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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Additional Tags: Original Fiction, Christmas Fluff Summary:

With her parents away visiting her brother and her Journo boyfriend covering the UK Christmas strikes, Stacey Cook realizes she will be alone for the first time on Christmas Day. Stacey just wants to hide under her duvet, but a scheduled hair appointment early on Christmas Eve morning means Stacey has to open her eyes.

[ilovemushystuff]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

@weshallc 🍰🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

[miss-ute]

Tuberculosis

Thank you @weshallc 🥰

He didn't realise for two days my ass!

[snoopctm]

CtM Thursday Thoughts

Merch and Marketing

Hello Nonnatuns! 

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Thursday post, but since there’s been an issue raised recently and it’s Thursday, I thought I would post some of the things I’ve been thinking about. If you’re interested, more thoughts follow...

So, I’ve noticed there’s been a little bit of an issue about the new CtM Cookbook, and it’s been confusing me a little. I replied to @weshallc’s post about this already, but I noticed other comments on that post, as well, and likes, so I guess there are several people who have problems with this product. I’m wondering what it is about a cookbook that’s raising concern when there already has been a host of CtM merchandise, and not nearly as much as I’ve seen for other shows (like t-shirts, Funko Pops, even Lego sets, etc.) CtM itself has had calendars, puzzles, a board game, playing cards, etc. I’m not sure how a cookbook is much different than those things.

Also, I noticed a few comments to the effect that the CtM production team should be spending more time on the show itself than on making merchandise. I wanted to mention that I don’t think the CtM show producers or Heidi had much to do with the cookbook (or the board game, puzzles, calendars, etc.) The production company contracts with a licensing firm for merchandise, and I think the writer/publisher of the cookbook probably went through those channels to get approval. I’m sure CtM has someone to look over the products to approve them and make sure they’re well done and in the spirit of the show, but this cookbook was written by a food historian who also wrote other books, including a Downton Abbey cookbook. It’s been approved by CtM, and features pics and quotes, but as far as I know, Heidi  and the executive producers didn’t have a hand in writing it. Producing this or any other product tie-ins does not usually have any direct impact on the writing/producing of the show itself. If anyone has issues with series 12, they have every right to express that opinion, but series 12 was going to be what it was regardless of a cookbook or any other CtM merchandise that could have been produced. 

Also, as for the book itself, it really is a quality product. I like cookbooks, and I have a few, and this is a good one. It’s not just a collection of recipes with pics from the show. It has historical essays, and many of the recipes are described in context with moments from the show, or characters. It’s an interesting read, and I haven’t made any of the recipes yet, but they look really good. I’m looking forward to trying some of them. 

For anyone who doesn’t like cookbooks, you probably won’t like this one. I understand if it’s just not your thing. Some people in the comments on Facebook were asking about a book of crochet/knitting patterns, for instance, and if that ever gets made, although I’d have no problem with it in principle, I probably wouldn’t buy it because I don’t crochet or knit. I do cook, though, so the cookbook has been of interest to me since I first noticed it for pre-order on Amazon a few months ago. CtM is a medical show primarily, but it’s also about its era and location, and how people lived then, and it’s about the characters. Food has been a big part of the show since the beginning. Eating and drinking have been the centerpiece for a lot of memorable moments on the show, so this book with its focus on food, history and context makes a sense to me. It seems like an entirely appropriate tie-in with the show, at least to me. I guess not everyone is going to agree, and that’s OK, but I just wanted to put a few thoughts out. 

Thanks to everyone who reads this!

[levinson-mannion]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Robert: Can you carry me bridal style to the kitchen?

Cora: Why? Are you injured?

Robert: I feel the need to be dramatic, like right now

Cora: …

Cora: Yeah sure, come here

64 notes - Posted August 3, 2022

#4

Cora: I need to get something off my chest

Robert: is it your shirt? Please say it's your shirt

73 notes - Posted July 18, 2022

#3

Reblog this to appreciate Cora Crawley. If you don't like it I will assume you don't appreciate Cora Crawley

82 notes - Posted April 24, 2022

#2

Violet: [Pointing at the broken coffee machine.] So. Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just wanna know.

Cora: ...I did. I broke it.

Violet: No. No you didn't. Rosamund?

Rosamund: Don't look at me. Look at Robert.

Robert: What?! I didn't break it.

Rosamund: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Rosamund: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Rosamund: Suspicious.

Robert: No it's not!

Mary: If it matters, probably not, but Edith was the last one to use it.

Edith: Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Mary: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Edith: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Mary!

Cora: Okay let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Mama

Violet: No! Who broke it!?

Rosamund: Mama...Tom's been awfully quiet.

Tom: REALLY?!

[Everyone starts arguing.]

Violet: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it. I predict 10 minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.

83 notes - Posted September 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Robert: I thought marriage was about love and trust. But you have betrayed me.

Cora: I had an early hospital meeting.

Robert: You abandoned me!

Cora: You didn't get enough sleep, I didn't want to wake you.

Robert: But I did wake up! By myself! No wife! No kisses!

95 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

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[nunonabun]

Concussion ;)

Ooo interesting ask, but no cigar. Nobody’s taken that kind of a knock in my WIPs ;)

[send me a word and I will post a line from WIP if that word appears in the fic]

[billgavemeextrachips]

OH MY GOSH WESHALLC.

WESHY!!! (Can I call you Weshy? I saw one of the other Tumblr Nonnatans say it once.)

So I saw you reblogged my Tumblr link to the final chapter of Just Beneath Her Heart, with an amazing recommendation, and I was like:

Then I log into fanfic.net and have SO MANY NEW REVIEWS.

Not to mention all our messaging back and forth about the little details, thought-out characterization work, allusions to and inclusions of canon, that make reading and writing fanfic so very rewarding...

YOU’RE THE BEST OK!?

[candlesoul]

[weshallc]

A VERY MUSHY BIRTHDAY!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ilovemushystuff 🎁🎈💌🎂 This fandom is definitely used to and needs our Mushy stuff 😘🤗💝

[eatapinkwafer]

”How many days until the CtM CS??”

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@wednesdaygilfillian @thatginchygal @my-little-yellowbird @ilovemushystuff @weshallc @miss-ute @anamarialujan @snoopctm @mg-bsl381 @levinson-mannion @aimee-jessica @h4t08 @sissi459 @soph1988 @turnt4turnadette

Happy New Year! 🥂🎆🥳

Thank you for fangirling with me! Love and best wishes for 2022!

[ilovemushystuff]

Happy Birthday @weshallc !

From mushy with love.

[miss-ute]

for @weshallc thank you! **

[h4t08]

I feel like Fred Buckle is in the picture. What do you think @weshallc?

[levinson-mannion]

Happy Fanfiction Authors Appreciation Day

Ironically, yesterday I was reading fanfic for longer then I care to admit, today I have (shockingly) been reading real books. However, I do know that I had always watched things and heard things saying how bad and offensive fanfiction is. I believed them, not knowing any different.

That was until I was curious. I had finished watching Downton abbey for the first time, I had fallen in love with the characters and relationships. Maybe it was that state of the world in January 2020, but I wanted more content.

I found it.

And ever since then I have been sucked into the world of fanfiction and fandom and I have never been so grateful. I know for a fact I would be in a much worse state if I did not have fanfic and that is saying something.

All my thanks goes to the fanfic authors who bring me such amazing fanfic that put smiles on my face and makes me hate them but really, thank you for the angst.

Every single fandom I have read fanfic for makes me happy and I don't regret I single day of reading fanfic, and that is thanks to you all.

Fanfiction is everything to me and the brilliant authors who write it, I can not thank them enough for taking their writing out into the world.

Below I shall tag some fanfic authors who I would like to appreciate today, but this also goes to the ones that u have not tagged. Please keep writing and so what's good for you.

@anamarialujan @bella-caecilia @aimee-jessica @mcgonneville @miss-ute @weshallc @atearsarahjane @maddieandchimney @ellanainthetardis @wednesdaygilfillian @ohtobealady @rachelanne2018 @ every fanfic author out there and if I missed you off I am forever sorry.

I would also, as an author myself, like to appreciate and thank readers, every like, kudos, comment and read makes my day and others to and I would like to thank you for your support!

Have a good day everybody, and happy August 21st! Love ya! 💕