#doris acgas

[a-casual-egg]

Wanted to share some of queer (mostly aspec) acgas headcanons (:

Maggie and Arthur - Transhet (Maggie may be bi, but idk)

Annabel (Tristan's date in the Daffodil Ball episode) - Aromantic

Tom Chapman - Gay

Edward - Asexual (idk if he's gay or straight)

Helen - Bisexual

Doris - Trans Lesbian

Jenny - Nonbinary Asexual Lesbian

Carmody - Demiromantic Asexual (sex-repulsed) and Nonbinary

Tristan - biromantic or pan-romantic asexual (sex-indifferent) and Trans Man

Florence Pandhi - Aromantic Bisexual

Mrs. Pumphrey - Trans Woman and Aroace (Her late husband was her best friend and platonic life partner (he was also aroace))

[smallpotato80]

Look back at ACGAS S5E2

A lot of Audrey/Siegfried shippers fondly remember this episode as the best! However, a friend of mine just shared something that made me re-look at the episode. This is the episode where Siegfried helps Audrey w/Bosworth's dog, Bingo. It is also in this episode where we meet Doris. On first watch, we assumed that Carmody may romance Doris, and we clung to the Audrey/Siegfried moments. It is this episode where Bosworth tells Siegfried that they are men of a certain age that surely have given up on any hope of finding a partner. Siegfried states he hopes there is still life in the old dog. Audrey assures Siegfried that he is nothing like Bosworth, that he has plenty of life left ahead and Siegfried remarks that it is time to seize the day while you still can.

After seeing how the series played out, my friend mentioned how this episode laid the seeds for Ms. Grantley. Siegfried realizes he doesn't want to end up like Bosworth - he DOES want to seize the day. It is Carmody's crush on Doris that leads him to talk about romance with Siegfried, thus leading to Carmody noticing signs of Siegfried's attraction when they meet Ms. Grantley at Grantley estate. Siegfried is taken by her and is keen to read the book she gives him. Carmody, of course, decides to take the position in London so it doesn't seem that Doris will be more than a passing crush. But we learn that Ms. Grantley is very much still on Siegfried's mind, and we learn from Tristan that he had been out to visit her to discuss "the book". Siegfried had been hoping to ask her to dinner before he made editorial suggestions she hadn't been open to. It's unlikely, in my mind, that Siegfried does not ultimately win Ms. G over. That she realizes that she may been alone too long and appreciates his interest in her work and, of course, does find him to be quite handsome as Tris said, women of a certain age do.

And so I'm now thinking I would not be surprised if Siegfried goes out to the Grantely estate to help one of Ms. G's dogs deliver puppies in the S5CS and they give one of those pups to Bosworth... that would tie it altogether.

As much as I hate this, it made sense when my friend and fellow Siegfried/Audrey fan shared this perspective.