#John Fairfax

[thisgameissonintendo]

ꜱᴏ ʟᴏꜱᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴘɪᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɢɪᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪɴɢ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ. ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ɪᴛ. ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪɴɢ. ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴛʀᴀᴠᴇʟ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɪᴛ, ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ɪɴꜱᴀɴᴇ. ᴀɴᴅ ɪ'ᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡꜱ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪᴛ'ꜱ ʜɪᴅᴅᴇɴ, ꜱᴏ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴍᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ɢᴇᴛ ɪᴛ ʙᴀᴄᴋ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴀ ʙʟᴜꜰꜰ. ᴡᴇ'ʟʟ, ʏᴏᴜ'ᴅ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ꜱʜᴏᴏᴛ ᴍᴇ, ᴛʜᴇɴ. ʟᴏᴄᴋᴡᴏᴏᴅ, ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ!

[personinthepalace]

Hey nerds! - Lockwood and Co

inspired by this post by @hollow-prior :)

[bella-rose29]

deep analysis of a very obscure thing in lockwood and co (bc why not)

Omg ok (spoilers for episodes 2 and 3 of lockwood and co, and also the books)

So the song that plays when Lucy is holding the ring in episode 2, during the experiment, that she says is Annabel Ward and her lover’s song (“it’s their song”), is Peer Gynt Suite No. 2: Solveig’s Song. 

The version I listened to that made me go “oh okay this is the same song” (after playing it through my earphones in one ear and playing the episode in the other and desperately trying to get the timings to match up to see if there were differences in the singing) is by Edvard Grieg — Yvonne Kenny, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Kamirski. From what I could work out, the song starts in the episode from just before the singing starts. 

The story behind the song is as follows:

"The long-suffering Solveig is devoted to Peer and she sings the song just as he – once more – abandons her. As she sits at the spinning wheel, she sings that although the years may pass she knows that he will come back to her – and that he will find her waiting for him, just as she promised.”

Lyrics:

Perhaps both winter and spring will pass by And next summer and the whole year will expire But surely you will return to me, I am certain And I shall be waiting as I once promised. 

May god give you strength, wherever in the world you may go May god give you joy, if you before his footstool stand Here I shall wait until you come back And if you wait above, we’ll meet there again, my friend.

I did an initial analysis and stuff and then did further research, so I’ve rejigged the document I had before to make more sense here :D

Story of the whole play:

The title character, Peer Gynt, is based on a Norwegian folk hero who is a rogue and will be destroyed unless saved by the love of a woman. 

He is described as a lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to go in search of his fortune. He’s very confident that he’ll succeed, but he keeps having disasters on his journey. 

At one point, he goes to the wedding of a wealthy young woman (that he might have married), where he meets Solveig. She falls in love with him, so naturally his first thought is to abduct the bride from her own wedding and abandon Solveig. 

Then he has really cool and awesome adventures, going around the world and gaining wealth and fame from all his different exploits, but he is, at the middle of it all, deeply unhappy. Eventually, when he is old and disillusioned, he goes back to Norway, where Solveig awaits him, welcoming him home and redeeming him. 

Annabel and John Fairfax are sort of foils to Solveig and Peer respectively, in that they are what happens as a result of a different kind of abandonment (Annabel’s murder). 

Solveig is what Annabel would have been had she stayed alive and Fairfax had simply broken things off in a more traditional sense (i.e. if he hadn’t killed her), and while Peer is redeemed and saved by the love of a woman, Fairfax is destroyed by it, because he twisted the love into hate. 

Now for the parallels between Fairfax and Peer:

Peer is a peasant with little success in life -> in episode 3, as they get off the train, Lockwood notes how Fairfax “came from nothing”. 

Peer has a series of unfortunate disasters on his hunt for success -> Fairfax (in the books), before the Problem, spent his time drinking, gambling, and getting into show business, instead of going into the family business. In the show this does not seem to be the case, but it’s a nice parallel that includes the books!

Peer abandons Solveig to run off with the bride -> I interpreted this as Fairfax abandoning (murdering) Annabel for his own bride, which is his desire for success. In a way his bride is the Fairfax iron company, because he’s practically married to it. 

After the abduction, Peer has really successful and fantastical adventures, very different to the disasters that he had previously experienced before the kidnapping -> after Annabel, Lockwood again (Lucy says he has a hard-on for Fairfax which I think is hilarious) in episode 3 (just before talking about how Fairfax came form nothing) notes that Fairfax “succeeded in everything he’s tried. Publishing, show business - he didn’t even start smelting until he was in his thirties. Now look at him”. Fairfax by his own admission also worked in casinos, adding another job (or adventure) to his list. 

Peer gains wealth and fame -> Fairfax gains wealth and fame (just dropping in “miss Kingston got her hair done special” because I love it and it's vaguely related)

And this is where the similarities split off from one another:

Peer is deeply unhappy -> Fairfax seems to be perfectly fine with his situation. 

Peer comes back home old and disillusioned -> Fairfax in a way comes home, as he ends up back in Combe Carey Hall (although this is not where Annabel was killed, it is still one of his properties), and he is old, but he is not disillusioned. He says in episode 3 that he doesn’t regret buying the ring, he regrets “leaving it behind when I bricked her into that chimney” and that he “knew it was monstrous. But I couldn’t throw my whole life away for one mistake. Not then, not now.” He still isn’t willing to give up his life, because he is perfectly content where he is. 

The final parallel I want to note is between Annabel and Solveig. While one was murdered and the other neglected but still devoted and in love, both women wait for their old lover. In completely different ways, sure, because one is sitting at her spinning wheel hoping that he’ll come back and see that she’s the right one for him (cue “you belong with me”) and the other is bricked into a chimney as an angry Type Two ghost that kills people, but both are waiting. 

“She’s been wanting to see you for a very… long time, Mr Fairfax” Lucy says.

Annabel is devoted to Fairfax, and as she dances and sings along to the song, he abandons her (kills her). while waiting in that cavity in the wall, and her spirit is bound to the ring/necklace, she is waiting for him. 

We see in episode 3 that when Lucy lets Annabel out of the ring, throwing it in the air to set her ghost free, Annabel doesn't attack the agents, or even Ellie who is stood nearby. 

She goes straight for Fairfax, because she's been waiting for him. Her devotion to him may have changed into devotion for revenge over the years, but she was waiting for him nonetheless. In a way he did come back to her, even if it was unintentionally, and he ended up being greeted by her one last time. 

He is not saved by coming home and finding his version of Solveig, he is instead destroyed, because his version of Solveig was killed along with any love she might have had for him. 

[belpheg0r-luna]

I'm betting my bottom dollar that this fairfax freak is up to no good. You wont catch me trusting a man who made billions from The Problem.

[george-the-pumpkin]

Lockwood [to Fairfax]: Do you know how much that coat cost? Could you have maybe shot at me somewhere else?

[weird-tea]

Lockwood & Co. meets Guide to Troubled Birds Part 4

[cryscabbage]

"If your wrists were slashed with your own knife, would anyone think twice?"

"I'm always surprised when you come to see me, Locky. Thought you'd be dead by now."

"Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead." "I understand that.."

"You're right, no one will be surprised if I turn up dead, they've all been waiting for it. So put me out of my misery by all means, but just let her go."

"Do what you want with me, I don't care."

"What the hell was that?" "Flo was right, total psychos." "Not them, you, you were practically begging him to kill you." "I'd prefer to call it a noble sacrifice." "Oh don't give me that shit, you know if I hadn't come to, you'd be dead." "That's... That's not true."

"You might be able to turn your feelings on and off like a tap..."

"I'm the only one who knows where it's hidden so if you kill me, you will never get it back." "That's a bluff." "You'd better shoot me, then." "You'd have fitted in well with the monks, boy, you have a death wish." "Yeah maybe.. But you're not going to do it."

"Nothing good comes from letting people in. Everything ends and everyone leaves."

"When my time comes, I don't intend on leaving anyone behind who's going to lie there every night wishing I would just walk through that door one more time."

"To be honest, the bottom of the Thames used to be a far more appealing place to be and really no one would've cared."

"That bastard has a plan." "A suicidal one." "That tends to be a feature of all my best plans."

"Lockwood almost died a thousand times, but I think he's decided he's better off alive."

Mate ain't fucking well, this is just scenes from the show, let alone the book

[fireflylies]

[kwistowee]

#wooing THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2002)

[grumpy-aino]

Fairfax: Okay, so get this.

Fairfax: Your make ten meals, you're not a cook.

Fairfax: You make twenty paintings, you're not an artist.

Fairfax: But you kill ONE PERSON-

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Men, ladies and gentlemen...

Men.

insolent, desperate, soft, haggard, charismatic, enigmatic MEN.

[ms-march]

Chapter 34- Luck be a Lady (TURN AMC)

Remember how I used to post a chapter update weekly? Yeah. Happy chapter 34 after almost a year! It was already kinda written, so. Unfortunately, it doesn't show where I am with my writing abilities now; bear with me. The upcoming chapters are kinda a lot of the drabbles already written, so at least it should be faster (if I am peer pressured)! If you like it, please like, comment, and/or reblog!

It should have been her first kiss, Thaddeus knew that, but he also knew it was far from it.  She had been kissed well beyond a short peck on the lips, he would know.  Thaddeus also knew that a kiss from her was intoxicating.  It haunted you in your sleep. You woke up with the feeling of her soft lips on yours for months after they touched.  Thaddeus would know.  He had kissed her in his dreams—hell, he had done more than just kiss her in his dreams—and he knew the soft and sweet feeling of her lips was inescapable. He could not say that now. Had she wanted to kiss John?  Invited him to the most perfect pair of lips he’d ever seen with a smile?  Or had John stolen the kiss?  Grabbing her by her silks and pressing her lips to his?   If kissing her once upon the lips was enough to make John no better than a common scoundrel, what did that make Thaddeus who knew what the soft creamy skin of her bosom felt like on his lips?  He should not think of such things at the moment lest his body ache and give him away to the man before him. 

Shout out @tallmadgeandtea, for distracting me so heavily in thee ye ol' group chat that I didn't realize my fic hadn't been updated for about a year love you, bestie like fr

[macaron-n-cheese]

Hey! quick question on the founding fathers affair post

I hadn't ever heard of affairs by Washington, Adams, and Madison (unless you're talking about the potential existence of the other Madisons descended from Coreen). I know these three are alleged, but would you be able to point to any additional info about this?

Not arguing :)

just want to explore this further

Oh of course!

Yes, the alleged Madison one is about the other Madisons!

Washington and Adams would be considered scandalous in the 18th-century but not so much by today's standards.

Washington was in love with his friend's wife, Sally Fairfax, and sent her letters confessing. There is a lot unknown about their relationship, however. Here is a little article I found on it!

Adams is also a question. They may have had premarital sex (*gasp*...scandalous). Their daughter Nabby was born 8 AND A HALF months after their marriage. Letters and diary entries from before their marriage contain stuff. My source for this is The First Family by Joseph J. Ellis. They're very wholesome :). Thank you John for not burning your letters like SOME people *looks at Thomas Jefferson because I'm sure there was much more scandalous writing there.*

I hope that helps! Happy researching! :D

[curiousb]

The Willoughby Family Album: Volume IV

Louisa's platonic friendship with next-door neighbour Marmaduke is still going strong.

And despite a bit of a false start with schoolmate Erasmus, who didn't seem to appreciate their ribald sense of humour...

they soon establish a rapport.

But it's Sally that has caught their attention, and although she seemed reluctant to begin with, she readily agrees to a date.

Romance Sim Louisa of course makes the first move.

But to be honest, Sally seems just as keen.

They're completely stuck on each other.

Despite achieving a huge personal milestone, Caroline doesn't look happy.

And she's apparently oblivious to her teenage offspring making out very enthusiastically in the living room with a girl she's never met before.

Perhaps the continuing rift with husband John is weighing on her more than she'd like to let on?

And in the end, she opts for a reconciliation, but entirely on her terms of course.

[quietparanoiac]

— But you just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins. — I said it was perfectly heartless of you under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. — Maybe, but the muffins are the same.

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)  

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Ok so Logical is Marianne @ Willoughby and Lacy is Harriet @ Emma (I can also see Lacy being Emma @ Jane)