#esther is a badass

[nichenarratives]

This is the result of hours on VC, an AU created based on a single silly expression and the slow spiral of insanity that eventually becomes...

Gideon Nisi Schlemiel, or the "Anti-Mordecai". (All art by @thisisanerror )

A bookish and reserved man, Gideon doesn't dislike talking to people, but he certainly struggles with it. He's anxious, easily flustered and prone to nervous sweats. But he's a very kind man with an affinity for math and botanicals.

Gideon has a few... Struggles in everyday life, ones his mother tries to assist with, but generally pushes too hard on. He has a high reliance on routine and order. He suffers from texture and taste sensitivities (he hates crunchy things, sour things and spicy things) and prefers baggy clothes due to intense tactile sensitivities, also avoiding uncomfortably tight or clingy fabrics altogether.

Despite Gideon's difficulties, he has a strong advocate in his sister, Esther. A no-nonsense and feisty personality, Esther will mercilessly tease her brother - it is her right, as his little sister, she says - but should anyone else mess with Gideon, heads will roll in short order. Even mother is not safe from her wrath when it comes to protecting Gideon's gentle nature.

With Gideon's differences compared to his canon counterpart, his family life is also quite different. His mother finds Gideon to be too soft; she and Isaac often argue regarding nature versus nurture in regard to his eccentricities, as well as Esther's near indomitable spirit. These arguments never resolve and soon after Mordecai turns eleven, they part ways, with Esther and Gideon ending up with their father in St Louis.

Isaac ends up as bookkeeper for the Little Daisy, getting his children jobs in the cafe when they're old enough. Once the Lackadaisy Speakeasy opens however, Esther is soon drawn into the underground world of bootlegging, torture, murder and everything in between. (Mostly torture - she had a lot of repressed anger about the divorce.)

Gideon is far more content to continue working the books or the cafe with his father until Isaac's health declines too far and he is forced to retire. It's then Gideon learns the true nature of the Little Daisy Cafe - as well as the existence of Lackadaisy in the caves below - and he...

Well, he freaks out a little.

Good thing Esther is there to slap some sense into him.

#mordecai heller #esther heller #Gideon Schlemiel #lackadaisy AU #divorce AU #niche narratives #thisisanerror #lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy #tracy j butler #crackadaisy #anti-mordecai #esther is a badass

[vampireninjabunnies-blog]

I know it's almost impossible to choose but if you had to choose one of your mutuals OCs to add to your main timeline who would you pick? Answer in the tags

#seriosly hard #i know #either #oc: kit cross #or #oc: deputy sybille la roux #just cuz they're badasses #and esther could use a hand

[winterrnighttsposts]

Mikaelson family

#klaus mikaelson #rebekah mikaelson #elijah mikaelson #kol mikaelson #freya mikaelson #finn mikaelson #esther mikaelson #mikael mikaelson #oringal family #vampire #werewolf #hybrid #witch #oringals #badass #phycodelic

[damingdollface]

SPOILERS!!!!!!

THE BACKSTORY WITH ESTHER’S PARENTS AND HOW SHE ENDED UP AS AN ORPHAN LEFT ME DEPRESSED

ALSO WHO TF IS THIS JESTER CHARACTER

#Mr Hopp’s playhouse #Mr Hopp’s playhouse 3 #spoilers #ALSO THE PART THAT ESTHER CALLS RUBY HER GEM IS SO CUTE #AND THE PART WITH DESCENDED ESTHER BATTLING THE ENTITY WAS FUCKING BADASS

[aria-ashryver]

astoria when she finds lewyn after the ambush

say what you want about Astoria but that woman protects the fuck outta her babies 🤬🔪🚨🚨⚠😤😤🔥💅

(and yes, I hc she'd step up for the Clement fledglings as well.)

God I'm kind of just now realising all the mums in Starlight are total badasses haha

#SICSIG #Cassandra? Badass #Terri? Badass #Astoria? Badass #Phoebe? Okay we haven't met her yet #(but badass) #same with Esther and Morag #Badasses of the grandmotherly witchy persuasion #Need I say more?

[remnantsouls]

Esther writing notes. "Threaten-to.. flay.. alive.." Esther do not take notes please

#dash com #Esther taking “How to be a scary badass” lessons from Cal

[winter-tospring]

My Journey to You - episode 1

#immediately hooked #LOVE the aesthetic that's just what i'm craving at the moment #we have our soft decent man and our badass lady #zhang ling he's character makes me laugh. i can't tell if he's smart yet or if he's just careless lol #guessing he's smart because he's decent and goes Against The Norm #against his dad anyway #i like the dynamic with his bodyguard. slight gay vibe there. mostly strong ace vibe from our soft lord #disinterested in the flesh but wants that tea and company #i like him honestly #i'm looking forward to more of esther yu cause i haven't been motivated to watch love bw fairy and devil and im curious about her #glad she doesn't have that high pitched voice as in the other show :') #my understanding is that she actually is yun weishan but she doesnt know it?? only the guy who sent her there to pretend that she is?? #stunning fighting skills - loved the slow mo there. you can tell she dances cause her feet were pointed in the jumps #let's gooooo #my journey to you

[dandeliononthemoon]

Watching The Fabulous rn and :

Joseph = Magnus

Esther = Alec

Seon-ho = Isabelle

Ji-eun = Clary

Woo-min = Jace

#there is no simon incarnate unfortunately #also i love seon-ho she is a badass and amazing and so like isabelle imo #joseph and esther welll they are not a couple and i dont see similarities with magnus and alec #but this is just me imagining a malec au #ji-eun and woo-min tho could be great clary and jace imo (again i am just imagining an au) #the fabulous netflix #magnus bane #alec lightwood #isabelle lightwood #clary fairchild #jace herondale #tsc #tmi #tp.e

[jessicalprice]

all hail her excellent braids

Christians: omg first century Judaism was soooo misogynistic but Jesus was like the first feminist because he treated women like people

Jews: what

Christians: like, Jewish men would cross to the other side of the street to avoid having to be too close to women

Jews: hang on do you think there were, like, sidewalks in first-century Jerusalem?

Christians: and Jewish women weren't supposed to be seen in public

Jews: that's not how--

Christians: and men weren't even supposed to talk to women, but Jesus had female followers <3

Jews: first-century Jewish women owned their own businesses and represented themselves in court and, like, how are you imagining business got done if they weren't allowed to talk?

President Jimmy fucking Carter: first century Jews were basically the Taliban

A bazillion seminary textbooks: yup, the Pharisees were obsessed with ritual purity and viewed women as inherently unclean and Jesus upended all that Pharisaic hatred of women and that's why they wanted him dead

Shlomtzion, aka Salome Alexandra, has entered the chat.

Ahem, let me tell you about the Pharisee Queen.

So back in the day, the Pharisees were a tiny, persecuted movement because the King of Judah, Alexander Jannaeus hated them. He straight-up massacred 6,000 of them when they pelted him with fruit after he mocked them by performing a Sukkot ritual incorrectly, which kicked off a whole civil war. He won the war, and slaughtered the wives and children of 800 of the surviving Pharisees as entertainment at his victory feast before crucifying the men. The remaining Pharisees went into hiding.

Just a charming dude.

Alexander Jannaeus was married to Salome Alexandra (Shlomtzion, in Hebrew).

Her brother was Shimon ben Shetach, the leader of the Pharisees. (If you're getting Esther vibes here, that's probably not accidental.

She doesn't seem to have had much power while Alexander Jannaeus was alive, but she managed to help hide and protect the surviving Pharisees.

This doesn't seem to have negatively impacted her relationship with her husband, because he named her--rather than any of his sons--his heir while he was on his deathbed.

He was in the middle of conducting a siege of Ragaba when he died, so like the incredible badass she was, became queen--and would be both only the second queen regnant of Judah and the last sovereign Jewish monarch--on the battlefield, in the midst of hostilities.

She had to conceal her husband's death until she'd won the day.

As soon as she made his death public, she reached out to the Pharisees to make peace between them and the throne, avoiding a popular uprising at his funeral. The funeral went off smoothly, and she immediately began settling other political disputes and enmities.

She also hung out and studied with the Pharisees. We know this because Josephus, an ardent misogynist, absolutely hated that she did this, just like he absolutely hated that she had ruled Judah, and wrote about it.

Josephus had been a Sadducee (main opposing party to the Pharisees), but switched to the Pharisees later in life for political expediency. He never seemed to actually like them, though.

He tells on himself so much.

"Oh, people love the Pharisees because they are humane and flexible interpreters of the law and practice what they preach and this is a BAD THING!"

Literally, on Shlomtzion: "Woman though she was, she established her authority by her reputation for piety."

Like, everyone respected her and did what she said because she actually gave a shit about ethics and somehow this is a BAD thing.

She averted war with Egypt by buddying up to Cleopatra (I am so headcanoning them as pen pals, writing each other to vent about all the men they have to deal with) and somehow this is a BAD thing.

So she takes the throne and manages to keep things running pretty smoothly in a precarious time because she's good at organizing AND military strategy AND diplomacy and here's Josephus on her relationship with the Pharisees:

"She paid too great heed to them, and they, availing themselves more and more of the simplicity of the woman, ended by becoming the effective rulers of the state... "

Ah yes, FlavJo, she sounds very "simple," what with the incredible military and diplomatic skills.

While she wasn't averse to fighting when she needed to, she mostly averted possible battles by fortifying and provisioning cities so well that neighboring monarchs opted not to attack them, so she was also just slaying at project management. She ended a bunch of the foreign wars her asshole husband started, and scrupulously kept to the terms of any treaties Judah was party to.

Her reign was possibly the most prosperous and peaceful period in Judah's history.

She gave the Sadducees (her husband's party) their own fortified cities so they'd stop feuding with the Pharisees, and took the Pharisees from a small, persecuted populist movement in hiding to one of the major political parties.

She set up a system of universal public education, putting the responsibility for educating the kids on the government, not families, to make sure it wasn't just rich kids getting a solid education. She re-established the Sanhedrin (the Supreme Court, basically) and made sure every town under her rule had access to judges.

And then one of her asshole sons, who apparently took after his asshole dad, decided HE would be a better ruler than she was, and DECLARED WAR ON HIS OWN MOM. She died, apparently of an illness, in her 70s.

She died as the last free Jewish ruler.

So then that asshole son went after the other asshole son, and they turned to the Romans for help.

(You want to get occupied? This is how you get occupied.)

Yes, that's right, they committed one of the classic blunders: inviting the Romans in.

THE ROMANS ARE LIKE VAMPIRES. DO NOT INVITE THEM IN.

Anyway, we all know how THAT turned out.

In rabbinic literature, she's almost a fertility goddess figure, or a personification the land itself, or a monarch beloved by G-d possibly moreso than any other, since the rest of them all screwed up and the Jews got punished with war or exile or famine or disease: legend claims that during her reign, rain only fell on Shabbat, so people didn't have to work in the rain. Grains of wheat grew to the size of kidneys, and lentils were the size of gold denarii. The people knew joy like we've never known since and were healthy and prosperous and at peace.

She was praised by contemporaries such as Josephus as having greater intelligence, political skill, and military acumen than the men around her (although Josephus, an ardent misogynist, later decided that it was inappropriate for her to rule), and the stories of Esther, Judith, and Susanna may have been written (or in the case of Esther, edited and codified) in her honor. 

​Anyway, the Pharisees' teachings remained especially popular among women, and the person who saved them (and thus, by extension, Judaism, when they were the ones to preserve it in exile) and brought them to power and was their beloved patron was a woman, and maaaaaaybe Christians don't know the first thing about women in first-century Judaea or the Pharisees and women and should shut up, idk.

All hail Shlomtzion and her most excellent braids.

#judaism #jewish history

[slow-burn-sally]

My (absolutely unsolicited and spoiler-riddled) Top Ten Favorite Things About Bodies (Netflix - 2023) In no particular order

(list may grow)

All of the detectives are AMAZING. They all have different personalities, and unique vibes, but all of them are complete and total badasses, with the fires of conviction crackling in their souls. Excellent casting and character design.

The Throat is the coolest name for a time portal ever. Yes, we should all make endless sex jokes about it, but I found the choice of words to be deliciously science fiction-y and creepy and a bit menacing. A++ writing.

Alfred/Henry. Such a good ship. Sturdy hull. Good sails on her.

Gabriel Defoe, despite getting shot in the eye a few times, and lying around naked in alleyways, or hanging suspended naked in glass cases full of goo for like, 45 minutes, is a precious baby angel face. I want to marry him and have his babies. His eyes are so pretty. Help.

Alfred Hillinghead my beloved. I love how unhinged he is. I love how buttoned up he is, and how Henry unbuttons him. Here we go again.

Henry's doe-eyes. Just look at him whenever he looks at Alfred. Pure, unmitigated doe-eyes.

Esther my beloved. Someone get that girl a gun and a motorcycle for her 18th birthday. Her and her adopted dad Karl can hunt down Nazis, or join a band of roaming theater performers. I don't care, I just want to watch the spin-off of Esther and Karl's adventures post-canon.

The scene between Hillinghead and Mannix in the back of the paddy wagon, where Hillinghead uses his newfound future info to absolutely roast Mannix. Beautifully done on all parts. Such good acting.

The scene between Karl and Mannix where he convinces Karl to take the record, and Karl kills him. OH MY GOD. The writing. The acting. The mood.

Greta Sacchi is just so sexy and evil and so classy. She brings a depth of nuance and vivacity to any role she plays. Her Polly was just bang-on. Loved her death scene too.

#bodies 2023 #bodies netflix #netflix bodies

[silviakundera]

Dramas I watched in 2023

[Chinese Dramas]

My Journey to You - Wuxia. Spy games, badass ladies, subtextually homoerotic cousins. Gentle & sweet ML who melts the cold & calculated heart of FL assassin. Gorgeous setting and cinematography. Left me with a burning desire to see Zhang Ling He play more gentle babygirl MLs and Esther Yu to play more anti-heroes. Absolutely perfect to me.., if we just pretend the director didn't add a pointless cliffhanger in the last 5 min. Which is how I choose to live my life.

Story of Kunning Palace - 'rebirth' costume drama that I waited to air for like 2 years or something and then it... actually didn't disappoint? And was almost everything I wanted? 😳😲 This is THE couple for that post about the pair that need to be stuck in a neverending monogamous relationship with each other as a quarantine measure to protect everyone else.

A Journey to Love - wuxia perfection. The stand-out drama that I wasn't expecting. Murder mommy & murder daddy became an otp for the ages and all of the supporting characters were interesting and dynamic. I cared about so many more characters than I expected and never fast fowarded. Just immensely satisfying.

The Ingenious One - wuxia with a weak, scheming scholar protagonist on a revenge quest (yes, we've all heard that before!) who puts together a group to execute his cons, Leverage style. I love me a martial artist x weak scholar couple 👌. Some exciting twists & turns in this one. Both A Journey to Love and The Ingenious One are best enjoyed coming in with little to no information. Hell, skip the trailers and simply dive in!

Hidden Love - Modern drama. Top tier romance-novel-on-screen writing and acting. It felt honest and real. The coming of age arc for the FL was well done. Great brother & sister relationship that feels authentic. The ML's backstory was so heart breaking because it was never overplayed for melodramatics. Just a quiet pain, a distance and a burden he carried with him.

Road Home - Modern. "Do you remember who I am?" / "Yes. If I were to turn to ashes, I would still remember you." I am very weak for the "reunited exes", "second time around" trope when the actors are capable and the breakup wasn't a narratively convenient 'misunderstanding'. As a career woman who works very long hours, I also tend to appreciate modern drama relationships where the couple manages to stay functional & supportive while not having a lot of free time for each other. That's my version of wish fulfillment 😂. I felt like this narrative made me fully understand why they couldn't make a long distance relationship work as young adults but now they're ready and have experienced enough of the world to know that they are happier with their lives joined together than apart.

Love You Seven Times - xanxia. I wrote a whole review post (love letter) on this one, since it seems rather underrated. I feel like this one may actually end up one of my fav examples of the genre. I just sincerely bought into the couple and their mutual devotion.

The Last Immortal - xanxia. Terrible trailer but turns out to be a decent show. I'm a fan of the genre, so I'm enjoying it. (I think you do need to be, to enjoy it - it doesn't transcend or really subvert..just a solid representation of xanxia) I like both lead actors and they do a good job with the material. It's working better for me than Ancient Love Poetry and Ashes of Love. After being eager for Song of the Moon in 2022 but then being let down (I dropped that one quick), I'm very happy 2023 brought me 2 xanxia I liked.

Three Body - modern sci-fi. Book 1 of my fav sci-fi trilogy of recent years. As a novel fan first, I was pleased to see it on screen with talented actors. Eager for book 2.

Love Me, Love My Voice - modern drama with an unusual couple (2 introverts) and dubbing fandom hyper fixation. A laid back relaxation drama, to de-stress with. Minimal plot, no conflict. Just sweet slow burn relationship building, singing & audio performances. Supportive friendships.

Here We Meet Again - modern drama that suffered from sloppy editing. I mean almost incoherent editing in a couple places, like when they are counting down the days until getting married and then.. It's not mentioned again? 🙃 But I very much enjoyed the couple's chemistry. I can't say it was objectively good but it sure was compulsively watchable for some reason.

Royal Rumors - Costume drama that was so aggressively mediocre that I don't have any real explanation for not dropping it. Except I find the lead actress unspeakably alluring. Blame my hormones.

Dropped

Back to the Brink - xanxia. Great concepts but the execution didn't work for me. I'm not a fan of slapstick and wacky humor within serious subject matter. (It's the reason kdramas can be very hit or miss with me.) The amount of humor layered into AJourney to Love is basically my limit for tragicomedies. (Note: I did go read the book and it was very entertaining - the tone was much more to my taste.)

My Lethal Man - modern. Embarassing english name, but they had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Then after her identity was exposed, I wasn't feeling it idk. Sometimes it's just not that complicated.

Destined/Chang Feng Du - costume drama. idk really why I dropped. I watched about a 3rd of it and then was distracted by other shiny objects. I plan to come back to this one in 2024 and finish.

Romance of the Twin Flower - costume drama; unholy abomination of a great novel. I hope somehow, someday, the culprits pay for their crime. Need I say more?

[Korean Dramas]

Perfect Revenge Marriage - a modern rebirth tale. For the 90% of it, I was high on the love of a drama that is just what you didn't know you wanted. The camp, the dedication, the scenery chewing, the glorious evil step mother. It was magical. And then the last 2 episodes I found underwhelming. I can't really explain it, the climax just didn't hit for me. But that's very much a personal taste issue and I'd definitely recommend to all drama lovers who enjoy the genre. Seriously, the performance of evil step mommy was a master class.

King the Land - modern workplace romance. I've heard complaints that there wasn't much of plot. But tbh that was fine with me, because some dramas are simply character pieces. This was all about the personal growth of the FL and ML. I ended up invested and rooting for the ML to become a decent guy who isn't a gross classist like his dad.

Destined with You - modern reincarnation drama. I blame my lingering kdrama good feelings about King the Land for convincing me to keep powering thru this one. Such a strong start but then half-way in I began to realize it simply wasn't going to go into the direction I wanted it to. I still have no idea what they intended to communicate with that love potion subplot.

Vincenzo - modern crime drama. I was late to the party on this one. But after I got around to watching the delightful Kinnporsche, this was rec'd to me as another drama that embraced the bigger than life unreality of Fantasy Mafia™ and provides a rollicking good time. Absolutely ridiculous and compulsively watchable. 10/10.

[American]

House of the Dragon - Awful people doing awful things to each other, as a 1st act before everything goes straight to hell. Plus freaky dragon-riding fantasy incest. What's there not to like?

Fall of the House of Usher (YES i DO watch every horror drama by Mike Flanagan thx) - Was it as good as the first 3..? No. Did I still breathlessly binge it in 2 days? Yes. Awful things happening to awful people, poetically. 👌 👌

#cdrama #drama review

[liesmyth]

Headcanon: Ruth is your favorite book of the Bible.

Close! It's actually the book of Judith, in all its debatable canonicity. She is SO!! badass. Also she had her maid had Something going on. To me

Please picture me, aged 8 to 13, going to catechism classes once a week and diligently reading my bible except I was really into 1. Judith 2. Esther. 3. Ruth 4. Revelations. And not listening to a word anyone was actually saying

#megasilverfist #about the blogger #askbox games

[dimension20npcofalltime]

Tournament Two: Round Two - Bracket Eight [Dimension 20 NPC of All Time]

Sklonda Gukgak vs Esther Sinclair

Propaganda under the cut

Sklonda Gukgak - She/her

Campaign: Fantasy High, Dimension 20 LIVE

Who is she?

Sklonda Gukgak is the mother of Riz Gukgak and the former chief of the Elmville police force. She is now studying to become a Solisian immigrant rights attorney. She lives with her son in Strongtower Luxury Apartments and struggles financially to provide for them.

Why is she the NPC of All Time?

A hard working mother, badass. Raised Riz.

Submitted by: @beetlevsboy; Anonymous

Esther Sinclair - She/Her

Campaign: The Unsleeping City, The Unsleeping City: Chapter II

Who is she?

Esther Sinclair is the Proctor of the Clinton Hill Chantry and the Chairwoman of the Gramercy Occult Society. She is a very powerful wizard and the daughter of Gabriela Sinclair, one of the Furies of Tompkins Square Park.

Why is she the NPC of All Time?

"She’s a wizard with a baseball bat. She’s the smartest person in the room and also in love with a Zac Obama brand Himbo. She is a great friend to the players and also cursed to not feel emotions or she’ll become a spirit/fury. Saved by the power of true love."

Submitted by: WON HER SUDDEN DEATH MINI-ROUND

#dimension 20 #dimension20npcofalltime #dimension 20 bracket #dimension 20 tournament #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #the unsleeping city

[eveneechan]

August 19. HAPPY 122nd BIRTHDAY to the badass Head Auror of North America

Porpentina Esther Goldstein ✨🦔

#tina goldstein #newtina #fantastic beasts #goldstein sisters #fantastic beasts and where to find them #fbawtft #secrets of dumbledore #crimes of grindelwald #fbcog #fbsod #porpentina goldstein #augustnineteenie2023

[spectral-kitkat]

Finished Bodies on Netflix and wow! After the initial mindfuck had worn off and I was able to comprehend everything this series was amazing!

I saw it advertised on fb a while ago and was like “mum I have a new series to watch!”

Spoilers for the next bit if you haven’t seen it

Top 3 favourite characters:

• Karl Weissman/Charles Whiteman:

His one liners and general idgaf attitude were just 😚👌🏻 chefs kiss. He did what needed to be done no questions asked. Need to kill this bitch - done. Need to frame this guy - no problem! No fucks were given and I love him for it! Plus his reluctant “adoption” of Esther made me feel all types of emotions. Their back and forth conversation in the police station was hilarious and I really wished they could’ve gone to Inverness together.

• Alfred Hillinghead:

He gave his life just to close this case and not only that he gave his life to spare the only person he could be his true authentic self with! Give me the “gay closeted victorian romance that leads one of them to die just to protect the other” Pain. That is all. He risked everything to try and solve the murder, his family, his reputation, his job and I respect the hell out of him for it! His love story with Henry was tragically beautiful and I love it! Their final goodbye where Alfred tells him to run knowing that he’s actually going to turn himself in - cinema! That final kiss between them hurts me on such an emotional level I actually feel sick when I think about it! Alfred knew that was the last time he’d ever see Henry and he did not hold back!

• Shahara Hasan:

She was on a mission the entire series and did not let anything stop her! Even finding out that the exact same body was found in 1890 and 1941 didn’t dissuade her. She still went “alright wtf that’s weird but it’s still a murder and I’m gonna solve this bitch!” and then she did! No doubt made harder by the fact her boss was in on it… What a badass! Her future self was no slouch either. She really went from “I need to help this kid who clearly has some mental issues” to “fuck this kid - we need to dismantle everything he’s done” and all this whilst suffering the pain of knowing she could probably have prevented Elias from detonating the bomb and killing half a million people including her own son! Damn woman, you dropped this: 👑

Iris gets a honourable mention since the timeline would never have righted itself if she hadn’t sacrificed her life in 2053 to tell Hillinghead what happened and how he can prevent it. Her jumping into The Throat was the catalyst that started the end to Mannix and his weird fucked up timeloop of a life.

Also props to Tom Mothersdale for lying on the floor naked in the exact same position for godknows how long as various people find him. Especially in 1941 with the rain machine pelting him with cold water

I was also thinking up potential ship names for Alfred and Henry and the only 4 I could come up with are:

- Candid Constable

- HillingAshe

- Alfrey

- PhotoCop/PhotoCopper

Idk if any of them are any good but eh 😂 i tried

#netflix bodies #bodies #karl weissman #charles whiteman #esther jankovsky #alfred hillinghead #henry ashe #alfred x henry #shahara hasan #iris maplewood #gabriel defoe #elias mannix

[mywingsareonwheels]

Just finished watching Bodies on Netflix and AAAAAAAAAH I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES.

Highly highly recommended. Also I adore Shahara Hasan with every fibre of my being. (And Alfred and Charles/Karl and Iris and Alby and Gabriel and Alfred and Esther and Ishmael and and and! But. But Shahara though. <3 ) Compassionate, brilliant, badass, live-wire determinator with an occasionally filthy and infantile sense of humour. She's a good mum and a good daughter but she is like... the least mum-friend of the main cast and I love that for her. :D (Karl, I suspect to his dismay, might be the most.) I mean what's not to love? :-)

I took this screencap of possibly my favourite moment in the whole show (behind the cut due to a not-very-explicit but late-on spoiler):

My heart just sang at that point. :-)

I've already seen people sharing ficlets and fanart of Alfred and Karl and Shahara and Iris all going to the pub together and I am so here for this.

#bodies netflix #shahara hasan #alfred hillinghead #karl weissman #charles whiteman #iris maplewood