Penelope (sobbing): Now I'm losing him! What'll I do? What'll I do?
Genevieve: What are you talking about?!!!
Penelope: Huh?
Genevieve: You are Lady Whistledown My God...!!
(Genevieve starts swatting Penelope with a Lady Whistledown newspaper)
Genevieve: Pull-yourself-together! "What will you do?" Is this a question? You will show him you remember that he is Mr. Bridgerton, and you will remind him who YOU are. Well, you know where he is. Go, confront the problem. Fight! Win!
Genevieve: And call me when you get back, dahling. I enjoy our visits.
Has anyone just stopped and thought about the three husbands of the Featherington ladies?
Not as individuals, but as a whole.
We see Mr. Finch and Mr. Dankworth spending a lot of time together, because their wives spend a lot of time together. Both of those men are...a bit peculiar in their own ways, but both are really different than most of the men in the ton.
Now, imagine adding Colin to that club.
Instead of talking about conquests in a gentleman's club over drinks, Colin's "bro nights" are probably going to be sitting around a parlor table, talking with his brothers-in-law about how awesome their wives are over cheese.
Penelope having an identical twin sister sounds so cool! Imagine her twin being called Felicity and the two switching places whenever they're bored. Who do you think would be able to tell them apart without any difficulty or hesitation?
interesting!
hmm. colin, undoubtedly would know without having to look. he would be able to tell by voice and steps alone. the back of her head even. he doesn't even think they look the same, let's be real.
violet would know.
eloise would not.
benedict and anthony would have been totally unaware there was two of them for like, 3 years.
kate would know.
hyacinth would know but mess with them to make them think she had no idea.
gregory would just be happy to be there.
fran would know half the time.
albion would know but phillipa wouldn't.
prudence does not care. harry is still not sure there's actually two of them.
portia would have no idea.
varley would know.
bonus: all of the featherington/bridgerton footmen and maids would know because colin only follows penelope around.
Children of Persephone headcanons (because there aren't enough)
Children of Persephone often develop bipolar disorder as a result of their mother's two different âsidesâ.
Children of Persephone get along well with most underworld kids, but especially Hades' kids, as they're step-siblings.
In the winter, children of Persephone tend to have a temper and a short-fuse.
All children of Persephone are born with the desire to eat pomegranate seeds at least once in their lives.
Children of Demeter are often bossy towards children of Persephone, who deliberately try to annoy them.
Children of Persephone are often very free spirits and hate being told what to do.
Persephone doesn't have very many demigod children, as she is completely loyal to her husband (though she's not above having a child with a mortal out of spite).
Children of Persephone tend to be very independent and stubborn.
Children of Persephone may have a rivalry with children of Aphrodite, though it can be friendly.
Children of Persephone are stronger in places of nature â this extends to garden centres.
Children of Persephone tend to take on a lot more than they can bare.
Children of Persephone tend to be wary of snakes and children of Zeus, because of the rape of their mother.
Children of Persephone take great offence if you use their name in vain or as the basis of mockery.
Children of Persephone become more ruthless and bloodthirsty in the winter.
If a child of Persephone sees a deer in a forest, it will come to greet them, as deer are their mother's sacred animal.
Children of Persephone would most likely skin you if you spoke badly of their mother.
All children of Persephone are beautiful, as beauty is subjective.
If looking to boast, most children of Persephone will refer to themselves as a child of The Destroyer.
When angered, children of Persephone can have a ruthless, thirst-for-blood that could rival a child of Ares.
Some children of Persephone are more feared than children of Hades.
Children of Persephone are often friendly with nature spirits.
Just as children of Poseidon can talk to sea animals, children of Persephone can âtalkâ to plants, in that they understand what plants want or need.
All children of Persephone have the ability to grow flowers or plants, which many accidentally do when they're nervous.
Powerful children of Persephone possess the ability to turn people into animals or plants.
Though this is rare, some children of Persephone possess a very mild form of charmspeak and are able to accentuate their beauty or the beauty of others.
Another rare power is the ability to take away the pain of death and bless them with safe passage to a good afterlife, but only for those who deserve it â if the person is deemed unworthy by Persephone, they will be given a fair judgement.
Children of Persephone can summon and communicate with the dead, but to a lesser extent than the children of Hades â in some cases, Hades may bless the child, which amplifies this ability.
As Persephone is the mistress and the goddess of the Furies, her children can summon the Furies, who will obey them without question.
Children of Persephone have the rare power to bless people/lands with fertility.
I've had this kind of scenario thing in my head for months.
Magda Eisenhardt has twins in Ukraine, who she names Pietro Jakob and Wanda Edie Eisenhardt. Even though Erik scared her, she still cares for him.
Magda dies before the twins are 10, and, after being informed, Magda's sister Marya and her husband Django take custody of them and bring them to America where they'd been living since the war. Pietro and Wanda are renamed Peter and Wendy Maximoff.
Marya and Django go on to have two kids - a girl called Ana and a boy called Mateo. Peter and Wendy take to being big siblings like ducks to water. Ana and Mateo are their sister and brother from the moment they come into this world.
At some point, both Wendy and Django die. Marya drinks to cope with her grief, and Peter basically takes over the raising of Ana and Mateo.
After Apocalypse, when they get back to the ruins of the school, Marya is waiting. Peter left a note saying where he'd be going because he knows his aunt worries. When he'd missed dinner and still wasn't back by breakfast, Marya drove to the school to find him. She can't lose more family.
Marya sees Erik, gets angry, shouts at him. Then she sees Peter with the cast and she blames Erik. Peter tries to defend him. Somewhere along the way, Marya let's slip that Erik is Peter's father. Erik is in shock and Peter's upset. Marya herds Peter into her car and they leave.
A few days later, Peter shows up at the school where they're rebuilding (because a mantion that size with that much damage is going to take a while to rebuild, a few weeks at least with powers). Peter is awkward at first, but so is Erik. Raven nearly bashes their heads together. Eventually, they both relax.
But then Erik asks Peter, "How is your mother?"
Throughout her tirade, Marya never mentioned Magda's death. So now Peter is frozen because sitting in front of him is his father who just lost his wife and child, how is he supposed to tell him that his mother is dead too? And what about Wendy? How can he tell Erik that he's lost more than he knows?
Addition:
Ukraine uses patronymics as middle names. Erik's real name is Max. Magda would know this. Change Max to Maksym to make it easier. Ukraine uses the suffix ovych for boys and ivna for girls.
Wendy could bend minds and reality alike, send people and items sailing through the air like constructs of paper and glue, nothing more than a flick of her red fingered hand needed.
Peter could run like no other, like physics was fiction not fact, so fast he left time and gravity in his tailwind, enough power to reduce mountains to rubble with his footsteps alone.
Youâre a regular office worker born with the ability to âseeâ how dangerous a person is with a number scale of 1-10 above their heads. A toddler would be a 1, while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. Today, you notice the reserved new guy at the office measures a 10.
You decide itâs best to find out what you can about this person. Cautiously, you approach his desk. Heâs a handsome man, tall, but with a disarming smile. How could such a friendly guy with such cute, dorky glasses be dangerous?
You extend your hand. âI noticed youâre new here. Whatâs your name?â
He shakes your hand warmly. His gaze is piercing, as if heâs looking right through you. âThe nameâs Clark,â he says. âSo, how long have you worked for the Daily Planet?â
Itâs been a few weeks, and one of Clarkâs friends shows up. Sheâs pretty and all, enough muscle that she must work out. First thought would be that she should be maybe a 6.
Clarkâs introducing her around.  âThis is my good friend, Diana, sheâs in from out of town.â
You blink, and take a step back in fear. Youâve never seen an 11 before.
The day Bruce Wayne shows up for his long promised interview with Lois Lane, you canât help it, the mug your holding drops from your fingers and sends a shock of hot coffee and ceramic shards across the floor.
Clark stops a few feet away and squints at you worriedly from behind those ridiculous glasses youâre 99% sure he doesnât actually need, and asks tentatively, âEverything all right?â
You ignore him in favor of staring at the inky dark numerals hovering over the beaming fool gesticulating some fantastic yacht story for a gaggle of secretaries and minor columnists.
Thatâs it. Your gift has officially gone haywire. There is no other explanation. Because there is absolutely no way that Brucie Wayne is a 10.
At this point, youâve seen it all. Miled manner reporters and billionaires at a 10 and a model-like woman at 11. You were really starting to doubt your power. The day you really stopped believeing in it was when Bruce Wayne came for another visit, and this time with a kid. The kid couldnât be more than 10 years old, a bit on the short side.
The day you started believing in it again was when you saw on tv the formation of something called the justice league.
There were those same numbers over superman, batman, wonder woman and robin. Thatâs when you put two and two together. You wonder how nobody at the daily planet noticed that Clarke was Superman with glasses. You wonder why you didnât notice. You wonder why nobody put two and two together that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman looked exactly the same. You look in the mirror as the realization hit you and you see your own number change from a 3 to a 9.
Important rules/tips I've learned as an adult that helped with anxiety
If people are mad at you, it's their responsibility to tell you, not your responsibility to guess
If they're mad at you in secret anyways, they're the ones in the wrong, not you
If people don't like what you're doing, it's their responsibility to tell you
If they say it's fine when it's really not, they're the ones in the wrong, not you
People are allowed to be wrong about you
If they are wrong about you, wait for them to bring it up, because if you try to, you will inevitably overcorrect
Some people are committed to misunderstanding you. You will not win arguments against them. Yes, even if you explain your point of view. They do not care. Drop it
The worst thing that will happen from a first-time offense is being told not to do it again. Maybe with a replacement if you broke something
You can improve relationships and gauge willingness to talk to you by giving compliments. It's like a daily log-in bonus and nobody thinks twice about it
Most things are better after you sleep on them
Most things are better after you have a meal
Most things are better after you shower
Your brain makes up consequences that are irrational. If the worst DOES come to pass and someone acts like they do in your head, they are overreacting, and you are entitled to say "what the fuck"
If your chest hurts after you feel like you've made a social error, that's called rejection-sensitive dysphoria. It means your anxiety is so bad that it's causing you physical pain, which is a good indicator that you're overreacting. Tense yourself, hold it for 20 seconds, let it go, then find a distraction
If you're suddenly angry at someone after you feel like you made a social error, that's also rejection-sensitive dysphoria. You are going to feel annoyed about it for awhile, but being genuinely pissed off is your anxiety trying to find something to blame to take the responsibility off your shoulders, and getting scared because it can't justify itself. Deep breaths, ask yourself how much you ACTUALLY want to be angry at that person, then find a distraction
"Sour grapes" is more healthy for you than stewing. Deciding you don't like someone who's perpetually annoyed with you, won't talk to you, etc. makes letting go of anxiety over them easier
If people don't like you, they will find reasons to be annoyed with you when they otherwise wouldn't. If people do like you, they will find reasons NOT to be annoyed with you when they otherwise would. People do not ping-pong between the two
You DO have to make a conscious choice not to think about something. If you're having trouble circling back to it, say out loud that you're done thinking about it and why. Then find a distraction
When you're upset, part of you is going to want to make false bids for attention (suddenly texting differently, heavy sighs, etc. but when someone asks you about it, you tell them it's nothing). Do not listen to it. You gain nothing from it except more misery
People like to help people they care about. It makes them feel good about themselves
If you think you're insufferable for needing help, see above. Yes, really. They get a serotonin kick from it
If you think you're insufferable for mannerisms you have, you either have to consciously choose not to do them, or accept that they're part of the package that comes with you. Being apologetic about existing does nothing except make you more miserable
If you do things you don't like when you feel meh about it, it makes it easier to do them when you hate it
If you avoid things you don't like when you feel meh about it, it reinforces and magnifies how bad it feels when you hate it
Seriously. Read those last two points again. If you can make yourself make a phone call when you've got nothing to lose, you will slowly lose that panic you get when you have to make a phone call you haven't prepared for. You do have to CONSCIOUSLY take that step
Hobbies that make you care for something get rid of that nagging feeling that you're not doing enough. Go grow some rosemary
If you don't engage with your hobbies regularly, you will feel miserable, and anxiety will spike
Hobbies are things that give you a bit of happiness. They do not have to be organized or named to do that. Go be creative in something. Play with coins. Make up lists. Start a new WIP
No one cares what you look like
If people point out things they don't like about how you look unprompted, they are being rude. You are entitled to say "what the fuck"
People who like you will find you pretty to some degree. Minor things about your appearance go completely unnoticed. Literally, scars and dots and blemishes do not register to someone who likes your company
You looking at yourself in the mirror is 10x more closely than anyone is going to look at you
If you're anxious about your body type, and you're creatively inclined, make/write an oc with that same shape. Give them nice things and make other characters love them. Put them on adventures. You'll start to see yourself in the mirror more kindly
You care about wording and perfect lines/colors way more than anyone who views your work ever will
Sometimes when you're upset, you're going to feel like not eating. Do not do that. Not eating makes you more miserable
Same with things you normally enjoy. Denying yourself helps no one. You are punishing yourself for being sad. Stop it
Both of these will take conscious decision to break the habit of. Make yourself do it anyways, and it will slowly get easier
And again, to reiterate: If someone is mad at you, it is THEIR responsibility to tell you, not your responsibility to guess
When youâre reading a ZK fanfic and reach the point where Katara starts kicking ass and taking names with Zukoâs council and just become Zuko in this art, heart eyeing her yelling for change
This is what Kenshi sees when he goes visit his husband's AU.
Some good old redesigns to slowly get me back to drawing! - half of these are @dolce-tenebra-toscana 's designs, the other half are mine based off hers.
"It was a familiar room, the artists studio where Henry invited young artists to sketch and learn. There, in front of him, was a goddess"
Fan art inspired by the work of @/happilyinsane13, i love your fanfics and thank You for everthing! đ now i completely love pen & Ben together, the way your Benedict loves her makes me cry with love. Xoxo đ
I just love how hypocritical MaoMao's nature is. She yells at Jinshi for being a 'Masochist' and yet we see that she's no different. Now, by definition Masochist is a person who drives sexual gratification from their own pain and humiliation, plus it relates to Jinshi's tendency to do self harm (like burning his skin with a brand)
And what is MaoMao's most favourite thing in this world?
POISON
She literally takes pleasure in consuming it and no one can convince me otherwise. Plus she uses dangerous plants and animals and snakes whatnot in the name of her so-called experiments. Her dad may call her a 'mad Scientist' but that is a direct indication of self harm.
And she calls Jinshi a Masochist.
I mean, think about it! The amount of anxiety she gives to Jinshi! She came prepared with a vomit inducing medicine but even she had no idea whether it would work or not. She was just hoping it would work in the salt chapter.
And the same goes for her hand, on which she has conducted countless experiments. One flower even burned her skin and its marks never left her skin. She said it was all for her hobby. What kind of weird hobby is that? Maybe, our little adorable mad scientist is just like that.
One brands his own skin, while the other takes heavenly pleasure in consuming poison.
So my point is, Jinshi and MaoMao are not that different as one might think they are and that's why their dynamic works so well.
Let's look at the excerpts from volume 5:
She didnât know how long they sat that way. All she knew was
that Jinshi was looking down at her with a faintly triumphant
expression, as if he saw that the breath had reached every corner of
her body now. He wiped away the tears that had sprung to her eyes
as she struggled to breathe.
It was then that Maomao felt a flash of intense anger. âI said
that if you were going to kill me, you should do it with poison,â she
told him.
âI refuse to let you poison yourself,â Jinshi said, his fingers
tracing her lips. âYou canât pretend you didnât know that you were
one of the candidates. As much as Iâm sure youâd like to.â He wasnât
done, either: âWho was that man, anyway? Iâm sure youâre not a
dancer.â
So he had been watching them!
âI was just paying for my drink,â Maomao said. âIt didnât cost
much.â She tried to look away, but with his hand on her head, she
really couldnât.
Jinshi just choked her and yet he refuses to let MaoMao poison herself. A lot of people misinterpret this scene, and don't like it all that much, saying it was just fanservice stuff but this is how I see it: Jinshi wasn't trying to kill MaoMao, he was just trying to make MaoMao submit to him for once (even if the way he did it was very wrong, but guess he's kinky like that). MaoMao is actively trying to harm herself and Jinshi loves MaoMao a lot, he cannot just let her kill herself.
It was more about him trying to exert his dominance in their weirdish - complicated relationship and that also backfires on him as we see in the next volume that MaoMao escapes Jinshi's grasps using Pairin's techniques.
And then they both continue to avoid each other in the entire next volume! Because they both realised that they have crossed boundaries.
They both are hypocrites.
And they both refuse to accept their feelings.
In one of the later volumes, she gives Jinshi a piece of her mind on how he should tell her everything clearly, unequivocally, what he feels, and he literally declares that "he will make her his wife", which is nice and all but look at the wording MaoMao used here....
Excerpts from LN Vol 7, chapter 19 called "A man and a woman play the game"
"Youâre forever telling me I need to use my words, Master
Jinshi, but are you in any position to criticize? Everything you say
to me, everything you do, itâs like itâs calculated to save you from
ever having to actually say what you mean! To make me figure it all
out! You know, you remind me of someone. You act exactly like a
man who used to come by our brothel all the time. He was in love
with one of the girls, but he would never just come out and say it.
He thought it should be obvious from the way he acted. He was so
sure he had a good thing going with this woman that he never sent
her so much as a letter. I remember how forlorn he looked when
someone else swooped in and snatched her away! He kept coming
to the brothel after thatâto get drunk and whine to the ladies.
Well, in my opinion, he could have avoided all that heartbreak if
heâd told the woman how he felt. Clearly, unequivocally, so that she
knew where they stood. It was the least he could have done!â
Everything came out in a torrent. She felt like sheâd said it all in
one breath. It was strange, she thought, to hear so many words
come out of her own mouth. She was mystified. Jinshi was no less
startled, but the shock soon left his face, replaced by something
else. He got up off the bed and stared down at Maomao.
Shit. Now Iâve done it. Sheâd given him a piece of her mind, and
he was about to give her one back.
âSo I should be clear, should I? Unequivocal? I should say what
I mean? If I did, would you actually listen to me? Is that what
youâre telling me? Iâm going to hold you to that! Right this minute.
Iâll say it all. Donât plug your earsâlisten to me!â He grabbed her
hands as she was in the process of trying to put her fingers in her ears. He took a breath. He was looking at Maomao, but somehow he
seemed almost embarrassed.
Finally he managed, âNow listen to me, yâI mean, Maomao!
Listen close! I am going to make you my wife!â
It's one heck of a chapter and I suggest you give it a go! The title of the chapter says "A man and a woman play the game" as if to emphasize the very fact that both Jinshi and MaoMao are playing the game.
Jinshi has never confessed his true feelings before this chapter and only implied that he wanted to make MaoMao his wife.
The implications were heavy though on Jinshi's part, and as smart as MaoMao is, anyone would have guessed that MaoMao was one of the candidates for Jinshi's consort. Even the clothes she received (the ones she wore to the banquet) were also provided by Jinshi along with the hairpin. It is never stated outright but seeing as the hairpin was from Jinshi, the clothes are also implied to be the same.
More or less she's always deliberately ignoring the possibility of having anything to do with him, that is more than professional. Some may call it denial, I call it dense. Maybe, to some extent, she herself is not aware of her feelings because she never lets herself feel anything.
Even Suiren pointed it out pretty early in the manga, that maybe it's MaoMao's way of being reserved. We need to keep in mind that MaoMao is an unreliable narrator and it's more of what she does, rather than what she says that makes a difference.
Even in the chapter that I have quoted above, she had every reason to leave Jinshi, she wasn't working for him after all. But she stayed to make tea for him, even after the fact that she had a long day too. She was almost just as exhausted as Jinshi and yet she was there preparing medicinal tea, so that he could get a better sleep.
Maybe she herself is yet to realise just how deep her feelings run. Till vol 12 she seems to have accepted them, but she still is yet to acknowledge their depth. Maybe it's because of her childhood.
It's not a traumatic backstory but MaoMao had a sad childhood nonetheless....
She was raised by her grand uncle and her real father was eccentric, who scared her. Her mother must also appear to be kind of demonic to her, since she was desperate enough to cut MaoMao's Pinky finger and send it to Lahan. So it's safe to say that MaoMao never received proper parental affection. And adding to the fact that, a brother is not exactly an ideal place for raising a child.... especially when the birth of MaoMao was the one thing that brought the brothel to its knees...even if being born wasn't her choice.
Plus MaoMao stated it herself that when she was a baby, no one would come to sooth her until their work was finished, implying that even if MaoMao and her brothel sisters are close, they are not that close. A mother's love is different and she never received it. No one can love you more than your mother and MaoMao was deprived of that. She soon realised that no one was coming. Life is hard and she has no choice but to face it!
So, she got interested in poison.
Maybe she doesn't love herself or her life as much as she says / pretends she does. She's always like "yeah, I would very much like my head to be with my body" and "if I stay low profile maybe I can survive her" etc but maybe deep down that's not the case. Maybe that's why she loves poison so much. The implications are crazy.
And to break MaoMao's shell, Jinshi has no choice but to be a bit more forceful at times? At least that's how I interpret that choking scene. Jinshi was angry at MaoMao because she deliberately suggested him to marry consort Rishu and danced with Rikuson.
Even if Jinshi never said it outright, he was giving hints the entire time.
But well the tables turned and MaoMao topped him instead, lol (vol 7) and later we even see that our little stray cat has accepted Jinshi and she's ready to be in a relationship with him (vol 12).
Plus she is intrigued by the process of birth (she wants to eat her baby's placenta, it's kind of uggghhh.... but anyways, that MaoMao we're talking about, she's just weird that way)
Maybe not after too long she'll realise that if she has to give birth, she can only have it with Jinshi and no one else.
Thinking about when Adams actor Jake Abel said that Adam would be fucking delighted to know Michael immediately betrayed the Winchesters after his death like underrated character trait of Adam Milligan is how much he HATES Sam and Dean. I feel like Adam is a pretty easy character to mess up or misinterpret because if you pull him too far from being just a guy you risk making him into a Crazy Winchester which is the exact opposite of what he is but I genuinely believe he would let them both die with little conflict. And you know what good for him, I'm glad, Low key think Sam and Dean deserve death by him and only him ngl
Like Adam would never ask Michael to kill them but if for some reason Michael was in the bunker and Dean bumped his shoulder in the hallway and Michael decided "You know what It's Time." Adam would just be like "can't argue with that, It's Just Time." and the entire bunker would just be vaporized off the planet
BUT if a customer at the bar Adam worked at broke a chair over Adams head in a fit of rage Adam would just tell Michael "This guy is obviously an asshole but lets just call the cops and get this guy arrested" and Michael would say "He NEEDS to be accosted by an Angel of the LORD We need to call upon HELLFIRE-" And then the guy would just get arrested
ALSO THOUGH if a guy tried to repeatedly get Adams number and flirt with him Adam would say "I'm litterally going to outlive this guy by centuries dont kill him now i wanna show up at his deathbed in 50 years itll be so funny" and Michael would be like "What should i make us for dinner maybe hawawshi how do you feel about hawawshi?" and then that guy would die of a unrelated heart condition 2 hours later.
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