#and doesn’t she marry like some old man 😕😕

[dulcewrites]

I keep seeing (hilarious) tweets about how Floris Baratheon was a victim of the dance. And like yeah… bc imagine you get betrothed to marry a sexy dragon riding Prince (who literally rules for a period of time), and you don’t even get married. I’d burn the red keep to the ground 😭

[rachaeljurassic]

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Dot. Wow. Thinking about how much she has changed blows my mind. Phryne employing her has been the best thing that could have happened to her. The growth in her confidence! She was always surprisingly brave but not necessarily in an emotional sense. But, she went from dumping Hugh because he wasn’t Catholic to dumping him because he wanted her to leave her job. She stood up for herself because of her OWN convictions, not ones that she THOUGHT she should have. But she still hasn’t lost her essential character that is kind and loving and still comforted by her faith (though after 2x12 who knows how that last one will turn out 😕). She has learned SO MUCH from Phryne without losing herself. She is stronger now than she has ever been without compromising who she is. She is so in love with Hugh but she has learned that she does not have to be the one to give up what she wants. She is a paradoxical modern woman 😉 who is still a traditional and soft, and loving. She can be all these things 🥳

And perhaps the best thing that could happen to Phryne is that she employed Dot. Not only is she invaluable to her detective activities, she has shown Phryne that you CAN love somebody, you CAN be soft and let yourself be vulnerable, WITHOUT compromising who you essentially are. You can stand up to somebody and not lose their love and you can try to work things out and admit when you are wrong without feeling like you are losing the fight.

Who knows how well Hugh and Dot will do working this out (but it will work out in the end – one of the VERY few things I knew about the series was that they get married). I’m sure there will be bumps along the way but they have shown Phryne that a relationship that matters takes work and that compromise is not a dirty word.

And Hugh. For so long he seemed stuck in awestruck admiration of Dot and, apparently, the belief that they’d get married and settle down in a very traditional way (if she said yes). And tbh who can blame him? Both he and Jack grew up in a very different world where of course Dot would stop working. One reason I love things set in the 1920’s is that this is when things started to change for a lot of women. There had always been a few who bucked the trend but suddenly having freedom and autonomy was in reach for so many more (depending on where you lived of course). But in Australia women are at a point where there are some still clinging to the old ways (I suspect Rosie is in this group and obviously Aunt P lol) and those that are striking out, like Phryne and now Dot. No wonder it’s confusing to Hugh. He thought he knew the rules, but then Dot pulled the rug out from under him. He thought he was doing the right thing. He should be the one to provide for the family, it’s his duty, and hers is to make a home. That’s how his parents were, I’m sure. It is almost unbearable for him to see her hurting or in danger, as it was for Jack to imagine Phyrne killed by one of her reckless misadventures. And perhaps without Jack he’d have dug in and lost Dot. Or Dot would have caved and lost herself (though I doubt it). But Jack has also had a mental shift over the past two seasons (I suspect he was more ready and willing to respect women for what THEY wanted than your average bloke even before he met her, but he’s still of a certain age and time). He has already told Phryne that he doesn’t want her to change and would never ask that of her. He is a VERY modern man right now. And he does his best to be Hugh’s second dad and advises him gently, and Hugh’s respect for him is so great that he listens! He is willing to contemplate changing his entire perspective on life and relationships. It’s a remarkable turn around tbh. He loves her so much, he respects Jack’s opinion, he is willing to try. Like I said, I can see bumps along the way perhaps because this is NOT going to be easy for him. But he has taken his first steps 🥰

[satelitis]

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RAHHHH i hate the cherik mfs. “christine should’ve chosen erik idc!” but if u were in christine’s position u would’ve absolutely cared?? she is a victim of abuse and it is so fucking disgusting how many people still romanticize cherik despite her never once showing any romantic attraction towards him at all, and the kiss doesn’t count because she did it as a last resort in hopes of him atleast letting raoul go and every single thought and feeling she has in this book is constantly ignored because she’s meant to be this damsel is distress, especially in the movie, which i feel is overlooking her character and what she’s gone through?? nobody in the story has actually cared what she thinks and what she wants because she’s beautiful and sings nice, which immediately erases anything she’s thinking because it simply doesn’t matter to anybody anymore, both in the fandom and in the book/musical/movie/any adaptation. it’s also annoying as fuck how everyone’s trying to justify erik’s actions by bringing up everything raoul did wrong, but erik is the one who actually abused christine. first he pretends to be the angel of music to gain christine’s trust, meaning he’s been lying to her since the moment they first met, and also using her dead father to manipulate her into trying to make her fall in love with him, and not taking no as an answer. it’s also rlly important to remember infatuation can be different than love in christine’s case. she was infatuated with the idea of him being an angel sent by her dead father, she wasn’t in love with erik. in most adaptations, christine is between the ages of 15 and 20, and the phantom is always over 30, this can count as grooming (directed at the mocie) despite the age christine is still a student and he is still her teacher, he has a position of power over her that other characters like raoul or meg or mme giry don’t have. “angel or father, friend or phantom, who is it there staring?” — direct quote from wandering child in act 2. she’s still confused about who he is and if he’s going to hurt her or not and what his intentions for her are. multiple songs in the musical also clearly demonstrate how scared she is of him, and rightfully so, after he murdered multiple people around her, some even in front of her, and kidnapped her twice. not to mention how he also tried to kill raoul, her fiancé, several times. the conversation she has with raoul on the rooftop in the book, she’s hesitant to be there because she has no privacy and erik is always watching her in some way so she can’t even talk to raoul for a few minutes without fearing for her life. back to the kiss in the final lair, despite how many interpretations there are, she has always cursed his name in the few moments leading up to kiss, and she only ever actually kissed him because she didn’t know if he was going to hurt her or not, it must’ve been terrifying for a 20 year old to have to kiss a man she doesn’t actually know as an attempt to save her life and possibly raouls. in the book the lives of countless parisians have been placed in her hands and erik is actively trying to force her to marry him as she can hear raoul in the torture chamber every so often simultaneously, knowing she can’t even help him. the mfs who try to tell me this isn’t abuse are the same mfs who only like the phantom because they think he’s hot 😕

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OH MY GOD TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUTA MY MOUTH and the cherik stan’s are the hostile ones who get defensive bc they know deep down that christine belongs w raoul and NOT FUCKING ERIK

[firsttarotreader]

Hi! how you doing? 😊 so, I was reading your past posts and there was one from an account that has astrology knowledge and that made a post about P's possible astrology chart. She stated she don't believe in Pedro being a capricorn moon and although I agree that, considering a list of things that are sure quite unfitting for someone with a moon in cap, I'd also like to point out that the way how one's was raised and their life traumas can strongly influence at their behavior regardless of their natal chart. A 47 year old capricorn moon and venus in taurus person should had had, at least, 2 or 3 long-term relationships during their lives by now and by long-term I mean at least 7 years each relationship. Earth is the best element to that, they LOVE stability and that extends to friendships aswell and although Pedro have some long-term friends he also have this habit of spending X amount of time being super friends with a person and then, boom, we never see him hanging out with said person anymore. He also never was married which, for this configuration, is VERY unlike and he also has stated more than once a desinterest in having children which again it's weird 'cause earth element people LOVE to procriate! lol so all of that leads me to believe in two possibilities: he's not a cap moon but a sag one like your friend said OR he is one very very traumatized man and I feel sorry for him because he's basically denying his true nature 😕

Hello! Ohh, I see, and it’s true, being the commitment-phobe that he is, still single and with probably no long term relationship so far, it doesn’t really fit like you just explained! Thank you for sending that! 💜💜