#edwina monsoon

[abfabsweetiedarlings]

#ab fab #absolutely fabulous #abfab #jennifer saunders #eddy monsoon #june whitield #mum #edina monsoon #edwina monsoon

[mgmpluto]

Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 Episode 3 Sex

#GIFcreatedbyMGMpluto #animated gif #AbFab #absolutely fabulous #Jennifer Saunders #Edina Monsoon #Edwina Monsoon #Joanna Lumley #Patsy Stone #James Dreyfus #Ian Gelder #Running #british comedy #bbc

[chartmyfixations]

cris watches dr. who: s03e00 - "The Runaway Bride"

"Where am I? I demand that you tell me right now, where am I?" "Inside the TARDIS." "The what?" "The TARDIS!" "The what?" "THE TARDIS!" "The what?" "It's called the TARDIS!" "That's not even a proper word! You're just saying things!"

Hey! It's that annoying redhead from the American Office

Donna reminds me of Edwina Monsoon

“What sort of Martian are you?” Hee.

She sure shouts a lot! Good! The Doctor needs to be put in his place sometimes

Bringing up Rose when the Doctor asks you to trust him? Low blow, Donna

Donna was too hungover to notice the spaceship. I always loved Rose, but I've never felt such kinship with her 

Hee @ the taxi driver not picking up Donna because she's a drag queen (among other thing)

New companion, new flavor of soundtrack? The music is much more hysterical (which suits Donna)

Spider Lady is from the Power Ranger villain school of acting, my god

Doing a heroic power walk on Three Segways. Hee.

Dinosaurs! Hee.

Aw, Donna. When Lance dumps her, you can tell the precise moment where her heart breaks

"Because I think sometimes you need somebody to stop you." Damn, Donna has your number in the first encounter, Doctor! (Well, at least three of your digits, in any case.)

Wait, Donna's not staying? But she's a famous companion? Is this a fake-out? Will we be seeing her later? So many questions

8 out of 8 TARDES. Terrific episode, and Donna makes an excellent (and very different!) foil to the Doctor. Hope she returns soon!

#cris watches #cris watches dr who #doctor who #dr who #the tenth doctor #tenth doctor #10th doctor #david tennant #8 out of 8 tardes #donna noble #catherine tate #s03e00 #the runaway bride #empress of the racnoss

[vertvivre]

covid brain fog is still kicking my ass but I’ve been thinking about one of the sadder aspects of Kate’s missing backstory and flashbacks. Anthony over the two seasons is now relatively well rounded, his behaviour in season 1 and most of season 2 is explained by his past, we see this visually through the season 2 the flashbacks. Kate however didn’t get that, Anthony has a tonne of parallels with his past self, his parents and with Kate. We see and know so little about Kate Sharma in the show that she only has parallels with Anthony and I don’t like that. There is a lack of agency for her character as a woman and when you consider she is a South Asian woman being presented only through her devotion to her family and relationship with a man, it’s looks bad.

A really simple scene that could have prevented this is seeing Kate learn to ride or riding with her father on the grounds of the royal family he clerked for. Seeing her ride during rough weather like monsoon rains would have been so good and paralleled so well with many aspects of season 2. Firstly we would have seen her with her father, who she I assume was very close with due to losing her mother so young. Like Anthony she has that pain of losing a father, she is also an orphan but the loss of a father was more thematic for this season *gestures to Anthony and Edmund*. We see it mentioned when Anthony first mets her that she is riding astride, yes he makes the quip about if she’s single but there’s more there. I imagine in India titled or not being close with the royal family meant she had a lot of freedom and relative privilege and could ride carefree on their lands. Riding astride is something she holds onto from her past in India it’s how we are introduced to her character, it relates to her father, culture and freedom his position granted her in India. When she comes to England she knows the riding etiquette for women and is being rebellious by riding astride anyways.

Her knowledge and history with house riding elevates so many other scenes, the royal ascot races, Anthony’s inferior horsemanship, the irony of Edwina being gifted a horse etc. It even elevates the tragedy of her fall. I believe she skilfully rode in the rain many times in the past. For Kate horse riding was something she had as her thing prior to meeting Anthony or settling foot in England. She fell because she was troubled, feeling guilty and confused and the ride that would clear her head hurt her. She’d just spent the night with Anthony and knew she was in love with him but that must have been scary for her. She had given into her desires and cast repression aside and done something for herself but she still felt bad about it. Just including a horse riding flashback would have done so much, imagine how much more at just a couple scenes about Kate would have improved the season. Idk how much sense this post even makes but yeah Kate deserved better

#bridgerton #kate sharma #bridgerton s2 #missing flashbacks #anthony bridgerton #kathony #kanthony #vertvivre #musings #never thought about horse riding this much in my life #simone ashley #a flash back of her haunting even #anything!!!!

[heyholmesletsgo]

share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then send this to 10 people (anon or not, your choice) 🎥🎬📺

A list :D

Batman

Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove

Frodo Baggins

Arya Stark

Vyvyan Basterd from The Young Ones

Edwina Monsoon from Absolutely Fabulous

Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd

Cassian Andor

Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Babu Frik

Thank you for the ask!!

#me meme #answered #favorite characters #this was kinda hard tbh #obsessed with Anzellans lololol

[obscurememesubjects]

#absolutely fabulous #edwina monsoon

[plentyopurpleplace]

PURPLE clothes

#clothes #celebs #TV #Absolutely Fabulous #Patsy Stone #Edwina Monsoon #trio #wedding dress #hat #outside #grass #earring #belt #tie

[ostrich-riding-cowboy]

Volksfeind

Evil will come at you ratchet and sow- eyed, not well-dressed nor silver-tongued. Troubles come to fools before all else; to take reality and shift it to suit the needs of the day or even the minute. Whereby, we all have Tamora to wed.

Have it and eat it: both scoops and the cake, adamant fantasies: you're a Truther but think: fertilizer can come from bull- shit. A game only you will play: win it. Tallow has limits, if the sponge is bread; Lean so hard it becomes fraught to say, "Wow."

Obi-wan says a fool has to be led to Thule and beyond, challenge a Jaw- a (Would Alderan were a moon, innit?), or deny the Force. Faith is a crude bols- ter in the toughest times (or the woozy ones). Like Lando, sometimes, we all must flake.

When vagueness fails, you can always gin it! Ev'rybody goes down well with beer. Dead in empathy, heart and pity; who's the latest victim? Son and a son and bake; and red in the mouth (wherever): mumbles can even indict: each hand as a bough.

There's doing your job and then there's Bubble's Method. Lulu's fifteen percent (a shake- down) should be easier to earn--and how!-- than collecting it, still feeling boozy from the Bollinger. Jobs secured and ped- dled (…with love) take this kipper and tin it!

Unless your child is starving, for our sake, you’ll never rightly find cause to pull thee a Madonna pube, damask'd and thin it may be. Don't be that asshole; knowing, vow- ing what it's like to be bad takes the head (brains and imagination). The stubbles

are real and toothy. To swear: akin it is trying to make sense of Speed-the-Plow: the tempo doubles each time "fuck" is said.

#a new hope #the molochite verses #edwina monsoon #titus andronicus #you say I'm terrific but your taste was always rotten #sestina

[nanso]

I know you talked about bridgerton and india before, what did you think of how they handled it?

Sorry, anon, you sent this awhile back! My b. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to wade into this, but here we go.

I guess I would say it was one step forward, two steps back for me. 

I'll be nice and start with the good: 

Let me start out by saying - I'm south indian, I'm dark-skinned, I annoyingly like period dramas so yes - it means a lot to see Simone and Charithra in Bridgerton.

-oil and hair: I actually loved this moment quite a lot, when Kate massages coconut oil into Edwina's hair after idiot Anthony's non-proposal. I liked it because, at least in the south where my family is from, it is most definitely a regular female bonding activity. And it was seamless and not explained like a documentary or Vox explainer. So kudos, white people and single desi writer! 

For the rest, under the cut we go! 

The 'eh'

-I was just 'eh' about Kate's tea thing. It was simple and funny and like yeah, british tea is meh. So you go, Glen Coco/Kate Sharma. Dunk on their blandness. On the other hand....it feels like, at least for people who have ANY awareness of the history of British colonialism in India, referencing tea just made me think of (what was for me) the elephant in the season. 

-Haldi: I guess I appreciate that it wasn't like...explained for the audience. I saw a bit in a pretty decent article from Vice (one of the few critical pieces about this season that is otherwise awash in sycophantic praise) that mentioned that Edwina’s unmarried woman-and-luck bit isn't a thing.  And while that may be true, I have to say - in my family, I swear to god, half the things the women on my mom's side say are things they have just simply decided are family tradition. And that's how traditions are made, to be honest. So 🤷🏾‍♀️. Though lord knows, there are probably any number of non-desis that probably think that this is broadly culturally traditional so....that’s awkward. Also you know that someone saw Monsoon Wedding and was like ‘time for marigolds, amirite??’

There can sometimes be a ‘look at us!’ vibe when desi culture is incorporated in any media form, in a way that encourages (often by desis themselves) a voyeurism and exotification of the culture from people who aren’t desi, particularly white people (colonization never ended, my friends). I - mostly - did not get that vibe from S2, though a part of me actually feels like the tea bit and Haldi inched towards that; and one thing below definitely breached that line. 

The Bad: -I think the first thing that stands out to me is the absurd lack of explanation of what is going on with the plethora of languages in the Sharma family?? Listen, obviously there are regionally blended Indian families (I've got a few in my own!) but like...this this needed explanation. Papa Sharma was presumably Tamil since Edwina also called him appa. And yet...he had a northern last name?? Kate and Edwina called Mary mama, which is fine and makes sense - she was born and raised in England.  But then...Edwina called Kate didi. And Kate called Edwina bon....Hindi and Bengali respectively.  Like...what is going on here? Kate calls her birthmother amma so she was also Tamil (or Telugu!). So where is the Bengali coming from? And if there is no colonization, where is the Hindi coming from when they live in Maharashtra?? 

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE, SINGLE DESI WRITER AND SINGLE HISTORICAL CONSULTANT. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. 

***One note - I have see a couple of people on twitter question Kate saying Edwina is fluent in Hindustani and saying that’s not a language. Uh...I’m a little surprised that people don’t know that Hindustani is a language and was the predominant language in, at least, northern India during the 19th century in particular? Like...there’s a reason why Hindu and Urdu are so similar, peeps***

-Accents and pronunciation: Listen, this is absolutely NOTHING against Simone A or Charithra C. But Simone's accent was aaaaaaaall over the place and I don't think it was code-switching or based on her emotional state. And also I don't think this is her fault. Indian accents are 1) varied and 2) difficult!  She shouldn't have had to do that. Also if they were going to have Edwina reference Mirza Ghalib (whose first published work wasn't until like 3 decades after the events of S2 I'm pretty sure but anyhooooo), they could have at least had someone tell Charithra how to pronounce his name correctly?? Again, that isn't on Charithra but on the producers and cultural consultants. Listen, maybe there are people who pronounce his name like that; I've just never heard it. 

-Kathani: Uh, this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I was not a fan of this choice. First of all, I’m not entirely certain of the origin of the name Kathani and no, do not @ me with random What-this-Name-Means websites as though that's some kind of proof. Mostly it felt like they picked a name that was close to Katherine. Moving on, WHY WAS ANTHONY THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY KATE'S DESI NAME? The white guy is how we learn this? Not from Kate herself? Or Mary? Seriously? Also...even in moments of distress (ie the broken wedding, Kate's accident), Mary never says 'Kathani' - which would lead one to think that she, in fact, never really uses that name??  It just didn't make a lot of sense (or it implies a lot worse). To me, it felt like a way for Bridgerton to pat themselves on the back for giving Kate an apparently Desi name but without the thought or care of how that name related to the parents who named her and the other parent who helped raise her. 

-Exotification: Listen, to me, the sheer fact that they incorporated Indian culture in Season 2 - but did not tell us where Simon's family may have originated from at any point in S1 (or Lady Danbury) raises red flags to me about how this show handles its characters of color. I actually would prefer a so-called ‘color-blind’ casting (even if I inherently think that that is a false concept but that’s another matter). But the writers are the ones that have said the show is ‘color-conscious’ and show an inconsistency with that, not shockingly. There's also this inherent question/probing thought in my mind that - Bridgerton has now chosen two romantic interests from communities that were tied to England by slavery and colonization. And...I don't know what to do with that.

I have other thoughts on Bridgerton's so-called 'color-conscious- casting but they aren't formulated enough to post. Maybe one day my brain will scramble into place for it though. There are probably other things that I should note, but this is what stuck out for me. 

#asks #bridgerton #I understand that a lot of desis may have liked some of the things I didn't #but that's the beauty of our very diverse culture #many different opinions #also if you are not desi but especially if you are white please do not @ me with your thoughts or spout about your feelings on desi culture #just no

[kathanisharma]

I understand the one criticism of saying they should've focused on kate's past traumas like they did anthony's, but unpopular opinion, i didn't care really at all about them not including the storm phobia.. like yes she still dislikes them, but.... girl grew up in India in the show, there's a whole monsoon season every year where it does nothing but storm all day every day. It would be unrealistic for her to have such a phobia in the show given the fundamental change to her character!

another valid point. to me, her fear of thunderstorms was low on my things that make kate 'kate' list so it didn't bother me much. i think they changed her in a way, that made her personality more and there wasn't a need for it. we had self sacrifice, loyalty to the point of no longer caring for your happiness, we had the burden of kind of being the head of the household- it was more than kate sheffield's 'i approve of my sisters suitors', kathani sharma literally raised and taught edwina and managed the house. there was enough going on, that the phobia would have been out of place and only made sense for book lovers.

#bridgerton spoilers #medha answers anon

[abfabsweetiedarlings]

#abfab #absolutely fabulous #saffy #eddy monsoon #patsy stone #julia sawalha #joanna lumley #jennifer saunders #edina monsoon #edwina monsoon #ab fab #patsy and eddy

[love-music-fashion-flawless]

#ab fab #Absolutely Fabulous #edina monsoon #Edwina Margaret Rose Monsoon #Jennifer Saunders #eddy

[postpunkpontypandyphantomthief]

Theory:Eddie Monsoon from Comic Strip Presents later became Eddie Catflap in Filthy,Rich and Catflap and the similar surname between him and Edwina from Abfab makes them both siblings

after leaving rehab he was taken in by Richie and he became Richie’s minder when he realized Richie was unwanted (that he never knew his dad and that he was a “bastard” to his mother)

edward catflap is a nickname 

he gets annoyed by Richie when he’s complaining about “being a celebrity” because that’s what he used to be like

he wrecks the set in the finale because he’s not happy with richie getting the fame that he should have

he gets annoyed with Richie but he’s happy that he has a purpose 

#theory #filthy rich and catflap #the comic strip presents #comic strip presents #eddie monsoon #eddie monsoon a life #edward catflap

[blograzorwit]

Jest A Minute (9/8/1017) from Subroto Mukherjee

Hairy-Scary Demon--------------------------- A strange demon is rumored to be lurking around certain villages in UP, Haryana and Rajasthan! This demon is cutting off women's hair! Ha! How does that grab you? So, in these places, women are now afraid to go out and fall prey to this hair-cutting spook! On the other hand, given the rising prices in food stuff, women in other parts of the country are afraid to go to the market -- and fall prey to the cut-throat prices! *** Big Talker and Stalker------------------------------- Much hoo-ha over the son of a politico stalking a lone girl at night in Chandigarh! Ha! In other words, politico dad is a big talker and son is a worthless stalker! And imagine, this punk is a student of law! What an extraordinary student! Not yet a graduate in law -- but already an MA, PhD in crime! *** Hot In Bed!--------------------- Poor Aamir Khan and wife Kiran. Both down with swine flu fever. But so nice, no? To see that this celeb couple is still so much in love with each other. So much in love that they share everything with each other -- including their virus! *** Russian Sardines and Czardines----------------------------------------------- I just saw a picture of Putin fishing. See, even the President of the great Russia Federation has to go fishing for his supper! So who are we in India to complain about the sky-rocketing prices of fish vegetables and food stuff? Let's go fish for our supper. The Czars and Czarinas of Russia went out with the Russian Revolution. Now what Russia has is royal Czardines in high places like Putin fishing for sardines. *** Not So Fast, Buddy---------------------------- In the IAAF World Championship, Usain Bolt (the fastest man on earth) ended up in the third place! Not only did two others race ahead of Bolt, but when he looked back once during the race, he saw Age trying to catch up to him! *** Leaving No Stone Unturned---------------------------------------- Two Chinese jewel thieves were caught at the airport. They were trying to fly out of India after stealing diamonds worth a fortune. But the airport customs officers had already been alerted by cops. So they thoroughly searched the baggage of the two Chinese crooks -- and finally discovered the diamonds concealed in a shampoo bottle. Ha! Now that's what I'd call leaving no stone unturned when you are looking for hidden stones.   *** Fairy-tale Vs Reality---------------------------- New revelation has surfaced about Lady Diana. That she was so unhappy, so frustrated, in her marriage with Prince Charles, she wanted to run away with a hunky bodyguard! Well, she had a fairy-tale wedding, didn't she? That's what people said, didn't they? But, hey, a fairy-tale in one thing, reality is another thing. In a fairy-tale, you kiss a frog and the frog turns into a prince! Your wonderful prince charming! But in reality, you marry a prince but the prince turns into a frog! *** No Rest In Her Final Resting Place?----------------------------------------------- Lady Diana's brother has revealed that so far grave robbers have tried to dig up her grave at least four times! Well, I don't know but maybe these ghouls were just trying to find out if the princess was still resting peacefully in her last resting-place -- or whether she had run away with some hunk! *** Platonic Love--------------------- In her book, Lady Edwina Mountbatten's daughter Pamela Hicks has expressed her conviction that her mother and Nehru-ji had a platonic relationship. That there was nothing physical in the warm friendship they shared. As we know, the great ancient Greek thinker Plato was all for platonic love. That is, he felt love between a man and a woman could be wonderfully intimate even without sex. Hey, by the way, I enjoy my own kind of PLATE-onic love. I mean I just love the mouth-watering foods served on a PLATE! ***   Food For Trains------------------------- They say the food served on our trains is getting so rotten, it won't be long before even the rats and roaches that ride our trains will be compelled to get food from their own homes! Guess what I do when I have to journey by long-distance trains? I restrict my diet to foods like Pearl Jam, the Black-Eyed Peas, the Cranberries, Meat Loaf, etc. And that's the way to enjoy food on our trains -- don't eat it but relish it on your portable music system. *** Hereby Hangs A Tale------------------------------ How cruel can you get to make a little money, huh? Exotic dogs are now being smuggled into our country crammed into bags and suitcases by air passengers!   I wonder how this racket came to light. Did a suitcase at the airport growl at some customs officer? Or did someone spot a bag with a tail sticking out of it! Ha! As Shakespeare would have said -- "And thereby hangs a tale!"Yes, the Bard loved to play on words like 'tail' and 'tale'. And hereby hangs the cruel tale of dog smuggling! *** Going To Pot---------------------- Maneka-ji wants to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Why not? Great idea. But may I remind her of this maxim? That the path to hell is often paved with good intentions. I am thinking right now of those poor souls who were prescribed alcohol for medical reasons, only to end up as helpless alcoholics in the long run! Anyway, the news of pot being legalized is sure to be welcomed in this country by every Tom, Dick and Harry Potter -- or rather Harry Pot-head! *** Ab Hoga Toga----------------------- I hear pajamas could soon trend as chic outdoor wear in the form of pajama suits. Huh? What next? Bath towels as formal wear? Are we going to step out wrapped in a colorful bath towel around our waist like a sarong or lungi? And to add to that flamboyance, also drape a colorful towel around our shoulder like the ancient Roman toga? I can't wait to do that -- especially in this monsoon! How convenient! *** Tank-fully It's Unmanned------------------------------------- Bravo to our DRDO, it has designed an unmanned tank. I feel it's best to test this new tank on Mumbai's treacherous roads fraught with ruts and craters. This way, every time this tank hits a solid hump, bump or hole, it won't break the tank driver's bone or knock his tooth loose! ***  

[catherinepl1996]

Driving to Eaton with Edwina and Daniel by alicewindsor featuring nine west jewelry ❤ liked on Polyvore

Monsoon blue checked shirt, £26 / Leather ankle boots, £115 / Mulberry brown leather handbag, £975 / Nadri hinged bracelet, £47 / Nine west jewelry, £12 / 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport, £48,700

#polyvore #fashion #style #Monsoon #Mulberry #Nadri #Nine West #clothing

[plentyopurpleplace]

PURPLE phone case

#phone case #outside #auto #celeb #Absolutely Fabulous #British TV #due #female #Patsy Stone #Joanna Lumley #Edwina Monsoon #Jennifer Saunders #tie #magazine #ring #bracelet #necklace #jacket #snarl