#susan trinder

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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

[welcometothetripguys]

Maud and Sue by Duke

Artist: https://instagram.com/duke.vitoria?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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

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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! 

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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.

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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 

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25.3.2018

Creating a Book List..Or At Least Trying To

  So, this is the small dilemma that I am currently in. Admittedly, it probably doesn’t sound to bad, but, to a bookworm, it is...a big big one. See, the thing is, every once in a while I decide to compose a book list for me to follow because I can be very indecisive when it comes to choosing books.

  At the moment, I have two books on my list: the one that I am currently (re)reading (North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell) and the book I want to read next: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. But then, after that, I draw a blank. I’ve been through some of the books on my bookshelves but can’t actually decide.

  At the present moment, I have taken down several books but the decision for the next book on my list is proving very hard. I have currently taken from the shelves four books and counting, and I don’t know which one comes next. It’s quite frustrating actually. 

  I suppose I should mention the books in question:

The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory

You Against Me by Jenny Downham (a book I love by find hard to read because it really had an impact on me when I last read it)

Affinity by Sarah Waters

Tipping the Velvet also by Sarah Waters

Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu

And that’s as far as I’ve gotten. I really don’t know because then the question of do I really want to read these books? Or should I keep looking?

  I am, later (much later, me thinks), going to re-read the Outlander series BUT not yet...I have literally (this morning, in fact) just finished watching Season 3 and I loved every minuet of it, but I don’t think I can read it yet because I know what I am like, I will feel like it’s too much and become less likely to both read it with my normal speed and vigour and enjoy it as much as I have done in the past, and want to in the future. 

  These are some of the things that can consume my subconscious...as well as the very conscious part. And I can’t think straight if I haven’t picked a book to read. Thankfully, that isn’t  the case yet because I know what my next book will be (thanks to the start of my book list) but I assume it will be if I don’t keep looking.

  Oh and by the way, I am more than happy to listen to suggestions. If anyone deigns to read my silly post(s).

  Many thank..if you do, that is.

Good afternoon to you all

x

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At this point my account is already such a mess I don't really care about what type of stuff I post there lmao