#i'd say you all should watch wolf children if you haven't already but expect to cry a LOT

[rinamars]

First time I watched Wolf Children was with my childhood best friend (and first love) before I lost her, and LEMME TELL YOU when you brought it up in stbn I just knew I'd be balling my eyes out like Erwin had I the strength to watch it again. (all the homies cry during WC) anyway girl u better stop the wolf children reblogs or im gonna come get you and thatd be very unfortunate

that's completely understandable, especially since it's tied to such a bitter memory 🥺 and really i think that if a person doesn't cry while watching wolf children there's something wrong with them ngl

howwver, for the sake of your mental health as well as mine, i will refrain from sharing any other similar posts in the future 🤭

[ladykatebridgerton]

I'd like to offer another point of view on Edmund being a rake. From what I remember of Violet's novella in the second epilogues collection, Edmund's personality really struck me most as closest to Colin: very affable and comfortable in the social scene (and also very hungry--Violet was watching him wolf down 12 tea cakes, or something LOL) but not a manhoe. He and Violet were both virgins on their wedding bed. But I would agree that I think he's also kind of a reluctant viscount (1)

but only in the sense that he did think his elder sister Billie (aside - so while Anthony is the firstborn Bridgerton, his father wasn't) was really more suited to it. But there's also the sense that he grew up expecting it and so would have prepared for it. I didn't read all the Rokesby books and the ones that I did read, I haven't read closely, so I might be missing some facts/book canon. From what I remember, in the last Rokesby book, where Edmund's sister Georgiana marries Edmund's best friend Nicholas Rokesby, Edmund and Violet already had three children (Colin was a baby). That puts Edmund at around 26-27 years old, and his father was still alive so Edmund ascended to the viscountcy already established in his marriage and children, and at a more advanced age. I think that would have given Edmund the requisite preparation, life experience and wisdom, anchored by a happy family life. It's likely Anthony really did see him as larger than life and more than he was; but I also think that it was a fair assessment of Anthony as "Viscount Bridgerton," though unfair of Simon to compare Anthony with Edmund in the title. Anthony came into the responsibility much too early, and as Kate pointed out, without his father to guide him to manhood. It was also mentioned that Edmund and Violet really looked at Anthony's birth as a natural addition to the family rather than the birth of an heir, so I would imagine his upbringing to be less about duties, until a more appropriate time that unfortunately didn't come. (And so Kate Sheffield enters into the picture and my OTP is born. This will spark another whole essay so I'm going to end her and stop taking over your askbox. Thank you for the space!!!) - ends

My ask box is always open space. Feel free! Lol. But yes, I totally forgot he was a virgin upon marriage, I didn’t read Violet’s novella (yet). From my recollection though, I thought he was still the oldest but Billie was just much more interested and better? But I could certainly be wrong. Agreed on all this though. Edmund was taught how to be the viscount and far more mature despite not wanting it. He had guidance from his father and he also, at that point, already had Violet. He wasn’t a perfect peach from day one that’s for sure and probably screwed up a lot, I’d say. And agreed, Anthony not only came to it much earlier, but he came to it after a tremendous tragedy, at 18, with 6 siblings and a pregnant mother. That’s too much for even someone who’s got everything together! (This is a whole essay and it should be, lbr.)