For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

For a prompt on comment_fic. The Musketeers (2014) versions, more or less.

Title: The King's Madmen
Rating: PG
Fandom: The Musketeers (2014)
Characters/Pairings: Aramis, Porthos, d'Artagnan, Athos. Gen, team, maybe Aramis/Porthos and/or Athos/d'Artagnan if you squint
Summary: They are, to a man, insane. The whole bloody lot of them. Life is more fun, that way
Wordcount: 433
Warnings/Notes: Battle and friendship and cheerful insanity
Disclaimer: Not mine

*grins* Just saw the new(-ish) Musketeers movie. Um. Well.

If you ignore common sense, common decency, all the source, all of history (which is kinda par for the course, with Musketeers, but more so than usual here), and most of the laws of physics ... It's actually pretty damn funny, and a lot of fun. *grins* Alternate clockpunk/steampunk history, with airships and pimped-out clothes, and a ridiculously pretty cast. Not a lot of, you know, sense, accuracy, or relationship to the original, but then ... Well, not the point, I suspect. *grins*

Have to say, though, my favourite fight-scene? Airship vs Notre Dame Cathedral. *grins*

Because I think Jareth would have watched the events of Chicot the Jester with vast amusement and fascination.

Title:  The Goblin King and the Jester
Rating:  PG
Fandoms:  The Labyrinth/Chicot the Jester
Characters/Pairings:  Jareth, Chicot, passing references to Henri, Bussy, the Saint Lucs, the Duc D'Anjou, Gorenflot, Diana and Sarah.
Summary:  Paris in the 16th century is Jareth's kind of city. Plenty of games to play, and gamesters to study. Even if some of them are rather confusing to a selfish fae.
Wordcount:  760
Warnings:  Er. Mildly stalkerish Jareth?
Disclaimer:  Neither work belongs to me, any more than the beautiful, beautiful characters do.

( The Goblin King and the Jester )

Right. I'm just going to go ahead and take my time over this one, da? Because I am head over heels.

First thing you do. Read the book. La Dame de Monsoreau/Chicot the Jester, whichever language is easier. I cannot recommend the book highly enough! I think it is online for free, too, but the version looks shaky. I got hold of the 1910 Everyman's Library version, which seems much better translated. Anyway.

Then what you do, is you go here, which is where you'll find all 26 episodes of the Russian serial Grafinya de Monsoro, in russian with english subtitles. It is GORGEOUSLY done. Follows the book almost exactly, down nearly to the dialogue, in all but a couple of areas, and it is acted superbly (my favourites would be Aleksei Gorbunov, as Chicot, and Yekaterina Strizhenova as Jeanne de Saint Luc). Plus the costumes, and the sets (I think you can only get sets like that in Eastern Europe), and the gorgeous, gorgeous language ... who knew russian was so damn sexy?

( Then you can understand this squeeing of mine: )