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I feel like we need to acknowledge that while the lord ruler was a cunt, he did have some kickass branding.

Obligator is such a good title? and like Canton of Orthodoxy and shit is so fucking metal.

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To the person anonymously writing slowburn office lady yuri in my DMs

I don't know why you've chosen me for this harassment campaign you've embarked on. I don't know why you feel that my DMs are a better medium for this story than, I don't know, posting them on a writing website?? Or on your own blog??? And most importantly, I don't know why you are laboring under the delusion that I can't report you just because you are sending the chapters anonymously -- I can in fact, and you would be IP banned.

I'm issuing you this ultimatum right now:

Stop sending me your slowburn office lady yuri

OR

I will report you

OR

Send me the next chapter within 24 hours, because are a fucker for where you left it off, and you have not sent a new chapter in several days. I need to know whether, when they were the only two in the office late at night after a brutal crunch week, and the stars could be seen in the sky due to a power outage on their block, and they talked about life, they actually do kiss or if that's another fakeout, of which you have done MANY.

My patience with you has worn thin. Stop sending me this story, or send me more, or I will report you.

Good night.

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clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you

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No Count of Monte Cristo adaptation I've ever seen has potrayed Mercedes as poor.

In the book, she lives in a hovel with a dirt floor, and she has so little that she doesn't even own the nets she uses to fish - she has to borrow them from Fernand.

Yet in every adaptation I'm aware of, she's portrayed as either middle class or upper class. The adaptations refuse to portray an impoverished woman as desirable.

I think this is also partly to do with the fact that Hollywood will allow stories of an underdog sailor courting a wealthy woman, but they're less inclined to protray a working class man's devotion to a working class woman who's even poorer than he is, let alone two men finding her desirable.

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It showed a young woman of twenty-five or twenty-six, dark in colouring, her burning eyes veiled beneath languorous lids. She was wearing the picturesque costume of a Catalan fisherwoman, with a red-and-black bodice and her hair held back with gold pins. She was looking at the sea, so that her elegant figure was outlined against the two blues, of the sky and the waves.

Oh man. I didn't notice this detail the first time through. This portrait, that Mercedes had commissioned while Fernand was away, depicts her in her old status of Catalan fisherwoman. Of course, it's idealized somewhat, made into just a costume - she certainly didn't seem to have the funds for gold hairpins back in the day - but she deliberately depicted herself in the life that they've left so far behind by now. And what's more, she's looking out to the sea... perhaps towards the island where Edmond was imprisoned.

This completely explains why she had it done without him around to say no, why she can't look at it without weeping. Why Fernand hates it so much. Why Edmond is frozen staring at it for so long.

Albert's oblivious comment that the painting is the only conflict he's seen between his parents takes on a completely new light as the only time Mercedes expresses her own regrets and former love openly, even if in a fashion that still wouldn't be understood except by those already in the know.

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I am not well

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haydee, internally:

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Kind of annoyed at this point about adaptations that whitewash the Count of Monte Cristo not only because a huge bit of the Counts character and experiences are based on Dumas himself (who was black) but also because at every point when the Rich Assholes™️ are trying to guess the Counts nationality as if it matters, they assume he's Maltese, Egyptian, Arab, Turkish, Levantine, Indian, everything EXCEPT French. I rest my case that Edmond Dantés is NOT white.

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not a reviewer saying they "added a lesbian" to the count of monte cristo... my girl eugénie has been there since 1844

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Men will be like "it's my favorite book!" and show you 19th century Batman

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'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'

The plot:

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The treasure of Monte Cristo

[inprnt | RB]

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this shit is the only remaining good part of twitter

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What do you believe in now?