/lit/ - Literature

Do these guys look gay to you?

>>1484716
Yes.

The Three Musketeers is pretty much all about banging chicks, with some fight scenes thrown in for good measure.

too bad the french are too busy having masquerade orgies to give a shit about writing books

>>1484730
brb, moving to France

If they're "musketeers" why do they use swords?
Shouldn't they be using, you know, muskets?

>>1484718
To French eyes at the time they looked like these guys.

Do they look like fags to you?

They will to someone in a hundred years.

>>1484744
>>1484744
Fantastic point. This is empirical evidence that France is to intelligence as Helen Keller is to Where's Waldo.

>>1484744

Because soldiers at the time used guns in combat, but swords for personal duels.

>>1484755
Why is the one guy resting his rifle on the other guy's head?

>>1484744
>muskets the only weapon that kills you 50% of the time
Are you that unaware?
>>1484759
You encouraged him now feed him and take care of him until he comes back with knowledge
>>1484767
almost there, Muskets are a single shot weapon that takes 12 seconds to reload. As a smooth bore weapon they were often a fire once and then drop weapon. Pirates at the time used to wear bandoleers of pistoles because of this one shot issue. All would be loaded so they could shoot five or six times without reload.

Of course once you drop your pistol you have to fight. This predates weapons put on the end of rifles so most musketeers carried swords for what most combat happened to be, a sword fight. Not to mention, black powder was heavy, easily ignited, and easily wetted. A musketeer usually only carried about two shots worth of powder before he was out.

>>1484772

's heavy man. augh my triceps.

>>1484797
Are you from /k/? Or are you just our friendly neighborhood French musketeering expering?

>>1484808

He's a friend from my historical re enactment group.

>>1484808
i'm a gun otaku, bitch.

>>1484896
>otaku
Is that weaboo-speak for "afficionado"?

>>1484903

You deserve a gold star.

>>1484808
> aw you guys you got me I'm from /k/
> btw what's /k/?

Spend any time reading books and you learn this shit. What you never see henry the fifth?

Tell you what i'll give you some light reading to have you catchup: Master and Commander, henry the fifth, Red Badge of Courage, and Moby Dick. Each one discusses an aspect of Muskets/riflery that are important to the novel or story. It's funny what you pickup if you actually read these stories and not pretend you read them

>>1484924
/k/ is the gun board of 4chan and I was just wondering if you came from there. I didn't mean to insult you at all. I was impressed with your comment.

Thanks for the book suggestions!

>Dumas
>best French author

À propos absolutely nothing he was also a demi-mulâtre; or as American terminology would have it: a n*gger.

(This post was censored because I was recently banned for a week from /int/ for using that word, even though I was being sarcastic about the racism of other posters.)

Jeez musket guy, why you gotta be such a dick?

Alexandre Dumas was Black.

>>1484955
Why even point that out? Who gives a shit? We love his writing. His genetics don't matter to us.

>>1484966
A black Frenchman is nothing like a black American.

Black American culture is looked down upon because of exactly that, their culture (or lack thereof). The French and British blacks have no such similar construct and are better integrated into their respective "white" society that surrounds them.

>>1484972
Uhh, ok. We like his words, and couldn't care less about his skin color or race status. We're a literature board.

>>1484972
>>1484972
>mfw when you try to sound witty but just can't pull it off
it is only suits the best of us

>>1484974

Biographical information about an author is nevertheless important for understanding the context of their work!

"My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends." - Alexandre Dumas

He was an awesome guy. If he hadn't had an aristocratic family his race might have been more of an issue.

>>1484960
you're right,
that was dickish. Apologies around.
>>1484931
chalk it up to a long night. There are better books with this information but those are off the cuff and fiction. I've written a non-fiction piece on artillery pieces too for an archeology journal but it had little information on muskets, but it did talk about the usefulness of artillery in pre-civil war battles based on artifact evidence.

>>1484972

>>1484994
It's ok, anon. We've all been there. Thanks for your contributions tonight.