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sorry let me rant about downton abbey 10 years later

Thomas's conversion therapy plot pisses me off so much. firstly, it's incredibly out of character. he never wanted to change to conform to society, he wanted the world to change to accomodate him. the man who said "it's not against the law to hope is it" and "I'm not foul, Mr Carson, I'm not like you, but I'm not foul" would NEVER

secondly, from a storytelling perspective, the only 'problem' is that he used infected needles. did we forget that Thomas was a sergeant in the RAMC? he knows how to sterilise needles and how to recognise and treat infection. this also shifts the blame to Thomas himself for getting sick and implies that the conversion therapy itself is harmless (Dr Clarkson says it's just saline solution)

thirdly, it's not historically accurate. I'm not an expert but conversion therapy was not at all common in the 1920s, even Sigmund Freud was against it. hormone therapy and chemical castration were barely developing let alone available to the public (I can't imagine what else the 'treatment' was supposed to be). the only practices that I can find evidence of were psychoanalysis and electric shock therapy

Thomas also mentions that he did electric shock treatment - if you really want to make a point about homophobia in the 1920s (and make Thomas suffer as much as possible), show that instead. watching him be literally tortured for his sexuality would have been far more impactful than him just... looking sweaty for a few episodes

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Really been mulling this over a lot lately.

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Gah every time i rewatch Downton I realise even more instances of where Carson was just truly awful to Thomas. Especially where at some point it truly goes so far beyond what Thomas might have done at some point. And just fuck…

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Guerrilla Artist Fills Chicago Potholes With Flower Mosaics

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Star Party

Watercolor on Black Paper

2024, 22"x 30"

White Dianthus

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Throwback Thursday : Stendan. The day after Ste and Brendan kiss in the cellar.

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Baby fox steals fish from fisherman (🔊)

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Which is better: throwing Gaiman’s books in the paper bin or giving them to the charity shop with information about the allegations inside? I don’t want more people to read his work, I do want more people to know about the allegations

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ROB JAMES-COLLIER as THOMAS BARROW in Downton Abbey #1.01

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[ID: A screencap from Taskmaster. Andy Zaltzman stands in front of an open garden shed full of junk, with his hands on his hips. He says glumly, "I would say you're welcome but they would be hollow, hollow words." End ID.]

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This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

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Sometime I go through a period of kind of hating Thomas (right now it’s because I adore Baxter) but then he has an expression of the most potent and tragic early 20th century homosexual pining on his face and I remember that he’s everything actually

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jumpscare of all jumpscares