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    Andy and Thomas struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other. S6 canon divergence.

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    Mostly unconnected stories - just me playing around with the characters of Renfield and Peter III in the context of their two respective pieces of media.

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    My modern-era Parkbarrow AU.

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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    It goes without saying (though shall be said anyway) that everyone alive today has heard the name Alan Partridge.* Everyone. But what about the hazy time before we had such certainties?

    What was life like for Alan before his moniker entered the general lexicon, before he'd made his indelible mark on broadcasting, back when he was wrongly assumed to be as ordinary as someone like you? (Imagine!) Which world events helped shape the boy who would go on to become a man who would then go on to do a great many successful and fulfilling things** before going on to host a not-hated, equally successful and fulfilling podcast?

    This is a series of insights into a younger Alan (and someone he'd later employ for purely price competitive reasons). It is an honest account of a Norwich childhood: raw and occasionally moving (though never out of Norwich). It is a look into the cheeper who would eventually become A Partridge.***

    *Apart from the deaf, who will have read his name instead.
    **For more details, please purchase Alan's three autobiographies - available from all reputable booksellers, and also from Amazon.
    ***Not to imply that he ever wasn't called A. Partridge - this is a metaphor about age.

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    04 Oct 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    “Do you want to marry me or do you just want to keep the one reminder of your brother in your life?” Alby feels like an ass, but truthfully? He wouldn’t have even dated Niall after seeing him at the clinic if he had known Ruben would still be fucking prevalent.

    “What? What the hell does that mean, Albert?”

    “Anyone can see it, Niall! You’ve spent the past four years talking about Ruben and your school years with him, waxing poetic about how much he cared for you and how you wish he would just fix things so you could be with your brother again. I’m the only fucking connection you have to Ruben anymore, or, I was. Now you have the real thing showing up at our wedding just to make me fucking scared again, to remind us that no matter what we do, he was the one that touched us first. He claimed us first and he will always control our relationship, even when he isn’t there.”
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    Alby makes a hard realization on the day of his and Niall's wedding, and Niall doesn't know how to feel about it.

    Day one of whumptober 2026

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    01 Oct 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    That should be me.

    The thought came unbidden, and it almost made Benson flinch from the sudden force of it rattling around inside his skull like a gunshot. But Benson did not flinch. He let the thought settle into the wrinkles of his brain, intrusive and correct, the conviction of it causing Benson to still, to watch the scene as it played out before him with the sharp eyes of a predator waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

    That is supposed to be me.

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    22 Sep 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    Follows Thomas' recovery following his suicide attempt. As the staff and family at Downton start to rally around him he realises that he does have friends after all.

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    05 Sep 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Alan’s Lexus goes into repair and this leads him down a road he never thought he’d take.

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    02 Sep 2026