#the honourable miss phryne fisher

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher In The Movie “Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears”

Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears (2020) ↳ dir. Tony Tilse

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher In The Episode “Blood And Circuses”

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x11 Blood And Circuses

[laiqualaurelote]

“Welcome,” cries Donna Noble, “to the Sad Time Lords Drinking Society!”

The beach stretches as far as the eye can see. There seems to be nobody else on it. The sand is black; Jack has discovered it is rough beneath the toes, like gravel. The sea is a rich and iridescent blue; the sky above it clear and serene. A breeze ruffles the thatched roof of the bar at which they are all seated. From the radio behind the counter issue the tinny strains of a zither.

“I move to rename the society,” says the Doctor. He’s a tall, skinny man in a pin-striped suit and an outlandish pair of shoes, who looks like he stuck his fingers in a plug socket and still hasn’t burned off the energy. He and Donna emerged from a blue edifice labelled POLICE BOX, which is now sitting modestly on the beach next to Miss Fisher’s TARDIS, once more a Hispano-Suiza. Miss Fisher has introduced the Doctor as “my oldest friend, literally, he’s got a century or so on me”. 

“Quite,” says Miss Fisher, “we are hardly sad - I am always merry, for one - and only one of us identifies as a Time Lord at present.”

“And he is not sad,” puts in the Doctor.

“Rubbish,” says Donna. “Get a couple of drinks in you and you’ll be all mopey again.” 

“Anyway,” says the Doctor. He is sipping a complex cocktail out of a coconut, too violently coloured to actually be from the coconut, through a twisty straw. “To business. Present: the Doctor, tenth incarnation; the Fisher, third - honestly, how are you only on your third one?”

“Clean and virtuous living,” says Miss Fisher demurely over her sidecar.

Mac snorts into her glass. “Hallelujah.”

“Companions,” the Doctor continues dictating minutes to an invisible secretary, “Donna Noble - ” Donna makes a mock-bow “ - Dr MacMillan, good-looking, ginger and an actual doctor, I hope my future regenerations are taking note - ”

“I’m flattered,” says Mac. “I think.”

“ - and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, whose first time it is at the Drinking Society of Time Persons of Various Moods and Genders.” The Doctor beams at him. “When did she pick you up from, then?”

“The 1920s,” says Jack.

“Oh, we just went, didn’t we, Donna? Lovely time.”

“I mean, there was a murder,” says Donna. “Quite a few murders, actually. Also, a giant wasp. Oh, and the Doctor got poisoned.”

“And we met Agatha Christie!” exclaims the Doctor. “Great stuff.”

“Yes,” says Jack. “That sounds exactly like what goes on in the 1920s.”

- from World Enough and Time, a Doctor Who/Miss Fisher crossover

[morningmee]

That soft smile 🫠

Shouldn’t you be clapping me in irons? Too much paperwork.

[latenight-panic]

That's it that's the plot.

[archibald-jones]

Thinking once again about Jack and Phryne and the end of 'Raisins and Almonds'. About how much meaning there is in that conversation.

Especially those last two lines.

"A marriage is still a marriage, Miss Fisher" - Jack knows something is developing between them but he needs to make sure she knows that there's a line he won't cross. He needs her to respect that

"Especially to a man of honour" - Phryne's response in assurance that she will. They haven't known each other long but she understands him.

And I feel like after that conversation they're a lot more comfortable with each other and with the relationship that's developing. Because they both know where they stand. For me, that scene is the first acknowledgement that *something* is happening.

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher In The Episode “The Green Mill Murder”

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x03 The Green Mill Murder

[morningmee]

She accepts that he's a man of honour, and he realises that she likes him for who he is, and that she respects his stance.

That's possibly the most beautiful form of friendship

Phryne x Jack in Raisins and Almonds

[shmit1]

The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher….Lady Detective

[mariacallous]

rules: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, then tag five (or however many!) people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favorite.

tagged by more than one person (@venusofsuburbia is the one I saw most recently, and apologies for taking so long!)

@extasiswings @frankenshane @queenofnots @notafain @sule-skerry

[vonlipvig]

god, miss fisher's murder mysteries was so good. what do y'all know about yearning if you don't know the honourable miss phryne fisher and detective inspector jack robinson.

[morningmee]

Well... At least the Inspectors priorities are in full working order 😏

You can distract/protect me any day Inspector

#when you're trying to catch a murderer but your boss starts snogging Miss Fisher

[galadriel1010]

Reasons I think Miss Fisher and Inspector Robinson will probably get married sooner or later:

1. It’s the 1930s.

You can be the most modern woman in the world in love with the most modern man in the world, but unless you also want to have the most modern life in the world (which they don’t seem to. They want to maintain their positions in society where she can push for women’s rights and they can solve crimes together) you will eventually have to flex to world you live in. And in the 1930s, that means that if they want people to acknowledge their relationship, it has to be a marriage. 

We see in S3 a bit of what their life might look like if they don’t, because multiple people assume them to be a couple. Sure, Jack is probably high ranking enough that he won’t lose his job and divorced enough that he can probably get away with having a mistress, and Phryne doesn’t give a fig what anyone thinks of her as long as it doesn’t get in the way of her doing her thing, but eventually it’s going to start to grind that they have a relationship that no one outside their immediate chosen family will acknowledge openly. Suspects may try to use it against them (like Angela Barnes in Game, Set and Murder) or to appeal to them (like Eric Edwards in Death and Hysteria), but that’s as far as acknowledgement is going to go. Jack will be invited to Phryne’s intimate parties, and possibly Aunt P’s, but he won’t be her plus one to any public events that don’t require a police presence. If anything happens to them, the other will be acknowledged as a good friend, like Mac was in Death by Misadventure. And Phryne has a lot of friends in that situation, enough to know what it looks like outside of an accepting and understanding intimate friendship group. They will spend their relationship treading a fine line of how much acceptance they can demand before it becomes too much and compromises their lives, at which point they will come back to the same choice - marry, or end it.

They may well decide that it was fun while it lasted, but they’d rather walk away. I doubt it, but it’s possible. I’m not sure I can see them going back to being just friends at this stage, and I don’t think it would help. The rumours will persist unless they cut off all contact, and probably Phryne leaves Melbourne completely. They are both demonstrative, affectionate people. Maintaining a secret relationship would be unpleasant, maintaining a friendship when they’re still in love would be awful.

Personally, I think that Phryne is softening on the position of marriage. She’s always understood why other people marry, but not how it could apply to her. Jack is different, but she’s also incredibly pragmatic. Marriage is not going to change her, but it can protect her. The one thing she does not want is for people to believe she has married purely to avoid a scandal. Not for her sake, because she doesn’t give a damn what people think of her, but because of how that reflects on Jack. If they do marry, it will be the biggest social event of the decade, and she will make people acknowledge that she has married ‘below her station’ and done so for love.

And if the Chief Commissioner thinks that it’s going to mean she leaves his crime scenes alone, he can whistle.

Because at the end of the day, she might now be Mrs Phryne Robinson (and surely one of the perks of marrying is getting rid of her father’s name), but she’s still the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher and she will kick you from here to Darwin if you look at her husband wrong.

2. At some point the Fleurie sisters are going to present Phryne with a vague concept for a wedding gown for her and she is going to lose her mind over it.

[avoteforme]

i secretly delight in married!jack fics where he has a love affair with phryne. ik this is the kind of content reserved for soap operas but when done well it is very human, very compelling, as phryne sez ‘it happens’.  i’ve written (but not posted) 2 fics where this is an element. i think it’s also partly that everyone thinks that canon dictates that jack is an honourable man but then we have jack’s own line ‘not always, miss fisher’ it’s tantalising and titillating to make jack want and consummate like this, and to go back to characterising ‘honourable jack’ is just terribly dull and dreary to me at this time (buuuuuuut i could change my mind back :>)

are these kinds of stories immoral/hurtful/mean-spirited? in a puriteen sense probs but authorial intent is lacking otherwise. the part of this 3-person conflict that compels me is where marrieds (usually the worthless husband) should not get complacent/entitled just bc their spouse is now bound to them. this kind of narrative is a lil warning to the 'worthless husband' types about that lmbo. anyways this doesn't really apply to the 3-person affair in mfmm but what can i say there's always bleedover (from another show that i watch)

For all of Phryne's glibness and gaiety, there was a shaded weariness and wariness glimpsed in unguarded moments that drew Jack because it spoke to experiences that formed a woman capable of handling a gun, unafraid to plunge into the darker aspects of human nature, and that knowledge was intoxicating. He wanted to plunder her secrets as fiercely as he wished to capture that sly mouth, sink into her slick cunt, demanding entry into the fortress of her heart. 

[o0anapher0o]

10 Characters from 10 Famdoms

Thank you @meraki-yao for the tag. This was so much fun, but sooo hard XP

Karen Wilson (911). Gorgeous black lesbian rocket scientist momma bear (I’ll admit she won out over my man Tommy by like a milimeter, but also black lesbian rocket scientist momma bear. How is she not the character of all times?)

2. Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cartoon). He's my boy, he deserves everything. I will not hear a word against him.

3. Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Look at him. Superhuman space twink, second of his class with a spy kink.

4. Armand (Interview with the vampire). My favourite insane little horror gremlin. I haven't seen season 2 yet but I know he's going to commit so many attrocities.

5. Bucky Barnes (MCU). He's an adorable, grumpy murder weapon and I wish they had given him his cat in the movies

6. Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries). The one, the only, the legend, the honourable. Lady Detective, Pilot, Racecardriver, Heiress, best dressed, dancer, model, adoptive mother of many strays, light of his life and perpetual nuissance of one Jack Robinson.

7. Aramis (The Musketeers). Famous libertine by day, romanic with a heart of gold by night, loyal friend and general dumbass all day, every day.

8. Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation). He is everything. (And he's alive I do not care)

9. Firstprince (Red White and Royal Blue). I can't chose between Alex and Henry. I can't and you can't make me.

10. John Tracy (Thunderbirds are Go!). As with all the others, it’s this particular iteration of this character. I love the Ace!John headcanon but even without that, he’s simultaneously hypercompetent and the most awkward duckling and he parents a toddler AI. I never stood a chance.

Phhh. This took way longer than anticipated, but here they are. I learned far more about myself than I expected, too.

Tagging @alittlefrenchtree, @sigynpenniman, @taste-thewaste and everyone who wants to play.

[morningmee]

Whoa there! That's hot as ....

endless list of pairings i love  →  phryne fisher + jack robinson (miss fisher’s murder mysteries)

Jack, I gave you [my heart] a long time ago. For a detective you don’t notice much.