#susan trinder

[ministarfruit]

yuri month day 16: please ruin me ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[kneelbeforeclefairy]

I'm sorry why isn't fingersmith not more popular on Tumblr?? This shit has EVERYTHING

Victorian lesbians

Maid kink

Crumbling isolated mansions where horrible things happen

Plucky pickpockets with good hearts (trusting)

A family of amusing thieves with good hearts (tricky)

Identity swapping

Fun with accents

Victorian mad houses

Creepy uncles

Baby swapping

Unreliable Narrator like woah

Hangings

Derelict smoggy London streets

Pornography

VICTORIAN LESBIANS

Like I'm sorry both Maud and Sue are like HERE TO BE YOUR NEW BLORBOS. maud in particular would do NUMBERS here. Repressed Machiavellian "lady" whose only exposure to the world is porn, figures out she's a lesbian and does what we all do, write erotica about it? Or take Sue, the plucky titular fingersmith whose only crime is trusting people she had no reason not to trust , gets caught up in a con, falls in love with the mark, and gets herself into and out of every situation they throw her in. Like here are your new gay blorbos in pretty dresses, Tumblr!! There's a book and a mini series, both great. COME JOIN ME IN FINGERSMITH HELL SAPPHICS

[lilly-writer]

Review: Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters

Raised in one of Victorian London's worst slums in the house of petty thieves, stolen-goods peddlers, and baby-farmers, Susan Trinder only ever hoped to become a smuggler's sweetheart and have a baby-farm of her own. Her greatest wish is to some day repay her adoptive mother, Mrs Sucksby for raising her with love and tenderness as her own daugher. Then, one cold January night a conman Richard Rivers—alias Gentleman—comes with a proposal for Sue: to play a wing-woman in his scheme to seduce and defraud a youngheiress Maud Lilly, for whose eccentric uncle Gentleman had been doing a bit of work on the side. With the promise of a share in Maud's vast fortune, enough to repay Mrs Sucksby for her love and kindness, the good-natured Sue cannot possibly refuse But then Sue meets Maud, and Maud is sweeter and kinder than anyone had ever been to Sue, save Mrs Sucksby!—and the little thief's conviction begins to waver.

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[docholligay]

"My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder."-- Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

[frstndlstlns]

Fingersmith

My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder.

She put the lamp upon the floor, spread the paper flat; and began to show me the words she had written, one by one.

— Sarah Waters

[hiddenwashington]

@lcvelxss said : Was that [ALICIA VIKANDER]? Oh no no, that was just [SUSAN 'SUE' TRINDER], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [FINGERSMITH]. They are [TWENTY-SEVEN] years old, use [SHE/HER], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long {z just trying out one more clown as a treat}

accepted! welcome to washington d.c. susan 'sue' trinder [alicia vikander]! please send in your account within 24 hours! please be sure to take a look at the checklist now that you've arrived! we look forward to seeing you around the city! 

[femalewerewolfff]

It always called to my attention how fitting it was the fate of Susan in part 2. She reaped exactly what was sowed. I obviously felt bad for her because yeah she’s like seventeen and being tortured. But being betrayed by someone you thought was kind to you and being sent to a horrible place for the rest of your life was a fate she wanted to condemn Maud too.

Of course she didn’t WANTED it but she still was prepared to do it. She thought Maud was suffering and for much that she hated to see her like that she still didn’t quit the plan. At the end what was planned for Maud ended up being her sentence, it’s poetic justice made more obvious by the fact the people at the asylum think she is Maud and call her by that name, a constant reminder that “Maud” is the one supposed to be there.

[smalltownfae]

‘Do you hate me for it?’ she said.

‘Hate you!’ I said. ‘When I have fifty proper reasons for hating you, already; and only -’

Only love you, I wanted to say. I didn’t say it, though. What can I tell you? If she could still be proud, then so, for now, could I... I didn’t need to say it, anyway: she could read the words in my face.

- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

[is-there-gay-in-it]

Susan Trinder

Title: Fingersmith

Category: Book and Miniseries

Author: Sarah Waters

Portrayed by: Sally Hawkins

Status: First Billed

Orientation: wlw - NOS (implied lesbian) 

Check readmore to see if character is alive and for other trigger warnings

Sue is alive. Warnings for offscreen rape of minor character, forced institutionalization, sexual harassment, gaslighting

[svnsetromance]

Sally Hawkins as Susan Trinder --- Fingersmith (2005)

In that moment, I saw into my own cowardly heart and I knew that I would have given up nothing for her, nothing at all; and that, sooner than be shamed by her now, I would die.

[hrodvitnon]

So I’m playing a rogue in Curse of Strahd.

The character she’s based on:

...and the character she’s turning into:

Thus far she almost got eaten by a door mimic and is understandably traumatized by that - thankfully she’s got tough as a feat.

[raven-curls]

Tagged by @lillifaba

Firstly, I'm not going to pick from the physical bookshelf because it's filled with children books that no one read anymore. Secondly, I'm not going to really rank because I love all books, and my laptop died again (sounds familiar?) and I'm doing this on mobile.

1) "The Home Office telegraphy department always smelled of tea" - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street , Natasha Pulley

2) "IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OURLORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death!—Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth." - Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

3) "On the Yellow Brick Road, a mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air." - Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire

4) "In the beginning, we were as one." - A Winter's Promise, Christelle Dabos

5) "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct" - Dune, Frank Herbert

6) " Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, " grumbled Ho, lying on the rug - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

7) "On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. " - The Cruel Prince, Holly Black

8) " There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. " - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

9) "My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder." - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

10) "The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. " - A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin

And I'm tagging @mylittleelphie @elphabaoftheopera @deeplyshalllow @a-partofthenarrative @beautifulwickedness13 @lightningprince25 @someonetookmyawesomename (gosh a few more but suddenly I can't remember your name!)

[thejugheadparadox]

me making my fingersmith playlist is like how much can one lesbian project onto susan trinder 

[hiddenwashington]

@mvrbleghcsts​ said : Was that [ALICIA VIKANDER]? Oh no no, that was just [SUSAN ‘SUE’ TRINDER], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [FINGERSMITH]. They are [TWENTY-SEVEN] years old, use [SHE/HER], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long. {ooc: z}

accepted! welcome to washington d.c. susan ‘sue’ trinder [alicia vikander]! please send in your account within 24 hours! please be sure to take a look at the checklist now that you’ve arrived! we look forward to seeing you around the city!    

[smalltownfae]

“I heard her turning, and sighing, all through the night; and I turned, and sighed, myself. I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. 

A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn’t lie beside her, without wanting to touch her, I couldn’t have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn’t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

[katiesclassicbooks]

Review: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Synopsis: Fingersmith was written by Sarah Waters and published in 2002. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize the same year. The novel is set in Victorian England and follows a girl named Susan Trinder who grows up in a den of thieves, also called fingersmiths. One day Sue becomes involved in an intricate plot to steal a lady’s fortune and she must pose as the lady’s maid. All is not what it seems as crazy plot twists are revealed and love complicates matters.

Storyline: The storyline was phenomenal in Fingersmith! The story was gripping the whole way through; I was absolutely addicted while reading. There are some good plot twists that you totally don’t see coming and the story is told in an interesting way. It’s told from two perspectives: Susan Trinder's and Maud Lily's. The most interesting part was the first half of the book where that part of the story is told by Susan and then you get the same events, but from Maud’s perspective. That may sound like a drag to read the same story twice, but getting it from both perspectives was so interesting and actually my favorite section of the book.

Setting: Fingersmith is set in Victorian England and I thought the setting was done quite well. I recently read a Victorian historical fiction by Essie Fox and was pretty disappointed. This book was what I had been looking for and was done much better.

Characters: The characters were amazing in Fingersmith. I really liked both Susan and Maud. There was also a lesbian love story that was done really well. All the other characters were quite interesting as well.

Did I like It?: I loved Fingersmith! It was so intriguing and had an interesting structure. I couldn’t put it down! I found myself thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it. This was my first Sarah Waters book and I seriously can’t wait to read more of her work! She could seriously end up becoming a favorite author of mine.

Do I recommend it?: Yes most definitely! Especially if you like historical fiction or are looking for a book with LGBTQ characters that is done really well. 

~Katie