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Penelope of Sparta remains unphased by her husband's war crimes.

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I love how popular Eurymene is in the EPIC fandom even though Ctimene's not even in the freaking musical.

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Sooo.. Epic is finally done…

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Sometimes a family is a vengeful gang owner, a witch on drugs, a spider, a dyslexic runaway, a bisexual with a fantastic hat collection and a soldier who survived a cult

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i love odypen art indiscriminately but most of it pictures odysseus as taller than penelope and every time i see it. a small part of me whispers "there is no way she's shorter than him". like please this is our short king

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Theo, Cressida, and Benedict being the only people who really listen to Eloise is something that makes me so emotional.

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if you're not giving eloise a girl BRING BACK THEO

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"that you could be so cruel" ok correct me if i'm wrong but does penelope featherington not run a gossip rag that exist solely to publish unsubstantiated rumors about women she doesn't like for various reasons that have profoundly negative repercussions on those women (didn't the publication of marina's pregnancy lead to marina almost dying in her quest to terminate said pregnancy??????) and has in fact used that same rag to put not just colin's entire family but also specifically colin's sister, her best friend, through a significant amount of grief and strife that came as a direct result of that rag?

but colin's the cruel one? because she happened to eavesdrop on a conversation where he said he doesn't wanna date her? that's cruelty but all the other stuff isn't?

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“Eloise got into her business,” is such a weird way to frame the second half of season three because Colin isn’t a random stranger, he is her brother and, therefore very much her business.

Not all families are close, but with the way Penelope stans expected Eloise to shut up and let Colin marry someone lying to him, I question if you like your own siblings.

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Penelope:

Betrayed the trust of those closest to her including friends, namely Eloise and Marina, and her own family

Nearly ruined/ruined multiple people's reputations out of jealousy (Daphne & Marina)

Straight up attacked people who never had a bad word to say about her (Kate, Edwina, Anthony, Daphne)

Nearly ruined her own family's reputation

Nearly destroyed the Bridgerton's reputation

If she truly had Eloise's best interests at heart THERE WERE OTHER WAYS TO GET HER OFF QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S SUSPECT LIST. Eloise wasn't out in season 1, she wasn't present for most of the events Lady Whistledown described. Tell the Queen directly about Theo as she loves a love story. Or you know reveal herself. But no protecting her secret identity took priority.

Destroyed an actual working woman's business (the seamstress from last season) for personal gain (to get Genevieve Delacroix on side after she discovered her lady whistledown secret)

Her comments about George III's mental health are shall we say yikes in qc

The way she handled the Marina and Colin situation. If she truly had Colins best interests at heart, she could've told him or Eloise directly or through another anonymous means. By publishing it, she nearly destroyed her own family's and colins reputation, and trapped Marina in a marriage that if it goes anything like the book will kill her.

But Eloise is the villain for being a young woman and pettily starting a duo with her ex best friend's enemy after learning about the above? Yeah nah.

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It aggravates me to no end that Penelope provoking the queen for fun and also running around unchaperoned at night is considered smart, but Eloise spending time with Theo is called careless and stupid and her humiliation is something that she brought on herself. Gotta love those double standards.

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i cannot believe they are going to move on from theo x eloise just like that, wasted chemistry and a wasted oportunity to show something diferent , as much as i like the seasons and parties and the husband hunt it's a bit repetitive when it's not being contrasted with working class/lower class characters stories like last seasons.

bleh.

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Eloise's Love Interests: A Comparison

Sir Phillip Crane: “you might consider shutting your mouth and using it for some other purpose”

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Theo Sharpe: "I've read all of these and I set them aside for you. I thought perhaps you might share your thoughts on them."

.......and Philoise stans wonder why we prefer Theo.

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I recently came into the possession of a pierrot and harlequin. Does anybody know if they're supposed to be in the same enclosure?

the glum looking one belongs to my friend @silverhairedhunter99 give his blog a look-see

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Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

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I seriously need people to understand that Penelope didn't wait for Odysseus for twenty years because social expectations dictated it, or because she was expected to be a faithful wife even untill she died.

Actually it was exactly the opposite: her father wanted her to remarry, some of the women wanted her to remarry, her son made her understand that if she took another husband and left home he wouldn't stop her. And at a certain point she recounts that before leaving for war Odysseus had told her that if he were to die, she could remarry whoever she liked (making sure first that Telemachus would take the throne without problems).

I need people to understand that Penelope's choice was entirely personal. She didn't remarry because her love for Odysseus had never abandoned her, because she knew that with no one else could she find that complete identity of thought and mind, that homophrosyne that she had with him.

It was not the choice of a woman who was modest and trapped by the expectations of her time. It was the choice of a woman who was freer and more independent than others, who preferred to remain without the protection of a man rather than resign herself to not having HER man.