Everything.

Too busy searching for beautiful things in the world. Downton Abbey. Cobert. Life's little things.

[madamspeaker]

Maggie Smith wraps her last scene on Downton Abbey.

How did the cast and crew commemorate Maggie Smith’s last scene? “She was so respected by all of the directors and crew and the other actors,” said Neame. “So I made a little speech about how it has been a privilege for all of us, that none of us will ever forget the work that we’ve seen her do. And of course she hates all that kind of flattering. So she was saying, ‘Oh don’t!’ And she was sort of burying her head in her hands saying, ‘Oh don’t go on about that!’ But it was true. I mean, it’s a real privilege to work on a TV show with her all that time.” (x)

[stevenrogered]

Dame Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

[its-because-of-his-lordship]

Downton Abbey - Christmas Special 2014

Cora and Robert

[mar-nu-falmar]

[rebeccapearson]

 l want to do something big and something important. You know, George, l feel that, in a small way, we're doing something important, satisfying a fundamental urge. lt's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace. And we're helping him get those things. [...] Pop, you want a shock? l think you're a great guy.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[johanna-swann]

Didn’t know the name for this, but definitely one of my favourite rhetorical devices.

[cora-the-countess]

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[nosebleedclub]

Tell me a soft memory

[lifeofbrybooks]

My oldest brother is 10 years older than me.

When I was in first grade, he took me shopping for new school clothes — which was huge because, as the youngest of six kids, I lived in hand-me-downs.

He bought me a little navy blue, polka dot dress with a Peter Pan collar and red alphabet buttons. But, on picture day, I lost one of the buttons on the playground. I had a total meltdown because my brother spent his own money to make sure I had this new dress and I ruined it. I was a mess, totally inconsolable.

My teacher was also the mom of one of my brother’s best friends. She told him, and he, my brother and the entire football team searched the playground after practice for my lost button. Which they actually found.

My brother sewed the button back on himself in the car all while trying to explain that he wouldn’t have been mad even if I did lose it.

It was just a button and a dress.

But I did have one of those little red alphabet buttons sewn into my wedding dress.

[hockeyheart]

that last line got me to tears, sobbing

[back-to-december235]

[radiolightning]

In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

[meanwolfs-remade-deactivated201]

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

[becausewhatiam-iswhatimnot]

to find later

[addiewho]

Here you can split circles into smaller and smaller pieces (I found this really satisfying)

Here you can have images of people point to where your pointer is

Here you can paint someone’s nails

Here you can grow a garden across your screen (Audio included)

Here you can try out all kinds of mind illusions (Trigger Warning: Flashing Lights)

Here you can see how many miles you have scrolled

Here you can watch a website load forever, although you might be getting enough of this on Tumblr mobile

Here’s a rickroll

Here you can remind yourself that you’re awesome.

Here you can throw trash into a dustbin only for it to bounce right back out (Audio included)

Here you can make sand dunes using sand (Audio included)

And here you can generate more cool websites like these

[boy-in-the-stars]

pinning thissss

[fiddlepickdouglas]

And yet more!!!

Here you can listen to a gentle rainstorm

Here you can make snowflakes

Here is a Line Rider feature film with relaxing music

Here is the entire script to the Princess Bride (many don’t need it but it’s fun to read anyway)

Here is an abbreviated script for the entirety of Book 1 of A:TLA that I made out of anger at the film that definitely doesn’t exist

Here is a playlist of the top 10 most relaxing songs ranked according to science

Here’s a site where you can make a dude beatbox with fun animations

[tuashenanigans-deactivated20230]

I LOVE THIS

*reblogs and pins*

[thesaltofcarthage]

“Here’s a rickroll” but is it a rickroll if it tells you it’s going to the video?

(I mean, it does and that’s great, just wondering)

[thegremlinunderyourbedhehe]

Savin this-

[jewellery-box]

[lawrencewargraves]

HUGH RICHARD BONNIWELL WILLIAMS b. November 10, 1963

[thatwasntaquestion]

𝔹𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕝 & 𝔼𝕝𝕤𝕚𝕖, “𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕁𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔹𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤”

True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people…together.

[abumperprize]

I love that you wanted Hugh to cry in DA2 😂 but I mean like same though, and it was so good! I do wish that we could have gotten some sort of actual declaration of love from Robert though instead of the comment about the beginning of their marriage(I loved it but it felt a little out of place, personally). Maybe I’ve been reading too much cobert fan fic haha but just once I want to hear some form of “I love you” from him to Cora. What are your thoughts?

I wish that the information about the beginnings of their marriage could have been dropped earlier in the movie. Maybe Mary teases him about and we can see how guilty Robert feels about it and Cora consoles him about it. It would give the viewer who has not watched the show or anyone who has forgotten that information and set up his reaction later on.

As far as I Love Yous go I loved "You have been everything to me. Everything."!!! It felt to me like so much more than a simple I love you.

I think it’s interesting that we get more declarations of devotion from Robert then we ever do from Cora.

"Thank God for you anyway." In S3 when the money was lost

"Just know that I have loved you very, very much." At the Red Dinner

I think there is another example, but it isn't coming to mind

The closest I can think of Cora saying something similar is in the first season when she assures Robert that he has made her happy.

Can you think of any other examples of them verbalizing their affections?

[its-because-of-his-lordship]

I agree with all of this. The line about Cora having loved him from the start seemed a bit disconnected, but it's the first time that Cora explicitly tells him she loves him, so I'll take it anyway...

Even with that disonance, I loooooved this scene. I think it's my favourite Cobert scene of all time.

Here is another declaration of love from Robert, and Cora acknowledging Robert's love:

"Two people who love her (Isis) and each other...", when Isis is dying in their bed.

"Your going to America to rescue my hopeless brother is an act of real love and I cherish you for it...".

[ohtobealady]

Oh, can I add something here?

I actually really think “Remember, I’ve loved you from the start” is very moving coming from Cora who NEVER tells anyone she loves them, except for Mary in S1 (only after Mary says ‘I know you love me.’ And Cora says, ‘I do love you.’) Even when she tells Robert in S4 that she cherishes him, it’s balanced with “rescue my hopeless brother” to sort of soften the sincerity.

It’s interesting that nearly every other upstairs character in the show tells someone they love them, usually explicitly so. Not our resident American. (I’m trying to think of downstairs characters…does Mrs Hughes? I don’t think, which would be a lovely parallel.) anyway, I digress.

I think the line is Cora’s very pained way of saying if he thinks their being separated by death is hard for him, that he “can’t bear it,” he should look at it from her perspective because she’s loved him for longer than he has loved her. The idea that she won’t have him for much longer hurts her more than it could hurt him. “If I can bear it, you can.”

What I always find touching — whether this is Julian’s genius (lol) or HB and EM’s understanding of their characters — is that Robert totally knows this about her! He knows she doesn’t verbalize her emotions, especially love. I think of his reactions to when she actually is sincere and how he always seems a bit taken aback . Her line of “he thought it, and he was mistaken” when she gets choked up about Mr Bricker / Robert in S5 makes Robert visibly deflate. The line we’re talking about, her “I loved you from the start” almost startles him! His eyes go big, like the words are dunking him in ice water. Her other line from the movie “and then love came … we have been happy, haven’t we?” when she begins to cry, Robert is so moved he gathers her up and kisses her.

If any line is the most sincere, moving line in that scene, I personally think it’s that last one.

Anyway! Lots of disjointed rambling to say that to me, it felt very in-character that she would say it in a teasing, volleying way. She is really bad at expressing sincere emotions, which @thedowntonhistorian @modernamericangirl @randomabiling and I have had many ✨discussions✨ about.

[rosalyn51]

Michelle Dockery and Jasper Waller-Bridge are newlyweds!

The ceremony took place at St Nicholas' church in Chiswick, West London, on Saturday, Sept. 23, with Michelle wearing a stunning dropped waist wedding dress by Emilia Wickstead with a long train and a veil pinned at the back of her wavy hair. [...] The groom's sister [Phoebe Waller-Bridge] donned a bright pink three-piece suit and elegant hat, with Phoebe's longtime partner, screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh. Michelle and Jasper's wedding served as a mini Downton Abbey reunion, with cast members Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael [one of the bridesmaids], Lily James, Lesley Nicol, Joanne Froggatt, Jim Carter, Elizabeth McGovern, Imelda Staunton, Allen Leech, [Michael Fox], and likely more there. Julian Fellowes, the creator and producer of Downton Abbey, was also in attendance. Since the end of the TV show in 2016, there have been two feature films, one released in 2019, while the sequel came out in May 2022. The Crown's Lesley Manville, former The Good Doctor actress Antonia Thomas, and more famous faces were also at the star-studded wedding. (People)

More wedding photos [1] [2] and [3]

[abumperprize]

I have already posted the top three winners of the Cobert Kiss Poll, but for anyone interested in how the rest of the voting panned out, I have more results (and more gifs)!

In 4th Place with 17 votes is "Good, now kiss me" from S4

In 5th Place with 13 votes is "Let's end on a happy note" from the S2 Christmas Special. (this is my personal 2nd favorite, I love his little chuckle before and what he does with his eyes afterwards. Another reason why this kiss is one of my tops is bc S2 was really rough on their relationship and this feels very healing. they have just done the more publicly appropriate kiss-on-cheek and then he decided that that wasn't enough)

In 6th Place with 7 votes is The Pregnancy from S1 (This one also has a special place in my heart because it is just so sweet and joyful and fluffy)

In 7th Place with 4 votes is Spoiled from S5

And the Participation Prize goes to "Are you excited?" from the first Downton movie which received zero votes...

[ohtobealady]

Want another reason the S2 kiss is great? That was all Hugh & Elizabeth, not Julian. The script calls for no kiss.

@modernamericangirl do you have the S2 script book?

[modernamericangirl]

Ha! Ask and you shall receive. 

Hugh was not concluding S2 with an arm around the shoulder. 

[dream-of-ragtime]

I said it before and I'll say it again but they very much are the captains of their own ship and they know it, too.