#the turners

[hmg98]

Imagine being able to time travel and going back to series 1 and telling Sister Bernadette that this will be her life! Telling her she’ll be honest with herself, with Patrick. She’ll leave the order but not her sisters. Sister Bernadette will become Shelagh, she will marry Patrick with everyone she loves most around her. Timothy will call her mum and love her so much more than she could ever imagine. Tell her she will be a mum to four children that worship and test her and Patrick at the same time. They will affectionately be known as ‘The Turners’. They will have their ups and down, but always have each other. She will continue to work in the community as a nurse and midwife, and that community will continue to love her dearly.

Imagine being able to time travel back to series 1 to tell Sister Bernadette that she will find her path in life and she will be loved, complete and fulfilled.

#call the midwife #ctm #shelagh turner #laura main #The Turners #sister bernadette #I broke my own heart writing this #I’m actually crying right now #Heather rambles

[ilovemushystuff]

The Turners at Nonnatus House

#call the midwife #the Turners #ctm Christmas special #mushy-caps

[pretensesoup]

Queer books, day 22/30

Okay, I wrote this all and then Tumblr ate it, so here we go again. LOL help.

Here we have Oliver Rivington, former army captain lately invalided home. He comes to see Jack Turner when he discovers his sister, Lady Montbray, has paid him 200 GBP. (This is like FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS in today's money, so he is probably right to be concerned, actually.) Jack is a former scallywag turned private eye who tells Oliver to fuck off. While they're bickering, another client arrives--a woman with some missing letters--and Oliver starts in on the "exactly what kind of operation are you running here?"

Fortunately(?), Oliver has literally nothing better to do than to harass Jack and try to dig up dirt on him. This leads to shouting. Angry, stressed makeouts in an alley after an attempted mugging. A road trip that is full of intense longing and the two of them teasing each other sexually. Being detectives together as a love language! It's amazing, honestly. All written with Cat Sebastian's characteristic wit and "eat the rich" attitude, with a defense of women and the power men hold over them on the side. Lovely.

Key quote:

The lady obviously spent her days reading, napping, and eating biscuits. He didn’t know whether to be disgusted or jealous.

To be honest, this one has a bit of a rough landing. It's one romance novel where it felt like despite being in love, Jack and Oliver should maybe not have ended up together. They're well suited, but the class thing is SO MUCH of a thing that it starts to feel weird that they find a way around it. BUT. In the end, I love it too much to really criticize it for wanting to make me happy. 10/10, go read it.

Warnings for graphic sex and some period-typical homophobia, violence, and allusions to violence against women and women being subjugated to their husbands because it's 1817 and, you know, fuck everything. But Lady Montbray eventually gets a nice girlfriend, so it all works out in the end.

#the turners #the soldier's scoundrel #is that really how you spell scoundrel #i think i have semantic satiation #cat sebastian #lgbtq books #romance novels #queer romance #gay romance #m/m romance #detective novels #book review #thirty days of books

[drandnurseturner]

I recently commented on a FB post in one of the CTM groups. The post was advertising an unofficial podcast for the show about three “super fans” doing a rewatch.I was excited and began listening this weekend.

I could not make it 10 minutes. I had to turn it off. In my comment, I gave an honest and respectful review. Guess what! It was deleted and I was tagged for breaking the rules of the group.

I have since messaged an admin expressing how wrong this was. No different than disagreeing with someone about an episode or character.

What did I comment? I wish I had copied it but here’s about what I wrote: (I was relying to someone asking if it was a podcast)

“Yes, it’s a podcast. I have to be honest, I was disappointed. I listened this weekend and couldn’t make it 10 minutes. I don’t want to be disrespectful to the women who do this, but they didn’t know the names of characters and their commentary seemed very insensitive for the issues for the time period. After all, it is based on real life events. I appreciate them putting this together, but I didn’t like it”

That’s not exactly what I wrote. I feel that it was even more respectful than that. Either way, it was honest.

I was going to give a break down but no. Here’s a rant instead:

Don’t say you’re a “super fan”! That’s misleading. You don’t even know characters or actors names! Don’t make fun of how difficult the times were. These were real people. They couldn’t just replace their mattress after a birth. (Mind you this is the first episode they are reviewing. 1957 so it was very bad situations compared to how things have become)

And leave Sister Monica Joan alone!! She’s not a selfish bitch! WTH?!

Do your research! Take time to understand the true meaning of this show. I believe a podcast like that should have much more meaning than poking fun. I guess my brain in wired a different way when it comes to critiquing movies and television since I was studied film.

I have watched every episode multiple times. I just did a second watch of this last season. I’ve watched as many docs as I can, plus been a part of this community for a while. I feel everything I have come to understand either they didn’t try or if just went over their heads.

I have so much respect for Heidi and all of the research they all do for this show.

I think the show deserves a podcast that brings something like that to light in each episode. Information about the times and links to the books for the earlier seasons. General knowledge at least about the people you speak of.

Who’s willing to do that?! Haha

#call the midwife #shelagh turner #turnadette #patrick turner #nurse turner #the turners #ctm #doctor turner #laura main #stephen mcgann #mrs turner #dr turner #trixie franklin #timothy turner #sister julienne #sister monica joan #sister evangelina #sister Mary Cynthia #nurse crane #Jenny Lee #nurse Lee

[bookbaran]

Every time I reread The Turners, a different book is my favorite. This time it was The Soldier's Scoundrel.

#the turners #the soldier's scoundrel

[cartoonfangirl1218]

You know she beat me at darts and then she beat me at pool And then she kissed me like there was nobody else in the room As last orders were called was when she stood on the stool After dancing to Cèilidh singing to trad tunes I never heard Carrickfergus ever sang so sweet A capella in the bar using her feet for a beat Oh, I could have that voice playing on repeat for a week And in this packed out room swear she was singing to me

You know, she played the fiddle in an Irish band But she fell in love with an English man Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by the hand Said, "Baby, I just want to dance" My pretty little Galway Girl

#elena of avalor #scarlett turner #nathanial turner #the turners

[damelucyjo]

I was a little bit excited at the idea of another Turner baby! Now I'm sad it's not going to happen!!

I think that could have made for a good story, an older mother and the doc not taking his own advice on men's health haha

#The Turners #Call The Midwife

[cyarsk52-20]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have … not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Credit: Will Stenberg

#in memoriam #tina turner

[illustratus]

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

#joseph mallord william turner #jmw turner #art #tintern abbey #ruins #architecture #transept #monmouthshire #wales #england #britain #ruin #nature #history #j.m.w. turner #romantic #romanticism

[bunnyhugs22]

#tiktok #tik tok ban #usa politics #censorship #nina turner

[fairrylandforever]

#the turners

[animentality]

#minimum wage #us politics #twitter #nina turner

[neutron669]

Pete Turner, one of eight photographers featured in the 1971 pictorial, "Personal Visions of the Erotic"

#pete turner #ooh wow #pin up model #photography #art #iconic #vintage

[thedickcavettshow]

Rest in peace, Tina Turner

November 26, 1939 - May 24, 2023

#tina turner #I'm really upset about this :(

[redbelles]

Big wheel keep on turnin’ Proud Mary keep on burnin’

TINA TURNER (1939-2023)

#tina turner #musicedit #musicsourcedaily #popularcultures #userbbelcher #chewieblog #userkd #userlolo #userrobin #underbetelgeuse #usertom #usersunny #userreh #userk8 #* #proud mary keep on burnin' #this video only exists in like 240p but i just had to gif it

[cartoonfangirl1218]

Your best friends, your little hometown Are waiting up wherever you go now (mmm) You know that you can always turn around (turn around)

'Cause, this world is big and it's crazy (it's crazy) And this girl is thinking that, maybe This life is what some people dream about (dream about)'

Cause, when I'm feeling down, and I am all alone, whoa, oh I've always got a place where I can go 'Cause, I know

You can change your hair, and you can change your clothes You can change your mind, that's just the way it goes You can say "goodbye, " and you can say "hello" But you'll always find your way back home

#the turners #naomi turner #nathanial turner #scarlett turner #elena of avalor