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I was undertaking my yearly pilgrimage home to visit family and the journey requires at least two flights, three if I don't plan ahead in enough time. Luckily this time, I only needed to take the two planes.
Unluckily, my first flight got delayed by at least five hours due to adverse weather conditions, and as a result I miss my connecting flight. I run around like a headless chicken in this purported international airport (it didn't feel very international 😤) with my check-in luggage that I wasn't supposed to have until my final destination. (The delays must have confused the baggage staff or whatever.)
Side note: I'm not the only person going through this nightmare. There were others before me who spoke the local language and got their shit sorted ASAP. There's also this one other person who was literally me but in a different outfit: spoke only English, stranded between flights, had about a 24hr wait.
Anyway, I get my ticket home re-issued for the following day and the airline gives me a complementary stay at a local hotel. I'm like, hells yeah I can catch some proper shut-eye, refresh and shower and all that jazz. I can put the entire disaster of my delayed flight behind me.
But then!!!
oh my god BUT THEN
The airline representative tells me (and this other stranger on the same boat as me) that it's company policy for economy ticket holders to share a room????? regardless if they knew each other or not.
This stranger and I were like: what the fuck and hell nah.
In the back of my head, of course, I understood the policy. If an entire flight gets delayed there's a significant chance you'll end up with at least half the people stranded waiting for their next flight, etc etc. Hotels might not have had room to accommodate all that.
But!!! Here's the thing!!! This stranger and I were the only two people left. All the previous people were shuttled off wayyy before us either because we weren't local (and needed extra help, e.g. translation) or I guess they were a travel group bc they didn't seem to care about the sharing policy.
Stranger and I were not having it. We were not going to live out a fanfiction trope in real life—not if either of us can help it!
So we get to the hotel and I channel the most considerate but stubborn personality I have and we talked the concierge to give us a room each.
Well done, us. Crisis averted.
THERE'S A PART TWO THOUGH!!
Fast forward to the following day and it turns out Stranger's flight and my flight were around the same time. We share the hotel shuttle back to the airport. We do the awkward "oh hey how was your stay, what did you do, the hotel restaurant food was decent... whaaaat how did you miss two out of the three free meals the airline gave us?" etc. etc. etc.
We also do the whole "oh where is your check-in counter" talk despite knowing it was the same one for the both of us (international flights).
We say our goodbyes once we got our luggage checked in.
We bravely avoided eye contact as we went through security and immigration.
We settled into our own separate boarding gates.
And then twenty or so minutes later Stranger sits down beside me at my gate and offered me a snack (because yes, it was me who missed two meals out of three at the hotel... I was asleep, okay?!?!)
We end up chatting until we both had to board our respective flights. It was nice to not suffer through our travel-related plights alone; the company was enjoyable.
Aaaaaand no, we did not exchange contact details at the end of all that. Because, simply: real-life isn't a fanfiction trope. Sometimes we meet people and never keep in touch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But it was an interesting experience all around, I suppose!
post-s3 but pre-s4 Cressida, Eloise, Penelope, and Edwina in some kind of "by correspondence only" book club where they read anything and everything and debate opinions via letters
Cressida stuck in Wales with her aunt misunderstanding Wollstonecraft but my god is she trying (she'll take whatever form of female friendship she can get. she's stuck in Wales)
Eloise suggesting another Austen (after apparently enjoying Emma) and arguing with Penelope re: Anne Elliot in Persuasion and old wounds resurface but hey, at least book club is done by letters and not verbal conversation; they compartmentalise
Edwina finally having someone to talk to about books but she's frustrated about all the English-centric literature they're reading but one day she'll visit London again and she'll cram one of the Epics down their throats one way or another
Sophie joining them post-s4 and eventually hosting "reading retreats" over at My Cottage
Edwina finding out about Eloise dismissing Hyacinth's ballerina book via Kate and her extending an invitation to one of these retreats, and Hyacinth (eventually, after some deliberation) accepting bc she needs a distraction from her upcoming debut
Eloise (and Penelope, begrudgingly, after some mild blackmail) convincing Cressida to leave Penwood House (and London society) for a spell and visit the country--and yes, their host will be a former maid from your household. shut up and say hello to the Crabtrees.
Francesca is too preoccupied with whatever's going on with her and Michaela to join, but once things settle down Benedict will buy a piano for her and she can totally visit at her own leisure
Daphne is a duchess and is far too busy leading society for any kind of retreat, but following Lady Danbury's "retirement" she takes it upon herself to host/manage the married ladies gaming nights... who has time to discuss reading when there are connections and underhanded dealings to be made?
aaaand I think that's all of them! who have I missed?
post-s3 but pre-s4 Cressida, Eloise, Penelope, and Edwina in some kind of "by correspondence only" book club where they read anything and everything and debate opinions via letters
Cressida stuck in Wales with her aunt misunderstanding Wollstonecraft but my god is she trying (she'll take whatever form of female friendship she can get. she's stuck in Wales)
Eloise suggesting another Austen (after apparently enjoying Emma) and arguing with Penelope re: Anne Elliot in Persuasion and old wounds resurface but hey, at least book club is done by letters and not verbal conversation; they compartmentalise
Edwina finally having someone to talk to about books but she's frustrated about all the English-centric literature they're reading but one day she'll visit London again and she'll cram one of the Epics down their throats one way or another
any Bridgerton fans out there willing to tell me why theloise couldn't possibly be endgame?
(I'm compelled, once more, by the highborn/lowborn dynamic and have done nothing but devour nearly all the Theo/Eloise fics on AO3 this past weekend)
I'm hardly the most eloquent person out there, nor am I a hardcore book or show fan, but like I said: theloise have consumed my thoughts mind body and soul and I keep rotating arguments like a rotisserie chicken re: why a print shop apprentice and a soon-to-be-a-spinster debutante (is this an oxymoron?) can't feasibly get a happily ever after with each other
there are in-universe explanations, of course. things like the genuine class divide (unlike in s4 where sophie baek can claim to be an earl's distant relative despite in truth being his bastard), theo's political radicalism, the ton's period-typical conservatism, and so on
and there's eloise's canon pairing which no one seems to like (hello creloise shippers! hello ace eloise truthers! come sit by me) i haven't read her book, so forgive my glibness lol
there's also the wider context of Bridgerton being a Netflix tv show set in a wish-fulfillment fantasy wonderland where somehow every main character's happy ending is a hoity toity title, a mutually loving marriage, and a gaggle of healthily born children
basically, what I'm asking is this: why can't Eloise explore a meaningful friendship and/or relationship with Theo Sharpe beyond their clandestine meetings in s2? genuinely.
I'm so used to side-stepping canon issues in fandom because I love love love the ruination of the source material and seeing more within it than can be realistically achieved; more so, however, is working within the complicated rules and traditions of the source material's (multiple) canons and being like: okay, how can we make this work? or how does it not work, but how do we ensure that the journey exploring it is worthwhile?
to misquote some famous author somewhere: if I had more time I would write a more succint post. or a more structured theloise manifesto. that said, I'm calling for other Bridgerton fans out there--not just necessarily Eloise fans or theloise shippers--to help me make sense of this (I admit) self-imposed quandary
why the fuck can't eloise bridgerton be with theo sharpe?? please help me find a compelling argument.
I actually would love a wayyy post-canon story in the PHM universe where the surviving descendants of Earth and/or Erid travel around space fixing all the other stars affected by Petrova lines.
Bonus points if one of the travellers is one of Rocky and Adrian's future kids or grandkids (pebbles!!) or someone Grace taught when he was a teacher. Or even the kid/grandkid/great-great-great-whatever of someone he studied postgrad with or something. Just someone somehow related to his own scientific work.
Because it's great and all that Erid and Earth are saved, but what about the other star systems? Surely the destruction of those would affect everything down the line.
Guys, former @/skamenglishsubs is on YR Reddit as @/henrik_se and they asked if anyone has saved their "Subtext and Culture" analyses of season 3. If any of you did, can you reach out to them?
Season 3 Episode 1-6 [partial, the ones below the Read More tags can't be retrieved]
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Season 2 Episode 1-2 [full]
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Season 1 [full]
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"Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, What's in a name?"
"Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Intro"
"Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Lines of Succession" & "Felice and Wilhelm’s text conversation" & "Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Heir today, gone tomorrow?"
"The evolution of Wilhelm’s decisions across the seasons"
