Battleship Diaries Drabbles: Downton Abbey characters write about Carson & Hughes

[frakcancer]

For the lovebelowstairs Battleships contest (with bsg_aussiegirl and me writing, was it ever really a contest?) Diary entries with possible spoilers are at the end.

Comments

[crazymaryt]

I'm not sure how many I commented on or if I did but these were so made of win.

[frakcancer]

Thanks. Without the challenge I would never have tried some of these voices, so I'm glad I got the chance.

[bsg_aussiegirl]

So many of these had me in stitches.

Obviously my fav is the London housekeeper. I love the thought of stories about her. *snort*

I also like Elsie's just for the titles. *snort* And Rosamund's because she goes on and on off track!

But William wanting a pony...

btw, old touch typist here, Gwen. It's the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. *snort*

[frakcancer]

So many of these had me in stitches.

You're so easy. But you know what they say -- dying is easy, it's comedy that's hard.

You don't need to be a touch typist to understand some of the reason Gwen had trouble getting jobs. Really, a lazy cow jumping over a dog?

[hollywobbles]

Your command of different voices here is wonderful. I can tell who everyone is, what their position and role is just from each little drabble, without having even seen the show. :)

[frakcancer]

Your command of different voices here is wonderful.

That's the highest compliment you can give a writer like me, for whom voice is everything. Seriously, since I've started writing so much C/H, my inner voices speak with a Scottish accent.

[hollywobbles]

In Hebrew? My head's exploding trying to wrap its way around what that would sound like.

[frakcancer]

Hebrew's pretty guttural, so it sounds rather like Phyllis Logan reading Robert Burns's poems.

[fragrantwoods]

I may have commented elsewhere, but this got me going again. I want to give William a pony :-) And Thomas...so snarky-funny. Misdirection and left-about diaries...this was just great. Now I'm giggling again :-)

[frakcancer]

I am so happy I managed to pull off humor. I'm so much facile with the angst.

I want to give William a pony

Doesn't everybody?