#but then again I'm certainly thinking about it on a plane 😂

[freepassbound]

1. Think of your three closest friends - would you have sex with any of them? Have you already?

2. Where’s the most unusual place you’ve masturbated?

9. What’s your darkest fantasy?

11. Would you rather have sex on a beach, on a plane, or in the bathroom of a fancy restaurant?

(Did you notice there were 2 number 2s in this list? 😄)

1: No, and no.

2: On a bus, probably? (It was a charter bus taking students back to campus, maybe a third to a quarter full; nine-hour drive, mostly at night)

9: I'd say a total loss of autonomy - the "actually being their toy"-type ones.

11: I'd go with sex on a beach; on the rocks, though (or rather a big rock) - no one wants sand in their junk! 😂

(No, I did not. 😂)

[mgopinoon]

It's been a few days since that whole plane thing, and I still can't wrap my head around it. I have seen the discussion here and on twitter, but to me this whole thing of "Austin deeply in love" just doesn't fit with everything else we've seen this year. Yeah, it's possible he's just good at hiding it, but what's the point of that? Everyone knows they're together. I just keep being reminded of all the times we've seen him with her in the last few months, and it just doesn't make sense. I remember when she was trying to push him away from fans at the theatre or when she was all up on another man, it just doesn't seem like love to me, I'm sorry. Her actions certainly don't scream loving gf. And I'm sorry but a man in love won't publicly follow a tabloid that makes her and her parents look bad. He won't like suggestive stuff on ig. And a man in love would make an effort to be with his gf when she has something big happening in her career, and she would also not immediately fly back to LA when her bf is in town, that she hasn't seen in over a month just to have dinner with friends. She keeps following all these new it guys, who also like her pics from like 2017. I know people think we just want to hear only things that we want to, but I just can't ignore all the things that have happened this year to just make this one thing believable, cause someone who likes them together told me to. Again, not saying it's not possible, it's just strange to me, that's all.

I don't find any sense to the whole situation either, one doesn't know what their relationship is like behind closed doors, but what you see on the outside is a couple that is disconnected from each other. Austin never participates in Kaia's projects and she acts like a single girl looking for guys to hang out with. I know a couple where from afar you could tell that one of the 2 was not really connected to the relationship and they lasted 7 years 😂😂, they finally broke up because there was infidelity, I hope this doesn't happen with them and they don't continue to make that relationship last that doesn't look good at all, but people have to learn to let go sometimes when it's clear that things aren't going well and that they don't really love you as one would like. I have never found any sense in publicly showing yourself as a consolidated couple and then not being able to talk about it or not being able to upload any photos to social networks because then the relationship automatically becomes "private". Austin has done a lot of things to show that his relationship is going badly and so is Kaia, I hope they let go and can do better, because for me they are like water and oil.

[jeonqkooks]

jen dearest 🤍 i got myself some time during my lunch break to reply to you ; u ; but how exciting that you had a great time back at home and seeing all the people you missed the last little while. i know the feeling you described, almost... a mix of guilt and grief for "visiting" home and not staying home, for "leaving behind" the ones who probably want you by their side the most. i feel that way every time i see my grandparents, and they are only a couple cities over from me... i cannot imagine that sort of strain on your heartstrings after hopping on the plane 🥺 but although that feeling doesn't really get any better, life does get bigger — so in comparison to the last time, hopefully your visits home become easier to carry with experience. (did you try bánh canh like we last discussed 😂?)

those resolutions — or at least, aspirations to set forth this year! — sound perfectly reasonable to me ☺️ i hope you get to achieve them, or even an inkling of all, so you can full power experience them later! as for me — i may tap back into writing, but for original characters of my own; maybe even poetry? how fun would that be hehe i'm also looking to move along with work — things have been going well in my role, and my team definitely trusts me with managing the office — but the company itself and the compensation is next to nothing, sadly. but cheers to see where our professional roads lead ^^~ any new country in particular you're looking to come to?

my love and i are still going strong 🥰 it will be 7 years together in february! things have been sort of picking up a notch — we've discussed engagement/marriage to our families and it makes me feel so funny because!!! i!!! am!!! baby!!! (see: turning 28 later this year, my goodness 😨) who knows what will happen by this year but if things happen... i'll be sure to tell you 🤍

i'm so dearly content that you found that passion and rhythm again to write; especially almost every day! how absolutely exciting ; u ; ! when the muse has been locked in, it's hard to let go in the original rush of it all... may you enjoy the ride as it continues on hehe either way, i certainly hope the stay fandom has been treating you kindly and have become a safe place for you to travel to often. you only deserve the utmost best, after all.

until next time, sweetheart~

write soon. thương thương with all my heart,

cee 🤍

yeah it’s very bittersweet 🫠 i do still get emo sometimes thinking about it. yesterday i just sat down on the couch and stared at nothing for like 15 minutes after i looked at something i brought back from home. but yeah since i’m gonna try to come visit more often, hopefully the withdrawal won’t be as bad as this time 😔

bánh canh completely slipped my mind !! 😭 there’s actually quite a few things that i didn’t get to eat even though i was trying to tick everything off my list lol. from now on i’ll have to try and be more productive whenever i go back 😂

oh writing !! i hope you find the time and enjoyment in writing again. i miss your writing (and maybe!jk) sm :(( but i know that whatever it may be, poetry or your own oc’s, you’re gonna be amazing

i’m so glad that work is going well for you. and love !! that’s exciting news !! for now i can only hope that you two are as happy as can be. but fingers crossed for more wonderful news in the future <3 :’)

i’m planning to go to nyc later this year for a trip - maybe september, we’re still thinking - so i might be in the same timezone as you !!

thank you !! day by day i feel better about writing since the new muse has come into my life. getting back in touch with creativity again has really brightened up my life and it’s honestly kinda silly how much a good fandom experience can make me so happy lol. i hope that side of tumblr will continue to be as good as now for as long as possible bc it’s really been bringing me so much joy :’)

i always look forward to your messages. thank you for checking in, boo <3 happy tết in advance !! love you always, thương thương 🤍

[wenellyb]

Different anon, but I think the previous anon is basically right. Anthony is afraid of love per his convo with his mother, he does not want to be with someone he loves, so realizing he has genuine feelings for Kate is a huge problem, he’s running scared, so he proposes to Edwina. Obviously it’s silly, but I think the writers decided at the outset that they wanted him and Edwina to make it to the altar for the sake of drama.

Not a book reader myself, but I never saw anything romantic in his actions and feelings for Edwina. That was literally why he chose her, because he felt no draw to her. I also think he had no intention of her falling in love with him. He was aiming for a nice, suitable marriage. Nothing more due to his trauma. The proposal was a shocking moment to me though. I had no idea the show would take his relationship with Edwina as far as they did 😬

Hi different Anon!!!!

If you don't mind, I'll start by the last part of your Ask, because I'm with you on that...I really didn't think they'd take the relationship with Edwina so far...the proposal...and then the wedding? WTF???

I agree that Anthony wanted nothing more because of his trauma, and that's why he had decided to propose to Edwina, but then he changed his mind during the dinner scene, and then after his talk with Daphne, he changed his mind again and proposed to Edwina in a very dramatic way.

When I say that the scene was romantic, I wasn't implying that Edwina and Anthony had romantic feelings towards each other. What I meant was that the scene was shot in a very romantic way.

The timing, the fact that he was still hesitating the night before, him running towards Edwina, staring at her and her only while kneeling, the shocked faces on his family member faces, it's all very dramatic and romantic-movie-like but the scene was focusing on Edwina not Kate.

If I have to give you an example in the modern setting, it's like having a guy chasing a woman through the airport as she's about to catch her plane, if you have a story with a love triangle, you wouldn't pick the big romantic gesture scene for the woman the main character doesn't end up with right? They would keep the dramatic and romantic scenes for the woman the MC ends up with in the end...But somehow Bridgerton didn't do that.

If Anthony had proposed during the dining scene like he had planned to...we would have had a normal proposal scene for a marriage of convenience, we wouldn't have seen shocked faces because they all would have been expecting it. But the showrunners chose another path, a more confusing one 😂

That's why while watching that scene, I wondered if Edwina and Anthony were the endgame couple after all...because it certainly looked that way in the scene...Not in a "they're in love" kind of way, but in a "this is the main couple and let me tell you how they will fall in love" type of way, like the beginning of a slow burn.

A character finding out that it isn't always the answer is also a common trope in romance, I'm thinking about Sense and Sensibility.

"He had no intention of her falling in love with him. He was aiming for a nice, suitable marriage. Nothing more." ==> These are your words not mine anon, but they do feel like the blurb of a romance novel right? or the premise of a love story... That were I thought the show was going because of that scene. It felt so out of place, if you think about the main romance storyline.

Please keep in mind that all of this is only about the proposal scene, not the rest of the show. If you remember my original post, I was talking about how the proposal scene was bad writing if they were planning on making Kate and Anthony the endgame couple because of the way it was scripted, and shot. That scene set Edwina and Anthony as the main couple, not Kate and Anthony.

TL:DR: The drama of that proposal scene and the romantic pace made me believe that I had read the trailers wrong and that the show was shifting towards an Anthony and Edwina as the endgame couple but in a slow burn type of way.