#jean mcbrian

[draculagerard]

Millie and Jean for @drop-of-infinity :]

#moose blabber #milliejean #the bletchley circle #Jean McBrian #Camilla Harcourt #I hope I tagged things right 🙏

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Peace In The Park – Iris Bearden/Jean McBrian

A/N: Day 6 for @flufftober 's Fluffspring 2024. GIF made for me by @whoreofthecottage

It’s quiet, here, sharing a blanket whilst Iris’ kids play. They are sitting in silence, sharing a picnic in the park, watching as the kids mingle into the community. Millie is off with her latest fling, Hailey working on someone’s car, so they are alone. Iris smiles as she settles closer, fingers brushing Jean’s even as she leans closer, her lips finding Jean’s ear, the murmur soft and low, secretive in a way that doesn’t need codes to be special. “I love you, Jean McBrian.” “I love you too, Iris Bearden.” They don’t say it often, they don’t need to. The love shows in every touch they share, but sometimes, just sometimes, it feels nice to say it anyway.

#iris bearden #jean mcbrian #jean/iris #iris/jean #mcbearden #the bletchley circle: san fransisco #bletchley circle: san fransisco #day 6: sharing a blanket #fluffspring2024

[d-bananas1]

Rewatching the bletchley circle San Francisco! These two!!❤️

#the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle san francisco #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian

[cosmic-llin]

Light Me Up - The Bletchley Circle - Millie/Jean

you taught me what a life is for / to see that ordinary, isn’t 

Content notes, vidder notes and more at the AO3 post.

#the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle: san francisco #millie harcourt x jean mcbrian #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #fanvidfeed #fanvid #femslash

[kissingtons]

milliejean kiss drabbles yes or yes

#milliejean #millie x jean #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle san francisco #my fic

[msfangirlface]

I'm rewatching The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco whilst I'm resting up with Covid. Observations so far:

-Hailey's a gem (but she's not right for Jean!)

-Jean and Millie are SO MARRIED OMG, honestly it's so gay and apparently not gay in a way which can only have been produced by straight people

-WHAT IS THE POINT OF BILL BRYCE?????

-I bloody love Dennis

-Iris and Millie have a really nice relationship, I had forgotten about that

#the bletchley circle #jean mcbrian #the bletchley circle: san francisco #millie harcourt #millie x jean #hailey yarner #iris bearden

[ejfiction]

In progress...

 So I thought I would use a quick post to organise my thoughts on what I’m writing.

1. College - Big shot - Ava/Louise pairing

2. Lost - Bletchley circle (SF) -  Millie/Jean

3. You’re back - fate the winx saga - Farah/Saul

#writing list #big shot #bletchley circle san fransisco #Millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #fate the winx saga #farah dowling #saul silva

[hentaitiddy666]

Lugg:

Me:

#albert campion #margery allingham #mystery memes #jean mcbrian where are you

[storyofwhoiam]

Like this post or reply with a muse’s name for a starter — it’s taken me over a month but I’ve finally got around to writing up bios for new OCs (and have added some new canon muses):

Alexis Sumner. Forensic Scientist. The Lab Rat

Ray Kwan. Community Youth Worker. The Vigilante Man

Sofia Robles. 911 Dispatcher. The Back-Alley Doctor

Timothy Atkins. Firefighter. The Heart

Hailey Yarner (The Wrench Wench). Iris Bearden (The Glamorous Wartime Singer) Jean McBrian (The Brave Scot). Millie Harcourt (The Lady of Adventure) Cryptographers. The Amateur Sleuths 

Alternatively, come shout at me if you want to plot, or reply to this post with 📚 if you want me to throw some plot/dynamic ideas your way!

#starter call

[cookiepotofchaos]

Part 1 Here

Part 2 - Getting into the Tags

Tags, tags, tags... Such a key part of AO3 and how many of us navigate finding works we might enjoy (apart from those of us in tiny fandoms who have already read everything. Thrice. Even our own stuff)

Also quite fiddly to match up and combine given differences in spelling, tagging styles, and due to evolving information like learning Surnames! I have a new-found admiration and sympathy for the volunteer tag-wranglers at AO3.

Anyway, onto the character, relationship and freeform tags of The Bletchley Circle works.

Character Stats

Camilla "Millie" Harcourt was the most tagged character, being tagged in 160 (85.11%) of works, followed by Jean McBrian in 127 (67.55%) of works. However, Jean McBrian's popularity only took off after 2018 and the release of The Bletchley Circle: San Fransisco. Prior to this, Jean was the 3rd most tagged character behind Susan Gray.

The four leads of the original series were, unsurprisingly, the most tagged characters before 2018, as follows.

Millie Harcourt - Tagged in 64 works

Susan Gray - Tagged in 44 works

Jean McBrian - Tagged in 31 works

Lucy Davis - Tagged in 30 works.

96 of the 127 works tagged with Jean were written since the San Francisco continuation series came out, whereas Susan has been tagged in 30 works since then and Lucy in 27. As Millie and Jean were the two characters from the original Bletchley Circle who continued onto the San Francisco series, this is unsurprising.

After Millie and Jean, the 8 most tagged characters are: Susan Gray (39.36%), Lucy Davis (30.85%), Hailey Yarner (12.77%), Iris Bearden (9.57%), Alice Merren (6.38%), Claire Gray (3.72%), Timothy Gray (3.72%), and Original Character (3.19%).

All the leads from both series featured in the top ten, which was also unsurprising. The popularity of the original 4 main characters has persisted beyond the release of San Francisco, with both Susan and Lucy being tagged in more works than Hayley and Iris after July 2018.

As 'Original Character' is multiple different characters, this tag is excluded from the demographics information below. Of the remaining 9 characters:

8 are female (Millie, Jean, Susan, Lucy, Hayley, Iris, Alice, Claire)

2 are canonically sapphic (Millie Harcourt - Bisexual; Hayley Yarner - Lesbian)

8 are white (Millie, Jean, Susan, Lucy, Hayley, Alice, Claire, Timothy)

1 is Black (Iris Bearden)

2, arguably 3, are canonically Disabled (Jean - Canonical physical disability; Timothy - Canonical physical disability; Lucy arguably neurodivergent, through portrayal only as language for this was limited in the 50s)

Ships - Platonic and Romantic

There are two Ship tags that are far ahead of the rest, no doubt quite easily guessed from the character tag data and both featuring Millie Harcourt.

Camilla "Millie" Harcourt/Jean McBrian with 53 works.

Camilla "Millie" Harcourt/Susan Gray with 47 works.

In a distant third with 15 works is Jean McBrian/Hailey Yarner

Prior to July 2018, as with the character tags, Jean featured far more rarely in ship tags. In fact, pre-July 2018, there was a single Millie/Jean fic and 27 of Millie/Susan. Post-July 2018, 52 Millie/Jean works were written, overtaking Millie/Susan, though a further 20 were produced in that pairing as well.

The single M/F ship in the top 10 ships (otherwise consisting of F/F or F&F) was Susan/Timothy, and most of these works were also tagged with Millie/Susan.

There were 67 unique ships tagged across all The Bletchley Circle works, including characters from other series in crossovers/challenge combination works.

No Relationships Tagged: 35 works (18.62%) had no ships at all tagged.

Platonic Ships Only Tagged: 10 works tagged 1 - 3 platonic ships.

Romantic/Sexual Ships Only Tagged: 130 works tagged 1 - 4 romantic or sexual ships. 4 works focused on 5+ romantic or sexual ships, these were all crossover fics.

Both Ship Categories Tagged: 9 works tagged both platonic and romantic/sexual relationships.

Considering the 6 main characters again, they appeared in this many works tagged with ships each:

Millie Harcourt - In 149 (62.87%) of ship tags.

Jean McBrian - In 91 (38.40%) of ships.

Susan Gray - In 66 (27.85%) of ships.

Lucy Davis - In 27 (11.39%) of ships.

Hailey Yarner - In 17 (7.17%) of ships.

Iris Bearden - In 1 (0.42%) of ships.

Freeform Tags

There were 609 freeform/additional tags used, covering 404 different tags. After much back-and-forthing (and silent praising of the AO3 tag wranglers once more!) I did my own form of wrangling into 34 distinct categories of tags that I can (hopefully) use as a template going forward with minimal expansion.

In terms of the exact tags, as used on AO3, the top 5 free-form tags were as follows:

Fluff - 19

Femslash - 13

First Kiss - 9

Misses Clause Challenge - 8

Romance - 8

What a fluffy bunch of authors and video creators there are in this fandom 😄 The source material did touch on difficult topics, given its post-war time setting, so Fluff being the most used freeform tag is not a surprise. They dealt with a fair bit in-canon; people just want to see them happy.

There were also 15 Alternate Universe tags (when combined) associated with works, which surprised me because I didn't remember there being that many, though it has been some years since I read a number of the works in the fandom.

When moving onto looking at the top categories in my own tag wrangling, Fluff does fall out of the top five, though it does remain in the top ten.

Commentary - 71

Romance - 59

Sexual - 57

Context Tag - 54

Content Warning - 49

Commentary tags are those the "chatty" sort of tags that are similar to many Tumblr tags. Some of my favourites from The Bletchley Circle included:

"Being a Lesbian is Fucking Beautiful and SOMEONE Needed to Say It" - And the fic this tag is attached to, blood under the bridge, is equally beautiful.

"I am trash for vintage lady loving ladies" - You and me both, dear author.

"Jean is done with their nonsense" - I mean... fair.

Context Tags were tags which broadly "set the scene" (and I may change the name to that later) so for example "Picnics" or "Late Night Conversations" or "Hijinks & Shenanigans". Kind of a catch-all tag, I have to admit.

I also think that Jean's cane should get special mention since it was explicitly tagged in a number of fics, though not enough to break the top ten by any means. When it was tagged, it was being used almost exclusively for Millie's pleasure. I see you and your love for a strict(ish), grumpy Scottish code-breaker, dear fandom.

So that is the broad overview of the tags associated with The Bletchley Circle! I was going to put some recs at the bottom, but decided they would be better served in a post of their own. So I'll get around to that in the next few days.

In the meantime, I will be getting to work on the next fandom.

#the bletchley circle #small fandoms #Cookies Sapphic Fandom Stats #sapphic fandoms #AO3

[cassiopeiasara]

A Jean/Millie please if you're in the mood?

Jean was curled up asleep on the couch, a book on the floor, half-under the coffee table.

Millie smiled at the ever familiar image. Jean had asked her the night before if she missed traveling and the adventure or intrigue of murder cases. Millie made some cheeky comment she can’t even remember now but a small part of her wishes she’d been able to say finding a relationship that lasted more than a year and a person who always waited up for her at the end of a day was more adventure than she’d ever hoped.

Jean shifted on the sofa slightly bringing Millie out of her thoughts of missed opportunity. Millie moved forward and gently shook Jean’s shoulder.

“Pie or bed?”

Jean blinked slowly and sat up. “Bed?”

Millie kissed her forehead before quickly stowing the apple pie slice in the refrigerator. “Bed it is then.”

#5 sentence ask #millie x jean #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #otp: let your hair down and chase a vagabond #emiline northeto #thank you! #my fanfiction

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Room To Grow – Iris Bearden/Jean McBrian

A/N: Day 14 for @flufftober 's Fluffspring 2024. GIF made for me by @whoreofthecottage

Iris’ husband dies. They never quite learn how but it’s easier now, easier for Iris to let go, easier to let Jean move in, even as Millie finds a home with Hailey. Putting down roots hadn’t felt easy for Jean when she was still in Millie’s cousin’s flat but here… here felt right. She settles in slowly, the children adjust and she starts really putting down roots, working more shifts, picking a few up with Archie at the club when Iris performs. The two settle into a rhythm, finding that home becomes where they are. A new, fresh start and room to grow even now.

#iris bearden #jean mcbrian #iris/jean #jean/iris #the bletchley circle: san fransisco #fluffspring2024 #day 14: putting down roots

[d-bananas1]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Millie Harcourt/Jean McBrian, Susan Gray/Millie Harcourt Characters: Millie Harcourt, Jean McBrian, Susan Gray Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Past Relationship(s) Summary:

Susan is coming for a visit with Millie and Jean.

#the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle: san francisco #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #susan gray

[walkthegale]

kiss prompt! millie/jean, 37 if the fancy strikes you 💞

37. public kisses

Millie has kissed Jean in public before. On the cheek, her lips lingering against Jean’s skin for just a moment too long. On the knuckles, a glancing touch and a giddy laugh. On the forehead, at a hospital bedside, whilst crying, hoping, begging.

She has never kissed Jean here, in the bar, surrounded by their friends. They’re terribly clever, all these new friends. They’d see right through it, down to Millie’s fluttering, obvious heart.

Jean shines tonight, her smile almost too bright for Millie to look at. Her hair is loose at her back, tendrils curling about her face, and she leans back in her chair and laughs, full-throated and carefree. Joyful. Inviting.

Millie feels invited. She wants to be. She wants to grab onto Jean’s happiness and match it with her own and kiss Jean right here and now until Jean is as dizzy with desire as Millie herself.

So when Jean does catch Millie’s eye, when her gaze flickers down to Millie’s mouth and back up again, the spark Millie sees there forks through her like a lightning bolt.

Millie raises a questioning eyebrow. Jean gives her the tiniest, almost imperceptible nod in return. Jean’s arm slips around Millie’s back, reassuring. Enough plausible deniability left there still - it could be the start of a friendly squeeze. They’re both waiting. Jean’s eyes burn into Millie - she doesn’t know how the air between them hasn’t caught alight. They both know every single consequence they court, intimately. They know. And yet.

Millie leans over and kisses Jean.

There’s no mistaking this kiss. Their mouths meet with a heat that couldn’t be construed as anything but what it is. Not by anyone, not ever.

When they part, the room is still and quiet. For a moment Millie looks only at Jean, before she sits back and glances around. She’ll have this scene clear as day behind her eyelids for a very long time, she’s sure, her memory of it as accurate as Lucy’s.

Hayley looks like the entire world just shifted beneath her feet. She takes a long gulp of her drink, noisy in the silence, and then raises her glass in Millie and Jean’s general direction, her eyes so wide they seem like they might fall out of her head.

Iris is serious a moment, but then gives them a small, cautious smile, and a little nod. A suspicion confirmed, her eyes say. Millie isn’t as surprised by that as she might have been.

Millie isn’t the only one to see the nod. It breaks a sharp thread of tension in the room, and conversation begins, slowly, to pick up again. Here and there. Olivia, then Marcus. Others follow.

Jean’s arm is still about Millie’s waist. Millie leans back into Jean’s embrace, lets out a long breath, and the evening, and her life, is again made anew.

kiss prompts

#millie x jean #the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle: san francisco #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #ficlet #kiss prompts #thank you for the prompt! #little-brisk

[msfangirlface]

I forgot that Millie LITERALLY CRIES when Jean says she's staying <3

#the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle: san francisco #millie harcourt #jean mcbrian #millie x jean

[ejfiction]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Millie Harcourt/Jean McBrian Characters: Millie Harcourt, Jean McBrian Additional Tags: Mentions of Hailey Yarner, Mentions of Iris Bearden Series: Part 1 of Bletchley oneshots/drabbles Summary:

Jean's leg bothers her so Millie makes sure she takes care of Jean.

It took a while for me to start writing again and just for a bit of fun and variation I thought I would 

#the bletchley circle #the bletchley circle san fransisco #Millie Harcourt #Jean McBrian #Millie/Jean