#valerie dyer

[causetheturtle]

Call the Midwife is just not leaving my brain right now

#call the midwife #trixie franklin #matthew aylward #sister monica joan #lucille anderson #valerie dyer #nancy corrigan #sister frances #miss higgins #phyllis crane #timothy turner #sister evangelina

[procrastinatingalways]

My latest post on AO3 is not a fic but an overview of labor statistics for Call the Midwife Series 1-12. You can get a quick look at the mums, birth locations, if it was on screen, nurses/doctors present, baby number and gender, and any other medical notes. I was doing this for my own fic writing but thought I would share for any others who might find it helpful.

#call the midwife #shelagh turner #patrick turner #sister julienne #trixie franklin #sister mary cynthia #jenny lee #chummy noakes #phyllis crane #valerie dyer #lucille robinson #sister winifred #sister hilda #sister frances #sister veronica #nancy corrigan #sister evangelina #patsy mount #barbara hereward

[sisterjulienne]

Valerie: You're coming with us?

Sr J: Where would I be, if not alongside you? You were born into our hands. Your trials are ours.

~ Series 8 Episode 8

#call the midwife #sister julienne #sister julienne says #valerie dyer

[justalesbianwithsomegayshit]

Ok totally late to the party but I saw your post about casually say Valerie Dyer in Call the Midwife is a lesbian and OMG THANK YOU SOMEONE ELSE SAID IT!!! Also I swear Phyllis and Miss Higgins are totally together but super secretly and yeah 🥰🥰

Oh My God, Thank you! I always felt that she was a lesbian but it was never explored because she couldn't explore it in poplar where she knows absolutely everybody - it would get out so quickly!

I imagine that when she ends up wherever she's going and she has some healing time l that she is able to explore that part of herself more fully and more safely. I would love them to do a little reunion episode where everyone comes back and Valerie and Patsy meet and immediately realise.

Also YES! to Phyllis and Ms Higgins although I can't decide if I prefer ten year secret relationship or platonic queer best friends for them. There's a reason Phyllis was the only one to clock Patsy and Delia though.

#call the midwife #Valerie dyer #Phyllis crane #thank you so much #this bought me so much joy #i love call the midwife so much!

[holodaxy]

#Call the Midwife #patsy mount #delia busby #valerie dyer #trixie franklin #emerald fennell #kate lamb #jennifer kirby #helen george #mine #I don't think I've put this one back in the right order

[sillylittleedits]

#call the midwife #valerie dyer #Lucy #01/09/23

[karin-gespenst]

Season 8 episode 7

Mother Mildred asks Valerie what her gran as a young woman would have thought about a service like the Brook advisory center for women. Valerie answers:

I should think she'd have danced in the streets. She once told me her first memory was being held up to kiss her mother in her coffin. She'd died giving birth to her ninth child. And her second memory was of her dad taking his belt to her older sister, who'd come home in the family way and wasn't married. When he hit her in the face, the buckle broke her tooth. It was the way things were where I come from. And where we work, now.

this is such a powerful scene, setting up the events later in the episode. If I could wish for a future plot in a coming season of the show, I'd wish for Valerie teaming up with Trixie and maybe Nancy, Joyce and Rosalind, building more support for women to have a choice about motherhood, to be safe with their decision and rooted in a caring community.

#call the midwife #valerie dyer

[weshallc]

Call the Midwife: We thought you brought the baby in a bag.

Valerie Dyer/Jen Kirby Series 6 episode 2 & CS

@fourteen-teacups I remembered.

#call the midwife #we thought you brought the baby in the bag #valerie dyer #jen kirby #CtMS6&CS17

[neroushalvaus]

Call the Midwife hot takes

#call the midwife #ctm #why're you booing at me i'm right #valerie dyer #sister hilda #mother mildred #sister evangelina

[littlesolo]

Was considering getting back into Call the Midwife, but then remembered it's too much emotionally for me to have going in the background and switched. But not before I remembered my massive crush on Valerie Dyer

#call the midwife #valerie dyer

[mariekavanagh]

Just re-watched the finale of Series 9 and Elsie's death hits me so hard every time. The way her final wish was to see Valerie in her nurse uniform one more time, the way she said she was honoured when the cardigan of that uniform was put over her, the symbolism of the people who bring new life into the world forgiving her for her past as an abortionist, her refusing palliative pain relief as penance for her sins, and how in her last minutes she was just a grandmother sending her grandaughter out to get herself an ice cream like any other.

Will this show ever not be a masterpiece of emotion?

#call the midwife #elsie dyer #valerie dyer #I loved the way this series handled the topic of abortion pre-legality #so caringly covered from all possible angles #I think Jennifer Worth would have been happy with the portrayal

[causetheturtle]

More Call the Midwife text posts because I think it’s my calling in life

#call the midwife #valerie dyer #cyril robinson #timothy turner #lucille anderson #delia busby #phyllis crane #trixie franklin #dr turner #chummy #patsy mount

[transitofmercury]

every day is just another day of missing val dyer

it’s been years but they could never make me forget you valerie my beloved <3

#me when character has a strong sense of family loyalty and is then forced to choose between that loyalty and their morals: 😍😍😍 #when the morality isn’t clear cut and their family were just doing what they could in a lose-lose situation: 😍😍😍 #when character still believes their family are good people but knows they need to go against them to fix the bad things they did: 😍😍😍 #call the midwife #valerie dyer #ctm #mercury posting

[sisterjulienne]

Valerie: I don't really know why I came in here…I don't believe in the things it does. I've tried.

Sr J: I know. But it will do those things anyway. It will shelter and it will strengthen and it will calm.

Valerie: There's going to be nothing left standing soon. Every landmark I ever knew seems to be falling down.

Sr J: I know.

Valerie: We’re going to need morphine. We need to get it ordered from the pharmacy.

Lucille: Val, that's not for you to worry about.

Valerie: And a new mattress and hopefully a pulley. She'll need glycerine swabs for her mouth.

Lucille: We can see to all of that.

Sr J: We are going to nurse your grandmother…you simply have to care for her.

~ S9 Ep 8

#call the midwife #sister julienne #sister julienne says #valerie dyer #Lucille Anderson

[lhaagain]

@sicktember Prompt 24 - ‘I Need You To Pull Over!’

Set during S9 Christmas Special

“Sorry,” Sister Julienne’s hoarse voice cut through the bickering. “Could you pull over Fred?”

“Something up?” he asked from the driver’s seat, glancing back in the rearview mirror. 

“Just pull in,” Val said, seeing the unnatural shade the sister had turned. She wasn’t feeling particularly clever herself as they wound their way along the windy roads, but it certainly looked like the sister was well past that. 

Read more on AO3

#sicktember 2022 #sicktember day 24 #sickfic #fanfic #call the midwife #sister julienne #valerie dyer #phyllis crane #patrick turner #fred buckle #mother mildred #outer hebrides #travel sickness #vomiting #colds & coughs #sinusitis #julienne was definitely not well enough to be out of bed

[alana-ha1m]

Jennifer Kirby ❤️‍🩹

#Jennifer Kirby #Baby Val #valerie dyer #Ctm