#felicity montagu

[happygirl2oo2]

Always remember the three G's of the Montague siblings:

[background fanart credit to @brittlestarry, idea inspired by this]

[bonobochick]

I enjoyed S2 of Beyond Paradise even more than I did S1. The writers seemed to have a better handle on the show in its sophomore season regarding stories and character directions / development. 🧑🏻‍💻 🎞️

Looking forward to S3 in 2025.

[greatwritenorth]

Mackenzi Lee's Montague Siblings Series A Gentleman's Guide To Vice and Virtue A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy A Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

Exclusively on The Great Write North

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Beyond Paradise series 3 starts filming

Beyond Paradise series 3 starts filming

Beyond Paradise series 3 has started filming, and the BBC revealed a few details in the associated press release. The regular cast are all present and correct, along with a returning complication from series 1. I found series 2 a big step-up — hopefully the standard will continue. The third series will see the return of Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman, Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, Zahra…

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Beyond Paradise Surpasses Death in Paradise

Five episodes into Beyond Paradise season 2 shows a series that clearly surpasses the original; Death in Paradise. It is not surprising. Kris Marshall was popular in the long running series set in the Caribbean. His decision to leave the sandy shores of Saint Marie ultimately lead to this spin-off. Set on the southwest coast of England the show features more country folk than islanders. Although…

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Censor (2021)

After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance.

Censor is a 2021 British psychological horror film directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. It was produced from a screenplay by Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher. In 1985, Enid Baines works for the British Board of Film Classification during the height of the Video Nasty controversy. Enid’s co-workers call her “Little Miss Perfect” due to her insistence that violent content be cut or banned. While Enid is…

[kwebtv]

Richard Griffiths, Robin Kermode,  Derrick Goodwin, Felicity Montagu, Benjamin Whitrow and Peggy Aitchison in "Ffizz"

[movienized-com]

Beyond Paradise

Beyond Paradise (Serie 2023) #KrisMarshall #SallyBretton #ZahraAhmadi #FelicityMontagu #DylanLlewellyn #JamieBamber Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- Genre: Krimi / Drama / Mystery Hauptrollen: Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton, Zahra Ahmadi, Felicity Montagu, Dylan Llewellyn, Jamie Bamber, Barbara Flynn, Jade Harrison, Montserrat Lombard, Ella Kenion, Chris Jenks, Jade Willis, Dan Ball … Serienbeschreibung: Humphrey Goodman übernimmt seinen Dienst in Devon. Doch mit einer hohen Kriminalitätsrate könnten die Dinge turbulenter…

[fishyyyyy99]

This is so well-written!

Perpetua: A Potential Heroine for our times.

Hi everyone we are going to rant about the Bridget Jones series once again and talk about a character, who I feel came too early before our current zeitgeist of bad bitch feminism and the #GirlBoss: Perpetua. 

Perpetua is not intended to be likable. She is very posh, snooty, a bit arrogant, and demanding of Bridget and people she works with, greeting Bridget with a slight sneer as she comes into work and Bridget’s inner monologue voices a desire to staple stuff to her head for having gained a bit of power over Bridget in the publishing company Pemberley Press. Gee, let’s see what we have: entitled, snooty, fancy, having the attitude they are above it all, who has those traits? I’ll wait *sipping tea*

But we notice something about Perpetua; after Bridget’s relationship with Daniel implodes because he was using her as his side piece and decides to find a better job elsewhere, Bridget goes to Daniel to tell him she is quitting. Perpetua overhears and picks up on what has been going on (she is appalled at what she is hearing) and as soon as Daniel tries to beg Bridget to stay, Perpetua gets up to defend Bridget: “I want to hear this, because if she gives one inch, I’m going to fire her bony arse for being totally spineless!” To her smiling pride, she sees Bridget tell Daniel off and leave the publishing company…and that’s the last we see of Perpetua. Even after that (awesome) scene, my teenage self got the message that it’s better to be a Bridget over a Perpetua, a bubbly but insecure girl who tries to conform to the male gaze over a stoic and IDGAF woman who does what she wants. I also heard messages from people, like my parents, telling me how important it was to act and look a certain way to be “likable”; it was better to be insecure and conventionally feminine rather than to be confident not very popular but self-assured. Also Bridget was the rom-com heroine who had people fall in love with her, Perpetua was seen as stuck-up and she was thrown to the wayside. Who stood to reap the benefits of our society?

Looking back, I found out that after almost 20 years of trying to be a Bridget: the “relatable” insecure girl next door type who is vulnerable and needs the validation of those to find her desirable and “worth it” that I’m wasn’t the likable, conventionally pretty and feminine Bridget…I was Perpetua: not always likable, assertive, willing to put her neck out there, not always sociable, but assured of her intelligence and her ability to turn heads. Plus we have our signature style and know how to work accessories. While Bridget dresses basic and in miniskirts (she wants to blend in but also attract men), Perpetua stands out in her headbands, pearls, cardigans, and pie-crust collars combining the elements that I loved in a younger Hillary Rodham Clinton, Peggy Olson, Nancy Wheeler, and Raquel Rodriguez Orozco from Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. Just a Power Preppie who figured out how to stick out and take her place in a male-dominated workplace, with no apologies. 

After watching Tee Noir’s video on women who were declared to be problematic but upon second viewing and reading were raising valid points about their situation or the situations they observed but lacked the likability or popularity to be taken seriously, I was inspired to finally write this post. As Perpetua was a woman who showcased what it was like to live life on your terms and not ask for the permission of anyone to validate you. A woman who may have envied Bridget’s “bony arse” but didn’t let her size or peoples’ perceptions of her appearance get in the way of getting what she wanted from others. 

Here are some tropes and issues I will be referring to in this order, as they relate to Perpetua’s role in the films and books and how they regard her.

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[constantly-chaotic-and-confused]

Ah yes the three scandalous afflictions: gay, woman and anxious.

[oh-my-wolfstar]

So I just read a gentleman’s guide device and virtue by McKenzie, and it was amazing, hilarious and full of adventure, but throughout the whole thing I got a very Wolfstar vibe from the main couple. Like, a privileged boy from an abusive aristocratic family, who is impulsive, selfish, stubborn, arrogant, but lovable same. He has a strange relationship with a sibling and discovers that he is not his family . He is also desperately in love with his best friend he seems to keep mucking things up with. Said Best Friend is a boy who is physically different from everyone else also has a secret condition. He is faced with bias and comes from a less privileged standing and forces our main character to see the privileges he takes for granted. (we also also have a short main character in love with his taller best friend. )I don’t know, Did anyone else pick up on this? Am I crazy? (it is entirely possible that I read too much fanfiction)

[sillygoofyqueer]

I lurve a Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and nobody could ever ever make me feel otherwise. It's just so perfect and beautiful and IT'S SUCH A SLOWBURN. I like how Monty isn't framed as a good, perfect protagonist. He's a dick, especially at the start. He's a scoundrel who's oblivious to the world around him and yes, he focuses on his problems more than anyone else's - at the start. BUT. As the story goes on, Lee makes this sort of gorgeous, unforced character development where Monty sees his issues, and starts trying to fix it! And other people see this as well - mainly Felicity, who thought he would forever be a dick (Percy always saw the potential for Monty, even when no one else did). AND IT GETS BETTER, because at the end of the book, although there is a clear, significant change in Monty's character - he still retains that little bit of arrogance. AND you know what, good for him!! This man has been through so much shit and can still laugh and joke about these things. He still has these moments where he worries over himself over others. The only exception is Percy. The moment he finds out this thing about Percy, he does everything in his power to think of a way to stop it - even if he doesn't ask Percy himself what he wants, he is still trying so so hard to keep Percy by his side (in his own unique way). Monty is a brilliant protagonist, and I will scream that from the rooftops until the end of time.

[victor-v]

happy international asexuality day to neil josten and happy iad to katniss everdeen and happy iad to victor vale and happy iad to sherlock holmes and happy iad to felicity montague and happy iad to kaz brekker and happy iad to laurent of vere and happy iad to nancy whitman and happy iad to artemis and athena and hestia and happy iad to aziraphale

[gameofthunder66]

-watched 2/22/2023- 3 stars- on DVD

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE

03/10/2008

Summary: A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.

Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama

Director: Robert B. Weide

Starring: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson

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Beyond Paradise first Christmas special

Beyond Paradise first Christmas special

Christmas Eve is the time to settle down and wrap those final presents, and what would be nicer than watching the first Beyond Paradise Christmas special? As the countdown to Christmas begins, residents of Shipton Abbott are left stunned as a string of bizarre burglaries occur overnight. When DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) investigate the break-ins, it…

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Beyond Paradise: First Fostering and a Ghost

Beyond Paradise is opens at the run up to Christmas. Humphrey and Martha are experiencing their first “Christmas” fostering assignment. A ghost makes an unwelcome appearance and DI Goodman has to figure things out. This is a splendid season intro. Ghosts and Christmas have been tradition since Dickens. Trust Beyond Paradise to keep things traditional. This spin off of Death in Paradise is still…