#birling day

[elektricangel]

I see you, John Finnemore 🥃 🚖 ✈️

[politelymenacing]

I don't want to say I'm the best sibling in my family, but no-one else got dad a gift for today, so....

[placetnemagistra]

Just need to shout derangedly about the Cabin Pressure / JSFP allusions in Good Omens 2, please add your own!!

Yellow Bentley — yellow car

Aziraphale as the incompetent detective / newspaperman with a Clue — the Birling Day episode where Arthur & Martin incompetently investigate Douglas’s theft of the Tallisker

Crowley ordering a large Tallisker — also Birling Day

A number of JSFP sketches where people who are total opposites are thrown together for long periods of time (eg the wildlife cameraman who doesn’t like snow leopards and the gay leopard Professor who absolutely adores them) or are bickering/unlikely but devoted spouses (the train driver and the train manager; the “Don’t Know Much About History” song sketch) - it’s a whole dynamic!! It has prepared him for this assignment!! (As has the practice of people being irrelevantly but cheeringly gay)

[crumbly-apple-pie]

I need Samantha Shannon to know that these five words in this order are spectacular

[ID: text from a day of fallen night, reading, “Wulf hirpled towards a birling,” /end ID]

thank you so much to @maileesque for the ID :)

[weaponizedducks]

happy proving mr birling wrong day! (anniversary of the titanic sinking) and also kate winslet and leo di caprio

[virgoscringe]

a portrait of the lovely Finch from a story @birlwrites is working on!! thank u for comming + trusting me with ur girl Birl i love her so deeply i hope she wins forever 💗💗💗

a closeup added bc Finch has the cutest face and i loveee how the lil heart brooch turned out heheh

(comms are still open! mwah!!)

[jeaninesfavouriteserum]

i am currently kinsidering sheila birling. tumblr please help me how do i know and why am i like this

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

Extremely atmospheric Gaudy Night reread.

[birlwrites]

i'm having to do a lot of stopping and revising and rewriting as i work on this part, which is good because it means i am rlly improving some of my technical skills and making the story much more impactful, but also bad because slow 😡

[ship-of-skitties]

kieran pokemon is so eric birling core

[can-of-w0rmz]

My English teacher’s been off for a long while so we’ve had a good load of substitute teachers, and one of them is teaching us An Inspector Calls and can I just say, is so much less dry than my actual English teacher. I’ll be real, classic lit nerd though I may be, I don’t like that play. Honestly can’t really stand it. But we’re leading a hate campaign against Gerald Croft now? Hell yeah I’ll write an essay for you on him let’s get this bitch! You give me those quotes and references on why he’s a dick I barely paid attention to his character but it’s drama now and I have personal beef with him let’s go

[lemongrablothbrok]

Random ass headcanon that From Eroica With Love and Cabin Pressure take place in the same universe. Don't ask me why; it makes sense in my brain somehow.

[wide-mindeddreamer]

gadies and lentlemen, goys and birls, it’s time for round five of Unhinged Shirts I Would Give Greta Van Fleet!

Josh:

Jake:

Sam:

Danny:

as always I do this for The Giggles ™ have a wonderful day

[bimboficationblues]

the tumblr leninist "clique" (which is looser and less consciously organized than people on her make out) does have its fair share of developmentalism and i understand if that makes you wary, but a lot of them are from the global south where developmentalism as problematic as it is for the class struggle as you alluded to, is a consideration that weighs more heavily on the psyche for reasons i wish you white global north leftists would empathize with more and a lot of them are some of the loudest advocates for more nuanced understandings of the global south on this site. it sucks because you're all genuinely smart people but the shading and vaguing is a very "tumblr" thing to do and not a very comradely thing to do. which i guess is fine. it's just tumblr after all but i can't help but feel like people can do better even if the material stakes are low

was it comradely for (a certain Leninist in this cluster) to organize protracted smear campaigns calling communists she disagreed with pedophiles

I hear what you’re saying re the developmentalism piece, likewise for the value of offering more thoughtful perspectives on the global south (indeed, I’m friends or mutuals with some of the people you are referring to). but like, my issue with the clique is not even necessarily that they hold positions I don’t agree with or think are detrimental to class struggle - that’s part of it, but at the end of the day it’s all just posting, and I’m a big-tent birl. rather, I think a group of very specific people (like, 5-10 names) are smug incurious assholes who got their political education through memes/aesthetics/rhetoric, and make it a bunch of other people’s problem by being self-assured, loud, and wrong. it’s personality more than politics, though the former will manifest in the latter (hence my original complaints).

And well, I feel that being vague is generally more constructive than getting into an online squabble every time I see those specific people say something annoying. though you are probably right that it’s not more constructive than simply remaining silent and rolling my eyes. such is the tempting curse of the blogger. sorry.

[cabinpressurechallenge]

Alright, I had hoped to have this together sooner, but I'm busy! I just got my airframe cert :)

Without further ado! 2024 prompts:

November 29th: Abu Dhabi

prompts: ice / light

discussion: Who is your favourite character?

30th: Boston

prompts: home / hurricane

discussion: What’s your favourite Arthur moment?

December 1st: Cremona

prompts: nuts / loss

discussion: What’s your favourite Douglas moment?

2nd: Douz

prompts: big / red

discussion: What’s your favourite Carolyn moment?

3rd: Edinburgh

prompts: maps / uphill

discussion: What’s your favourite Martin moment?

4th: Fitton

prompts: rain / heart

discussion: What’s your favourite episode?

5th: Gdansk

prompts: salt / wind

discussion: What’s your favourite word game?

6th: Helsinki

prompts: gift / present

discussion: Which is your favourite series?

7th: Ipswich

prompts: pool / fool

discussion: Who’s your favourite minor character?

8th: Johannesburg

prompts: shade / brave

discussion: Who is your favourite friendship?

9th: Kuala Lumpur

prompts: service / nervous

discussion: What’s your favourite ship?

10th: Limerick

prompts: sunset / room

discussion: What’s your favourite MJN family moment?

11th: Molokai

prompts: cracker / speed

discussion: What scene makes you laugh the most?

12th: Newcastle

prompts: games / wrong

discussion: What’s your favourite Herc moment?

13th: Ottery St Mary

prompts: river / piano

discussion: What’s a scene you know by heart?

14th: Paris

prompts: glass / discover

discussion: Which Birling Day is your favourite?

15th: Qikiqtarjuaq

prompts: facts / volume

discussion: How did you get into Cabin Pressure? 

16th: Rotterdam 

prompts: honey / whistle

discussion: What are your favourite Cabin Pressure fics?

17th: St Petersburg

prompts: names / fly

discussion: What’s a scene that makes you cry?

18th: Timbuktu

prompts: colours / repeat

discussion: What’s your favourite piece of CP fanart?

19th: Uskerty

prompts: drinks / tree

discussion: Do you like anything else by John Finnemore?

20th: Vaduz

prompts: dragons / badge

discussion: What’s your favourite Theresa moment?

21st: Wokingham

prompts: puzzles / coffee

discussion: If you could change something about CP what would it be?

22nd: Xinzhou

prompts: waiting / breath

discussion: What would your dream CP revival episode be?

23rd: Yverdon les Bains

prompts: underwater / swim

discussion: Which part of CP do you find most relatable?

24th: Zurich

prompts: gold / rainbow

discussion: What does CP mean to you?

[spaceradio]

Cabin Pressure episode tournament - more polls at #cabin poll

Limerick - S2E6

An interminable flight with a very baffling cargo gives the crew the opportunity to pass the time by alternately opening their hearts up to each other and persuading Arthur not to play charades.

Edinburgh

It's the highlight of Douglas and Arthur's year - taking nice old boy Mr Birling on his annual day-trip to see the final Six Nations match, and get heroically sloshed. Martin, however, has difficulty working out what they see in him.