#i'm hallucinating

[deltamel]

[goldengirlssaywhat]

📺 The Golden Girls (1989)

[laolafi]

Inspired by the WIP Ask Game but not a WIP in any way, shape or form because I'm utterly unqualified to write that, but still something that has been living rent-free in my head since watching S1 for the first time back in 2010:

What if The Pamuk Affair™️ really had been a fully consensual, hot and bothered, whirlwind romance (like Fellowes intended, only he sucks at writing romance). What if Pamuk doesn't die and, despite the initial "my family and yours wouldn't be pleased" talk, they eventually decide to go through with it, much to everyone's displeasure (whether or not they do because they "have to" when their fully consensual, hot and bothered, whirlwind first time isn't without consequence, or simply because they eventually realise they want to).

There's a million misunderstandings and culture shocks and drama on the way, but eventually they're living their best life in Istanbul. Maybe, just maybe, they have a little girl. Pamuk names her Meryem, for her brave and beloved mother.

And when they eventually come back to visit Downton Pamuk's all "Canım I don't understand, your lot colonised the world for spices and yet they don't use a single one? Your father doesn't even like garlic, what's wrong with him, is he ill?" and Mary (in Turkish – not quite fluent yet, but not broken gibberish either – so they won't get overheard), "Oh, mashallah we don't have to deal with leaky roofs and that bore of a cousin – and yes Kemal, I'm perfectly aware the cousin your lot wanted you to marry was actually horrible, but still –, can you imagine they wanted me to marry him once upon a time? Also it's cold and damp all the time and can we please go home soon?"

And then WW1 happens. Mary, if only by necessity as a diplomat's wife and politician's daughter-in-law, is no longer clueless about things and rather embarrassed she had been, once – not that she'd let it show. She's busy living her life now, and that life involves quite a lot of politics. And because realism (one more thing Fellowes isn't that great at, and when he is it's highly selective), Robert does get called up for service. Because there's no way he wouldn't be. And he gets sent to Gallipoli and, by some stupid turn of fate (because torture the blorbos), he stands to face his son-in-law's regiment.

Whoops. And that's it, that's all.

[theunknowsillysblog]

I think I'm hallucinating...it seems like something...SAME-

LOOOK!!! @raventeamleader8008 💔💔🙏🙏

[demidorks]

OMG OMG OMG I CAN'T BREATHE

[waterwizardcat]

I'm so delusional this episode is just like the snowmen, 19 century, kinda instant romance, the doctor flustered a bit, they grab doctor's hand and run, one kiss and immediately gone, died 2012 born 2024 welcome back clara oswin oswald

[frxzenbites]

it will be so fine if someone made a fanart where star boy and jack frost meet i mean 🤨

[gouverkin]

You tellin me there isn't a single movie where they all play brothers? What a shame...