Fuck Yeah Lymond!

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May 2013

2 posts

Spoons and the Devil

lagertha-lodbrok: french proverb that now makes me think of hannibal Quand on dîne avec le diable, il faut se munir d’une longue cuiller. If you are going to dine with the devil, you must have a long spoon. When I saw this on my personal tumblr dash today, I immediately thought of a phrase in The Game of Kings that had never made sense to me, when Turkey Mat tells Will Scott to go back to...

“Undo some of the feckless damage you did today,” said Lymond, and held his eyes....”

– Francis Crawford of Lymond, The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (via nosey-nate)

January 2013

1 post

weirdsociology: galacticdrift: thewondersmith: fairytalesandfoolishness: I was once told that every fandom had to have a bakery!au where boys sniped at each other, then made out in flour. I might have been lied to, but Zombies, Bake! happened anyway. (The making out didn’t really happen because I’m shit at making the making out happen, but to make up for it an abundance of flour was...

September 2012

3 posts

etirabys: an entire subplot of this story can be summarized as HA HA WILL SCOTT

“Lucent and delicate, Drama entered, mincing like a cat.”

– Francis Crawford of Lymond appears on the scene, from The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. (via hellotailor) Love that this is tagged, “purple prose”!

July 2012

2 posts

“Philippa said, “Madame only wanted to satisfy herself that it was really family...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate (loc. 1026). (via clodia-metelli)

Holy crap, y'all.

sally-johnson: Dorothy Dunnett’s Johnson Johnson series is available in the Kindle store. All seven books! For cheap! Happy birthday to me! GREAT news!

June 2012

3 posts

“Let us obtain, by our faith in the Sacred Sacraments, that contempt for death...”

– Lymond in “The Disorderly Knights” (via tantquejevive)

A Pinterest of People Appearing in Lymond... →

erinburr: Diane de Poitiers was FIERCE. AWESOME.

May 2012

6 posts

OH MY GOD MICHAEL FASSBENDER FOR LYMOND ULTIMATE...

seasights: Thoughts?

blancwene: “It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it.” Cover the Path to Your Heart A Mix for Francis Crawford of Lymond & Philippa Somerville, in Two Parts zip 1 | zip 2 | lyrics & explanations part one The Game of Kings 01. Spoon - They Never Got You 02. Peasant - Sad Song 03. The Bird & The...

“I am not being flippant or dismissive at all when I say that the Lymond...”

– from lionpyh at cofax7’s journal: cofax7 | some final thoughts on the Lymond Chronicles SO TRUE. (via drinkthehalo)

texsasss asked: So happy to have found this tumblr! My entire family has read the books, my grandma and father even got to meet Ms. Dunnett in Scotland! Its so sad that so many people haven't even heard of the books

Les cerveaux! Leees cerveaaaaaux! →

Francis Crawford, the (Zombie) Master of Culter.

“It was a French Christmas; a debonair Christmas full of frolic and folly; a...”

– The Game of Kings, Dorothy Dunnett, Vintage Books 1st ed., p. 227.

April 2012

6 posts

“‘Evil matters. So does love. So does pity. My pilgrim,’ said the Dame de...”

– Pawn in Frankincense (4/6), Dorothy Dunnett (via ochazuke)

Cossack Stunt Riding →

You know, just in case you were wondering if what Lymond does in the saddle is physically possible… Apparently the answer is yes.

cynrk answered your question: Dear fellow Dunnett fans: it has come to my… euphoria? or did you wanna make up a whole new word? (cue aladdin music.) IT’S A WHOLE NEW WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD…. thanks a lot! No, seriously, I think we should have a Dunnett-specific new word, or at least a tremendously obscure old one (in her honor, of course.)

Dear fellow Dunnett fans: it has come to my attention (due to a very scream-y text message from a friend that I gave Game of Kings to a few days ago) that we need some kind of specialized word to describe the moment when, after giving Dunnett novels to all of your friends, one of them finally likes it, and you become completely overwhelmed with excitement that you will have someone else with whom...

“You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the...”

– Dorothy Dunnett (via seeminglysweet)

batscissors: ❝ Above the two horses rose the gates of Annan; around them pressed an escort of the outlying guard; before them stood the gatehouse where the guard on duty was trying to extract their names and business under harassing conditions. ‘Look,’ Lymond was saying bitterly, ‘at the dirt on your pauldrons. And your doublet.’ ‘… declare …’ ‘Your sword’s filthy. And your dagger: how...

March 2012

2 posts

“Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, Queens’ Play (via delladilly)

“Porcelain bowls on porcelain saucers had replaced the preserved lemon flowers,...”

– Pawn in Frankincense, by Dorothy Dunnett (via booksareforeating)

February 2012

13 posts

“He’d heard of this woman. The Dame de Doubtance, they called her: a madwoman and...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

Sociology of the Weird: What We Hate When We Hate... →

weirdsociology: In which I yell, at impressive length, about how much I love antiheroes, and also pose the question: where are the goddamn women in the type of fiction I like? (And for some reason the page break’s not working so I apologize profusely for spamming your dash with all of this.) Before I commence… It’s probably totally unkosher to reblog my personal Tumblr on this...

“Crisp, pod-shaped, and fiend-inspired on the ceiling of Blois, Lymond kicked off...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, Queen’s Play (via inthetiredspaces)

The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett | Summary

keatsworldb: The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett | Summary You guys, you guys! Someone needs to get this so we can all laugh at it! (I’m going to take a wild stab and say it’s either extremely simplified or inaccurate.) [edit] Actually it…. doesn’t look that bad. The mind boggles.

TVTropes: The Jerkass Woobie

Normally, The Woobie is a sufficiently Moe character that: You want to witness being hurt by the villain just so you’ll feel even more sympathetic toward them. You’d like to get to hug or otherwise care for or help them. You want to see any villain who hurts them get hammered by Laser-Guided Karma. The Jerkass Woobie, though, produces a slightly different visceral reaction:...

“However, I do believe in the dealbreaker book. This book so deeply resonates...”

– Molly Flat, “Love Me, Love My Books” (via moviesandmusicandbooksohmy) Oh my God you guys I was already reblogging this for Fuck Yeah Lymond! before I even read the whole article— and then she mentions Dunnett!

I started reading the Lymond books again. I say “started again,” because I read the first two last year, and then decided I did not have the patience for the plot and the shenanigans and Lymond never, you know, stuttering, or conjugating a Latin verb wrong, or anything. But recently my body has started physically rejecting books where someone has to save the whole universe by being nicer than...

Lymond Fic: "Reached the Open Sea" →

You may flinch and rebel all you want, but not against the truth. At thirty, widowed of his Saracen wife, unshaven, unrepentant and all too inclined to giving his soul into the keeping of human hands, Jerott Blyth returns. He walks straight past the grand cathedral and enters the home of the Order to meet Parisot de la Valette. (Doing something a little different today, so here’s...

cynrk asked: 1) how many followers do you have? 2) i'm so happy i've found this. we small, yet passionate, few who have read DD's marvelous books are pretty much the coolest people on the planet, ammiright?

“And habits are hell’s own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of...”

– Dorothy Dunnett The Game of Kings: First in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles (The Lymond Chronicles) (via Lukas Fauset)

“‘I woulnda deny it in front of such a number of sharp-eyed solemncholy...”

– Dorothy Dunnett,Checkmate, Vintage Books 1st ed., p. 174

“‘Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings, Vintage Books 1st ed. (Filed under: things that are depressingly true.)

January 2012

8 posts

“Lymond said, ‘On the other matter… the terms of reference by which I...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle, Vintage Books 1st Ed., p. 302

“As the soporific sunlight began to embrace his chair, Francis Crawford leaped to...”

– Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights, Vintage Books 1st ed., p. 331

Lymond-themed Polyvore Set

Philippa in Topkapi

star-cunning asked: I'm in the Aubrey-Maturin fandom as well, and that's got a reasonable presence on Tumblr actually! Lymond is exponentially more obscure though... God, I love these books.

star-cunning asked: FUCK YEAH LYMOND

“‘My dear man,’ said Lymond, ‘he was keeping the numbers down. ...”

– - Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights, Vintage Books 1st. ed., p. 260.