Hm. Mostly what I like about Carson is Jim Carter. I'm no Downton fiend - I think my brain just latched onto that character as "butler most recently seen."
But I do think about the notion of "service" a lot: how it's an entire sector of the workforce no longer available (for good and ill) and how such people were the real actors/activators in a household. I keep making notes for extremely boring stories about magic being accomplished by cooks and scrubbers, not the pointy-hatted glitter-wearing wizards upstairs.
If I don't look out, I'll turn myself into the Barbara Pym of spec fic. (ha ha ha ha I should be so talented)
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Hm. Mostly what I like about Carson is Jim Carter. I'm no Downton fiend - I think my brain just latched onto that character as "butler most recently seen."
But I do think about the notion of "service" a lot: how it's an entire sector of the workforce no longer available (for good and ill) and how such people were the real actors/activators in a household. I keep making notes for extremely boring stories about magic being accomplished by cooks and scrubbers, not the pointy-hatted glitter-wearing wizards upstairs.
If I don't look out, I'll turn myself into the Barbara Pym of spec fic. (ha ha ha ha I should be so talented)
*laugh*