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My love for Hastings is largely due to Hugh Fraser's delightful performance in the Suchet TV series. In fact, Fraser, Suchet and Philip Jackson (as Inspector Japp) make such a wonderful trio, that even though they have been shoehorned into many episodes based on stories in which they didn't feature, these always end up being the more engrossing ones in the series. The later seasons suffer immensely due to their absence.

Captain Arthur Hastings may be Hercule Poirot's sidekick, but he's not like Sherlock's Watson. He doesn't feature as much, besides I don't think they actually live together in the books, or at least not long term. (The Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series is different.) I think Agatha was inspired by Sherlock Holmes originally, when she started writing her mystery books; the Sherlock influence in her early Poirot cases is clear, especially the short stories. (The Adventure of the Western Star, the first story in the Poirot Investigates collection, is very Sherlock/Watson at the beginning: Hastings looking out of the window, telling Poirot to deduce something about the woman walking the street towards Poirot's flat.) Poirot also retires to the countryside to grow vegetable marrows, similar to Sherlock's beekeeping retirement--only it doesn't last long; much like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha had no idea how long she'd end up writing the guy. Later, when she developed her own style, she left Hastings out. I'd actually argue that the best Poirot books don't have Hastings (although, as with everything, YMMW).

Murder of Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Evil Under the Sun, After the Funeral, Hercule Poirot's Christmas are all Hastings-less. Then again, Hastings is in Lord Edgware Dies and ABC Murders, both classic cases and, of course, the first and the last Poirot books, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Curtain.

I think as well that always having to have Hastings by Poirot's side, narrating the story, would have limited her. She uses different POVs across her books.

This is not a love or hate post, btw, or anything against Hastings, I'm just writing out my thoughts. Also you can reblog with your favourite Hastings or non-Hastings Poirot book if you want.

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Mondo poster for 2017's Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi.

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hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

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Rey doesn't know who this man is; he must be one of her newlywed husband's noble guests. Sensing his heated stare, she responded with a courteous smile. But the next thing she knew, everything went black.

When she's awake, she is in a different world and got a different husband.

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A little comic connected to my previous illustration, who doesn't like a Hades/Persephone Reylo AU?

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Klimt + The Addams Family

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It just feels like Bollywood isn't even trying to make heartfelt romantic drama movies anymore like the ones with poetic dialogues and life changing trips and soulmatism and having the Desi elements but also the modern context we live in and the dissection of human relationships and emotions like!!!!!!!!

I feel like it's been years since I've watched something like that maybe that's why so many of us gravitate towards kdramas instead.

BOLLYWOOD YOU CAN DO BETTER!!!!!

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the best parts of feast, easily the greatest book in this series hands down

- cersei, arming the militant faith, who hate her: Machiavelli Wishes He Were Me

- lancel’s wife seductively stroking jaime’s prosthetic and jaime being like you know i can’t. i can’t feel that, right

- euron. i don’t know where to start with euron. how about the part where he does warlock acid and just becomes completely incomprehensible and his brother is like, Euron, this is a verbal conversation

- brienne accidentally remembering naked jaime while she showers and scrubbing her arm very hard and being like no think about your unobtainable dead gay crush THINK ABOUT YOUR UNOBTAINABLE DEAD GAY CRUSH

- this:

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Well done, my brave knight. Now... off with your head.

THE GREEN KNIGHT 2021 dir. David Lowery

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The lyrics of this song SO incredibly good!

My favourite lines:

"raat jo baaqi hai shaam se taaki hai neeyat mein thodi.. neeyat mein thodi kharabiyaan lagaa"

This always makes me laugh because it's so incredibly (and unexpectedly) sexy, in such an otherwise earnest song!

The original poem is by Dushyant Kumar, and the lyrics have been written by Varun Grover.

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Thank you. You saved my family. I did it because they're your family.

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enough of this drama nonsense, what matters is Unexpected Business comes back for another season in a couple of weeks

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DOCTOR WHO • S05E10 ❝Vincent and the Doctor❞

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"I was in Blackpool with the ATS for two years during the war. And there was this man, he kept asking me if he could measure my feet. I know it takes all sorts but..there we go."

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Stray light, Clarissa M Bonet