#Robbie Lewis

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Reblogging this because all the angsty metas of the Morseverse reminded me that there are enough moments of pure comedy sprinkled throughout, even or especially in the original IM series.

British detectives in ridiculous garb

Please add to this in comments and reblogs!

DS Lewis unable to resist the Superintendent's machinations in the Inspector Morse episode Happy Families (S6E2)

Running the Wheel of Fortune at the station fete...

The reaction when the winner is Morse!

And bestowing a perfectly appropriate prize on his boss

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LEWIS || The Quality of Mercy

[wehaveallgotknives]

watching lewis itv is wild bc in a reversal of the stereotypical sherlock/watson dynamic, the main detective is a normie with good social skills and regular hobbies and it’s the sidekick who is an insane autistic bisexual failed catholic priest with childhood trauma.

[idcrrvh]

DS Hathaway: “Struggle with depression” would seem to imply that I am bad at being depressed when I am, in fact, very proficient at being depressed.

[greenapricot]

"Ah, well, you see, my sergeant's in a group. Apparently, it's world music with elements of jazz, rock and medieval madrigals."

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[too-antigonish]

Ludo is actually...

So maybe someone else has noticed this before and I've just missed it, but I kind of had a shock this weekend.

As a librarian who has also done a lot of genealogy work, I've sort of ended up as my family's historian.  During an informal reunion this weekend I was asked to look up some information about a couple of relatives that emigrated from Belgium to America after WWI—in particular, a certain Uncle Louis.

For Belgium pre-WWI, your main resource in tracking where people were, who they married, what their children were called, and even what their professions were, are church records. And because Belgium was an overwhelmingly Catholic country, most of those records used not the common, everyday version of your name, but the official baptismal version of your name—the one in Latin.

What does this have to do with Uncle Louis? The Latin version of Louis—and thus his baptismal name—was Ludovicus. In Belgium, people with that baptismal name tend to go by Louis or Lodewijk or even Ludo in daily life. 

Suddenly, bells went off in my head. If you're Italian and your baptismal name is Ludovicus, you would generally go by Luigi or Ludovico or Ludo in daily life.

However, what's most relevant here is that these are *all* forms of the same name: LEWIS! So in S7,  Morse's primary antagonist is given the same name as the man who will one day become his staunchest ally. 

That's interesting…

[yellowmoya]

Lewis One For Sorrow

Lewis helping James connect with his Dad is making me cry!! I wish I could make gifs because this scene is sooo cute and sweet and joyful

Robbie showing James how to cast

Watching proudly as James casts his line

James voluntarily hugging his dad

all three of them excitedly snagging a rainbow trout

Robbie is the sweetest kindest man!!!

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Lewis trying to find something to eat at Morse's house and ending up with a sardine and a radish in an unbuttered bread roll 😂

[hekate1308]

Enjoying the "If DCI Morse had been nice I'd still be a Sergeant" scene in Lewis and suddenly remembering that Lewis actively deferred his promotion to Inspector so he could stay with Morse till the end

[patrice-bergerons]

While openly talking about one's feelings is a fate worse than death, bagmen still require validation on a semi-regular basis to be their best and brightest selves!

To make sure your bagman does not start believing himself to be abandoned by God while you are not looking, consider periodically affirming how much he means to you (pro tip: putting a car in between can help ensure you do not endanger your hard-won English repression in the process!)

[mywingsareonwheels]

Men Endeavour Morse definitely slept with and other related matters...

(This is a selection of headcanons, obviously YMMV. :D )

Definitely slept with:

Tony Donn, when they were at Oxford together, probably a lot

Ludo Talenti

Jack Swift

Probably slept with:

Jerome Hogg, when they were at Oxford together

Peter Jakes, either prior to "Arcadia" or in s9

Would definitely have slept with if bad things hadn't happened to the man in question first:

Joss Bixby, and how

Nick Wilding

Would probably have slept with very frequently if the other man weren't in a monogamous marriage for the duration of their friendship:

Robbie Lewis

Didn't sleep with but probably should have done:

Jim Strange (it would have done a lot for both of them I think)

Didn't sleep with but I suspect the other man would have liked to:

George Fancy

Should not merely have slept with but got married to:

Max DeBryn (we know this to be true)

Not platonic or romantic or sexual but a secret fourth thing that was far more intense than everything else in this post, bloody hell:

Fred Thursday

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Morse and friends

As an accompaniment to my earlier post about Morse and loneliness, especially how he sees himself as more alone than he actually is, here are some photos of him with those who consider themselves his friends. All photos from IMdB.

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Inspector Morse || Deceived by Flight

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DS Hathaway, sighing while looking at some academician: Wow, he is so handsome.

DI Lewis: Don’t be upset, James. You’re handsome too.

DS Hathaway: I’m not jealous, Robbie. I’m gay.

[greenapricot]

Title: The last place we left off - Chapter 2 Author: greenapricot Fandom: Lewis Characters: Robbie Lewis, James Hathaway, Laura Hobson, Duncan Hunter (epistolarily, but not in this chapter) Pairing: James Hathaway/Robbie Lewis, Laura Hobson/Robbie Lewis Rating: Mature Word count: 3262 (of ~32k) Chapter: 2 of 9 Warnings: None

“How was Shetland, anyway?” Robbie asks when they reach a level section of trail wide enough for them to walk side by side. “Besides being less pointy than here.”

“Pleasant.” As soon as the word is out of his mouth, James realises he isn’t sure how to describe his time in Shetland without saying more about his state of mind after Robbie left than he’s ready to reveal. “Beautiful in an understated way. It felt like discovering something, being let in on a secret.” James shrugs. “Being there was calming, the wind and the landscape, it felt…”

Robbie looks up at him and James doesn’t know how to continue the sentence, to put to words the strange freedom he’d found walking alone across the moors and along cliff edges, doing things only at his own whim. Walking the Camino had been different, he never found the peace there that he found in Shetland, possibly because he had too many expectations of what he should find. In Shetland, he’d had none and he’d found just what he needed.

“Another pilgrimage?” Robbie asks. Two years ago, James would have taken that as a dig, an admonishment, but now he can see it’s nothing but what it is; Robbie’s genuine curiosity about what James has been up to since they last saw each other.

“The first one wasn’t a pilgrimage either,” James says, but there’s no bite to it.

The last place we left off - Chapter 2 on Ao3

[sandfordsmostwanted]

*kicks down door*

DID ANYONE EVER TELL LEWIS ABOUT MORSE'S MOUSTACHE?!