If my dreams are to come true There's a better life that's waiting Past the mountains I must climb I will take a chance on love To get my once upon a time Oh, I want so much more So much more Than a dream

like?????? LIKE????????????????

[scarletwritesshit]

🪦And Then There Were Two 🪦 TTM Zine

Written for @ttmzine.

Akihiko sat down in the grass right next to where Shinjiro was resting.

"It’s been pretty damn rough for us, hasn’t it, Shinji? Felt like we could never catch a break there for a while. I think now, though, I can finally say that it’s over," Akihiko said.

Not like he was expecting Shinjiro to reply at all.

"We can relax. After all of these years, we can finally relax."

Shinjiro had as few words as ever to exchange with Akihiko. The silence from him this time, however, was different. It was eerie. It was heartbreaking.

"We won, Shinji."

Akihiko leaned his head against Shinjiro’s headstone. He didn’t, no, he couldn’t respond, but Akihiko swore that he could still hear Shinjiro scoffing at him.

Tch. I knew we could do it.

Akihiko still couldn’t help but feel like Shinjiro had yet to truly depart from this world, despite his body now resting six feet under beside him. Shinjiro was practically counting on his inevitable death, even after rejoining S.E.E.S. It was a fact that he was quite stubborn about. But not stubborn enough to slack off with the growing presence of the shadows becoming a greater and greater risk to his friends. And he was especially too stubborn to let a fatal shot to the chest deter him from babysitting Akihiko.

His pigheaded demeanor was why Akihiko was convinced that Shinjiro was still with them, one way or another. He had to be listening to Akihiko right at this very moment as he was trying to stop himself from shedding any tears. He banged his fist on edge of Shinjiro’s headstone, which was unwise given that he was still recovering from his neglected injuries that had accumulated during the end of January.

You absolute dumbass.

Perhaps the pain medication was causing him to hear things. Or maybe he hadn’t taken quite enough. Regardless, that gruff voice of disappointment from Shinjiro wasn’t leaving Akihiko’s mind any time soon. If he really was here, Shinjiro would be mocking Akihiko for his little bouts of stupidity.

And he kind of missed that.

"Knocking on his grave won’t wake him up, Akihiko."

Clenching his bandaged fist in pain, Akihiko looked up to see Mitsuru walking towards him and Shinjiro’s grave. He couldn’t tell, but Mitsuru appeared to be carrying some kind of faded gold object in her hand.

"It’s worth a shot with that bastard," he said, forcing himself to stand up. "What brings you here?"

"The same reason as you. To give our friend the goodbye he deserves," Mitsuru said.

First, Akihiko lost his sister when he was incredibly young. Now, he had to deal with the lingering pain of both an old and a new friend passing on all too soon. Initially, Akihiko managed to force himself to press on. All of his grief was channeled into cutting down shadow after shadow. Now that the dust had finally settled, he couldn’t repress it anymore, and Mitsuru could see it.

"Akihiko, you don’t have to hold back your tears," Mitsuru said. "There’s no use in doing so."

"Shinji wouldn’t want that!" he said, once again knocking the headstone with disregard for his injured hand.

"Shinjiro wouldn’t want to see his friends in pain, either. I believe that we have fought more than hard enough to justify such feelings."

"Pity won’t get us anywhere" Akihiko said, wiping away the tears that were leaking out, "…I’m surprised to not see Ken with you today."

"Every day after coming home from school, he’s exhausted as his energy hasn’t full recuperated quite yet. Fighting the incarnation of Death took more out of him than he’s willing to admit. He is only eleven, after all, and he isn’t the unstoppable superhero that every boy his age thinks he is."

"Understandable. Even I haven’t exactly recovered and it’s been over three months since we fought Nyx."

"Which is why you should take it easy and not repeatedly knock on Shinjiro’s grave."

"Don’t act like you’re completely okay yourself."

"Ha, a rare moment of something that both of you would agree upon. It’s like he’s still here with us."

The two of them went dead silent for a few minutes. The smile that was on Mitsuru’s face quickly dissipated, and Akihiko clenched his fist.

"It’s just not the same without him," Akihiko said.

"It really isn’t," Mitsuru said, sitting down on the side of Shinji’s headstone opposite of where Akihiko was. "I wish he could’ve been with us to see things through to the end, at the very least."

"Or maybe he lucked out being spared from the heartbreak of losing Kotone. But he will never actually know that we won."

"That’s not entirely true," Mitsuru said, "he’s right between us, isn’t he?"

Akihiko looked down to his side. "I guess so, in a way."

"Which is why I’m here. To tell him everything, as if he were still with us, so that he may finally have closure and rest peacefully once and for all."

"He deserves to know that Nyx has been bested, at the very least. Hopefully sealed away and gone for good, along with the core source of our problems.”

"Not to mention, Takaya most likely died in the collapse of Tartarus as well,” Mitsuru added. “Dead or not, he suffered the downfall that he deserved for taking Shinji’s life."

"I wonder how he would feel about Jin dying. Probably call him some kind of coward considering the way he chose to go out."

"Can’t say for sure. He would probably be just another dead rat in the road to him."

"A good riddance, if anything," Akihiko said. “Probably spit at him for choosing to put an end to his own life.”

“Then again, Jin didn’t have much of a chance with how long he had been taking the Persona suppressors, so what would’ve been the point in him agonizingly dragging his life out?”

“Shinjiro felt the same about his own life too, you know.”

“Perhaps so,” Mitsuru said, gazing off towards the cemetery laid out before her. “They were alike in similar ways; same bodily deterioration, same unfortunate fate."

“Now, don’t go comparing those two, otherwise Shinjiro would scold both of us from beyond the grave,” Akihiko said with a saddened laugh.

“As much as I would love to see him again, that is certainly one encounter I would choose to avoid if we can.”

Akihiko nodded his head in agreement. “Thankfully, such encounters are nothing more than a farfetched fantasy. Then again, I say that after meeting Ryoji.”

“Can he really be any stranger than the concept of shadows and Personas? He was merely Death itself sealed inside of Kotone by Aigis,” Mitsuru said, abruptly going silent to think about just how truly absurd the words she was speaking sounded.

“It sounds absolutely wild, Shinji, but it’s true. You never did find out about Ryoji’s existence, did you? He was the embodiment of Death living inside of Kotone for an entire decade, until it was kind of our fault he reemerged in the end. But think about how ridiculous it sounds, Kotone had to carry that thing around like she was Death’s surrogate mother!” Akihiko said with a laugh.

“Shinjiro would absolutely knock you upside the head for that comment,” Mitsuru said, giving Akihiko a light pat on his shoulder. “But when you put it that way, it does sort of make sense.”

“Are you sure you haven’t accidentally taken my painkillers, by chance? Its one thing for me to say it, but you agreeing with me is a whole new level of…of pure absurdity!”

“Akihiko, you have to admit, it is nice for us to laugh over something silly like this like the old days.”

“Except I don’t think Shinji is laughing. I can hear him sighing and looking at us with his typical disgruntled frown. ‘Physical embodiments of Death? Inside of my friend? What the hell kind of nonsense are you guys even talking about?’”

“He would,” Mitsuru said, “…he absolutely would.”

Akihiko and Mitsuru fell completely silent once more. It finally began to sink in that Shinjiro missed out on far more than saving the world from Nyx and the shadows. The precious little moments in between their Dark Hour expeditions were very short lived for him. He hardly ever had the chance to walk Koromaru, who had practically become a son to him during the short time he lived at the S.E.E.S. dormitory. The trio never did make it back to the ramen shop for lunch like their middle school days.

No more laughing at Aigis’s nonsense together. No more cooking meals for S.E.E.S. It all slipped away from Shinjiro in an instant, in the same way his life slipped away from his friends.

“Mitsuru, did he ever actually make a formal decision in regards to coming back to school?” Akihiko asked.

Mitsuru shook her head. “He didn’t. He was gone long enough for most of our classmates to remember him as a back-alley thug, if they even recalled his presence at all. Shinjiro’s memory lives among the students as nothing more than some unruly delinquent, rather than a fellow student that had fallen on unfortunate times.”

“At least he had friends to remember him as a human, and not alley trash left to the wind,” Akihiko said with a sigh. “With classmates like that, would he have even wanted to go on that trip with us?”

“Probably not,” Mitsuru said, looking at his headstone. “Shinji, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you wouldn’t have wanted to come anyways. You would’ve spent the majority of the trip huffing and sighing in a corner away from everyone.

“I guarantee it would’ve taken him the remainder of the school year to pry him away from Koromaru, making up some kind of excuse like, ‘someone has to keep the dog out of trouble for the week.’”

“That reminds me, Akihiko. How has Koromaru been fairing?”

“Wish I could say he has been doing better than me, but there’s been days where I’ve seen him laying down in the kitchen looking up at the counter and whining.”

“Shinjiro did feed Koromaru a lot, even if he did try to hide it.”

“And he never did a good job of hiding it either. I always knew he liked dogs and the like, anyways. When we were kids, he was completely obsessed with the idea of owning his own pet one day. Specifically a dog. Not to mention, he always cried when the dog died in the movie and I would make fun of him for it. Even as we got older, he could not hold back the painfully obvious tears flowing down his face at even merely the sight of a dog getting injured.”

“Koromaru joining the team must’ve been a dream come true for him then,” Mitsuru said with a little laugh.

“Absolutely,” Akihiko said, “he would never admit it, but he loved Koromaru to death. I feel so bad for that boy, as he had lost not one, but three loving guardians.”

“Ken’s been taking care of him from what I’ve heard.”

“It’s what Shinji would’ve wanted. He wants both Koro-chan and the kid to have a better life than what he had, even after everything Ken had attempted back in October. He was too stubborn to show it, but Shinjiro really was a good man.”

“He would also want me to get straight to the point,” Mitsuru said, standing up, “as I still have yet to fulfill the one reason why I have come here.”

"Are you leaving soon? If so, I’m going to stay with him just a little while longer, but I do have one question before you go, Mitsuru."

"Hm?"

"What’s that that you bought with you?"

"Oh, this?" Mitsuru said, holding the golden object in her hand. "It’s a pocket watch."

"A... pocket watch?"

"It belonged to Shinjiro. Kotone found it at the police station and asked me to make sure that it made it back to him safely. She was far too exhausted to bring it back to him herself, so I agreed to be the one to return it to its rightful owner."

Mitsuru kneeled down and placed the pocket watch atop Shinjiro’s grave. It shined dully in the afternoon sunlight, and its surface was covered in scratches from age. For a pocket watch lost from a then homeless man, it was still in surprisingly good shape. As he observed it, Akihiko couldn’t help but feel like he wished Kotone found the watch and returned it to Shinjiro sooner. Maybe things could’ve been different, like the butterfly effect leading to the survival of his longtime best friend.

Would it even have made any difference in the end?

[ninadove]

YO THE FUCK IS HAPPENING -

THOUGHTS ON EPISODES 7 AND 8:

Episode 7:

RICHELIEU MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW

A Richelieu-centric episode ??? Sign me THE FUCK IN (seriously though he may be my favorite character in the book i'll take any crumbs I can)

Also loved to see him and Milady interacting more !!! Super nice 🖤⚜️

GO APESHIT RICHELIEU

FUCK THE POPE RICHELIEU

In the book (SPOILER ALERT) Milady tells a story very similar to the false testimony she gives in court in order to make Buckingham's right-hand man believe he abducted and raped her and turn him against him- it's really nice to see that referenced in the show

Like to see Louis actually having a personnality

Liked Ninon ! But why would you fall for Athos when ARAMIS IS RIGHT HERE

Also I do think they didn't need her to romance anyone to make her interesting in that episode ? I understand it's the usual plot device but ah well

Love how the last shot of the episode is Constance pining d'Artagnan against a shelf. We all know who's the top in the relationship

To conclude: great episode, did I mention i loved to see more of Richelieu ?

RICHELIEU MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW

Episode 8:

MILADY MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW

Love how the skirt-chasing for money is exactly how it works in the book

Alice (Porthos' love interest) is a pretty good reference to his mistress in the book and a very nice lady but I think the hilarity of Porthos having to deal with her original version would've been amazing (an older woman married to a cupid man who won't spend a dime while they're both just desperately waiting for him to pass to inherit his fortune)

Love how (in the French version at least) d'Artagnan is barely portrayed as actually caring for his farmers' lives, only his cash xD

De Tréville is a good dad

Love d'Artagnan just walking into Richelieu's office like he owns the place

Richelieu is having a mental breakdown

GOOD FOR HIM MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW

But don't be mean to Milady >=(

Milady and Porthos being like: love in the air ? Wrong ! Gas leak =D

Mr. Bonacieux is very nice with Constance though. Like I would not have reacted that well

Also nice to see him working for Richelieu. The people who made this show clearly dearly care for the book

d'Artagnan getting promoted !!! Yeah =D now he's got the cool shoulder pad

d'Artagnan in the book 5000000000% wants Milady and does still a dude's identity for the second time in order to essentially rape her though so it's nice to see d'artagnan having a moral backbone more solid than that of a chocolate éclair

So uh. I do think Aramis took his own sword back from his ex's grave

Btw in French at least right before they start the duel d'artagnan says something like "speaking from personal experience, never trust in love" and Athos gives him a dramatic side eye. This can be explained in two ways: 1- he relates 2- d'artagnan YOU'RE SAYING THAT IN FRONT OF YOUR POLYCULE

Also once Alice dumps Porthos in the French version him and Aramis have an exchange that's like "So you're not gonna marry her" "Who would take care of you if I did" and I love them

Before he gets dumped, Porthos also says something to the effect of "there's a life after being a musketeer" to shut Aramis' criticism down. Boy don't give him ideas. If this was book! Aramis he'd take it to heart have an existential crisis lock himself in a room for weeks and whip himself crying about how he's gonna become a cleric

[two4tea1485]

Finally getting to watch The Three Musketeers 2023 (Part I: D'Artagnan). Enjoyable enough, but not the faithful adaptation I was hoping for. My main beefs so far:

-What's with the costumes? Why are the hats like...that? WHY IS THERE NO COLOR??????

-What's with this random Murder Mystery/Save Athos plot? There's PLENTY OF OTHER THINGS that need to fit into this film, why are we adding random extra time-wasters???

-Speaking of Athos, why is he already Old? Don't you guys know he still needs to father a son AND still be present with that son Twenty Years from now???? Maybe he's only forty and Life has just aged him too quickly... But everyone keeps talking about his having One Foot in the Grave!

But, overall I like the casting all right. Louis is believable enough. Aramis is a bit meh. PORTHOS IS NOT NEARLY GIGANTIC ENOUGH. WHERE ARE THE ARMS AS BIG AS A NORMAL MAN'S THIGHS???

...This is why I can't watch TTM adaptations. XD

[shloodles]

ID: a screenshot of lucien grimaud from the musketeers. he is walking and holding the hand of the young prince, who comes up to about his hip. end ID

don't ever talk to me or my son again

[thorin-is-a-cuddler]

Perfect moment from the new Musketeers movie 🫶🏻

[glitter50000]

What if you were a Queen😳 …and I was a musketeer😳…and we had matching crucifixes🫣 👉👈