[lady-arryn]

costume appreciation: Edith Crawley’s wedding dress from Downton Abbey (costume by Anna Robbins)

[pointless-letters]

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

[pointless-letters]

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

[jemdeserveslove]

JUMPING GIGGLING LAUGHING CRYING 😭💖🤧🫣🤪⚰️✊✨

this is actually really really interesting, I love it !!!

[binarysunsetboy]

One thing about Rebecca is that she gonna fed the fandom like we are sourdough starter. Soo exited for Xaden threshing story.

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[profwonderbearthementalista]

Mary, Matthew and Anna in 3x02 Deleted Scene

+ bonus gif which wasn't scripted where Mary puts her wedding ring back on

Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes [4/?]

Downton Abbey 3x02

I love Matthew checking in on Anna amid the Bates situation! Also, Mary admitting when she was wrong and then choosing to put her wedding ring back on speaks volumes about her relationship with Matthew. Matthew and Mary look so cute in their nightwear!

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[profwonderbearthementalista]

Mary and Sybil in 3x03 Deleted Scene

Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes [7/?]

Downton Abbey 3x03

*Please note that these subtitles came with the video and can't be changed

I wish we'd kept this moment of sisterly bonding between Sybil and Mary. I also think it's so important to highlight how much pressure Mary and Matthew have on them not only to have a child but for it to be a boy than can inherit the estate.

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[profwonderbearthementalista]

Mary, Matthew & the Wedding Rehearsal in 3x01 Deleted Scene

+ bonus Thomas & Daisy interaction

Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes [6/?]

Downton Abbey 3x01

This scene is so so cute and I'm so sad that they cut the little girl being so naughty and cheeky. You can just imagine what great parents Mary and Matthew will be from this little interaction.

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[profwonderbearthementalista]

Edith's Journalist Career in 3x07 Deleted Scenes

Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes [15/?]

Downton Abbey 3x07

*Please note that these subtitles came with the video and can't be changed

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[qirarey123]

Painted lady x Blue Spirit??? In the year 2026?????

[intairnwetrust]

Folks we need to talk more about the fact that Ridoc and Aotrom are the same age and that they freaking prank each other.

It makes so much sense. 😭🙏

[court-of-secrets]

xaden as internet posts

[yelyahrodrigo]

Six times Xaden Riorson is the funniest character in Fourth Wing

♡ because my boy contains multitudes ♡

1. when he was trolling Vi right from the beginning

2. when he was fucking done with Tynan's shit

"nO, bUt I cAn NaRrAtE" lives rent free in my head

3. when he manages to lighten the mood right before making out with Violet for the first time

4. when he cannot contain his giddiness that he can now bother Violet without having to utter a single word

5. when he decides honesty in the best policy with Mira

6. when he is offended by breakfast

✰ Xaden Riorson, born to be a little shit, forced to be a revolution leader ✰

[nighttrashheadache]

violet: he’s probably thinking about other girls

xaden: I need to figure out a way to attach the tiny dragon to the big dragon

[clarkegriffins]

Avatar: The Last Airbender S02E07 | "Something Broken"

[riverthebooknerd]

"but why do you even ship them-" IT BRINGS ME JOY AND WHIMSY!!!!!!!

[atdownton]

Edith Crawley + happiness.

requested by anonymous.

[gordo--livingstone]

just started rewatching downton and i can't stop thinking about the profound loneliness of the end of the grand finale. it happens so gradually over the course of the series that you almost don't notice it; sure, there are fewer unnamed servants in the background, and we lose the whole genus footman, but it happens so slowly. upstairs, edith gets married and leaves and tom starts his new life, but that's the natural order of things. the deaths of sybil and matthew and violet are devastating, but there's sybbie and george and rose, so the show is focused more on the absence of sybil and matthew and violet themselves rather than the concept of loss.

but when the series begins, the house is alive. there is constant motion, constant noise, people constantly coming and going. there are servants whose names we never know, but who are always in and out of the frame, working in the kitchen and going up and down the stairs. upstairs, the family is whole and intact; the house is a home, where people live. there's the revolving door of suitors and parties and distant relations who come and go.

and that shot of mary at the end of the grand finale, standing alone under the portrait of violet, literally surrounded by ghosts, is so deeply sad. not just because we, the audience, are sad that the franchise is over and that sybil and matthew and violet are dead, but because the house no longer feels alive. it's now just one sad woman, her voiceless children, and a few servants left. it's a shadow of what it was. it's tragic and haunting. the estate is intact, and mary has inherited all, and the original problem they had been trying to solve since 1912 is happily resolved. but what's the point? what is the point of the estate being intact and owned by the crawleys if it's lifeless and empty? what is the point of downton if it is no longer a pillar of the community, offering employment and benefits for the village? what is the point of protecting downton for the future when it is so obvious it is a relic of the past?