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[bitletsanddrabbles]

Shipping Challenges

Are you getting a bit tired of the same old pairings? Would you like to see something new and different? Do you want to see how many people you can piss off, freak out, or have proclaim you their new best friend?

May I make some suggestions*:

1. Thomas Barrow x Jack Courtnay

Yes, everyone knows what a crush Thomas had on our dear blind soldier boy, but have you ever considered the irony that maybe Edward was the straight one in the family? That maybe Thomas would have even more in common with Edward’s hated little brother? What’s Jack really like, anyway? Mary and Edith would probably have said similar things about each other, but their fans - and neutral parties - agree they’re pretty decent people...or at least one of them is. What’s going on there anyway?

2. Thomas Barrow x Richard Clarkson

Yeah, okay, you may have run across this one. I have, but is it just me or is it nearly always toxic? Generally comes with a non-con tag, which is fine in and of itself, but there’s so much more you can do here! Lady Edith was ready to marry a man her father’s age, and in the queer community age differences were pretty common. Why not explore what, exactly, makes the good doctor so sympathetic to ‘that sort’? I have seen one (1) person try this in a healthy manner! I challenge everyone else to try it!

3. Guy Dexter x Chris Webster

C’mon, you know you want to!

4. Guy Dexter x Richard Ellis

Because there are only about a million fifty ways you can do this! Prequels! Sequels! Straight up AUs! And only about three quarters of them will get you banned from the fandom! LIVE DANGEROUSLY! Odds are good you will win the Fandom Love Of Your Life and a Fandom Arch Nemesis all in one go!

5. Thomas Barrow x Charles Blake

Is there a single thing about this pairing to hang your hat on? Near as I can remember, no! Not a damn thing! That means there’s nothing stopping you! Imagine all of the fun that the working-class-bloke-who-wants-to-be-a-toff and the toff-who-wants-to-be-a-working-class-bloke could have together!

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And I think that will do me for now. Knowing me, I’ll probably be back at some later date with more later**.

* Before everyone asks why, if I want to see these so badly, I don’t write them myself. Have you seen my WIP folder? I’ve actually started some of these - multiple times! - but they are buried under.......everything else. If we have to wait for me to do it, it’ll never happen.

** No, I have not had too much sugar, why do you ask such a silly question? This is definitely not me crashing from a sugar high.

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #shipping challeng #mad multishipper on the loose! #thomas barrow #jack courtnay #dr. clarkson #guy dexter #chris webster #richard ellis #charles blake #SAIL ALL THE SHIPS!!!!!! #also i have sinuses #i hate my sinuses but whatchagonnado?