Allie, she/her, tired elder millennial, here to talk Slow Horses
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😭😭😭😭 I’m laughing so hard
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one of theeeee funniest things in slow horses s1 is when duffy and webb show up together to collect lamb and standish with NO explanation as to why webb is there.
obviously, duffy would go, & i guess webb is tavener's errand boy, but there's just something SO FUNNY to me about webb getting pulled in. like, ah, yes, let's get the dogs and...hr involved. yes, yes, perfect collab.
i also think it's funny that they work pretty okay together. it doesn't seem like webb ran his mouth a lot around duffy or like duffy was very annoyed by him- until he got scolded by tavener in the hub later & he gives webb such a Look.
but idk. it's such a weird duo.
plus they look like a pitbull and chihuahua stood next to each other & it's very good.
#slow horses#nick duffy#james spider webb#I think about this constantly#like more than almost anything else about slow horses which is really saying a lot
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being way less slick than he imagines himself to be
#slow horses#river cartwright#river has this one special look whenever he’s gotten caught or been had yet again that is my very favorite thing about this show#and this is a glorious compilation#also when he’s very obviously trying to get Catherine’s phone out under the table while he’s talking to Frank
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Tragic News: Saddest puppy dog just got a crystal clear visual of tonight's activities.
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he's about half a second away from spelling it for her or pantomiming with his fingers like:
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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Mix and repeat.
(River tied up while wearing those tight hipster pants deserves more attention. I wonder what Lamb's nemesis Katinsky would think if he knew it was Lamb who had chosen River's clothes.)
#slow horses#river cartwright#thank you op these are absolutely magical#the last few have sent my brain offline completely
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Me, responding to a friend who just saw a clip from s4 and IMMEDIATELY demanded an explanation for Hugo Weaving’s accent: One of my favorite things about it is that most of the people I’ve met on Discord are British or Australian and none of them registered anything even remotely off about what he was doing. From which I can only conclude that that’s what we [Americans] sound like to them
Friend: it made sense in the matrix at least. like he’s a made up robot in a scifi future he sounds weird
#slow horses#frank harkness#let me be clear I adore Hugo Weaving he’s given us so much#but that was wild#it’s sort of circled around to become its own thing at this point and I love listening to it
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“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.
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JACK LOWDEN
THE GOLD Season 2 Episode 5
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Am doing annual data privacy trainings at work and I fear River Cartwright would easily fall for a phishing attempt as long as it seemed sufficiently urgent
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whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight
#giant iced drinks#giant water bottle goes with me everywhere#maybe too friendly#summer weekends are quote at the lake unquote#doesn’t matter which lake#american midwest
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when you're tired so you tell the kids to please just go play outside for a while
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little stranger at ao3 cowritten with @bitsieb
Nick Duffy/River Cartwright. Summary: Duffy's on the hunt for a de-aged River Cartwright and, unfortunately for River, finds him. Noncon, explicit, etc
#slow horses#river cartwright#nick duffy#ha ha yes sickos meme#idk what to say about this one but we had a great time#my fics#our fics#River is 18/19/20ish
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Having risen without consciously deciding to, River went with the flow: out of his office, up the stairs. The top floor was always dark. Even when Lamb's door was open, his blinds were drawn, and Catherine's office, at the back of the building, sat in the shadow of a nearby office block. Catherine preferred lamps to overhead lighting - the only trait she shared with Lamb - and these didn't so much dispel the gloom as accentuate it, casting twin pools of yellow light between which murkiness swarmed. Her monitor gave a grey glow, and in its wash, as River entered her room, she seemed a figment from a fairy tale: a pale lady, hoarding wisdom. River plonked himself on a chair next to a pile of vari-coloured folders. While the rest of the world pursued a digital agenda, Lamb insisted on hard copy. He'd once toyed with instigating an employee-of-the-month award, based solely on weight of output. If he'd had a pair of scales, and an attention span, River didn't doubt he'd have done so. ‘Let me guess,’ Catherine said. ‘You’ve finished what you were doing, and want some more work.’ ‘Ho ho. What’s he up to, Catherine?’ ‘He doesn’t tell me.’ She seemed amused that River thought he might. ‘He does what he does. He doesn’t ask my permission.’ ‘But you’re closest to him.’ Her expression wavered not one inch. ‘Geographically, I mean. You take his calls. You manage his diary.’ ‘His diary’s empty, River. Mostly he stares at the ceiling and farts.’ ‘It’s a captivating picture.’ ‘He smokes in there too. And it’s a government office.’ ‘We could make a citizen’s arrest.’ ‘We might want to practice on someone smaller.’ ‘I don’t know how you stand it.’ ‘Oh, I offer it up.’ Fear flashed in River’s eyes. ‘Joke? He’d drive a saint to suicide, anyway. Frankly, whatever he’s up to, I’m just relieved he’s somewhere else.’
Dead Lions by Mick Herron (2013)
#slow horses#river cartwright#catherine standish#one of my very favorite book passages#a pale lady hoarding wisdom#the language doesn’t need to be this beautiful
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Don’t get me wrong because I love Aimee-Ffion Edwards but now I’ve started reading dead lions can’t help but feel slightly robbed of thicc buzz cut Shirley
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