#gardiner brothers

[the-oddest-inkling]

Dancing in the Streets of Dublin

[mllebleue]

Freddy Mercury would have loved this so very much!

[hamletshoeratio]

"I want x spinoff, I want a book about y"

I want to meet the woman who had not one but TWO kids with Hermes. Two kids so close in age and are so alike people just assume that they're twins, two kids who are chaos personified, who singlehandedly run the camp shop, who are in charge of the biggest cabin at camp and look after their equally chaotic gremlin siblings plus every unclaimed kid at camp like Lou Ellen a daughter of Hecate and another being of chaos who learnt it all from them, and who take every opportunity to fuck shit up, to prank their camp mates or to steal shit. Their last name, which they get from their mama? Stoll by the way. Neither child notices the pun.

I want to meet Mama Stoll, who saw the chaos, who saw the bullshit Hermes brought into her life the first go around and said tonight's the night let's do it again. She is either the world's greatest cat burglar who enticed the god of Thieves or the messenger god was enchanted by the best god dam delivery woman on the planet. There's no in-between. It was just a bonus that her surname was the perfect pun. Her and Hermes laugh about it. In my head, it's all canon. Regardless, she unleashed two agents of unlimited chaos onto an unsuspecting world, and I love her for it. I take my hat off to her, I kneel before her.

Oh, and the oldest kid, Travis? He's dating a girl called Katie, who is the daughter of Demeter. Her last name? Gardner. Fucking Gardner. She has a sister called Miranda Gardiner, by the way. Mama Stoll finds it hilarious. Her sons still don't get the pun, but at least she gets on with her future daughter in law like a house on fire.

[anghraine]

Since I did a P&P poll for Gardiner sibling birth order headcanons a couple of days ago, I also wanted to offer one for their aristocratic counterparts:

Tangentially: "Lord —" is the only name we're given for Lady Anne and Lady Catherine's brother (very unusually for Austen, who otherwise almost invariably comes up with a fictional title), though we do know he's an earl. Any specific title for him is headcanon or fanon.

We're not told anything about the Fitzwilliam siblings' birth order, by the way! Our only concrete information about their ages has to derive from the ages of their children.

Conveniently, we get all reliable information about those ages in the "later" year the novel takes place in. The plot happens over about a year in-story, but because it runs autumn to autumn, it covers the end of one year (let's say Y1) and most of another (Y2) and passage of time isn't always taken into account when comparing canonical ages. That doesn't matter for the Fitzwilliam grandchildren, though, because all reliable information about their ages come from Y2:

Around the time of the Hunsford proposal, Darcy is 28.

Colonel Fitzwilliam, younger son of Darcy's uncle, is about 30 during the same period; we know nothing of his siblings except that he has an older brother, but he's described as "the younger son" as if there are no others (we know nothing either way about the possibility of sisters).

Georgiana Darcy, repeatedly described as over ten years Darcy's junior, is in fact 12 years younger than him—"little more than sixteen" just a few months after the proposal, and stated by Darcy to be "then but fifteen" when Wickham exploited her in the summer of Y1. We don't know the reason for the large age gap between the Darcy siblings (and Darcy does say he was an only child for "many years"), though the state of medical care at the time and the usual nature of marriages in that class make for numerous possibilities.

Anne de Bourgh was in her cradle at the same time as Darcy, so is likely very close to him in age (and the arranged marriage between them was planned once he was born, not once Anne was—P&P fans are often skeptical of this arrangement even happening and tend to age Anne down, but nobody in the novel including Elizabeth ever suggests Lady Catherine is manufacturing any details of the arrangement, they just don't think it matters in the present).

[lloydfrontera]

on one hand, a kid au for cpsm is a logistical nightmare. but on the other,,, tiny rakiel being followed around by even tinier theo. that's it that's my defense 〒▽〒.

[sunshinelivesforever]

Mood boards of Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Katie Gardner and Miranda Gardiner! :)

[rahabs]

The Tudors ran so Wulf Hall could shuffle awkwardly around reiterating the same tired old Tudor stereotypes while claiming to be something new.

[miraclesnail]

1000 Ways to Tell the Stoll Brothers Apart and I Can Name You One, part 45

Just a fic about an outsider POV of the Stolls being lil goofballs and trying to replace Luke as the counselor

[astonishinglegends]

Ep 297: The Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering

"Like a ‘Flying Dutchman,’ the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering loomed through the mists about Diamond Shoals today, all sails set, but un-manned."  -- The Washington Herald, February 3, 1921

Description:

In 1921, a five-masted schooner emerged from the mists of North Carolina’s treacherous coast - a floating tomb devoid of life. Eleven souls had vanished without a trace, leaving behind an eerie tableau of abandonment. We delve into this chilling mystery tonight and attempt to unravel a web of bizarre clues: inexplicably damaged equipment, missing shore boats, and whispers of aberrant crew behavior from passing ships. Was it a bloodthirsty mutiny? Ruthless pirates? A clandestine rum-running operation gone awry? Or perhaps something far more sinister lurks in human nature’s depths - or beyond? The Carroll A. Deering is a haunting mystery, reminding us that some secrets of the sea may never be fully uncovered, leaving our imaginations to run wild with unsettling possibilities.

Reference Links:

“The Carroll A. Deering, Ghost Ship of Cape Hatteras” from the Historical Blindness podcast

“Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering” by Bland Simpson

Carroll A. Deering on Wikipedia

Diamond Shoals, NC

Outer Banks (OBX), NC

Salvage 1

Nitrocellulose, AKA “Gun Cotton”

“An Outer Banks Reader” edited by David Stick

Bland Simpson

The Red Clay Ramblers

The schooner Wyoming, the largest known wooden ship ever built

Coney Island Cyclone

Roy P. Disney’s “Pyewacket 70 takes Monohull Line Honours in the RORC Caribbean 600”

“Sailing Cargo Ships are Making a Genuine Comeback” from The Maritime Executive

Cape Hatteras entry from the National Park Service

Kitty Hawk from OuterBanks.org

Cape Hatteras Light Station entry from the National Park Service

Cutter ship Seminole, 1900

“The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks” from the National Park Service

Binnacle

Yawl

Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation

Marine chronometer

John Harrison, inventor of the Marine Chronometer

“Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering” by Kenneth R. Martin

“Captain Willis B. Wormell” entry from the Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering blog

Senator Schröder (ship)

Hermann Knüfken

Lightship

Quarterdeck

Bridgetown, Barbados

Law of salvage

SS Hewitt

Cargo ship Lake Elon

Location:

Diamond Shoals, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where The Carroll A. Deering was spotted having run aground with no one onboard.

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[bethanydelleman]

It's not just for accuracy's sake that I argue that Darcy isn't shy or painfully socially awkward, it's because it changes the story and makes it worse. Elizabeth telling Darcy to practice talking to people becomes an extrovert demanding that an introvert just get better at masking or some B.S.. But Elizabeth can in fact identify shy people and she's exceedingly nice to them:

With astonishment did Elizabeth see that her new acquaintance was at least as much embarrassed as herself. Since her being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy. She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable... her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.

Georgiana’s reception of them was very civil, but attended with all that embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved. Mrs. Gardiner and her niece, however, did her justice, and pitied her.

Elizabeth meets Georgiana and is like, "Nope, nothing like her brother, this girl is super shy." The descriptions are very different too, Georgiana's manners are "gentle" while Darcy's "though well bred, were not inviting". Now is Elizabeth better at reading females than men? Absolutely. But this is an Elizabeth who knows herself better and, more importantly, understands Darcy, and she is like, "Wow, these siblings are super different. One of them will just stare at me without being nervous and the other can barely talk while visiting a party of three even though she's socially superior."

Georgiana and Fitzwilliam Darcy are not the same and one of them shy.

[the-busy-ghost]

Firstly, you're right, it's pretty common for prominent people in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to have hearts, bowels, etc buried in separate places to their main body. See, for example, Robert the Bruce's heart.

Secondly, I know very little about this period in England, but wasn't Stephen Gardiner the bishop of Winchester at one point? Before the diocese of Southwark was created in the late nineteenth century, the church of St Mary Overy (i.e. Southwark Cathedral) was an important church in the diocese of Winchester (and the bishop owned a lot of property in the area hence why the prostitutes in the area were allegedly called Winchester geese, after the rents some of the businesses paid to the bishop). The bishop of Winchester's palace was also just a couple of streets away from the church, at what is now Pickford's Wharf (near the Golden Hind).

So from that perspective there's nothing unusual in the former bishop of Winchester having an organ buried in a major church of his diocese, and the one right next to his official residence, especially if the main body was buried in Winchester Cathedral. From a cursory glance at google, heresy trials were also held in the church during Mary I's reign and I assume that Gardiner would have been involved in that, but I leave those more specific details to people who have more knowledge of that period and Gardiner's career.

So Stephen Gardiner's bowels were buried separately from his body, did they fear necromancy or ....

[tinfoil-jones]

Gravity Falls: For Your Own Good, Ch. 9

Summary: A few years after moving to Gravity Falls and having his lab built, Stanford Pines happens upon his estranged twin brother, Stanley. He mentally prepared himself to be suffocated by his brothers neediness all over again - what he wasn't prepared for was Stanley walking right past him like he didn't even notice him.

Rating: M for language, violence, and adult implications

Preface: Dialogue only, but some actions will be annotated for clarity. Cross-Posted on AO3 Here

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CH.9

“Why don’t criminals trust stairs?”

“Stanley, I am trying to work.”

“Because they’re always up to something.”

*Ford covering his mouth with his hand because he’s trying really hard not to laugh*

“Why don’t criminals like elevators? Because they hate getting taken down.”

*Ford faceplanting on his desk and slamming his fist on it because he’s trying not to laugh*

“What do you call a criminal snob going downstairs? A condescending con descending.”

“E-enough! I’m going to put you on mute if you don’t stop.”

“Ah, come on man. It’s not like I got much else to do here. I can’t even write in that notebook you guys gave me anymore cause I got nothing to write with.”

“Maybe you would still have writing utensils if we didn't run out because you chewed up all of the other ones we gave you.”

“I can’t help it, PhD. I’m on day seven of nicotine withdrawal and it’s still kicking my ass. I get that this whole lab is a ‘no smoking’ zone, but I saw stretch using dip, and you didn’t say anything; just looked at him in a passive aggressive, judgemental way.”

“Tobacco is a nasty habit, and you are better off losing that vice while you’re still in a controlled environment. Our father never kicked it on his own, so this is really for your own-.”

“Yeah, yeah Doc. For my own good. I’ve heard it a million times. Do you like, keep score of how many times you say that, is someone keeping track of it? Or is that your only excuse for the insane crap you’re always pulling.”

“If it will placate you and keep you quiet, I’ll wheel over a television.”

“You have one of those down here?”

“I primarily use it as a device that decrypts thoughts, but its original function is still intact. Let me bring it over.”

“How uncharacteristically considerate of you.”

“You’re watching The Black and White Period Piece Old Lady Boring Movie Channel.”

“Wait a second, where's the remote?”

“There isn’t one.”

“Stay tuned for the six episode marathon of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, starring Keith Michell as Henry VIII, Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon, Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn-”

“Change the channel. PhD, I swear to God.”

“Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour, Elvi Hale as Anne of Cleves, Angela Pleasance as Catherine Howard, and Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr.”

“No- NO!”

*Ford presses the mute button on the cell*

(...)

160 minutes later…

“Stanford, I brought those scrap m- what in Sam Hell?”

“I appreciate it, Fiddleford.”

“Is there a particular reason Stan is staring unblinking at that TV screen?”

“I put on a soap opera because I thought he would hate it. But he… really got into it.”

“Is that the same reason why his desk chair is smashed in the corner?”

“Yes, there was a plot twist he did not find agreeable. I tried to change the channel after one episode, but he gave me such a look that I truly believe if I did, he would find a way to break the forcefield just to strangle me.”

“That’s… Not what I expected from someone like him.”

“I’ve never seen him get this way. Not even during a baseball game or boxing match where he made the wrong bet.”

“It can’t rightly be that interesting.” 

*Fiddleford pulls up a chair near the cell to watch the TV*

“You both do that. I still have important research to document.”

(...)

240 minutes later…

*all three of them are staring at the TV and don’t start blinking until the credits roll*

“I’ll tell you what, fellers, I can’t believe Gardiner got away with everything.”

“I know, right? Whatever Jesus approves of, I’m sure it’s not that.”

"We're Jewish, Stanley."

"Really? Well that explains why I distinctly remember the Aryan Brotherhood nearly beating me to death in prison."

"They what?!"

"Calm down PhD, I said nearly."

(...)

"Stanley, it has almost been ten days, it’s time to remove your stitches."

"Give me some nail clippers, I'll do it myself."

"Properly. Come on, don't be such a wuss about it."

“Can’t F do it instead?”

“No, he is in town on a supply run. Also, the only difference between you and I and under that shirt is the amount of rolls.”

“Ouch, low blow PhD. It’s not like you’re a runway model either. Fine, but any more cracks on my weight, and I’m going to remind you I’m a threat inside and outside of bars.”

"What are these, circles-? Wait, burns? ...Who did this to you?"

"... Don't worry about it."

"I am going to worry about it! Stanley, who did this?"

"It doesn't matter..."

"It does! Please, I'm your brother just-"

"Don't make me think about it, I don’t remember a lot but- I don't like remembering that."

"Oh Stanley." *hugs him even though it isn't returned* "I'm so sorry. Whatever happened, you didn't deserve that."

"You'd be surprised."

To be continued...