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Louisa in a hammock … 

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Louisa & Spiros + hands

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Um @mindibindi wtf your brain!!! This super old post just showed up and you literally CALLED ALL OF IT!!

I just had a horrific thought re: the finale of The Durrells…

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What if Louisa and Spiros go on their first date, unofficial and tentative though it is (but important enough to warrant a new dress, a gesture Spiros whole-heartedly approves of):

Then Mrs H. returns to work things out with Spiros, as I have been predicting all along. BUT – and I’m basing this on Zoltan’s line: “There is love and there is family. Sometimes you can’t have both” that so clearly applies to ALL the couples featured in the preview – what if, Spiros is forced to choose between his love and his family? And the angsty hand-kiss, pictured here (in regrettably terrible quality):

is not just about him and Louisa giving up their chance at a romantic future but their friendship as well?? What if, Mrs H. has heard about Louisa and Spiros hanging out in bars and going to circuses together? It’s already been established that she’s not too pleased with him spending time with his beloved British goddess so what if part of the terms of their reconciliation is that he gives her up, friendship included?? And Spiros being Spiros, duty bound to honour his family, agrees, going to tell Louisa, who’s anticipating their relationship moving forward, that it in fact has to cease altogether? Instigating some ugly-crying on Larry’s shoulder:

and a new season in which Louisa and Spiros are estranged and lonely without their BFF and awkward whenever they do meet cos they know they’re not supposed to see each other now and both still have feelings for each other and about what might have been, feelings that are further complicated when Louisa starts dating someone else she doesn’t really feel that much for but she knows it can’t ever work out with Spiros and she wants to move on and then Spiros feels jealous from afar but knows he has no right to and everything is just a big ole hot mess!  :0 :0 :0

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Here’s the best of the DVD extras =)

The Durrells, the last supper together. Love the Durrells!!

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Can’t waaiiiiiiit for this.....so chuffed with how many submissions we got!! If you’re not a writer (or are one but didn’t sign up this time) but love reading David/Julia, I hope you’re ready for the David/Julia tag to EXPLODE on December 22nd.

LavenderBudd Christmas Fic Exchange

How does it work?

A fic exchange is quite simple: You write a story for someone, and in return, someone else writes a story for you. All you have to do is sign up using the form below, and we’ll match you up with an author who will write for you and a recipient you will write for according to your preferences.

There is no minimum or maximum length for your story, you can write a short one-shot or a two chapter fic - although most exchanges are usually one-shots. No prompts, no theme - we’re only calling it a Christmas exchange because it’s around Christmas time, but it doesn’t mean you have to write a Christmas themed David/Julia fic!

Schedule:

27th of October to 3rd of November: SIGN UPS

8th to 10th of November: Assignments sent out

7th to 8th of December: Reminder email to check on your progress

22nd of December: SUBMISSION DAY

If we send you your assignment and you aren’t able to complete it, please let us know as early as possible so we can get a pinch hitter sorted to make sure your recipient is not left without a story.

We’ll send out reminder emails about two weeks before the deadline, please reply and let us know you’ll still be posting your story. If you don’t reply within a few days, we’ll assume you’ve dropped out and get someone else to cover for you.

Submission day - all fics will be posted on AO3 to a collection - we’ll send out details on how to do that nearer the time.

If you don’t have an AO3 account yet, email us or message one of us (that is: @nervouspearl or me) and we’ll send you an invite!

Assignments will be sent out from lavenderbuddfic@gmail.com, and that’s also the address you can use to contact us ( @nervouspearl , @weatherwitch47, @bexinthecity05 and me) with any questions.

Sign up form

Notes

You don’t have to provide a Tumblr username, but if you do, your writer might use it to find out a bit more about you and your preferences =)

Things you like or don’t like in a fic could, for example, be  “angst, character death, pregnant Julia”

A Pinch Hitter is someone we can contact in an emergency to write a second story in case one of our writers drops out

(graphic by @nervouspearl)

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We’d love for as many people as possible to participate in this :)

LavenderBudd Christmas Fic Exchange

How does it work?

A fic exchange is quite simple: You write a story for someone, and in return, someone else writes a story for you. All you have to do is sign up using the form below, and we’ll match you up with an author who will write for you and a recipient you will write for according to your preferences.

There is no minimum or maximum length for your story, you can write a short one-shot or a two chapter fic - although most exchanges are usually one-shots. No prompts, no theme - we’re only calling it a Christmas exchange because it’s around Christmas time, but it doesn’t mean you have to write a Christmas themed David/Julia fic!

Schedule:

27th of October to 3rd of November: SIGN UPS

8th to 10th of November: Assignments sent out

7th to 8th of December: Reminder email to check on your progress

22nd of December: SUBMISSION DAY

If we send you your assignment and you aren’t able to complete it, please let us know as early as possible so we can get a pinch hitter sorted to make sure your recipient is not left without a story.

We’ll send out reminder emails about two weeks before the deadline, please reply and let us know you’ll still be posting your story. If you don’t reply within a few days, we’ll assume you’ve dropped out and get someone else to cover for you.

Submission day - all fics will be posted on AO3 to a collection - we’ll send out details on how to do that nearer the time.

If you don’t have an AO3 account yet, email us or message one of us (that is: @nervouspearl or me) and we’ll send you an invite!

Assignments will be sent out from lavenderbuddfic@gmail.com, and that’s also the address you can use to contact us ( @nervouspearl , @weatherwitch47, @bexinthecity05 and me) with any questions.

Sign up form

Notes

You don’t have to provide a Tumblr username, but if you do, your writer might use it to find out a bit more about you and your preferences =)

Things you like or don’t like in a fic could, for example, be  “angst, character death, pregnant Julia”

A Pinch Hitter is someone we can contact in an emergency to write a second story in case one of our writers drops out

(graphic by @nervouspearl)

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Welcome home.

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So true :D

Squad

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Today in Durrells history...

This scene/photo was shot four years ago today on 8th of October 2015 (from Season 1, episode 6) .

This scene/photo was shot one year ago today on 8th of October 2018 (from Season 4, episode 4).

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This photo was taken four years ago today, on 11th September 2015. It’s been a long journey since then...<3

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The accuracy.....

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Never ever will I be over these two. I’m having make-a-romantic-wallpaper feelings now.

#spiros being completely in love with louisa

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My childhood summed up in one tumblr post. I’m emotional.

I grew up with the books, read the first one when I was just a bit older than Harry, and the last one the day it came out in 2007. I was 21, and I still remember sitting at the open back door watching the Amazon delivery truck pulling up just shortly after 8am.

September 1st

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Bodyguard appreciation week | day 3: favourite dynamic: David & Julia

It could only ever be them. You could remove any other dynamic from the show without fundamentally changing the plot, but the relationship between Julia and David is at the core of everything that happens and it affects both of these characters’ decisions and actions in unexpected ways throughout the series. In fact, the dynamic is so strong and pivotal that it carries the show even after Julia is gone as David struggles with his grief and continues to seek justice for her.

I could write several paragraphs about the intricacies of this complex and fascinating relationship, but ultimately they are two characters who at first appear to be each other’s polar opposites in every imaginable way and who still manage to find solace, companionship, trust and even budding love in each other, in a world that wants to take both of them down and set them against each other - and they also get to have some mind-blowing sex on the side. The opposite of the classic slow-burn, this dynamic burns bright and hot from the start and continues to shine in viewers’ minds even a year later.

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Keeley Hawes Appreciation Week - Favourite Moment

Keeley's reaction to meeting everyone at the BFI & everyone's reaction to meeting Keeley

This will never not make me smile. That badge was still in my house about 72 hours before the picture above. And she not only liked the badges, she loved them so much (and everyone who wore them!!!) she took a selfie and posted it on twitter. Honestly still blows my mind. I made that thing and she loved it. 😭😭😭

I wasn't there that night, but it was utterly amazing to hear everyone's reports coming in about what an absolute angel she was in person - taking ages to sign things and take pics with everyone. It just seems to have been a mutual love fest between Keeley and the fans present, and it continued on the next day with Keeley posting that insta story and everyone posting their stories. ❤️❤️❤️

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I feel like I don't need to write anything now, it's all expressed in this post already ❤️💔

Keeley Hawes Appreciation Week

Day 6: Favourite on-screen pairing/partnership

LOUISA DURRELL AND SPIROS HALIKIOPOULOS // THE DURRELLS

First off, I will never be over this. We had one episode of them actually being “together” and that will forever be the saddest thing in my life. They were meant for each other. The fact that they got on so well from the start and that Spiros became Louisa’s confidant and protector is the sweetest thing. There are just so many reasons that they are right together. He held her when she needed him to, basically helped her raise her children from the minute they got to Corfu and I just can’t… 

They were the cutest. Constant angsty, pining cuteness and fluff and all I wanted was a happy ending for them both. I know in real life the Durrells moved back to England and Spiros died from pneumonia in 1940 (don’t. I’m going to pretend it was heartbreak), but I really wanted them to have their cabin with the bed not too big so that they were always touching. 

Every scene that contained these two just sizzled with chemistry and I honestly wish they had gotten together sooner so we could see just how amazing they would be as a couple. I understand why they never cause like tension and writing and viewing figures, but like I needed it.

The series 3 finale made me sob tears of joy and then tears of anguish and despair. I now hate fireworks and I can’t believe how close they got to having everything they both wanted. The moment he utters her name whilst clasping her hands as she breaks down destroys me.

As for the season 4 finale… I still haven’t fully accepted it’s over, to be honest. The cute little giggly private moments were beautiful and I fully believe that they would act like lovesick teenagers throughout the entirety of their relationship (which in my mind lasts until they are both eighty and they die in each other’s arms). That beach scene wrecked my entire soul and shattered my heart into a million pieces. The final confession of love from both of them and Louisa’s whispered ‘no’ when he says he can’t go with them - deceased. The way he holds her as she falls to the ground - deceased. The way her voice breaks when she asks what she’ll do without him and the way she basically straight up murders me when she cries “you’ll be spreading your magic and I won’t be here” is too much for me to take. So much emotion in a 3 minute sequence. I could go on and on about how much I love these two but I feel like eventually I would end up crying so much I couldn’t see and it would just be a mash of keys.

In short, I love them with my whole heart and their tragic love story is the saddest and most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed on television in the last ten years. Keeley and Alexis play their characters so convincingly and I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a love story, especially not one so heartbreaking and soul destroying in the best of ways. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. 

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keeley hawes appreciation week: day 5. favorite interview ↳ this morning