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downtondays · 1 year ago
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Teachers : a modern au
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Synopsis : After a bitter divorce, John Bates, a retired firefighter, comes to Downton to become a librarian at his friend, Robert Crawley's school, Downton Abbey High School. This new chance in life is even greater when he meets English teacher, Anna Smith.
cw : mention of rape, abuse, miscarriage, heavy drinking
explicit consensual sex scene
⚠️ M rated for sex scenes
Characters
Characters pt.1
Characters pt.2
Characters pt.3
Chapters
Chapter 1 : A New Job
John arrives to Downton High School and meets his new colleagues, but an old face ressurfaces.
Chapter 2 : A Love for Books
John and Anna bond over their common love for books. John is worried about O'Brien potentially ruining his newly made friendships by telling his secrets.
Chapter 3 : Wife or Not Wife
Anna invites John over at her and Mary's flat, and some secrets about his past are revealed.
Chapter 4 : The Plan
Mary, Gwen and Thomas teams up to get Anna and John together, however, an unexpected labor brings them to the realization of their mutual feelings.
Chapter 5 : Trick or Treat ?
Frightened by her feelings, Anna avoids John, making him miserable. However, boosted by her best friends, Anna offers the sweetest treat to John on Halloween night.
Chapter 6 : Sweet First Date
Anna and John starts dating, attracting other's attention on them. O'Brien makes Anna insecure by telling her about John's tastes in women but John has planned a sweet date.
Chapter 7 : A (Banna) Christmas Carol
Anna wants to sleep with John but she still has traumas from her previous relationship. A meeting with John's mother and horrifying accident, makes her question her fears.
Chapter 8 : Thank God and You (M rated)
Matthew is healed and proposes to Mary, which prompts Anna to share her fears with John.
Chapter 9 : Terrific Fun (T Rated)
Matthew and Mary marries and Anna wonders where she'll live now.
Chapter 10 : Journey to the Highlands (M rated)
The school staff goes on a school trip to Scotland, where a big secret is revealed. Anna and John works on Anna's traumas.
Chapter 11 : Mama Bates Comes to Downton (M rated)
John's mother visits the couple on Anna's birthday and tries to teach her son a lesson about love.
Chapter 12 : This Is My Homeland (M rated)
Out of nowhere, Tom and Sybil announce a wedding in Ireland. During their time there, Anna meets John's cousins and old friends.
Chapter 13 : I love weddings (M rated)
Summer holidays are here, and John decides to teach Anna football. Elsie has some good news for Anna and Robert and Cora are celebrating their 25 years wedding anniversary.
Chapter 14 : Anamchara (M rated)
John wants to plan a memorable proposal for Anna but he gets sick, and Anna tends to him.
Chapter 15 : Vera
Vera comes to Downton which worries John and Anna.
Chapter 16 : Back to the Highlands (M rated)
Mary gives birth. John and Anna get married in the Highlands. Sybil gives birth.
Chapter 17 : Truly ? (M rated)
Anna has difficulties with getting pregnant.
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audreys-hepburn · 2 days ago
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ANNA SAWAI wins Best Actress in a Drama TV Series | 82nd Golden Globes
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kidcataldo · 3 months ago
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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
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downtondownstairs · 3 months ago
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Happy 14th birthday Downton Abbey // 26.09.2010 // original Downstairs cast
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flowersandfashion · 1 month ago
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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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such-g00d-luck · 10 months ago
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you know it hits hard
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queenmelancholy · 1 year ago
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Everyone’s reaction when they thought Thomas was leaving:
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To them at Downton, Thomas is really a son, a brother, and a father.
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mysteriousscottishdragon · 5 months ago
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The downstairs ladies ❤️ apparently at Joanne’s baby shower.
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ivoirloup · 4 months ago
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So i'm writing about Downton Abbey now. That's my life ._. Futuring Anna and Thomas being friends BECAUSE WHY WE HAVE THAT FUCKING GREAT SCENE AFTER LADY SYBIL BUT NOTHING ELSE ?!
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thekenobee · 28 days ago
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TURN + Text Post (Part 5)
(crafting memes as a coping mechanism after finishing s4)
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angel-princess-anna · 7 months ago
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MAJOR DOWNTON ABBEY 3 SPOILERS!!!
Pics of Anna below!!
Source: with more photos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1903414833008187/posts/8396094263740179/
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velvet4510 · 1 month ago
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the-real-lordrisley · 4 months ago
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DOWNTON (specifically Anna and Thomas fans) TUMBLR!!!
I've been spinning around a fic idea in my head for a lil while of a modern day AU where Carson and Mrs Hughes are the foster parents to teenaged Anna and Thomas.
The general idea is that Anna is around 16/17 has been with the Carson's for at least a year, and is trying her best to improve and move on from her past. Whereas Thomas, 15/16, is very new to the family and is angry at the world for everything he's gone through.
Whether this will actually get off the ground is debatable (v busy atm icl) but if anyone has any ideas/scenarios/HCs that they would like to put forward feel free to come forward and share!!! 😁🫶
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kidcataldo · 1 month ago
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If downton abbey had an 80s theme song
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moonofthechilcotin · 3 months ago
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I'm realizing only now I never finished watching S6 of Downton Abbey 😱
A few notes/questions:
-When Tom came back from America to be the agent again, did he realize he was going to have to manage Mary / hold the family together?
-The car crash with everyone running to help. I was IMPRESSED at Cora's grip on Robert 😂 "You're not going anywhere". I don't know if it was said grip, or the clenched teeth but I could hear the "Yes dear" in his gaze 😂😂
-Never thought I'd actually end up liking Thomas Barrow but here we are
-Cora's so upset at Violet's cold shoulder. Our girl has worked for something like 30 years at this relationship, and here we are, poor thing.
-I want to be mad at Violet but *sobs* 😭 and also who can stay mad at a character that delivers line like "Your feelings do you credit my dear but you must never let tenderness be a barrier to a bit of snooping". And "Don't be mysterious, it's the last resort of people with no secrets" 😂😂😂😂
-okayyyyy I've excused Mary Crawley's behaviour in the past because her eyerolls are brilliant honestly. But Edith and Tom have a point. It's not cute anymore, hasn't been for a long time. Lucky she took great care of Anna. (And thankfully the Bateses are okay dear lord).
-The family going to Mrs Patmore's 'place of illrepute' 😂😂 they laugh but they support her ❤️ (for all the times Mrs Hughes or Daisy comment on how the downstairs people live through the family, the family gets so heavily involved with downstairs just as much 😂
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asoftepiloguemylove · 2 years ago
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suddenly childhood ended and now i am supposed to know how to live
Franz Wright Entry In An Unknown Hand / Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (via @luthienne) / Jenny Zhang How It Feels / Anna Kamienska Astonishments / unknown / Gabrielle Bates & Jennifer S. Cheng So We Must Meet Apart / W. Todd Kaneko The Day After / image; SZA Blind / Ethel Cain Dog Days / @darkerthanerebus / pinterest
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