Little Gentlemen (Ch3)

I am completely overwhelmed with the reaction to The Four of Us Together, which received a flood of hits and reviews within hours both on AO3 and when, on the off-chance, I travelled in to upload it to FFnet ( Read more... )

At any rate it has given me sufficient motivation to finish proof-reading Chapter 3 of "Little Gentlemen", where it turned out I had made a great many editorial amendments while typing up, which I have almost without exception inserted back into the original manuscript as improvements. I am actually pretty pleased with this chapter; if I had run the scene between Athos and d'Artagnan at the start of the story instead of portraying the set-up through the eyes of my OC the fic might have managed more traction, but as it is nobody is likely ever to see this section. (Except that Venya and the crossover were more or less the *entire point* of writing the story in the first place...)

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Chapter 3 — Two Old Friends

It was some hours later that d’Artagnan, washed, refreshed, and well-dined, was taking his ease in his host’s private chambers, before composing himself to sleep, with the ease of an old campaigner, upon the mattress that had been made up for him upon the floor there — a privilege upon which, in deference to the dignity and grey hairs of his host, despite the protests of the latter he had adamantly insisted, the chateau being at present sorely short of spare accommodation and Charlot at his wits’ end to know where to bestow this honoured new arrival.

“And so you are bursting at the seams with boys,” he observed, regarding the Comte with some amusement as the latter furrowed his fine brow, head leaned upon his hand, in an attempt to decipher the scrawl of the young Vicomte de Vaugison. Adalbert’s command of a pen had not in any way been improved by his long line of ancestors. “I take it that means the experiment has not only endured, but become a success? Mordioux! who among us would have believed in the old days at La Rochelle that Athos, the cool-headed hero of the Baston Saint-Gervais, would end up as a schoolmaster?”

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Waiting for the Out

I took a look at the new Saturday night drama on BBC1, "Waiting for the Out", and was immediately drawn in; apparently it was actually the second episode, but to be honest I don't think I'd have guessed that! ( Read more... )

I hadn't realised that this was another 'prison drama', after the also excellent "Screw", about women prison officers -- I wonder if it was filmed using the same decommissioned prison, as the setting looked very familiar! The story-telling was nicely done, but above all it quickly made me care about the characters, which is where the last few TV shows that I looked at failed from the offset. (King and Conqueror did engage me with the characters, but all too often I was struggling to really swallow the depiction of them...)

Also, apparently Marie Antoinette, for which I have been waiting forever with decreasing expectations, *did* eventually get a second season three years later, but it slipped out back in May so quietly that I completely missed it :-(