It is not what you do for me that makes me love you. It's your kindness. Your empathy. How much you care. Just being you is enough, Colin.
I do not need you to save me. I just need you to stand by me. To hold me. To kiss me.
honestly here for gay francesca/Michaela and very much here for bi Benedict but are you telling me they're gonna completely ignore raging resident lesbian eloise!?!?!
I didnt read the books (bc I don't care to) but I heard eloise's story has her being pen pals with the love interest? so how's about, and walk with me here, since she's in Scotland and everyone's favourite repressed mean lesbian cressida is in Wales, they start a correspondence, first patching things up and eventually getting to scissor?
Cressida Cowper being so excited by the prospect of five thousand pounds and making all these plans of using it to fund herself is so strange, because that money would be NOTHING to the nobility if it's all they had to live off. We're talking £200 or £250 interest a year.
In Pride and Prejudice that's the same as what the Bennets will have when Mr Bennet dies - the paltry amount that will send them into genteel poverty and makes the need for the daughters to marry so urgent.
It's HALF what the Dashwood women have when they're struggling to get by in Sense and Sensibility, and can only afford the most basic of servants and live off a reduced rent in a cottage owned by a distant cousin. Their mother can't even go out to dinners often because they don't have the money to reciprocate the gesture!
Also in Sense and Sensibility it's the amount of income the living Colonel Brandon offers to Edward Ferrars produces - which was considered not enough for him and Lucy to live on.
I mean as a dowry it's not bad for someone in the middle or lower rungs of the gentry, but for NOBILITY??? And let alone a sole income source. With that sort of money Cressida either is being completely delusional that she wouldn't have to marry, or she better rent a room off a respectable woman (a house of her own would be too much - not to mention the difficulties of an unmarried young woman trying to legally sign an agreement), learn how to sew her own clothes, cook, and clean reaaaally fast.
No bc the polen sex scene had me screaming at 8 in the morning while my family was asleep and if thats not enough to convince you to watch bridgerton s3 then I implore you to think about the fact that you also get to see big titties.
Okay but I just realized how early Simon is introduced to the Bridgestons. Like, he marries Daphne and joins the family when Gregory and Hyacinth are like twelve. And even before that they know of him through Anthony but like- he’s their brother. He’s in their life longer than he won’t be. I could totally imagine them being like adopted siblings and forgetting that he’s not actually related to them like
Hyacinth: oh goodness Simon look at all those gray hairs! You have not aged well
Simon: it’s your fault you little gremlin
Gregory: is that what I have to look forward to? I don’t want to look like that!!!
Simon:… I’m not… we’re not actually blood related Greg.
Hyacinth: but that doesn’t mean there’s hope I mean look at Anthony