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fic: "Village Gossip" (The Fast Show)
Jul. 21st, 2014 04:06 pm(Here's hoping I can get this posted before my connection disappears again.)
Last week I was sick and so I spent a couple of days lying around rewatching all my Fast Show DVDs. Which was nice. /catchphrase
It's been almost fifteen years since I first watched The Fast Show (it aired on BBC America a few years after it aired in the UK). It holds up surprisingly well. I still love the bits I used to love (e.g. Suit You Sir and Rowley Birkin Q.C. [Mr. "of course I was very very drunk"]), but it's clearer than ever now how much the Ted and Ralph sketches transcend everything else on the show. They're really something special, something deep and powerful, in part because like most great comedy there's a lot of melancholy in them.
Anyway, rewatching led to fic. I'm also contemplating writing some Ted/Ralph porn, because I think it's possible to write porn about them that's true to the characters while still being porny, but I won't know if I don't try.
No porn in this one.
It's also posted on AO3 if you'd rather read it there.
Title: Village Gossip
Fandom: The Fast Show
Pairing: Ted/Ralph
Rating: Teen
Word count: 1000 plus section headings
Summary: Ten things people have said about Ted and Ralph.
Notes: Ted isn't given a surname in canon but he needed one for this fic. Also, where canon is contradictory (about whether Ralph is Mr. Mayhew or Lord Mayhew, for example) I've picked whatever suited me best.
( click here to read )
Last week I was sick and so I spent a couple of days lying around rewatching all my Fast Show DVDs. Which was nice. /catchphrase
It's been almost fifteen years since I first watched The Fast Show (it aired on BBC America a few years after it aired in the UK). It holds up surprisingly well. I still love the bits I used to love (e.g. Suit You Sir and Rowley Birkin Q.C. [Mr. "of course I was very very drunk"]), but it's clearer than ever now how much the Ted and Ralph sketches transcend everything else on the show. They're really something special, something deep and powerful, in part because like most great comedy there's a lot of melancholy in them.
Anyway, rewatching led to fic. I'm also contemplating writing some Ted/Ralph porn, because I think it's possible to write porn about them that's true to the characters while still being porny, but I won't know if I don't try.
No porn in this one.
It's also posted on AO3 if you'd rather read it there.
Title: Village Gossip
Fandom: The Fast Show
Pairing: Ted/Ralph
Rating: Teen
Word count: 1000 plus section headings
Summary: Ten things people have said about Ted and Ralph.
Notes: Ted isn't given a surname in canon but he needed one for this fic. Also, where canon is contradictory (about whether Ralph is Mr. Mayhew or Lord Mayhew, for example) I've picked whatever suited me best.
( click here to read )
