#Call The Midwife

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“I thought we quit smoking,” Patrick said. 

“I have been awake for forty-eight hours, I have earned this,” Shelagh said, taking the first puff.

on ao3 here.

[ilovemushystuff]

May TURNER

[shipcestuous]

Love when I find a bit of canon incest, especially when it's portrayed as in a non-negative light. Watching Call the Midwife, season 1 episode 5 has a plot of one of the workers of the nunnery, whom everyone loves, has lived with her brother all their adult lives. They have a very sweet relationship and rough past of having been orphaned and separated and finding each other again. They're both older and he get diagnosed with terminal cancer. One of nurses taking care of the brother notices they only have one bed and then talks about it with the other nurses. They giggle and are talking about how it's weird and such when one of the nuns chastises them, talking about how they went through hell and found each other again. How the place they were sent to as kids broke them and made them "not family," and basically all but saying you can't judge them for finding what happiness they could. Their love is described as beautiful and deep.

Great episode, especially for the sympathetic portrayal. I particularly loved seeing much older canon siblings, which is SO rare.

[fourteen-teacups]

~2016: My friend let me borrow the s1-3 DVDs. They gathered dust for at least 6 months. But I finally watched and by the s2 CS I was hooked! The nuns, Cubs leader Chummy, the young nurses, and that flicker of early Turnadette! 😍

Reblog what year you started watching CTM and what lead you to it

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Every episode of Call the Midwife

Narrator: In Autumn, all souls feel the rot but the rot allows flowers to grow and spring will come again. The war absolutely hollowed out communities but also there was jam. Nonnatus house had nuns in it but they were cool nuns. As the weather turned, those in need were ever more vulnerable and we did what we could.

Trixie: I cannot fix this with rouge, Matthew *perky hair toss*

Sister Monica Joan: Aristotle had heard of glaucoma, why won't anybody listen to me, also I've sat on the swiss roll.

Sister Julienne: Nonnatus house may be repossessed/ demolished/ infested with weevils. Our future is uncertain, but damnit the women of Poplar need us.

The Irish One: I love coloured tights but also I've done the autoclave

Harrowing music begins as we watch an unwed teen mother/ man addicted to meth/ victim of some sort of domestic horror/ woman with pre-ecclampsia

Nurse Crane: There you go lass

Harrowing storyline is briefly featured again but also there's a pregnant dog in Nonnatus House.

Dr Turner: Let's give her Pethidine, also I'm progressive about (insert topical issue here)

Sister Julienne: Nonnatus House is a metaphor for the morals of this country and that's why we're going to the dogs

Random Nurse: Actually sister Julienne I think we should teach teenagers about contraception

Sister Monica Joan: We simply must have compline now

Compline and the harrowing storyline (which has now reached its apex through either a harrowing birth scene or some other medical procedure) are now interspersed in a way that is troublingly close to saying suffering is fine actually because Jesus.

Sheelagh: Oh Patrick

The harrowing storyline is now resolved, often with some more voiceover that references the vagaries of the turning world

Trixie: Matthew, I have solved it. And I have put on rouge. I can have it all except a consistent haircut.

Fred: The dog's had puppies, and this will save Nonnatus house.

Narrator: In the worst and dank places, in the creeping dread of the dark soil and the night loam, even as the rotting leaves seep in, there too is love and life. Also someone had a revelation. The end.

[impossiblyizzy]

every episode of Call the Midwife

Sister Julienne: I'm worried about Sister Monica Joan, she's barely eating and she keeps talking about her mother

Sister Monica Joan: I am undoubtedly dying!

random woman: I'm eight months pregnant and decades of family drama is coming to a head! Also my husband/mother/sister is ill.

*nuns singing montage*

*Fred pops up out of nowhere* Does anyone want a pork pie? I'm selling pork pies now.

Dr Turner, lighting a cigarette: I'm fine with gay people and I love vaccines

Timothy, smugly: if only they could invent a vaccine for homophobia.

Shelagh, rifling through medical paperwork: I think there's something wrong with random woman's husband/mother/sister. Please don't ask how I ever have time to raise my children.

*sixties pop music montage!*

*random woman gives birth, it's either a girl or a boy*

*family drama is resolved*

*random woman's husband/mother/sister dies/is cured*

*Trixie gets a new haircut*

Old Jenny: and that was how I came to deeper understand the fragility and beauty of life in the East End (she literally wasn't there)

*Sister Monica Joan lives for another ten years*

[theridgebeyond]

everyday logging into tumblr dot com

[levinson-mannion]

I am so glad this was brought back thank you @fourteen-teacups I do not care about Rosalind and Cyril, Monil is the only true option

I could not help myself, I was thinking about our previous conversation and this happened @weshallc @anamarialujan 😂

The new best ship!

[causetheturtle]

Sometimes family is a bunch of woke nuns; a revolving door of midwives that includes a give-no-fucks spinster and her give-no-fucks administrator sapphic situationship, an unlucky in love bisexual disaster and her gay brother and an Irish baddie and her bastard child; an ex-nun turned midwife, her doctor husband and their 4 children, one of who is a doctor in training who somehow completely recovered from polio with no lingering difficulties; the nuns’ and midwives’ handyman, his mayor/haberdasher wife and their adoptive son and the social worker ex-husband of one of the ex-midwives who lives above the haberdashery with his cat

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[sherryyyysun]

Sister Evangelina from Call the midwife ✍🏻

[ilovemushystuff]

Laura Main

[samaritanpoledancing]

If Call the Midwife continues into the 80s they should have Sister Monica Joan kill Margaret Thatcher

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I am the daughter of a man who drank. I am the daughter of a man who fought in a war. I heard him yelling at night. And I saw him crying. But I knew how to make him smile. I knew how to make him better. And there are only two things that could do that. Me. And a bottle of Scotch. I became a nurse. And a midwife. I was needed. And I needed them. Because every time I delivered a baby… .. I was right in the heart of a happy family for one or two hours. No matter that I always have to go home on my own. No matter that… the one thing that makes me feel better… is a glass of Scotch. Or something like it. There are so many things like it. Looking back… .. it seems to me my father was quite unadventurous. Do I have to say it now? My name is Beatrix. But people call me Trixie. And I am an alcoholic.

Helen George as Trixie Franklin CALL THE MIDWIFE (2012 - ) Season 4, Episode 8

[periwinklepanic]

There is nothing more gratifying than having a friend watch a tv show you recommended. Of all of life’s simple pleasures, it’s my favorite. I’m also good at it ?? It’s very easy for me to convince someone to watch a tv show I like ?? And yeah, I know it makes sense that people I’m friends with would like the same things as me but, it isn’t just close friends either. I talked up WandaVision to a coworker I just met last week and she started it the next day.

I just love talking about tv and analyzing shows with people. I could talk about tv anytime with anyone. I have no idea why but, people listen ! I have one (1) superpower.