#kidnapped rls

[rangerpippin]

there are certain things that must be present in an adaptation of david:

he has So Much Conscience

he has so many EMOTIONS

he is built like the side of a barn

he is as autistic as a sackful of cats

he will get sick if someone coughs in the same county as him

he's just a little guy. he's just a little GUY. he's kind and loving and just trying to do the right thing and in way over his head and everyone who sees him wants to protect him

he is so brave. he's so so brave. you can't make him back down no matter how much you frighten him, if he's sure that what he's doing is right

his worst flaw is that he's very prideful and prone to self-righteousness. his second worst is that he's got a temper and he's very prone to mouthing off when he loses it

he's on a hair trigger when it comes to laying down his life, his honor, and everything else he has for anyone who needs help, even if it's already too late.

not a single adaptation I've seen yet has understood all of these things. most have gotten a few of them, and a few have gotten most of them. but the search continues

#kidnapped weekly #alan breck stewart #david balfour #robert louis stevenson #kidnapped rls #he's just so character

[pedanther]

The round-house was like a shambles

I was struck by David's phrasing here. In modern times, the more usual phrase is "X was a shambles", because these days the primary meaning of the word "shambles" is the metaphorical one, describing great disorder of no specific cause.

David, in saying that the round-house was like a shambles, is using the literal meaning from which the metaphor derives, producing a more precise and colourful (more visceral, if you like) image: a shambles was a place where animals were slaughtered.

#kidnapped weekly #kidnapped rls #robert louis stevenson #chapter k10 #not a reblog

[pyshechkapushkova]

Im tired as hell but i really wanted to do it so

No subs but

Sun in the eyes,

Forget offences

Tell me, how I lived

And what I have seen

Sun in the eyes,

Forget offences

Tell me, how I lived

And what I have seen

#похищенный стивенсон #русский фандом похищенного живите пжшки #kidnapped stevenson #alan breck stewart #kidnapped rls #алан брек стюарт #черный лукич #такая имба #у меня завтра соревы #спасите

[canyourfavesurvivecastledracula]

Can Davie Balfour from Kidnapped survive Castle Dracula?

I'm not convinced Davie Balfour can survive a stiff breeze

In fairness to Davie, he makes it out of his own book a shocking amount of alive given how much of it he spends all but dead. This boy has morals of adamant combined with the constitution of a wet paper bag and the good sense of your average 17 year old.

Jonathan arrived at a creepy castle in the middle of the night and stood awkwardly in the courtyard till somebody came and got him. Davie arrived at a creepy old house in the middle of the night and immediately started kicking the door and shouting imprecations at the inhabitants. When Jonathan learned his host was going to kill him he went into stealth mode with snooping and journaling and pretending nothing was wrong in a desperate attempt to stay alive. When Davie learned his host was going to kill him he snuck up behind him and yelled BOO. Jonathan spent two months looking for a key to the front door that didn't exist. Davie spent a full week trapped on an "island" with only three sides.

Davie Balfour has the principles of a paladin and the self-preservation instincts of a determined lemming. He's the living embodiment of "but that's illegal." And he has heat stroke.

Davie is neither able nor willing to play the "pretend everything's fine so he doesn't kill me a month early" game. If there's no knocker he'll kick the door and shout. If he's taken prisoner he'll tell Dracula shame on you, kidnapping people is wrong. If he sees them eating a baby he'll fight them with his fists. If the Girlies decide to eat him (he's even younger and more full of energy than Jonathan is, somehow) Dracula has no good reason to tell them no.

Davie only survives the first couple of chapters of Kidnapped! because his host won't bring himself to outright murder. Dracula has no such reservations.

Davie Balfour can not survive Castle Dracula

Unless of course Patrick Troughton is being held in the next room over

#rls kidnapped #kidnapped weekly #davie balfour #gothlit #children

[chiropteracupola]

"...but the stairs are grand underfoot."

#em draws stuff #rls kidnapped #david balfour #well I just think that the house of shaws ought to be a little bit haunted! #all those curses have got to go Somewhere after all! #and a little while ago I was creeping up the stairs in the dark with a midnight jam sandwich #and the thought 'davie would do this' came into my head. and then I went on a mind journey about whether or not he'd have sandwiches. #mild research + thorts conspiracy board have produced Inconclusive results on whether or not he would have a sandwich in 1750s cramond #as you see his Evening Snack did make it into the image but it got a lot spookier along the way! #fic to go with this To Follow Eventually!!! have been Writing It!

[ratuszarsenal]

honestly who among us hasn't pushed the boundaries of medical hazard for the sake of wearing a binder just a bit longer. like when you're running from redcoats through scottish deserts after escaping a slaver ship and you have this tory acquaintance with you and you're not sure how he would react to you having naturals all of a sudden. like you might as well keep it on right

#it's just good sense isn't it #there is this historian whose name I do not remember who suggested that jacobitism was itself a branch of toryism? #sounds very reductive but do you see the issue #rls kidnapped #david balfour #robert louis stevenson

[pathfinderswiftpen]

innocent Suspect of Accessory to Murder David "turn myself in" Balfour, to Lord Advocate Prestongrange: Hi, you "invited" me, I'm here. Here's a letter of introduction to show I'm legit and definitely not a criminal

L.A. Prestongrange: who TF are you; I've never seen you before in my life

David "dumbass" Balfour: yes but you've really wanted to see me, you've made public announcements!

L.A. Prestongrange: give me a hint; I'm not a mind-reader!

David "smartass" Balfour: if I wasn't so serious right now, I could say that you owe me £200

L.A. Prestongrange: excuse me?

David "I'm so funny" Balfour: in reward money for my capture

#i have no words but this shitpost #rls kidnapped #catriona

[rangerpippin]

David, so exhausted that he can't stand up, make himself stop smiling, or even sleep, seeing Alan look concerned: oh no are you mad at me

#kidnapped weekly #alan breck stewart #david balfour #robert louis stevenson #kidnapped rls

[lurking-latinist]

OK cover your ears if you haven’t read Kidnapped and are going to, but also there are no spoilers in this so don’t bother.

Years ago I paged through a friend’s copy and it had an introduction (or possibly afterword) which contained, among other things, an identification of an existing tune that would work with the given words of Alan’s song (I don’t think it was claimed that RLS actually intended to reference this tune, just that it would work).

I would love to include this in Kidnapped Weekly but I cannot find which edition it was. I am going through OpenLibrary right now but, like, that’s not everything. If this rings a bell, even if you only vaguely remember what the book looked like, please give me any leads you have!

#kidnapped rls #kidnapped weekly #look I don't know how to tag this book to find fans. it's an adjective #rls #robert louis stevenson

[pyshechkapushkova]

We've heard a lot 'bout adaptations od 2005 and 1971, but actually there are some more, and my beloved one is 1978❤

For real, why no one says a thing about it

#kidnapped stevenson #alan breck stewart #david balfour #дэвид бэлфур #похищенный стивенсон #русский фандом похищенного живите пжшки #kidnapped rls #i have millions of it in my gallery actually

[cool-as-steel]

now that I have had no choice but to get deep into it, the black arrow is great fun actually

#ramblings #the captain's library #em reads the black arrow #maybe I should stop starting new liveblog tags for individual books #anyway! this one is (as is typical of rls) chock full of Genders. #it's shaping up to be my third favorite out of his novels so far #it seems that I either have a grand old time or slog monotonously when I'm reading rls and there is nothing in between. huh. #(grand old times: treasure island + kidnapped; monotonous slogs: master of ballantrae + catriona) #but thaaaaat is simply my personal opinion on the matter

[chiropteracupola]

or a different palette ask: cowboyce alan and davie in ‘lobotomy’?

I traveled through October, the mountains and the plains / Hoping that the losses won't outweigh the gains...

#em draws stuff #rls kidnapped #alan breck stewart #david balfour #this one was a fun one and I'm really pleased with how it turned out to make them look like they're in a really old movie #like this would be the hand-colored promotional picture for their Wild Swashbuckling Adventure Film #unrelated to all that I did not have references on hand and also am not quite sure Whenabouts you're planning to place them #so I have just gone for Vibes down to the very ends of things (and indulged my long-held affection for copper-toed boots) #caption lyrics are from 'gotta get goin' by goodnight texas which has Long been an alan breck song to me

[ratuszarsenal]

assortment of my favourite alan brecks (could be used as icons)

#not my fault he's always looking right #he was easily the best thing about this play #well... he and fran #alan breck stewart #rls kidnapped #robert louis stevenson #m