Fundamentally the endlessly compelling thing about Morse is that he is selfless, determined, brilliant, courageous (even though he's very scared most of the time), nonviolent, loyal, devoted, awkwardly heroic, anti-bigotry, and compassionate. Also desperately vulnerable, possibly bi, and patently neurodivergent. There's a real sweetness to him - and I do mean Thaw's Morse as well as Evans's.

And he's *also* an absolute little shit who can be judgemental as fuck, occasionally misogynist, deeply arrogant, unbelievably awkward and stubborn, and so untrusting (for heartbreakingly understandable reasons) that he mostly pushes people away and will jump to the erroneous conclusion that he's being rejected by someone who cares about him even faster than he can fill in a crossword or quote some Housman.

He's complicated and real and exasperating and admirable.

I love him and relate to him and have so much sympathy for him and also spend a lot of time going OMG MORSE FFSSSSSSSS.

Okay, Endeavour fandom, answer me this:

Ralph Morse. ‘Love’ (American soldier and his English girlfriend). Hyde Park, London. May, 1944

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

＊ハロー、プラネット。/ ＊Hello, Planet. ☆Sasakure.UK feat. Hatsune Miku (2009)☆♪♪♪♪♪... ☆「The Last, LOVE SONG from our Planet....」

Morse + covering for George.

yes i made a lethal company oc

yes they're a robot. is tihs a surprise.

Endeavour (2012-2023)

i spend too long thinking about alex casey and logan's relationship. idk why Girl-Uncle energy is so powerful... but its because little girls are mysterious and powerful. to me, they love each other a lot and he puts that effort in with her cause she is a cool ass child who likes weird and spooky shit --- but anyway tea parties with casey and princess makeovers and handmade jumpers he has to wear and decora phone cases and knowing every word to nightmare before christmas cause somehow he HAS been around enough to have seen all her phases.

Natalie Morse is as tall as I want her to be. She's nearly 6 foot. She's actually 6 foot. She's maybe an inch taller than Tab. Or two? She's definitely taller than Arthur. She's maybe as tall as Kitty? She and Nix can see eye-to-eye, even out of jump boots. Out of jump boots, she's two inches shorter. When she starts taking a proto-version of horomone replacement therapy/estrogen in the 50s-60s she loses a whole inch in height that annoys her to no end. She towers over everyone. Or at least gives off that impression. Sometimes, when she's feeling alone and vulnerable, she feels two inches tall. There is a shelf in her childhood home she thinks she could never reach, but when she comes back from war, she finds she could get half her arm in there just fine. She also has legs for days. That's all.

Fred Thursday, to Morse: When it comes to a bird with a wing down you've got a blind spot a mile wide.

Also Fred Thursday: [catches Morse fainting into his arms] [coat-blanket] [repeatedly saving Morse's life in the nick of time in Big Damn Hero fashion] [defends Morse verbally to numerous people (esp. Bright) and never lets Morse know he's done it] [drives Morse to his father's house when he's injured and doesn't go home until the early morning] [tries to help Morse when he has PTSD] [moar life-saving] [sneakily pays Morse's neighbour for expenses needed to look after him] [Shoulder Touches Of Love] ["corned beef"] [boat-train to Venice to save Morse's life again even though they've not been on speaking terms for months] [drives out in lethal levels of snow to save Morse's life again even though his wife threatened to leave him if he did so given their son was missing at the time] [makes sure Morse knows that it's okay for him to take weeks or months off if it'll help him get help for his alcoholism] [drops an important case to saves Morse's life and lets Morse believe he did it for his (biological) family] [doesn't want to ever be parted from Morse and never tells Morse this for Reasons that doubtless make sense to him at the time]

Fred. Fred. Fred. I think you might just possibly have a wee "bird with a wing down" problem of your own.

While openly talking about one's feelings is a fate worse than death, bagmen still require validation on a semi-regular basis to be their best and brightest selves!

To make sure your bagman does not start believing himself to be abandoned by God while you are not looking, consider periodically affirming how much he means to you (pro tip: putting a car in between can help ensure you do not endanger your hard-won English repression in the process!)

-… . . .--. / -… . . .--.

what are you, the roadrunner?

The Devil’s Mask (1946), one of the Columbia Pictures B-movies based on the I Love a Mystery radio program.

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Dalziel + Pascoe - 'Dialogues of the Dead' (BBC, 2002).

"If there are ghosts to raise, What shall I call, Out of hell's murky haze, Heaven's blue pall? Raise my loved long-lost boy To lead me to his joy. There are no ghosts to raise; Out of death lead no ways; Vain is the call."

Dang tho. I've been missing that older man/younger man rizz and Thursday/Morse hits that spot EXACTLY