#rani liveblogs bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

i 100% believe Reynolds died. i think it fits well with the themes of all the older characters.

Violet, Agatha, and Charlotte all deal with the grief of aging. Of losing a husband they loved, losing a husband that offered considerable protection, and watching a husband they loved lose his mind to Something on top of old age and dementia, which is already struggle enough. All of them expected to be, if not happily married, at least comfortably married for so much longer than they ended up living with their husbands, and now all of them are struggling with what to do with their lives in the aftermath.

For Violet, there’s grief and loneliness, for Agatha, there’s loathing and instability, for Charlotte there’s isolation and the burdens of being the head of her family when the presumed head of the family is still alive but in need of extensive caretaking. There’s so many interesting parallels and contrasts between the three Mamas and I think if Reynolds died before Brimsley, it adds another rich parallel and contrast.

To be Violet, lonely and guilty for wanting affection when she is eternally mourning a husband she adored that was taken extraordinarily young.

To be Agatha, fiercely building her own power and only finding peace in widowhood even as her loneliness and yearning for affection builds.

To be Charlotte, considered a widow already due to the mental illness of her husband, both stubbornly refusing to grieve because he’s still alive but full of grief because of how he suffers.

And, if Reynolds died and left Brimsley to a long life of widowerhood, there’s the pain of being a widower without ever being allowed to marry, to have had dueling loyalties between the man he loves and the woman he serves and likely a troubled marriage - similar to Charlotte’s own troubled marriage, with those troubles being completely out of their control - and only allowed to grieve and mourn in quiet moments he has to keep to himself. Denied the public grief of Violet, the public anger of Agatha, and even the public isolation of Charlotte. A quiet, hidden, fourth widow(er) who struggles in his grief and the long, lonely years he has ahead of him, just like our beloved mamas.

#rani liveblogs bridgerton #brimsley x reynolds #IT IS DELICIOUS TO ME #violet bridgerton #agatha danbury #queen charlotte #queen charlotte spoilers #rani attempts meta #the violin cover of ‘i will always love you’ and the way brimsley is embarrassed to be caught mourning and snaps #the way the mamas all have a tendency to lash out when they feel cornered about their husbands #bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

they threw in agatha fucjing violet’s dad bc they knew that if they let those two continue the way they have been, season 4 was gonna be about agatha and violet falling in love, but a little dad fucking will not stop me from wanting those two nosy, headstrong milfs to kiss on the lips

#agatha danbury #violet bridgerton #agatha x violet #rani liveblogs bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

i absolutely caved and i’m not proud of myself but can i just say that lady whistledown in the first episode after charlote’s granddaughter has died was so bitchy lmao

#rani liveblogs bridgerton #anti penelope featherington #i cannot believe i Started this and penelope immediately pissed me off SHE WASNT EVEN ON SVREEN

[thewingedwolf]

“hide from the heavens with me.”

“you did not go over the wall!”

“no george, i did not go over the wall.”

#MAYBE I DID START CRYING WND WHAT ABOUT IT #obviously you know it’s not gonna be the happiest ending bc we all know what happened with him but GOD. #rani liveblogs bridgerton #queen charlotte spoilers

[thewingedwolf]

Violet and Agatha literally showing up alone at an art gallery just to talk about how much they yearn for love and affection and sex, almost directly mirroring Daphne and Simon going on their little art gallery date, come onnnnn those two old widows are in love let them kiss dammit

#rani liveblogs bridgerton #agatha x violet #i will populate their ship tag on my own if i have to

[thewingedwolf]

the way they are Explaining Racism in this universe is…idek it essentially feels like they’re kinda taking a Disney-fied version of 1960s segregation and transplanting it into the 1700/1800s, then giving us a background story where society was integrated not thru a civil rights movement but if remember the titans ended with julius and bertier being in love. it’s. i mean i am kind of glad we have an explanation, and i am not saying i am necessarily opposed to them essentially transplanting modern day racism into this era as a way of acknowledging racism exists while still giving them the room to tell the romantic stories they want to tell. but also can you imagine being the person in the writing room that was like “so the background story is an arranged marriage that desegregates all of europe” that person is a bazillionaire now

#this show is wild #rani liveblogs bridgerton #bridgerton #lady danbury being one of the first people of color raised to a high status makes her comment to simon really stand out now #and also tbh it really explains why she was so willing to help the sharmas. i imagine seeing kate really fight for edwina and mary #really spoke to her and her experiences. makes me love her and kate more 😭😭😭😭 #also playing the string halo was once again an inspired choice #bridgerton spoilers #queen charlotte spoilers

[thewingedwolf]

i rewatched season 2 and my opinion is that having Anthony propose to Edwina was so stupid, he should have impulse proposed to Kate (in front of Daphne, Violet, Mary, & Danbury) and she says yes, but tells him to let her break it to Edwina, so he’s trying to sneakily plan while being painfully mindful of how shitty he’s gonna look when people find out (Danbury gets Charlotte on board by pointing out they can still trick Whistledown out into the open) while Kate keeps pushing off how to tell Edwina, who is deeply bummed she wasn’t proposed to and trying to find another suitor, and Mary gets increasingly frustrated with Kate. Still max drama and sexy forbidden make outs but he’s also not literally walking down the aisle with Edwina lmao. Edwina could even find out from Lady Whistledown instead of Kate or something, if they wanted to keep up the drama, there are so many places to go with that instead of what they did lmao

#literally just up the emotionally forbidden fucking outside bc they’ve been sneaking around & fighting about it. #rani liveblogs bridgerton #violet being like ‘anthony i’m glad you’re in love but why are you the dumbest man alive’

[thewingedwolf]

a series looks us square in the face and asks us the question “do you want to know what we think would happen if the monarchy attempted to cure society of racism by arranged interracial marrying?”

is the series bridgerton OR a song of ice and fire????

#rani liveblogs asoiaf #rani liveblogs bridgerton #this post brought to you by me realizing grrm really went ‘so daeron and myriah try to cure racism with their marriage and it totally works’ #and then two seconds later is like ‘PSYYYYYYYYCHE BITCH U THOUGHT’ and then i was like WAIT THERES A SHOW I WAYCHRD THAY DID THIS AKSJD

[thewingedwolf]

listen, having brimsley and reynolds be in love was a genuine stroke of romance genius, but i also love the way they leaned into brimsley and reynolds both having feelings for the monarch they serve that border in the romantic. charlotte and brimsley have like, the quintessential gay and hag relationship, and i mean that kindly, she bites at him and relies on him and you see how absolutely he feels her pain as his own. but you also see that with reynolds and george! when reynolds steadies george by putting his hand on his shoulder, how he stands helplessly outside the door listening to george being tortured, there’s a sweet, romantic side to it that i love, the way it blurs the lines between their jobs and their personal lives. it works perfectly for the sort of men Brimsley & Reynolds both are; despite it causing them a host of issues, i think part of why they wind up so devoted to each other is because it’s clear they are both so devoted to charlotte and george. they love the person they’re required to care for, and it makes them love and respect each other.

#i am once again turning into a bi benedict/male sophie truther this was them testing the waters #rani liveblogs bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

one thing bridgerton is gonna do it’s gonna give you a sex montage

#can we get a kanthony sex montage next season please #rani liveblogs bridgerton #bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

do u guys think the writers for this season read the madness of sir ian mackenzie and were like “wow just found out about sanism and mental asylums that shits rough bro” and then decided to go buck wild with this season

#rani liveblogs bridgerton #i mean a little different bc ian is autistic but. #this is versailles levels of crazy actually #i also feel like whoever wrote this read rose lerner bc of how often the servants do lil gossipy stuff similar to her writing hah

[thewingedwolf]

i love that this episode is just a greatest hits of bridgerton, we got lady whistledown saying thee most out of pocket shit, charlotte having trouble showing empathy to other people, the hero projecting his issues onto the heroine while she is simply trying to look pretty and have fun, pride and prejudice inspired hand holds that make you lose your absolute mind, we even got a lady complaining about corset, just nothing but bangers for 50 minutes straight

#love it #rani liveblogs bridgerton #queen charlotte spoilers

[thewingedwolf]

I know they’re gonna be cowards about it, but I still think the best outcome is to make Sophie Beckett a guy and make Benedict bisexual, as well as have Eloise fall in love with Marina bc the queer rep on the show still exists exclusively to make straight characters look like Good Guys, and also Marina deserves better.

#benedict bridgerton #eloise bridgerton #marina thompson #rani liveblogs bridgerton #don’t ask me who should play male Sophie bc lewis tan is busy. I think if she has to be a girl katie Leung is a good choice. but again - #Sophie should be a man. and Marina giving polin her blessing after Penelope ruined her life? Discosting. she deserves a happy ending

[thewingedwolf]

I’m just a simple gay and I think Lady Danbury and Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton should kiss on the mouth

#rani liveblogs bridgerton #agatha danbury #viscountess bridgerton #agatha x violet #lady danbury #violet bridgerton

[thewingedwolf]

Someone said Anthony is too serious and that’s why they don’t like him and I totally Get That, serious heroes like him are not everyone’s cup of tea

But I do find him such a good representation of the pain of grief crashing into the responsibility of being the oldest. It’s not even just that all the expectations are on you (compounded by Anthony feeling the sting of patriarchy’s evil as he’s asked whether his mother should live or the baby and told that his mother’s own opinion doesn’t matter, which is just horrific), it’s also the fact that as the oldest, you’re often the closest, so they lean on you while they’re grieving and suddenly you’re confronted with the heavy weight that your parent is not perfect, all while grappling with the pain of your own grief.

Yes, Anthony is so solemn and serious and somber, but very suddenly I am a lot more forgiving of his combatitive relationship with his mother last season. Yeah yeah yeah, he’s a grown man, but Everyone struggles no matter what age they are when they are faced with the harsh reality that your parents dont actually know that much better than you, that they screw up just as often as you do. That + grief…yeah he lashes out at his mother, and she bites right back at him, because their relationship changed but they haven’t talked about it yet.

Idk. I’m feeling things or whatever.

#also a little high aksjd #bridgerton #rani liveblogs bridgerton #anthony bridgerton #I absolutely shit talked him last season but now like. I GET IT AKSJDJD

[thewingedwolf]

Marina talking excitedly about how her and Penelope could be like sisters, seeing a way out of the horrific circumstances she’s been forced into for the first time in a month, and meanwhile Penelope is plotting to ruin Marina’s life and reputation bc she’s jealous

#I’m - AM I SUPPOSED TO LIKE PENELOPE BC I DO NOT #rani liveblogs bridgerton #rani's liveblogging tag #anti Penelope featherington #marina thompson