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Edwin COULD, of course, write to Mr and Mrs Ross and get an incredible reaction from Alan.. 🤔

Addy, reading mail: it says “to Lord, Lady, Miss and Mrs. Blyth. Who the hell is Mrs Blyth?

Violet: Is it me?

Maud: surely not, surely anyone whose anyone would know /id/ be Mrs Debenham

Edwin, sighing: who’s it from?

Addy: hawthorn

Edwin: I fucking thought so. It’s me. I’m Mrs Blyth. He’s being an arse

Addy, opening the letter: and, you’re correct. He sends his love. Mainly to maud.

Edwin: yes that would be Jack. I’d say I should write him and call Alan Mrs Alston but I fear that would only result in Alan wringing my neck

My new creative writing project is suffering greatly from me knowing I will never write an enemies-to-lovers as compelling and loveable as Jack and Alan. I am simply too intimidated to even try getting anything written.

Then again, I really need to work on this ”it’s not worth doing if it isn’t great” tendency of mine

God imagine being the waiter trying to figure out who Maud is dating. Especially if Alan and Violet have already been mentally crossed off as one couple. Is it the himbo boxer who looks suspiciously like her? The actual honest-to-god walking ghost? Is the weirdly old grumpy guy her sugar daddy? What’s the deal here???

HELLO!

do you have any tlb headcannons for dates (both in canon and irl)?

what dates the characters would go on, I mean.

what would they do on their dates?

How often would they HAVE dates?

I can totally imagine Jack taking Alan on a date to a fancy restaurant while the latter complains the whole time. I can also totally imagine Edwin and Robin having little picnic dates at Sutton.

I know you have a hc about them going on a triple date, but I NEEED to know more of your thoughts. Pleaseeeeeeeeeee!

🙏 🙏 🙏

oh absolutely I do

immediately you’re so right about the restaurant thing. both modern and canon jack gets his way w going to some place expensive as Fuck like once every three months and is SO patronising about it (they pretend it’s a very long, laborious business meeting in canon to explain away why they’re passionately bickering over desert. jack is alarmingly good at switching from insulting alans intelligence and bloodline to his ideas about maximising profit without missing a beat when a waiter walks by). alan grumbles the whole time but it doesn’t stop him ordering the most expensive thing on the menu even if he isn’t 100% sure what it actually is, because hey, HE isn’t paying. he also enjoys getting dirty looks from everyone around him for doing something egregious (he picked up the wrong spoon or something) and jack finds watching it very entertaining (attractive)

in modern and canon they also go to the theatre pretty regularly, courtesy of jacks bank account and my theatre kid need to project. les mis is the staple in modern but they both prefer plays over musicals and just go and see whatever violet points them to. alan likes shakespeare (particularly the tragedies) and jack will watch pretty much anything (he likes to watch alans reactions when they see something he‘s already been to because he’s whipped)

oh robin and edwin little picnic dates is so real and true aswell, they’re basically that one maurice scene. edwin prefers the privacy of going out to sutton where it can just be the two of them though sometimes they’ll go out to london parks to. in modern they regularly go on little coffee shop dates even when they’re married (and still call them dates) because robin loves it very vocally and edwin loves it very quietly. they don’t really do restaurants because they’re overstimulating as Shit, and prefer quietly spending time together in more private settings.

modern museum dates to but its basically just parallel play <3 robin vanishes to the art sections and edwin is off in the history and science and they reconvene at the cafe to take turns yapping about what they saw. edwin retains some of what robin tells him, nothing so positive can be said for the reverse but edwin just likes having someone to talk at

violet and maud drag each other around london 24/7, going to whatever new oddity or show they can find. they do ANYTHING new, they just love exploring and spending that time together. they also do picnic dates that are a touch more extravagant than robin and edwin, and last a lot longer. in modern aquarium dates are very important and maud has a tendency to wander off if you don’t keep an eye on her

the triple date thing is Thee silliest shit in my head. it’s violets idea and she - alongside maud - are so enthusiastic that it’s impossible to say no. it’s usually in bars/sometimes restaurants and, as edwin points out, there’s very little difference between it and them just going out normally (“it is the THOUGHT behind it Edwin. The INTENT”). it’s just incredibly funny for them to see how the waitstaff interpret this very chaotic group who claim to all be on dates (people regularly assume violet and alan are dating, that’s the most common one. someone said something about robin and jack once and they haven’t lived it down).

Alan and Jack

Be meaner. I'm trying to cum.

Consider: Jack would do it even more if Alan acts like a cat in a bathtub, just to tease him

Jack is such a forehead kisser and I don’t mean that about Alan, Alan acts like a cat in a bathtub if he tries anything that soft with him I mean with maud and violet and Polly. That man is such a forehead kisser. He is such a softie.