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clachnaben) wrote2020-11-29 07:00 pm
clachnaben) wrote2020-11-29 07:00 pm
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I spent the last week reading this
I have never actually watched Downton Abbey on purpose because the ~~cultural phenomenon in the UK was maximally annoying and also I think our fetish for pre-war upstairs downstairs culture is BAD
however someone on my TL recced this and I fancied 500k+ of escapism and figured I knew enough from osmosis to roughly know what was going on, and then I didn't surface from reading this Thomas/OMC series for like, four days.
I know so little about Downton I was picturing an entirely different person as Lady Sybil the entire time, but I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. +500k! historical queer journeys! all of the stupid things that happen in the show (no I haven't watched it but you couldn't live here and not know what was going on) get resolved in sensible ways!
It encompasses the whole of WW1 (as per the timeline of the show) and so is obviously extremely sad in parts, but the author is good at warnings and it has an overall happy ending. If you need to forget yourself in a fic, this did it for me.
however someone on my TL recced this and I fancied 500k+ of escapism and figured I knew enough from osmosis to roughly know what was going on, and then I didn't surface from reading this Thomas/OMC series for like, four days.
I know so little about Downton I was picturing an entirely different person as Lady Sybil the entire time, but I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. +500k! historical queer journeys! all of the stupid things that happen in the show (no I haven't watched it but you couldn't live here and not know what was going on) get resolved in sensible ways!
It encompasses the whole of WW1 (as per the timeline of the show) and so is obviously extremely sad in parts, but the author is good at warnings and it has an overall happy ending. If you need to forget yourself in a fic, this did it for me.