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@borisofroyalpains-blog / borisofroyalpains-blog.tumblr.com

Welcome to Shadow Pond. This is a blog dedicated to Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz, from Royal Pains. (There's rather a lot of other general Campbell Scott stuff as well.)  I ship Boris with Hank and it shows.
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Anonymous asked:

AHHH!!! You have no idea how happy I was to see your post! You went so long without posting that I thought you'd abandoned ship. I'm so glad to be proven wrong! I'm placing my votes for #2 (fix-it) and #4 (kidnapped). Because every ship needs a fix-it, and because I'm very much looking forward to a snarky Hank who's proud of his kick-ass pronunciation despite his predicament. Looking forward to the vote results! -Anon, who needs to get a Tumblr instead of hovering around like some creepy stalker

Thank you!  Your votes have been counted!  ^__^  I’m so glad there’s some interest in these ideas - it certainly helps with inspiration to write.  And can I just say that I’m terribly flattered that you’ve kept checking up even during my hiatus(es), and if you ever do get a tumblr account please come say hi!  I’d love to keep chatting and I know some other lovely people here would too.  ^_^ 

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Anonymous asked:

I survived 8.08 as much as any other Horis fan, I suppose. Half of me wanted to hurl the tablet at the wall, and half of me wanted to scream, "NOW KISS!" And Jill, bless her, is an amazing actress and character, but in that episode I was so annoyed at her and her stupid little engagement ring >:( Perhaps that's the cue for us Horis fans to write some fix-its... -The Anon who has continually checked on your blog throughout your hiatus and your return

Oh hello again!  I’m so glad to hear from you!  :D  That sounds like a pretty sensible reaction to me, tbh.  Yes, Jill is fantastic but - just - no.  Just no.  And I would read All the Fix-Its for the finale, so if you have any ideas… ^_~ 

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jadziana asked:

Hi there, I was wondering whether you could help me out on this one. In "Lama Trauma" Boris and the Tibetan boy are playing some game on Hank´s Ipad and there are messages popping up from some dating website. You have any idea what Hank´s nickname was? I seem to remember that it was mentioned, but I have no access to that season so I can´t just watch the ep again and find out myself :(

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Sorry, this is probably hideously late, but yes, I know: his username was hamptdoc17. 

In my mind, Boris teases Hank about this for the rest of their lives.  Not constantly, oh no, but every year or even every two or three years he’ll make some sly comment and Hank is just “IT’S BEEN TEN YEARS WHY DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER THIS??” 

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Merry Christmas!

Or happy winter holiday of your choice or happy New Year, as you prefer!  : ) 

No new screenshots or quotes yet, I’m afraid - I’m stockpiling them so that if work gets really busy as it did this fall, I won’t just disappear off the face of the internet again.  Ideally I plan to start posting regularly again in the new year. 

In the meantime, I do have a little present for my Shadow Pond family and any other Royal Pains / Boris fans out there.  

I have a few ideas that have been floating around in my head for months.  I’ve written bits down here and there, but none of them are anything close to complete.  So, for this holiday season, I’m going to lay out a brief summary and short snippet from five of these fic ideas and you wonderful people can tell me which one I should actually get down to writing. 

Everyone - and by “everyone” I mean “anyone who reads this post” - gets two votes, and the fic with the most votes by January 8th is the one I’ll start really working on.  Hopefully I’ll be able to start posting in February or March - we’ll see!  (The other ideas will probably be written eventually, but I’ll give priority to the one people like best and work to get it finished.) 

So let me know what sounds good to you and have a very merry Christmas / happy holiday / fun New Year’s!!  Fic samples under the cut!  ^_~ 

#Royal Pains#Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz#Hank Lawson#Boris/Hank#write the fic#my comrades in lust#our Shadow Pond family#ALL the RP / Boris fans#vote now!! get fic!!#i hope all of you are doing well and i promise i'll be around more in 2018
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jadziana

Okay guys, so I have this friend who collects autographs and has no problem writing to people to get theirs. I however have problems opening my mouth. Even at conventions, after I stood in line for hours for the single purpose of getting a signature on my piece of art. Anyway, I told my friend that I love RP and that there was some German actor in it and asked her whether she could find me his autograph address. Unfortunately she couldn´t find anything. She found his homepage instead and just wrote to him. This is what came back just hours later! Incredible!

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Aaaaahhhh this is so cool!!! 

#Royal Pains#Dieter Riesle#played by Dieter Riesle#jadziana
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jadziana replied to your post “Meta: Boris Trusting Hank in the Pilot”

Jeeez, I really like your meta posts! And I agree: something´s off here. Usually Boris doesn´t even talk to people to haven´t been checked out and turned upside down by his security. Looks what happens, when Eddie shows up? So either Boris decided to go by instinct for a change, or is totally faued by the fact, that some guy he´s never ever seen anywhere just acts and doesn´t care who he´s talking to ... tbc

jadziana replied to your post “Meta: Boris Trusting Hank in the Pilot”

( for Hank Boris would have been just another posh rich guy, "Hamptons standart" so to say, he doesn´t know anything about the "Royalty thing" yet ) or it is something like instant attraction.

(Ahh, thank you thank you!  I’m always so excited when anyone likes the meta.  I spend too much time thinking about these guys.  And Boris especially is just such a complex character, it’s so much fun to try and figure out what he might be thinking.) 

And yeah, pretty much his entire interaction with Hank in the pilot is very out of the ordinary for Boris.  When you first see it, it’s easy to write it off as just an entitled rich who wants this doctor to work for him and is used to getting what he wants.  But the more we see of Boris’s cautious, reserved nature, the stranger the pilot looks.  I think you nailed it as far as the possible reasons why! 

#jadziana#Shadow Pond replies#here there be meta#Royal Pains#Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz#Hank Lawson#Season One#1.01 Pilot#Boris trusting Hank so quickly is endlessly fascinating to me#(also sorry if I'm repeating stuff - haven't read the original meta in a while!)#(also also remember that if you disagree with any of my theories I'd love to hear alternatives!)#(aaaand remember that I love to talk about Boris like hit me up any time in messaging or on anon)
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Now, if you remember when Hank and Evan were first walking into the castle, I said make a mental note of the room they were walking through.  Believe it or not, this is the same room, which we doubled as Boris’s office.  And one of the crowning achievements of our production designer, Ray Kluga, for the pilot was managing to use the space for that dual function without anyone really ever noticing.

Andrew Lenchewski, Royal Pains executive producer and writer

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Michael Rauch: Do you remember the other people who were considered for Boris?
Andrew Lenchewski: I do. We talked about people ranging from David Bowie to Peter Dinklage, and when we found out that we could get Campbell Scott the conversation ended. I’d been a huge fan of his, loved him in The Spanish Prisoner especially, and then we met him and he just inhabited the role so naturally.
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Meta: Boris Trusting Hank in the Pilot

Okay.  I wanna talk about the first meeting between Boris and Hank.  Specifically about the immense level of trust Boris has in Hank almost immediately.

The first time we can see Boris is during the shot of the whole room after Dr. Silver (the current concierge doctor) realizes that Hank is right, April hasn’t overdosed on drugs, and says “a chemical nerve agent.”  Pretty much everyone clears out at that point, and Boris doesn’t step in until after Hank checks April out, questions the guy with her, and injects the atropine – when Hank says to call an ambulance.  At this point, depending on how long Boris was in the room, he’s seen a total stranger take over from his concierge doctor.  He might have been there early enough to hear Hank point out the misdiagnosis, but he doesn’t even know Hank’s name or even whether Hank is really a doctor.  And yet what does he do?  He sends Silver away and turns April’s treatment completely over to Hank.

Now let’s pause a moment and talk about Silver.  

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Bringing back some old meta because nostalgia.  Also I can’t go back through those early scenes without thinking about this. 

#Royal Pains#Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz#Hank Lawson#here there be meta#Season One#1.01 Pilot
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