Live from Lime Grove, Bel Rowley/herself/her career, PG.
Bel loved the mornings. Before Hector could manage to roll himself out of bed, when Freddie was still asleep on the couch in the green room, when all the lights were still extinguished from the night before.
Lime Grove was quiet, just the tick of clocks and the clink of the kettle on the stove and the smell of disinfectant from the night cleaning crew. Fresh. She set her tea to brew and wandered down to the studio.
What would a woman know about comedy?Every day could be the end, she knew. Every day they could walk in and pull the cameras and the tape and the audience and leave her with nothing, but since she'd been born she'd known this was what it was all for. Laughter brought people together. Laughter was the lightning rod for chaos and excitement and the only way a woman could skate by speaking her mind was to do it while earning a laugh
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Laughter was the lightning rod for chaos and excitement and the only way a woman could skate by speaking her mind was to do it while earning a laugh.
God, I love this so much but I ESPECIALLY love that line. I love everything about this premise and how spot-on you've captured Bel in this role (the part about the applause sign was perfect)! I'm now incredibly bitter that The Hour wasn't in fact the tale of Bel Rowley's behind-the-scenes struggle to keep her sketch comedy show on the air!
THIS IS OFFICIALLY TOO MUCH FOR ME, OH. MY. GOD. It's like you crawled into my brain and found all the disjointed thoughts I had about this scenario and then managed to make sense of it and go one further! This is just so awesome, I want to reread it forever.
“Everything you hear in True American is a lie,” he quotes from the rules scrawled on the wall. He’s using his sexy voice and Peggy takes a large gulp of beer.
Like, I maybe gasped when I read that. I might be rereading this again. Right now.
hahah I'm taking that as a compliment!!! But yes I'm really glad I didn't disappoint bc this prompt is so wonderful and ahhhh thank you so much, dude!
(But yes Bob Benson totally just turns up halfway through S1 of this AU and nobody ever questions it and I'd never realised before now how perfectly this AU makes sense)
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Bel loved the mornings. Before Hector could manage to roll himself out of bed, when Freddie was still asleep on the couch in the green room, when all the lights were still extinguished from the night before.
Lime Grove was quiet, just the tick of clocks and the clink of the kettle on the stove and the smell of disinfectant from the night cleaning crew. Fresh. She set her tea to brew and wandered down to the studio.
What would a woman know about comedy?Every day could be the end, she knew. Every day they could walk in and pull the cameras and the tape and the audience and leave her with nothing, but since she'd been born she'd known this was what it was all for. Laughter brought people together. Laughter was the lightning rod for chaos and excitement and the only way a woman could skate by speaking her mind was to do it while earning a laugh ( ... )
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God, I love this so much but I ESPECIALLY love that line. I love everything about this premise and how spot-on you've captured Bel in this role (the part about the applause sign was perfect)! I'm now incredibly bitter that The Hour wasn't in fact the tale of Bel Rowley's behind-the-scenes struggle to keep her sketch comedy show on the air!
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- You’re into me.
- I beg your unbelievable pardon?
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don't make me write this myself
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“Everything you hear in True American is a lie,” he quotes from the rules scrawled on the wall. He’s using his sexy voice and Peggy takes a large gulp of beer.
Like, I maybe gasped when I read that. I might be rereading this again. Right now.
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(But yes Bob Benson totally just turns up halfway through S1 of this AU and nobody ever questions it and I'd never realised before now how perfectly this AU makes sense)
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