#tcomc

[autismmydearwatson]

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.

[moonmeg]

I am not well

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

normalize Edmond Dantès being weird. like. we've had enough adaptations where he's cool and suave, it's time for us to embrace the side of him that's just a strange freak that makes everyone uncomfortable but is still part of the local nobility so they have to hang out with him.

[winter2468]

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.

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

There's something about the novels I've read that are obsessed with Napoleon - Les Miserables, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo - and something about the novel's I've read that are obsessed with the French Revolution - A Tale of Two Cities, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Les Miserables is about a French Revolution but not the French Revolution). Those are the threads between those books, but somehow it feels stronger than just similar themes. I want to sit and spend a year reading nothing but those five books back to back and see what I learn.

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Twice now (I’m at Valentine’s poisoning) twice now someone Dantes loves has shown up at his house and been like 🥺😭☹️😩😫 noooo Count pleeeeaaaassseee you can’t do your revenge on the children of the guy who wronged you. Because I love them!!!! 🥺😩😭🙏🥺 and the Count just goes 😠😤🤬😑 ugh I hate you. FINE 🙄 just this once I’ll be nice! I’ll save their life ughhhhh smh you plan out this big fucking revenge and it goes badly. why? because of stupid emotionsssss I hate it hereeee 🙄🫤 here’s $2 million dollars 💰

[halfdeadfrognerd]

Genuine Question for the Monte Cristo fans:

Why is Fernand always ALWAYS the bff of Edmond in every single adaptation? Like, in the books they pretty much meet literally before the almost-wedding of Edmond and Mercedes, and they don't even like eachother much. It's pretty much stated that even Edmond who is benevolent af is only putting up with Fernand because he is the cousin and best friend of his fiancee, and he wants to form a friendship based on their shared love of Mercedes. But like he is not completely blind and knows that Fernand gives him the stink eye. As for Fernand, he is super vary around Dantes and Mercedes has to essentially beg him to be nice to him.

And historians think they were best friends ?!?!

In fact, book Edmond is super kind but he is not THAT stupid. He knows that Danglars is highkey jealous of him, he knows Caderousse is planning to exploit him (as his landlord) after finding out he got a promotion, and he KNOWS that Fernand isn't his biggest fan. He is just amicable with them and polite but doesn't genuinely consider them friends or trust them at all. He only trusts his father, Mr. Morrel and Mercedes, that's it. And Villefort because he doesn't think that being honest with an officer of the law will result in him being fucked over. Which is completely reasonable, and most people would do the same.

So why is his naïveté exaggerated in every adaptation? And WHY do people ship him with Fernand so badly? I get the whole "My bro stole the love of my life " trope but come onnnn.... it's a cliche and not what Dumas intended at all when writing the book! (At least that's what I think, I can't exactly ask him...)

[hoangfngocjnhi]

Edmond: I will use my enemies's information against them >:) Edmond 5 mins later: WHAT THE HECK IS THIS??

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Girlies if you love Kaz Brekker being unhinged in his revenge schemes you are gonna LOVE Edmond Dantes.

This guy is weird, rich and often scares people with his insane revenge schemes. He has a great tragic backstory, and does not know how to process emotions. Kaz is basically a much younger Edmond.

[whynotworms]

i feel like society forgets that the count of monte cristo is canonically a stoner.

[booksandmore]

the count of monte cristo is my favourite revenge story simply because of how batshit crazy it is

[autismmydearwatson]

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

[moonmeg]

"I know that face... strange though it seems... younger and kinder - it haunts all my dreams"

[gerarddevillefort]

Fellas, I am at it again - trying to convince you Villefort is more attractive than you thought. Jk, I just wanted to redraw an illustration of him. Here's side by side two images. It was fun to draw

[aira-l]

it's winter so it's time to draw modern Danglars and Hermine ice skating

[danihelman-art]

paying the benedetto with rose tax to myself

also a redraw of this