Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Open Thread!

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Welcome to the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Open Thread!




(Thanks to cyborganize for the graphic!)

So many friends are watching Miss Fisher, tellitslant and I thought it might be nice to start a new (public) open thread.

Because --

* twitter is too short.

* tumblr is difficult (for some) to archive/track.

* it'd be fun to have my friends talk with each other about MFMM.

* I want to meet your MFMM fandom friends too.


Couple quick notes:

* don't be shy about using comment subject lines. If past is precedent, MFMM conversations can be sprawling and subject lines will help everyone.

* please tag S3 spoilers in your comment subject line.

* please post anything you find on S3! that one video is great but not enough. :D

* it probably doesn't need to be said? but, no character-bashing or ship-bashing. Be respectful of different fanons.


Post away!

Comments

Re: DOCTOR MAC

[cyborganize]

I'm actually going to put Phryne backstory questions into a separate thread in case others want to weigh in, stand by...

I'd be all over developing some fanon about Mac's backstory. Especially: How she decided to become an MD! And how she found her tailor! And what the lesbian bars/salons of 1920s Melbourne are like! She must have had some degree of privilege to achieve medical school – that doesn't seem like an opportunity a poor girl would have had access to. But perhaps she wasn't so upper crust that social convention would have been a great obstacle – new money from the Melbourne gold rush?

For the purposes of Phryne/Mac:
- it's implied that Phryne has been away from Melbourne since girlhood, so if they're old friends it's fair to assume they knew each other as children
- it's quite plausible that Mac was doctoring at the front when Phryne was nursing – they could have reconnected with each other in wartime or afterwards. I'm not totally sure how to work around Dubois (before? after?), but I'm very attached to the fanon that Mac lived in Paris for a while too and was Phryne's lover
- time spent together during the Great War and its bohemian aftermath would help to explain why Phryne and Mac are so close – when the series opens, they presumably haven't seen each other for at least five years, while Mac was back in Melbourne having her career and Phryne was living in England

The actress who plays Mac (JOOL) is the same age as Essie Davis, if that's useful.

One other Mac thought: I hate her wig! She has her real hair in the first episode, and it looks like they tried to match the coif with a wig later on. They're not giving the actress enough work to be the boss of her hair, I suppose. I wish they'd just let Mac get a haircut!

I really want some sort of Mary Sue fic fleshing out the nameless woman who kisses Mac on the cheek in the racecar episode...

Re: DOCTOR MAC

[tellitslant]

Yessssss I am absolutely in love with the idea that Mac and Phryne reconnected during wartime ('reconnected,' hur hur hur). Largely this is because I want to think about them BOTH wandering around Paris mingling with the modernists, like, a friend mentioned the joy of imagining Mac and Alice Toklas together, whereas if I were better at pastiche I'd be writing the lost Djuna Barnes novel that is not-so-secretly about Phryne... ;) But also I love the idea of them sharing that wartime trauma later on in the series - about being each other's safe space for those memories.

I was talking to M and I kind of like the idea that Mac is a bit older than Phryne - I know the actresses are the same age, but then Essie Davis has magic skin and I could totally buy about a five-year gap or so - so I'm playing with the possibility that war broke out during Mac's training and she was diverted to the front, there to meet up with Phryne again, many wartime snuggles ensued; post-war she went off to finish her training, leaving Phryne in Paris, and then met Phryne again in Paris for a while post-Dubois. ugh I don't want to do all the research this fic would require BUT I REALLY WANNA WRITE IT. and then they don't see each other but write very enthusiastic letters during the period when Mac's back in Melbourne and Phryne's sorting out her title and whatnot, and then the series starts...

I don't like the wig but I DO love Mac's hair, so needlessly fancy.

Re: DOCTOR MAC

[cyborganize]

IKR, research?!? Being in a period fandom is like the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I'm nerdy enough to care about historical accuracy but too lazy to actually look things up (except lingerie). What happened to my beautiful robots?? The whole writing experience has been extremely uncomfortable. I should make a links thread - I do have some good resources on euphemisms for sex/genitals. All thanks to counterfog, whose little finger knows more about 1929 than my whole body ever will, dammit.

ALICE B TOKLAS. DJUNA BARNES. Yes, everything about Phryne in Montparnasse circa 1920! I'm totally down with Mac being a few years older, and I think your headcanon is smashing!

I was just reading your twitter conversation about Mac's hair! I love it too - the original version. I love that she doesn't affect that fanciness for others or for society – the suits are certainly enough to ensure that nobody takes her for femme. But her gendering is dandyish and touched with the feminine in a way that you rarely see on today's butches (I assume that's part of your obsession with her sartorial choices). It's coming back into style, maybe?