My Own ϟ

the point of fanfiction is to write something so self indulgent that nobody else has thought of it before or cares

What Downton Abbey really missed out is interaction between and so any real sense of a relationship between Cora and Martha. The only scenes they get together are general greetings or a group conversation and one scene also involving Isobel about Isobel's work with formerly prostituted women. Otherwise, Martha's scenes are mostly with Violet, but we see her also with Mary who wants her to funnel more money into Downton, or comforting Edith when she's crying. Maybe she manages to talk with Sybil about childbirth and how it's all arranged better in the States as she mentions (it still doesn't save Sybil); they fit in a brief exchange about Tom being a journalist now. But what does she talk about with Cora, her own daughter, who lives on the other side of the Atlantic, and married for a titled position? Fellowes never suggested an answer.

Yes, this is so frustrating! We get small comments and Cora being annoyed by her mother presence, but I don't understand why he never put those two in a scene so we could see their dynamic better. The drama is right there. We only got to see Cora and Harold dynamic in the third movie and, while I do count as a win, I'd much prefer to see mother and daughter talking/arguing/anything.

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

I don't need AI to write. I can create fake scenarios in my head perfectly fine myself.

One upside to being a writer is you can write your own comfort fic. The downside is you still have to actually write it.