the mary & lavinia comment ficathon

[dollsome]

a.k.a. the oltha_heri and oliveoyl and i get an excuse to post lots of prompts ficathon

It's a legit thing, okay! The world needs all the Mary/Lavinia adventures.

rules (?)

+ One prompt per comment. Feel free to submit as many prompt-comments as you'd like. The more the better! If you'd prefer platonic fic to shippy fic, just specify that in your comment.

+ If you respond to a prompt, include a title in the subject line of your comment if you are using a lj layout that has subject lines. If you're not, please put that same information at the top of your comment.

+ Okay, that's as authoritative as I feel like being right now!

+ Spread the word:

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Masterlist of Responses
My dear, my dear, it is not so dreadful here by oltha_heri - You reach out a hand, slowly oh so slowly you inch closer to the porcelain skin of her wrist, and then dark eyes are fixed on you.

with grace in all she offers by dollsome - You are Lady Mary Crawley. Cold and careful, soulless and heartless. Selfish. Thorn-sharp to those who would stand in your way.

throw over your man, i say, and come by screamlet - "Lavinia, what about London?" Matthew asks as he clasps my hands.

it's you season by dollsome - "It's tradition," Mary says. "It's barbaric," Lavinia says.

Scandals Bear No Meaning by femme_slash_fan (crossover with Upstairs/Downstairs) - The fact that Agnes Holland had stood by her good friend and, for the moment, only company at home, had meant a lot to Blanche Mottershead.

The Truth Will Out by femme_slash_fan - Lavinia had come to Mary’s side when she called, gently taking her hand, feeling the girl’s trembles and gently squeezing her hand.

Comments

[oliveoyl.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you you're my hero?

I CAN'T HANDLE THIS. This gorgeous spot-on Mary POV, where: OF COURSE it's her destiny to be a raging snobby bitch, look at her pedigree, she was BORN to rip Lavinia Swire to shreds. And of course knowing that as an audience member, and then seeing it NOT happen, was how this entire ship started to grow in my little heart. AND YOU'VE EXPRESSED IT SO BEAUTIFULLY. Lavinia the unassuming red-and-gold English rose!!!! aaah. IF CHAMOMILE TEA WAS A PERSON. you are perfect.

You imagine shaking hands with her, hearing her name for the first time from her lips. A few years ago, you would have thought her very dull.

This is so right, and so Mary. The way in which these women defy each other's expectations is my favorite thing about them. LAVINIA, SAYING THINGS NO ONE SAYS. YES!!!! That is why I fell in love with her too, Mary!!!

dollsome, you get me. Thank goodness for you. Thank goodness for this. This is how OTPs get made.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been Mary/Lavinia rewatching lately (as one does!), and there are so many gorgeous hints-of-elements of this relationship that I just want to pick at introspectively with flowery prose for a thousand, thousand pages. The softening of Mary's soul was so, so Lavinia-induced. Like yeah okay there's that Matthew guy too, but Mary admiring Lavinia in her own right is like an actual true canon thing and WHY DIDN'T WE EVER GET TO SEE OUR ADVENTURING FOR LADIES ROAD TRIP. ... Ahem. (My soul will never entirely rest, and it's that picture's fault. What was that???)

Like, I had even totally spaced on the fact that finding out Lavinia made a deal with Sir Richard to save her father/family from ruin was what made Mary really like her because THAT IS WHAT MARY IS DOING WITH SIR RICHARD TOO.