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Two Essays on The Count of Monte Cristo

I love The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I have read the unabridged version more than once, and my most recent reread was in 2023. At that time, I wrote a couple of brief essays which I posted on Tumblr, one of which was about a canonically queer character and the other discussed a character who is often left out of the various adaptations. I present for you these essays with expansion and alteration, because I keep returning to them as pieces of writing and because I don't want them to be limited to those original posts. I'd like to thank longtime Patron Case Aiken, who receives a monthly shoutout, as well as new patrons DivineJasper and Sasha Khan. (Quotes are from Robin Buss’ English translation of Alexandre Dumas’ work.) Link to Audio Version. ----- Canonical Queerness in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas You’d need to change surprisingly little of The Count of Monte Cristo to confirm Eugénie Danglars as a trans man (or a masc-leaning nonbinary person...
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Clear Your Shit: Ogre in the road (Intimidating)

We'd been riding most of the day when Heather spotted something blocking our path. As we neared the figure, the horses began to shy and we realized it was an ogre in clothes covered in streaks of dark red. My sense of horror grew as I realized that the red was old blood. I pulled my tooth club from its place on my belt and yelled as I rode past the ogre, hitting it on the head and racing on by. Heather swung her feather and it dropped glitter into the ogre's eyes. The ogre roared as we raced away, we didn't dare to stop for several minutes. Finally we slowed back to our normal pace and I was able to finish reading Beloved by Toni Morrison.

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