chiromancer

Life Line: ugh. Love Line: even worse. Head Line: artistic, creative, but will forever be poor.

[thewarriorssun]

Michaela being a woman actually elevates the show for me. I could not bear losing the perfect husband John we have spent the last two seasons with, and then having to settle with yet another emotionally stunted male rake. Michaela though? That's interesting! It's something we haven't seen before! Composed Francesca losing her mind over this woman and having her entire world view crushed on top of the grief they are both experiencing? The guilt of being together in Johns shadow on top of internalized comphet guilt? Oooh, I am seated.

[alicent-florent]

francesca ragebaiting her own damn self

[evergreen-femme]

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

[evergreen-femme]

this post is apparently going around terf circles now so i feel like i should let y'all know that you are agreeing with a transsexual lesbian who fucks nasty. get the fuck off my post and also your "feminism" is anything but.

[evergreen-femme]

reblog this version, cowards

[nixscriptum]

[lokihiddleston]

BRIDGERTON (2020-)

#knowing that’s their own home #yeah #they fell so hard

[shouty-y]

"Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl."

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[tickettoanywhere]

She is not playing FAIR

[blandlava]

genuinely so funny for sophie to tell benedict to leave his own house and even funnier for him to do it asap

[abominablecreation]

benedict “please do not go” bridgerton vs sophie “move out of your house, you’re fucking up my work environment” baek

[sophie-baek]

BRIDGERTON 4.03 "The Field Next to the Other Road"

[noirsloth]

only Benedict can be in love triangle with one girl

[vocallywritten]

One thing I do really like about season 4 is how they explore the class disparity. The upstairs downstairs thing is probably one of the most compelling new aspects of the show. I love how they're fleshing out the characters of the maids and the footmen and really contrasting the lives of the people who actually do all the work to make anything happen with the rich nobility who live lives of leisure and comfort. The shaving scene in particular really drove home how even the Bridgertons, who have been shown to be kind to their staff, can still be inconsiderate and unaware of the work it takes to keep everything moving around them. Like yes it was a sweet moment between the brothers, but were they the ones who cleaned up after? Of course not. The thought probably never even occured to them. But Sophie noticed. Sophie understands the disparity between herself and the members of the ton probably better than anyone else. She's always exisited between two worlds, not quite a lady, but the circumstances of her birth and upbringing make it hard for her to truly fit in among the servants either.

What I think they've done well is to show exactly why Benedict thinks it's a great idea to make Sophie his mistress as he tries to have his cake and eat it, and also why Sophie would never agree to it. Benedict, for all his kindness and for all his feelings of being out of place, does not truly understand what his offer means for Sophie. The real choice for her is to either work to support herself, or to allow herself to once again be at the mercy of a man's whims, which may buy herself some time in luxury, but Sophie has been disappointed by men who promised to always support her before. Her father (as far as she knows) left her with nothing even after all his promises. No matter how she feels about Benedict, if she says yes to being his mistress, she will always be under his power. She won't be able to be a maid ever again. No one would ever hire her. And she would always wonder, always be afraid of what would happen if Benedict loses interest in her, or meets someone else. A constant sword hanging above her. And what if she has a child as Benedict's mistress? She could be condemning them to a fate similar to her own, or maybe even worse, depending on what Benedict chose to do.

I do really like Benedict and Sophie. I think they're both very good leads and I like their story a lot so far. It's very sweet and charming. I'm looking forward to part 2.

[mikerowave-writes]

there are a lot of absurdly funny moments in bridgerton 4 pt 1 but the one that takes the cake for me is the francesca/john "sex scene" where he rolls off of her and she is fully clothed and he goes "wow that rocked" and shes like mmhmm and hes like "its better when you come, did you come?" and shes like uh huh. yeah. definitely. meanwhile she is still fully clothed. and then she spends the next 2 episodes asking every woman with ears near her what an orgasm is with the desperation of a lost and dehydrated traveler in the middle of the desert

[writerxwren]

[mikerowave-writes]

there are a lot of absurdly funny moments in bridgerton 4 pt 1 but the one that takes the cake for me is the francesca/john "sex scene" where he rolls off of her and she is fully clothed and he goes "wow that rocked" and shes like mmhmm and hes like "its better when you come, did you come?" and shes like uh huh. yeah. definitely. meanwhile she is still fully clothed. and then she spends the next 2 episodes asking every woman with ears near her what an orgasm is with the desperation of a lost and dehydrated traveler in the middle of the desert

[rylandsgrace]

Also miscommunication 😍

[rylandsgrace]

#She literally consumes all his thoughts