#Thomas Barrow

[anxiousgayseeksvalidation]

Nothing will ever amuse me or make more more soft than Guy Dexter laying eyes on this melancholy, sarcastic, pretty butler exactly once before immediately deciding "Ah, yes. That's the one. That's my wife."

[galebucky]

Thomas Barrow smoking ❤️‍🔥

[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”

[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.

[tinymintywolf]

ive been watching downton abbey with my roommate 🤡

[theashesofthefirststar]

Women can be evil if they’re funny about it and men can be evil if they’re gay about it.

[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.

[kaaaaamii]

Thomas Barrow:

it just reminded me so much of him

[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

[just-barrow]

😭🥰🥹😍😊

[ebenelephant]

when usually well-groomed male characters are in emotional distress and their hair is hanging about their face bc the product has come out <3

[sarcasmisfluffy]

[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

[galebucky]

[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

[queenmelancholy]

Character Study of Thomas Barrow

From The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era by Jessica Fellowes and Matthew Sturgis (2012):

Excerpt from ‘Foreword’ by Julian Fellowes:

Interesting to know that Thomas’ character is based on a dresser in Julian’s past, in a way it really comes full circle 😭

And of course Carson is a ‘really lovely man’ lol