#thomas haxby

[the-academic-actress]

Met the delightful @speakingskies today irl - she said it was lovely to meet someone else who's 'Hogg-headed' - I suggest we adopt that as our fandom name. Let's make it a hashtag. ;)

[toxicpoisonedyouth]

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just finished rewatched the downton abbey series so…

in england 1924, haxby place gains a new owner. the grantham/crawleys dont think too much of it, just a new neighbor.

one day, tom branson and his daughter sybbie are out for a drive. heading back from downton village, they come upon a blonde man whose car has broken down. they offer him a ride back to the abbey so he can call his own home.

the man introduces himself as billy hargrove, an american whose family has recently moved from california.

one thing leads to another and tom finds himself falling for the younger man. thomas, of course, has also seen billy and the two toms may have a similar person of interest.

timeline? what timeline. sybil is gone but matthew is still alive. rose is there because i love her. the hargrove-mayfields have moved from california because of the prohibition in america, and they just so happen to have a winery. a very wealthy winery, which they are trying to bring to life in england. billy’s grandfather on his mother’s side, lord william prince, is coincidentally dying so his willful son-in-law neil has come to the rescue.

billy has an older sister, barbra. ok its barbie. she is so amazing and she is the perfect older sibling for billy, our own malibu barbie.

barbie is 27, billy is 25, max is 15, tom is 29, and thomas is 31.

wait till you here the others. oppenheimer makes an appearance

[selkiewife]

Would you fuck a clone of yourself?

 ( “Sure, Jan” )

[incorrect-harlots]

Charlotte: From now on, we will be using code names. You can address me as Eagle One.

Charlotte: Haxby, code name – Been There, Done That.

Charlotte: Isabella is – Currently Doing That.

Charlotte: Kitty is – It Happened Once in a Dream.

Charlotte: Nancy, code name – If I Had To Pick an old person.

Charlotte: Emily is - Eagle 2.

Emily: Oh thank god.

[following-the-drum]

Random Harlots Shots 1.2

[citoyenne]

“I hope you will be a good boy,” says Miss Wells, the moment she and I are alone together, heading for the Library, “and learn your lessons well, Mr Haxby.”

“Will you birch me if I do not, Miss Wells?” I find myself replying.

Fanart for The Subsequent Life and Opinions of Thomas Haxby by ningloreth

[carterhaughs]

favorite headcanon and songs for Char/Haxby if you're still doing it!

my headcanon is basically the way I initially analyzed the relationship lol since haxby’s arc was very suddenly nonexistent in the last 2 episodes or so…and he was no longer the character I was invested in or cared about. BUT. my headcanon is basically the lost potential from the earlier episodes - Haxby realizing they aren’t so different in terms of being put upon and harassed by their superiors and having had a good long think about the way he’s seen the girls live and the way they support each other (what else was really the point of that scene with Mary) begrudgingly covering for her so she can have a bit more freedom. he wouldn’t say WHY but there would be an unspoken understanding between them as to his change in heart. 

I have a whole playlist for them here, and I think my favorite songs for them on there would be There, There by Radiohead and Death by Diamonds and Pearls by Band of Skulls. Cardinal Song by The National too, for an iteration of the relationship that unfortunately never manifested.

Ask me about ships.

[cptrs]

[quid-agis]

Harlots #4

I knew Haxby’d do It eventually.

And he did.

[aion-rsa]

The Gilded Age Isn’t a Downton Abbey Prequel (But May As Well Be)

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In 2012, riding high on the success of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes told a crowd at Bafta that he was considering writing a prequel. The spin-off would be about ladder-climbing yanks trying to pay their way into the sniffy social elite, and feature a young Lord and Lady Grantham. He, a fresh-faced toff weighted by ancestral burden, she a US debutante with a daddy as riche as Croesus but in the undesirable nouveau way. The prequel would dramatise “the courtship of Robert and Cora, when all those American heiresses were arriving in London – the Buccaneers, as they were called.”

There were doubtless ruder nicknames, but ‘Buccaneers’, as Edith Wharton styled them in her 1870s-set novel of the same name, and ‘Dollar Princesses’ were the popular terms for the moneyed Americans who were married off into British nobility. Both parties got something from the deal. Old titles met new money in a contract that meant English castles could finally afford to repair their leaking roofs while heiresses could call themselves Lady Somesuch and invite the British ruling classes over to murder pheasants. Win-win, except for the pheasants.

Fellowes’ prequel never arrived, but almost a decade later, he’s back with a different story of ladder-climbing yanks trying to pay their way into the sniffy social elite. The Gilded Age follows railway millionaires the Russells, and their attempts to be received by the crepey white hands of 1880s New York City society. Carrie Coon (The Leftovers, Fargo) plays aspirant socialite Bertha Russell, a woman who plans to throw as many lobsters and diamonds as her husband can afford (so, all of them) at the social edifice until it cracks. Christine Baranski plays the enjoyably snooty Agnes van Rhijn, a defender of the old ways who’ll be damned before she’ll allow her tacky nobody neighbours across the threshold.

The Gilded Age is a new story unrelated to Downton Abbey. (A Russell Family did own Haxby Park in the earlier show, but as the Crawleys’ neighbours for centuries, they were ensconced in the English upper classes so have nothing to do with this American lot.) It’s set on a different continent, 30-odd years before the age of Mrs Patmore’s puddings, during what would have been Lady Cora’s adolescence. There’s no Cora, no Robert, no Violet, no Isobel, no Anna and no Bates… officially at least.

Squint though at episode one, and you’ll soon start to see the old characters, disguised under new identities and accents. Agnes, with her pursed lips and impossible standards, is the Dowager Countess; her dippy, softer-hearted sister Ada (played by Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon) is progressive Isobel Crawley; below stairs, there’s a scheming lady’s maid with her sights set on Mr Russell as a combination of O’Brien and Edna; there’s a closeted Thomas Barrow, a rule-bending, firebrand Lady Sybil, and a beloved dog (though this one’s named Pumpkin and not Isis – a name wisely chosen for its unlikelihood of being made famous by an international terrorist group midway through the series airing).

The Gilded Age isn’t Cora and Robert: the Debutante Years, then, but it’s not different enough that if fans wish to pretend that George and Bertha’s teenage daughter Gladys (played by American Horror Story’s Taissa Farmiga) is a young Cora Levinson, there’s anything much to stop them. Both the Russells and the Levinsons are fictional families inspired by America’s real-life spenny arrivistes the Vanderbilts, Leiters, Rothchilds and so on. The palatial home they have built on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 61st Street to much discussion in episode one is likely inspired by the Vanderbilts’ real-life mansion on West 57th Street, or perhaps the Andrew Carnegie Mansion on Fifth and East 91st Street. Fellowes’ worlds are fictionalised, but peppered by the odd real historical figure. (In the first Downton Abbey film, King George V and Queen Mary come to visit, while The Gilded Age features the Astors, a Roosevelt, architect Stanford White, and others…).

As the story goes, Downton Abbey’s Cora Levinson made her debut in London society in 1888 at the behest of her pushy mother Martha (played by Shirley MacLaine – one of the few actors able to go toe-to-toe with Dame Maggie Smith as Violet and come out with the advantage). Cora was married to Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, whose estate was greatly in need of a cash injection. A dry goods heiress (so named for her father’s line of work, not the fact that she failed to produce a male heir), Cora’s fortune was entailed to the Grantham estate, protecting the Earldom for generations to come. Gratitude though was hardly forthcoming, and in early twentieth century England, Cora’s family faced the same prejudices that the Russells tackled three decades earlier across the water.

(The new drama does touch upon prejudice it’s easier to give a fig about in the story of Peggy, a young Black woman who aspires to become a writer, but as ever, this show’s concern with lives outside the moneyed classes only runs flan-deep.)

It’s no official prequel then, but it absolutely exists in the same universe, with the same themes, the same class snobbery, the same character types, and even some of the same lines (prepare to hear variations on “the times are changing/but not fast enough for me/you/my new valet” before and after most ad breaks. The good news for Downton Abbey fans is that the times, and almost everything else, have very much not changed with this one. It’s exactly the confection of gowns, chandeliers, gossip, mild scandal and weird old class shit that we all lapped up the first time around. See you at the ball.

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The Gilded Age airs on HBO from January 24th in the US and on Sky Atlantic from January 25th in the UK.

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[calamity-bean]

Brutus! Traitor!

[the-academic-actress]

I saw Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company last Friday night — here’s a program pic, plus my mini review on Instagram — also, Harlots fans: Edward Hogg (who played Thomas Haxby) was Cassio — I met him afterwards and can confirm he’s a total ray of sunshine. Very sweet and gentlemanly. ☺️

[nellygwyn]

I have observed that some of your correspondence has been answered by a man who signs himself T Haxby. I must inform you that this man is a scurrilous liar, thick with deceit, who nearly sent me and an intimate friend of mine to the gallows over invented crimes! He lusts over women of our kind, while condemning us all the while. I do not know what lies he has told to enter your service, but I write only to inform you so that you may protect yourself. I hope this letter finds you well. CW

Madam, Dearest Charlo, I have only this past week dismissed the said Thomas Haxby from my services. It is one thing to resent a woman's profession, it is quite another to be covetous of her success, says I, and a good thing too as he began to show true as soon as I spake 'um. I am as ever, O.M

[kwebtv]

Harlots  -  Hulu / ITV Encore  -  3/27/2017  -  Present

Period Drama (8 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells

Lesley Manville as Lydia Quigley

Jessica Brown Findlay as Charlotte Wells

Eloise Smyth as Lucy Wells

Kate Fleetwood as Nancy Birch

Danny Sapani as William North

Jordan A. Nash as Jacob Wells North

Douggie McMeekin as Charles Quigley

Hugh Skinner as Sir George Howard

Steven Robertson as Robert Oswald

Eleanor Yates as Lady Caroline Howard

Edward Hogg as Thomas Haxby

Rory Fleck Byrne as Daniel Marney

Con O'Neil as Nathaniel Lennox.

Pippa Bennett-Warner as Harriet Lennox

Timothy Innes as Benjamin Lennox

Lottie Tolhurst as Kitty Carter

Bronwyn James as Fanny Lambert

Josef Altin as Prince Rasselas

Holli Dempsey as Emily Lacey

Alexa Davies as Betsey Fletcher

Poppy Corby-Tuech as Marie-Louise D’Aubigne

Ellie Heydon as Anne Pettifer

Rosalind Eleazar as Violet Cross

Dorothy Atkinson as Florence Scanwell

Jordon Stevens as Amelia Scanwell

Roy Beck as Mr Abbadon

[diana9241livejournalcom]

Just Say Yes

I decide to join harlotsweek here on tumblr writing this fic, luckly I finish Harlots last sunday, It's in Italian, just to say

Autore: diana9241 Fandom: Harlots Titolo: Thr Bitch is back Personaggi: Charlotte Wells, Thomas Haxby, Margaret Wells, Lucy Wells, Lydia Quigley, William North, Jacob Wells North, Amelia Scanwell, Violet Cross Pairing: Charlotte/Haxby, Margaret/William, Amelia/Violet, Charlotte/Others Waring: future fic, unplanned pregnancy, brothels, London, from enemies to friends to lovers

here's the link

[miss-m-calling]

Rare Pairs 2017 letter

Dear writer,

Thank you for writing for me! I hope my prompts inspire you, I am very eager to read whatever you write.

My AO3 page

Pairs I’m requesting:

-Charlotte Wells/Thomas Haxby (Harlots)

-Niobe/Titus Pullo/Lucius Vorenus (Rome)

-Oliver Baumer/Eric Love (Starred Up)

On to the ships (likes and DNWs are at the bottom of the letter)!!

Harlots

Thomas Haxby/Charlotte Wells

I fell in love with this show in a way I hadn’t with any show in a while: the gritty period detail, the rich characters and relationships, the unsentimental view of money and sex (nobody has an epiphany thanks to a shag, despite Charlotte/Marney flirting with it), all the stuff about gender and sexuality and class in Georgian London. And then, cherry on top: I got a surprise new ship between the harlot with a crisis of identity/conscience and the judgmental yet not-so-above-it-all servant of her “keeper.” I just loved their sniping, constantly-competing, wearing-masks-yet-also-letting-slip-real-vulnerabilities, oddly-similar-in-precarious-situation, no-we-will-not-admit-any-sympathy-for-each-other, actual class-transgressing hatesex-y dynamic. They’re both difficult, sometimes unsympathetic, and on occasion treat each other so cruelly, and yet, and yet - it’s the dysfunction and the potential that thrills me. I was super disappointed in how it all comes to nothing much in episodes 6-8, so the prompts I’m including are mostly pre-canon, missing scene, or canon-divergent. Just give me more of Charlotte and Haxby being THEM. Any and all other canon characters are welcome, though I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try to soften Sir George’s (mostly hilarious) awfulness.

Pre-canon: their interactions during the first day, night and/or morning after Charlotte spent in Sir George’s House -- or same on the day George moved her in permanently -- how they suss each other out and establish their constant struggle for position within the household.

Missing scene: just anything with them interacting on an average day, especially if it includes Charlotte taking Haxby out of his comfort zone, as she did in episode 2. I have a headcanon about Charlotte’s love of fruit that might inspire you - see my tagged posts here for some general rambling about this ship.

Canon divergence: oh man, so much potential! So many ways this could have played out! What if Haxby does end up having to help cover up Sir George’s murder? Either he showed up at the Wells house (Sir George did ask for him while he lay dying) and had his arm twisted into helping, and if Charlotte needs to fuck him into temporary compliance -- though ha we know that didn’t work the first time -- then Ma Wells is fine with that and will provide a room, whether it actually happens or not. Or Charlotte was the one to stab George when he tried-but-didn’t-live-long-enough to rape her -- she ate a lot of fruit, there was bound to be a knife lying around. What if Lady Caroline moved to London for the season, forcing George to install Charlotte in a separate residence -- and then he “gives” her Haxby to act as butler, purse-string-holder, and of course spy? Or George starts sleeping away a lot, leaving Charlotte and Haxby basically alone in his house night after night (there are other servants, but we barely see them and they never speak) -- with those two left alone, pretty much anything could happen. What if they both managed to catch a clue either before or after hallway sex and realized that they’d be much better off as allies than as enemies, since they’re both vulnerable to George’s whim (I have some thoughts on this too in my tagged posts)? What if the season ended still with Haxby getting turfed out by Lady Caroline, but he somehow gets hired (as a servant, bootblack, porter, etc.) by Lydia or Margaret, and Charlotte does indeed have him to command now, even if at first she may not want to deal with him or may only want to humiliate and berate, but then eventually she (or he -- remember the hallway) gets ideas?

Didn’t know where else to put this: can a bit of dialogue serve as a prompt? Just throwing this out there, either one could say either line: “What have you done to me?/I hate you for what you’ve done to me.” “I assure you it is entirely mutual.”

Rome

Niobe/Titus Pullo/Lucius Vorenus

This is the threesome of my heart, in one of the forever-shows-of-my-heart. Basically: ignore Niobe dying (Vorenus can still grumble about her infidelity on occasion) and Vorenus supposedly dying, and give me these three being domestic, in Rome or in rural Italy. Vorenus still being a principled grump who can be tough to be around, Pullo still being happy-go-lucky and not the brightest yet deeply loyal, Niobe being equal parts tactful and willful, interested in the good life and able to make the best of imperfect situations.

If you feel like writing some threesome smut, I would adore a fic with any/all of the following: Niobe/Pullo happening in front of Vorenus, with his knowledge, and seeing his reactions (jealous in spite of agreeing to it, aroused, ashamed of his arousal) before he’s enticed into joining in; Vorenus being Vorenus while letting Pullo fuck him with Niobe’s help and participation; the POV shifting between the three of them (Niobe maybe initially worried then delighted since she’s the one who balances things out, Pullo always delighted but also aware that fucking his bloody-minded best friend and best friend’s lovely wife is complicated as well as pleasant, Vorenus having to be difficult and angry about everything - including Pullo probably letting Vorenus fuck him long before they switch because Vorenus wants to but Real Roman Men Don’t - before he can enjoy it and allow it to happen); Pullo says something Pullo-like to almost ruin the mood while being very emotional whether he wants to be or not; Niobe taking charge because the men need to get over themselves but can’t manage it without her gentle help; Niobe and Vorenus sharing a tender moment during the three-way.

If you prefer not to write smut, tell me how these three make it work at home or in relationships with other people (does Lyde or someone else figure it out?) How would they navigate the period of Roman history covered by S2 or its aftermath? Or what if they moved to another part of the empire (I would love a fic which includes some period-appropriate detail)? Some more specific prompts: one or both of the men get drunk/in trouble at a tavern, Niobe and the sober(er) of the men to the rescue (yes, humor would be great too, in this prompt probably with some bloodshed). They celebrate a ritual or make a sacrifice, usually performed by one person or a couple, as a threesome, and how do the three of them think the gods will respond, or will they? The men brag and probably get into an argument telling war stories, then Niobe “shows off her battle scars” and tells some of her adventures as a single mom in the big bad city. Given their temperaments, how does it work when these three want to kiss or hug, or if any two of the three do and the third witnesses it and wants in?

Bit of dialogue as a possible prompt or bit of “business” in the fic: “Juno’s cunt/Jupiter’s cock [whatever fits the situation]” “That’s blasphemy! [or other Roman equivalent of ‘Language!’]”

If you want to mention the kids, with or without Cesarion, that’s fine, just please don’t make this a pure kidfic.

Starred Up

Oliver Baumer/Eric Love

I maintain that this movie’s only major flaw is getting Oliver out of the action before the story’s climax (not like that!). Yes, the final denouement with Love father and Love son was great, as was the hint at the end that Eric learned something in anger-management classes and has a support network that will help him a lot, but I would have wanted to see more of the intriguing dynamic between Eric and Oliver, the intelligent, semi-feral, yet not-incorrigible criminal and the educated, dedicated, kind yet aware of his own potential for violence counselor. The confrontation and oddly flirtatious way Eric quickly gets a rise out of Oliver when Oliver comes to pick him up from his cell, the way Oliver immediately jumps to Eric’s defense when they meet under such adverse circumstances, how Eric barely puts on a front before he lets Oliver and the men in the group influence him -- it all made me want more. I would love to see Oliver return to holding his group in prison, so the two of them can interact more, either in the movie’s immediate aftermath or years down the line (it was hinted that Eric will be serving a very long sentence).

Some prompts -- if you’d prefer to keep it smut-free and relatively sublimated, I’d love more scenes from anger management or the free-flowing conversations in group, either with the other men present or in a one-on-one session between Oliver and Eric, as they deal with their personal histories and experiences (what did Eric do to land in jail and get starred up? Was his story about child abuse bullshit to provoke Oliver, or the tip of a shitty iceberg that was Eric’s life? What about Oliver - why does he, by his own admission, NEED to be there, volunteering in a prison? Did/do his own violent impulses spill over despite his acute awareness of them?)

If you want to write smut, the logistics may be tricky, but I suspect an emergency in the prison might require a lock-down, and Oliver gets temporarily stuck in Eric’s cell or another room with only Eric for company. Or Eric is eventually released and crashes with Oliver while he adjusts (with difficulty) to the outside world, and there’s awkwardness, probably some male chest-thumping, and eventually fucking with the realization that they’ll never be complete equals in terms of the power dynamic between them. If it happens in prison, it could be a few months after the movie, or it could be after Eric has had some time to become a fully mature adult -- and has spent enough time in prison to accept the truth of his father’s taunt about the appeal of a tight, hairy asshole. Also, is Eric really a virgin as Neville suggested (not that Neville would know!), or has he had women/men/both before prison? Eric might seem like the logical initiator and/or dominant partner, but then Oliver might (or might not!) surprise him and is definitely the one more in touch with himself. Is it ha-ha-we’re-locked-in/stuck-together-as-housemates, I-dare-you-to-pass-the-time-and/or-help-my-emotional-stability-with-a-fuck -- or is it hell-shit-fuck-something-has-been-percolating-between-us-and-now-we’re-locked-in-together, possibly with a side of cry-me-a-river-you-want-to-know-how-long-it’s-been-for-me-well-I’m-not-telling? There would definitely be some verbal taunting/flirting about who wants/is eager to do what or is good at doing something. There may be some sniping comments about logistics and (lack of) condoms and barebacking and what men get up to in prison. There probably wouldn’t be deep discussions about sexual identity. Again, a possible line of dialogue for inspiration: “Be a man and face the truth. [You want/are enjoying this.]”

LIKES:

I love pre-canon, canon, post-canon, canon-divergent, and “missing scene from canon” stories. I love character-driven and plot-driven stories equally, and I love fics which mix humor and angst/serious business when appropriate for the canon.

I love irony, snark, 5+1 stories, bittersweet endings, hopeful endings, happy endings, unhappy-but-stoic (in terms of where characters end up) endings, ambiguous or and-the-adventure-continues endings, canon-fitting humor, characters who are their own worst enemies as well as those who learn to get over themselves, characters with conflicting values which may or may not be reconciled/resolved in a believable and IC way, characters who treat each other with respect and as equals even if they hate/annoy/can’t stand/love to dislike each other.

In terms of ship dynamics, I love (where it fits the characters) banter, competitiveness or antagonism shading into attraction (this tension need not be resolved), bickering yet loving couples, faithfulness, characters who are serious about their romantic interests, characters who think they are much better at flirtation than they actually are, characters forced to work together only to prove much more compatible than they initially assumed, fics which mix an exploration of characters’ professional and everyday lives with shipping.

I don’t have any very specific likes for smut, other than smut fitting the characters -- show me how their canon dynamics spill over into the bedroom (or other place of congress). I also like sexual scenarios that subvert expectations a little and surprise the characters themselves (e.g., the person who’s usually quiet or more passive taking charge, the more aggressive person goes with it possibly snarking or commenting on it as long as they can). And I like sexual scenarios that contain an element of competition, antagonism, oh-god-this-is-a-bad-idea-but-we’re-going-for-it, not wanting to admit feelings or show vulnerability except oops it happens anyway, whether the characters acknowledge it or not, or just people getting way more into it or being more affected by it than they thought they would. Also situations in which people have been acting competitive or fine-fine-shut-up-already and then jump into the sex with great enthusiasm even if still snarking. Oral, vaginal, anal, manual (ifyouknowwhatImean) -- it’s all good. You can go as veiled or as explicit as you like, but please avoid excessive medical jargon -- I can see “penes” fitting the Rome canon, but I don’t find a lot of mention of “penis” and “clit” sexy in more modern contexts.

DNWs:

Hard kinks, MPREG, A/B/O, knotting, D/s, incest, genderswap and genderbent characters, non-con, dub-con, torture and abuse, dwelling on bodily fluids (mentions of gore and come are fine where appropriate), toilet humor, character bashing, soulmates and soul marks, major character death (unless it’s canon), pregnancy and children as the lynchpin of the story, characters agonizing over/analyzing/dwelling on their or others’ sexuality as if it’s the sum total of their existence, secondary characters acting like shipping the main pair is their be all and end all, teeth-rotting fluff and schmoop, issuefic, fic written in the first or second person, holiday setting or theme (including Valentine’s), fics which revolve around weddings and birthdays, AUs which have nothing to do with canon (cop characters working in a coffee shop, high-school janitor characters in space, etc.)