#character: albert campion

[sweetiepeteypie]

peteys + aesthetics 💕✨

[curiosityshop]

My favorite thing about Campion is how he’s at once the smartest person alive and the dumbest person alive, often at the same time. He is completely unhinged while also being a certified baby who constantly needs minding by a convicted felon built like a brick shithouse. I think that’s very iconic of him. 

[missanthropicprinciple]

5 Comfort Characters, 5 Tags

tagged by @xoxoladyaz thanks doll! <3 <3 <3

Sherlock Holmes (Granada version most of all)

Watson (Granada Holmes, Hardwicke)

Miss Marple (Joan Hickson)

Albert Campion (Peter Davison)

Poirot (Suchet) + bonus Fraser!Hastings

oh god, they're all detectives....

@notwiselybuttoowell @starbug1988 @trifoliate-undergrowth @thetookasnest @pokemonandcatsmostly @spengnitzed @thesundaytea @thekidasleepinthebackseat @belosers

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (29 Jan-4 Feb 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊👂‍A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - very entertaining historical cozy mystery with charming characters and not heavy historical accuracy (which doesn't detract in any way from the entertainment value (at least for me)). Plus the fact that they are free in both ebook & audio via KU. Definitely going to read more.

🥰 Exquisite (copperbadge aka Sam Starbuck) - 172K, White Collar, Peter/El/Neal - complete AU rewrite of s1-2, very well plotted & integrated; light D/s dynamic with P/N. I regret endlessly that there is not more good OT3 stuff like this for this show!

🙂 Push The Button (Kalee60) - 100K, shrunkyclunks - absolute tropefest: fake dating, team-as-family, only one bed, an entire pine forest

😊👂‍Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2) (Margery Allingham, author; Francis Matthews, narrator) - this one was full on 'mysterious criminal gang adventure' than 'domestic murder' - I really do enjoy Campion's whole THING: his complete willingness to be the absolute fool so that people vastly underestimate him. alas, CWs for all the usual period typical/contemporary racism/antisemitism/xenophobia (+ a mouse death)

💖💖 +80K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

the night breeze carries something sweet (asbealthgn) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 4.8K - short but delightful rockstar!Eddie/some guy!Steve meet cute

His Greatest Adversary Yet (architeuthis) - original work: 15K - absolutely wonderful story about a retired superhero and the supervillian who keeps seeking him out because he misses him (and has a very late-in-life gay awakening when he finds him)

And I Knew (in the Crystalline Knowledge of You) (PippinPips) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 27K - fantastic Practical Magic AU

Cassiopeia, Orion, Bootes (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 10K - another incredible monsterfucking fic. what a fucking gift!

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Shotgun Wedding

Scooby Doo, Where Are You! - s2, e1-4

Poker Face - s1, e1-4

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Off Menu - Ep 104: Martin Freeman

Welcome to Night Vale #210 - Ten Years Later

Welcome to Night Vale #211 - Howl

The Sporkful - The Boom And Bust Of Meat Alternatives

Renegades: Born in the USA - Relationships with Our Fathers & Masculinity

Welcome to Night Vale #212 - The Campus

You Must Remember This - 1980: Richard Gere and American Gigolo (Erotic 80s Part 3)

Welcome to Night Vale #213 - Murals

Welcome to Night Vale #214 - The Comet's Tail

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Galileo’s Middle Finger

Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan - Nicole Richie—The Conspiracy

Renegades: Born in the USA - Fatherhood

Off Menu - Ainsley Harriott

Vibe Check - Hope Is A Light-skinned Ideal

99% Invisible #523 - Six-on-Six Basketball

Ologies with Alie Ward - Laryngology (VOICE BOXES) Part 2 with Ronda Alexander

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Freud Museum London

Welcome to Night Vale - Bonus Episode: Crime Line

Welcome to Night Vale #221 - The Glow Cloud, Explained

You Must Remember This - 1981: Neonoir, Body Heat and Postman Always Rings Twice (Erotic 80s Part 4)

Into It - A History of Whammies at the Grammys (Plus: What's Lil Rel Howery Into?)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Westgate with Rico Gagliano

Renegades: Born in the USA - Looking Towards American Renewal

Off Menu - Ep 137: Michael Schur

Endless Thread - Him: An AI Love Story

You Must Remember This - 1982: Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Miley Cyrus

Presenting Britney Spears

Presenting Dua Lipa

Future Friends [Superfruit]

Presenting Lady Gaga

My Mix #3 {mostly '80s pop with a New Wave concentration}

my 'Thumbs Up' playlist

[thesafaribaggirl-returns]

Considering I’m a Kemono Friends rper I know these answers probably seem pretty weird, but they’re honest. 

what’s your phone wallpaper : Doctor Black Jack

last song you listened to : Subdivisions by Rush 

currently reading : Perry Mason in The Case of Too Many Murders by Thomas Chastian 

last movie : The live action Boogiepop unless you count TV movies than The Snack Thief an episode of Detective Montalbano 

last show : Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (the live action version)

what are you wearing right now : Black, all black 

piercings / tattoos? : I wish I could afford a tattoo 

glasses ? contacts? : Glasses

last thing you ate? : Frozen Pizza 

favorite color(s) : Blue

current obsession: I guess i’m really into the Albert Campion detective stories at the moment 

do you have a crush right now? : That’s Classified. 

favorite fictional character : Depending on my mood it’s either Nagi from Boogiepop, Rin from Kemurikusa or Koyomi Araragi but only as he appeared in the Bakemonogatari

tagged by: @automaton-otto

tagging: @kurai-honoo @supercoloursupervision and whoever else is interested. 

[carosbooksandreviews]

Book Review: Look to the Lady

Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham is part of the Albert Campion series. Originally published in the early 1930s, it follows Campion as he attempts to thwart the theft of a chalice, a valuable family heirloom of the Gyrth family.

He is aided in this attempt by his manservant Lugg, Val Gyrth and his sister Penny, and the Gyrth’s new neighbour Beth. There are several other supporting characters throughout the novel as well.

To be honest, the story was a bit slow for me. I felt that it dragged a bit in places. Others might enjoy the slow burn of the pace though.

I would recommend this book to those who enjoy mystery novels.

This is a review of a library book that I borrowed. 

[beesandwasps]

There’s a dead body on the floor!

Arthur Conan Doyle: The death is reported in the press as a stroke, but Sherlock Holmes notices that the freckles on the back of the left hand are actually a tattoo used to mark the members of a secret society in a location which is Very Definitely Not England. He discovers the criminal, but lets him go for reasons which are totally not sentimental because, as the narrator reminds us every tenth paragraph, Holmes is a reasoning machine who never shows emotion.

Dorothy L. Sayers: After a witty interlude of a mere 20 chapters, during which Lord Peter Wimsey shows how human he is and how kind he can be to those who are not part of the nobility and Harriet Vane meets with somebody who is a caricature of some 1920s-30s British social phenomenon, the murderer is unearthed and has an emotional climax of some kind so that Wimsey can feel guilty about it to make him a more sympathetic character.

Edgar Wallace: There are three possible outcomes. (1) The identity of the killer is obvious and we get to watch as a grumpily comedic policeman and/or a Heroic-with-a-capital-H young man rescue a poor-but-beautiful young woman from the villain’s criminal (possibly sexual) machinations. (2) They died of natural causes, but it occurred while somebody clever was doing something shifty and complicated, so that they now have to cover up the death, sitcom-style, to avoid having their broader scheme unearthed. (3) The killer is stymied, and possibly turned over to the police, by the acts of another criminal who is immensely clever and ultimately acting in the interests of justice.

Charles Dickens: The poor young man died of hunger and exposure and disease because of the follies of Society. There will be a lot of narrational handwringing about the death for a chapter, and a bunch of exaggerated caricatures will react to it at length, but since this book was originally published serially we will return to the immensely complicated main plot immediately thereafter and not speak of him again.

Margery Allingham: The dead woman’s relations are, naturally, distant connections of Albert Campion, and so he will reluctantly investigate. He will get Lugg to do something moderately illegal along the way, which his friend the somewhat grumpy and incredulous policeman will wink at. There will be wistful references to the late Victorian artistic/literary/theatrical scenes.

Agatha Christie: since the murderer has in past stories already been variously the victim’s best friend, the victim’s father, the male romantic lead, the female romantic lead, the ingenue, the policeman assisting the detective, the detective himself, somebody impersonating the victim, the victim himself (by proxy), the narrator, and — notably — essentially everybody in the story except the detective acting together via a predetermined plan, in order to keep things fresh the killer this time is the one person you didn’t suspect: you, the reader. You did it. Either Hercule Poirot will talk to you until you accidentally tell a lie which unravels your alibi, which he detects Because Of Psychology, or else Miss Marple will realize it was you because you made the same mistake as somebody she once knew thirty years ago. If you’re lucky enough to get Poirot, he will lampshade his own physically impossible great age.

Marion Babson: This is one of a series of crimes which have a shared trait in common which is somehow overlooked by the police (possibly because it is actually really silly), and the characters know it. A cast of British people, plus possibly a token foreigner, will drink a lot while getting very meta about it, and uncover the killer almost by accident.

Jane Austen: The upper-class-but-impoverished family will now have to cope with the ramifications of the death in the highly socially stratified world of Georgian society. There is a good chance that at least one character will be diagnosable under the DSM V, but there will definitely be carriages, dances, and at least one unfortunate marriage.

Edward Gorey: …on this page. There are two in the next picture.

John Mortimer: The body was, at the time of death, doing something really horrifying, and — if you like that sort of thing — there will be a lot of would-be hilarious scenes of lawyers trying to avoid saying what it was out loud. Rumpole will find a way to basically blackmail the prosecutor into covering it up, or some other dirty trick.

Ngaio Marsh: …which is all wrong, the body wasn’t supposed to be on the floor until the opening of Act II. Wait, the actor is prematurely dead?! Inspector Alleyn will uncover the victim’s unsavory past to reveal that one of the upper-class characters was secretly a serious criminal who killed in self defense to escape blackmail.

R. Austin Freeman: After a minute examination, Dr. Thorndyke discovers that the victim is clutching a single hair from the murderer — and it is, astonishingly, a hair with a one-in-a-million unusual condition which will permit the murderer to be identified. The murderer, incidentally, is impersonating somebody else, but even though this is apparently so common as to be an everyday occurrance in the Thorndyke universe, since everybody except Thorndyke is unbelievably moronic he will be the only one to figure it out.

Hulbert Footner: Either the victim or the killer is rich, famous, and/or a friend of Madame Storey, who will force the killer to reveal themselves via cleverly organized maneuvering. The motive will involve greed, but probably also envy. Madame Storey’s secretary will give at least 3 fawning descriptions of how beautiful she is over the course of the investigation.

Dashiell Hammett: I left it there. The way things were going, there were going to be plenty more bodies on the floor by sundown. Besides, only one man in this town could leave a body like that. The victim had to be one of those poor saps who thought they could resist the influence of Richard Williamson. I put in a call to the Old Man to see if I could get authority to meet up with Williamson — and his beautiful, impulsive daughter.

Archibald Fielding: Inspector Pointer will spend eighty-plus percent of the book carrying out a reasonable investigation, in which he will lie unnecessarily to a lot of people. In the last chapter, he will suddenly reveal a lot of information which the reader was not told in the course of the investigation, which will prove that the killer was actually acting on a totally unpredictable motive and therefore any attempt to deduce the solution was wasted effort. Sucks to be you, reader.

Ernest Bramah: Max Carrados can tell what the victim looked like, down to the color of his hair, by listening to the corpse settle. He will walk a tightrope unassisted seeking clues and drive himself across country to confront the killer. If the criminal survives the encounter, then (like Sherlock Holmes) Carrados may well let him go free.

Level-5: No, actually, as you can see in this second picture, they weren’t dead. They just tripped over their shoelaces! Luke, a true gentleman always looks at people’s feet.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton: They were killed for being a little too absolute in some very obscure way, by somebody whose psychology can only be understood by Father Brown. The explanation will involve at least one paradox, and a snide comment about science or early-20th-century modernism.

Robert Benchley: We put it out for the dustman, because we already got one five years ago. We used it as a doorstop. It was the best doorstop we ever had. It had human interest.

Samual Becket: Let’s stand here in the middle of the backdrop-less stage and discuss in monotone the futility of life, and how — sooner or later — we will all be dead bodies on the floor.

Douglas Adams: That’s how the natives of this planet deal with dead bodies. Sometimes they leave two or three of them on the floor, for balance. Whole civilizations have risen in which dead bodies were used as currency, which inevitably brought about a thriving legal assassination industry, but caused them to collapse completely the first time they went to war. This in turn led to the creation of fake robot bodies to leave on the floor, and then an industry of producing fake empty boxes to fool your status-conscious neighbors into believing that you could afford to have a fake robot body on your floor, and finally the discovery of a planet filled with naturally-occurring fake empty boxes of fake robot bodies. The latest such civilization had been founded by the Prophet Zarblum, a fraud who used time travel to predict fake robot bodies. Ironically, this particular body in this particular corner is in fact that of the Prophet Zarblum himself. Now Dirk Gently will go and do random things for 250 pages or so, before the killer is revealed to be some alien thing that had no malice and just wanted some unrelated thing.

Terry Pratchett: The body is that of somebody socially unimportant, and Samuel Vimes will be infuriated at attempts to ignore the death on the grounds of obscurity. The murder will have been an incidental detail in either yet another conspiracy to oust Lord Vetinari or some sort of massive interspecies political coup. The other members of the watch will investigate seemingly unrelated events which will turn out to be deeply connected to the murder, Angua will turn into a wolf and get angsty about it for the millionth time, and Vimes and Carrot will independently figure out the truth. If this is a later book, the wizards will have a cameo (Ridcully will be obtuse, the Bursar will be amusingly insane, and Rincewind will say something witty and then run away or at least evince cowardice), and if it is a really late book, Tiffany and/or the Witches of Lancre and/or the Nac Mac Feegles will have a cameo as well. The whole thing will lead to the introduction of yet another supernatural/legendary ethnicity/species to Ankh-Morpork.

William Hope Hodgson: Either the story is set years later and is about the ghost, which will be laid, or else this is the first step in an increasingly bizarre story of massive supernatural entities of the sort usually associated with H. P. Lovecraft.

M. R. James: No matter how many times it is interred, the body returns to its place on the floor. After weeks of trying to remove it permanently, the narrator concludes that the body must like being on the floor, and instructs the owner of the building to wall up that corner of the room. In the course of joining the new construction to the old, they come across an ancient document which strongly implies the reason why this phenomenon keeps happening.

Lewis Carroll: This news is followed by something convoluted and ridiculous which, if you understand what he was getting at, illustrates some obscure point about set theory, or possibly the British educational system as a whole.

Hugh Lofting: It’s the start of an adventure as we follow the dead man’s pet praying mantis to a previously-unknown civilization under the sea, with lots of humorous digressions about how animals are actually very like humans if you can speak to them, which is extremely charming but unfortunately also contains so much racism that the whole story of Doctor Dolittle’s Submarine has to be heavily bowdlerized by Lofting’s literary executors to be even remotely acceptable, and even then is so seriously worrisome that when a movie is made they completely abandon the original storyline and make up something completely different in which none of the surviving characters are anywhere near as interesting.

H. P. Lovecraft: The death was caused by horrible creatures from beyond space and time, which blur the dividing lines between life and death and are so alien and unpleasant that the mere recognition of their existance causes insanity in any normal human. Either they are, in appearance, vaguely like humans but disgustingly “off”, or else they have servitors who fit that description. Pay even the slightest attention to said descriptions and you will notice that the narrator uses the same terms for the disgusting borderline-humans as they would for Africans. The main character manages to seal away the Things, or at least cut off contact with them, but is now a shell of his former self and will probably never recover.

Edward Phillips Oppenheim: It’s a diplomat from some European country other than England! And he was carrying important papers from the English government! The killer is an anarchist from a possibly-different country other than England! There is a barely-concealed conspiracy between an apparently-randomly-selected group of nations to weaken and then eventually invade England! A debonair late-30something upper-class Englishman must now outwit a series of criminals and spies to recover the papers. If he is not already married, chances are good that he will encounter a beautiful woman — probably one who is much younger — and marry her at the end of the book. There may well be hamhanded defenses of capitalism and the British class system which are so clumsy as to make it seem as though the author is deliberately trying to make them sound ridiculous, but which are nonetheless serious.

Baroness Orczy: The body is that of a nobleman. The killer is a degenerate poor person, and the story will be to nobility what Atlas Shrugged is to rich people.

Petronius: This is actually an important historical death, but 99% of the people reading the book will fail to notice it because of all the crass sexuality, and modern people won’t bother reading the book at all because you can easily find porn on the Internet which makes the most salacious parts seem tame.

Thucycides: It may seem a little strange to mention an individual death in a book about a massively destructive war, but this one is immensely symbolic of some point I wish to make about how foolish the Athenians were. And I totally came to that conclusion based on logic and reason and not because they fired me for incompetence. And this book is totally not written out of spite in hopes of poisoning the minds of future generations against my former bosses — please ignore the fact that I lost interest in writing it as soon as it became clear that the Spartans were going to let them live.

H. G. Wells: The death happened in some way which illustrates the importance of radical social change under the guidance of science. By 1980, this book will be both painfully dull and unbelievably dated.

Jacques Futrelle: Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen will identify the dead man in five minutes and dictate a list of instructions which will mystify the person who follows them but lead infallibly to the capture of the killer. When asked to explain, he will get cranky and impatient with the lesser intellects around him. Nobody will ever bother to explain to him that capturing the killer is pointless unless you also have legal evidence of their guilt. There may also be some casual racism thrown in.

Haruki Murakami: There is also a shadowy parallel world in which there is no dead body on the floor. The middle-aged hero moves back and forth between these two worlds by means which are not entirely obvious. Meanwhile, in alternating chapters, we are told at length the story of a Japanese traveller in western Africa in 1903, who has various strange experiences which seem significant to the main plot but never actually build to anything or lead anywhere definite. The dead body on the floor eventually is revealed to be the result of a political conspiracy in the plans of which our hero was already unknowingly caught, but of which we never really learn all the details. The hero possibly defeats the conspiracy using methods which are not really all that coherent, but which involve having sex with a much younger woman, possibly one who is underage. Unless this is a book in which the hero is underage, in which case he will have sex with an older woman.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Margery Allingham

Mystery writer Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. Allingham is known as as one of the “Queens of Crime”, alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. She published her first novel in 1923, but her breakthrough came in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This novel introduced the character Albert Campion, Allingham’s best-known and most enduring creation, and the centerpiece of 18 novels and over 20 short stories. Allingham’s work, adept in its handling of serious themes and defined by a strong senes of place,  has elicited comparisons to Charles Dickens. Her novels have contributed to the development of the detective story as a serious genre of literature. 

Margery Allingham died in 1966 at the age of 62.

[ao3feed-mfmm]

Golden Age

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38fDD17

by Scratch_Pad

In the 1930s, a rash of romances infected the great detectives of the Golden Age of Mystery. A Phryne and Jack Come-After-Me fic.

Words: 3399, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Phryne Fisher, Jack Robinson, Peter Wimsey, Adela Bradley, Tuppence Beresford, Tommy Beresford, Albert Campion, Amanda Fitton, Roderick Alleyn, Agatha Troy, Harriet Vane, Maud Silver

Relationships: Phryne Fisher/Jack Robinson

Additional Tags: Golden Age Mystery

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38fDD17

[ao3feed-strangerthings]

Summer Camp

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2YyYgoD

by Epsilon_Stark2000

Henry (Matt Lintz) didn't want to go to summer camp he had a plan to spend the summer playing video games but his mother Carol has a different plan, Henry is sent to Camp Wakonda an all boys camp his nightmare but he soon realizes it was all a blessing in disguise as he learns his true sexual orientation he meets his cabin mates Jonah Beck (Asher Angel) Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) TJ Kippen (Luke Mullen) Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer) Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Martell) Stanley Uris (Wyatt Oleff) Richie Tozier (Finn wolfhard) Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) and the mysterious Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) his Counselors Bernie Schotz (Ethan Wacker) and William Clayton (Jack Moore) along with the the next door cabin lead by counselors Jude Adams Foster (Hayden Byerly) and Richie Rich (Jake Brennan) and their campers Luther Hargreeves (Cameron Brouder) Ricky Harper (Casey Simpson) Nicky Harper (Aidan Gallagher) Dicky Harper (Mace Coronel) Mack Albert (Lincoln Melcher) Cooper Wrather (Dakota Lotus) Mason (Mitchell Wray) Jackson Fuller (Michael Campion) Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins) and Max Reynolds (Jackson Dollinger) This is the story of How he discovered he was gay

Words: 551, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Summer Camp

Fandoms: IT (2017), Andi Mack (TV), Nicky Ricky Dicky & Dawn (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Walking Dead (TV), Lost in Space (TV 2018), Arrow (TV 2012), Coop & Cami Ask the World (TV), Sydney to the Max (TV), The Fosters (TV 2013), Fuller House (TV), Bizaardvark (TV), Richie Rich (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: M/M

Characters: Henry (Walking Dead: Kingdom), Eddie Kaspbrak, Bill Denbrough, Stanley Uris, Richie Tozier, Jonah Beck, Cyrus Goodman, T.J. Kippen, Ricky Harper, Nicky Harper, Dicky Harper, Mack (Nicky Ricky Dicky & Dawn), Luther Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy), Will Robinson, William Clayton (Arrow), Cooper Wrather, Mason (Coop and Cami), Max (Sydney to the Max), Billy Batson, Jude Jacob, Jackson Fuller, Bernie Schotz, Richie Rich, Will Byers, Ezekiel (Walking Dead), Carol Peletier, Lydia (Walking Dead), Narrator, Original Male Character(s)

Relationships: Henry/Everyone, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Public Sex, Underage Sex, Gay Sex, Shower Sex, Tent Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Pool Sex, Group Sex, Explicit Language

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2YyYgoD

[sweetiepeteypie]

Some of my Fav Peter Characters

(and how old he was when he played them)

1978 - Tristan Farnon in 'All Creatures Great and Small' (27)

1982 - The Doctor in 'Doctor Who' (31)

1985 - Lance Fortescue in 'Miss Marple' (34)

(Gif by moi.)

1986 - Stephen Daker in 'A Very Peculiar Practice' (35)

1988 - Jeremy Tyler in 'Tales of the Unexpected' (37)

(Gif by moi.)

1989 - Albert Campion in 'Campion' (38)

1995 - Gavin Purcell in 'P.R.O.B.E.' (44)

1998 - Inspector Henry Christmas in 'Mrs Bradley Mysteries' & Stephen Claithorne in 'Jonathan Creek' (47)

(Gifs by me.)

2000 - David Braithwaite in 'At Home with the Braithwaites' (49)

2003 - DC Davies in 'The Last Detective' (52)

2007 - The Doctor in 'Doctor Who: Time Crash' (56)

2009 - Nicky Frazer in 'Midsomer Murders' (58)

(Gif by moi.)

2015 - Herbie in 'Gypsy' (64)

(Gif by moi.)

ig im just thinking about how versatile he is as an actor and how hes changed over the course of his career. (i also love how we got to see his hairline recede in real time)

like ive been talking to people irl (my aunt mainly) and she considers him to be a kind of one-note actor who tends to be type-cast for bumbling, silly comic relief roles but hes so much more than that!

hes played a serial killer with daddy issues, a doctor who really tries to do good despite his trauma and past abuse, a detective who strives for justice in a very unjust world, a scorned husband struggling with alcoholism and depression and thats just naming four of his roles!

i think hes a very talented actor with a wide range of skills and a wicked sense of humour and he should be more talked about.

but then again i am very biased....

[idratherdreamofjune]

Mr Campion said no more. He was barely on speaking terms with himself, let alone anyone else.

Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds

[spacetimeconundrum]

2 5 13 14?

2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most? 

Unquestionably, it’s Mr. Campion’s Curse. I revisit it practically every time I want to try to get myself to start working on more of the Werewolf of Bottle Street series; it’s short enough to be read reasonably quickly and serves as an excellent mental refresher for writing Campion and Lugg’s voices, and I’m just very fond of how well it turned out, considering how unlikely a thing it was.

13. Name three favorite characters to write.

Magersfontaine Lugg and Tegan Jovanka, for similar reasons - neither is shy about voicing their opinions, and Albert Campion, for the near-constant snark. (Honorable mention to the Doctor here, because their snark is also quite fun to write.)

14. You’re applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio? 

Ahahahaha. Were there such an award, I wouldn’t even make it past the first round, but sure, here are my top five completed fics, in no particular order:

Mr. Campion’s Curse

And Then There Was One

Chameleon Arch of Infinity

The Case of the Double Bluff

This Never Happened

[whattoreadnext]

ALLINGHAM, Margery

British novelist (1905-1966)

Allingham wrote ‘crime fiction’ only in the sense that each of her books contains the step-by-step solution of a crime, and that their hero, Albert Campion, is an amateur detective whose amiable manner conceals laser intelligence and ironclad moral integrity. But instead of confining Campion within the boundaries of the detective-story genre, Allingham put him in whatever kind of novel she felt like writing. Some of her books (More Work for the Undertaker; The Beckoning Lady) are wild, Wodehousian farce; others (Sweet Danger; Traitor’s Purse) are Buchanish, Amblerish thrillers.

FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE  (1936) Strange things are happening at the old-established publishing firm of Barnabas and Company. First the junior partner turns a street-corner in Streatham and vanishes into thin air, then there is skullduggery over a priceless but obscene manuscript, and soon afterwards the firm's stuffy senior partner is murdered and Mr Campion has three intertwined mysteries on his hands.

THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE  (1952) Allingham's best book is set in an atmospheric, cobble-stones-and-alleyways London filled with low-life characters as vivid as any in Dickens. Like all Allingham’s novels, it is not a conventional whodunit, although it contains plenty of mysteries that demand solutions. Jack Havoc, the ��tiger’ of the title, escapes from jail and the hunt for this violent convict takes place in an eerie and fog-enshrouded London that Allingham brilliantly evokes. Campion and other characters familiar from Allingham’s work loom in and out of the fog as the action moves inexorably towards a violent conclusion.

Allingham’s other Campion books include Coroner’s Pidgin, Police at the Funeral, Hide My Eyes, Look to the Lady and the short-story collections Mr Campion and Others and Take Two at Bedtime. After Allingham’s death, her husband P. Youngman Carter wrote two further Campion novels, one of which, Mr Campion’s Farthing, is up to his wife’s most sparkling standard.

READ ON

Death of a Ghost (set in London’s eccentric art community and involving – what else? – forged paintings)

Hide My Eyes.

Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly Michael Innes, The Daffodil Affair H.R.F. Keating, A Rush on the Ultimate P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P.D. James, A Taste for Death Joan Smith, Masculine Ending is a tongue-in-cheek whodunnit starring a feminist sleuth

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Book Corner – November 2020 (8)

Book Corner – December 2020 (4) - Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham

Sweet Danger – Margery Allingham

This is the fifth crime novel by Margery Allingham to feature Albert Campion and in many ways marks a turning point in the development of her principal character. Published in 1933, in the States it went under the titles of Kingdom of Death and then The Fear Sign, it is the last where Campion is portrayed as a rather vacuous ass, albeit one with considerable…

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Got tagged by @scarvenartist to give my top ten male characters! :) Thank you!

Clint Barton Hawkeye! Barely functional hot mess of a man held together with bandaids, somehow holding his own among Earth’s mightiest heroes. MCU Clint is great too, but the Fraction comics? Amazing.

Rincewind the Wizzard from Discworld. Failure at both magic and spelling, but you’ll never beat him in a foot race. The first coward protagonist I ever met, and he makes it sound so practical while still partaking in some definite (grudging) heroism.

Bertie Wooster. Delightful idiot son. Good hearted and barely-spined. Wonderful-terrible taste in clothing. I crave a modern remake.

Donald Duck. Fury personified (duckified?) I love his rage. His incompetence in the simplest tasks. In the new DuckTales, I love his parenting. His inability to hold down a job but insistence on doing what’s right for his boys. Best uncle ❤️❤️❤️

Rory Williams from Doctor Who. Just a good, good man. So steadfast. Amazing husband. Beautiful and worthy.

Howell Jenkins from Howl's Moving Castle! I read the book in college while I was taking Welsh so That Reveal about knocked me over. Welsh rugby playing wizard is the best version always.

Lord Peter Wimsey. Deeply devoted and passionate, highly intelligent and literate, only flaw is he’s too good at too much.

Albert Campion, for the times I want a Golden Era gentleman detective who's a little less perfect, more mysterious, and more restrained. (Until the amnesia anyway)

Young Hawkes, the vicar from Emma M Lion. Incredibly sympathetic and somewhat uncanny. I love his association with the Reprobates, his friendship with Emma, Islington and Pierce. I love his "sermons" even when they're not just poetry. I love that he always seems to know what's going on with Emma, and not only when Cousin Archibald confesses her sins. I love how he responds to everything. I'm dying to know more about his past. Anything, really.

Schmidt from New Girl. All the men in this show are incredible and different and weird. But Schmidt might be the funniest character I've ever seen. There is a lot to dislike about him but even early on he's clearly more than his first impression and running gags. He changes so much! He's such a weirdo! He's the Worst but has such an incredible proposal.

I think a lot of people have already done this - @melliabee , have you? If not, tagging you - and I haven't forgotten the other thing you tagged me on. :)

Anyone else is welcome to do it as well! I never know who to tag.