So, Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens did a photo shoot together recently for the London Evening Standard - as Mary and Matthew, but with a vampire/gothic twist.

The photos in it are just stunning and I couldn't resist making some icons of them from the photoshoot. They are all pretty much the same images, but just with me getting carried away with ( Read more... )

An Unexpected Visitor

Rating - Teenage
Fandom - Downton Abbey, Mary and Matthew
Summary - Matthew finds his busy day at the office interrupted by a very unexpected visitor.
Genre - Romance/Humour
Status - Work in Progress, Chapter 6 of 7
Word Count - 2, 063 words
Previous Chapters - Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.

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So, after the first episode of Downton Abbey series 2 was so awesome, I couldn’t resist making a music video for it. I then set myself the weekly challenge of making a video for each episode. They’re all done now (and I’ve re-done the one for epiosde 2) and here’s the complete list.

Obviously they contain spoilers for series 2 and all the music is ( Read more... )

Ok, so I had an idea this morning of a really fun storyline for the Christmas special! I'm tempted to write a fanfic about it, but I've already got 6 other stories I need to really finish first! LOL! (If anyone else wants to have a go, feel free, just let me know!).

Ok, so it's just pure specualtion here and obviously it contains spoilers from ( Read more... )

Here's not so much speculation, but some reasons about why I think we can hope for a Christmas wedding between Mary and Matthew this year after all!

I was going to add this whole thing at the end of my defence of Matthew yesterday, but that went on about 5 times as long as I intended. Still, do please read that post here. This post will make much ( Read more... )

Ok, so I've been thinking about this for a while and decided I may as well get it all written down! So here's my defence of Matthew, as I was incredibly shocked by the amount of anger, bashing and hate for poor Matthew lately - he can't seem to do anything right! I thought someone should come to his defence and he is my favourite character - with ( Read more... )

Ok, I know there's been a few discussions going already, but I'm really worried about running into spoilers I don't know about, so I'm posting all my thoughts here. It's long, but I was stuck waiting this morning to talk to someone at the town council's office for ages, so my mind got rather busy pondering...

So, here's my ideas, hopes and wishes ( Read more... )

Truth, Lies and Blackmail

Rating - Teenage
Fandom - Downton Abbey, Mary and Matthew
Summary - My Interpretation of the events in the episode 6 (series 2) preview between Mary and Matthew and Mary and Carlisle and what I think could happen.
Genre - Romance/Angst
Status - Complete, Chapter 4 of 4
Word Count - 4, 616 words ( Read more... )

Truth, Lies and Blackmail

Rating - Teenage
Fandom - Downton Abbey, Mary and Matthew
Summary - My Interpretation of the events in the episode 6 (series 2) preview between Mary and Matthew and Mary and Carlisle and what I think could happen.
Genre - Romance/Angst
Status - Work in Progress, Chapter 3 of 4?
Word Count - 3,397 words ( Read more... )

Truth, Lies and Blackmail

Rating - Teenage
Fandom - Downton Abbey, Mary and Matthew
Summary - My Interpretation of the events in the episode 6 (series 2) preview between Mary and Matthew and Mary and Carlisle and what I think could happen.
Genre - Romance/Angst
Status - Work in Progress, Chapter 2 of 4?
Word Count - 3,780 words ( Read more... )