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sleeplessinspringtime · 2 years

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THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY (2003) dir. Guy Jenkin

#the sleeping dictionary #hugh dancy #emily mortimer #2003 #2000s #romance #passion #movies #couple #love #lust #tender #intimate #intimacy

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dipolos · 1 year

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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

#the sleeping dictionary #jessica alba #hugh dancy #stills #film stills

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rosyronkey · 2 years

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please for the love of god we need to talk about all the movies hugh dancy is in

1. david copperfield (normal)

2. royal twink from my childhood

3. that one horror movie where he had his ass out

4. school teacher during the rwandan genocide

5. grigg

6. love interest for a shopaholic

7. british missionary that gets pegged

8. hot guy who fucks a mom and her kid and leaves within 30 minutes

9. makes vibrator in victorian england

10. the voice of albert in the abominable snow baby

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mistikfir · 1 year

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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Well, we're going to have to run away together now. Steamer leaves tomorrow at dawn. I'll leave at dusk, I'll be there by 3:00 a.m. at the latest.

#hugh dancy #hughdancyedit #john truscott #The Sleeping Dictionary #dictionarymake #mistikfiredit

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hannibal-76 · 1 year

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So pretty 😍

#John Truscott #hugh dancy #the sleeping dictionary #he's so pretty in that movie

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arctictide · 2 years

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The Sleeping Dictionary, 2003

#the sleeping dictionary #jessica alba #hugh dancy

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sorinesauce · 3 months

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just saw on the internet that people are saying hugh dancy experinence twink death

TWINK DEATH? TWINK DEATH ?!? THAT MAN IS STILL A MINX AND YOU CAN SEE IT

im genuinely tweaking beacuse ppl rly think hes has more wrinkles thats hes not a pretty boy thats need royalty treament is beyond me

#hugh dancy #law and order svu #the sleeping dictionary #hannibal #he #is beautiful

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tanimasen · 2 years

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#jessica alba #the sleeping dictionary #film

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thisbibliophiile · 2 years

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Books of 2022 #13

The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

#read #books of 2022 #the Sleeping Dictionary #sujata massey #⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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dipolos · 16 days

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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

#the sleeping dictionary #hugh grant #jessica alba #stills #film stills

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yeah-thats-probably-it · 3 months

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Behold, the thing I said I was going to do! (x) Nobody asked me to, but I did it anyway. Huzzah

If you don't want to share your actual first initial, you can use a nickname or fictional character instead.

I really tried hard to make these sound as plausible as possible per the way Wodehouse usually names things, so I put an explanation of all my thought processes under the cut.

Also, many of the color category placements are based on speculation and best guesses. If you think you could make a case for the color you're wearing being in another category, you can go ahead and put it there. Category justifications and list of canon references also under the cut.

*EDIT: Some new information regarding the way Drone nicknames work has been brought to my attention. I'm appending the following instructions to the nickname section: if you can think of a food pun based off the name you chose, do so, the stupider the better

First names: This is pretty simple, there aren't that many posh British first names. They mostly reuse the same 15 or so over and over. I used this list (x) of canon Drones as my reference to work off of for all names.

Surnames: All of these are either real British surnames (found mostly here) or real British town names (found mostly here). From Googling, this appears to be how Wodehouse created most of his characters' surnames. I generally tried to avoid names that have already been used, with the exception of Phipps, because Plum really seemed to like that one.

When it comes to place names, he tends to be more liberal about making up generically British-sounding shit or swapping out the suffixes of real places. For example, there's a real town called Steeple Bumpstead, but Steeple Bumpleigh is completely fictional. So I believe my instruction above to mash two names together still squares with the Wodehouse school of naming things, Your Honor.

Nicknames: Did you know that it's REALLY hard to come up with random combinations of sounds that a) are funny, b) sound like plausible nicknames, and c) aren't too similar to funny sound combinations that Wodehouse has already used? Because I do now

Most of the Drones just have regular nicknames based on a syllable of their first or last name (Corky, Freddie, Algy, etc.). Rules of hockey nicknames seem to apply. This left me with a fairly small pool of non-name-based nicknames to use as examples. Other categories of nickname include "personal characteristics" (Barmy, Ginger), "random syllable followed by y" (Tuppy, Biffy, Oofy), "random syllables shoved together" (Boko), "food joke or pun" (Stilton, Biscuit), and "random thing" (Bingo). I tried to include nicknames from all of these.*

I first assumed "Catsmeat" was just a random compound word, which is where Fishbowl and Mousetrap came from. On further searching I found out that his middle name is Cattermole, putting him more between the "based on real name" and "smushing random syllables" schools of thought. I kept them in partly because I thought they were funny and also because I can easily hear Bertie in my head telling Jeeves all about his old pal Mousetrap's romantic troubles. I imagine there are good stories behind them.

Colors: As stated above, placements are based on memory, conjecture, and cursory searches of the text. Some are pretty easy; Jeeves likes neutral tones. Some seem more context-based or depend on the specific shade. Pajamas seem to follow looser rules for acceptable colors, so I didn't count them.

Clothing items Jeeves has approved: shirts in light blue, mauve, and "dove colored"; brown or blue suit; tie with blue and red domino pattern; brown lounge with faint green twill (The Aunt and the Sluggard); blue suit with thin red stripe (Jeeves and the Chump Cyril)

Clothing items Jeeves has NOT approved: Blue suit with thin red stripe, confusingly; green tie that gives Bertie a bilious air (The Aunt and the Sluggard); "cheerful" pink tie (Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest); purple socks (Jeeves and the Chump Cyril); scarlet cummerbund that Bertie tries to justify by telling Jeeves he saw someone wearing a yellow velvet suit downstairs (Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer (Jeeves wasn't swayed)); white mess jacket (Right Ho, Jeeves, but I don't think it was on the basis of color)

Jeeves seems to endorse blue and red on some occasions but not others, according to mysterious Jeeves rules. Conspicuous bright red clothing is obviously verboten (see: cummerbund).

There's little data available on green. He approved it once in the form of an accent color, but vetoed a green tie on another occasion. Might be shade-dependent or only acceptable in small amounts.

Lavender gloves and spats tend to show up when a character is dressed in formal wear. I take this to mean that it's a normal color for such, but possibly not for casual wear.

I couldn't find anything on orange, so I made a guess. I think it's a good guess.

I could only find one instance of Bertie wearing yellow: in "Jeeves in the Springtime" he tells Jeeves to bring his "yellowest shoes" and "the old green Homburg." Jeeves doesn't voice any objection in the text, but there's no way in hell Bertie got away with this.

The only thing I can find on pink (excluding pajamas) is the "cheerful" pink tie mentioned above. I decided to err on the side of conservatism and assume that all pink is a no-go, but it's possible Jeeves would be less hostile toward a lighter shade.

For expediency (ha) and because the clothing power struggles become less frequent as the series progresses, I mostly limited my color search to the short stories.

I cannot just casually make a fun little meme. It has to consume my life and turn into an entire research project.

And there you have it! Like share and subscribe, ring that bell (ha) etc. etc.

*EDIT: Some new information regarding the way Drone nicknames work has been brought to my attention. While I still mostly stand by reasoning behind the nicknames, albeit a little more tentatively, I apologize to Catsmeat, Oofy, Biffy, Pongo, and Bingo for misclassifying the origins of their nicknames. The former is actually a food pun based on a real name, while the latter four describe characteristics.

Yeah, that's right, my memes have footnotes within footnotes

#described in alt text #i searched all the nicknames on urban dictionary to make sure they haven't been used as slurs #to the best of my knowledge none of them have #you can never be too careful when you're blithely mashing syllables together #jeeves and wooster #jooster #the drones club #young men in spats #p. g. wodehouse #name generator #i've been hyperfocusing on this for two full days #i can sleep now

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gothicwill · 4 months

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Just watched another truly horrendous Hugh dancy movie someone pass me a fucking cigarette

#it was the sleeping dictionary of anyone cares #Jessica alba kinda ate her role up though #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannigram #hannibal lecter #nbc hannigram #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen

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coquelicoq · 11 months

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my ex invited me to go to the beach with him and his three friends i've never met, and i'm so homesick for the ocean that i'm considering it.

#what is WRONG with me #i have awayfromthebeachfortoolong disease #also i did not sleep very much last night. inhibitions are down. this is my weak spot and my usual armor is depleted #oh my god what if these people have terrible taste in road trip music #oh my god what if they want to listen to PODCASTS #ps the trip is this weekend.#four guys and one of the guy's ex-girlfriends who happens to be an awkward introvert #and requires two hours of quiet per day in which to read the french dictionary aloud to herself #sounds like a great idea #my posts