#gregson/edith

[lunar-years]

and you know damn well / for you, I would ruin myself a million little times

Part 24/?? of my ships x taylor swift songs | Edith Crawley & Michael Gregson

[queenmeriadoc]

Sometimes I wonder what we would have gotten if Michael Gregson had not died when he did, would he still be alive? or would he die in some other way further down the line? Would their relationship end horribly?

[autogeneratedkahootnickname]

It's something of a meme at this point in our family but can we talk about how Michael Gregson's death was so fucking stupid.

He literally says 'Oh I can go to 3 countries to get this done: the first is Portugal, the second one is Greece, both warm, decently stable pro-British countries that would essentially be a fun divorce holiday, and the third one is Germany, you know, the country whose government was OVERTHROWN NOT 3 YEARS HENCE, IS CURRENTLY BEING INVADED BY FRANCE AND IS EXPERIENCING ONE OF THE WORST BOUTS OF HYPERINFLATION EUROPE HAS EVER SEEN. ALSO ITS BEEN LESS THAN 5 YEARS SINCE WE FOUGHT THE WAR EVERYONE DIED IN AGAINST THEM, SO PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE DESPISES THEM.

HMMM

I WONDER WHICH ONE I'LL GO TO

But beyond that he. He fucking dies in the Beer Hall Putsch. I cannot emphasise enough how much he died in the fucking Beer Hall Putsch. Not only did he go to Germany, he went to Munich on the DAY the Nazis started rioting. Jesus Christ he really was Edith's soulmate, I don't think any other mortal could be that cosmically unfortunate

[legends-of-time]

The Journey of Living at Downton - Masterlist

Pairing:

Tom Branson/Original Female Character

Warnings:

Major Character Death, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Period Typical Attitudes, Cannon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide

Summary:

Emma’s life used to be fairly normal one for someone living in England in the early 21st century, nothing peculiar but that all changed when in 2021, at 19, she woke up in the past, more specifically 1909.

Emma turned up in Yorkshire, England on a mild day (what else) in the grounds of an estate called Downton Abbey. After literally falling onto the floor right in front of said owners of the estate, the Earl and Countess of Grantham, Robert and Cora Crawley.

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A young girl from the 21st century ends up in the world of Downton Abbey. Not a typical one where it is another Crawley sister or where she’s from a world where Downton Abbey is a TV show.

Chapters:

Chapter 1: April to Summer 1912

Chapter 2: September to October 1912

Chapter 3: April to May 1913

Chapter 4: End of May 1913

Chapter 5: July to August 1913

Chapter 6: May 1914

Chapter 7: July to August 1914

Chapter 8: Autmun 1916

Chapter 9: April 1917

Chapter 10: July to September 1917

Chapter 11: Early 1918

Chapter 12: August 1918

Chapter 13: October to November 1918

Chapter 14: February 1919

Chapter 15: April 1919

Chapter 16: April 1919 to January 1920

Chapter 17: March 1920

Chapter 18: April to Early May 1920

Chapter 19: Late May 1920

Chapter 20: Late July 1920

Chapter 21: Early August 1920

Chapter 22: Early August 1920 Continuation

Chapter 23: Mid August 1920

Chapter 24: Mid August to End of September 1920

Chapter 25: September 1921

Chapter 26: February 1922

Chapter 27: March 1922

Chapter 28: April 1922

Chapter 29: April 1922 Continuation

Chapter 30: May 1922

Chapter 31: June 1922

Chapter 32: July 1922

Chapter 33: Early August 1922

Chapter 34: May 1923

Chapter 35: February 1924

Chapter 36: February to Late April 1924

Chapter 37: Late April to Early May 1924

Chapter 38: Summer 1924

Chapter 39: September 1924

Chapter 40: Late September 1924

Chapter 41: Late September to Early October 1924

Chapter 42: Mid to Late October 1924

Chapter 43: November to December 1924

Chapter 44: January to Early May 1925

Chapter 45: Mid May 1925

Chapter 46: Mid to Late May 1925

Chapter 47: June 1925

Chapter 48: July 1925

Chapter 49: August 1925

Chapter 50: September to December 1925

Chapter 51: July 1927

Chapter 52: April 1928 to January 1929

Children of Downton - Spoilers!!!

Just a little additional post explaining when the children born during the show were born and parents. Not that important but if anyone wants to keep track, it’s here rather than sifting through chapters.

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[kehlana-wolhamonao3]

Story: It Tolls For Thee

Cora and Martha get shocking news, the Crawleys plot, Rose is sulking and Matthew is in desperate need of tea and cake away from it all, as Edith finally makes the decision for her future.

[whenthegoldrays]

Sybil, anything involving Sybil, best girl in the world <3

On that note, Gwen’s success story (and her brief return in s5!)

Tom’s entire arc (except for the thing with Edna... and with Miss Bunting probably)

Mary and Matthew in seasons 1 and 3 (not 2, we don't talk about s2)

Isobel and Violet's entire enemies to besties arc and friendship

Anna and Mr. Bates in seasons 1 and 6

Daisy and Mr. Mason’s chosen family story

Daisy and Alfred but specifically the scene where they part ways in season 4, the maturity and warmth there

MRS. LEVINSON AND HAROLD

Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson in seasons 1 through 5 (because being perfectly honest, they were kind of annoying post-marriage)

Isobel and Lord Merton (yes, they won me over)

Rose and Atticus!!!!!

Miss Baxter, full stop

Mr. Molesley's multi-season arc of finding his own place in the world

Edith and Bertie’s romance

Cora getting involved with the hospital

Just Mrs. Patmore. in general.

Thomas’s redemption arc

Cora and Robert in season 6 specifically

George and Sybbie (them in general and also Thomas’s friendship with them

I don't know if I'm capable of ever sitting through the entirety of Downton Abbey again, but man there were some very Good and Valid and True things in there amidst the mess that I'd like to experience again

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[tresapes]

Short Mary & Matthew ficlet #2

Prompt: Matthew tells Mary the truth about Gregson

"He's married?!"

"Yes."

"And he's after Edith?!"

"Yes."

"And his wife is in an insane asylum?"

"Yes."

Matthew looked at his wife and for the first time in a long while, he couldn't read her. There was a thunderous look on her face, but he wasn't certain if it was anger, or indignation, or just the shock of what he'd jus revealed to her about Mr Gregson's situation as it relates to Edith. God knows Matthew had a hard time accepting the man's story and he'd heard it come out of him in a stream of regret (and delusion) that couldn't have been manufactured. And had no reason to be so, really.

Mary was still lost in her head, and he took her hand in his. She'd only given birth a week ago, maybe he shouldn't have told her just yet, why upset her over Edith's troubles?

"You know of course that I'll look out for her? We can handle this ourselves because obviously we can't tell your father.

"Lord no."

Matthew nodded "He'll give himself a heart attack. Or find a way to get Gregson murdered." He offered as reassurance, hoping to get her to relax against him as she had before.

"Like in a house fire?" were the words that came out of Mary's mouth, and Matthew frowned.

"What do you mean?"

She turned to him, suddenly a mirthful look in her eyes, curls framing her face so beautifully he had a hard time remembering why exactly they were talking about this in bed when they should be curled up like kittens. He was completely lost in his sappy thoughts when Mary spoke:

"Darling. Please. Tell me you've noticed the resemblance."

"What resemblance?"

"The tragic man. With the demented wife. Trying to get an unmarried woman to involve herself with him. My father seeking revenge with a burning passion."

He was sure she could see him connecting the dots in his head because she suddenly burst out laughing, and he had to cover his face with his hands. Because of course. Of course.

He let her calm herself down, and couldn't help the smirk on his face throughout, but once she settled again he gently reminded her of the seriousness of the situation "Darling please. Don't... mention this to Edith. We'll have enough trouble persuading her to drop him as it is."

"Without her seeing herself as the tragic heroine of a romance novel, you mean?"

He heard himself laugh and instantly regretted it, because it set off Mary's laughter.

"You mustn't joke." He was a hypocrite and he knew it. He was laughing himself.

"I know. Which is why, darling, you have to make excuses for me tomorrow."

"What do you mean?"

"I cannot possibly come downstairs to greet him. I don't know if it's the baby, but I'm feeling quite overwhelmed. I might laugh in his face! Or call him Mr Rochester by mistake."

Matthew huffed "Do you know after this conversation I might have the same problem."

Mary shook her head "God. We need a good reason. Maybe George was colicky and kept us up all night."

"You want to use our son as an excuse?!"

"He has to start pulling his weight, Matthew! He'll be Lord Grantham one day, I'm sure he'll understand."

"Well. You're nursing, so you can't be separate from him for long."

"No, of course not."

"And I'm devoted to you, so I wouldn't leave you to deal with a crying baby on your own."

"Absolutely not."

"Well then. I think your parents will have to deal with Mr Rochester by themselves tomorrow."

He did manage to get her to relax and go to sleep. After another round of giggles.

[chicago-geniza]

Okay. Here are my Downton Abbey sexuality beliefs. Robert and Cora are both bisexual and half in love with their respective body servants but oblivious to this because of heteronormativity and the class system. Rosamund is bisexual and had fairly frequent, plausibly deniable amorous experiences with Cora during the first year of her marriage before Robert fell in love with her. Mary and Lavinia should have stopped competing over Matthew and run away together. As that one post put it, Sybil didn't need Branson, she was just a class traitor at heart and needed to march with suffragettes and hook up with a university-educated lesbian. Edith needs to inherit Michael Gregson's apartment and live in it with the woman she hires as her co-editor at The Sketch, where they raise Marigold together in the midst of the Bloombury set. Downton Abbey Lesbian Continuum

[eolewyn1010]

Downton Abbey Fashion 51 - outdoors fashion in 1924

I actually don’t have mourning dresses for this season (except Edith wears some unofficial black when she finally gets the death news about Michael Gregson, but that’s not enough to warrant an entire post), so we’ll jump right into the coats and walking suits.

Violet in a glorious, rich plum shade introduces her coats of this season as mostly going without the furs she used to flaunt so happily, although not lacking in gravitas for it. In this case, the big folded lapels do the job, or should I say lapel because this is going a little into asymmetry. Plus I haven’t seen this pretty hat before, a sweet velvet number with a floofy feather and a hatband embroidered in gold and purple shades.

I won’t ever be a great fan of the dusty Crawley purple, but the piping work on this is really nice, especially the slanting part on the lower part of the coat. But it actually took me until now to ask: With this fashionable style of the 1920s that leaves a deep V in the front and only has a closure at the hip, wouldn’t they want to wear scarves in certain weather? I imagine it can get a bit cold on neck and chest. Her hat has a nice flowery wrap; she could match the scarf to it.

Familiar hat in this one, new coat. This could possibly be a little blueish, but I think I’ll just go with calling it grey. It looks nice and comfortable, but it’s not doing much beside the mandala-like embroidery on the lapels. Violet sure seems to think it fancy enough to wear it as a wedding guest in season 6, although she does get another fancy hat with plumage and sparkly flowers for the occasion.

Heh, this is a coat we’ve actually seen before. We haven’t seen much of it, so it took me a moment to realize – Violet wore this tweed for a hunting expedition in the Highlands at the end of season 3; the glen check is the same. It’s just that she was in her furs phase then, so this is the first time I see this lovely collar with the plum velvet lining on the lapels. It’s such a nice backdrop for little golden brooches, too! Violet tops it off with a chestnut velvet hat, and the whole look is so neat.

The hat in the first picture hat is one she’s already worn for her garden outfit at the end of season 4, but here it shows a very pretty effect of the translucent brim: Certain light can give Violet a sort of soft golden halo. Since it’s entirely contrary to her snarky and “I’m old enough to have seen literally everything” character, I assume it’s not on purpose, so I’ll enjoy the look without tacked-on symbolism. Also, obviously, another coat, this one in dusty blue and with some white lace on the lapels. I think this little peaked design that repeats on the cuffs and pocket flaps is really lovely. Violet definitely thinks this nice enough to repeat the look for Rose’s wedding, and she gets more wear out of this in season 6.

Help me, meander; you’re my only hope! As I drown in lilac fabrics… It’s a nice enough coat, but without the collar embroidery, it wouldn’t warrant a second look, and certainly not be kept on for season 6 when it’s one of Violet’s go-to coats. The hats are a little better, working out something more intricate with the feathers and applications.

Now that we’re on a walking dress, I should finally address the most remarkable change to Violet’s wardrobe this season: She largely leaves the high collars behind. From now on, her neckline is mostly at the base of her neck instead of just under her chin. Perhaps that’s what had me thinking about scarves. Is this dress more blue or more purple? Does it matter with these dusty shades? I like how the yoke is made up here, two curves of pin tucks layering over each other. And there’s the embroidery strip down the length, black and blue and golden to pop a little.

And now finally for a saturated color: This gorgeous blue coat that’s just a mass of velvet with not much shaping below the shoulders and sleeves because one, this is the 1920s, and two, Violet can afford this amount of velvet. I love this, I want this. Also, fur has a little comeback with that black stola Violet adds to the coat in the second picture. Violet also uses the coat to prompt her memory about an ice blue velvet dress with silver lace that she wore the evening when her ill-fated little romance with a Russian nobleman began, presumably an evening gown in 1870s or 1880s style – would have loved to see that one.

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Isobel looks so exasperated here; I bet she’s talking to Violet. Pretty solid coat; could do with some shaping, but we can’t have that in this decade. I complain about grey a lot, but the tweed is a thing of beauty. And the lining that peeks out at the collar seems to be brown velvet, which is nice and a little extra on a coat that doesn’t much beside perpendicular-running pin tucks. When she wears the coat again in season 6, I’m not sure if she has a new hat that looks a lot like the first, or she just pinned a little pleated fabric star to the hat she already had.

Another pretty hat in the second picture here; the leaves design is lovely. And I get more blue because Isobel and Violet have synced up at this point. This is the sort of coat I would wear myself in an instant, not ostentatious, but nice to look at, with a clean cut and a pretty collar with a bit of subtle embroidery. Isobel wears it a lot in season 6.

Velvet for everyone! Okay, I’m really weak for this deep red velvet in particular. This is a beautiful walking suit, although part of me thinks she should have chosen a matte hat with this. But anyway. Like Violet’s coat, this isn’t doing anything fancy with the cut; it doesn’t even have lapels or a collar because shiny fabric, you guys. And we celebrate the return of Isobel’s little flower-shaped shell brooch.

Isobel likes dark red and she likes walking suits, so she gets another one right away. Since this one is not as shiny as the velvet suit, it can get away with a small piping motif on the trim and even a hat matching in color. Luckily, this is a suit Isobel repeats in season 6, and she adds some extra nice decoration to her hat. The white shirt she wears under this, either lace or something with whitework all over, seems to always be the same. She probably looked at this at some point and went, “yup, this shirt with this suit, forever and ever, amen.”

This one is a very simple outfit and not exactly made as a match; it looks more like a worn coat and a simple skirt that Isobel doesn’t mind wearing when working in the garden. Everything is a little crinkly, including the hat, and she looks rather comfy. It is apparently also a look fit for receiving a proposal. Now I’m trying to remember if the coat is a leftover from an older outfit, but since I can’t pin it down, just take it as it is.

Last but not least, a walking dress; Isobel shows up in blue. Somehow, the second picture makes this look like it has a little much going on. The brown embroidery, white lace trim, the pin tucks in the the front V, spirals here and pointed cuffs there… I think the front of the dress would have profited from not putting in those extra seams running over the front of the shoulders. I cannot imagine that they had to rely on piecing there; this is a structural seam, and it does the bit of ruffling that my brain takes in as Too Much.

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And since Lady Shackleton drops by, we’ll have a quick look at her outfit, too. She’s got some brown-golden gown peeking out there that has a high waist seam and a gathered skirt falling beneath it because Lady Shackleton doesn’t know contemporary fashions, but mainly, she’s wearing that black fur cape…because she doesn’t know contemporary fashions and is filthy rich.

[sir-griswold-of-macelwain]

the problem with writing Hercule Poirot x Downton Abbey crossovers which attempt to be somewhat canon compliant to DA is that there is absolutely no way Hastings wouldn't fall madly in love with Edith five minutes after meeting her, propose at the end of the investigation, and get accepted unless it's in the narrow window of time during which 1) Edith is getting in a relationship with Gregson and doesn't know he's dead for sure yet 2) she's already been proposed to by Bertie.

[byeletty]

on this evening's edition of Tiny Mary x Matthew Moments I'm Obsessed With - the moment when Edith says Mary is being nasty about Michael Gregson and Matthew takes Edith's side but Mary's hand to settle her down. And then he looks at her and she looks at him and they don't say anything but also they say everything? He is saying "I love you with my entire being but this is not a battle to fight" and she's saying "you're so cute when you're taking the moral high ground but also you're going to make this up to me later"

[ramblings-of-lola]

Here's some thoughts on Downton Abbey S4

Edith being a mother was a plot point I didn't expect, but it was interesting. She carries her pregnancy and Gregson's disappearance alone for the most part. I'm glad she decided not to abort the baby but seeing how hard it was to give her up was heartbreaking. I'm glad that Edith's aunt was still supportive of Edith no matter her choice with the pregnancy.

Mary's stupid love triangle I hate. Just because she's healing a little from Matthew's death and finding purpose does not mean she needs any man, let alone two men, vying for her interest. It's a silly and unnecessary plot point, in my opinion.

Rose and her relationship with Mr. Ross was a plot point I enjoyed. I'm glad the show is finally addressing racism.

Tom and Sarah seem like they will make a good couple. Sarah reminds me a lot of Tom before Sybil's death; she's very passionate while Tom has mellowed out a little. They're good for each other like Tom and Sybil were.

Bates murdering Green, oh my word. If he gets caught, I'm rioting. This is the most heart-wrenching overarching plot for me. The way it drove a wedge between the Bates broke me.

[angelswing236]

"Do I look like I knew that?"

Fictober 2023

Category: Fanfiction

Fandom: Downton Abbey

‘What I don’t understand is why she didn’t just marry Gregson when she discovered she was pregnant,’ Mary said, shaking her head.

‘She couldn’t.’

‘Why not? Because he ran off when he found out?’

‘No, because he was already married.’

‘What?’ Mary goggled, shocked. ‘Edith was having an affair with a married man?’

‘I thought you knew that.’

‘Do I look like I knew that?’

‘But how could you not?’

‘Er, perhaps because nobody bothered to tell me!’ Mary cried, annoyed at being left out of the loop again. ‘Why didn't you tell me? It seems you knew all about it.’

‘It wasn’t my place.’

‘Your place? Since when have you been one to know your place?’ she retorted.

Tom narrowed his eyes at her. ‘What do you mean by that?’

‘You’ve spent a lifetime doing things people said you shouldn’t!’

‘Are you saying I should have known my place and not married Sybil?’ Tom asked, sharply.

‘Of course not! I’m saying next time you know a secret, you should share it with me!’

‘But you’d expect me to keep your secrets.’

‘Well, yes, obviously,’ Mary said, looking at him like that was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever said.

‘So, why would you expect me to break anyone else’s confidence?’

‘Because you’re my best friend and you should tell me everything.’

Tom grinned at her. ‘I’m your best friend?’

‘Of course, you are. Who else would it be? Certainly not Edith.’

‘Anna?’

‘Anna’s my best Anna.’

Tom chuckled. ‘Well, that’s nice to know.’

Mary rolled her eyes. ‘Like you didn’t already know that. That’s why you should have told me everything. Promise me you’ll tell all next time.’

Tom gave her an infuriatingly noncommittal shrug and smile. ‘Can’t promise that.’

Irritated, Mary childishly stuck her tongue out at him.