I'm slowly putting together potential glams for Evercold and I've been really liking this for BRD
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I'm slowly putting together potential glams for Evercold and I've been really liking this for BRD
I should totally write that essay on the use of peacocks in Austenland that ive been meaning to write for like 5 years now
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FOR BONUS POLINWEEK
DAY ONE | Favourite Season 3 scene: The Butterfly ball
PART 2: THE COLOURS, THE FEATHERS, AND THE NUMBER 8
The Dankworth-Finch ball has several notable pieces in the venue.
That the ball was centred on the colours ORANGE AND PURPLE
The colour orange conveys feelings of warmth, joy, and confidence. It is also strongly associated with creativity.
The colour purple symbolises mystery, independence, and royalty. In the old days, only people from royalty can afford purple thread as it was rare and very expensive. The colour then became associated with the display of opulence and the wealth of the family.
The combination of Orange and Purple is associated with the colour of sunset.
2. That the venue had 8 COLUMNS and an 8 PIECE ENSEMBLE.
The platform had 8 columns and an 8-piece ensemble. The number 8 aside from symbolising infinity also symbolises stability often associated with financial power, prosperity, and karma.
3. That the centrepiece design is made up of OSTRICH FEATHERS.
The ostrich feathers are known to various tribes in East African cultures as a symbol of wealth and prestige.
All of the above alludes to wealth, status, and prestige which we all know is NOT the Featheringtons. But the Butterfly ball not only is a triumph for Philippa and Prudence but Pen revealing herself as LW, albeit a double-edged revelation, also adds prestige to this often ridiculed family. I know that Pen touched on how people might not so quickly forget how she as LW has ridiculed the ton but her being an ally (and a recognised) rival to the Queen gives her power that no one in the ton has.
I especially love the symbolism of the colours. Both colours perfectly describes who Pen is as both Penelope and LW. Then there is the fact that the combination of orange and purple is often associated with sunset makes me think that this is Pen closing the chapter of LW as her secret and going into a new dawn as Pen who has accepted herself fully as LW.
Say what you want about the Featheringtons or their redemption arc but I love that this happened because of Pen stepping out of the shadows. I especially love her recognising that she has more in common with Portia that she thinks that LW couldn't have come out of nothing. Portia-- who were both a suspect and a victim of her circumstances was the one who pushed Pen to do better. I want people to remember that the Butterfly ball wouldn't be what it became if not for Pen and Portia's confrontation.
I have no idea if the writers were very intentional with all these details but I just love learning what the meanings are behind them.
PART 3: THE FEATHERINGTON DRESSES
PART 1: THE VENUE AND A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT
AGHHJH THE QUILL(!!! THE WRITING !!!! GET OUT OF MY MIND GET OUT OF MY HEAD NO COINCIDENCES NO REASONABLE DEVELOPMENTS NO NO NO NO IT SEES ME NO NO NO
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@purpled-royalty ^^
Recently had a blast in London with some lovely Strikophiles. Took lots of pictures and thought I would share here the ones where I can remember why I took them. 😂 I will add book quotes as time permits. Please correct me if you think I am wrong because it was a full day.
Last few ... and it's "all pubs".
The Ship and Shovell, Craven Passage
Aptly named ... Strike follows Wally Cardew and Thurisaz here and twats the latter in the gents, in The Ink Black Heart.
The Two Chairman, Dartmouth Street
Robin and Strike meet here after Robin successfully bugs Della Winn's office in Lethal White. After the year of frostiness, their relationship is warming, but Robin leaves suddenly when Strike asks, "You're liking Raff, then?"
The Feathers, Broadway, Westminster
Multiple meetings happen at this pub - in The Cuckoo's Calling, Career of Evil and Troubled Blood. There's a neat account of them all here
In The Cuckoo’s Calling, Strike meets Detective Sergeant Eric Wardle in person for the first time at the Feathers, a pub convenient for Ward