#jsamn character week

[mrsbillycranston]

Sitting here during a free period at work. 

Gets on the tumblr to do the tumbles. 

Me: Oh, whose character day is it?!?! 

Me. Oh.  No one’s.  The character weeks are over.

Me: ... 

Me: I guess that’s okay.  (is actually stupidly emotional) 

[pred-x]

My favourite minor characters...

...the French sailors from Brest. I think it does them great credit (as compared to the John-Bull-ish English forces) that they work the rain-ships out intellectually and then admire the art and skill with which it was done. Sapristi! Only the French! (...no, I don't just like them because they admire the work of our darling Dumpling. Although it doesn't hurt...)

[onjollityfarm-blog]

Obscure headcanons #2

Mr and Mrs Godesdone (Mrs Godesdone throws the fateful party where Norrell meets Drawlight and Lascelles) have a marriage of convenience. It is convenient to her to be married to someone very wealthy who will let her spend his money on parties and jewellery; and it is convenient for him to have a wife to display in public while he goes and picks up men in private. She knows about his secret - indeed, he has on at least one occasion brought a man back to the marital home - which is how Mrs Godesdone (first name Mary) ended up meeting Drawlight. Mr Godesdone was less than thrilled by their friendship, since his original intimacy with Drawlight turned out disastrous, for various reasons (going around telling people “he might as well have used his thumb” is not likely to end happily).

(Mr Godesdone was arrested in 1810 in connection with the Vere Street Coterie scandal, but was able to pay a hefty bribe to the authorities to get them to leave him alone. Mrs Godesdone was very annoyed at him for getting caught like that - there were many important necklaces she could have spent that bribe money on)

Mrs Godesdone doesn’t spend her life chastely, no she doesn’t! She has a bit of a reputation amongst certain people for being fond of as many men as possible. Drawlight was good enough to introduce her to Lascelles, and she exhausted him quite quickly. The Godesdones are also known to have the handsomest coachman in London, who is himself known to be a rogue where women are concerned.

Mr Godesdone died at the beginning of 1817, just as Drawlight was on his way to Venice. He had previously told his wife, when her friend’s fraudulent activities were discovered, that if she were seen talking to him again, he would turn her out on the streets, which was why she was unable to help him herself. With her husband out of the picture, she briefly considered marrying Drawlight herself so as to ensure his financial stability, though she worried that this would cause more of a scandal than her previous husband had. Circumstances ended up making that decision for her, and she married someone else instead.

[the-moodyfoodie]

JSAMN Society of Magicians Free Character Day:  ^This Guy. 

He may never have had a name and was just one of many peasants in the book who gathered with sticks and dubious intentions around Vinculus, but he put so much into the role and for that I remember him.

[professorlupins]

Tuesday, October 20: Free Day! - I’m going to go with the mile long post of... OMG - this scene, their expressions.

[onjollityfarm-blog]

Obscure headcanons #1

Tom Otherlander (mentioned in passing by Mr Norrell when talking about people descended from fairies - he worked on the Norrell family farm) took his fairy-related name from his mother, as he never met his father. His father’s name was Clegg...

[wildwood-faun]

this is a kiss that I swear will blow your mind: a fanmix for Tom Brightwind and Henry Lascelles at the Castle of the Plucked Eye and Heart. Also on Spotify.

Aeolian Harp – Wovenhand | Wolf Like Me – Anna Calvi | Lose Your Soul – Dead Man’s Bones | Blood On My Name – The Brothers Bright | Broken Crown – Mumford & Sons | Stranger than Kindness – Fever Ray | Trust in Me – The Dead Brothers | Pretty Little Head – Eliza Rickman | Gun – Emilíana Torrini | Strange Fruit – José James

[wildwood-faun]

A relatively innocent comment uttered in the proximity of this piece of rarepair trash led to me latching onto a new ship: “What if Brightwind found Lascelles at the Castle of the Plucked Eye and Heart…..”

Thank you @starswan11