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The Dance of the Chimney Sweeps
Oct. 7th, 2010 12:58 amI was watching the middle of Disney's Mary Poppins today, and my overactive imagination decided that it had a perfectly logical explanation for why tall, cheerful Dick Van Dyke is a Victorian chimney sweep when my spotting understanding insists that the job was usually reserved for underprivileged children who thereafter died of lung ailments. The answer? Fairies. And in that vein...
Title: The Dance of the Chimney Sweeps (Step In Time)
Fandom: Mary Poppins (Disney) (which I neither own nor vend on street corners)
Characters/Pairing: Bert/Mary Poppins
Rating: PG
Word count: 528
Spoilers: smack dab in the middle of the movie. Okay, maybe sideways from smack dab, but around there
Summary: Bert is more than he seems to the children, and wants to mean more to a certain governess
Author notes: Un-beta'd, spur of the moment, and sketchily researched, enter at your own risk. That said, most of the inspiration for this story comes from Step in Time (YouTube clip here) and a few details about luck from Chim Chim Cher-ee (here). If this idea haunts me, I'll figure out exactly what is going on and probably rewrite it.
The Poppinses were not known for their kindness. Indeed, in the bad old days of King James they had been known more than once to throw other magickers to the dogs to throw the witchhunters off their own scent.
Under Queen Victoria, the overwhelming influence of iron and unmagical thought offered them a measure of protection. No one was looking for the magic that pumped through their veins, and oftentimes they could blend perfectly with the working and lower middle class around them. They were clerks, craftsmen, factory supervisors and their sons went to school and their daughters married poor parsons and worked as governesses.
One of greatest, most fearless, and—remarkably—kind was Mary…
( More here... )
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Title: The Dance of the Chimney Sweeps (Step In Time)
Fandom: Mary Poppins (Disney) (which I neither own nor vend on street corners)
Characters/Pairing: Bert/Mary Poppins
Rating: PG
Word count: 528
Spoilers: smack dab in the middle of the movie. Okay, maybe sideways from smack dab, but around there
Summary: Bert is more than he seems to the children, and wants to mean more to a certain governess
Author notes: Un-beta'd, spur of the moment, and sketchily researched, enter at your own risk. That said, most of the inspiration for this story comes from Step in Time (YouTube clip here) and a few details about luck from Chim Chim Cher-ee (here). If this idea haunts me, I'll figure out exactly what is going on and probably rewrite it.
The Poppinses were not known for their kindness. Indeed, in the bad old days of King James they had been known more than once to throw other magickers to the dogs to throw the witchhunters off their own scent.
Under Queen Victoria, the overwhelming influence of iron and unmagical thought offered them a measure of protection. No one was looking for the magic that pumped through their veins, and oftentimes they could blend perfectly with the working and lower middle class around them. They were clerks, craftsmen, factory supervisors and their sons went to school and their daughters married poor parsons and worked as governesses.
One of greatest, most fearless, and—remarkably—kind was Mary…
( More here... )
End.
