#queen deborah

[dragoneyes618]

So this is that same grandmother, huh.

[artofdoubt]

hacks 3.09 // killing eve 2.05

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[djkerr]

The Odd Couple II | dir. Howard Deutch 1998

~aka the time Diane Lockhart and Deborah Vance made a movie together 💫

Christine Baranski and Jean Smart play best friends Thelma and Holly, on the run from their redneck husbands, when they meet Oscar and Felix in a bar.

[knowthatiloveyou]

Hannah Waddingham with Dame Harriet Walter at the BAFTA TV Awards

(This is Rebecca and Deborah at a Richmond Gala)

[anniemunchkins]

You didn't get a good enough look last time, Deb?!

[debdarkpetal]

[deborahkerr]

Happy Birthday, Deborah Kerr (30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007)

Acting must be an extension of your life. I play someone basically like myself but I look for the small differences; they're what fire my interest.

[fangomusic]

‘80s & '90s albums on cassette.

[boywhoswaiting]

Victoria Waterfield - Uptown Girl

[dragoneyes618]

The Araluen royal family seems very small - riskily so. Royalty and nobility usually try to have at least several children, so in case the heir dies - the risk of dying young was a lot more common back in the old days, between sickness and accidents - there's still other family members to inherit if needed.

But Duncan has no siblings. Cassandra has no siblings. Madelyn has no siblings.

We don't know anything about Duncan's childhood. Maybe he did have more siblings who died. (I personally headcanon that Oswald and Deborah got married later for whatever reason so Duncan was the only child they had [which is part of the reason why Oswald changed the law to allow girls to inherit, because if he and Deborah only had a daughter and couldn't have any more children than someone needed to rule the kingdom] , but that's just my headcanon.)

But we know about Cassandra, and we know she's definitely an only child. Alright, so we know why Cassandra is an only child. Her mother died in childbirth. Maybe her father was too brokenhearted to ever remarry. Not to mention that what with having to deal with the aftermath of Morgarath's war, build himself a reputation as a good, strong king (with Morgarath not having actually been defeated, and with the army unable to get him out of the mountains, that probably didn't look very good for Duncan's first war as king) and raise a newborn daughter, remarrying was probably not high on his list of priorities at the moment.

But after a few years, even if Duncan himself didn't want to remarry, his court should have been beginning to urge him to. After all, Duncan only had the one heir. If anything happened to Cassandra, there'd be no one to inherit the throne. And indeed, Cassandra came close to dying many times. What if she'd died in Celtica? What if she'd died in Skandia? The future of Araluen's throne would have been in jeopardy. It would've been a lot less dangerous and risky if she'd had one or two siblings, just in case.

Moving on from Cassandra, there's Maddie, who is an only child as well. Again, it's risky for the monarchy to have only one heir. Especially now that she's no longer living safely at the palace but is training as a Ranger. Sure, she's not planning on actually becoming an active Ranger, but Ranger training in and of itself can be risky. Ranger apprentices are expected to go on missions and risk their lives just like full Rangers. Maddie almost died when she was wounded in the hip that time. What if she actually had died? What if she dies from an accident during training? All that would be needed is one bandit or whoever to get in a lucky shot, and that's it.

Royal families usually try to have at least "an heir and a spare." Just in case something happens to the heir, that's what the spare is for. But Araluen hasn't had any "spare" in generations.

The kingdom needs heirs, and generation after generation of only children in the royal family aren't enough of them to secure a stable future for Araluen if there is no direct heir. What if Maddie dies, and Cassandra at this point is likely too old to have children? Who will inherit the throne after Cassandra?

[violentdelightsproductions]

Mamma mia! (What if...)

Amanda Harper had her fun, and now... She's pregnant! Maeve is glad to be the first to hear about it, but Amanda's got a little secret- she's not quite sure who the father could be, after nights with three people who start with the letter B! Who's gonna be the lucky one? Billy, Bauer or Ben?

Bonus with a grown-up Sonya loving her mother no matter what :P

Honey, honey, how he thrills me Ah-ha, honey, honey Honey, honey, nearly kills me Ah-ha, honey, honey

I'd heard about him before I wanted to know some more And now I know what they mean He's a love machine Oh, he makes me dizzy

Happy Birthday Alex ♥

[filmsdkye]

they should link up

[merrysithmas]

still cant get over what a goddess deborah chow was for giving us PRIME CUT obikin content on main ... sheer icon

[djkerr]

Diane Lockhart and Deborah Vance wearing Johanna Ortiz's The Flower Queen Silk Robe