#rachel cazelet

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2022 was the year I reconnected with my inner fan. After several years of having been packed up and set in the corner, talking only to herself in hushed tones, she took one look at Bernie Wolfe and Serena Campbell on a windy roof. Suddenly with a great whoosh she was set free again.

Thankfully I remembered that that Tumblr thing was the place for fannishness and not evil birdsite. Maybe it was a google search that brought me here, I don’t know.

And here I found a wonderful set of fun, kind, witty and wicked smart, fannish humans.

Thank you for accepting me into the social circle around the fire of fannish discussion and creation.

And thanks to Serena and Bernie, and Catherine and Jemma for just being!

I can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring!

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FMK Catherine Russell edition: Rachel Cazelet, Serena Campbell, Elly Chandler

but nony, i haven't even seen the cazalets yet !! (i know, pls revoke my lesbian card rn) how can i possibly decide??

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Hear me out:

Anika Hansen (7of9) is really Henrik Hanssen’s great something or other daughter. The spelling changed at some intergalactic version of Ellis Island.

Admiral Janeway in one of her never ending time paradox attempt to save Seven from anything and everything decides she needs to pick him up.

Voyager or whatever she’s commanding this time appears in synchronized orbit around the hospital in Leeds.

Janeway in an attempt to acquire Hanssen gets Serena Campbell as well who was visiting at Hanssen’s request to consult on a vascular patient.

Underground UNIT notes the alien incursion and goes to investigate.

Kate Stewart or maybe Osgood happens to be part of the team investigating because frankly like everyone post Covid, they are short staffed.

Osgood discovers Bernie who is notably upset that Serena has disappeared. Osgood thinks Kate definitely has to meet this one.

Kate and Bernie do the Spider-Man pointing thing.

Meanwhile - Admiral Janeway is making her second stop. A visit to the Churchill War Rooms.

At the war rooms, Janeway tries to slip in casually. She’s after something that’s still there and has decided it’s easier to get in 2022 than in 1942 because yadayada short staffed.

I’m not sure why but go with me on this. Maybe some piece of the Daleks that eventually gets incorporated into the Borg Collective.

While trying to surreptitiously acquire the McGuffin, Janeway is clocked by a retired mi6 agent, Kate Lethbridge (played here by Kate Mulgrew) who happens to be visiting the War Rooms today honoring some family anniversary related to her father (the Brig’s dad too).

Because being a retired MI6 agent is boring, she tails Janeway around only to eventually confront her. Janeway and Lethbridge do the Spider-Man pointy thing.

Janeway feels compelled to confess her full plan to Lethbridge, who recognizing true love and being a softy herself, decides to help.

But the McGuffin actually isn’t in the 2022 War Rooms. No, it turns out it went missing at Chequers one night in 1942.

Janeway says I have a timemachine sort of. Lethbridge says let’s go!

Meanwhile, Osgood comes running. There are odd time paradoxes happening around the War Rooms and Chequers now and in 1942. The War Rooms and Chequers 1939-1945 being specially monitored for time travel for obvious reasons.

Right then 13 shows up in the TARDIS - has a great laugh at Kate and Bernie. Says they can find Serena later. They have to go save Winnie or everything will go kerfluey. Just as the TARDIS fades out we see Jill Raymond on special duty to Leeds HQ pull up.

The TARDIS rematerializes at Chequers in 1942. Thirteen in tux with short pants, Yaz in appropriate WREN attire, Kate still in her suit and red shoes, and Bernie having been outfitted in waistcoat, wool slacks, and for some reason a pair of wellies emerge and fan out across the large gathering.

The Doctor finds Churchill first and asks if he’s experienced any anomalies. He has not, but when he sees Bernie in her wellies and Kate in her red shoes he guffaws and nearly chokes on his whiskey.

Clementine comes over to check on him - only to come face to face with Kate and Bernie. The three of them do the Spider-Man pointy thing.

Just then there’s a kerfuffle nearby. Yaz, ever the police officer, has apprehended two remarkably similar looking women climbing into the house through a window.

Kate is stunned to see her aunt. Much discussion explaining the caper and the McGuffin.

Meanwhile, Bernie’s caught sight of Serena. Somehow here in 1942.

Wellies hampering her run just a bit. She comes face to face with Serena Campbell. She rushes forward, takes her in her arms and kisses her. Serena is shell-shocked, but the uniformed woman - who is among those ambulance drivers being honored for bravery tonight - takes a full on swing at Bernie and knocks her to the ground.

Rachel Cazelet has never looked more stunned nor more lovingly at Sid in her entire life.

Bernie nursing a cut lip and a bruised ego limps back to the team. Janeway says “I think the one you’re looking for is actually over there.” She points to another Serena lookalike. This one’s talking animatedly with a gaggle of women in uniform.

“I’m not falling for that twice,” Bernie says. “That’s the one I brought with me,” Janeway says. She said something about having a thing for women in uniform and wondering if they had Shiraz at Chequers during the war. Bernie, wellies and all, was already on the way as she yells “That’s my girl!”

McGuffin found. Everyone including Janeway and Lethbridge return to the TARDIS.

Henrik still cooling his jets alone in Janeway’s ship looks out a port window impatiently.

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I finally finished the BBC4 Radio adaption of The Cazelets saga from Audible.com. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzwgz

Way too much about the people who are not Rachel and Syd. But more Rachel & Syd than the BBC TV drama.

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I’m pretty sure they left 2/3rds of all of Russell’s performance in the BBC’s The Cazelets on the cutting room floor.

It’s as if they would have preferred to cut the Rachel character out completely.

omg I wanna see the full version of The Cazalets😭😭😭

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Things I’ve learned from Tumblr:

The television program Frankie is really about Dr. Zoe Evans

The entire UK policing system is made up of bisexual or lesbian middle aged women with tortured memories in their eyes.  

The NHS really puts emotional stress on bisexual or lesbian middle aged women with tortured memories in their eyes who happen to be doctors not police.

Last Tango in Halifax is really just a very very slow burn romance between the school marm and the local rancher.

It’s possible that Rachel Cazelet is the most underwritten character on the face of the earth and yet she’s still a little bean.

There are literally only 12 actresses in the UK.  That’s perfectly fine with me since Jemma Redgrave is three of them.

What have you learned from Tumblr?

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I love love love the way this works. It is brilliant!

And yet the nerd in me thinks but they are a generation apart. Eleanor Bramwell is in 1890/1900 and Rachel Cazelet is in 1939.

You don't think maybe there's time travel involved, do you?

Cause you know with a little time shift you could add:

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@starfleetwitch

Did you just draw Jill Raymond snuggling with Rachel Cazelet?

Talk about timey-whimy

Day 9: Nest (of blankies and pillows)