#mandelbell

[nulabyaoi]

The Alastair Campbell diaries Volume one, 1994

Peter mandelson the real PM 2010

Mandelbell x gay ties through the years

[gayness-and-mayhem]

Can someone please link me to some Mandelbell fanfiction that isn't on ao3? I can't find any and I'm trying to put off doing coursework.

[kuningannasansa]

Peter Mandelson wrote an article about Brexit for the Daily Mail recently. Meanwhile, Alastair Campbell is on twitter telling people to stop buying the Daily Mail. Gotta love these two...

[silverview]

7, 26, 39 for Mandelbell ;)

hello darkness my old friend, let’s see if i still got it

7) What annoys them the most about their partner? Would they change it if they could?

i feel like i should just know this from canon tbh! erm. in a domestic setting: peter is annoyed by ali constantly tweeting all the cute/stupid/annoying things he says and does. he would definitely change this if he could and has probably tried to Pull Strings to get his account suspended. ali is annoyed when peter seems to love his dogs more than his husband, or borrows his massive jumpers and looks adorable in them

26) How do their friends feel about their relationship? Their families?

everyone is massively intimidated tbh bc they are the ultimate shadowy power couple. or they used to be. now they’re just the ultimate grumpy uncles in baggy jumpers who have all the gossip and are always down to talk shit about anyone

39) Who initiated the relationship? Who kissed who first?  When did they realize they were in love?

ahh well *leans back swillin vodka in a mug* this all depends on what universe we’re in. i tend to default to “they got together in the early 80s, having met through fiona as friends” in which case... tbh fiona did half the work in getting them together. helping ali work through the realisation that ok maybe he’s not as straight as he thought. persuading peter that he’s a nice guy, really. bashing their heads together until they finally broke the unbearable belligerent sexual tension in a moment of simultaneous weakness.

they both realised they were IN LOVE, like in a way they hadn’t appreciated before, when ali had his breakdown. like, “oh shit, we’re not bailing. we’re still together, after all that. I guess we’re stuck with each other forever then.”

[timrous-beastie]

"They are, of course, as ever, not really talking to each other, but sharing their thoughts about someone else..... They were the cleverest beasts, and probably deserve to be allowed to pat each other on the back, with tender hesitation, over the scar tissue."

[silverview]

uhhh, mandelbell space-travel au ..

"You know, of course, that I only keep travelling with you because it keeps me sane to have someone of my own species around." / Alastair answered around a mouthful of hagra biscuit. "I don’t know what species that would be, but I consider myself human, thank you very much."

(Aaaah thank you for the lovely prompt n__n I think they’d get along beautifully in the h2g2 universe tbh)

[timrous-beastie]

[silverview]

what is the Labour Party even for if not their glorious ho yay

things I find myself saying on skype after a disappointingly unshippy conference