Jun 12, 2025
Every day i’m sad that while Anna did get to meet Bates’ mother (AND SHE LIKED HER) she never got to meet her as her daughter-in-law :(
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Every day i’m sad that while Anna did get to meet Bates’ mother (AND SHE LIKED HER) she never got to meet her as her daughter-in-law :(
I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but I personally haven't seen it
would you rather stay at the Overlook Hotel (The Shining) or Bates Motel (Psycho)
Overlook Hotel
Bates Motel
Who’s the bigger horror boy mom?
Mrs. Voorhees
Mrs. Bates (Mother)
i thought “holy shit Boy Mom ™️ final boss” while watching both these movies so yeah
FInding out these two are actually mother and daughter in real life has changed my entire world view. Wtf. I have to go watch this movie again.
irrelevantly, they're also Emma Thompson's mother and sister.
Teachers : a modern au
Synopsis : After a bitter divorce, John Bates, a retired firefighter, comes to Downton to become a librarian at his friend, Robert Crawley's school, Downton Abbey High School. This new chance in life is even greater when he meets English teacher, Anna Smith.
cw : mention of rape, abuse, miscarriage, heavy drinking
explicit consensual sex scene
⚠️ M rated for sex scenes
Characters
Characters pt.1
Characters pt.2
Characters pt.3
Chapters
Chapter 1 : A New Job
John arrives to Downton High School and meets his new colleagues, but an old face ressurfaces.
Chapter 2 : A Love for Books
John and Anna bond over their common love for books. John is worried about O'Brien potentially ruining his newly made friendships by telling his secrets.
Chapter 3 : Wife or Not Wife
Anna invites John over at her and Mary's flat, and some secrets about his past are revealed.
Chapter 4 : The Plan
Mary, Gwen and Thomas teams up to get Anna and John together, however, an unexpected labor brings them to the realization of their mutual feelings.
Chapter 5 : Trick or Treat ?
Frightened by her feelings, Anna avoids John, making him miserable. However, boosted by her best friends, Anna offers the sweetest treat to John on Halloween night.
Chapter 6 : Sweet First Date
Anna and John starts dating, attracting other's attention on them. O'Brien makes Anna insecure by telling her about John's tastes in women but John has planned a sweet date.
Chapter 7 : A (Banna) Christmas Carol
Anna wants to sleep with John but she still has traumas from her previous relationship. A meeting with John's mother and horrifying accident, makes her question her fears.
Chapter 8 : Thank God and You (M rated)
Matthew is healed and proposes to Mary, which prompts Anna to share her fears with John.
Chapter 9 : Terrific Fun (T Rated)
Matthew and Mary marries and Anna wonders where she'll live now.
Chapter 10 : Journey to the Highlands (M rated)
The school staff goes on a school trip to Scotland, where a big secret is revealed. Anna and John works on Anna's traumas.
Chapter 11 : Mama Bates Comes to Downton (M rated)
John's mother visits the couple on Anna's birthday and tries to teach her son a lesson about love.
Chapter 12 : This Is My Homeland (M rated)
Out of nowhere, Tom and Sybil announce a wedding in Ireland. During their time there, Anna meets John's cousins and old friends.
Chapter 13 : I love weddings (M rated)
Summer holidays are here, and John decides to teach Anna football. Elsie has some good news for Anna and Robert and Cora are celebrating their 25 years wedding anniversary.
Chapter 14 : Anamchara (M rated)
John wants to plan a memorable proposal for Anna but he gets sick, and Anna tends to him.
Chapter 15 : Vera
Vera comes to Downton which worries John and Anna.
Chapter 16 : Back to the Highlands (M rated)
Mary gives birth. John and Anna get married in the Highlands. Sybil gives birth.
Chapter 17 : Truly ? (M rated)
Anna has difficulties with getting pregnant.
I sometimes do a fun little poll on Mother’s Day. Today I think I will ask you guys.
Who is the biggest mama’s boy? Norman Bates or Jason Voorhees?
Are you Team Norman or Team Jason? Happy Mother’s Day! 🔪 🏒
He calls the radio station because he wants his motives to be known, he wants to be understood, and he doesn't want to do it. In his Hannibal Lecter kitchen with his bird castle nearby, a pair of little birds hopping about inside, Norman is freer than he ever has been - away from that house and the motel, Mother dwindles away to nothing but a shrieking whisper in the back of his head, poor Norman who's been so badly traumatized by her and is not even aware of it. He has a wife who he has not killed yet, and they make love often. A shame that she is a horrible manipulator who lies to him about taking birth control in order to get pregnant when he is so constantly terrified that he'll pass on the same instability his mother gave to him. She does not respect his boundaries and she does not listen to him, she does not respect him as a person at all. Figures she's a psychologist he met while he was crazy. Norman can't stop finding women as crazy and outwardly conservative as his mother. Speaking of whom, Mrs Bates is now the lovely Olivia Hussey, who does a wondrous job with what she's given. I despise that brief mention of forced transvestism that never comes up again - it has no place here, Norman has never been confused in that way. Mrs. Bates wanted her son to be her son, and to be a GOOD son, because she is perhaps not a "good woman" and men have not been good to her. For same reason, Margaret White tries to force Carrie to stay a child because her own womanhood is the cause of her sin in her mind. Mother exists because Norman is a good little boy who loves his mother, not because of some boring Sleepaway Camp nonsense. Well, good then that they never bring it up again.
The direction is maybe best with those scenes cut between the radio station (cool, almost clinical, dark, sharp, noir pretty) and Norman's kitchen (bright, airy, a wonderful symbol of how far he's come in his life - and thus with what he's talking about, what he's compelled to say, how much he still feels the need to be dragged back into it). Good that he goes back to Mother's house for the final act - he needs to be in that scared, tormented frame of mind in order to do something as terrible as kill his wife. Poor Norman, this awful woman has taken something from him he did not consent to give her, and she refuses abortion obviously because she's so very conservative. The best kinds of girls for Norman are the kind Mother would kill on first sight. But he can't do it, anyways (I love how quickly his face changes, boyish still now and always, therapy once again got rid of Mother but does nothing for his other underlying issues), and sets the house on fire, blue and with warm eerie orange windows, and is almost trapped to die there with his victims including his mother Olivia Hussey, luckily he gets out and is free as he says, again, as in Psycho III. Wonderful for him! Free to have a child with this controlling mother-knows-best freak who he cannot stand up to because she ensures that there's nothing he can do before she lets him find out. This maniac who decided the best course of option with a man who did not want kids because he was afraid of what he might pass on to them, was to lie and get pregnant anyways and then tell him to just give the baby a chance. Poor Norman, even if genetics have no say in it I'm afraid things will repeat themselves...
My favorite Maria Doyle Kennedy role is Wife Not Impressed by Your New Floozie.