First series of images, posted by Tumblr user @cisarovna, is a Twitter thread by writer Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn dated 10 February 2021. The thread reads:
There are eleventy thousand projects about Agatha Christie's missing days so now can I get a film about how at 40 she took up with a 26-year-old archaeologist, swam with him in her pink undies, and married him?
If you're not familiar with the story, after her divorce from husband #1, a jerkface who basically couldn't stand being around all the sad because Agatha was grieving her mother's death, Agatha traveled to Iraq to visit the Woolleys, archaeologist pals.
Max Mallowan was one of their young staff members. The Woolleys sent Agatha out for a tour of the area with Max as a guide. They had ADVENTURES. (Swam half-naked, slept in a jail. As you do.)
Then, when all of them were in Athens, Agatha learns that her beloved only child is basically at death's door in England. Cue frantic mother, rushing to make arrangements. She's so addled she sprains her ankle BADLY.
Max is all, "No worries. I GOT YOU. Here are all your tickets and BTW I'm coming with you because you're hobbling and I am Just That Guy."
On the train there are mishaps and he ends up saving the day A Lot. After Agatha gets home to find her daughter recuperating (Yay!) Max comes for a visit. Meets the daughter, the dog, the companion.
One night, he taps on Agatha bedroom door and says, "Oh, hey. We should totally get married." Agatha is GOBSMACKED. This is just awesome pal Max. She protests he's too young. He doesn't care. He wants HER. She asks daughter, dog, and companion.
Everybody says, "PUT A RING ON THAT BOY." So she did. And for years they traveled out to Iraq each year for him to dig while she sat under a parasol, writing.
Max was knighted, Agatha made a dame--each had their own knightly honors. THE END.
So, I'm BEGGING you, stop giving us sad, shitcanned, cheated on Agatha, and give us adventuresome, seizing-life-by-the-throat Agatha. We deserve her.
Did y'all need to know that Agatha learned to surf in 1922 in Waikiki? Yeah. You did. [surfing emoji]
The images posted by Tumblr user @dirtyriver are a montage of old photographs of Agatha and Max. The first four photographs show them on archaeological voyages, suitably hatted against the sun in period clothing. The first photo shows them at a dig, the second on a ship, the third astride donkeys (or mules) in bright sunlight surrounded by some people (possibly African, maybe Egyptian, from their features and dress), and the fourth shows them next to some kind of masonry-lined polygonal-shaped opening in the ground (a well, an open tomb or the entrance to an underground chamber perhaps?) with ruins and dense grassy overgrowth in the background.
The fifth photograph shows a more relaxed, middle-aged Agatha and Max, still outdoors, but in a colder setting. Both are wearing tweedy-looking coats over layers of clothing. Agatha is smiling brightly at the camera while Max is focused on something off to the side with a pipe in his half-smiling mouth, set below a black mustache. While they are standing slightly apart, Max is leaning noticeably toward Agatha.
The sixth and last photograph of the series shows Agatha and Max in old age, posing semi-formally while standing on a gravel path beneath a planted arbor. Max is looking directly at the camera, holding the leash of a small black dog in front of them. His mustache is white here. Although his suit looks quite formal, it is a little untidy and shapeless, and he leans into Agatha by his side even as both of his hands are clasped around the dog leash handle. Agatha, also looking directly at the camera, has her right hand tucked into the crook of Max’s left elbow. She is wearing a stylish, loose-fitting shift dress in a heavy fabric, with a long chunky necklace down its front. Both Agatha and Max have an aspect of calm and contentment here.
The last image, posted by Tumblr user @explorerrowan, is a meme showing Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development saying:
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