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❤ happy valentines day from @cangelgifs ❤

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David Gyasi is fantastic as Austin Dennison in The Diplomat;

And gorgeous both in and out of character ...

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Meme picked up in the wild:-

rules: without naming them, post a gif of ten of your favorite ships, then tag ten people to do the same.

(I made a quick list of my top current and past ships I've been most into that I could think of immediately and it came to 17, and that's not counting the inevitable Obvious Ones I've Forgotten, so count this as pretty random. Apart from #1 because Always.)

(this is sadly the only gif I made of all 3 of them, but this is an ot3, let it be understood.)

Who wants to do this? Whoever's fannish and has ships! (I know not everyone is.)

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Designed by Mary Lowndes and published by Brighton & Hove Women’s Franchise Society, 1909.  From the archive of the Library of the Society of Friends.  Source: https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-right-to-vote

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You have a funny way of looking at the world, don't you, Tower Girl?

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shades of darkness#the lady's maid's bell#classic tv#single play#horror tv#granada#1983#edith wharton#ken taylor#john glenister#joanna david#june brown#norma west#ian collier#charlotte mitchell#roger llewellyn#harry littlewood#diane whitley#clive duncan#malcolm raeburn#bernard atha#alick hayes#SoD was an anthology of period ghost story adaptations that arrived as one short series in '83 followed by a couple of feature length#successors a few years later. Granada had survived the franchise review of 1980 and were rapidly establishing themselves as producers of#prestige period drama; the following year would see the beginning of their legendary Sherlock Holmes series as well as The Jewel in the#Crown. scriptwriter Taylor was an obvious choice‚ having already proved himself with a number of high profile novel adaptations (and it#would be him winning all manner of plaudits for Jewel the next year). he does a good job with Wharton's ghost story‚ lifting a fair amount#of dialogue verbatim from the story. it's a relatively small scale mystery but its ghost‚ in the mute form of June Brown‚ makes a hell of#an impression. a rather sad and delicate narrative that neither demands a lot of interrogation nor offers much in the way of answers or#clear exposition; this is an impressionist sketch of the ghost story as a tale of muted loss and gentle waste below stairs

Shades of Darkness: The Lady's Maid's Bell (1.1, Granada, 1983)

"Who was Emma Saxon?"

"Oh, she were Mrs. Brympton's maid that was. She come first as sewing maid, in Mrs. Brympton's mother's time, and then when Mrs. Brympton married she left with her, as lady's maid then."

"What was she like?"

"No better walked the earth, my mistress loved her like a sister."

"No, I mean... what did she look like?"

"I'm no great hand at describing. And I believe my bread's rising."

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In every direction were avenues of bare trees sinking into blue-white, milky mist, punctuated here and there by green-black holly bushes. The air smelt of frost and earth and decomposing leaves.

The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke

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River, not one person on this ship, not one living thing is worth you.

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Need to see someone named Siobhan on Traitors so I can add to my collection of the worst ways to spell Siobhan

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Gertrude + Robert Chiltern

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If a history-based work is good and inaccurate it’s because it’s a piece of art that sacrificed some points of accuracy for the sake of storytelling and conveying themes deeper and more important than a straightforward recounting of facts. If it’s bad and inaccurate then that’s just another reason why it sucks

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The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who will return to screens worldwide on Saturday 12th April 2025.

The eight-part series will be screened on BBC One and Player in the UK and on Disney + worldwide. It stars Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor and Varanda Sethu as Belinda Chandra

It has also been confirmed that the Scottish actor Alan Cumming will feature in the second episode as the voice of Mr Ring-a-Ding. Cumming previously played King James in the 2018 story The Witchfinders.

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Season 2 Cassie.

That's all.

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Kate Mulgrew as Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager (S2E25, 1996)

There may be a day when I'll come to that, Chakotay, but, I'm a long way from it right now. I need to keep looking.