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Julian Fellowes announces prequel spin-off of Downton Abbey. Everyone goes wild in anticipation. When the first episode airs, it's just a sitcom about the monks that lived in the abbey before Henry VIII came around and dissolved monasteries.

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Instead of having maggie smith die at the end of the downton abbey film they should’ve had 20 minutes of freaky fifty shades style gay porn of Thomas and guy way more uplifting and in a way exciting to the geriatric audience who wouldn’t expect it

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Rob James-Collier ACT ON THIS June 27, 2024

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favorite downton characters as cabbage

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Velikaya has a special place in my heart.

ROUND 3: GROUP A

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... ready to spring on Thomas!!

“Rough and vulgar actors…Guy Dexter as Casanova…the locals might take a dim view…there is something about him…actors just plastered…the very thought of it makes me blush!…eating at the table where the King of England once sat…like a wild animal ready to spring…and now film people destroy other people’s property for good publicity…I feel nervous, leaving you alone with Guy Dexter…they are flirting with MOB RULE!!”

baby let the games begin!

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soo excited to see Guy Dexter be fun and flirty again

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This is so, so, so sweet! That's what I want for them! My favourite couple, they deserve the world. 🥰

I love the way you captured them. Their espressions, their relaxed poses, their lovely silk robes (if I see correctly, Thomas's one has floral pattern and Guy has palm leaves on his). Not to mention, Thomas's parting returned to his correct side! Bonus love points for this from me! 😆

Ive just heard about the news… EXCITE

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Should you write it? How is that even even a question...? Of course you should!!

There are not enough words in existance to express how much I would LOVE to read it!!

imagine the duke inviting hollywood famous actor guy dexter and his travelling companion former butler thomas barrow to a fancy dinner… something only right since he’s funding an upcoming film of guys.

guy accepting the invite before telling thomas about the offer and instead just telling thomas theyre dining with the duke of crowborough tonight.

the whole evening thomas is on edge and phillip keeps making little comments and sneaking suggestive glances at thomas, who is basically ready to run for the hills.

phillip gives them a tour of his mansion and when guy is distracted by exploring a room, thomas hisses at phillip and asks what he’s doing and phillip teasingly responds “well im about to show him where i used to bend you over”

phillip eventually can’t help himself and makes a deliberate obvious comment towards thomas that gives them both away. guy questions it and phillip pretends to be coy “surely thomas has told you of our past? as im very certain of your present.”

bc the snake would… and im here for it.

should i write this? …if it ends in a spicy three way, ofc?

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The parallels! How come I've never realized it...??

You walk downstairs, and find him with your eyes. You halt and walk on. But he's waiting for you.

Tell her she looks beautiful.  You’re delighted to hear it, but you cannot admit it. 

Bill Benson is about to throw away his life on the tables. Alone, hollow and without hope. 

Then suddenly he lifts his face and sees Anne standing there, tall, serene, graceful, her eyes shining with unshed tears. On an impulse, he snatches back his money. Rien ne va plus. 

The wheel spins. And every last thing he owns would have gone. But no. Her love, her beauty have saved him.

She takes his hand, and they walk away. Together. The end.

It seems you are my saviour.

And I intend to remain your saviour for a very long time to come.

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This is the least he deserves at this point. Let him be happy with husband, let them be handsome, clever and rich together!

you know, at this point I’m just asking one thing of the new downton movie, and that is to see Thomas be a rich gay in America and have him throwing gatsby-like parties and just be a bitch to everyone because he can and because he deserves to be a little (a lot) mean about finally getting a good life

special points if he manages to give Carson a heart attack

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Can't wait to see this lovely man on screen again.

Dominic West as Guy Dexter in Downton Abbey: A New Era

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I repeat: let our hollywood husband finally kiss (at least lol). All the happiness, glitter and diamonds for them!

both Rob and Dominic are returning for the third Downton movie 👀👀👀👀👀

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Thomas Barrow and Guy Dexter aka Hollywood Husbands will be back! I'm screaming! Now I can actually start being cautiously optimistic for this film.

I still can barely believe they got Dominic to do it (I suspected Rob would agree) and we will get to see both Thomas AND Guy.

Happy and in love, I hope. And let them finally kiss Julian!!

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This makes me so happy I could cry. ❤️

and in the fictionalized universe of Downton Abbey, Thomas Barrow is likely going to have a historical legacy—he is going to be known as someone who built the life he wanted when the world was entirely against that. People are going to write books and make films, and he will be in them! They will be about him, and about his life and about his love.

Gay people are going to talk about him and the films he worked on with Guy for decades!! They are going to become a part of the cultural conversation for gay people in the universe of the show. And he was so brave and so hopeful and has fought SO hard to be open to love even when that seemed impossible…and now there is real reason to believe he will be remembered for that love forever. And all the history and hope and community he struggled so much to find and hold onto will be something he will bring to other people. Just because he lived the life he knew he he wanted—in spite of everything.

And it would be brave and affirming and a part of the fabric of history for Thomas to do that anywhere with anyone, to be clear! But for us living in this parallel universe, some 90 odd years ahead, it feels impossible to ignore: when searching for names of gay people who found happiness in spite of it all, Thomas Barrow’s will come up. And it feels like more than a fitting ending for a character who once spoke of servant ghosts haunting Downton, or who wondered aloud if anyone would ever “see it our way.” Someone who was so painfully lonely and sought connection will become an example of gay love and community for people after him.

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It would be both. Clearly it would be both. And I would pay to watch every second od it.

If Rob James-Collier and Allen Leech put out a Downton Abbey re-watch podcast, it would either be the greatest content ever created or completely unusable chaos.

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Exactly!

so when are we getting a series about thomas barrow and guy dexter frolicking the world being gay and in love and attending ritzy parties so we can see thomas being the spoiled twink he deserves