Just Paternoster Thoughts
I’m going to start a series of short thoughts/amusing plot bunnies I will probably never write that involve the Paternoster Gang (mainly Jenny and Vastra though) and share them here on tumblr.
I do this because the green tea fandom can always use more content, and even if this isn’t a full story it might be amusing to others in the fandom and brighten their day.
Jenny explaining Easter to Strax and Vastra***
“Madame! Boy! Our home has been surrounded! I recommend you prepare yourselves for glorious battle!”
“We’ve been o’er this Strax. It’s just mass lettin’ out,” Jenny explained, again, as she had every Sunday morning since the Sontaran had joined the Paternoster household.
“Sir, I must insist this time is different! The Chris-Tea-Annes are swarming about outside and are garbed in their bomb-etts. Clearly they are preparing to attack!”
“There called bonnets Strax! Their wearing em cus its Easter. Folks always show off their spring clothes after Easter Mass.”
Vastra, whom had previously been quite content to drink her tea whilst her wife explained the complexities of ape society to their new butler, looked up from the mornings paper at the mention of the holiday.
“Is that the one where you apes celebrate the reanimation of some other apes corpse?”
“Jesus,” Jenny corrected, “The Son ‘o God, if’n you believe, was resurrected, not reanimated.”
“But he was dead,” Vastra pressed.
“Well… technically speakin…”
“And was this Gee-zus not resuscitated by a skilled medic?”
“No… He was dead fer three days. Buried in a tomb ‘n everything but–”
“Then by all definition his corpse had to somehow be reanimated, perhaps through some alien technology…”
“Madame, permission to prepare my grenades for the war against the undead!”
***HISTORICAL NOTES: I’m a nerd for resources so here’s a bunch of stuff I doubt most people will ever read but nevertheless… Easter was actually extremely popular during Victorian times - but also very bizarre by today’s standards. I imagine Vastra has explained all of this to Vastra early on in their relationships (probably after explaining Christmas) but then she has to explain it AGAIN to Strax (and probably has to remind him each year that NO he can NOT hide his grenades for the local children to find).
“To honor Easter as a sacred event, Victorians expressed devotion with beautiful floral arrangements that decorated churches, and with spiritual images of lambs and crosses on Easter cards. Ladies Fancy Work, 1876, described how to make Easter crosses with myriad elaborately handmade wax flowers, as well as rustic cross pictures sprinkled with diamond dust and hand-embellished with mosses, ferns, coral, shells and bark. Women fashioned beadwork in calla-lily designs to cover shelves and wall pockets. Based on publications of the time, floral arrangements of Easter lilies, white and yellow tulips, violets, purple pansies, lilacs and Chinese azalea adorned Victorian vases and mantels. Women also made token gift posies with white and yellow or purple flowers, such as lily of the valley with violets.
Easter was beloved most by Victorian children. Small-town Easter-egg hunts in Delineator’s April 1896 story “Easter in a Southern Town” described their hunt for colored eggs hidden in boxed hedges, honeysuckle arbors and among lilies. Adorable Easter eggs dressed as Humpty Dumpty clad in purple, green and gold outfits awaited their discovery. Besides prizes for the best hunters, and lemonade and cookies for all, a few extra cents allowed a child to dig for candy favors in a vine-covered flowerpot.” [read more http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35361381 ]
https://yardmen.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/the-victorian-easter-traditions-we-still-uphold-today/
DOCTOR WHO NOTES: According to the brilliant book 2012 - Strax is actually the origin for the Humpty Dumpty rhyme - which is often mentioned around the Easter Holiday.
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