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ANNOUNCEMENT:

Shetland Fic Fest 2023

Let’s fill AO3 with new Shetland fics in 2023! Below are the suggested posting dates and prompts, but feel free to do something else entirely. Art and videos also encouraged!

Schedule:

Wednesday 1 March - Rarepairs

Thursday 2 March - AU

Friday 3 March - Series 7 Fix-it

Saturday 4 March - Folklore, folk horror, history and ritual

Sunday 5 March - Casefic

Monday 6 March - Crossovers

Tuesday 7 March - Comedy

Tagging:

Share your fics with the tag #shetlandficfest23 and we’ll reblog.

#bbc shetland #duncan hunter #donna killick #jimmy x duncan #mark bonnar #fiona bell

Season 6 of Shetland is on Finnish tv, finally, so obviously I’m re-watching it again.

Somehow I forgot to pay proper attention to the moment Donna Killick decides what it’s going to take to get back at Jimmy Perez. That moment of oh. ‘He’d be devastated without you around, wouldn’t he’. What makes it chilling is that right before that moment, less than minute ago, she was as friendly as we’ve seen her with anybody, almost soft with Duncan. She is genuinely grateful for his attempts to connect her to their son. And still. This is how she’ll get Jimmy, so suddenly Duncan is fair game.

And then after that scene, we see Duncan go home to Jimmy, so we see how much Donna is right and we know it will hurt. Perfect example of characters doing what they must, according to their personalities and history, there is no getting off this train until the crash.

#shetland #shetland s6 #jimmy/duncan #donna killick #how to villain

Everything about Duncan’s arc in season 6 of Shetland demonstrates how damaging it can be to hold on to guilt and shame when you’re working on become a better person, because all your good intentions and your determination and your self-hatred combine to make you so very vulnerable to manipulation and abuse in this essay I will...