#fleabag claire

[archibald-2017]

Something something being the awkward sister that feels like a complete failure and inadequate in comparison to her much more confident sister.

#little women #amy march #jo march #fleabag #fleabag claire #encanto #isabela madrigal #mirabel madrigal #lilo and stitch #narnia #narnia lucy #narnia susan #the good place #tahani al jamil #dimension 20 #fantasy high #adaine abernant #aelwyn abernant #sisters #rant post

[yellowsubiesdance]

the scene where fleabag gets in claire’s bed, and claire takes her hand

literal, actual perfection. best scene of anything, ever, forever

#fleabag #fleabag claire #claire fleabag

[crunchy-letters]

I wish I could have dramatic opera music playing in the background every time I say something outrageously true as I look at you (the viewers), breaking the fourth wall.

#fleabag #yes this is about fleabag #phoebe waller bridge #opera #dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia #classic academia #dark academism #dead poetry #academic validation #classical literature #cryptid #russian literature #fleabag season 2 #fleabag claire #yes you heard read right #i love fleabag

[mile-vibe]

#new artist #artists on tumblr #digital art #tumblr art #milevibe #new art account #fleabag #fleabag season 2 #claire #i look like a pencil #fleabag claire #pheobe waller bridge

[cranberrylane]

had my fleabag moment but it did not involve hot priests or church meet cutes...... i asked my hairdresser to cut my hair based on some photos from pinterest and forgot to really take into account how it would look on me and what makes it even worse is that she cut it exactly like the reference picture(s) 😭

#it's completely my fault for picking that haircut #i swear my stylist has photographic memory or shes just used to people getting that haircut #she did it perfectly #it just doesn't suit me ;o; #fleabag claire #i am her she is me

[kiekiecarrera]

multifandom meme > [5/6] siblings - fleabag x claire

“The only person I’d run through an airport for is you.”

#fleabag #fleabagedit #userbbelcher #chewieblog #tvedit #usertelevision #cinemapix #cinematv #dailyfilmtvgifs #dailytvwomen #fandom meme #fandom siblings #fleabag x claire #fleabag* #reina makes stuff #500 #1k #2k

[nikov]

we are siblings. we are not friends.

fleabag (2x03), 2016 / succession (04x10), 2023 / the bear fx (01x08), 2022 / the darjeeling limited, 2007 / succession (04x10), 2023 / succession (02x10), 2019 / sherlock (01x01), 2010 / little women (2019) / antigonick, by sophocles, anne carson and bianco stone / boy meets world (07x19), 2000

#fleabag #2016 #fleabag and claire #siblings #quotes #web weaving #parallels #succession #roy siblings #shiv roy #Kendall roy #roman roy #succession s4 #the bear fx #carmy berzatto #michael berzatto #carmy the bear #the darjeeling limited #wes anderson #sherlock #Mycroft holmes #sherlock holmes #little women #greta gerwig #jo march #Amy march #little women 2019 #antigonick #sophocles #anne carson

[walnutmistjamie]

fave Ted Lasso moments 41/? : I forget how skittish elderly people could be 'cause of the war.

#one of his best line this season #roy's face on the second gif is a mystery to me #i want to know what's happening in his mind #also the “hug” kills me everytime #the 3rd gif is so funny #i rewatched fleabag a few days ago and it made me think of the “hug” between Claire and Fleabag in the beginning of season one #jamie tartt #roy kent #roy x jamie #*mine: gifs #ted lasso #*ftlm

[prongsmydeer]

Things I Loved About Fleabag (2016):

The careful balance of spiralling and sincerity that keeps you rooting for resolution and relief, despite the show intentionally framing itself around grief

The way that it is clear based on the way that they talk about her that Fleabag is a great deal like her mother (her off-colour jokes, her charisma, even hints of difficult friendships through the Godmother) but they don't have anyone make that comparison until the last episode of S2, with, "You are the way you are because of [your mother]" and the look of surprise on Fleabag's face when she hears it

"Don't make me an optimist; you will ruin my life," being such a telling line, because as you fall in love with the Priest, and Fleabag, you want to believe that things will work themselves out

The love in Claire's line to Fleabag, "The only person I'd run through an airport for is you," and the delightful contrary optimism of her deciding to go to the airport anyway

The revelation that Boo had offered to take Fleabag's love for her mother, intertwining both losses

The way that the Priest not only breaks through the carefully constructed narrative relationship that Fleabag has with the viewer, but also himself directly looks toward the audience on a separate beat as he tries to understand her more ("You don't like answering questions, do you?")

The entire sequence of the last few scenes, "Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope," to "I love you." "It'll pass," to Fleabag walking around with a statue that is, in some ways now, a physical representation of the love she is carrying around. Because while the show is about grief, and love, it doesn't feel like it is asking you to overcome those things, but to learn to live with them while moving forward

#ayesha says things #fleabag #hot priest #priestbag #claire fleabag #fleabag series #television #more thoughts in tags #i'm glad i stuck it out bc the first few eps i was like 'i don't know if this is for me' and then as it continued i was like 'OH.' #i love how s1 feels like a complete story. and then s1-s2 feels like a more complete story #and i adore how you can see the love in its writing. it's like watching tgp. it feels intentional and sincere and a bit clever #also not to undercut the sincerity of my feelings for this show #but i wasn't expecting to find andrew scott's hot priest SO HOT. they really did something there. every time he was on screen i was like #I Am Looking 👁👄👁 #alright 2010 sherIock fans. u win this round

[swordmaid]

it’ll pass.

#shrios #shepard x thane #female shepard #thane krios #mass effect #oc: claire. #mine. #yes this is in reference to fleabag confession 😔😔 #second panel is supposed to be her pulling her hand away idk if it's clear #anyway i cant believe we didnt even get to hold his hand when he was dying wtf like #a) big part of the shrios romance is the hand holding we get that when we lock in and in their romance scene pre suicide mission #b) why dont i have a unique scene when im in his romance like shep's boyfriend is literally dying she deserves to AT THE VERY LEAST. #hold his hand. like come on. and no one even comments on the fact that he died??? like why is shep even saving #u guys ur all so disrespectful should just let the reapers take ur asses idc 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[supermusicallee]

NO other show in existence understands sister dynamics better than fleabag. especially from the perspective of older sisters i believe. having the same character yell "...you're fine! you'll always be fine. you'll always be interesting, with your quirky cafe and your dead best friend. you just make me feel like i've failed," AND "the only person i'd run through an airport for is you" !!!!!!!!! it's insane and it's exactly how i feel

#fleabag #i dislike anyone disliking claire because of that you'll be fine scene. that's the realest relationship between siblings are you insane #or maybe i actually am even more of a horrible person for thinking this #“we're not friends. we're sisters.” #terrible #magnificent #like i would die for her. i would kill for her. seeing her upset BREAKS my heart‚ i can physically feel it #i also can't help but feeling pettiness when everything comes so easily to her #all her bad moments make her more interesting and real while i simply exist like blank paper bc anything happening to me must be my fault‚ #while her misfortunes play like a melodrama #it's NOT her fault‚ but it wasn't mine either so why did i have to live through everything for her to have everything #okay wow i'm having a great night 🙃 #*nr

[admireforever]

Claire & Fleabag

#mine #sceens #fleabag #phoebe waller bridge #tv series #tv serie #claire #sian clifford #fleabag and claire #claire and fleabag #sisters

[charleyvstheants]

why do people always focus on the priest's impact on fleabag, as if her entire arc was based on his presence, when claire was right there?

#i think the reason why there was no show between seasons one and two is because fleabag and Claire weren't talking! #it resumed once they had reentered each others' lives #the entire show places so much importance on female relationships with each other why does everyone forget that once a man shows up #im so tired of having to hear bad opinions about the show #it's a masterpiece but not for the reasons people say #fleabag

[hrrystylesbookclub]

for funsies i like to imagine that fleabag and good omens take place in the same universe, specifically matchmaker crowley tempting the hot priest into falling in love with with fleabag. and aziraphale knows and is like “crowley no!!” but then he sees them together and is like “… continue, i’ll put in a word upstairs and get them to not be so mad” and crowley gets soooooo upset when the priest eventually chooses God over fleabag and has to spend the night in azi’s bookshop where he watches pride and prejudice 2005 (recommended by aziraphale) to cheer him up

i also like to imagine aziraphale frequenting Hilary’s Cafe bc he thinks the guinea pig theme is charming, and drags crowley along, which is where crowley gets the idea to play matchmaker. AND OH MY GOD oh my god aziraphale would love the idea of chatty tuesdays but he would get so nervous when he actually would have to speak to people.

and he would invite fleabag to come to the whickber street shopkeepers and street traders association but she DESPERATELY tries to avoid it but eventually feels bad because she’s so attached to this eccentric man and his hot partner so she goes and drags claire along and somehow her stepmother also comes along and invites crowley to her upcoming new and improved sexhibition who is TOTALLY down

#fleabag #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #the hot priest #claire #the stepmother #somebody please make this a fanfiction #i hope this reaches other insane people #neil gaiman #phoebe waller bridge #michael sheen #david tennet #hilary’s cafe #it’ll pass #ineffable spouses

[nocturnalxsaint]

no one answered my last post so i guess i have to do everything myself, buckle up for some fleabag analysis.

when fleabag says “this is a love story” in season 2 episode 1, the love story is between her and claire. listen i love the hot priest as much as anyone else, but to me the most compelling arc of s2 is the sisters rebuilding, redefining, and strengthening their relationship instead of leaning into growing apart the way we’ve seen them default to doing.

when we meet them in season 1, they’re civil and clearly see each other fairly often, but they aren’t close. we only see a few conversations that don’t end in a fight. they both clearly care, but they seem incapable of interacting without accidentally pushing each other’s worst buttons. there are several pivotal points where we see them turn away from each other, whether because of other people or their own conflicting needs, insecurities, and personalities

-after their mother’s death, claire had martin and fleabag had boo. these separate support systems combined with the family dynamic their father described, wherein fleabag very much takes after and was closer to their mother, meant they almost certainly grieved separately. as we see at the funeral, grief clearly looked very different on each of them, and they did not react well to each other’s coping styles

-their father’s new relationship clearly drove a wedge between him and the girls, and while the godmother needles at both of them, she clearly targets fleabag more often (almost certainly reacting to her resemblance to her mother), only occasionally sniping at claire. as a result of this and her determination to view her own family (and marriage) in a positive light, claire maintains a level of denial about their godmother, leaving fleabag to deal with it alone

-after boo’s death claire almost certainly reached out, but the distance between them and their clashing coping styles would’ve mixed VERY badly with fleabag’s guilt over her role in the tragedy. if claire’s after what you did to boo jab at the sexhibition (almost certainly fueled by martin referencing it while telling “his side of the story” re his infidelity to claire) is anything to go by, definitely martin and possibly claire were judgemental about it, and even if it wasn’t to fleabag’s face, she would have felt it, real or imagined.

-after the incident with martin, claire again retreats to her denial and determination to be a successful person (happy marriage included), and leans into judging fleabag alongside the rest of the family, deliberately choosing to ignore the signs of crisis she has demonstrated she can see in fleabag, probably in no small part because all of her attempts to do anything or help in any way or even reach out have somehow been exactly the wrong thing to say to her “broken sister”

because it’s not that we never see them reach out to one another. there are frequent moments where one or the other tries to bridge the gap. but there’s always a defense mechanism or insecurity (or husband) in the way of the other’s ability to accept that olive branch. they both feel they’ve repeatedly tried only to be rebuffed by the other.

but in the second season, they’ve spent some time in total radio silence from one another. it has explicitly canonically been over a year since they’ve seen each other or spoken. given the space to not constantly be rubbing against each other’s raw insecurities and grief, as well as the extenuating (WILD) circumstances of the s2e1 dinner in particular, they’re finally in a position to reconnect.

by the end of season 2 they still aren’t perfect. but they’re able to have a vulnerable conversation and accept help and advice from one another and feel like they’re on the same team, quite possibly for the first time since their mother got sick. 

we’ve gone from claire sniping at fleabag to keep her nose out of other people’s marriages to refusing to let fleabag leave the room while she confronts her husband. we go from fleabag flinching away from a clearly rare hug in s1e1 to

“is it a running through the airport kind of love?”

“....the only person i’d run through an airport for is you”

#fleabag #fleabag s2 #claire fleabag

[denimbex1986]

'On a recent winter day in New York when the sun was shining, Andrew Scott rushed into a coffee shop between recording sessions for an upcoming series.

“I’m scheduled tighter than a teenage pop star,” he said, beaming.

The interview had been postponed once, and the location was switched at the last minute to save Scott some time in traffic. But he sat down fully engaged and eager to start talking. Immediately, though, a passerby tapped on the storefront glass and asked for a photo. Scott, without a grumble, sprinted out to oblige, even though the gesture seemed more like a command (“You’re under arrest,” joked Scott) than a polite request.

Scott, the 47-year-old Irish actor, is in demand like never before. That’s partly due to accrued good will. A regular presence on stage in the West End, Scott is known to many as the “Hot Priest” of “Fleabag” or the cunning Moriarty of “Sherlock.” Soon, he’ll play Tom Ripley in the Netflix series “Ripley,” adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel.

But the real reason Scott’s time is short right now is Andrew Haigh’s new film, “All of Us Strangers.” In it, Scott plays a screenwriter working on a script about his childhood. The film is gently poised in a metaphysical realm; when Adam (Scott) returns to his childhood home, he finds his parents (Claire Foy, Jamie Bell) as they were before they died many years earlier.

At the same time, the movie, loosely adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 book “Strangers,” balances a budding romance with a neighbor ( Paul Mescal ), a relationship that unfolds with profound reverberations of family, intimacy and queer life. In a dreamy, longing ghost story, Scott is its aching, shimmering soul.

“The challenge of it was to try to go to that place but not gild the lily too much,” Scott says. “As an actor, I have to be in touch with that playful side of myself and that part of you that’s childish. I was actually quite struck by how vulnerable I looked in the film.”

Scott’s acutely tender performance has made him a contender for the Academy Awards. He was named best actor by the National Society of Film Critics. At the Golden Globes on Sunday (Scott wore a white tux and t-shirt), he was nominated for best actor in a drama.

Scott has long admired actors like Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep — performers with a sense of humor who, he says, “are able to understand what you feel and what you present.” Scott, too, is often funny on screen (see Lena Dunham’s medieval romp “Catherine Called Birdy” ). And even in quiet moments, he seems to be buzzing inside at some discreet frequency. Something is always going on under the surface.

He’s been acting since he was young; drama classes were initially a way to get over shyness. Scott’s first film role came at age 17. He has often spoken about seeking to maintain a childlike perspective in acting. In that way, “All of Us Strangers” is particularly fitting. On Adam’s trips home, he sort of morphs back into the child he was. In one scene, he wears his old pajamas and crawls into bed with his parents.

“So many of the things that are required of you as an actor are a sense of humor and some ability to be able to put yourself in a situation. Because it’s all down to imagination,” says Scott. “For me, that’s the thing you need to keep. That’s the thing — because I started out when I was young — I don’t want to move too far away from. Like when kids go, ‘OK, you be this and I’ll be this.’ That ability doesn’t leave us. What does leave us is a lack of self-consciousness. Our job is to hold on to that.”

Haigh, the British filmmaker of “45 Years” and “Weekend,” began thinking of Scott for the role early on. They met and talked through the script for a few hours.

“He’s a similar generation to me. He’s a tiny bit younger than me, but he’s from the same generation,” says Haigh. “He understands that experience.”

Scott came out publicly in 2013, but his natural inclination is to be private. “I feel like I’ve given so much of myself in the film, you think you don’t want to give it all away,” he says. He describes “All of Us Strangers” — which Haigh shot partly in his childhood home — as personal, but not autobiographical in its depiction of the alienation that can linger after coming out.

“Mercifully, I feel very comfortable for the most part. But it stays with you that pain, and it actually makes you more compassionate, I think. Because we shot in Andrew’s childhood home, that sort of threw down the gauntlet in relation to how much of his own personality he was giving,” says Scott. “I wanted it to be sort of unadorned, unarmored and raw. That’s why I think there’s such tenderness in the film.”

Scott has sometimes recoiled from how sexuality is talked about the media and in Hollywood. He recently said the phrase “openly gay” should be done away with. As of late December, Scott hadn’t yet watched “All of Us Strangers” with his parents, though he planned to.

“The best way to express it is to say I’ll be very sensitive to how they watch it and how they feel about it, and how it makes me feel them watching it,” Scott says.

The tenderness in the film is also owed in part to Scott’s chemistry with Mescal. On-screen chemistry is an amorphous quality that the film industry has long tried to turn into a science with camera tests and marketing that flirts with real-life romance.

But for Scott, it’s something different. He and Phoebe Waller-Bridge had chemistry, overwhelmingly, in “Fleabag,” but that didn’t have anything to do with sexual attraction. Pinpointing that quality is something Scott pondered during Simon Stephens and Sam Yates’ recent staging of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the National Theater. Scott played all eight roles, meaning he essentially had to have chemistry with himself.

“Chemistry isn’t just about sexual chemistry. It’s something to do with listening, and I think it’s something to do with playfulness,” Scott says. “Your ability to listen to someone and take note of what someone is doing is chemistry. You have to wait and see what the other actor is doing.”

A few moments later, Scott will have to rush out just as quickly as he arrived. But before that, he leaned back, naturally lit by the winter sun, and pondered whether “All of Us Strangers,” in the nakedness of his performance, had taken him somewhere he hadn’t before been as an actor.

“Yeah, I think so,” said Scott. “Or else to return to something that perhaps I’ve been before.”'

#Andrew Scott #Paul Mescal #Andrew Haigh #All of Us Strangers #Phoebe Waller-Bridge #Fleabag #Ripley #Netflix #Moriarty #Sherlock #Taichi Yamada #Strangers #Patricia Highsmith #Jamie Bell #Claire Foy #Lena Dunham #Catherine Called Birdy #45 Years #Weekend #Simon Stephens #Sam Yates #Vanya #National Theatre