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Same.

Monday mood…

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Lark

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

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endeavour musings vi

featuring: quartet s5e5, Bright + Thursday I just want to highlight this scene:

BRIGHT: I don't want to have to raise my voice in front of the men, but this station is currently under review. THURSDAY: They wouldn't simply shut Cowley down, though, would they, sir? BRIGHT: Results, Thursday. Results. We shall live or die by our achievements… or the lack of them. THURSDAY: To be honest, sir… ..I'm not sure I've got the miles left in me to start over at a new nick. Particularly if it meant a new guv'nor.

It actually doesn't need any highlighting, because Lesser + Allam convey a lifetime's life in less than 2 minutes. Everything about this scene is gorgeous: Bright's confidence in Thursday about the review (as compared "to the men"), Thursday's honesty and doubt about the political machinations of upper management, Bright's honesty and doubt in return ("or lack of them"), and then Thursday doubles down on that honesty with a straightforward, not sentimental loyalty.

I love that Bright's cynicism here about "results," as the gauge of a successful review, and how that contrasts with the emotional onus of the rest of their conversation: the men, the station, governors (people vs systematic measurements) I love the earthiness of Thursday's metaphor ("got the miles") as if he were a beast of burden, and the vulnerability when he says a "new guv'nor." Thursday intimates to Morse that it doesn't matter who the man in charge is, but that isn't really true: where Box tempts Thursday further down the path of self destruction, Bright only ever calls him back. They've seen each other through a lot already, and there's more to come! Compare it to when Thursday mentions putting in his papers to Morse: it's because he's "too set in his ways" and he won't do "cloak and dagger" coppering. It's the spirit of the same thing he says to Bright, but Thursday can't or won't be vulnerable to Morse in the same way -- Morse is too young to understand (as Bright will), that Thursday's tired of this life.

And also worried that all of this has meant nothing. The whole exchange between Bright and Thursday is roiled underneath by that worry, by both men, that their life's work is being thrown on the scrape heap, and that it was worthless.

I love that the show acknowledges that even though Bright is older than Thursday, Thursday has a lot more mileage. The toll of being a copper has fallen on them unevenly, mostly because of class but also personality. And Bright cares about that, and him. They value each other regardless. It fits into the enlisted man-officer dynamic and surmounts it.

The layers on layers here is stunning: the two steaming cups of tea, the comfortable English ritual, punctuating the vulnerability of the confidences between them.

(Strange calls their meetings "Morning Prayers," at one point and I love that description and its connotations to bits.)

Final note: Bright's friendship for Thursday is the parallel of Max's for Morse. Neither has the all-or-nothing character of the friendship between Thursday & Morse, which at times is pointlessly self-sacrificial to destruction's sake, but it is lovely and beautiful and bright (yes) all the same.

Cf: Coda, Prey

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I can’t copy this and edit it, so I’m just gonna put my answers below. Also, I can’t think of anybody else to tag besides @peeps-posts @crusoe89 @essexmermaid @thewatcher98 @sircolinmorgan

Last Song: Most of Handel’s “Messiah”

Last Movie: I tried to watch “Black Bag” this morning and it’s godawful.

Last Book: The Wager by David Grann

Last TV Show: I’m ashamed to say that I’m obsessed with all iterations of “Below Deck“. Guilty pleasure. I should probably say Ludwig to sound smarter.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Savory. It also sounds more delicious when you spell it with a U. Savoury. 

Relationship status: divorced

Last Thing I Googled: Directions

Looking forward to: having more time for Endeavour on Tumblr!

Current Obsession: The Traitors!



Getting to know me!

Rules: tag 10 people you want to know more about

Last song: It's been a while since I listened to anything bar instrumental folk music

Last movie: Ghoomer (a 2023 movie from India about a girl who reinvents herself in sport after losing an arm)

Last book: Under the Golden Sun by Jenny Ashcroft

Last TV show: Death in Paradise, The Last Detective (flip-slopping between these two)

Sweet/spicy/savory: Spicy (though I also like sweet)

Relationship status: Partnered

Last thing you Googled: Richard Armitage audio books (not a big fan of audio books but I love Richard's voice)

Looking forward to: My outdoor herb garden (assuming the transplanted saplings survive the current week-plus of heavy rain)

Current obsession: Jane Austen (re-reading and re-watching the fabulous mid-90s adaptations, especially Persuasion)

Thank you for the tag @phoenixflames12 and @gaytobymeres

No-pressure tagging @too-antigonish, @librawritesstuff, @dancelikeanarchitect, @melbows, @season-77, @oeuvrinarydurian,

@3lysa, @wildwildtarget, @magnificentgardenerdinosaur

And anyone else who would like to play!

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Arghmyheart

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It’s been said 1 million times, but no reason not to re-blog somebody saying it again. 

This feels so extremely rare to be able to say about a TV show but I genuinely feel like the pilot episode of Endeavour is probably the best TV pilot in existence, and one of (if not THE) best episodes of the whole series. I know the creators of Endeavour refer to the episodes as films in their own right and that REALLY feels exceptionally true for the pilot. I've rewatched it more than any other part of the series just because I love it so much. The way it establishes who Morse is as a character from the start is incredible (the angelic choir in the background as Morse is gazing out the bus window at the beginning makes me Feel So Many Things). You know who he is so quickly but in such a unique way, because he's a fascinating character but not exactly an archetype that you can put your finger on. Oh, he's a brilliant young upstart with bright eyes and a quicker mind than most. He's also deeply emotional, sensitive, lover of opera and poetry, and he sings in a choir. He knows he's brilliant at what he does and either shrinks away or gets snippy at any hint of condescension from his superiors, but oh, how he bleeds with the desire to please those he respects. He has a deeply held set of beliefs and principles that he lives by, but every now and then his aching need to be loved, loved, loved, oh won't somebody please love him, will tempt him into bending them. He's an angel and a wounded animal at the same time.

And you get all that from the pilot.

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“Shaun, are you looking forward to Durian’s six months of booking season coming to a close?”

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I have mixed feelings about this, but the ‘stache Morse is spot on. 

The Sunday Confessional:

I asked an AI bot to turn Shaun Evans into a Muppet. Forgive me…

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I believe the release of the fidget is more elegantly pronounced in the filmed example. I think we can probably chalk that up to the coursing of adrenaline that live performance causes.

Spot the Difference...

In my ummm... 'analysis' of Evans and his various fidgets I've noticed a few recurring ones including this beauty where he draws his thumb along his palm from his finger

I think I'd better watch it again just to be sure though..

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Always re-blog a postcoital Morse.

You smug motherfucker you…

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It’s not that I don’t appreciate them, but those pants are so tight that if he stood up, we could see which way he putshimself together. 

Since @jessieren kicked off this pun, I simply must toe the line. Apologies… but when I see those raspberry socks, I just can’t keep my feelings at bay. 🧦😏

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I bet we can find a worse one.

oh that's the worst anyone has ever held a phone

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“This milk has *zero* vodka in it.”

this guy is always miserable

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This guy.

I'm calling this one "Eyes That Burn Through Your Soul"

On the *far opposite* end of the spectrum from yesterday's soft, fond expression is a fairly signature Morse look that is nonetheless a favorite of mine. Its name is self-explanatory.

(Also, I think this has officially become a series.)

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The full body eye roll is epic.

This one is called "Yes, I am totally judging you..."

A Morsian expression that requires no explanation whatsoever. Would include far more eyerolls if there were a better way to link to gifs...

[Gif by @librawritesstuff]

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I love this new game.

Happy Monday everyone... and welcome to my new game of... *drum roll*....

'Tache or no Tache'

The simple rules of the game are you have to guess whether the following pics of Evans feature a tache or not.

⬆ Yeah ok - we all know this one has a tache... but you know - crouching Evans, too snug navy shirt of smugness, director Evans... ummm, did I mention he's crouching?

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Gah. Those eyes.

ENDEAVOUR | MUSE.