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the-sassy-shell · 1 year
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alonsoings · 8 months
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théo liking this post 😭😭
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too-antigonish · 9 days
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They come at you through what you love...Pt. 2
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Last Thursday Thursday I wrote about how “They come at you through what you love,” and the three times that phrase is used in Endeavour—starting back in S1...
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I talked a little bit about Morse and @astridcontramundam, @thewatcher98, and @fanficrocks had some great insights about about how Morse never seems to see himself as included within anyone's circle of love.
I don’t think though, that I was very clear about the last point I tried to make. I said:
“every once and a while it strikes me again that so much of this show is about a very simple premise: It explores the idea that love and connection are what make you most vulnerable to the evils of this world. At the same time, they are also the things that make life worth living and that give us strength.  So how do you live that terrible paradox—with both of these things being true at the same time?  And how do you respond when your love is used against you?”
The person I was actually thinking about most there was not Morse, but Thursday.
This is a man who at his core is a guardian. His primary mission in life is to take care of the people he’s supposed to take care of. He wants to love and protect. Especially these people...
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But from the very beginning, his love is weaponized against him. His relationship with Mickey Carter and his desire to protect his family are used initially to drive him out of London.
Oxford is hardly more safe. Everyone seems to realize that threatening Thursday himself is pointless. You have to get at him through what he loves. And so they threaten his family and they threaten Morse.
And then they secure further leverage via his loan to Charlie which places both his job and his marriage--the very foundations of his identity--at risk.
What makes it all the more difficult for him is that he is constantly navigating between worlds--often opposing worlds.
He grew up as an East End barrow boy with an alcoholic father. He was raised to watch out for his own.  Now he’s a fairly well-off suburban father in academic Oxford with a job that in some sense makes him responsible for the entire community.
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He was raised with violence, and by all accounts was involved in brutal campaigns and resistance work in WWII.  Fists were an accepted part of the game when he started policing. It’s not his first resort, but it’s a tool he uses.
Now Morse is trying to pull him away from that. Morse says he’s better than that--but he’s genuinely torn. What happens if the bad guy gets away with it because they didn’t have the nerve to “do what had to be done?”
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One of the most poignant examples to me is when Charlie asks for the loan. While Win and Fred’s marriage looks dated to contemporary eyes, it’s notable for the time to see them making decisions mutually as a couple and to see them being fairly open in talking to one another.
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But when Charlie asks for the money, there’s a sense that Fred’s immediately back in the world where he grew up—a world where consulting your wife about anything is akin to asking her “permission.”  It's also a world where saying no and refusing generosity to your brother would make you seem less of a man.
So which rules does he follow? The ones he and Win currently live with or the ones he and Charlie grew up with? Well, unfortunately, we know the answer.
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S9 is I think the hardest example. So much of it is centered around the question of who Thursday is supposed to be taking care of—the victims of crime and the people of Oxford that he’s sworn to protect as a policeman? His immediate family—Win, Sam, Joan—and now Jim? His extended family—Charlie and the rest? His...whatever Morse is?
The bad guys are using everything he cares about to manipulate him and the cruelest twist of all is that he must seemingly choose one of his worlds to save and sacrifice the others. Which will he put first?
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And then suddenly, he's not given anymore time to decide...
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helenvader · 1 month
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Quote for today. I actually think with Jingo, the whole book is one very long delightful quote . :-)
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Sergeant Colon knew he was facing one of the most dangerous moments in his career. There was nothing for it. He was out of options. ‘Er … if I add this A and this O and this I and this D,’ he said, the sweat pouring down his pink cheeks, ‘then I can use that V to make “avoid”. Er … and that gets me, er, a … what d’you call these blue squares, Len?’
‘A “Three Times Ye Value of Thee Letter” score,’ said Leonard of Quirm.
‘Well done, sergeant,’ said Lord Vetinari. ‘I do believe that puts you in the lead.’
‘Er … I do believe it does, sir,’ squeaked Sergeant Colon.
‘However, I find that you have left me the use of my U, N and A, B, L, E,’ the Patrician went on, ‘which incidentally lands me on this Three Times the Whole Worde square and, I rather suspect, wins me the game.’
Sergeant Colon sagged with relief.
‘A capital game, Leonard,’ said Vetinari. ‘What did you say it was called?’
‘I call it the “Make Words With Letters That Have All Been Mixed Up Game”, my lord.’
‘Ah. Yes. Obviously. Well done.’
‘Huh, an’ I got three points,’ mumbled Nobby. ‘They was perfectly good words that you wouldn’t let me have, too.’
‘I’m sure the gentlemen don’t want to know those words,’ said Colon severely.
‘I’d have got ten points for that X.’
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mycatismyfriend · 1 year
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I don't know what kind of man I am anymore. Well I do. You're a good man.
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anartisticdreamer0 · 7 months
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if fred dies it would show in the chat
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freddie-dressage · 4 months
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Crazy concept, total new discovery I made riding yesterday. This is really wild but it worked so well I have to share.
You use your inside leg -bare with me-
And push the horse /into/ your outside rein
I know, I know. Really radical concept.
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petit-papillion · 1 year
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Sending some love your way, Fred. Hope your back feels better soon. ❤️
📸 Scuderia Ferrari
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laurensxdeath · 5 months
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Not sure I'm ever going to emotionally recover from ats 4x19...
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ehgood-enough · 10 months
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Overall I think gifted is an interesting story. It’s not a great movie but it’s interesting. Shows how much the court system and society just runs on what the rich want
Also super depressing that they took Fred away from mary
Not a feel good movie at all
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the-sassy-shell · 1 year
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👀👀 so I guess his catchphrase is "hold the phone"?
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wordsofone · 10 months
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thinking about that one time in highschool where we got a problem where it was something like,
Fred is jumping off of a 50ft building, how many seconds will it take for him to get to the ground?
The teacher got it from some official govt school site and every time I randomly think about Fred
it's okay buddy we hope you rest in peace
people were even making up stories and it just became a running joke in that class
I think one of them was his wife cheating on him or something
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skijumpingf1 · 1 year
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Fred lost so many positions in the pit 😭😭😭
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qoslaw · 1 year
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Twitter is wild, I made a tribute post to Fred the Quebec groundhog who died right before his groundhog day moment and somehow antivax people found it and are convinced he died of a vaccine overdose 🥲 WHERE ARE YOU COMING UP WITH THIS CRAP KGNAVAV
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flickynightdarkness · 2 months
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Man I can't help but feel so bad for poor Katz. Like literally the Mystery Inc are trying to pull his damn face off, thinking it was a mask.
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tomfrogisblue · 3 months
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The real test of Fred's love for q!Tubbo - q!Tubbo himself
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