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bonniesfamiliar · 2 months

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DIMENSION TRAVEL STORY IDEA: Summary: Harriet "Harry" James Potter has travelled to an alternate dimension during a spell gone wrong (Kreacher's actually responsible cuz he cares about Harry since she's the Lady of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black) Harriet knows it's an alternate dimension cuz she finds a newspaper stand and lo and behold, who's on the front cover? Tom. Fucking. Riddle. But not the ugly Voldemort Tom Riddle she killed. No this is young Tom Riddle who grew up FINE AS HELL.

And he's on the front page cuz he's The Minister of Magic and guess what he's talking about.

Dumbledore.

He's talking about Dumbledore.

And not manipulative gramps Dumbledore whose beard is longer than my hair.

No.

We're talking about this one

You know why he's talking about this Dumbledore?

Because Albus. Percival. Fucking. Dumbledore decided to become the epitome of "Be Gay, Do Crime," with Gellert Grindelwald, his husband.

DUMBLEDORE IS A DARK LORD WITH HIS HUBBY

So Harriet is obviously freaking out and does the right thing.

She goes to a pub and drinks her sorrows away in Scottish Whiskey, (Thank you, Minny)

But Harry never makes reasonable decisions so when she finds a quill and paper, guess what she does.

She writes to Misinter Riddle.

But the drama doesn't end there.

Whenever Harriet does anything, whether she writes or talks about Tom Riddle, she doesn't speak in English.

She talks in Pareseltongue.

(Cuz she and tom are the only Parselmouths. I think.)

So Parseltongue.

Harriet writes in parseltongue to the Minister of Fucking Magic on his wrongdoings in her universe.

The letter literally looks like this:

ssss ssss sssssssss ss ssssss s sss ssssssss ssssss sss sss ss ssss ssssssss ssssssss ssss ssssss sssssss ss ss sssssssss and that transcribes to

"Dear Lord Voldemort, or should I say Minister Riddle, you are an ugly noseless hairless evil snakey bastard in my dimension,"

and cuz she's spiteful, she signs it off with "You-Know-Who"

But the thing is Harriet never mentioned her name or who her parents were.

So when Minister Riddle receives this letter, he freaks out and then does everything he can to find this person.

Not to kill them.

But to woo them.

This kind, thoughtful person has travelled from another dimension just to stop him from becoming evil.

AND THEY'RE A PARSELMOUTH.'

THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY HIS SNAKE MATE. (cuz he killed all of the Gaunts and Riddles so they're not family)

You can bet ur ass he was squealing to Nagini at the thought of having another Parselmouth in the world with him.

He's obsessed.

(He's not tom riddle if he doesn't have possessive issues and his jealousy issues are just as bad.🤭🤭🤭🥰🥰🥰😩😩😩)

Like it's not a want.

It's a need.

He needs the writer of this letter to be with him forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and-

You probably get the idea.

Anyway, 1 year goes by.

Tom Riddle: I MUST FIND THIS PERSON AND MAKE THEM MINE

Harriet Potter: *forgets about even writing the letter*

Tom is growing more obsessed as the days go by and then he meets a woman at a charity ball held for idk an organisation for potieneers? Potion Masters?

She's chatting up with Lord and Lady Dagworth-Granger cuz she's been working with them cuz they remind her of Hermione and she needed a job.

Anyway, he approaches the couple in hopes of talking to them and Harriet sees Minister Riddle approaching and quickly moves away to head to the drinks table.

And then lets out a breath of relief when she realises he wasn't heading for her.

She schmoozes for a few more minutes before calling it quits and heading out for fresh air.

The party is at the Dagworth-Granger's manor so she goes out to the gardens.

And hears a cry for help.

Her Gryffindor instincts push her to run towards the sound of danger.

But her Slytherin side made her hide behind the wall from where the cry of help had come from.

It was a witch being harassed by two wizards.

One of the wizards was holding her wand, taunting her.

While the other had begun to take off her outfit.

Before it could go any further, she brought the men's attention to her and with a flick of her wrist, Harriet had the men on their knees.

She then walked over to the one holding the witch's wand and grabbed it out of his hand, accidentally snapping his wrist in the process.

She gave the witch her wand back and accepted the shaky hug she received.

Harriet waited until the witch was out of sight before she turned to the men and smiled, watching as their faces fell into horror as they saw the fangs in her mouth.

(I'm in love with the prompt by a post on tumblr where Basilisk!Harry is hugging Kneazle!Hermione and Dragon!Ron also wants his cuddles. I can't find the person who made it but I've lived by the idea that these would be their animagus forms if they ever performed the spell like James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew had done to become illegal animagi for Remus Lupin)

Harriet rips into their throats, feeds on them and then turns their bodies into ash with the fiendryfire spell.

She grabbed a mirror from her purse to erase the blood from her face and clothes and began to walk away lest anyone come looking for the wizards.

But, Harriet suddenly slammed into what felt like a wall.

A very warm wall.

Regaining her bearings, Harriet looked up to notice that the "wall" was MINISTER RIDDLE.

AND HE WAS HOLDING HER ARMS.

"Minister Riddle, what are you doing here?" She said pasting a smile on her face.

Shift of POV:

Minister Riddle internally sighed at being stuck in another ball instead of being at home, analysing the letter once again.

He was certain it was a woman who sent it as there was a red lipstick kiss on the paper after it was signed sss-ssss-sss (You-Know-Who)

His thoughts are cut off when Lady Dagworth-Granger asks her husband where Harriet is.

Who is Harriet? he muses but when Lord Dagworth-Granger offers to look in the gardens, Tom leaps at the chance to run away from the party.

He goes into the gardens aimlessly walking around for a few minutes, lost in his thoughts of his mysterious parselmouth when a witch comes out of nowhere and collides with him.

He uprighted her by placing his hands on her arms and looked on curiously as she seemed to freeze in place when she looked up to see that it was he she bumped into.

Tom Riddle is the one to freeze when she speaks.

"Minister Riddle, what are you doing here?" She says an innocent smile on her face as if she had no idea his whole world had just flipped on its axis.

Parseltongue.

She's speaking in parseltongue.

She's his parselmouth.

The one from another dimension.

But he had to clarify so he replies honestly for the first time in his life, in parseltongue, "I've been looking for you,"

"Searching for me? Whatever for?"

A boyish smile widens on his face before he forces it into a polite smile.

"The Lord and Lady Dagworth-Granger have been searching for you, Miss Harriet I believe you are?" He reverts to English to test if she notices the change but she doesn't.

She just replies in English, "Ah, I see. I disappeared for too long with my break from the stuffiness of the ball and yes, I am Harriet."

Harriet, he muses in his mind, no last name to give for me.

She extends her gloved hand for him to shake but Tom riddle reaches for both of her hands and turns them over to kiss them gently and forces himself not to give into the urge of nuzzling into her hands (well not yet at least) and without letting them go, he straightens to his full height to tower over her (giving him a thrill at knowing she was shorter, meaning he could easily pick her up and carry her, be it over his shoulders or bridal style) and replies, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Harriet. No last name?"

(Harriet has been wearing gloves cuz of the 'I must not tell lies' scars that cover her hands.)

Harriet smiles teasingly towards him and his cold heart thaws ever so, "I couldn't decide on a last name and I've decided I like the mysterious aura it gives me,"

Or maybe she couldn't risk using her real last name because she was from a different dimension, Tom muses in his mind, Nevertheless, Harriet Riddle has a lovely ring to it.

Harriet Potter: *staring confused at Tom Riddle as he smiles down at her

Tom Riddle: *Winter would be a lovely time to get married, wouldn't it?

I'm stopping here cuz it's a summary, not a story. Yes, I'm Evil.

Tell me if you like it tho.

I was this close *makes an inch between her fingers* to making this a Soulmate AU story.

Think of the angst that Harriet would go through all her life knowing that her soulmate's words to her are: I've been looking for you

And it's an alternate hotter version of Tom Riddle, AKA THE BAD GUY WHO MURDERED HER PARENTS

And think of how Harriet's words had motivated Tom his entire life to do his best to work hard (and cheat death) to live long enough for his soulmate to see him one day at a place be it a library or a gala or a hallway and ask him: Minister Riddle, what are you doing here?

Huh.

Maybe I should make them soulmates.

I need a timeline. fuck.

Um.

Riddle was educated at Hogwarts from 1938 to 1945, and was sorted into Slytherin House, a nod to his ancestor Salazar Slytherin.

Making Tom 34 cuz 1927 is the year Tom was born in if he went to Hogwarts in 1938 which would make him 11 in 1938 and 38-11 is 27 so 1927 is when he was born.

61-27=34 so Harriet is in 1961 but cuz of the time skip tom is 35 years old in 1962

Harriet was born in 1980

The Second War technically began on 24 June, 1995, though was not officially announced by the Ministry until nearly a year later on 17 June, 1996, and ended on 2 May, 1998, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, after the death of the Dark Lord.

Which made Harriet 18 in 1998, 24 in 2004, 24 in 1961 and 25 in 1962

but she deserves peace so the year Kreacher sent her back was 2004 which would make her 24 cuz he's horrified that she hasn't attempted to romance anyone since Cedric Diggory.

Tbh, if he was my bf I would never love again.

But then hubby "I would burn the world down for you and rebuild a new one from its ashes" tom riddle is here and I'm like Cedric who?

But none of them compare to (long list of titles, I'll research later.) Harriet James Potter.

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skippyangel16 · 5 months

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The Couple Next Door my thoughts…

Link here for a ‘real’ review from that neck of woods👇

👏👏👏

👆This just about sums it up for me, a real review from a real paper not a paid promo success piece from Hello or channel 4 blowing its own trumpet. If you google the series IBMd has it rated 5.2/10 at the moment of writing. (Saying something is brilliant does not make it so, unless you want to brainwash. Kenneth springs to mind taking a whole year+ to talk up Belfast so he would finally get that Oscar for the not so outstanding Belfast 🙄)

The Guardian Nov 2023 promo it as The couple next door a sexy fantastic time …4 stars but then by the 3rd Dec it’s no longer raving about it with an honest review.👇

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/03/the-couple-next-door-channel-4-swingers-thriller-review-slow-horses-3-arena-being-kae-tempest-the-doll-fctory?CMP=share_btn_link Barbara Ellen exert from review 3 Dec 2023 still the guardian…

Exert from link above by Barbara Ellen..

Well for me TCND started off with a ‘OMG not again!’ for the opening shot. I said to hubby ‘I hate it when they do that!’. The second scene supposedly set in Leeds wtf? Why didn’t they find a more convincing housing estate…then (Sam) Danny picking up the washing machine…dear god it made me cringe and that’s just for starters!

Sam…I could not get past his ‘Yorkshire’ accent?… well he did his best, it came through well some of the time. It’s sad but production were aware they were not going to predominantly film in Yorkshire or substitute location with a suitable comparison so why the need for him to do a Yorkshire accent? They could have set this story anywhere. Why not let Sam do his normal Scottish accent ? Far more sexy! Bad decision imo.

I could go on…especially the ladies dress code for a casual UK BBQ, LMAO. For sure my neighbour and I need to up our game at our next one! Seductive dresses, tits out and heels on! Husbands can’t wait…🤣

Does it appear Sam was hired for his body?…absolutely! Is he typecast as the guy who does sex?…looks like it. If he wanted to up his stakes as a good actor imo this was not the project. Can he do chemistry with anyone but Caitriona?… barely, but this was his best effort so far. Sex scenes and build up no 🔥 for me. I found it more cringe so fast forward came into play. Seems Sam is okay with full nudity and grinding again so can’t wait for OL S8! No need for J&C sex scenes to be PG…

Continuity, script, direction, production…dear god did outlander do it?

Out of all the actors Jessica De Gouw (Becka) stood out with a consistent performance.

Gripping? Nah, wanted to give up many times but finally got past ep 3 and pace seemed to increase so eventually got to the end which was then suddenly abrupt.

I wanted to like it, but for me it was blah…should have been amazing! Fail is more down to script, direction and production, had a giggle most of the way through at the script and said wtf and why a lot? ….🤷‍♀️still they all had fun making it and got paid!

For those who thought it enjoyable and hot I am really pleased for you! Sex for sex sake came to my mind, script all over the place one minute quite good another that’s shit.

For me in the words of a true Yorkshire man…

Maybe if I had a couple of wines with the cheese and knew it was not going to be a quality drama but a cheesy soap it would have gone down better.

Strikes me his fate in life is to be an alcohol god, that’s his true path…acting gave him his wife and family and that’s all he needs from it. It appears it’s not in his destiny for it to do anything more than that…🤷‍♀️JMHO

So if you haven’t seen it and want to then I suggest lots of wine and lower your expectations to a tv movie or soap and you will probably enjoy it and think it’s better than it was…🤪

#tumblr #@skippyangel16 #post Dec 2023 #tcnd #review #sam heughan

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luhafraser · 8 months

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A character of himself...

That's what I think Sam created over the years!!!

We've known the story about his father for years. It's not new! And what Sam described in MIK is not recent... His father passed away 10 years ago, and he had this reunion with him some time before.

I question how Sam has related this in the past, and how he uses it more recently, creating this character: the traumatized man who can't sustain a relationship, and that's why he's this guy who focuses on work... Being the career-focused man who works a lot and doesn't have time for relationships. He didn't do that at first (But back then he didn't have a collection of lies and whisky, gin, books and such to sell).

And let's face it, adding that line about the impact of not having his father in his life had some effect on Sam's speech about his lack of relationship/ about why he can't engage in a relationship. By itself, being busy with work is a shallow excuse. Working a lot doesn't stop people from having families.

In Waypoints, Sam marketed this character...

And now Sam has done it in MIK imo.

Sam didn't use to bring up this story about his father so often... But since Waypoints, when he associates it to explain his relationships... Sam has been repeating and repeating about it... 🙄 But life stories like this one draws attention and moves fans.

I believe that Sam hides who he is and something behind this character of himself. A character that serves his purposes well. And what a large part of this fandom believes to be who he really is.

I advise my followers to read this article from 2014 (there is a good part of his father's story in this article, including Sam barely knowing his father's name).

When Cait says her hubby is shy... 😜🤣 It's not like Sam can be like that anymore... And nowadays it seems that he totally pursues that celebrity side.

Interesting lines!

#sam heughan #outlander #men in kilts #waypoints

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carveredlunds · 4 months

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"But you will leave the family all alone": A Meta on the Stooky Family

So, I just did a quick Google search and discovered that Stooky Sue was not a real doll (unlike Stooky Bill, who really existed). So, Stooky Sue and the Stooky Babbies were inventions for the show. Why do that, unless RTD wanted to make a point? I think the point was that Stooky Sue and the Stooky Babbies were once humans, now transformed into puppets by the Toymaker.

The first clue is what the Toymaker says in the first scene, when Charles Banerjee says he just wants to buy Stooky Bill, and leave the other puppets behind. To this, the Toymaker responds:

"But you will leave the family all alone. Poor Stooky Sue and the poor Stooky Babbies. You would leave them without Papa? The widow und the orphans will be ge-crying."

Obviously, this is exactly what happens later. Now, this could be the Toymaker just messing around - he brought these puppets to life, and this is him foreshadowing that he's going to play this out later, when Stooky Bill is burnt and "the widow und the orphans" are left crying. This could be just another game to him, but why would he bother to make that up? Why build a family of five puppets, when history only demanded one? He went to 1925 to tamper with the real Stooky Bill broadcast. Why bother making four spare puppets - a mother and her children?

The second clue comes in the form of the puppets themselves. Look at Stooky Sue's hair and dress. This looks to me like a typical 1920's style dress, and the simple hair could definitely fit into that era. Her outfit also matches that of the babies - perhaps these were once the matching outfits of a mother and her three children? Stooky Bill also has a surprisingly elaborate and period-accurate outfit.

Speaking of the children - two of them have blue eyes and blonde hair, and one has brown eyes and brown hair. These seem like very particular traits for the Toymaker to have bothered giving a set of puppets. They're more likely to be the hereditary traits of real children than the invented traits of toys. Stooky Sue has blue eyes, like two of the babies, but the third baby has brown eyes, like Stooky Bill. Perhaps they inherited their eye colours from their parents?

And if you listen to what Stooky Sue says again, this doesn't sound like a game by the Toymaker. Yes, he could be forcing the puppet to rhyme in her creepy way, but there's something so flat and depressed about the voice, like a woman honestly recounting what happened to her. The emotion feels more real than the Toymaker's usual playful voice, with his exaggerated accents:

"I'm poor wee Stooky Sue. I don't know what to do. I lost my precious hubby. They threw me in the cubby. They took my Bill away. I mourn him every day. He won't come home to me. 'Cause they burnt him on TV. Now the Stooky Babbies weep. The Stooky Babbies cannae sleep. They miss their dear papa. They seek him near and far. They miss their kiss goodnight. They greet in endless night."

This story suggests that the family were together, even as puppets, but when Stooky Bill was taken and burnt on television, now the family is torn apart. Something else to note about Stooky Sue? She's got a Scottish accent. That's an accent we don't hear the Toymaker put on. Might this have been Stooky Sue's real accent, now being spoken out through the wooden mouth of her puppet body?

On the subject of puppet bodies - the Toymaker says that Stooky Bill's hair is made out of the hair of a real woman. Could the same be said for Stooky Sue, and the Babbies? Might their bodies all be made out of the hair and pieces of their original human forms? I doubt the Toymaker needs to use the parts of each person in their corresponding puppet bodies (so, perhaps Stooky Bill got Stooky, Sue's hair, she got his, and so on.) This also isn't the only time we see him combine human and puppet body parts together in one form, as he does with Banerjee later.

Of course, this could all just be creepy set-dressing by the Toymaker. He might have built a family for Stooky Bill because he was bored, and he can create things out of thin air. He could have used the hair of another one of his victims, who had no connection to Stooky Bill. It's a coincidence the babies have their "parent's" eyes. But all of these little details just seem too minute to be a coincidence. It's entirely in keeping with the Toymaker's personality to have played a game with an entire family, and then turned them into wooden puppets when they lost.

#dw #dw meta #doctor who #doctor who meta #the giggle #the toymaker #sophie speaks #sophie talks about dw #body horror tw

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scotianostra · 1 month

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Happy Birthday Scottish actress Laurie Brett.

Laurie was born in Hamilton on 28th March 1969. After her initial education in Scotland she studied at London Studio Centre a dance and theatre school providing courses in, ballet, modern dance and music, among other things.

While she was studying she earned her living as a bouncer in a nightclub, as an usherette and as a stage technician.

She toured with a travelling circus in Mexico and Central America with Circo Magico and studied at the London Studio Centre. She starred in fringe productions and made her television debut in London’s Burning (as an office girl) in 1992. Her singing and dancing skills made her a regular in the musical theatre and she appeared in several television advertisements. Laurie admits to having been a bit of a wild child, carrying on the Scottish tradition of drinking heavily for 20 years.

When Laurie moved to London she adopted the accent to help win parts, but in her everyday life she still speaks in a Scottish accent, she said she has always had a “knack” with accents, Waterloo Road fans will remember that home accent when she was in the series for 3 years. Brett has never been shy of talking about her home town, but she is still surprised by how many people don't realise she is a Scot and said in an interview in 2013 that she loves to watch people's reactions when she speaks in a Scottish accent. She added "When I am in London I tend to have a London accent, when I speak to my mum, Anne, I talk pure Hamilton and when I speak to my Aussie mates I end up talking like them.

Other shows Laurie has appeared in are The Bill, My Hero, London Kills, Traces, and Deadwater Fell alongside the popular Scottish actor David Tennant, she last popped up in the Hospital drama Holby city last year. Brett and her onscreen hubbie from Eastenders recently teamed up together on stage in a thriller called Looking Good Dead. On a possible return to the soap she said. If I was free and they wanted me back, who knows? If you’ve not been killed off then there’s always the possibility of a return. “

Laurie appeared in season 8 of the popular Scottish crime drama Shetland, she is joining the touring cast of Calendar Girls the musical, playing Annie Clarke.

Laurie has been inundated with support after opening up on recent surgery. She wrote: social media sharing photo from her hospital bed saying, "We have to ring fence & protect our NHS.....from any politics.. An all party agreement. Thanks especially to Nicole for post op care. Thanks to everyone. Additionally, her husband said that he was sharing all the kind messages Laurie had received with her while she rested..

#scotland #scottish #history #happy birthday #actress

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mavlotov · 1 year

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Also uhhhhhhhh my baby my hubby my hot hunk'a love Demo???? What's his puppysona?????

scottish deerhound!

#tf2 demoman #tf2 #team fortress 2 #mart

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averywiseanimatedcat · 9 months

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Rewatching Good Omens season 2 liveblog

Episode 3 ‘The Clue’ post 3

Previous post link (post 2)

What did they do here exactly…? Crowley froze him somehow and made him suggestible? He can do that? And Azirphale your morally grey is showing again you told Crowley to do that

‘MurdaRrs’

‘More mUrdARrs’

The only way they could’ve made me like Crowley more was by giving him a Scottish accent and they done exactly that. I need someone to make audio clips of all the amazingly accented words in this flash back.

This outfit was also FINE. Costume department really goes bonkers with Crowley and is like ‘meh give him a coat’ to Aziraphale

Stop. His moral panic when he finds out the jar is a tumour from a dead child.

Azirphale is so disturbed by these things which is so hard to watch. But he’s never really seen them, he doesn’t know they’re happening. Crowley is more lighthearted and able to stay upbeat because he’s been so deep in this shit for a long time he’s able to detach. But that just supports my theory that he’s been in the trenches doing ‘good’ things for a while now.

But that’s also why Crowley isn’t harsh to Aziraphale, he knows he’s not mean spirited he’s just ignorant. And he does make adjustments in his ethics when press with facts but it’s very warped because he cannot see the grey.

*Everyone panicking running away to hide from the guards and Crowley is just strolling along with his lamp like some graveyard ghoul*

Unbothered not-lad. We stan.

*Crowley drinks literal poison*

Crowley: 🐐 -👹-🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿-🎼-🤏🏻

This scene has given me two new verbal stims:

“You have sinned VERY BIGLY!”

And

“And not pretendy-good…PROPERLY good!”

In seriousness though he quite literally saves Elspeths life, and he probably changes the trajectory of her entire family line. AND he took the fall for it after he stopped Aziraphale saving Wee Morag. Again, Crowley sticking his neck out to do what he thinks is right. But he also stops Aziraphale doing anything that might cause him problems in heaven.

The next time they see each other is when Crowley is asking for holy water… so who knows what happened to him after this.

*growls when complimented*

Same.

Also casual tOuChINGGGG

Azirphale simp mode activated, you arnt suppose to look at ‘evil’ demons like that Aziraphale…

I love how they both just stared at the phone for ages like ‘no one calls the bookshop’

Then OOP it must be hubby calling gotta drop everything including his precious books… this one was so much funnier cause they just fucking fall all over the place and Jim has 0 reaction

“Good job.”

“Ohhh…you really think so?”

The face of a demon realising his Angels love language is words of affirmation

Next post (post 4) link

#crowley #good omens #aziracrow #good omens s2 #good omens spoilers #go2 liveblog #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowly x aziraphale

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amypihcs · 5 months

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Helloooo! Let's see today's letter, what do you say?

The boys approach the house from which the signals are coming and hey! Who's there?

Hey! It's Gregson! Holmes? Normal greeting? Well, i call 'darling' a lot of people i can accept that! Gregson nowadays just... ACCEPTS. Holmes to pop up in interesting cases from the blue. He gave up trying!

WAITWAITWAIT, MR HOLMES! Signals? Well, one for you. AND one for us! AH! -introductions with american detective follow- This scene sounds so much early case as well! Gregson admitting almost between his teeth that Holmes' presence is good during a case and so on.

Now WHO ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, Gregson? Detective?

WAIT, THAT ONE GUY? Holmes KNOWS this man, reassuring! Or maybe not. how comes that you're here?

Lol, Gregson admitting that Holmes usually knows more than the official police. AAAAAAnd the american believes that they've been seen? And it's the reason the signals stopped. Now, since it's an early case and it's CLEAR, i find incredibly weird and quite amusing that both officers turn to the youngest of the group

Ah Watson! What a nice backhanded compliment. Did they discover of the abbey grange affair and kick your door down? So you wrote this as a way to make your apologies? (as it was published in 1911... could be!)

Three englishmen (one of them is probably scottish) and an american enter a room and...

Tho. He's dead. That one Gorgiano they were looking for.

Hey Holmes? What are you doing with the candle?

Toh! The misterious lodger!

She is reacting quite well at the scene! Good! Now where is Gennaro? Who signaled? -Holmes raising his hand-

Also, little comment as an Italian. Doyle. My man. You really couldn't've found a more stereotypical neapolitan name.

Time for the London force to express itself in the person of inspector Gregson!

Holmes going Hey, Stop, let's y'know, THINK. She wants to tell the story, we want the story. Let's listen to her! And is nice enough to explain her that what you say could be used against you during the trial.

She tells her tale, born in Posillipo, couldn't marry because her fatehr disagreed, fled to America after eloping and marrying in Bari, hubby was part of the secret society 'Il cerchio rosso'. DAMN. (Also this boosts my sensation of an early case. if the man is around 30 and we are, using @skyriderwednesday's chronology in '85, he would've been born in '55 and so perfectly in time to still join a Carboneria-like society maybe with the intent of getting Rome, which became the Italian capital city only in 1871) Well, in NY all seems to go well, but Oh crap. Gorgiano. Among other things he also tries to assault Emilia and the couple flees to London. And Gorgiano's pretty end is Gennaro's handywork. And so now what should we do?

DUNNO what you officers are doing, i'm getting my Watson to the Wagner night! Bye, Gregson!

And now the plans for our next story!

Hey! Wasn't this a pre-norwood builder and post-empty house one? It'll be interesting!

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #dr watson #HEY WATSON WAGNER NIGHT WITH ME -Holmes #Watson being very bi #victorian husbands

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gabessquishytum · 10 months

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Okay so. Westerners(isn't it supposed to be Scottish?) have the selkies, East+Southeast Asia have our own versions. In China it's the cowherd and the weaving maid, in SE Asia, specifically Java, Indonesia, we have the legend of Jaka Tarub. They have the same basic structure: divine maidens, typically 7 of them, go to earth to bathe in a river, the mortal man peeps on them, steals the divine raiment of the youngest, trapping her on earth, and makes her his wife after her sisters rose up to heaven and she was left behind.

My point is: in the cowherd version, there's a talking animal companion, an old ox the cowherd inherited. So Dream + Matthew trapping poor Hob vibes. In some versions the divine woman neglected her duty to weave colourful clouds up in Heaven because she was busy with her mortal husband. Very Hob to ditch work for Dream. Also they have children, a boy and a girl in this version of the legend.

In the Jaka Tarub legend, the man acts alone. Long story long, the magic wife uses only 1 grain of rice for a whole pot, but it only works when no one knows about it. She made hubby promise not to open the lid of the pot. The fool does, sees only 1 grain, and the wife loses her powers. They end up having to use up a lot of rice, and as the stores thin out, she spots her raiment hidden under the grain. She storms off, as was her right, but she made her husband build her a hut so she can continue nursing their daughter while not having to meet him. So Hob trapping Dream vibes what with the storming off.

I don't know where I was going with this I was just excited about the similarities of the selkies and our myths.

Also in my primary school library I checked out the Jaka Tarub book for weeks because I was eyeing the illustrations of pretty ladies with their tits out.

This is wonderful, thank you so much for sharing this with me! I love it when different myths from around the world have similarities. I guess it proves that human beings are all very much alike and always have been, whether we recognise it or not.

I really like that in the story you described, the lady storms off after finding out about her husband's deception. Good for her! I can definitely imagine that both Hob and Dream would have a similar reaction in the circumstances.

But I do think that Hob would build a very nice hut.

#panickingstudent2 #the sandman #dreamling

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matchalilly · 6 months

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This gaming series has always had a special place in my heart for more reasons than one.

In middle school and high-school it was my shit played more co op than campaign in college cause I had a solid group of friends I'd hop on with.

But as a military brat I got the biggest crush on Mactavish when I was a tween, irritated the hell out of my bf at the time to the point he'd start snarky arguments about how I gush over a scottsman when his Irish ass is right there granted we'd laugh about it cause I'd point out how stupid it was that he's getting bent over a video game character, his ma would even join in saying just wait maybe an actual Scottish boy will swipe me from him.

As much as he gave me shit over Soap certain parts of the game hit him hard too.

We mutually broke up before high school, still hung out and gamed together but he decided he was going to join the army after graduating and didn't want me stuck worrying constantly, even though I expressed my interest in joining the marines like my dad.

That started up a whole new 'dig at each other' playfully of course both of us came from military families him strictly army me a mix of marine, army, and navy.

Dad was against his only baby girl joining the military and I just said alright ill just do some form of art than, ended up taking international culinary courses and cosplay ended up unironacally making military friends regardless.

You'd be surprised how many service men and women I've met in the cosplay community not to mention lawyers and doctors, even dentists it's wild honestly but it's neat, and some of them would play with me on CoD just to keep in touch. We'd joke and shit on each other and shit on the occasional teams that would be toxic in the lobby after losing the match to a team mixed with chicks and guys and would scream hacks.

Long and short of it this game is a staple in many special memories for me. It isn't just a game I play for the fun of it, I've made friends, connections and sometimes we all hop on just to chat in the lobby not even going into game. We would just sit cracking jokes and go back and forth if we wanted to hop in a match and go naaaaaaaaaah not tonight, got work or nah I have morning classes or mmm gotta be at base early or I would, ect you get the idea life stuff.

Now I'm back in it watching my friend that's never played a shooter in her life enjoying co op and the campaign and its the best thing to see.

She's a Konig girl and gets shitty that he's not in it much and me and my other pal just laugh and tell her he wasn't in the old games much either, nothing new better get used to relying on the simping fandom for her Konig material.

She even went and started a fanfiction and asks me all kinds of questions, although she had the audacity to call Ghost mean and I'm just like girl how dare 😤

Seriously don't know why people think he's mean, clearly they haven't heard his glorious dad jokes dudes just a hardened soldier.

But she adores Soap too so we chat often about him or she'll gush about Konig or send me mass GhostSoap pictures and I'm just like wow you found that side of the Fandom took you long enough 😆

Even my military hubby joins us cause he grew up playing the games too. Imagine his suprise one year when he came home from a deployment catching his wife playing CoD not knowing I even had an interest in the game.

That was a fun conversation our first year married.

Sat and watched him start the new campaign last night and I was so frustrated that he purposely would get Price killed just to rile me up (even detonated himself at one point) before restarting the mission and say 'imma do it again' only for me to tell him to leave the old man alone and actually do the damn mission.

Sorry not sorry felt like reminiscing, tis the season of recalling fond memories.

#memories #been doing this since childhood #gaming #military brat #gaming friends #gaming couple #married gamers #married nerds #cod #cod fandom #cod gamers #sorry not sorry #sorry not even remotely sorry #reminiscing #soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #konig #this old ass game means a lot to me #old gamer

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mimic-tesdinic · 2 years

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Mina is such a funny character because she's like... The opposite of a not-like-other-girls girl. Shes so desperate to be normal despite being just like... The weirdest person ever. If she existed on 2014 Tumblr she'd unironically make posts like

'^_^ interviewing weird Scottish men about their opinions on death #just girly things'

' Learning shorthand with my hubby (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) #tradwife'

'collecting traditional Budapest recipes while Jonathan recovers <3 <3 #travelling'

#dracula #dracula daily #mina murray #mina harker #mina we get it your autistic

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such-a-barbarian · 10 months

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✨Macy’s Tag Game Tuesday!✨

My first tag game Tuesday!

I was tagged by @lupeloto @transmickey and @heymrspatel

name: Kell

age: mid to late 30s

how many hours of sleep did you get last night? around 7.5 hours which is really amazing considering I have a teething 15 month old.

which do you use more: tumblr mobile or desktop? I have never logged on to desktop tumblr. I’m sure once I’m back to work after my mat leave that will change, but for now I’m strictly mobile.

a hobby you’d like to pick up: I’d love to get back into pottery. I always found it very soothing.

if you were a crayon, what color would you be? I don’t know, probably something pretty neutral and calming like an olive green or something.

what was your average screen time last week? I am terrified to look. Lol. I do all my fanfic reading on my phone, so it’s gonna be pretty high. 🥴

a song you put on every playlist: I don’t think I have one? I’ve probably only made like two playlists in my whole life. I let other people do that for me. Haha

favorite holiday: definitely Christmas. We’ve got lots of fun family traditions that just make that time of year so magically and special.

something on your bucket list: see the Scottish Highlands

you’re invited to a costume party, what are you dressing up as? Carmen Sandiego! I found a wicked red trench coat years ago at a thrift store so I’m Carmen Sandiego any chance I get!

what show takes up the most space in your brain? Shameless obviously, but I also have an unhealthy addiction to the bachelor franchise.

and finally, share something you’re looking forward to: hubby and I are leaving our kids with my in-laws and taking a one week trip to Iceland to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. Very excited for the adventure/solo time!

I think a lot of people have already been tagged, but I’ll go with @bawlbrayker @francesrose3 @milkmaidovich @juliakayyy and whoever is reading this and made this far, if ya want to.

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inkwolvesandcoffee · 1 year

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Top/Favourite Tom Hardy Series & Movies to Re-watch Time and Again

I was tagged by the lovely @hecatemoon87 to compose a wee list of my favourite films & series starring our dreamy Londoner, so *claps hands* lets get cracking!

#1 Peaky Blinders

Honestly, can you blame me for this one? The first time I ever saw this series, I was skeptical about Alfie. However, how-so-bloody-ever, as the seasons went on, I was drawn in more and more by him. Something in his manner, his unpredictable cleverness, spoke to me.

I’m currently on my second rewatch of the entire series so I’m up to date for S6, but, I’ll be honest, I’m mostly watching it for Tom.

Alfie made my rekindled crush on Tom so much worse. I can already hear you ask: “Rekindled? What sparked it in the first place?”

To the last part the answer is “I honestly can’t remember”. I just have a weakness for British men. And Irish… and Scottish. Anywho, I can pinpoint exactly when it was that I started gushing over him all over again.

#2 Venom

Yup, this movie absolutely did it for me. I’m sorry, but Tom portrayed Eddie (and Venom) as absolute hubby material.

Sure, I liked the story too despite hating sci-fi and anything related to aliens. I suppose it’s the human aspect and my own fascination with the ways in which we humans can work with the monstrous and harbour it ourselves, underlined by a scientific background, that has me returning to this one.

Also, in this house it’s canon Eddie reads romance novels and loves to watch anime with his girlfriend.

#3 Child 44

Gods, it’s been too long since I saw this movie. Note to self: buy and rewatch it. Also, finally read the book! It’s only gathering dust on your shelves.

Now, this choice has a kinda funny story behind it. I said to me mum I had found a movie with Tom called Child 44, which I rented on YouTube and would watch later that day. She plopped down next to me on the couch and, using my phone to broadcast on the telly since the YT app on it hated me, we watched it together.

I can’t say too much about the plot since it’s based on a true story. However, I’ll say this, it was interesting to get a perspective on the KGB and life in Russia during the 1940s. And Tom as Leo… my, oh, my. I thought the accent would make me bristle continuously and I’d tap out at once, as I tend to do with movies that have actors that attempt an accent that isn’t their own. Furthermore, there are some accents I just can’t listen to. I’m sorry, but it’s true.

I digress. Tom as Leo, right. At first, I expected to develop pure annoyance when it comes to him. Yet, I didn’t. Tom perfectly portrayed the complexities within Leo, personality and psyche alike, nurtured by an oppressive society during a difficult time in history.

#4 The Drop

I didn’t expect too much of this movie, which kinda helped since the plot is weak. Same goes for Warrior, by the way. But why did I include it in this wee list then?

*sighs* Because I like Tom and love his voice, regardless of what accent he puts on. And, sometimes, I just have the need to watch a movie with him, enjoy how talented and big he is. To not analyze the plot but the characters, put inspiration out of the movie’s weak points and hope to transform them into something better.

Plus, Bob is, in my mind, this adorable shy guy who’s been raised proper and therefore knows how to treat a woman right.

And a werewolf bartender who writes paranormal romance, bite me.

#5 Lawless

This movie and Tom as Forrest took me by surprise. I don’t really have an interest in the Prohibition, anything to do with American crime and history in general (except H.H. Holmes), but this was basically a Quintin Tarantino movie with less blood and more plot.

AND I LOVED IT!

Here and there on Tumblr I’d seen some talk about Forrest Bondurant, bits of info from which I had composed a profile of this rough, gruff, arrogant and violent man with a keen business sense. It was almost accurate.

Little did I expect he’d be an awkward bub around women. He’s basically a (secret) care bear in a cardigan with rough edges.

And with that I’d like to conclude this wee list. Feel free to create your own top 5 and to tag me🤗

Tag list: @liliac-dreamer @potter-solomons @alikaheroes @elijahssuit @vir-tual @dreamlandcreations @buttercup32sstuff @zablife @ilovemanypeople @woofgocows

#Tom Hardy #Venom #Eddie Brock #Peaky Blinders #Alfie Solomons #Lawless #Forrest Bondurant #The Drop #Bob Saginowski #Child 44 #Leo Demidov

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