#spoilers for the button house archives

[bbcghostssixidiots]

Spoilers for the button house archives

Reading the button house archives. Tell me why Caps diary entries are so physically and emotionally upsetting? “This wretched war” “when will it end?” “will life ever be the same again?” STOP. It’s actually so sad especially how in the earlier diary entries he’s still optimistic but now he’s accepting that it won’t end soon and his life(death) will never be the same as it was AND he’s dealing with Havers leaving him 😭 Do you hate us Ben Willbond? Why do you torture us so?

[caeran]

The Captains gayest moments in the Ghosts button house archives.

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

Okay this is probably one of my absolute favourite Ghosts pic

It looks like a painting.

So gorgeous

[ghostly--omens]

One of my favourite parts about that cricket report in BHA is that Havers didn't even get the highest innings, some guy called Private Banbury got 108, yet the Captain just says he 'had a good innings', whereas Havers got 88 which is apparently 'a stunning innings'.

Now I may know zilch about Cricket but I do know the Captain is a bit gay for Havers.

[fairer-tales]

bro left him in pride month 😕

[historicalsnail]

Of course The Captain's favourite song is the gayest, most obscure version of one of the most well known songs ever. Which I can't find a recording of, so now I can't make a playlist of all the Ghosts favourite songs.

Anyway, here's the lyrics of In The Mood, "the version with the daddy with the beautiful eyes". (Sung by many during WW2, but recorded by noone, apparently!)

Who's the lovin' daddy with the beautiful eyes What a pair o' lips, I'd like to try 'em for size I'll just tell him, "baby, won't you swing it with me" Hope he tells me maybe, what a wing it will be So, I said politely, "darlin' may I intrude" He said "Don't keep me waitin' when I'm in the mood"

First I held him lightly and we started to dance Then I held him tightly what a dreamy romance And I said "hey, baby, it's a quarter to three There's a mess of moonlight, won't-cha share it with me" "Well" he answered "baby, don't-cha know that it's rude To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in the mood"

In the mood, that's what he told me In the mood, and when he told me In the mood, my heart was skippin' It didn't take me long to say, "I'm in the mood now"

In the mood for all his kissin' In the mood his crazy lovin' In the mood what I was missin' It didn't take me long to say, "I'm in the mood now"

So, I said politely, "darlin', may I intrude?" He said, "don't keep me waitin' when I'm in the mood"

"Well," he answered, "baby, don't-cha know that it's rude To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in the mood"

Writers: Andy Razaf, Joseph Garland

[spineless-lobster]

(BBC GHOSTS BOOK SPOILERS)

The captain laughing at havers’ joke like a smitten teenager makes my entire life worth it btw

[bagsieherroom]

Timeline for the Captain

1900 (somewhere between January and May) - Born, Bledlow-cum-Saunderton, Buckinghamshire

1918 - Sent to the front

1940 (April) - Met Havers

1940 (May) - Fell in love with Havers

1940 (June) - Havers left for North Africa

1941 (January) - Submitted his plans to end the war in North Africa

1943 - Conceded that he was too old for active service

1944 (July) - Still pining for Havers

1944 (somewhere between August and December) - posted to Weymouth

1945 (c. May) - Gate-crashed the victory party to see Havers again

1945 (c. May) - Died

[nortism]

me running to the door when i heard the postman delivering my copy of the button house archives

[th3d0nutl0rd]

Ghosts spin off show where it's just Thomas falling in love with every female and male guest that enters the hotel and has long-ish brown hair

[ineffablelunatic]

Just realised that Havers being referred to as an unknown soldier means that he probably didn't survive long after the war. He had no family, nobody to identify him. He didn't achieve anything that made him stand out from the rest of the thousands of faceless soldiers who fought in the war. He left no legacy. Like the Captain, he was forgotten. The only person who remembers him is long dead, and this photograph is the only evidence that he lived.

He is an unknown soldier.

[natjennie]

robin was only 23? he should've been using a club! (because he's a caveman. is this joke anything)

[thirteens-pocket-watch]

When Pat ends the postcard with "Hope you're feeling better dad" and then the next one is just addressed to his mum ;-;

[alexisntedgy]

I’ll be like “I’m fine” and then I’ll remember that on robin’s star chart Mary is marked with no comment other than “mary” shes just there and it says enough and it’s beautiful, and the captain’s stick is two stars linked together forever

[nemo-me-impune]

So we're agreed this is the genesis of all those Tory sex parties being held there and Lady Heather was hardly as innocent in all that went on as we're led to believe right?

I do wonder how the Captain felt repressing himself for 45 years only to spend his afterlife watching all the kinds of people he was supposed to respect and obey as members of the upper classes do all manner of things far worse than hold hands or kiss another man.

Also I wonder how Fanny didn't manage to die again in shock and outrage.

[airconditionditionercasey]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what The Captain's last name is?