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Ok thinking about it I half lied... The only scene I would want to see on the Big Screen is where in DITS George, Hazel and Alex all have to scatter away from Bridget in London. I think it would be great, especially if you knew what was about to happen in the scene!!!

And if I said I'd prefer a MMU audio drama rather than a TV show...

I think I'm too attached to the series to see it portrayed differently on the telly, and imagine how honestly sick the sound effects would be... Hazel's running footsteps in book 1, Daisy scrabbling up the drainpipe in MAM, the sound of the dock in DSS... It would Kill believe me!!!

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And if I said I'd prefer a MMU audio drama rather than a TV show...

I think I'm too attached to the series to see it portrayed differently on the telly, and imagine how honestly sick the sound effects would be... Hazel's running footsteps in book 1, Daisy scrabbling up the drainpipe in MAM, the sound of the dock in DSS... It would Kill believe me!!!

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There was a movement in the doorway, and I saw Bertie standing there. He was looking at Daisy and her badge, and his face was quite blank. Then he turned away and shut the door.

Arsenic For Tea, page 321

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Claw! Clip! Bertie! Claw! Clip! Bertie! Claw! Clip! Bertie!

Very niche moodboard based around. you guessed it. Bertie Wells who puts up his growing hair in a claw clip

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you guys liked the daisy one so i present to you: text posts that probably resonate with hazel wong!

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hi here’s a bunch of text posts that i feel daisy wells relates to very strongly

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My favourite headcannon lately is that upon first meeting Harold, Bertie didn't quite catch his name properly and called him Darren for 3 months.

Harold didn't correct him as his very first thought was 'whatever you like gorgeous'

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Harold age 6 meeting stepbrother George age 3 thinking how excited he is to have someone to play with all the time! But they meet and don't bond very well, because Harold wants to play archeologists, and all George wants to do, which involves nobody else, is line up his toy cars in colour, then in size, then in weight, then in- you get the picture.

Eventually Harold figures out how to play with him - Harold buries the family's crockery in the garden, then pretends he's at an archeological digsite. George gets to be the curator (he's excited about being a word he hasn't heard before!) and categorises the plates Harold digs up.

Their parents are so delighted they're playing together they can (almost) ignore the fact their crockery is being buried in the herb garden.

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I made some bracelets in the colours of my favourite mmu books inspired by the bracelet by @deepdeanvsweston .

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Trans Alex who can't work out why being addressed Alexandra in Hazel's letters in JFP makes her so specifically happy <3

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My pins arrived!!!

Thought I'd make a post showing off all my MMU 'merch' <3

Homemade:

'Official' (as well as the pins + badge!)

And one beautiful TMUA print from @/starry-crowie

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your lucy headcanons is now making me daydream about lucy and felix having a lavender marriage since theyre both gay

Oh that's a fun headcannon! Personally, I'm a believer in bisexual Felix

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Lucy Mountfitchet headcanons?

Oh most certainly anon!

- lesbian she told me herself actually.

- idk I've always thought that right from when I first read AFT

- genuinely threw me for a loop when Felix and Lucy were hinted getting together/flirting like what do you MEAN

- not headcannons as such but asking me about them prompted me to actually consider why Lucy was lowkey bugging me

- I think it's because she was turned into a sort of mother character? Idk I feel like she lost all her pizzazz once she married Felix and became Aunt Lucy

- like what happened to the woman who was beefing with a 13 year old in First Class Murder that's the funniest part of the book

- Unmarried Lucy I miss you <3

- i don't mean to be a negative nancy onto hcs now :)

- ik Robin Stevens has said her family wasn't Great due to lots of people asking why they weren't there at her wedding

- i hc her father to have died when she was young and she was very very very close to him so it Hit Hard

- only child

- her mother was constantly nitpicking everything she did and being passive aggressive as she wanted her to find a husband and be presented at court

- absolutely hated the fact that Lucy loved geography and languages and had dreams of being a pilot

- attended Roedean as a boarder and was incredibly timid and often pessimistic at school, but only because of her mother's nitpicking. Free from it, and I imagine she would have been bold and idealistic

- there's an ache inside her that longs to see the world, most likely inherited from her father who would tell her stories and take her on a different 'bedside voyage' each night when she was a little girl

- ran away from home the night of her coming out ball. Left her mother actively gasping for breath as she realised her daughter would not be showing up at the expensive party with over a 1000 guests

- stayed with a 'friend' (see: girlfriend) for a while before attending Oxford. They go their separate ways, but amicably

- immediately snatched up by MI5 when she works out her professor is stealing millions from the government or something like that idk

- has a bob, her mother would never let her cut it as a child and she was smarter than doing it herself, HATES the feeling of long hair

- loves pearl earrings no story she just does

- hates coffee but drinks it because she thinks it makes her seem more sophisticated, and she has to admit it does help with the long nights as a spy

- nobody look at her wardrobe. It's the worst mess you've ever seen. Ties up the handles with a tie because they don't close otherwise

- hasn't finished a book in 2 years. Not she doesn't read, she's an avid reader which is largely the problem. She keeps starting new books without finishing the last ones

- cannot wear heels. When figuring out disguises with MI5 they'll try to get her to wear heels as they think it looks suspicious without them. Lucy tries to walk in them and they immediately go 'no ok that's way more obvious'

- loves miniature things. Asked for a dollhouse every year up to the age of 10 and still desperately wants one now (lowkey jealous of Daisy's at Fallingford)

- keeps stealing bags from the disguise department (???) at MI5 because she likes them

- likes a firm mattress when going to sleep, she always has, but now she can't sleep on anything other after an incident on a mission when she was almost suffocated with a pillow

- sort of freaked out by halls of mirrors at funfairs though astoundingly good at those coconut shys and any carnival game that involves aim

- she's an excellent markswoman

- deeply attracted to women who can speak different languages

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Happy birthday my king Bertie Wells trying to forget the fact his birthday is the day before Valentine's and everything that symbolises,,, have a post about what I think he's like instead <3

I think he's really sincere. Everything he says he absolutely 100% means in the moment. If he were to tell someone he hates them, it would be true. However if he later went to apologise and say how sorry he was, he'd 100% mean it too.

This gets him into trouble a lot at Eton because he'd get called to, say, write an apology letter to someone he'd got into a fight with idk and he just. wouldn't. He's not sorry why waste his time and energy.

Stephen would worry about him getting further into trouble, so would begin to write the letter himself only Bertie would get annoyed and write the damn letter if only to protect Stephen from protecting him.

Doesn't care about being liked by everyone, but does care about fitting in with everyone? The whole world could hate him for whatever reasons they like as long as nobody thinks he's weird or different or strange. He needs to be disliked for the 'right' reasons as it were.

I mean ofc he wants to be liked by the people he likes, but also if someone he doesn't gaf about doesn't like him, it's no skin off his back.

Had a very stoic, almost intimidating façade at Eton because of previous reasons. It was a way to make sure that his emotions and autistic traits didn't bubble out if he stayed reserved. Not quiet by any means, but he's Definitely Masking his reactions to like. the loud dining hall and the fact the other boys in his dorm won't shut up when he's trying to sleep.

Some of the boys occasionally tried to provoke him into breaking this stoic persona, which is how he got into fights as he'd reply with some dry, witty comment ("Incredible. Thinking while unconscious." lives in my mind rent free btw). This was also the only 'acceptable' way of expressing his emotions; curling up under his bed and sobbing would not have been a Good Look for him.

Actually though, finds rugby a good way of getting out energy. Def played rugby for Eton. He's stocky and broad shouldered.

Sort of more free at Cambridge? He has his own room to express his emotions and decompress, but of course Fallingford follows him there so like Daisy he has to be a Jolly Good Sport at all other times. I can absolutely never decide if he'd like academics or not? Likely goes to Cambridge as it's expected of him but does he enjoy the "one subject'-ness of a uni course or still find it hard? I really don't know.

Bertie and benefit of the doubt used to be besties. Not exactly trusting and not exactly seeing the good in everyone, but he'd be like "people fuck up sometimes. I fuck up sometimes.". Used to cling a little too hard to this ideology as he was really trying hard to explain his mother's affairs as a boy but he just gave up and started ignoring them instead. Probably because of this, he gives the benefit of the doubt a little too much as his mother's lies sort of lowered the bar for what was acceptable behaviour.

However, since he found out his situationship was a murderer he finds it hard to trust and is immediately suspicious of everyone.

I don't think he's an emotional person exactly, it's just when he does feel strong emotions he feels them intensely, if that makes sense? Like, he's not sensitive, and someone calling him a prick or whatever isn't going to annoy him more than it would anyone else, but if you've done something to piss him off, you'll know. And he'll know, because it will feel like he's burning. Same with falling in love - not often, but when he falls he falls hard.

Absolutely hates despises loathes feeling sad though, creates an ache in his chest that makes him feel a little sick, and so will desperately try to feel angry about whatever he's sad about instead. Case in point: Daisy's 'death'

More similar to his mother than he'd ever care to admit. Likes to make a fuss about things, easily bowled over by flattery and a pretty face. Among other things.

This is Bertie to me. Ik I said a minute ago he doesn't fall in love often but he does do it hard, I meant that. However, that doesn't mean he's not picking up on even the slightest thing and imagining it means that they're in love with him. One too many smiles from a man and Bertie's daydreaming about waking up next to him in their shared house - he just wants someone to love, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's in love.

Flattery works a treat on Bertie, and just like he adores to receive it, he doles it out in handfuls. Like I said earlier, he's very sincere.

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Just reading around for uni when I found this:

A little late for childhood Alex (it debuted in 1933) but by god you can't tell it's not his secret dream to have a Skippy-Racer scooter

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Bertie Wells and Which Witch by Florence + the Machine <3

Stephen is/was Bertie's whole heart, and obviously his actions are being weighed up in The Trial. But also Bertie is thinking inside in his head if Stephen's actions are terrible enough for Bertie to stop loving him. Also just the whole thing about his heart probably feels heavy because of what Stephen's done.

Again, Stephen is Bertie's 'my whole heart' who has obviously committed a crime. Pretty self explanatory. But also Bertie's on about his own heart, who fell in love with a man, which at the time was a crime too.

One definition of heretic is a person whose opinions are at odds with everyone else and so (possibly a mild stretch) Stephen's thinking Mr Curtis deserved it doesn't align with a general view of 'murder is bad' which Daisy and Hazel held particularly strongly.

"Who's a heretic, child?" > obvious reminder that Stephen's a boy but I also think Bertie was asking himself 'what makes something bad? Has Stephen really done something that terrible?'

"And I'm on trial" > something something Bertie feels like he's on trial too because Stephen's so connected to him something something

"Waiting till the beat comes out" > waiting for the judge to bang the gavel for the verdict. Also a reference to 'beat' in journalism? It's undoubtedly going to end up in the news, sordid tales of Fallingford on the front page. Also also: later in the song it mentions 'not beaten by this yet' - mildly talking cross purposes but he's on about not being defeated by the emotional blow that Stephen's dealt him.

Miles away is referring how Bertie is away at Cambridge and Stephen is in prison. Really drives home the point that Stephen should have been at Cambridge alongside him. I feel 'hes on my mind' is pretty self explanatory again - Bertie can't stop thinking about him.

"I'm getting tired of crawling all the way" > on the surface, a reference to how it's emotionally exhausting for Bertie to keep going to visit him. But also, I think Bertie in his head keeps making up excuses in his head for Stephen, and it's getting tiring and more difficult to 'crawl' to these conclusions.

See previous reference to 'beat'! But also maybe it hasn't fully hit Bertie, even, what Stephen has done and the consequences are > he hasn't yet fully realised the extent of Fallingford.

The regret line is talking I think about how Bertie still doesn't regret being in love with Stephen, even when Daisy and his family and the whole world are telling him 'oh what a shame you were friends with that murderous boy'

Also it's Bertie talking to Stephen and Stephen trying to justify the murder, being like 'do you still regret letting me be locked up once you've known what Mr Curtis did to me' and Bertie is telling him back that Stephen can't tell him what his feelings are on this.

"Been in the dark since the day we met" Bertie can finally finally see who Stephen really is, or who he was all along - he's been kept in the dark about it.

"Fire, help me to forget" - fire is a form of light ofc so Stephen's traits have been illuminated, and now, maybe, Bertie can move on.

First line could be referring to Stephen's handcuffs, and being locked up. But also how Bertie feels tied to the events of Fallingford, they follow him everywhere, he's trapped.

"it's a pity, never to return" talking about Fallingford, but also in regards to visiting Stephen

"but I never learn" > continues to visit Stephen anyway. And also, back to Fallingford, Bertie 'never learns' as it were, that horrible things (ie. Daisy's 'death') happen no matter where he is.

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purely posting this for myself to refer back to but here’s every alias/name Aunt Lucy has used!

-Miss Alston

-Miss Livedon

- Mrs Helen Vitellius

-Lucy Livedon

-Lucy Mountfitchet

-Mrs mountfitchet

-Agent Troy

-Mrs M