From the roof of the Crawfords' Boghall Castle: #GameOfThrones #DorothyDunnett "To the east lay the roofs of the barony town of Biggar, smoking in the socket of Bizzyberry Hill...the horizon was jumbled with hills." A brilliant walk up Bizzyberry this morn, pondering the ghosts of Midculter. #Lymond

#Niccolo and #Lymond era history of Scotland goes on display

Francis Crawford, love of my life 😭 Did I make myself cry while drawing this? Why, yes. From the first book of The Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings. I won’t give any spoilers to the scene, but if you know you know 🥺

#lymond #dorothydunnett

St Mary's Loch, #Lymond country.

Well that's weird, my own announcement post isn't showing up in the feed - not even in the Skyfeed preview. Now some versions of Regex can be "different" but I made sure to use as bog-standard a version as possible. I'll run some tests such as posting with #Lymond in a post and see if it gets found

In addition the following hashtags should work for discussions about characters
#Lymond
#FrancisCrawford
#Philippa
#KateSomerville
#Jerott
#Sybilla
#AdamBlacklock
#Archie
#Gabriel
#Niccolo
#HouseofNiccolo
#Gelis
#Adorne
#KingHereafter
#Thorfinn
I'll add others as/if required.
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“[Lymond] hurled [the sword] away from himself, far across the dark cellar where it spun with a little tongue from the torch flame, carrying the boy’s gaze instinctively with it.”

#Lymond totally does the #AssassinationClassroom clap trick with his sword. 😁

#Nagisa

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@dunnettcentral.bsky.social Lorenzo and #Lymond might have exchanged ideas!

When that moment happens, and #Lymond reacts with real emotion, I was like "Wait, NO! I don't want this!"

Of course, that was more or less how Marigold ended up feeling about the whole affair, meaning I was still stuck reacting in step with him. (I know - embarrassing. 😂)

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And now I'm hiding from my book because #Lymond is heading for a certain ruined convent.

You see, Lymond's reaction to Mr. Scott ... uh.... killing a man was where I first decided I actually cared about Lymond - before that I generally shared Mr. Scott's appraisal of him. (Embarrassing, I know.)

And therefore, I cannot express the depths at which I crave an anime adaptation of #TheGameOfKings.

Only anime could capture the brilliance and brattiness of the infamous Francis Crawford of #Lymond.

The mellow-dramatic flare that he walks through life with can only be fully captured by anime.

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Kid1, looking at my (new) poster of Lymond’s Scotland: Are any of these places real?
Me: yes, you’ve been there (Sterling)
K1: blank stare
Me: you played on a cannon? We talked about history?
K1: stares
Me (sighing): you had millionaires shortbread at the cafe?
K1: YEAH!

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My planes trains and automobiles may be cancelled! Now I don’t know how to schedule my Dunnett - I was in a groove. 😠

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The Lymond Poetry may be on kindle …

The Medieval Disease That Killed Thousands of People and Then Vanished From History Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day.

#dunnett #Lymond

Thinking of Tom. ☹️

I wonder why this doesn’t show up in the #dunnettcentral feed. #lymond #dunnett

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I have been reading for the last 4 hours and I have finished

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YOU ALL OWE ME BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS

gonna be processing a while

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Deity have mercy, I am mid-way through the confrontation in the library AND I AM ALMOST AT WORK

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Quitting for the evening after the utterly wrenching scene between Fippy and Lymond where he likens himself to a warped hunchback whelped in the gutter

😢🤬

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And I was cracking up at the triumphal banquet catastrophe.

I went to an Xmas celebration at a hotel in a country that does not typically celebrate Xmas but was trying to make tourists feel special that had a similar feel

1/x

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Bailey is a bit of a relief because I was worried it might be Marthe.

Fippy is trying to deal with LBail on her own

Lymond is letting self-loathing get between him and Fippy and I’m mad at them

My autocorrect recognizes Fippy and capitalizes it

Photo of DellaRobia angels

Today I saw a DellaRobia roundel with angels on it. Guess who I thought about? #dunnett #Lymond

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Leonard Bailey has reappeared and claimed the mantle of villain. He was on my list but I assumed him incommunicado on the borders somewhere. I have been suspecting Margaret Lennox of being involved for a time.

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Who set the trap at Madame Jourda’s? There are only so many people who know!

AUGH

I made no further progress today, as I did things like work and have dinner with friends. Now I go back in.

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I am lashing out at #dunnettfret, btw, while I am at WORK. I wish to increase fretting.
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I plan to re-check the Hercule Poirot-esque scene in DK before proceeding (have e-book) to check Sybilla’s reaction to Lymond’s comments re GRM btw.

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I have just finished the scene with Madame Jourda and now they’re hiding in the barn and I have to go to WORK and it will be HOURS before I can re-engage and it’s so MEAN that I have to toil for money instead of reading.

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So one of my least-liked tropes is of course the smitten-but-not-communicating-implied-love-triangle but in this case I am googly-eyed.

I like pining Lymond. It serves him right.

The chase through Lyon was fabulous

Just hit part 2

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Jerott and Marthe!
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I hope they can enjoy some happiness before DD has rabid wolverines shove them into a bottomless pit.

Copy of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett. There’s a completely accidental stained glass effect from the sun shining through some colored drinking glasses that I liked.

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(Six voice) It has begun.

@crowgirl42.bsky.social

So, as I romp through Rats and Gargoyles in hopes of starting Checkmate tomorrow, a gentle prod on thoughts on GoK …

#lymond
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