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And the missed opportunity of naming the ship BARSON (or even TomTom, but ... 🔥 burn, motherfucker, burn 🔥) instead of Branrow ...

(@citharaposts this is for you of course)

The fact that Downton Abbey dared to name two separate characters Tom Branson and Thomas Barrow.

Brilliant. Astounding. Stunning.

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So I just found out Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale won't be in cinemas before the 19th of September in my country. And there's a grand total of 10 (TEN) screenings scheduled in the first week; only a single one of them being OV. And that one – because of course – takes place at an impossible time at some soulless cineplex monstrosity in some nasty suburban shopping mall that's all but impossible to reach. This is a city of two million people, and we still have a handful of wonderful little independent cinemas dedicated to showing OV versions only, I mean, come on ...

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• Dinner dress.

Date: 1926

Medium: Silk velvet, seed pearls and rhinestones.

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Things 100% of the fandom can agree on:

1. we miss Sybil

2. there must be gay cricket

3. NOT YOU FAKE PATRICK

4. Tony Gillingham is a bad lay

How's the Downton Abbey Season 3 related heartbreak going?

I’m halfway through season 4 now so I’m shouldering on but ughhh I miss Sybil and Matthew……Sybil was my favorite character before she died so I miss her extra :(

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in honor of the final movie and official end to the series that has spanned over a decade, here are some of my favorite unhinged moments from downton abbey

the family is terrified one of their servants is planning to poison a visiting noble but when they intervene they discover he only intended to pour soup on his lap

a character arrives claiming to be the main character’s cousin who supposedly died on the titantic, but has heavy facial scarring so no one is 100% sure if it’s him or not. he leaves and is never mentioned again.

a character is accused of a different crime and must prove his innocence every season for three seasons straight. one season later, his wife is accused of a crime.

two seasons of a character’s story are dedicated to her weighing they benefits of three different suitors vying for her hand in marriage. she ends up with none of them and they drop from the story entirely.

a servant attempts to make himself look good by kidnapping his employer’s dog and then being the one to find the “missing” dog. the plan fails when he LOSES the dog but still ends up getting a promotion.

a character is almost sent to australia but is rescued at the last second because he’s good at cricket

at one point, a character is about to be fired for blackmailing another servant, but regains his job security by saving his employer’s daughter from a fire

(the above three are all the same guy, who two seasons later loses his job because the family wants to downsize the house staff)

three different servants at the same house attempt a bed and breakfast side hustle and no one ever comments on the fact that they may be infringing on each other’s business

the same character is peer pressured into accepting a proposal from a guy she does not particularly like not once but TWICE because everyone around her thinks he’s nice. she has no family connections that would make this advantageous.

a noble calls one of the servants stupid and he responds by forging a letter inviting the noble’s mistress and illegitimate son to an important gathering. he gets away with this.

a duke dies in the bedroom of one of the main characters and to avoid a scandal they drag is corpse through the hall in the middle of the night back to his designated bedroom

in order to make his valet look bad, a character hides every shirt the family patriarch owns in the laundry shoot before a party

a character’s first husband dies in a car crash, and one of her subsequent love interests (and eventual second husband) is a race car driver that frequently engages in reckless driving behaviors. the character’s concerns about this is treated as something she is being unreasonable about and needs to get over and the option that either he could give up racing cars or that they might just not be suited to each other are dismissed entirely

a character communicates from the afterlife via a ouija board that it’s okay for her fiancé to date a different person less than a year after her death

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1920s Dinner ring of diamond and sapphire in platinum. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

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Valletta, Malta (by Ferenc)

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Most delusional Downton Abbey poly!AU headcanon: Michael Gregson lives, and Edith gets to have a city!boyfriend (Michael) and a country!boyfriend (Charles).

My most delusional Downton Abbey headcanon/ opinion is that if it weren't for Michael Gregson, Edith would've snatched up Charles Blake long before he ever so much as gave Mary a second glance.

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Isobel and Lord Merton 100% have sex.

"How absolutely marvellous" and then Isobel all but drags him back to his room to get packed up, because of course she would? Firm headcanon that she goes on a single-minded rampage throwing his clothes in bags and he has to stop her, probably by force (and by force I mean pinning her against the dressing room door or something). Because Isobel, this is romantic, and if you want to throw my underpants around, I'm all for it, but ... maybe kiss me first? Please?

And then everyone is absolutely scandalised that they would live together, uNmArRieD, for however long it takes to arrange the wedding. And they're both giggling like idiots assuring everyone nothing untoward is going on because they're old people while they're fucking like rabbits as soon as they get home.

While everyone is entitled to their opinions, sometimes it's not nice to voice said opinions because they are actually.... very derogatory. The 'I don't want to think about ["old" character] having sex" comments are in fact ageist, and therefore maybe Downton Abbey isn't the franchise for you, because most the characters over 40 have been having sex at some point, during the whole run of the show. People over 40 have sex. That's just how it is. So keep that stuff to the group chats, and focus on posting about the characters you love and don't worry about the characters you don't.

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And then, in 1930, Thomas meets that former gossipy valet friend turned shopkeeper at a high-end Savile Row tailor shop again. And the guy's all "So, still chained in that cave, are you?"

Because it's been years, and Thomas had no idea the former gossipy valet friend was working there now. So he'd come in all "Hi I'm the dresser to Mr VIP here on recommendation of Mr Coward and my very important employer requires ..." before the penny dropped. And the former gossipy valet friend (who low-key hates his job because while it pays the bills he never really went as far up in the world as he would've liked) was just ... sneering at him.

And Thomas goes, "Well, much nicer cave nowadays, in a much sunshinier place than Jolly Olde, and if I'm chained at all it's only ever for erotic purposes. Anyway, beloved caveman of mine Mr Dexter, what do you think of this suit?"

And the gossipy former valet friend has to pick up his jaw from the floor.

Thomas meets a former gossipy valet friend, now turned a shopkeeper or something, and the former gossipy valet friend approaches it as a "hey, I remember you, we used to be chained in a cave together looking at shadows... the sunlight's so nice, isn't it" kind of conversation only to find out Thomas is still very much chained in a cave

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And it's not even the first time it's happened in this fandom; it's disheartening. Remember the Bates' wedding night? When everyone and their dog was going EWWW UGGGH and KeEp DoWnToN PuRe AnD wHoLeSoMe No OnE wAnTs or NeEds tO sEe tHiS DiSgUsTinG DePrAViTy because Bates' bare arm was, apparently, just too close to hardcore porn explicit frolicking or something? And meanwhile the young and conventionally attractive couple spent half of their scenes in S3 rolling about in bed in various states of undress explicitly talking about all the frolicking that was going on and everyone was AWWWH HOW CUTE AND WHOLESOME TRU WUV GIMME MOAR :333

Bloody hypocrites. Fuck double standards.

While everyone is entitled to their opinions, sometimes it's not nice to voice said opinions because they are actually.... very derogatory. The 'I don't want to think about ["old" character] having sex" comments are in fact ageist, and therefore maybe Downton Abbey isn't the franchise for you, because most the characters over 40 have been having sex at some point, during the whole run of the show. People over 40 have sex. That's just how it is. So keep that stuff to the group chats, and focus on posting about the characters you love and don't worry about the characters you don't.

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Imagine Philip getting all jealous (and a bit heartbroken) because Thomas has so many letters from so many men. And then rationalising it all away. It's fine if I break up with him, he has ample distractions. It's not like I was his one and only, evidently. He probably won't even notice that I took the letters. Grrr.

Remember back in season one and two when Thomas Barrow had pen pals...

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Thomas meets a former gossipy valet friend, now turned a shopkeeper or something, and the former gossipy valet friend approaches it as a "hey, I remember you, we used to be chained in a cave together looking at shadows... the sunlight's so nice, isn't it" kind of conversation only to find out Thomas is still very much chained in a cave

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I like to imagine Thomas made a whole network of (probably/possibly gay) friends in service during the London season(s), and they all stay in touch when they return to their respective country houses. Always writing, exchanging gossip, tips, trends, work opportunities ...

Only then the war happened. Many of them died, or left service after. So that network fizzles out over time, because let's be honest, who stays on the work groupchat forever once you've changed careers? And that contributes to Thomas' loneliness and isolation.

Remember back in season one and two when Thomas Barrow had pen pals...