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this douchey manchild is my historical blorbo

taken from 1x 04, 4x12, 5x06. horrible histories is available on disc and bbc iplayer. i am promoting your show do not copyright me

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i would like a 30 minute bbc ghosts feature episode in which the only thing that happens is julian fawcett playing cookie clicker

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GHOSTS (2019) — Historical time periods

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Ah. Hello, Katherine. Feeling alright?

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happy pride to bi girls with bad posture

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If we're going to see Havers again in series 5, I hope it is to bring the Captain closure and help him come to terms with who he is. Perhaps an old letter from Havers surfaces, one he never sent because it contains all the things he always wanted to tell the Captain but couldn't, and then we'll get glimpses into their shared past again, only this time the Captain knows what all the soft smiles and lingering looks and accidental touches meant, and he finally allows himself to realise that he returned every single one of them.

And maybe, just maybe, the episode will end with him looking out of the window again, and as he watches the ghost of Havers leave once more, he whispers for all to hear, "I should have never let him go."

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im not exaggerating when i say i just want to look at this photo forever omgg

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hey guys did you know that uh peter sandys-clarke.

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Good lord...

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uh uh uh ghosts moment

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What the characters on Ghosts would say if you asked them how they feel about pride month

Alison: Love is love. What’s more important and beautiful than people finding someone to build a life with?

Mike: Blokes getting with blokes and girls getting with girls is like, it’s like basic human rights. Like go after what makes you happy! Or who. Or more than one “who.” Don’t people do that? Like a throuple? Dunno. Saw it on a T.V. special. They seemed happy. What was the question?

Fanny: Same sex marriage would’ve made my life so much easier...

Pat: Splendid! Lots of love for LGBTs. Everyone’s a litte gay, right?

Mary: I loves seeing peoples be happy.

Robin: Every month pride month if you not a coward.

Humphrey: There is nothing more important in this world than love.

The Captain: Yes, well. Erm, jolly good for them! Chaps marrying chaps. I’m—I’m happy for them.

Kitty: Oh, isn’t it wonderful! All the people getting together to kiss and show love and have a splendid party! I love the colors and all the people being ever so happy!

Thomas: Ah, June! The month where love can openly and truly flourish! *bursts into tears*

Julian: Love the Ls. Don’t mind a G and T now and again. I’m a bit of B myself. It’s a pity we didn’t have all those other letters in my day. Seems like it’d be lots of fun. The gays do know how to throw a party, let me tell you.

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the captain💞

I can’t stop wondering, I NEED some more backstory. I sobbed so much at the ending of redding weddy

(I thought this was just a silly lighthearted comedy but I’ve cried so many times)

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If he didn't just leave😭

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POV you’re the king and i just made an inappropriate joke about your virility in front of the whole royal court and you want to punish me but you can’t react in anger lest the court think my joke is true

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Lots of people talk about the Captain’s arc like it’s entirely about him learning that it’s okay to be gay (homosexual). But I think, really, it’s far more about him learning that it’s okay to be gay (happy). That’s what’s actually changed about him from series to series, really - he’s gradually become more free and open and honest about everything. The man went from being the most strongly disliked member of a group of people who all already disliked each other, to being a supportive friend, and a surrogate father figure, and a guy who can find simple, peaceful pleasure in sitting and watching a colony of ants go about its business.

(And, you know, a guy who’s also still kind of a dick sometimes - but would we really want him not to be?)

But his sexuality is, obviously, still his biggest hurdle, and I think that’s why it’s taken so long. It has to be the last thing because it’s the culmination of all of it. He can’t get to a place where he can fully accept that he’s allowed to be one of those definitions of the word without also fully accepting that he’s allowed to be the other. It’s a coming out story where coming out is just that one final piece of a much bigger puzzle - but, of course, placing the piece is the only way to finish the picture

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fanny's backstory is just. so sad?? she had so many hopes and dreams and had to give them all up because nobody thought that a young woman like her would actually be able to achieve anything so she was married off and all of her dreams slowly dissipated until eventually she became that which she despised and never got to do anything she really wanted to and it was all because she was a woman and it's just so so horrible and awful and she deserved so much better

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Ghosts + Slate advice columns

(inspired by ghosts as text posts and ghosts as onion article headlines!)