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collectivedirective · 2 years

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JatH Characterization Masterpost

Jerrica

-Eldest daughter 4.2 gpa syndrome

-She was raised believing she would be a foster mom and has come prepared for all that entails; that means she is responsible and disciplined, but pushes herself to always think of others before she thinks of herself

-She loves music, but that comes second to her parental responsibilities, so even though she and her sisters are very skilled she never thought music would be a viable option for them

-So when Synergy offers her services, the first thing that comes to her mind is to start a band!

-The rockstar persona was a spur of the moment idea, though it came from a subconscious desire to escape her responsibilitie. Jem is everything that Jerrica represses in herself

-Since Jem is more outgoing, she feels more confident around Rio. I personally think Jem is drunk when she tries to kiss Rio during the yacht scene, she wouldn't put Rio in that position while she was sober

Aja

-Middle child syndrome 01, subcategory eldest daughter syndrome

-She is the most emotionally intelligent, and the best at reading the room. She is always the one that distracts Rio when Jerrica needs to transform.

-In the rare scenario that Jerrica isn't taking charge, it is Aja who picks up the load

-Aja, like Jerrica, thinks about others needs and desires before her own, though Aja has this to a lesser degree.

-She sympathizes with Jerrica for taking on so much burden, and so she is not critical of Jerrica for wanting to keep her identity a secret from Rio, and will defend her when her sisters criticize her.

Shana

-Middle child syndrome 02

-I just checked the wiki and it says shes the bass guitarist and thats basically all you need to know about her characterization

-Shana is reserved and shy, and I am 95% certain she has RSD.

-She is more easy-going, allowing her sisters to make the big decisions

-She and Kimber are closest with each other, and she'll go to her first for advice. These two are the creative masterminds behind JatH, generating 75% of their music while Jerrica and Aja edit the drafts

-Shana quietly agrees with Kimber that Jerrica should rip off the band-aid already and tell Rio that she is Jem. No dick is worth his cheating ass!

-But shes too nice to confront Jerrica directly, and too empathetic to Jerrica to back up Kimber during an argument. But once the dust settles she will validate Kimber and reassure her of her logic

-Shana knows that her advice will only make Jerrica feel worse. She knows from experience that RSD hits like a bitch and she doesn't want to inflict that on Jerrica.

Kimber

-The youngest of the Bentons, her whole life she's relied on Jerrica for behavior inhibition. Also tutoring, thats the only thing keeping her grades up

-Kimber is the Anna to Jerrica's Elsa

-While the lack of behavior inhibition makes her more distractible and impulsive, it also allows her to explore paths that would have otherwise been dismissed by Jerrica

-Winx Stella syndrome: Kimber is very blunt in her relationships; she will tell you exactly what she is thinking about if you ask her, and she will tell you even if you dont ask

-Regarding Stormber: Stormer will always let Kimber take the lead in their adventures. After Kimbers decisions for both of them wind them up in trouble, Kimber will FINALLY gain some much-needed behavior inhibition

Raya

-Winx Aisha syndrome: she is the only hologram that isn't a Benton foster girl, and thus has known the rest of the band for the least amount of time.

-She is afraid of being left behind, of losing her place in the band because she is so new, so she does her best to be kind and sweet and appealing and low-maintainence

-This would make her quick friends with Shana, and instinctively reach out to her when searching for companionship. Unfortunately Shana is frequently with Kimber

-Kimber bluntly tells Raya that she would rather Raya be upfront about herself and her values; after all, Raya knows much more about them than they do about her

-Of course, if Raya decides to open up to Kimber about her fear of abandonment, Kimber would immediately empathize with Raya. She might see some of Shana in Raya.

-This communication would not be made directly; rather, Raya would tell Shana and Shana would tell Kimber

Pizzazz

-Owns the netflix account

-Her father gives her money instead of love and attention, so she looks for those things elsewhere- ie stardom and lawsuits

-She and Riot are very similar in this way, though I imagine they would bring out the worst in each other. In the scenario where they team up, these two would be a formidable opponent.

-If she were ever to team up with the Stingers it would not be by Riots invitation. Either Minx or Radish whatever her name is would have to take an interest in Pizzazz.

-Eventually she graduates to hanging out with the Stingers, and by proxy Riot, who eventually warms up to Pizzazz. Think TommyInnit and Wilbursoot.

-Maybe she one day joins the polycule who knows. This is an alternative ending to the "Lovesick" arc, and here Pizzazz would not rejoin the Misfits

Roxy

-Shes the smartest of the Misfits, but doesn't realize it because she is blinded by her insecurities: she didn't finish high school and is illiterate. Dyslexia?

-Roxy also has RSD, though where Shana recoils inward, Roxy lashes out in defensiveness

-My hc is that Roxy meets Pizzazz while skipping school. She sneaks into Pizzazz's old money debutante ball and they become fast friends.

-Roxy is probably the one who sets up the gear for the Misfits. Not because shes selfless like that, but because shes the only one who knows how.

-Stormer tries to help out but this irritates Roxy more than anything, because she has to give Stormer instructions and its more distracting than helpful

Stormer

-Too nice to be a bad girl and too spineless to be a good girl

-She is a borderline good guy, but when caught between an objectively moral choice and the Misfits, she will choose the Misfits.

-Do not mistake this for loyalty.

-She might object to a lot of what the Misfits do but her inaction enables it (compare to Aja?)

-Stormer subconsciously understands that the things she does as a Misfit are harmful, but she can usually frame herself as a victim to peer pressure and thus dodge the blame.

-This charade only holds up so long as she is in proximity to the Misfits validation; without their reassurance she cannot deny the awful things she has done.

-Cue Stormber!

-Kimber would be a good influence on Stormer. She openly condemns things she disagrees with, and will criticize what Stormer has done in the past. This will be a harsh confrontation, but paired with healthy communication it will make Stormer a better person.

-She will learn that its okay to vocally disagree with the people you care about (ie the Misfits), and that conflict doesn't mean the relationship is over

Jetta

-british

Rio

-He is a hothead and posessive over those he loves, which works as both a protective instinct and a destructive one

-When Rio reciprocates the kiss to Jem he establishes himself as a huge jerk, because he is technically cheating but not really??

-Because in his mind he is under the impression that Jem is a different woman than Jerrica, so he believes that he is cheating. In another world the mistress would have actually been a different person.

-The solution to this is not my own idea, I saw it somewhere else:

-Jerrica and Rio were never dating, but have been pining for each other since they were in high school.

-Jerrica feels confident enough to court Rio as Jem, but Rio feels like he is betraying Jerrica by accepting Jems advances

-The love triangle between Jem and Rio and Riot is very much like Malina versus Darklina: does the female lead choose her childhood friend and longtime crush, or follow the mysterious seductive stranger?

Riot

-" The Perfect Man"

-Headcanon poly relationship with Minx and Radish. Weaponize the evil power of friendship you manwhore!!!

-I am skeptical of his backstory. Yes I know the show's tone indicates that he is telling the truth just hushshh shhhh shh.

-To refresh, his claim is as follows: he comes from humble beginnings, and his passion for music was suppressed by his abusive father. The Stingers struggled financially for a long time, and it is implied they became homeless. They reached the top purely by hard work.

-What we know about his backstory is purely of what he tells us: it could very well be that he was lying about his rags to riches journey

-The reason I think this is because of the Stingers behavior in the show: their frequent destruction of property, their sense of entitlement to everything and everyone, their scams, their mind games and manipulations, and other irresponsible, destructive behaviors that could only have been enabled by old money paying off the lawsuits.

-That is my first interpretation: Riot is a narcissist and lied about his backstory.

-Second interpretation is that Riot is only pretending to be a narcissist, and is telling the truth. He may be compensating for his jealousy of old money with faux self-importance. He frequently states that he is the "perfect man," after all. He might be trying to convince himself.

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evita-shelby · 2 years

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I love all of your work. I keep trying to imagine dad tommy from fic where his little girl comes home declaring she's got a boyfriend, and him panicking because she's like 6 and he can't scare the little boy without having his wife (the reader) chewing his head for it.

Omg thank you 😊

Okay for context, Florence was born in 1929 and is reader and Tommy’s youngest child (and his favorite of all four).

And i felt the prompt went better by being from Tommy's pov to focus more on Tommy and Florence’s relationship.

Other shelby children: Charlie and Gabriel (the Shelby Boys) and Diane (Diane Elizabeth)

Six years old

Gif by @samcoving

"Who's your new friend, Flora?" Tommy asked his youngest as he kissed the top of her head and then took his place at the head of the dinner table.

Frankly, Tommy thought it wholly unnecessary that they were using the large dining room they use to host gatherings instead of the more private family dining room.

But Florence Eleanor Shelby had demanded a dinner party for tonight, so he dressed for dinner and promised his wife not to overreact when he learned why.

A promise his wife had bet three shillings he'd break before the first course.

"My boyfriend." She beamed at him.

It took everything in him not to spit the water he had been drinking. He was going to need a drink, but Y/N had a strict don't drink in front of the children or I'll have your guts for garters, or so help me God, Thomas Michael Shelby policy.

"Hello, sir, I'm Andrew Roberts, pleasure to meet you." The little boy said courteously and waited until Tommy acknowledged him to resume eating.

Because in the pantomime that is life, his little girl attached herself to the son of Billy Kimber’s accountant.

Can't scare the boy, can't be rude or else Roberts will see it as a provocation, so he acts like this is just another friend his favorite child has brought over.

"I'm gonna marry him, daddy." Six-year old Florence tells him and you make it worse by indulging her in this fantasy.

The last thing he wants is for one of his children to marry young like his parents and the John did.

"But the girl is six," his wife’s says, "you're worrying for nothing."

"You're wrong, love," he tells her later once the dinner is over.

Six turns to eleven and she and Andrew remain thick as thieves.

She was bold, bolder than her best friend, the Princess Margaret, and Andy Roberts is shy and cautious like Tommy can assume his father was.

Calls him her boyfriend still, and he reminds Y/N that its way past being a phase.

"They're children, Tom" she shakes her head even as she does some last minutes things on the children's matching costumes.

Eleven turns to sixteen and Andrew nervously asks him for permission to ask Florence to a dance.

He has a shotgun on his lap when he gives the teenage boy his answer.

Florence locks herself in her room in tears and his wife shakes her head. "There's no harm in a dance. If you don't let her go, she'll just escape through the window and steal the car again."

So he listens to his wife and the next morning he apologized to his daughter and made her promise she wouldn't do anything stupid.

Sixteen turns to twenty three and they've been featured in everything from Tabloids to Time Magazine as the United Kingdom's entrepreneurial power couple.

Florence had invited them to a dinner party at her place in Mayfair. She had news and she had made him swear on the lives of his five grandchildren (by his three older children) not to overreact.

"Mummy, Daddy, I invited you today because Andy and I have news." She's nervous, but doesn't show it. His little girl had taken over the family businesses (the legal ones)and blossomed into a strong, independent and beautiful woman like her mother.

He knew what was coming.

Thomas Shelby had cornered Andrew Roberts after he bought the engagement ring.

But Roberts had sworn him to secrecy until the tine was right.

"Out with it, girl, your mother's not getting any younger." He tries to lighten the mood at the cost of his wife subtlely kicking him ubder the table.

"We're getting married!" They try to say it in unison, but nervous Andrew had said it first.

"You knew, Tommy?" his wife asked him suprised.

"Known since she was six."

#tommy and florence #florence shelby #reader is a side character #tommy shelby imagine #tommy shelby fanfic #tommy is a good dad #dad!tommy #tommy shelby x fem!reader #tommy shelby x wife!reader #tommy shelby x reader #thomas shelby x reader

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kujo1597 · 1 month

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I keep referencing a cousin of Stormer's I never did introduce. And while doing a rough "God I just want to post this" proofread I'm thinking about a comic I wanted to draw.

It's of Kimber looking at the mail and squinting at a letter. She asks, "Who is Margaret Jackson?"

Stormer looks confused. "My cousin."

"Who?"

The confusion changes to pure dumbfoundedness. "Maggie."

Then it finally clicks. "Ooohhhh, I feel silly now. Yeah so Maggie sent you a letter."

#Words Words Words

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fearsomesheep · 7 years

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hey ok i got some more you should do 32 for Lucy and then um OH 18 and 34 for Lucy's older sisters Victoria, Sarah, and Ellen please if you can AND THEN 39 and 40 for all the Lucy/Austin kiddos like Rory and Gus and I might be forgetting one of them crud

THESE ARE SUPER INTERESTING QUESTIONS THANK YOU SO MUCH BRO! Sorry my answer has taken so long. Iceland Adventures happened :’D Also heads up this is gonna be a long one… but let’s do this!

32. Do[es Lucy] have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke?

Any story from her circus days, man. She has so many stories it’s actually a shock for people to find out that she was only there for a few short years. (If they ever find out, that is. Lu’s happy to let people assume she straight up grew up there). As for a specific story it depends on the topic. If it’s Lucy starting the conversation she can legit just be like “I used to live with the circus :D” and that’s usually unusual enough to spark a conversation.

18. What embarrasses[Lucy’s sisters]?

Victoria: Her parent’s generation and their old fashioned views. This is why she gets into the suffroget movement when it finally takes wing. She’s not outlandishly progressive herself though - which is why she still has a husband and kid before Lucy even runs away to the circus - and also why she’d be embarassed by, like, public nudity and stuff. Or even fashion showing too much cleavage or whatever. There’s progressive and then there’s just plain indecent.

Sarah: Being proven wrong or shown up in front of people.

Nelly: Again, “indecent” things. Usually in public places. She’d lightly hassle Lucy about letting her hair be wild instead of tying it up nicely when she’s galavanting around without permission. Nelly can overlook a lot of things, but over all, yeah. I guess she’s understandably prude.

34. How hard is it for [Lucy’s sisters] to shake a sense of guilt?

Victoria: Victoria can be quite cold and as such easily wash her hands of any guilt. Even if it’s something she rightly feels guilty for and finds difficult to overcome, she won’t let it hold her back overall. She’ll adjust her ways if need be though. Victoria deals with things very internally.

Sarah: In the habit of pawning off guilt onto other people. “No U should feel bad for this thing I did”. Sarah honey, no.

Ellen: Not so easy. Nelly takes her time to make peace with things, but she can get there eventually.

39. How easy is it for [the Kimber kids] to ignore flaws in other people?

Gus: Like his dad, I reckon Gus doesn’t necessarily ignore people’s flaws but he can acknowledge and… deal appropriately with them? Words.

Rory: Depends on what the flaw is. Rory can be a liiiittle judgemental, but only if it’s a flaw she sees as entirely in the person’s control. You’re racist? EDUCATE YO’ SELF. Ignorant? EDUCATE YO’ SELF. Selfish? EDUCATE YO’ SELF ON SYMPATHY YOU JERK. She’d never hassle someone for being shy or something though. That’s not really a flaw to Rory though.

AJ: (The one you semi-remembered! I’m impressed you remembered him at all since I barely post anything about him like ever.

40. How sensitive are[the Kimber kids] to their own flaws?

Gus: Boy is f*ckin flawless whatchu talkin’ bout? Lol no jk jk, Gus is very aware of his own flaws but he owns them. “Yeahh, I definitely could have done better on that test if I studied but I did okay so I’m probably not gonna study for the next one either.” “Oh yeah I have the memory of a GOLDFISH, bro.” “Wait what did you just say? I completely tunes out for a second there because I have butterflies for brains.”

Rory: RORY HAS NO FLAWS HOW DARE YOU. Jk Jk again! She’d definitely ironically be like that though. Someone tell’s Rory she has a short fuse and she explodes in faux offence. Some flaws she definitely needs pointing out to her, but overall I think Rory would take genuine critisism to heart and try to better herself. Takes a grown up to own your mistakes, man.

AJ: VERY SENSITIVE MY POOR BABY. He’s pretty quiet (for a Kimber kid anyway) and so he takes critisism to heart and just… lets it fester there. He’s aware of his short comings (or perceived short comings) and if anyone points them out it only makes things worse. He’ll work on them if he can, but if he can’t it just makes him extra self-concious about them. Overall he’s probably very self-concious actually. He’s good at internalising though so it’s not necessarily that obvious to other people.

And now throwing this over to @lilbluestem to answer for her trio of Kimber kiddoes! \o/

#OC meme #OC Questions #Ask #Linzerj #Lucy Eleanor Taylor #Illusion #Lucy's sisters #Victoria Anne Taylor #Sarah Rose Taylor #Ellen Margaret Taylor #Kimber Kids #Gus Kimber #Rory dinosaury #AJ Kimber #Rory Kimber #cba tagging their full names guys OTL

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adamsvanrhijn · 4 years

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downton abbey related research reading list

Anonymous said:

What resources/databases etc do you use for your research? I've occasionally seen you link something, but often you say something that makes me want to go poke around in your sources, and I never know where to go. I'm super curious!

a lot of it is actually.... not online because i graduated and no longer have database access! but!

i’ve been using FindMyPast.co.uk for census data & Royal Household archives & occasionally i’ll poke around on JSTOR or Google Scholar using my handy dandy database search skills. but mostly i’ve been reading & flipping thru like, actual books, so here’s a ref list. this actually isn’t like... everything i’ve used or looked at in the last ten (!!!) months but it is like. the bulk of it lol.

GREAT HOUSES & DOMESTIC SERVICE

Evans, Sian. Life Below Stairs: In the Victorian and Edwardian Country House. 2011. National Trust.

Horn, Pamela. Life Below Stairs: Real Lives of Edwardian Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939. 2013. Amberley Publishing.

Horn, Pamela. Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War. 2013. Amberley Publishing.

Hyams, Jacky. The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago. 2011. John Blake.

Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times. 2013. W. W. Norton & Company.

Maloney, Alison. Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants. 2012. Thomas Dunne Books.

Musson, Jeremy. Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant. 2010. John Murray Publishing.

Muthesius, Hermann. (trans. D. Sharp) The English House. 1904/1987 (English ed). Rizzoli International.

Paterson, Michael. Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes: Masters and Servants in the Golden Age. 2012. Robinson.

Powell, Margaret. Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid. 1968. Peter Davies.

Powell, Margaret. Servants Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance. 1979. St Martin’s Griffin.

Sambrook, Pamela. Country House Servant. 1999. The History Press.

White, David S. and Deb H. Beyond Downton Abbey: A Guide to 25 Great Houses. 2012. White & Associates. [Two volumes]

THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

Gorst, Frederick John. Of Carriages and Kings: A Royal Footman’s View of Edwardian Elegance. 1956. New York, Crowell.

Healey, Edna. The Queen’s House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace. 1997. Pegasus Books.

Hoey, Brian. All the Queen’s Men: Inside the Royal Household. 1992. Harper Collins.

Hoey, Brian. At Home with the Queen. 2002. CB Creative Books.

Hoey, Brian. Working for the Royals. 2014. CB Creative Books.

Hubbard, Kate. Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household. 2012. Harper Collins.

Tinniswood, Adrian. Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household. 2018. Hachette Book Group.

Wright, Patricia. The Strange History of Buckingham Palace. 1996. Sutton.

QUEER & LGBT HISTORY

prior knowledge from reading authors such as Lillian Faderman, Graham Robb, Eve Sedgwick, Martin Duberman, Rictor Norton, among others, those are just off the top of my head.

recent/in progress reads:

Brady, Sean. Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913. 2005. Palgrave Macmillan.

David, Hugh. On Queer Street: A Social History of British Homosexuality 1895-1995.

Slide, Anthony. Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. 2003. Psychology Press.

SEX

Anonymous. The Horn Book: a Girl's Guide to the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 1899.

Dennett, Mary Ware. The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People. 1928.

Long, Harland William. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living: Some Things that All Sane People Ought to Know about Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise. 1922.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael. Married Love; or, Love in Marriage. 1918.

LANGUAGE

Blakeborough, Richard. Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, With a Glossary of Over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use. 1898.

Green, Jonathon. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. 2010. Chambers Publishing. Available online: https://greensdictofslang.com/.

Milne, David. A Readable English Dictionary, Etymologically Arranged, with an Alphabetical Index. 1888.

Robinson, Francis Kildare. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases. 1858.

Wright, Joseph. The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years. 1898. [Multiple volumes]

BOOKS I HAVEN’T GOTTEN MY HANDS ON YET BECAUSE I’M BROKE

Corbitt, Frederick John. Fit for a King: A Book of Intimate Memoirs. 1956. Odham’s Press.

Dawes, Frank Victor. Not in front of the servants: A true portrait of Upstairs, downstairs life. 1984. Hutchinson.

Gerard, Jessica. Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times). 1994. Wiley-Blackwell.

Hartcup, Adeline. Below Stairs in the Great Country Houses. 1980. Sidgwick & Jackson.

Horn, Pamela. Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century. 2001. Sutton.

King, Ernest. The Green Baize Door. 1963. Kimber.

Tschumi, Gabriel. Royal chef: recollections of life in royal households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary. 1954. William Kimber.

#da resources #long post #downton abbey tag

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l-egypte · 4 years

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August 8, 2020 | “The Creepy Quandary of Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm” (2020)

From the YouTube channel Buzzfeed Unsolved Network, I watched the video about the skeletal remains—nicknamed Bella—discovered in a wych elm in England by four boys. There are several theories on how the remains got in the tree; one theorist was the Egyptologist Dr. Margaret Murray. Her theory was that witchcraft was involved, and the deceased was a human sacrifice.

According to FemBio.org, Murray was an “English Egyptologist, archaeologist, lecturer, author, feminist, [and] folklorist.” This online biography begins with the quotation from her book My First Hundred Years (published in 1963 by W. Kimber): “My third attempt [to find a career] was Egyptology, and from that I have never wavered.”

While excavating at Abydos, Margaret Murray uncovered the Osireion, a temple to the god Osiris. Her site report, The Osireion at Abydos, was published in 1904. The report was considered ground-breaking. In addition to detailed descriptions of the site and many transcriptions of writing and copies of ornamentation, she—always interested in the cultural side of archaeology—included her study of the god Osiris and associated legends, beliefs, and ceremonies. Murray returned to Egypt in the 1903–1904 winter season, to Saqqara, also an ancient burial ground, near Cairo. She did not have legal permission to actually excavate there, so instead she worked on tombs that had been excavated previously, transcribing inscriptions on ten of them. Her report, Saqqara Mastabas, published in two parts in 1905 and 1937—together with her Osireion at Abydos—was very influential among Egyptologists.

Later, World War I happened, and Margaret Murray volunteered as a nurse in France. “However, after a while she began to feel the strain of overwork, so she went to Glastonbury in southwestern England for a rest. While there she became interested in local folklore,” and this led to an interest in witchcraft. And so when the Bella story came up, Margaret Murray proposed her theory.

So, to conclude, nothing about “Bella” is related to Egypt (at least, not that we know of); however, this one theorist—Margaret Murray—was an Egyptologist, so here we are.

[Screenshot from the video “The Creepy Quandary of Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm” (2020)]

#l'egypte est partout #egypt in film #Egypt in history #Margaret Murray #Margaret alice Murray #egyptologist #wych elm #buzzfeed unsolved #The Creepy Quandary of Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm #The Osireion at Abydos #Osireion #my first hundred years #Saqqara Mastabas

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fiercefray · 5 years

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Because Alfie’s alive and I AM HAVING FEELINGS!

The gramophone played as Ollie watched him from the couch, her view only obstructed when Margaret came to collect the tray. She gave the maid a nod of thanks before continuing to watch Tommy Shelby looking out at the ocean with a pair of binoculars.

“Going to keep staring, Ollie?”

“Excuse me for being a bit concerned that I have a Shelby in my house. You, no less. Always figured it would be Lizzie and the kids, trying to get away from your bullshit.”

He sighed, lowering the binoculars. “They might yet.”

“No,” she replied. “Lizzie is like you. Too stubborn to leave well enough alone. How are the kids?”

“Doing alright. And Talia?”

She shrugged. “Got a feeling when she’s older she’s going to break a lot of hearts.”

“Just like her mother.”

“You flirting with my wife, Tommy?” Both of them looked back as Alfie came into the room. He continued, “I was just having some oil rubbed into the bits that really hurt, mate. What do you think of that view, eh?”

Ollie smiled, taking her husband’s hand as he passed where she sat on the couch. He reached over to lift the needle off the record, bringing the music to stop as Tommy came back in from the balcony. “It's Margate. What can you do?”

“I'll tell you something, Tommy, right? I sit all day every day in that chair, on that balcony, contemplating the fact, right, that life is so much easier to deal with when you are dead!” Alfie plopped down next to his wife, putting his arm over the back of the chair. Ollie nestled in a bit closer. Times really had changed. Before, Ollie would never have felt comfortable being this vulnerable with her husband with Tommy in the room. Too much tension between all of them for various things. Now, life was a bit more simple.

Since Alfie’s ‘death,’ Ollie took over the business, running everything with her husband as a silent partner. Well, as much as Alfie could be silent. She handled the business, raised her daughter, and took care of her husband who still dabbled in what he did before. She still did some training of the horses as well, though her contact with the Shelbys had grown quite limited save for the occasional letters and such.

“Hello, Alfie.”

“Yeah. Did you - did you look through the binoculars?” Alfie pointed past Tommy to the ocean. “I watch ships. No two are the same.”

“Yeah,” Tommy replied.

“That is how God sees us both, in his eyes.”

He didn’t even raise a brow. “God, eh? “

“Yeah, sort of. I mean, you know. Someone who's responsible for all this fucking mess. Now, how soon did you know that I was not dead?”

Ollie patted his chest. “Sweetheart, you wrote him a letter. You asked about Cyril.”

“Did I?” he asked. Tommy nodded. “They gave me a lot of drugs at first. Hmm. Yeah, all right. I was lying out there, and the tide had come in, and it woke me up. I remember looking around and thinking, you know ‘Fuck. If this is hell...it looks a lot like Margate.’”

“Maybe that's just what hell looks like, eh?” said Tommy.

“No, no,” Alfie shifted to grab the Torah on the side table. “Not according to this holy book right here, yeah? It gives a very, very vivid description. You and I are both fucked, mate.”

“Do you read the papers?” Tommy looked between the two of them.

Ollie scoffed. “Of course not.”

Next to her, Alfie pulled out his gun and cocked it, aimed right at Tommy’s chest. Ollie was half tempted to take it herself. His aim wasn’t what it used to be since he went blind in his left eye on account of Tommy’s poor aim.

“But you've heard.”

“Of the fascism?” she replied. “Yeah, we heard.”

Tommy didn’t seem to care. “Three, two, one, bang. No? Fine.”

“Good Lord, your fucking condition has got worse, mate,” said Alfie as Tommy took the empty seat across from them. He coughed, sounding quite terrible. “Mine, on the other hand, I've been living the dream. Sometimes, I will shoot at the side of a ship. And sometimes I'll sit here, I may shoot at the old seagull.”

“Ollie,” he said, looking to her. “I'm going to shoot Oswald Mosley.”

She let out a short laugh. “Sure you don’t want me to do it, Tommy? I mean, you did a rather shite job on my husband here. Your mind on something else, eh? Cause you know, Tommy, the only thing you should be picturing when you’re shooting someone is the bullet going through their fucking head.”

“Yes, it was actually,” he lit a cigarette.

“Yeah, all right,” said Alfie. A ship’s horn bellowed in the distance. He picked up the binoculars and looked out the one side with his good eye. “Oh, look. A ship.”

“Why do you want to shoot him?” Ollie asked.

“I need to organise a riot,” said Tommy. “And I hear you still have some standing in the Jewish community. You and your husband.”

Alfie leaned forward, making Ollie move with him so her arm was now interlocked with his. “Let me be clear, right? Since my resurrection, I am considered to be a God, all right? In the Holy Land, someone has made an image of me out of rock embedded in the sand, so I'm told, and I am planning to make a pilgrimage to stand in my own shadow. Are you going to shoot him because this man is evil?”

Tommy didn’t answer the question. “I need men who can fight. Mosley uses men from Glasgow. So if the men causing the trouble are Jewish it will be explicable.”

“Since when did you need explanations, Tommy?”

“He’s a politician, darling,” she told him. “Unlike me, he has to answer to the King and all that bullshit.”

“Oh, that's right, yeah. Oh, yeah. And how has that been for you, Tom?”

“Gangs, wars, truces... nothing I didn't already know.”

The long snore Alfie gave in response made Tommy smile, something Ollie hadn’t seen in a long time. She gently pushed her husband’s knee. “So, you kill Mosely, you kill that bullshit he’s spreading. How much you paying?”

“I thought you might do it for the cause, Ollie.”

“Fuck off,” she replied.

He smiled again. “You’re not the same barmaid I knew.”

She gave a smile back. “And this ain’t Billy Kimber. This is a man likely to try to be prime minister.”

Tommy looked out the window. “Each man will get £20. You'll get £5,000.”

“You know, as a god, Tommy, right, I am now able to just rise above those kinds of insults, mate,” Alfie told him. “My wife, is not.”

He rolled his eyes. “Ten?”

“How is my dog?” asked Alfie.

“Your dog is fine.”

“In that case, ten should be enough,” he replied. “Where do you want the men?”

“Birmingham.”

Ollie shook her head. “Those men won’t step foot in Birmingham for anything less than 25.”

“25 it is. You can take your dog back, then, eh?”

“No, it's better for him to think that I am still dead. As it is also with the police. Right. So you're still at it, eh, Tommy? Hmm. You ain't got no Margate to go to,” Alfie clicked his tongue.

Tommy replied. “No. And I have no interest in shooting seagulls.”

“Only in MPs?” she questioned.

“Yeah. And their paid informants.”

Alfie nodded. “I was on a lot of drugs at first, right, due to the pain, you know, on account of it Well, you know, being shot in the face by some cunt,” again Tommy smiled. “I won't bore you with the details, it'dchill ya. Nonetheless, I had a recurring dream. I saw you in a field, right? With a big black horse. And you said goodbye, and then bang. All right, then. Well, what now?”

Tommy sighed as he tossed his spent cigarette out onto the balcony. “I will continue till I find a man that I can't defeat.”

Ollie motioned to the door, standing up. “I’ll show you out.”

“Don’t let him seduce you on the way, luv,” Alfie told her.

She smiled down at him. “No promises, sweetheart. I’ll be back.”

Tommy followed her through the twisting hallways toward the front of the house. She could practically feel him smirking. “He still thinks you have feelings for me.”

Ollie came to a stop at the top of the stairs. They overlooked a beautiful foyer, which held a window that gave them a beautiful view of the field where her horses ran. “Don’t you?”

“Thought you said we would have to wait for another life.”

She shrugged. “Depends on how this one goes. Though I still talk to Lizzie. Seems like that’s going all right. Still can’t believe our oldest are seven years old already.”

“Mummy!”

Ollie looked past Tommy as Talia came running towards her. She looked so much like her father when he was young. Dark eyes and hair, a perpetual tan from playing outside. Ollie bent down to see what her daughter had. “Look what I found.”

The girl opened up her hand to reveal a small ring, one that of course she had to show now in front of Tommy. Ollie smiled anyway. “You found it. Thank you, sweetheart.”

Talia finally seemed to notice someone was with them. “Hello.”

“Hello,” Tommy greeted her. “You must be Talia.”

She held out her free hand. “It’s nice to meet you.”

“This is Mr. Shelby,” Ollie introduced them as Tommy shook the little hand. “He’s an old friend of mummy and daddy. I was just about to walk him out. Why don’t you go check on daddy, eh? The doctor was just by with the oils.”

Talia nodded as she dropped the ring into her mother’s hand and ran off again in the direction of the study. Ollie stood back up. Tommy looked down at the ring, the one he had given her eight years ago. “Can’t believe you still have it.”

“Like I said, depends on how this one goes,” she slipped the ring into a pocket. “Now, who’s taking care of Mosely?”

“Ollie, you’re not shooting him.”

She looked out the window to the field. “At least tell me you are getting someone good.”

“Working on it.”

She nodded. “Something doesn’t feel right, Tommy.”

“Getting visions like your husband?” he asked her.

“Talia gets them too,” said Ollie. “Bad ones. Bloody ones. I know she’s talking about you when she mentions ‘the man with the bright blue eyes.’”

“And?”

Ollie finally looked at him. “Make sure to not tell anyone the plan you don’t trust. Otherwise, the blood spilled will not be Mosely’s. And that scares me more than anything.”

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