#miriam fry

[all-that-jazz-93]

Sometime in the 1950s, Miriam Fry is horrified to realize that the Griffith Hotel is almost entirely inhabited by lesbians

[ssr-archives]

Miss Fry: Fuck Peggy Carter

Angie Martinelli: I'm tryin'

[o0anapher0o]

What possesses casting directors to go ' Alright people, we have the most stuffy, traditionalist/bigoted, small minded, stick up their backside, upper class, elitist character you can imagine, now get me the most outspoken, liberal old queer with a posh accent you can find for it' ? First Miriam Margolyes in mfmm and now Steven Fry in rwrb. Can we get Eddie Izzard next?

[vaspider]

Hi hi hi!

I saw your 'yeeterus soon' tag and my one braincell devoted to self-control on my day off was crushed to death by a stampede of 'hey! I had one of those and I have opinions!' braincells.

I got mine out last year (?? I think? Time is a lie) and I deeply regret not being specific enough with my surgeon about wanting pictures.

What I wanted: crime scene/evidence style photos of the miserable organ once it had been evicted. So that I could look up on my defeated foe and experience the satisfaction of victory.

(what I REALLY wanted: pickled baby maker in a jar that I could make a mold of and then cast in bronze and mount on my wall. As a conversation piece.)

What I got: two pictures of the inside of my abdominal cavity with the surprise (!!) ovarian cysts that nobody had thought to look for.

What I got after a LOT of bitching: gross room photos of my uterus sliced up into stir fry sized strips and each of the cysts opened up to reveal a truly disgusting amount of hair.

Anyways, this is all to say that I think a lot of OBGYN-focused medical professionals are just kinda systematically unprepared for dealing with neurodivergent/gender queer folks and our baseline level of weirdness.

P.S.: I strongly encourage you to quote any and all parts of this story if you think you can leverage it into being taken seriously. 👍 Wishing you a Happy Hysterectomy.

This is delightful to me. Fortunately, my surgery team was pretty great & my anaesthesiologist had the same first name as my daughter's Hebrew name. They came in and asked if she'd been in to see me and despite talking to like a dozen people in different masks and surgical hats, i was able to say pretty firmly NOPE, I NEVER TALKED TO ANYONE NAMED MIRIAM, I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT.

[uhhhhmanda]

what is a cold comfort farm? (from your pinned). also, that's so cool that you're learning Mandarin! loool at that side blog handle

Cold Comfort Farm is a satirical book from the 20s and a magnificently executed film adaptation from 1995 starring (GET THIS) Ian McKellen, Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Eileen Atkins, and Joanna Lumley. It's a parody of the melodramatic romantic English novels of the 1920s. I cannot recommend it enough.

[denimbex1986]

'Finally watching the first of the three 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials may have left you feeling transformed – like you've regenerated into a new you, even. One that now exists in a world where David Tennant is the Converse-kicking Doctor and his best friend Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is his no-nonsense sidekick in a newly refurbished minimalist TARDIS. Better yet, she has her memories back.

'The Star Beast' gave us flashes of that infamous moment, which first aired in 2008, when the Doctor did a Men in Black-style memory wipe on Donna to prevent her human brain from frying to a cinder under the weight of all that Time Lord knowledge.

Despite portentous warnings that if Donna ever remembered anything at all of her time with the Doctor she would – imagine this bit in some scary cursive font, surrounded by exclamation marks – be deader than the deadest dead that ever did die, she gets it all back ahead of a TARDIS tootle for old time's sake in the two specials to come.

How so then? Let's not get too bogged down in the details, because in classic Whovian fashion, it was a bit of a marvellous timey-wimey fandangle. This is still a world where perils can be done and undone at the turn of a sonic screwdriver.

Donna has her memories flood back into her consciousness in a way that doesn't harm her and, with her daughter Rose (Yasmin Finney), saves London from the dastardly havoc of the Furby-with-fangs Meep (Miriam Margolyes).

It may even now feel a bit harebrained looking back on the Doctor's fearmongering to Donna's grandfather Wilf, played by the legendary late Bernard Cribbins, about what might befall her if she ever spied an Ood or the like. But when it first aired in 'Journey's End', the fate of such a beloved character was one that essentially felt worse than death.

Few enjoyed watching Donna manically repeat the word "binary" like a DVD with a scratch on it, and barely anyone liked seeing her reduced to tears, begging the Doctor not to do what he then did. In those final moments, Donna said she thought they would travel space and time "forever"; to lose that is one thing, but then to not even know you had lost it felt like an additional cruelty.

There's a reason it was described as "the saddest end for a companion ever" at the time.

Rose (Billie Piper) got her own Xerox copy of the Doctor as a parting gift, while Donna got some lottery winnings – which we now know she gave away to charity anyway – and a forever-gap in her memories.

That heartbreaking conclusion to mighty Donna has rankled with many fans since, after her character had been shaped into someone with a profound sense of self over those adventures with the Doctor, only for that all to be stripped away, leaving her much as the same as when we first met her, chattering away on the phone.

When the Doctor returned to visit Wilf and get that £1 to buy the winning lottery ticket, he confided how challenging his time travelling had been without her, while Donna had been left knowing something was amiss. "Sometimes I see this look on her face," Wilf told the Doctor. "Like she's so sad. And she can't remember why."

'The Star Beast' rewrites an ending Russell T Davies may have since sensed was a foot stepped wrong – perhaps the juiciness of Donna's tragedy, and the impact it would inevitably have on the Doctor, was a storytelling move too tempting to pass up.

While Rose or Martha (Freema Agyeman) might dominate fans' affections, Donna marked a refreshing change in Tennant's companions, moving away from the starry romantic eyes of the two before her to a relationship based on friendship.

Bringing her back and undoing the wipe allows Davies to do more with her character, but also more importantly to do more with her and Tennant's Doctor as he wrestles with what it means to be the apparently softer Fourteenth Time Lord, but back with the face of the Tenth.

It's an absolute thrill to see him back, and it's all the better having her there. From the moment they first run into each other near the shops, the quips are back.

"Word of advice," she tells him. "You can wear a suit that tight up to the age of 35. And no further." In many ways, Donna's lack of romantic interest in the Doctor often allowed her to see him clearest. Even if we will always love the pin-striped suit.

The broad comedy is paired with real soulful warmth. When Donna's reunited with her memories in the Meep's space shuttle, it's moving enough to forgive the memory wipe. "It's like the good old days," Donna tells us.

The Disney cash injection oozes from this special – particularly if you have any recollection of moments like the Slitheen unzipping foreheads and peeling skin suits off in Christopher Ecclestone's reboot season. But underneath the swish new money special effects is a bedrock of humanity, with that friendship now firmly at the heart of this sci-fi story.

Wilf said it best way back when, as the Doctor wrestled with what he had done without a companion at his side. "Don't you see? You need her, Doctor. Wouldn't she make you laugh again? Good ol' Donna."'

[cafecitowriter]

Pride & Prejudice - Steggy AU

Coming soon* to an AO3 near you

Born as the second daughter of the Carter family with no rank and no fortune, Peggy has spent her entire life being accosted by her mother to marry well - and marry soon. 

The arrival of one egregiously wealthy Mr. James Barnes sends her mother in a particularly frenetic tizzy, determined to make introductions in hopes of setting one of her daughters up with him. However, it’s Mr. Barnes’ mysteriously dour friend that catches Peggy’s attention. She might even go as far to call him handsome - if only his own pride hadn’t mortified her own.

Created for Steggy Week 2023 Day 4: Family and Friends.

I chose this particular story for this prompt because the source material is so family centred!

Thank you @steggyfanevents​ you’ve created another monster that I now have to write.

Starring:

Peggy Carter as Elizabeth Bennet

Steve Rogers as Fitzwilliam Darcy

James “Bucky” Barnes as Charles Bingley

Natasha Romanoff as Jane Bennet

Amanda Carter as Mrs. Bennet

Harrison Carter as Mr. Bennet

Jemma Simmons as Mary Bennet

Daisy Johnson as Lydia Bennet

Kora as Catherine “Kitty” Bennet

Rose Roberts as Charlotte Lucas

Fred Wells as George Wickham

Daniel Sousa as Mr. Collins

Miriam Fry as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Dottie Underwood as Miss Bingley

Angie Martinelli as Georgiana Darcy

Colonel and Mrs. Phillips as Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner

*soon is a relative term based on the social construct we call time, that is dependent on varying factors, including but not limited to: muse’s cooperation, time and energy to write, and the writer’s overall potential to be easily distracted by other WIP’s and ideas, as is evidenced by this new creation here.

[bonusholegent]

Agent Carter Bingo Masterlist

Here's the master list for the Agent Carter Bingo. @agentcarterbingo

Title: Guess Who's Staying for Dinner

Pairing: Loretta Dooley/Roger Dooley

Rating: T

Warnings: Major Character Death

Squares: Hurt/Comfort

Length: 1097

Title: Unbreakable

Pairing: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Squares: Puzzle

Length: 325

Title: Moonlight Escape

Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Angie Martinelli

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Squares: Moon

Length: 448

Title: Something was Missing

Pairings: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes/Angie Martinelli

Rating: T

Warnings: None

Squares: Modern AU

Length: 4379

Title: That Certain Time

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis

Warnings: Medical Content

Rating: T

Squares: Shopping

Length: 472

Title: Robotic Mirror

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis, Wanda Maximoff/Vision

Warnings: None

Rating: G

Squares: Mirror

Length: 404

Title: Accusations

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis

Warnings: None

Rating: G

Squares: Miriam Fry

Length: 307

Title: Operators are Standing By

Pairings: None

Warnings: None

Rating: T

Squares: SSR New York

Length: 333

Title: Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis

Warnings: None

Rating: G

Squares: Ice Cream

Length: 338

Title: A True Hungarian Feast

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis, Peggy Carter/Jason Wilkes

Warnings: None

Rating: G

Squares: Cooking

Length: 402

Title: Angel to Me

Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Angie Martinelli

Warnings: None

Rating: T

Squares: Mutual Pining, Angie Martinelli, Howard Stark

Length: 1711

Title: Pretty Pictures

Pairings: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers

Warnings: Features creation of adult content, though nothing is shown

Rating: M

Squares: Mountain

Length: 2585

Title: Letters to Dorothy

Pairings: Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis. Howard Stark/Dottie Underwood

Warnings: None

Rating: G

Squares: Childhood Friends, Dottie Underwood

Length: 738

[lifewithaview]

Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson in The Black Adder II (1986) Beer

S2E5

Edmund Blackadder is thrilled when his wealthy but puritanical relatives announce their desire to meet and discuss his inheritance. While planning a ingratiatingly spartan and fundamentalist dinner for them, he is summoned to court where he accidentally agrees to host a riotous drinking competition at his house on the same night.

*The episode marks Hugh Laurie's first ever Blackadder appearance, and Miriam Margolyes' second. Laurie would go on to appear in every subsequent episode of the show.

[anthonysstupiddailyblog]

Anthony’s Stupid Daily Blog (251): Tue 22nd Nov 2022

In the morning I watched David Baddiel’s new documentary Jews Don’t Count where he argues that racism against Jews isn't often highlighted in the way that racism against black people is. Baddiel is a really gifted filmmaker who clearly thoroughly researches everything he wants to put on screen and will only take a project on if it's something he's passionate about. He also made a great documentary about Holocaust Denial a few years again which was equally powerful and eye opening. In Jews Don't Count he interviews several prominent famous members of the Jewish community such as David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Sarah Silverman and Miriam Margolyes about their experiences of having discrimination against them overlooked because they're not considered a "real" minority". Baddiel argues that because a lot of people see the Jews as being all powerful that any attempts to bully them is seen as "punching up". But as Sarah Silverman points out this is clearly nonsense because if the Jews ran the world there would probably be a lot less anti-Semitism in the world and they probably would have done more to stop the Holocaust. Baddiel also tackles Whoopi Goldberg’s ridiculous comments that the Holocaust wasn't about race but about religion. Baddiel easily schools Goldberg by pointing out that he is an atheist but if he told that to one of the guards at Auschwitz he would be unlikely to be let out. Baddiel also clearly anticipated that the audience would be quick to counter Baddiel's claims by pointing out that during the 90's Baddiel dressed up in blackface to mock the footballer Jason Lee. Baddiel decided to own up to confront this controversy head on by offering an apology to Jason Lee on the show but also highlighted that although people have been calling him out for his racism since these sketches first aired in the 90's there has been no-one calling for Leigh Francis to apologize to Baddiel for portraying him as a Hasidic Jews in Bo Selecta because, again, Jewish stereotypes aren't considered real racism (Although there were a lot of controversial moments in this documentary I was already aware that anti-Semitism was on the rise again so that stuff really didn't shock me. However I have to admit that the one thing in this entire documentary that surprised me the most was the moment where Baddiel described Bo Selecta as "very funny". That really caught me off guard). I really envy Baddiel both for his intelligence and his work ethic because the combination of both can produce powerful thought provoking art like Jews Don't Count and although Baddiel is a gifted comedian and writer I hope that he continues producing the occasional documentary every now and then because I think these are where he shines the most.

[daniel-sousas-blue-shirt]

Agent Carter Soundtrack -- 2/18

1x02 BRIDGE AND TUNNEL

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Peggy: I can explain!

Miss Fry: Can you?

Peggy: I can if you give me thirty seconds to think up a lie?

[likea-black-widow-baby]

Agent Carter According to My Friend Who’s Never Seen It @bee-thegoodguys

- Peggy and Jarvis are like.,., a buddy cop duo and they have a mission... something to do with aliens and Howard Stark cause Howard got himself into a shit load of trouble

- Peggy lives with Angie and a bunch of other girls and for some reason they’re controlled by this bish who’s in control of the place even though the amount of control she asserts over them should probably be illegal and she keeps kicking people out for breaking the rules

- there’s this crazy spy named Dottie and she’s gay and she kisses people and knocks them out with her poison lipstick

- Angie is Italian and her family are... drug dealers?

- Angie had a few girlfriends before Peggy

- Angie is a waitress but she wants to be an actress on Broadway

- Season 2 sucks and Peggy’s in a love triangle in LA with Sousa and a scientist

- Peggy’s fighting style is very chaotic and she hits people with staplers

- Angie has a lot of brothers

- Angie and Peggy are pretty gay for each other

[likea-black-widow-baby]

Rating women of Agent Carter based on how huggable they seem

Peggy: “she does not hug” yet still gives Angie and Ana the softest warmest hugs ever. 8/10

Angie: a little bony, but probably smells like coffee and puts everything into the hug. 10/10

Dottie: If she is hugging you it’s because you’re about to be murdered. Bony. Squeezes too tight. 2/10

Miriam Fry: Seems unhuggable, but when her girls have been wronged she will kick a man’s ass with her poor tenant tucked protectively in her arms. Surprisingly comforting, but quite stiff. 6/10

Whitney: If people say “she does not hug” about Peggy, Whitney is three levels beyond. Been forced to hug too many gross male producers/casting directors, hates hugging and is not good at it. -100/10

Rose: Amazing. Not very touchy-feely but knows when you need comfort. Warm. Soft. Only complaint is she lets go too soon. 9/10

rating men of agent carter based on how huggable they seem

daniel: warm 🥰 8/10 jarvis: doesn't hug but will make you a nice cup of tea and give you a blanket so same same. 9/10 jack: bony. can't hug to save his life. probably smells like cigarettes. gross. 4/10 michael: BRO HUG 👊. 7/10 dooley: if he is in his normal era probably a not bad 'you got it sport' dad hug. 5/10 jason: warm 🥰 8/10 bonus—krzeminski: won't touch with a hundred-foot pole. please yeet him into the sun. -100/10

[legowolas]

I know this is old news but I still lose my damn mind whenever I watch the scene where Dottie comes to live at the Griffith because Miriam 101% thought Peggy and Angie were f*cking

[thebusylilbee]

stephen fry and miriam margolyes are wlw/mlm solidarity goals tbh, they're both hilarious and they adore each other