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feliciamontagues · 7 years

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Flambeau & Mrs. M. Headcanons

I had a lot of random Flambeau/Mrs. M feelings last week, and thought I would share them.

Every night, after he says individual prayers for all his friends and parishoners, Fr. Brown says an extra prayer that Flambeau and Mrs. McCarthy will someday become friends. It hurts Fr. Brown that two of the people he loves most in the world don’t get along.

Even though she doesn’t care for Flambeau personally and frankly thinks that he’s beyond hope, Mrs. M still prays for his no-good heathen soul every Sunday at mass--because she knows that it’s what God and Fr. Brown want her to do.

It doesn’t take long for Flambeau to realize that he’s going to need to win over Mrs. McCarthy if he wants to stay part of Fr. Brown’s life. Eventually, Flambeau swallows his Overblown Gallic Pride ™ enough to try to win over Mrs. M . He flashes her his most charming smile and flatters her mercilessly. But she refuses to have any of it.

Surprisingly, Mrs. M’s firm resistance to his charms just makes Flambeau respect her that much more. She’s clearly a good judge of character, and fiercely protective of her loved ones.

Flambeau’s first strategy is to try to win Mrs. McCarthy over through her cooking. He buys her expensive, lavishly illustrated translations of his favorite French cookbooks, but she wants nothing to do with anything “puffed-up, underdone, and over-seasoned”--and she makes it clear that both Flambeau and his national cuisine fit that description.

He has a little more success through her love of gardening. He often makes her presents of gardening tools and cuttings of plants that he comes across on his travels. At first, Mrs. M turns up her nose at them, but eventually, she comes around. He may be a no good, full-of-blarney cad, but those delphiniums he sent would look stunning as part of next year’s garden showcase.

Whenever Flambeau comes over to the presbytery for tea, Mrs. M conveniently “forgets” to make enough strawberry scones for him. The first time, he is allowed to try one, Flambeau knows that Mrs. M is finally starting to come around to him.

Mrs. M’s greatest fear regarding Flambeau is that he’ll corrupt the youth of Kembleford. Fortunately, Sid (who hates Flambeau for entirely petty and jealous reasons) has no interest in becoming better acquainted. At first, Mrs. M attempted to keep Bunty , who is somewhat in awe of Flambeau, away from him. But after she recognized this a lost cause, she just tries to keep the troublesome French thief away from everyone outside their little group.

Mrs. M’s second-greatest fear regarding Flambeau is the spark of romance that is just starting to kindle between the French thief and a certain spirited countess. One day, she corners Flambeau and tell him exactly how he is to behave toward Felicia if he knows what’s good for him. Flambeau tries to laugh it off, but privately knows that she is deadly serious.

Mrs. M only starts to rely on Flambeau, when Father Brown is in danger. She knows he is often the best and sometimes the only person to save Fr. Brown from his own curiousity. Contrarily, Flambeau relies on Mrs. M to make sure that Fr. Brown eats, sleeps, and takes good care of himself.

Feel free to comment or add your own!

#father brown #hercule flambeau #mrs bridgette mccarthy #flamby x mrs m #please let them interact in s6 #they have the potential to become one of the best dynamics ever

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quilowrites · 7 years

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Reading Tag

I was tagged in this by @isnappedmypencil, thank you!

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

This is a hard one...if I had a guess, I’d say either The Hobbit and LOTR trilogy (I pretty much read those instead of the Harry Potter books in elementary school. I could never get into HP for some reason, but I’d like to try again one day) or Animal Farm, both of which my dad gave me when I was little because he couldn’t get into them. (I had a strange childhood)

2. What is your current read, your last read, and the book you’ll read next?

I’m currently struggling to get through George R.R. Martin’s “A Feast for Crows” (I decided I was too far into the series to give up, but this particular book is especially tedious) and Lynn Weingarten’s “Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls”- a 3 dollar find at a used book store with a terribly predictable plot. After I get through these, I was given a copy of “Into the Water” which I plan to read quickly because public school is finally back in and I can use the library there for free (My college library has a ton of fines and such when you use it, but the one at the high school has none)

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I never read the Twilight or 50 shades of grey series (thank god), so I can’t really hate those although they are popular. I had to read one book a few years ago called “The Shadow Society” by Marie Rutkoski. I remember hating that one a lot, not because there was really that much wrong with it, but because it was such a cliché, heteronormative YA novel, it made me stop reading the genre for a really long time. I really disliked the “Study in Charlotte” spinoffs from the original Sherlock Holmes novels because it really felt like glorified fanfiction, but really wasn’t that great of a book.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but probably won’t?

I never got into the Harry Potter books as a kid and kind of wanted to later on, but I doubt I ever will.

5. Which book are you saving for retirement?

I honestly don’t plan on living long enough to retire. I have no desire to grow old or really be alive to be honest.

6. Last page: read it first, or wait till the end?

Wait till the end always. People who skip all the way to the book’s end are impatient and classless heathens who must be stopped at all cost.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

Really depends on how good the book was. If it was an obviously well written and edited book, it’s definitely interesting, but if there was little effort put forth, then it seems more like a waste to me.

8. Which book character would you switch places with?

Definitely Carl Hiaasen’s character, Twilly Spree, who appeared in “Scat” and “Sick Puppy”. If you haven’t read any of his books, Twilly is basically a super-rich dude with way too much time on his hands so he spends all of it saving the environment and playing petty tricks on oblivious people who don’t care about the planet. He was my absolute hero when I was a kid because I wanted his job.

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of a specific person, place, or time in your life?

The Fire Within series reminds me a lot of my seventh grade algebra class because I sat in the back and finished the entire series instead of learning and paying attention.

10. Name a book you acquired in some weird way.

I found a stack of weird cat books on the side of the road once. They had been dumped with someone’s trash, so I just pulled over and took them. The books weren’t really that good, but it gave me a cool story.

11. Have you ever given a special book away to a special person?

I never really had any other reader friends as a kid, so I leant out a lot of my favorite books, but after getting very few back, I stopped.

12. Which book has been with you the most places?

I take my copy of The Night Circus with me everywhere just because I love it so much, I could never get tired of reading it.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school, but isn’t so bad ten years later?

Well, I’m still in high school, so I’m not too sure about that ten year deal, but I had to read The Shadow Society and Shatter Me as required reading a few years ago and last time I checked, they’re both still terribly written hetero-nonsense.

14. What’s the strangest thing you’ve found in a book?

When I read the Everlost series by Neil Shusterman in elementary school, I found a murder confession (the lady had the audacity to write it in pen of all things).

15. Used or brand new?

This one really depends on the book. I have a really nasty copy of Uglies which someone poured an entire bottle of perfume on, but used books usually have more character. If I’m collecting a series, I like to buy fresh, but most of my random books are used.

16. Stephen King: Literary Genius or opiate of the masses?

I haven’t read as many Stephen King books as I should’ve, but I definitely respect the guy for his abilities to produce large quantities of great quality fiction.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

No. Absolutely not. Even if I completely loathed the book, it was still better than the movie.

18. Conversely, which books should have never been introduced to celluloid?

Definitely the Heroes of Olympus series (the movies were SO cringy) and The Maze Runner series, both of which were brutally murdered by their movies.

19. Have you ever read a book that made you hungry? (Cookbooks excluded)

Hatchet, by Gary Paulson, used to make me super hungry because you always have the hyperawareness of needing to find food in survival books.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you would always take?

Basically, if I rant with or listen to someone rant about a book, I’ll always trust their advice because I know I’m getting honest answers.

Not going to tag because I took a really long time to finish this and I feel bad (sorry)(it was fun though)

#-z #tag game

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pandabearer · 7 years

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Thank you @readalotsleepyhead for tagging me! I’m excited bc i feel like I rarely get to talk about books, but I have so many that I love!

1.) Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

I’m not 100% sure bc I can’t remember which happened first. The first book that I ever bought was Bliss by Lauren Myracle. I wasn’t a big fan of it at all. But the first book that my mother ever bought me was the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce (it was technically one book with all 4 stories included). I think I may have gotten the Tamora Pierce book first though?

2.) What is your current read, your last read, and the book you’ll read next?

I’m reading more than one book right now, but the ones that are my main focus are my rereads of acotar and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and actually finishing Gangsta (hope manga count). Acowar was the last book that I actually finished. And next I’ll probably start on King Hall by Scarlett Dawn which a friend recommended to me recently.

3.) Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I don’t really think I’ve ever really hated a book I’ve chosen to read. I eventually stopped reading the House of Night novels bc the heroine started getting on my nerves, but I was more disappointed in the authors than anything. There were still some aspects of the books that I liked though. Maybe Percy Jackson? I never got all the way through the series, but the fandom really turned me off of the books.

4.) Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?

I keep saying I’ll finish the Divergent series but it’s pretty unlikely. I finished the first book, but then my twin spoiled the end and a major death for me so I haven’t been able to bring myself to finish it and I probably won’t.

5.) Which book are you saving for “retirement”?

I guess I’m saving the entire asoiaf series. There are so many books already, with 2 more hopefully on the way. I want to save the books until they’re all published at least, bc I don’t want to get frustrated waiting like so many people already have. Plus there is so much that I definitely need a while to get through it all.

6.) Last page: read it first or wait till the end?

It depends on whether the book is a physical copy or an ebook. I never bother going all the way to the end to take a peek with an ebook. But I’ve been known to read the last paragraph or so of a physical book before starting from the beginning. (I majorly spoiled myself once doing that though and never even bother reading the book, it’s still just sitting on my self </3 ).

7.) Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I think that it really depends on how the author executes it in regard to them being interesting. I rarely care enough about the author to read the acknowledgements (oops) so I think that is also a factor. If I’ve read another story by the author, or the plot was amazing, or the characters really drew me in and had me invested then I’m more likely to appreciate and bother with acknowledgements. So overall I’d say it varies, but for me they mostly don’t matter.

8.) Which book character would you switch places with?

This one is super tough. I’m going to say Hermione though. I think that the opportunity to experience magic and that world and it’s creatures, along with being around such extraordinary people and forming such strong relationships would make the trying and traumatic experiences that she goes through worth it tbh.

9.) Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince reminds me of all the times I fucked around with my friends during study hall in 6th grade (I’m 21 in a month how do I remember this).

10.) Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

I’ve bought all my books or been gifted them by my fam. All of them except two. During my last 2 years of high school I was home schooled and the school sent me the books I was supposed to use. At the end of the year they emailed me the ones that I was supposed to return by mail. The list didn’t include To Kill a Mockingbird or Our Town by Thornton Wilder, so those 2 are still on my shelf.

11.) Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

When I was younger I was super possessive of my books (more so than I am now) so I never would have willingly given them away (I legit only let one friend that I trusted even borrow my books) plus my mother would have killed me for doing that with something she spent money on. But me twin let a friend borrow our shared copy of the first Maximum Ride novel and we never got it back so that could count right?

12.) Which book has been with you to the most places?

Probably either The Host or The Hunger Games. I know I took them both to school when I was younger, and to friends’ houses. I’ve also taken them to college to reread when I’m bored and have some time.

13.) Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?

I don’t remember a lot of the required reading, but I liked the majority that I can remember like The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Outsiders. We always saw the movies after finishing the books too, which was fun. The ones I didn’t like reading (that I can remember) were things like The Scarlet Letter, which was hard to understand, and A Separate Peace, which was full of details that a bunch of 14 yr olds were supposed to find deeper meaning in. I didn’t like them then and I’m still not a big fan now (but it’s been less than 10 yrs so I still have time I guess).

14.) What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?

Probably just some notes and underlining in a used copy of Don Quixote that I bought. Now the strangest item that I’ve ever put in a book is another story. It was a library book that I’d checked out and I had written down a bunch of misleadingly sexual URL’s that I’d found online on the receipt. Things like penisland.com (pen island). Then I forgot the receipt in the book when I turned it back in.

15.) Used or brand new?

I prefer new, but if I’m tight on cash and I really want the book I’ll buy used. Lately I’ve just been doing ebooks bc they’re pretty cheap and I can start reading right away (give me that instant gratification).

16.) Stephen King: literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I’ve never entirely finished a Stephen King book, and the ones I’ve started I barely remember so I can’t really say. I’ve liked the majority of the movies and shows I’ve seen based on his books and short stories, but I don’t know how accurate they are to his actual works.

17.) Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

Pride and Prejudice probably. I’ve liked all the interpretations I’ve seen more than the book surprisingly, even the zombie version, and don’t think I don’t feel like a heathen bc of it (I still like the book though, don’t get me wrong). I think it just translates well to the screen, or maybe we’ve just been lucky. In most cases though I like the book better, even if I do enjoy the movie too.

18.) Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

Twilight

19.) Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded?

If we’re not allowed to count cookbooks then the answer is no, not as far as I can remember.

20.) Who is the person who’s book advice you’ll always take?

Idk if I would always take anyone’s advice about books. I mostly trust my own instincts over anything else. Probably the person I trust most would be ma girl Ash who does the most reading of any of my friends, including me. But she’s not very selective about the books she reads, she’ll try just about anything, whereas I’m a little more particular about what I like. If she’s really emphatic about a book though I can generally trust it to be good.

This took longer than I thought it would. I had to try looking up a couple books bc I couldn’t even remember their names. Hmmm, I guess I’ll just tag @starswove since I’m not sure who all are readers. @lev-viathan I don’t know what all you’ve read, but if you wanna do this you can just put a different warrior cats book for every answer :3c

#long post #me #@lev #is it obvious that I only know of 1 series you've read?#I don't even know if i finished all of the warriors books bc my poor cat loving heart couldn't take it

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