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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wonder why there’s not much online chatter about Star City. Enjoyed it, and couldn’t help think of period drama icons Bessy and Nash when these two were on the screen. Wha a crossover!

Felix Scott and Anna Maxwell Martin dressed in Soviet military uniforms in the show Star City. They’re sitting next to each other at a table and are speaking to people outside the picture across the table.

Anna Maxwell Martin in North and South. Her hair is pulled back and she stands looking off camera as puffs of cotton float around

Felix Scott as Patrick Nash in Miss Scarlet. He’s looking up from the sidewalk and smiling.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The narrator in Nabokov’s Pale Fire

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I, for one, see the vision of a blond Darcy.

A blond man in regency era shirtsleeves and vest but no jacket sits atop a black horse, a cloudy sky in the background

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

When discussing yearning on screen, we do not talk about Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in Remains of the Day enough. #filmsky

Emma Thompson glances back towards Anthony Hopkins who is gazing out a window

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Reading an Edgar Allan Poe that isn’t The Cask of Amontillado and someone gets entombed

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Rob Reiner directed some of the greatest moments cinema, including when Carrie Fisher folds down the corner of the card because the man is married but puts it back in her Rolodex.

Carrie Fisher in WHMS, holding a roledex card

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Live footage of me listening to Prince While My Guitar Gently Weeps #xpncountdown

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Why does Richard Curtis think this about Christmas #loveactually

Screen grab from the film love actually on which Andrew Lincoln is holding up a white cardboard sign that reads (and at Christmas you tell the truth)

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Seeing the pink spine of the North & South edition I was part of in the wild is always a delight #elizabethgaskell

Bookshelf in a bookstore featuring classic literature

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A like for a comment I left on a Colonel Fitzwilliam fancam

A screenshot of a tiktok like that reads “oogly boogly btch liked your comment” and there’s a picture of the 1995 colonel Fitzwilliam as the video cover

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Tbh I kinda don’t want Sweetest Con to end, but we are almost there. Chapter 17 is up. Nearly 80k words of (hopefully) whatever this vibe is. #scarnash #missscarletpbs #season5whatseason5 archiveofourown.org/works/550995...

Eliza looking at Patrick with a smile and Patrick looking at her like he has a shrine built to her in his mind lol

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thinking about this passage, and how the question is just slotted in between paragraphs about Mr Hale’s friendship with Mr Thornton and Margaret looking for a house maid when the Hales can’t afford to compete with the mill wages and the girls tell them so.

After a quiet life in a country parsonage for more than twenty years, there was something dazzling to Mr. Hale in the energy which conquered immense difficulties with ease; the power of the machinery of Milton, the power of the men of Milton, impressed him with a sense of grandeur, which he yielded to without caring to inquire into the details of its exercise. But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

One of the things bringing me joy: when I see a series of likes on tumblr or kudos on AO3 from one user who just discovered the #scarnash ship. It’s basically this.

Four Squirdles from Pokémon greeting a fifth Squirddle with arms wide open. All of them are happy and excited.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It’s pub day! You can now purchase this new edition of North & South featuring a conversation between myself and actor/activist Morgan Spector wherever books are sold! “He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.” @sandtclassics.bsky.social #northandsouth #thorntonthursday #gaskell

A picture of a book. The cover is pink and features a top hat and a wide-brimmed hat. The title is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. At the bottom, it says “in conversation with Adrienne Garcia-Specht and Morgan Spector”

Picture of Adrienne. She is wearing a black turtle neck. She has short hair, round glasses, brown skin and eyes. She is smiling.

Picture of Morgan. He is looking intently at the camera. He has a beard and full head of black hair.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The first person I thought of when I heard Juilliard plans to go tuition free

Screen cap from the film Save the Last fast featuring Julia Stiles, a blond white woman, dressed in black pants and shirt, making a weird hand gesture while leaning to the side on stage as part of her dance audition for Juilliard

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Us after season 5 ended: they always write Nash off and he always comes back no biggie Us after season 6 renewal announcement: 😩 But hope springs eternal. Season 7 🤞🏽 I can already hear the little trills of his theme and the “bonjour Eliza.” #missscarletpbs #missscarlet

Eliza is perusing a book while Nash looks at her indulgently

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My ticket from when I saw Pride & Prejudice in theaters. #filmsky #janeausten

Picture of a Movie ticket for Pride and Prejudice dated Dec 19, 2005. It’s framed/the background is a painting of a regency style room.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

First time let’s goooo #mobydick omg is it called dick sky?

A picture of the book Moby Dick. It’s clothbound blue with whales and library stickers on it

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I miss the two months in 2024 when we thought Scarnash might actually become canon. #missscarletpbs

Leonardo DiCaprio in Don’t Look Up- he has his hands clasped in front of his face and he’s looking at someone and saying “we really did have everything, didn’t we”

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m back to being delulu. This show can (hopefully) go on for years…and we can still have this endgame 😂 #missscarletpbs

Promotional still from season 5 episode 4 of Miss scarlet- Eliza and Patrick say goodbye- he grips her arm and they stand very close

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This fb comment typo accidentally spoke to my soul. No more Netflix and chill it’s #grantchesterpbs and sedition now.

A fb comment that says “what about Grantchester and sedition?”

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The send off was poignant and soothed my #scarnash heart a tiny bit. For me, their relationship arc has been the most satisfying on the show. #missscarletpbs

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hotel St Marc was (at airing) an under appreciated #missscarletpbs episode and I encourage everyone to revisit it!

Eliza and Nash sitting in a hotel dining area drinking whiskey.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

One thing about me is I will not suffer in silence no matter how insignificant the slight 😂 All of my group chats heard from me today 😘

Screenshot of Miss scarlet and the Duke- Eliza sits in a jail cell with Patrick Nash, he is looking down and sad and she has her hand on his and looking at him comfortingly. He’s labeled as “me” and Eliza is labeled as “my friends”

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is a lot of words to say I watched screwball comedies all year #filmsky #letterboxdwrap

Screenshot of following text

MOST WATCHED THEME
Laugh-out-loud relationship entanglements
MOST WATCHED
NANOGENRE®
Chemistry, Delightful, Feelings

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Watching Hotel St Marc and treating it as a Christmas episode (there’s snow! It’s so cozy!) #missscarletpbs #missscarlet

Screen cap from the Miss Scarlet episode Hotel St Marc. Eliza and Patrick enjoy a drink in the hotel amidst warm lighting

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

An opportunity to post my favorite Victorian Christmas card

A Victorian Christmas card featuring four ice skating frogs that have fallen on their backs so their legs are up. The card reads “a hearty Christmas greeting. Four jovial froggies a skating would go
they had asked for mamma but she sternly said no
and they all came to grief in a beautiful row.
There's a sweet Christmas moral for one not too slow.
E. E. G BERLIN.”

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I saw this picture of this vicar from season 9 of Grantchester and now I’m 5 seasons into Grantchester trying to get to him.

Vicar Alphy leaning down to pet a dog- his forearms are exposed as he has his sleeves rolled up and wearing a watch.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@jessicabull.bsky.social So I specifically wanted this as one of my UK souvenirs because I love this cover. I found it on the shelf at Waterstones despite them saying they didn’t have it lol

A picture of a book- the cover of Jane Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

There shouldn’t only be one human in a Muppets movie. Otherwise you wouldn’t get the hot nephew and iconic blonde that spends Christmas roasting Scrooge

The nephew in a Christmas Carol- he is in Victorian era clothing, a festive blue coat and tie, and has his arms crossed and is playfully waiting for people to guess

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Goodbye for now, Manchester. I hope I will be back again.

A picture of a Manchester street, old brown buildings on the left and a yellow city bus on the right, the sky is gray

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m still excited for the new season of #MissScarletPBS but the thing that makes me happiest is how much Nash & his dynamic with Eliza has grown on the audience. It’s a total 180 from a year ago, and people aren’t afraid to admit they like them together! Whatever happens in S5, we still have s2-s4.

Kate Phillips and Felix Scott as Eliza and Patrick- she’s looking pensive and he’s looking at her like she’s brilliant.

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

On a train to Manchester feeling very Margaret Hale (except I’m happy)

A picture of well-worn copy of North and South alongside annotation materials: a pen, orange notebook and tabs

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Jet lag tips: get as much sunlight as you can at your destination The sunlight in London:

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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Woke up feeling the need to chat with all you wonderful friends in my phone. Wish we had a Twitter Spaces-like function on here! Bring back North and South Sundays and the time we all hoped on to talk about Netflix Persuasion and the tizzy around it. Can I join the next episode of your podcasts?? 😂

Two pane picture of a felt Kermit. In the first pane he’s holding his phone and looking at it (it’s the same size as him) and in the second pane he’s hugging the phone.

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