Oh my Goodeness

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outlander #clairefraser caitríona balfe edit supermassive black hole

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Love this ❤️

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I love his face when he says "It would have been a good deal easier, if you'd only been a witch"

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The Vatican; Pilot that wasn’t commissioned

Clip courtesy of Showcase

#The Vatican #MatthewGoode @pleasereadmeok

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Matthew Goode in ‘The Vatican’. Pilot that wasn’t commissioned

Clip courtesy of Showcase

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Matthew Goode robbed again 🥺

Congratulations to Daveed Diggs.

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The thing about Persuasion that just kills me is that the central premise— “I hope the person who broke my heart has a miserable life and I get to watch them be humiliated while I get everything I ever wanted” is so universal.

But Wentworth is only able to fully enjoy it for like A DAY before he starts realizing how terrible it is. He watches Anne suffer in silence and he hates it. He watches her being treated like an inconvenience and a joke and a piece of furniture and he hates it. He hears sneering comments at her expense and he hates it. He spends evening after evening in her company, where he is celebrated as a handsome, dashing hero while she is shoved to the side and ignored and he hates it.

He probably spent a lot of heartbroken hours out on the sea wishing revenge on her (like ten years’ worth), but then he gets to see it happening and revenge turns out not to be that sweet after all. He probably thought “I hope she never gets married to anyone else and she has to spend the rest of her miserable life with her miserable family, listening to them talk about nothing and regretting ever letting me go.” But then he has to watch her live through it, and it is just excruciating. Watching her bite her tongue. Watching her keep her eyes down on her clasped hands. Watching her silently accept everything as if she deserves it.

He’s like, “YES, it’s all HAPPENING! She’s all ALONE and PALE and OLD and…sad. And her family treats her terribly, and she’s— no one is talking to her. No one even knows that she’s funny and smart, they just— they just make her sit in the corner. She’s hardly eating anything. And she really isn’t that old, but they are acting like she’s dead? Her family is even worse than they used to be, how is that even possible? Why isn’t anyone helping her? Why is she the only person taking care of anyone? Why isn’t anyone taking care of her?”

And his nasty “she’s so altered I should not have known her again” comment that he KNOWS got back to her starts ringing in his ears. And his cocky “yeah I’m just here to find a YOUNG, HOT girl to marry now that I’m SUCH A CATCH, whatevs” approach starts to make him feel queasy, because she’s HELPING, she’s trying to stay out of his way and help him pick a young wife, and she hardly ever smiles anymore, not really. He watches her slip out of rooms when he enters them and he hears her laughing with her nephew sometimes but then go quiet when anyone else approaches, and he doesn’t know what to do. Anyway, every fandom has a bunch of Pride and Prejudice AUs, but I WANT PERSUASION AUS. I NEED THEM. I NEED THEM. 

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This is just perfect. Made me cry.

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Retweeting. Just because ❤️🥺

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The Book of Life only 99p on Kindle.

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Matthew Goode has a small but important part in this.

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Matthew Goode in ‘The Vatican’.  

Pilot that wasn’t commissioned

Clip courtesy of Showcase

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For me, Matthew Goode is the best screen Wickham.  He gives just the right amount of sleazy charm to this manipulative character.   Previous Wickham’s on screen were a bit vanilla (sorry guys but you were) but this one is devilishly dangerous. 

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Matthew Goode as Wickham in Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) part 1, part 2

Matthew Goode's portrayal of Wickham was brilliant. I think the word louche springs to mind!

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Latest Storm coming to the UK has been called Storm Darcy! Made me think of this. (Sadly, it is the girls name)

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North & South (2004) dir. Brian Percival

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James Purefoy on Twitter

“Between takes on #ADiscoveryOfWitches”

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Matthew Goode - heartstoppingly beautiful as Matthew Roydon.

Is that his wedding jacket?  Coz for me that looks like a man who has caught sight of his beautiful bride for the first time. 

[Pic - Sky]

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You are indeed correct. And that is a gorgeous picture!

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Don’t mess with Diana!   She may be your wife Matthew but she’s also a powerful witch and you were a major TOOL.   

[If it’s the scene that I think it is - TBH Matthew was a tool on a few occasions in Shadow of Night so your guess about which time this ^ was is as goode as mine. ]

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Possibly this scene?

Our lovemaking, no matter how intense, had not satisfied whatever was driving Matthew to keep pursuing me in spite of the fact that I was indisputably his. I was beginning to worry that nothing could. My frustration burbled over, taking shape in a concussive wave of air that carried him away from me and into the opposite wall. Matthew’s eyes went black at his change of position. ‘And how was that for you, my heart?’ I asked softly. His face registered surprise. I snapped my fingers, releasing the air’s hold on him. His muscles flexed as he regained his mobility. He opened his mouth to speak. ‘Don’t you dare apologize,’ I said fiercely. ‘If you’d touched me in a way I didn’t like, I would have said no.’ Matthew’s mouth tightened. ‘I can’t help thinking about your friend Giordano Bruno: “Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me”. I’m not afraid of your power, or your strength, or anything else about you,’ I said. ‘What are you afraid of, Matthew?’ Regretful lips brushed over mine. That, and a whisper of breeze against my skirts, told me he had fled rather than answer.

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Don’t mess with Diana!   She may be your wife Matthew but she’s also a powerful witch and you were a major TOOL.   

[If it’s the scene that I think it is - TBH Matthew was a tool on a few occasions in Shadow of Night so your guess about which time this ^ was is as goode as mine. ]

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Possibly this scene?

Our lovemaking, no matter how intense, had not satisfied whatever was driving Matthew to keep pursuing me in spite of the fact that I was indisputably his. I was beginning to worry that nothing could. My frustration burbled over, taking shape in a concussive wave of air that carried him away from me and into the opposite wall. Matthew’s eyes went black at his change of position. ‘And how was that for you, my heart?’ I asked softly. His face registered surprise. I snapped my fingers, releasing the air’s hold on him. His muscles flexed as he regained his mobility. He opened his mouth to speak. ‘Don’t you dare apologize,’ I said fiercely. ‘If you’d touched me in a way I didn’t like, I would have said no.’ Matthew’s mouth tightened. ‘I can’t help thinking about your friend Giordano Bruno: “Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me”. I’m not afraid of your power, or your strength, or anything else about you,’ I said. ‘What are you afraid of, Matthew?’ Regretful lips brushed over mine. That, and a whisper of breeze against my skirts, told me he had fled rather than answer.

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