#John Barrow

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Started the huge task of going through John Barrow jr's 1864-1896 journals at the Weston Library, Oxford. He even made an index for them, good chap! He pretends his journals are ship's logs (Monte Rosa is his house)⚓️:

[saints-who-never-existed]

Episode Four: Random Rewatch Observations

1. Shout out to Sophia and Lady Jane, sticking it to Barrow re: Arctic geography, how far the Admiralty’s messages have reached, and his general condescension.

2. Their breath is visible in the air as they’re leaving the Admiralty building and talking specifically about Sir John. 

3. Jopson is hilarious even before his little innocent “Me, sir?” line when he first enters the scene saying “Sorry to interrupt!”. Like, yes, sorry to interrupt your busy schedule of sitting in the dark doing literally nothing, sir! Great stuff.

4. Also shout out to Little being very competent off-screen, already making plans to move Terrors over to Erebus before Crozier’s even thought about it.

5. Love Crozier just pissing directly in front of Jopson too – another obvious thing but it just makes me laugh.

6. I think I spy Little doing his patented Awkward Shoulder Pat of Comfort to someone as they all troop back onto the ship. He’s not in his slops a few moments later so it seems likely that it’s him and that he stayed behind to hold down the fort while they were out searching.

7. Another thing that’s been pointed out by others, but I love MacDonald’s annoyed table tapping – he’s so not in the mood.

8.  “Look out for yourself.” “Oh, I will…”

Like, oh I bet you will, Hickey, sweetheart…

9. Just a thought but Hickey’s “Who’s that?!” when he finds Strong/Evans on watch strikes me as unique. I don’t know if they had specific phrases or codes to challenge and identify each other when on watch but all I’m saying is that it would make sense if they did and it would make sense for that to be another thing Hickey doesn’t know.

10. Extra-gruesome to note that the legs and the torso appear to be facing opposite directions.

11. How do we all feel about Hickey’s whole spiel in front of the Captains, and the fact that Manson and Hartnell stay completely silent throughout it? Do we think he’s outright lying or what? The idea of them interrupting Silna in her attempt to take control of Tuunbaq isn’t completely outlandish in and of itself, after all – she tries to do just that two episodes later - and surely if he’s just making it up completely then the other two would challenge that to try and save their own skins?

12. Also have to laugh at Goodsir’s helpful “Food…!” when he takes Silna some ‘dinner’. Like, I think she realises it’s food, Harry, she just thinks it’s bloody horrible (which it is!).

13. I am absolutely obsessed with how puffy they both look here. Look at their little sticky-out tum-tums! Silly little Weeble men.

[lindahall]

John Barrow – Scientist of the Day

John Barrow, English civil servant, died Nov. 23, 1848, at age 84.

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[queenmelancholy]

Everyone’s reaction when they thought Thomas was leaving:

To them at Downton, Thomas is really a son, a brother, and a father.

[such-g00d-luck]

you know it hits hard

[muzaktomyears]

Paul came across in 1963 as a fun-loving, footloose bachelor who turned on his charm to devastating effect when he wanted to manipulate rivals, colleagues or women he fancied. (...) He had enormous powers of persuasion within The Beatles. He would get his own way by subtlety and suaveness where John resorted to shouting and bullying. John may have been the loudest Beatle but Paul was the shrewdest. I watched him twist the others round to his point of view in all sorts of contentious situations, some trivial, some more significant, some administrative, some creative. George told me that when he joined Paul and John in the line-up of The Quarry Men in 1958, Paul was already acting as though he was the decision-maker in the group. According to George: "I knew perfectly well that this was John's band and John was my hero, my idol, but from the way Paul talked he gave every indication that he was the real leader, the one who dictated what The Quarry Men would do and where they should be going as a group." This made sense to me because, from what I saw for myself in 1963 and later, Paul's opinions and ideas tended to prevail with The Beatles, particularly on matters of musical policy such as whether a new number was worth recording or whether the running order for the group's stage show needed altering slightly. I didn't see any of the others resist him. They seemed to welcome Paul getting his way by winning arguments with John. When Paul wanted something badly enough from Brian Epstein he would speak softly, wooing the man rather than intimidating him. Epstein's defences would melt away as Paul looked him straight in the eye. In terms of song lyrics, Paul's idea of romantic was 'Michelle', John's was 'Norwegian Wood'.

John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)

[polovision]

this is the funniest thing i've ever fucking seen. rob babygirl this is too silly

[javelinbk]

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Brian Epstein and Tony Barrow during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 5 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)

[artistamateurieuse]

another little something from my crow!Thomas au :)

[barrowdearest]

I'm really bored so CALICO CRITTERS AS DOWNTON CHARACTERS!

Starting off, this is definitely Robert and Cora:

Keeping up with couples, here's Matthew and Mary:

Ok, now Anna and Bates:

Now, you know it, my favorite babygirl Thomas:

I don't know what to tell you other than he is giving William vibes:

Too cute for him but this is Carson:

Now, my girl Mary:

This is Jimmy simply because he too is a red flag:

Finally, we have master George:

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Vegetarianism - what are we coming to!

John Barrow Jr's journal, 15 October 1884, on vegetarianism: "What are we coming to! To eat nothing but vegetables, and drink nothing but water!!! Like the beasts of the field"

Interesting article 👇, they even talk about vegan milk & cheese! I, a beastly vegan, approve.

Source: photos by me at Weston Library, Oxford

[dragonss-in-the-north]

I firmly believe that Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham is not only bisexual, but he earnestly believes that every man on planet Earth is just naturally bi.

On the one hand, he totally gets Thomas being attracted to men. Who doesn’t fool around with other chaps at school or in the trenches, come on now??? But eventually you grow up, get married to some nice girl, have children. That’s just how it’s done. So Robert simultaneously juggles confusion regarding Thomas’s inability to “get with the program,” so to speak.

And then of course there’s the unspoken, lightly simmering sexual tension between him and Bates. Robert “knows” it’s mutual - meanwhile, Bates knows it isn’t actually mutual, but he’s much too polite to ever mention that.

[mrburnsnuclearpussy]

Downton animal doodles pt 2

[onlylonelylatino]

Blue Beetles, Charlton Heroes and Booster Gold. Art credits: Keith Giffen, Eddy Barrows, Chris Batista, Justiniano, Mike McKone, Patrick Olliffe and Darick Robertson

[polovision]

happy family photo :)