#vicomte de valmont

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 14/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

#userlj #filmedit #costumeedit #periodedit #perioddramaedit #dangerousliaisonsedit #dangerous liaisons #vicomte de valmont #** #*gif #*dangerous liaisons #*dl costumes #he came and he served 😌

[queerquaintrelle]

I love it when characters are so messed up they cannot even comprehend their own messed up-ness. Bonus points if they’re charismatic, or blonde and pretty. I love the horrors of trauma as a tool to unpack trauma. Also more bonus points if they’d be absolutely unforgivable irl and would get punched by me irl but are fiction so I’m condoning all their behaviour.

#queerquaintrelle speaks #lestat de lioncourt #benjamin tallmadge #ben tallmadge #coriolanus snow #vicomte de valmont #sebastian valmont #alana bloom #margot verger #hannibal lecter #will graham #mona mayfair #rowan mayfair #blorbo #anti censorship #anti purity culture #tropes #antis dni #multifandom post #wooby #woobification

[cimw]

Que n’aurai-je pas fait pour ce Danceny? J’aurai été à la fois son ami, son confident, son rival et sa maîtresse!

#les liaisons dangereuses #le vicomte de valmont #quote #if evil why funny #vicomte de valmont #pierre choderlos de laclos #litterature

[zombiequeenblog]

#not normal about him #john malkovich #vicomte de valmont #edward hyde #dangerous liaisons #Mary Reilly #bad evil very sexy man #lord help me

[lestatdelioncoeur]

John Malkovich and Uma Thurman, behind the scenes, Dangerous Liaisons.

#vicomte de valmont #cecile #dangerous liaisons #les liaisons dangereuses #cruel intentions #uma thurman #john malkovich #black and white #behind the scenes

[shallweswoon]

“Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty.

As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it.

I didn’t understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life.

I knew it was hopeless, but that didn’t matter to me. And it’s not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I’ll do anything you say.”

John Malcovich and Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons 1988

#dangerous liaisons #john malkovich #michelle pfeiffer #vicomte de valmont #Madame De Tourvel #perioddrama

[vidiadal]

— Your face looks familiar to me. Have we met before?

— No, this is the first time I've seen you.

— You have a mole under your left shoulder blade.

— Nothing will be hidden from your attentive gaze.

— Yes, I know you from head to toe.

— And how many do I have?

— Five. Ah, Madame de Merteuil, we definitely know each other.

— For me, all men in tuxedos with butterflies are the same.

— I was without them that time. I can take it off.

#dangerous connections #Les liaisons dangereuses #catherine deneuve #rupert everett #marquise de merteuil #vicomte de valmont

[uri59]

Finally I catched up to the correspondence of those frisky nobles, here's the vibe I'm getting from them so far:

The Vicomte de Valmont:

The Marquise de Merteuil:

The Présidente de Tourvel:

Madame de Volanges:

le Chevalier Danceny:

Cecile Volanges:

Bonus, "The curator":

#what the hell is a 'presidente' anyway? #so many hollow titles for people who just sit around doing nothing #dangerous liaisons daily #vicomte de valmont #marquise de merteuil #cecile Volanges #le chevalier danceny #madame volanges #presidente de Tourvel #dangerous liaisons #is a fandom truly a thing without a John mulaney gifset? I don't think so

[meerawrites]

Character intro: Vicomte de Valmont

Inspired by: Sebastian Valmont (Cruel Intentions), and John Malkovich’s adaptation of the Vicomte.

Character summary: he/him, white-French, bisexual. A libertine, dandy bisexual sympathetic antagonist of all time.

Fun Fact: I don’t like him nearly as much as Merteuil, but, he’s likewise fascinating, and unhealthy hedonism in men seems to be a trope I like to comment on.

As genre commentary: I wanted to write a somewhat (though less) sympathetic antagonist, can’t stand what he does to Cécile and it’s not okay, in real life, but as a bisexual whose had society attempt to repress me, I get it, to an extent, but there’s a line and he passed it awhile ago.

#wip: liaisons x vampires #character intro #vicomte de Valmont #john malkovich #les liaisons dangereuses #dangerous liaisons #bisexual #queer #lgbtq+ #18th century #my characters #sebastian valmont #cruel intentions

[laufire]

[Vicomte de Valmont, October 3rd]: My friend, I am tricked, betrayed, lost, I am in despair; Madame de Tourvel has gone. She has gone, and I did not know it! And I was not there to oppose departure, to reproach her with her unworthy treachery! Ah, do not think I would have let her leave; she would have stayed; yes, she would have stayed, if I had had to employ violence! [...] What pleasure I shall take in avenging myself! I shall find her again, this perfidious woman; I shall resume my empire over her. If love sufficed to procure me the means of that, what will it not do when assisted by vengeance? I shall see her again at my knees, trembling and bathed in tears, crying for mercy with her deceitful voice; and I – I shall be pitiless. - [The Marquise de Merteuil, November 24th]: You appear to make a great merit of your last scene with the Présidente; but, pray, what does it prove for your system, or against mine? I certainly never said that you loved this woman well enough not to deceive her, or not to seize every occasion which might seem to you easy or agreeable: I never even doubted but that it would be very much the same to you to satisfy with another, with the first comer, the same desires which she alone could have raised; and I am not surprised that, in the licentiousness of mind which one would be wrong to deny you, you have done once from deliberation what you have done a thousand times from opportunity.

Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

#i finished the whole thing but i remembered these two quotes #talking to the void #quotes #books #bookblr #dangerous liaisons #pierre choderlos de laclos #vicomte de valmont #marquise de merteuil

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 7/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

#userlj #filmedit #costumeedit #perioddramaedit #periodedit #dangerousliaisonsedit #dangerous liaisons #vicomte de valmont #** #*gif #*dangerous liaisons #*dl costumes

[edgysaintjust]

Vicomte de Valmont by Georges Barbier

#my god i would die for him any minute 💕 #les liaisons dangereuses #georges barbier #vicomte de valmont

[babeluda]

Danceny, you're such a twit. Is this what sex does to you? I suppose your brain wasn't very irrigated to begin with but now I'm sure there's almost no blood left for it all rushing down.

That letter to Merteuil was shamefully puppyish. Also, tu? Impudence! I'm sort of curious if you'll be imprudent enough to juggle seeing her and Cecile for clandestine visits (good plot says you will).

But you made the Vicomte delightfully jealous, go you. Look at him all bristling and snarky, pretending not to care and sure you'll lose the infatuation in 8 days.

He sure didn't.

It's lovely when he's angry.

#dangerous liaisons daily #les chroniques de choderlos #dangerous liaisons #les liaisons dangereuses #chevalier danceny #vicomte de valmont

[dodger-chan]

Life hack: When the woman you're trying to seduce keeps returning your letters unopened, save time and effort by not dating your letter and sending it again. All you need to do is address a new envelope.

#dangerous liaisons daily #vicomte de valmont

[jaewul]

Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms. Then, I agree, let her say to me, ‘I adore thee’; she, alone among women, is worthy to pronounce these words. I shall be truly the God whom she has preferred.

I despise the sentiment beyond those words but hell if the way it's written isn't masterful. Here is the French version because it's even better in my book :

Qu’elle croie à la vertu, mais qu’elle me la sacrifie ; que ses fautes l’épouvantent sans pouvoir l’arrêter, &, qu’agitée de mille terreurs, elle ne puisse les oublier, les vaincre que dans mes bras. Qu’alors, j’y consens, elle me dise : « Je t’adore ; » elle seule, entre toutes les femmes, sera digne de prononcer ce mot. Je serai vraiment le dieu qu’elle aura préféré.

#like you understand so much of Valmont psychology from this excerpt #the need to be wanted to be desired over all other things #dangerous liaisons daily #dangerous liaisons #les liaisons dangereuses #vicomte de valmont

[vicomte2valmont]

Vicomte de Valmont, je suis un homme de la haute société française, aimant l'art, la littérature et la musique, mais aussi le pouvoir et l'intrigue.

Grand maître de la séduction et des liaisons dangereuses, je suis un joueur habile dans le jeu de l'amour et de la manipulation, et je sais comment gagner le cœur des femmes les plus convoitées de la société.

Suivez-moi pour découvrir mon monde séduisant et imprévisible.

#vicomte de valmont #charme #séduction #luxury #philosophy #amour #lettre #art #france #politique #liaisons dangereuses