YOU ROCK, CASSIE! Good for you, getting out of that hell hole before it got worse. You did the right thing and deserve so much better. So here’s to finding something new and that will appreciate you in 2019! BEST OF LUCK!
“Tis a wishing well too, they say. What you do is… dip your right hand in the water, saying ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’, and then your wish is granted.”
My version of what might have happened after the end of Season 4 of Poldark. Will the wishes of Morwenna and Drake finally come true?
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Morwenna’s certain she will feel this way forever.
Her soul tainted, her body numb, shrinking from all human contact. Haunted by her hellish marriage, her sanity barely intact.
But when Drake catches up to her that day on the cliff top, she stops to listen. For one simple reason.
She loves him. To her dying breath.
Even after everything she has suffered, the connection between them endures.
His promise allows her to hope that another kind of life might be possible. A life shared with a truly good man, a man who loves her for herself and wants only to be with her.
All images not mine – thank you to those who made them.
So over the weekend I started watching Poldark season 3 (season 4 airs in the US near the end of September) and…help me, I have become Drake x Morwenna trash
If you’re like me, and love a good cross-class couple, then you’ll love these two:
He’s a Methodist working-class miner who later becomes the local blacksmith; he’s sweet and kind, flirtatious but respectful.
He picks her wildflowers and catches toads just to make her laugh and
smile. He is head over heels for her from day one, learns how to read
and write so he can keep in touch with her when she goes on holiday, and
promises to make something of himself to be worthy of her…
…BUT HE’S ALREADY WORTHY IN HER EYES! She’s gentry-born, well educated, and is expected to make a “proper match” someday. But Drake is what is proper, even if society doesn’t see it that way.
She sneaks to the beach to see him, they run barefoot through the sand,
he gives her a sea-shell bracelet to which she responds it’s the most
valuable piece of jewelry she will ever possess!
UGH, and the ANGST!!!!! So much angst for these two…
If you love Sybil x Tom, I really think you’ll also love Drake x Morwenna. Heck, if you simply love star-crossed, cross-class romances, then I know you’ll love Drake x Morwenna. And when it comes to the angst, just HANG IN THERE! That’s all I’ll say.
I’ve got a job! Starting on Monday, working for a not for profit.
Thanks to all my lovely Tumblr friends for your support and encouragement during a pretty tough year so far. Hoping this is a turning point towards better times.
AHHH!!! CONGRATULATIONS SWEETIE! I’m so proud of you! WELL DONE! Here’s to nothing but good times and positive feelings of job satisfaction! :oD
Wanted to let you know – the new job I thought would be great wasn’t, and I left it last Friday. More under the cut but in short, I’m doing OK. Surprisingly well, really.
A new Sybil x Tom one-shot, inspired by the Rock the AU theme for January (very late, sorry) – ‘forced to share a bed’. Happy Easter, fandom!
Sybil and Tom are both members of the university hiking club. When they take off on a weekend trip to the Lake District in the north west corner of England, sparks fly…
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Who organised this whole trip? Who… well, whatever it was, it was me. And then he swans in at the last minute and… bloody Tom Branson…
She’s the one who has come up with the original plan. A day’s hike up Skiddaw before retiring to the cottage near Keswick for a communally prepared dinner, followed by a well-earned early night.
But no, Tom has other ideas! He suggests an easy half day stroll up Catbells, followed by a visit to the aptly named Salutation Inn, where they can spend the rest of the afternoon and evening drinking, eating and having fun before rolling back to the cottage at God knows what time.
She decides to go ahead with her idea on her own, regardless of what the rest of them want to do.
It’s meant to be the hiking club, not the pissing about club!
Hello, my friend! Thanks so much for your message.
I am enjoying my new job so far – there is a lot to learn but I am already starting to feel at home there. Good people who have made me welcome, a boss who clearly wants to help me understand what I need to know, and a company that is doing something that matters in the world. It’s early days but it’s started really well. I’ve even started writing again, which is a great feeling!
I saw this last night and I love the idea. The big question is – with Tom as George, who is cast as Mr. Emerson?
This is a great question, thanks, and it’s one I have thought about a lot!
As I wrote in this earlier post, coming up with the right way to introduce Tom’s father into this story is one of the trickier parts of this AU, I think. He’s essential as the catalyst for Lucy realising/admitting her feelings for George in the original A Room with a View story, but of course there’s nothing to go on from Downton Abbey at all in terms of Tom’s father.
So I kept it simple and thought about Irish actors of the right sort of age as a starting point. It wasn’t easy, but in the end I chose Brendan Gleeson for the role.
He’s got enough of a look of Allen – similar colouring, anyway – and I could really imagine him as the honest, direct, middle class man who brings Sybil and Tom together in this story. He also has a really funny side, which I remember from a small indie movie he did a while back – The Guard – which makes him a good fit to be Allen’s dad, too. 🙂
Hope you like my choice! Let me know if you have any other ideas.
Musings of a Yankee Countess 