#cookson

[masterhallmark]

Edit:

Here's the link

https://discord.com/invite/xbUyStxSwm

[neverlandsideblog]

[foxspeterpan]

[ladyofsnark]

Have you ever watched a movie you thought was a fever dream only to realize it was a real actual thing that happened? If not, give it another 15 years and Twilight will feel that way.

Anyway, Catherine Cookson's The Dwelling Place

I went through a phase where I watched every single one of the cheap mini series made based on Cookson's novels (because they were free on Youtube).

They're all very predictable. Lots of poor young women meeting handsome rich men (although in one case it's a rich young woman meeting a handsome POOR man--spicy)

And they all fall somewhere on scale from 'awful' to 'meh', but the one about the poor girl taking her 8 siblings to live in a cave and then marrying her rapist is off the chart completely.

If you think I'm exaggerating, just know I'm not. In fact, that downplays much of the awfulness. I didn't even mention the weird incestuous thing the rapist has going on with his sister--whoops!

Anyway, I randomly remembered this mini series today and had to look it up because my initial reaction was "Nooo I must have skipped some of it because that can't really have--"

Nope.

[mymichaelbryanthings]

Sophie Cookson.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[haredjarris]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Kingsman: The Secret Service turns ten years old in 2024.

We should organise some sort of birthday event. I feel old.

[heaveninawildflower]

Botanical study by Mrs. James Cookson. Taken from 'Flowers Drawn and Painted after Nature in India' (circa 1835).

Hand-coloured lithograph.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[phoebedynevors]

FRANNIE & MARGUERITE The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022)

[costumeloverz71]

Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) White blouse & sky painted jeans.. The Nanny (1993-1999).. Costume by Shawn Holly Cookson & Terry Gordon.

[boltlightning]

jack davenport as robert bradley | THE MOTH (1997)

[padmaddean]

Frannie & Marguerite The Confessions of Frannie Langton s01e02

[mumblo-number-five]

Sophie Cookson

[foxspeterpan]

[amazingyoungwomen]

[weirdlookindog]

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1965)