#Thomas Barrow

[sarcasmisfluffy]

[chahaa-piun-ja]

holy shit, now I'm thinking of an upsetting outsider!POV where this does in fact take place. to make it a bit better, maybe it's the same kind of mix-up that happened when Peter was presumed dead - they send a message to the death telegram department that Thomas died, the clerk gets as far as to look up whom to send the telegram to, the aforementioned scene happens, and next day he finds out that it was a false alarm after all.

of course, it would be more meaningful if (somehow) the clerk is one of the London Peculiars, who's been invalided out. Not part of Thomas' circle exactly, but someone who knew of them both before the war at least. someone who understands what it really meant to have Peter be Thomas' next of kin.

hello! I've been reading soldiers heart over the last month or so, it's absolutely brilliant, and the research you did into making sure that all the details were historically accurate really shows! all the references and asides in the end notes are very interesting and I'm slowly going through them on my reread.

I had a question, if you don't mind - who might have gotten the telegram for Thomas, if he had died? or even when he was seriously wounded? we know that the people at Downton only get a field postcard, and I can't think of anyone else who might have. I rather suspect it was no one - but I was still wondering, and thought you might know. thanks!

Yeah, I think he probably didn't put anyone on the "who do you want notified of your death" part of the enlistment form.

Although now that you asked, and made me think about it, this story's Thomas might be capable of the exact mix of sentimentality and spite needed to put down Peter's name.

I don't know how the death telegram process actually worked--and Thomas wouldn't have, either--but imagine some clerk in the War Office looking up who they're supposed to notify, and somehow figuring out that the person had already been killed in action when the recently-deceased Pvt Barrow enlisted. That's the kind of thing that would rise above (what I can only assume is) the background misery of a normal shift in the Death Telegram Department and fucking haunt you.

(Of course the type of low-level functionary who does the day-to-day work of the Death Telegram Department has no influence over the course of the war, and thus doesn't deserve that kind of punishment, but Thomas wouldn't think of that. That bastard, whoever he is, has a safe home-service job in London or whatever, sleeps in a real bed every night and has never seen so much as a freshly-severed limb; some bits of paper that imply an upsetting story are the least he has coming to him.)

[tinymintywolf]

ive been watching downton abbey with my roommate 🤡

[rowanoftheunknown]

People said the queer coded villain was tired but I ask my fellow friends, romans and countrymen to remember Thomas Barrow. No man has ever nor can they ever serve that much evil cunt swag and all for a show whose median age demographic would probably be in the 60 range. Nobody has ever or will do it like him.

[klazje]

i always feel like a gay little freak when i talk abt downton abbey irl to like. old women. they’re always like “oh…you’re favorite is thomas? the gay evil footman…?” YES THE CUNTY GAY EVIL FOOTMAN. god why is that so hard to understand.

[manyrandomfandoms]

tw: brief mentions of miscarriage and suicide attempt

the dichotomy of the level of stakes in each episode of Downton Abbey will always be funny to me. Some episodes are like

“Thomas is on the brink of being fired for being gay”

“it’s the actual World War I”

“Sybil could very well die in childbirth”

“Bates has been arrested for a murder he didn’t commit”

“one of the staff caused a MISCARRIAGE of someone from Upstairs”

“Thomas has been found half dead in a self-inflicted bloody bathtub”

And then other episodes are like

“Will Carson let the staff go to the town fair”

“who will win the flower competition”

“The cooks dropped the chicken on the floor”

“Sybil is wearing pants”

“Branson is still fraternizing with the Downstairs”

[galebucky]

Thomas Barrow smoking ❤️‍🔥

[kaaaaamii]

Thomas Barrow:

it just reminded me so much of him

[youbettertpwk]

sport scholarships were invented when Lord Grantham suddenly accepted Thomas Barrow's homosexuality as soon as he realised he was decent at cricket

[kidcataldo]

Thinking how future historians in the downton abbey universe will wonder if the crawleys were actually murderers, bc there’s just an excessive amount of deaths on record to make any of it look innocent

And like an entire subreddit would exist to prove lord grantham was some type of mob boss in the aristocracy, who killed anyone who wronged his family. The descendants of the granthams are constantly in the media trying to disprove these theories, like “no great grandad was just a guy… we think” but they don’t really have any solid evidence to disprove any claims bc the family took those secrets to the their graves

It’s so bad that people wholeheartedly believe he was the one who sunk the titanic and caused World War I

[sarcasmisfluffy]

Cause she knew him

[dirrymoir]

Thomas Barrow x CVNTY HATS 🎩✨

[downtondownstairs]

Happy 14th birthday Downton Abbey // 26.09.2010 // original Downstairs cast

[just-barrow]

😭🥰🥹😍😊

[much-brighter-ink]

My favorite part of Downton is actually when Thomas's job is almost over after O'Brien outs him and Robert is like "I explored many men's bodies back in my day at Eton... anyways CRICKET. WE MUST HAVE CRICKET" and it's never mentioned again

[lehnsharks]

Now kiss~

I rewatched s2 and it reminded of how much I LOVE the potential dynamic between Tom and Thomas. They had some sexual tension going on in my book 🫶 I mean, Tom had to wait a long time for Sybil