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Guys I Might Have Three Nickels
I've been watching "Agatha Christie's Marple" for the past few days and it's pretty good! Marple adaptations all tend to have a better caliber of actors than a lot of bog-standard mystery shows (looking at you, "Madame Blanc"), and while Joan Hickson's Marple is right up there with David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes as "literally can never be beaten, these are the best anyone's done it," both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie do a fantastic job as Miss Marple.
Then I got to "The Secret of Chimneys," Season 5 episode 2
and guys
Guys
So there's a murder of a viscount, like there is, and this detective Finch rolls up and immediately spots Miss Marple (in her NIGHTIE! standing at the window like some kind of hussy, honestly Jane) and doffs his cap to her with that little smile that makes you go, "huh."
At this point I've watched a couple dozen Miss Marple episodes where she goes through detectives like wildfire and this guy's supposed to be a "*guru*" so I'm expecting some battle of the egos or something and like, Stephen Dillane is great! But bleh, I might have to skip this one.
Then my dude asks Miss Marple to SHOW HIM THE BODY, with a pleased little smile at her as she goes "uhhhhhhhh but my knitting?" (He even does that thing where you use someone's honorific and wait for them to give you their name, and that's when I was like "ohhh this bitch knows exactly who she is.") What follows is what I can only describe as a meet-cute in the secret passageway where the viscount was shot (and in fact the body is STILL THERE) and where Miss Marple literally asks the police equivalent of "is there a Mrs Finch" and he looks at her like this:
At which point I'm like "ohhh my dude not only knows who she is, he deliberately came here without a sergeant so he could draft her," and sure enough he just starts...handing her pieces of evidence like "hey babe can you decipher this note for me thanks love you" while Miss Marple is like, "this approval and camaraderie coming from a cop... not sure if want."
Next is a series of romantic strolls through the gardens while they discuss murder, during which Finch reveals his undying love I mean his research into Miss Marple and the "dozen case files" of her previous exploits that he's collected like some deranged fanboy. Miss Marple responds to this by BLUSHING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL and stammering about how pish tosh it's nothing really, and I couldn't find a gif of it but he's staring at her like this:
Yeah I bet u r tempted
He also makes a half-hearted attempt at negging her "amateur sleuth" status, only to then immediately assure her that he makes like, so much money being a big fancy detective and can keep her in all the yarn and garden seed she could ever desire.
There's also a late-night tryst at the compost pile right after Finch has been (mildly) poisoned and Miss Marple is like "men are so weak" as she roots through the garbage for clues.
Not how he wanted their first date to go D:
The next morning there's another murder which: bummer, but also allows the two of them to read love letters together and for Finch to give Miss Marple the following look as she explains how secret assignations among lovers can "quicken the ardor":
Miss Marple then goes onto solve the murders and btw hands over the priceless diamond that's been literally missing for two literal decades that she found in her spare time. The entire scene features Finch looking at her like this:
After the dust settles, Finch and Miss Marple have a lovely moment where he calls himself "another one of your casualties," then super casually mentions that he's probably going to have to go on assignment to use the diamond in a daring international espionage case and I can't decide if he's asking Miss Marple to go with him or simply trying to show her that he is cool and smart and would make an excellent wife, but either way the episode ends with her turning him down and Jane, we need to talk about your priorities.
Anyway I've already written 2K about the subsequent 10-year epistolary romance these two have following this episode because I make poor choices.
#agatha christie's marple#miss marple#julia mckenzie#stephen dillane#special thanks to introvertedpedant for their exceptional gifs#anyway yeah I fully did the 'haha what if I jokingly shipped them' and then 30 minutes later was like 'oh no'#miss marple rhymes with parple#seriously though what's the explanation for these choice#other than dillane reading through the script and saying to mckenzie#'ok so I'm gonna play him like SO SO down bad for you is that cool'#and mckenzie saying 'you jump I jump jack'
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Because I think my tumblr buds are more into the Miss Marple fic than my bluesky buds:
#miss marple rhymes with parple#I just think they're neat!#miss marple and the mary sue that paul rutman wrote#for the express purpose of telling miss marple that she's amazing and perfect#which she is!#anyway taking suggestions now#I'm thinking about having them do 'the case of the perfect maid' because that would be hilarious#they'd both immediately clock what was going on but are like 'well maybe it's some weird roleplay thing we don't wanna judge'#and then of course there's stuff getting stolen so they've gotta sort it out
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For Which The First Was Made, 15/15
Author: leupagus
Wordcount: 36K
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Jane Marple, Gabriel Finch, Henry Clithering, Virginia Revel, Eileen “Bundle” Revel, Leonard Clement, Griselda Clement, Dolly Bantry, Raymond West
Tags: Epistolary
Summary: They say that one should never meet one's heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.
Fic complete.
#miss marple#ficcage of intrest#miss marple rhymes with parple#and a voice cried out from Heaven saying#it is done
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In my quest to get more people to watch this episode of Marple ("The Secret of Chimneys," season 5 episode 2 if you're interested), I may have inadvertently pushed people to torrent an available copy.
Which is a horrible crime! Not because it's "theft" or whatever, fuck that, this is a 15-year-old show and Agatha's long dead — but because in the torrented version most of this scene is cut, and it's the scene which first made me pause, frown at the TV screen, mutter "wait what" and rewind it to make sure that it's as outrageously flirty as it seemed the first time.
Spoilers: it is.
#the secret of chimneys#miss marple#julia mckenzie#stephen dillane#the dialogue is just SO MUCH#miss marple: um you're doing it again inspector#finch (with almost unbearable tenderness): what's that?#miss marple: standing mute so that one is forced to run on more than ever one would wish#finch: I'm keeping you where I can see you miss marple#'because I'm already head over heels in love with you' is pretty loud but is TECHNICALLY unsaid#miss marple rhymes with parple
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I know I've been yelling about this for the past three days but guys this is where Inspector Finch shows up and it's some goddamn Romeo and Juliet bullshit complete with romantic strings, what the FUCK was I supposed to think.
#thanks be to thingswithwings#who found this dusty old (and TRUNCATED! THEY TOOK OUT SOME OF THE FLIRTING!!! SCANDAL!) version of the episode#and clipped this scene for me#because the last time I did any video stuff was literally 10 years ago#miss marple#agatha christie's marple#the secret of chimneys#miss marple rhymes with parple#also shoutout to Bundle for the Julian of Norwich joke that bitch is so my type
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For Which The First Was Made
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: T
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jane Marple/Gabriel Finch
Additional Tags: Slow Burn
Summary: One should never meet one’s heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.
CHAPTER SEVEN
In which there is travel, murder, and a letter written on the back of a flyer.
Dear Gabriel,
I am fully aware that you will not be reading this until you return home, but I am in a terrific sulk and in such moods as these, one needn't have an audience so much as an outlet. In fact I would rather prefer you pretended this letter didn't exist at all, because I intend to be thoroughly disagreeable.
#miss marple#miss marple rhymes with parple#graphic design: still my passion#ficcage of interest#this thing is EIGHTEEN THOUSAND WORDS NOW
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I wrote 5K today so I am too tired to do the whole title card nonsense
Chapter 11, they haven't even kissed yet, Jane hasn't even VISUALIZED IT AS A POSSIBILITY
did a mummy put a curse on me or something
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For Which The First Was Made
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: T
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jane Marple/Gabriel Finch
Additional Tags: Slow Burn
Summary: One should never meet one's heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.
CHAPTER SIX: May Day, May Day
#miss marple#miss marple fic#there's something deeply satisfying about making shitty title cards for my fic#my friend haroved theorized it's because I don't feel the pressure to be “good” at art the way I do with writing#she's probably right#but if I worried about being good I probably wouldn't be foisting this on all y'all so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#miss marple rhymes with parple#I need a tag for this fic any ideas?
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Thank God I had an afternoon's worth of entertainment at Scotland Yard — and no darling, I wasn't arrested. Do you remember old Finchy, that dour chap they sent down to us with the Mysore Diamond in late '55, and we had a jolly good shootout with that devil from Pretoria? Turns out Finchy's been putting off his climb up the ladder and the top brass have absolutely had it; something about a body in a suitcase that sealed his fate, poor man. (London must be going to the absolute dogs if there are bodies being stuffed into suitcases these days. Buenos Aires will be heaven in comparison, and not just because you're there waiting for me.)
At any rate, word was out that the blessed event was to begin at 1600 and you can bet that tremendously expensive lipstick you're so fond of that I was there as the clock struck. I'll give Finchy this much, he looked a bit less like a wet funeral than I remembered; perhaps he's resigned himself to his fate.
The real fun came afterward, when all were gathered in Peel Hall for the obligatory champers and chinwag. Who do you think was there chatting with everyone and quite at her ease? Your funny little friend who helped you a bit with Aunt Ada's murder, Miss Marple! I confess I didn't recognise her at first. I'm so used to identifying aged relics by their hats, and she's done the unthinkable and changed it.
#miss marple#tommy & tuppence sighting!#I really did love greta scacchi as tuppence even though apparently that episode wasn't much like the books#nor were tommy and tuppence much like the canon characters#but she was SO CUTE#and SO DETERMINED#so I like to imagine that MI6 wised up and recruited her post-episode and now she's being glamorous right along Tommy#anyway if anyone has an idea of how to bring in a reference to Poirot lemme know#etben thinks (and I agree) that there should be some enormous and completely unspoken rivalry between them#anyway#miss marple rhymes with parple#ficcage of interest
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#one more sleep 'til christmas#aka one more chapter and it's DONE#this has been a wild two weeks y'all#miss marple rhymes with parple#ficcage of interest
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For Which The First Was Made
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: T
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jane Marple/Gabriel Finch
Additional Tags: Slow Burn
Summary: One should never meet one’s heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.
CHAPTER TEN
In which there is a dinner party and a hair-pulling cat fight, English style.
"To Miss Marple, who arranged our happy gathering in just a few hours with the brutal efficiency one usually sees in fascists."
"Henry," Aunt Jane said over the tittering of the guests. Finch, sat next to her, merely pursed his mouth in a smile.
"Jane," Sir Henry replied, "You have been my dear friend for — well, we shan't disclose how many years, for my sake more than yours. But I hope you, dear madam, consider me one of your more brilliant successes, for certainly you have been my mentor as much as I have been Gabriel's. To Jane."
This time there was a wider array of salutations: Raymond and Genevieve gave the girl her proper materteral honourifics while Bird and Miss Cooper stuck with "Miss Marple."
Finch showed himself a bit of a dark horse by murmuring "To Jane" along with Mrs. Bantry. Raymond would have to get the story of that from his aunt later on; he'd assumed he was just another one of her pet inspectors, and she wasn't the sort to tolerate overfamiliarity from the police class, unless they were in Sir Henry's social strata. Perhaps Finch was some minor baronet or something.
#miss marple#ficcage of interest#miss marple rhymes with parple#I've gotten some great comments along the lines of 'I love how EVERYBODY ELSE knows about Finch's embarrassing'#and I completely agree but also consider: there is one person in a Miss Marple story who can be guaranteed to be behind the ball#and that is Nephew Raymond
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For Which The First Was Made
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: T
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jane Marple/Gabriel Finch
Additional Tags: Slow Burn
Summary: One should never meet one’s heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.
CHAPTER NINE
In which Finch is in such deep fucking trouble.
Events here have been rather lively: in addition to Dolly's siblings and siblings-in-law, there are assorted children from an array of marriages, as well as their particular friends. I have met any number of people whose names I doubt I'll be called upon to remember, and who often forget me when I'm in the very room with them. But there are a few who are very agreeable, and of course Dolly and I are quite able to make our own fun wherever we go.
Oh dear — someone downstairs (I have sought refuge in the extremely disused library) just put on a rather loud radio programme, featuring what I believe is known as "doo-wop," most intriguing. However, another guest is attempting to harmonise. The result is aurally catastrophic, and I must locate Dolly and escape to the gardens.
#miss marple#there's something deeply hilarious about the fact that this fic has as many comment threads as it has kudos#historically speaking that does not always speak well to a fic's quality#but you know what kids life is short write what brings you joy#and this brings me SUCH joy#ficcage of interest#miss marple rhymes with parple
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