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Hi! Fic Anon again, I was asking about the show relationship between them but now it made me wonder what changed between them in your fic with the additional trauma/secret?

Have a nice day!

Hi Fic Anon!

I think the big thing that changed between them in my fic is that what happened to Eloise forced Anthony to view her as a person and not just a duty.

Which isn’t to say that I think that Anthony doesn’t think of his siblings as people, but I do think he thinks of them as part of his duties and responsibilities. Founding out he failed to protect Eloise from harm forces Anthony to step back and realise that the systems that he puts so much stock in are flawed, and treating his siblings like a duty he must perform has systemic flaws in doing what he actually wants to do which is protect them.

At the same time it also forced Anthony to reevaluate his relationship with Eloise, as she becomes a higher priority for him.

From Eloise’s perspective I think it helps her feel closer to Anthony to learn the lengths he goes to get justice for her, like yes in some ways Anthony is fulfilling his sanctioned patriarchal duty which is not nessecarily what Eloise wants on a Macro scale but on a personal one it means that her brother cares about her and cares that she got hurt.

And also I feel like the closer presence of undeniable sexual violence to Anthony’s home forces him to reflect on the pitfalls of his misogynistic society, while also drawing him closer to an Eloise who he is taking more seriously, who can point out the misogynistic traps those around fall into.

Basically in my universe it acts as a traumatic catalyst that brings Anthony and Eloise closer. (As well as Eloise to all her brothers)

Which isn’t to say that the closeness to her brothers is a silver lining that I have created out of writing a story where horrific things have happened to Eloise, but I was trying to be as realistic as possible and sometimes trauma bonds people!

Thanks for this question! It’s been fun thinking about that fic

#asks #my fics #we’ll drive slower round the corner #cw sexual violence discussion #Bridgerton

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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It’s interesting how when it’s Wille having anxiety and outbursts it’s an embarrassing problem that needs to be fixed. But when it’s the queen who is depressed, sick and suffering from insomnia it’s illness that she needs rest and care for

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#there is a way to do ethical true crime media #and that is by invitation or consent from the victims family #e.g. when the family of a missing person asks an investigative journalist to look into it and report on it in hopes of finding the loved one #the vulture culture of social media and pop culture true crime is horrific and unethical

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Hi! I am the anon about the Bridgerton fic again! I agree with what you said about Penelope I mourn the potential she had as a villain/anti-hero. I am so excited to read about s2, Kate is one of my favourite character, I am so excited to see her interact with Eloise.

Also Anthony and Eloise, we don't see them interact much in canon. What do you think their dynamic is actually like? You don't have to answer it if you don't want to ☺.

And i was wondering how do you feel about s3?

Have a lovely day! And good luck with the writing!

Hi Fic Anon!

I guess you asking about what I think their dynamic is like in the show without the extra trauma/secret that I inserted into my fic that lead to a deeper relationship between them?

Mostly I think their relationship is the kind of fond confusion you have for a sibling that you love but don’t really get. Anthony won’t have spent too much time with Eloise before becoming the Viscount having spent his adolescence at Eton, so missing her childhood.

I also don’t think Anthony understands how much Eloise is actually uncomfortable/insecure/angry in and about the system. For Anthony the system is what structures his life, and defines it, for Eloise the system is what represses and distresses her.

Yet I also can’t help but think they are alike in a lot of ways, they are both stubborn and principled, and a bit too inclined to think they are right about everything, it’s just that Anthony gets away with it because those are flaws that are kind of respected in Partriarchal figures, whereas Eloise’s stubbornness and self-righteousness is viewed as something really terrible because it directly conflicts with the way women are supposed to be.

So yeah I think that Anthony loves Eloise but isn’t very close to her because she is confusing, and also he doesn’t take her totally seriously. And Eloise loves Anthony but is likely frustrated and feels distant from him due to his embrace of the systems she rails against. And because of that neither of them see how alike they are.

Of course in my fic, what happened to Eloïse serves as a catalyst to make Eloise more vulnerable and in need of support, and also forces Anthony to look at the ways in which the system is corrupt

As for season 3 - I’m interested in seeing what they do with Cressida and Eloise, and I am still holding a tiny bit of hope that Penelope will face some sort of consequence for her actions before she gets her HEA, but I am not very excited to see Colin and Penelope because I don’t feel like the writers have put very much thought into the realities of the characters so 🤷‍♀️, yeah I’m excited for more Eloise, Benedict and Kanthony. I’m also excited to really met Fran for the first time properly but I do not have very high hopes for the season. I mean besides anything the repackaged DUFF storyline seems dumb and kind of offensive to the character that Penelope has been so far. Penelope isn’t a DUFF she just hasn’t been trying because she has been to busy being Lady Whistledown and mooning after Colin.

Thanks for the Ask 💜

#asks #bridgerton #Anthony & Eloise #eloise bridgerton #anthony bridgerton #anti penelope featherington #kind of

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Thinking about Felice, the girl whose mother shamed her for her size and not being able to fit into the Lucia dress, wanting to be a chef.

Thinking about Felice reclaiming a relationship to and a love for food as part of her defiance of white western beauty standards

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Oh! I am the anon that talked about the Bridgerton fic. I forgot to mention Penelope! I love how clearly you are setting her up to be a villain! I love her as a villain or an anti hero, the fact that they are trying to put her up as the "good guy" just makes me dislike her.

I just love Colin's thoughts when Penelope told him about Marina's previous lover and that she clearly had the opportunity tell that Marina is pregnant without outing her to the whole Ton.

Have a nice day!

I think Penelope is interesting when they let her be a really complicated villain/anti-hero/antagonist

When they try and make her out to be a victim or a hero or in the right is when she becomes so much less complex and interesting.

Like what is more interesting, a girl whose jealously and resentment towards her friends who are only marginally more privileged than her driving her to use her vast intellect to build a business that allows her to leverage her ability to hear gossip into money, power and a feeling of self-worth. Who gets addicted to that feeling of power to the point it gets her and her friends in trouble and ruins her friendships, but still can’t let go of the rush of power and superiority it brings?

Or the girl who is a tragically misunderstood entrepreneur, who is right about everything actually?

Plus in my fic universe the Bridgerton family has a real potentially ruinous secret in their closet, more than Daphne and the Duke making out and needing to get married quick. No if what happened to Eloise were to become public knowledge it would ruin her and mostly ruin the family, so Colin would have a completely different perspective on a family member who is so willingly divulges her cousins secrets to a non-family member than he does in the show.

He might not be connecting the dots but he recognises the part of Penelope that views other people’s secrets not as private things to be protected but as resources to try and get something.

Thanks!

I hope you have a good day too!

#asks #my fics #we’ll drive slower round the corner #bridgerton #anti penelope featherington

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blaming Pen for being a wall flower. Pen wouldnt be able to be friends with kate, not even a possiblity because kate is a bad person, all so arrogant and bad

I do not blame Penelope for being a wallflower. I blame her for her actions towards people, and the information she uses against people.

Kate never called out the queen, dismissed her feelings over her husband, never wrote chronicles that fed on the dirty laundry of society. She never used secrets for her own gain, never blackmailed. She never called someone she doesn't know a beast in a widely spread platform..Her only wrongs were falling in love with her sister's fiancé, and being overprotective of her to the point of keeping her blind. And she, at least, takes responsabilities for her actions, and questioned herself. Not Penelope, who still thinks she's a victim because she thinks no one notices her. But then again she blames the Bridgertons.

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blaming Pen for being a wall flower. Pen wouldnt be able to be friends with kate, not even a possiblity because kate is a bad person, all so arrogant and bad

I do not blame Penelope for being a wallflower. I blame her for her actions towards people, and the information she uses against people.

Kate never called out the queen, dismissed her feelings over her husband, never wrote chronicles that fed on the dirty laundry of society. She never used secrets for her own gain, never blackmailed. She never called someone she doesn't know a beast in a widely spread platform..Her only wrongs were falling in love with her sister's fiancé, and being overprotective of her to the point of keeping her blind. And she, at least, takes responsabilities for her actions, and questioned herself. Not Penelope, who still thinks she's a victim because she thinks no one notices her. But then again she blames the Bridgertons.

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Hi! I found you through the anti Penelope tag and I read your fic "We'll drive slower 'round the corner" and I love it so much. It made me cry and its such an interesting concept. I was wondering what inspires you to write it.

It made me think of Anthony and Eloise and I never really thought much about them because they hardly interacted and now I am really interested in what their dynamic is like.

I was wondering what do you think would have been different in s2 in this story?

Have a nice day! You are a great writer.

Thanks!!!

If you don’t mind I’ll hold off on speaking to what would be different in season 2 in the universe of the fic, because I am in the middle of writing the sequel to the story that covers season 2

As for what made me write it, a variety of things, but mostly a lot of tiny grievances that built up into one big au story.

First the way the show couldn’t seem to settle on a decision about sex education, on one hand it’s a joke that Eloise is not allowed to know how babies are made and then on the other hand the lack of sex education is a horror that almost breaks up the first major couple and leads to the female lead sexually assaulting her partner partly out of anger for being deceived due to her lack of sex education.

That annoyed me a lot, because sex education is not just about family planning it is also about giving children and teens the language and tools to recognise and report sexual abuse. So I leaned into that as a consequence that would show the flaws in the lack sex education. Then because Eloise is my favourite character and also because her pre-existing trauma around childbirth (and therefore sex) would have mingled with that additional trauma interesting ways, I chose Eloise to be the focus.

Second as someone from a large family with a lot of siblings, I had started watching the show interested in how they did the dynamic, and it was pretty accurate but I wanted to explore the dynamics more, how parentified Anthony interacts with the middle siblings (Colin, Eloise, Fran) who he is both father and brother too, unlike the older siblings (Benedict, Daphne) who got partially parentified alongside Anthony and the younger siblings who he is basically just the father of, parentified dynamics are so messy and rich, with layers of responsibility and also lack of proper authority. Plus I am just interested in Anthony who is seen to be an unusually dedicated Viscount in his responsibilities but is deemed socially negligent by his emotionally neglectful mother because he isn’t smoothing the way of his siblings and he isn’t marrying.

Plus Anthony is this epitome of masculine duty and Eloise actively rails against fulfilling her feminine duties so there is some interesting potential conflict that never comes to fruition because Anthony’s entire motivation is protecting his family, including his odd sister.

Third a whole bunch of tiny things and inaccuracies - like cigarettes, and women out in society wearing their hair down, and the fact that Benedict and Colin should be in the army/be vicars/be in the navy/be attempting to find an estate to purchase to become gentry and they weren’t, the fact Penelope is clearly the antagonist of the show but they refuse to acknowledge it.

But yeah basically there were a thousand tiny inaccuracies that bothered me, but I hated the mixed and poorly crafted messaging about sex ed, and I wanted to explore the family dynamic.

Thank you for reading the fic and liking it!! It is so wonderful to hear

#asks #bridgerton #we’ll drive slower round the corner #my fics

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why she cant call kate a beast???' i hate how POC keep saying they want equally rights and al but then you cant complain about not getting a job becasue of diversity shit if you are white, or you cant call somone a beast if it is brown. You will keep hating Pen even if she was and angel, just because you all are fatphobics. SAD SAD world.

If Eloise has the right to not listen to Pen warning, edwina had the right to not listening kate making of her telling anthony was not a good match but not saying she wanted him for herself. You all prasing cheaters and villanasing the only plus size woman is disgusting

This says a hell of a lot more about you than it does about me. There's a reason you're not saying this off anon.

ALSO A PERSON IS NEVER AN IT

And on the topic of the s2 love triangle, Anthony was just as much to blame for that mess if not more but he's conveniently the only party that gets a free pass from the fandom whereas both Kate and Edwina have been torn to shreds since the day the season dropped. I have my issues with the writing of s2, I don't like that they changed Anthony's brief interest of Edwina as a potential bride in the books into a full-blown love triangle in s2. I think it was detrimental to all 3 characters involved. It was a huge disservice to all three characters.

Also, y'all do know that this is just one show? This wasn't even Nicola's big break, her big break was Derry Girls. Now I have widely different feelings about Claire and Penelope despite the fact that they're physically the same person, its almost like the writing for them both made the difference. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

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August's Ending Was NOT "Justice"

I am astonished and frankly appalled when I see people extolling how August's storyline was concluded, lauding it as the best and most appropriate fate for him, and going on and on about how beautiful the poetic justice of it was.

And then those exact same people pat themselves on the back for being in favor of social justice, talk about how the system must be burned down, and preach about how even though it is hard to destroy institutions it is so important to keep trying.

And they do not see or understand how these two positions conflict with one another.

First, those who believe that August becoming the new Crown Prince is a fitting punishment must also be in favor of the monarchy continuing. They have to be pro-Monarchy because how else can August's "punishment" take effect? And they have to want the monarchy to reign on exactly as-is with no change or advancement because, again, August must face the exact same system that Wille did as his "punishment."

And since they want the monarchy to continue unchanged, they also are in favor of giving an unrepentant sex offender money, power, and influence. They want August to be given more money, power, and influence than Wilhelm because August will now outrank Wille. But that is "punishment" for August apparently.

They want August to be looked up to, admired, and set up as a role model, catered to, bowed down to, extolled as a leader, and have his ego continually stroked. Because that is "punishment" for him. They want August to represent (fictional) Sweden on the world stage. That's his "punishment."

"But it's "punishment" because August will be sad!" they cry! "He has lost Sara and won't be able to do anything he wants! The show told us so", they exclaim!

What the show actually depicted was that what August wants is to have authority, admiration, class privilege, and a system that will coverup his wrongs. Guess what he gets as Crown Prince: Check, all of the above.

August's desires are completely in synch with what the Crown wants *and* August is good at the slick, surface level glad handing and PR required. The Court can with utmost discretion make sure he gets treatment for any addiction or disorders he may have; the military service can offer the structure and chain-or-command he adores; the Palace, which he can control more completely than he ever controlled Hillerska because he is the only option, will be his new home; no more need to make up lies to appease others, Royal PR will do that for him. And now Vincent has a direct line of access to and influence over the Monarchy. But August is the one being "punished" here.

"But he's lost Sara!!!" Sara was right, his feelings for her will pass because they weren't about her, they were about the way she made him feel. There will be lots and lots of women who will be more than happy to make him feel good about himself.

Those who are happy with how August's storyline ended are happy that the cis het rich white male got away with every crime he committed without even being subjected to public shaming or ridicule, or any loss of status and instead was given his heart's desire. Because he may regret it one day. And that is sufficient "punishment" for him. Right.

Guess I was wrong for wanting to see Prince Andrew prosecuted and made to account for his actions. He's been punished enough apparently, is continually being punished in fact, because he is a royal and must resign himself to all the indignities that come with being the 1% of the 1%. Good on King Charles to make sure he is oh so "punished."

August's ending was perfect poetic justice! Just once, it would be nice to get actual justice served on the person that represented classism, racism, sexism, all the "isms" and more. But no, not even in a work of fiction. The rich white man wins again.

Maybe Young Royals is a realistic drama after all.

#it’s a punishment #because the show makes it clear that a life of restriction and lack of choice is a punishment #plus if the royal court couldn’t handle Wille have anxiety and anger issues #how on earth are they going to respond to August’s drug addiction and eating disorder #plus August unlike Wille has no back up #and also thinks that he wants this #the Royal Court isn’t going to give a damn about his mental health #and it’s going to kill him #and yes he gets a bunch of privilege in the meantime #but this is all extrapolation anyway #and the Swedish monarchy in the show is hanging on by a thread #so who knows if it would survive it’s third crown Prince in a year #and also Wille and Simon are bound by NDA’s but they are not the only ones who know about August’s role in the sex tape #so it is forseeable that August is going to crash and burn mentally trying to survive being crown Prince and then the privilege #would be ripped away from him anyway #by a public that doesn’t want a sex criminal as king #which is the difference between august and Prince Andrew #Prince Andrew is never going to be King #so the British monarchy (derogatory) can survive him

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

#fabric is so so so water intensive to make #a single piece of clothing should last several years at least

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why she cant call kate a beast???' i hate how POC keep saying they want equally rights and al but then you cant complain about not getting a job becasue of diversity shit if you are white, or you cant call somone a beast if it is brown. You will keep hating Pen even if she was and angel, just because you all are fatphobics. SAD SAD world.

If Eloise has the right to not listen to Pen warning, edwina had the right to not listening kate making of her telling anthony was not a good match but not saying she wanted him for herself. You all prasing cheaters and villanasing the only plus size woman is disgusting

This says a hell of a lot more about you than it does about me. There's a reason you're not saying this off anon.

ALSO A PERSON IS NEVER AN IT

And on the topic of the s2 love triangle, Anthony was just as much to blame for that mess if not more but he's conveniently the only party that gets a free pass from the fandom whereas both Kate and Edwina have been torn to shreds since the day the season dropped. I have my issues with the writing of s2, I don't like that they changed Anthony's brief interest of Edwina as a potential bride in the books into a full-blown love triangle in s2. I think it was detrimental to all 3 characters involved. It was a huge disservice to all three characters.

Also, y'all do know that this is just one show? This wasn't even Nicola's big break, her big break was Derry Girls. Now I have widely different feelings about Claire and Penelope despite the fact that they're physically the same person, its almost like the writing for them both made the difference. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

#also yeah Edwina had the right not to listen to her sister when she said Anthony was a bad match #and Edwina acted on that right and continued to pursue Anthony #the messy actions of the characters on the show #include Eloise falling into a situationship with a working class boy #and Edwina pursuing a relationship with a charming wealthy man against her sister’s advice #are all incredibly human decisions #it’s part of why the show for all its flaws is so engaging #Penelope when viewed as a character make some really big mistakes #puts her in line with the other flawed and interesting characters #but mistakes have consequences #Eloise’s family’s social ostracsistion is worsened by her actions #Edwina’s heart and trust is hurt #and if the writing is good and consistent Penelope should face consequences too #like loss of friendship and relationship when the fact she is publishing people’s secrets #for her own amusement and financial gain #sorry that was long #I should have just made this and addition #Bridgerton #anti penelope featherington

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There are so many things anthropologically fascinating about WatcherGate. One of them is that some people think 100k a month should be enough to pay 25 employees in LA, where the cost of living is 50% more than the national average.

Now like obviously I don’t think that means viewers then MUST be happy to pay for a $6 per 4 video streaming service because it will pay those poor starving artists in LA. No. It’s overpriced, straight-up. And their employees are almost certaintly not starving. And more importantly, not the viewers’ responsibility. If the company does have to let some people go because they can’t afford them, then that is just the sad reality of the situation, and the fault of the people running the company. I also think there are a lot of other valid solutions people have proposed, particularly about scaling down their production costs.

It’s just the “100k is obviously fine for 25 employees so they’re obviously just being greedy” that bumps me. It doesn’t totally matter because the 100k number is just a fabricated number from a patreon estimate, and obviously there are other sources of revenue as well as other expenses. So we don’t have any idea how much employees are getting paid. But people did take the 100k number and try to use it to say 4k a month per employee would be enough to pay them and like… no. Maybe if all the employees were young, single, entry-level with no dependents, and they all evenly got paid 4k a month, then that would be more than fine. But 48k a year (pre-tax, mind you) is below a living wage in LA even for single people. Just something to keep in mind.

And for people saying “Well nobody said they had to work out of LA.” True. That’s not the fans’ responsibility either. But like… their company is there. They do live there. Their lives are there. Their employees are there. Their connections are there. They could move the company, but that’s an extremely drastic decision that would uproot their entire lives and probably be the same as firing their employees anyway because they’re probably not going to follow them. So yeah it’s not the fans’ responsibility, but tbh I don’t blame them for thinking of a paid subscription service before thinking of uprooting theirs and their employees’ lives. Because yikes.

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it’s funny, someone said I was “based” for calling the United States a foreign country, but…..that’s just what it is to the rest of the world! like it’s not a radical or provocative word choice, that’s literally just how the majority of people on earth view it