The Idea Of A Clutch Purse Is Nightmarish To Me. The Whole Point Of Bags Was So We Could Escape The Torment

still so funny to me that gross has another meaning besides icky and is used seriously all the time. your gross annual income. your disgusting nasty amount of money you earn the whole year. pathetic

A show or movie doesn't need to have a unique story. It only needs to be good at telling it's story.

Just read this in Jane Eyre:

Breakfast was over and none had breakfasted.

The modern equivalent of 'Christmas isn't Christmasing this year.'

The lack of consequences for Pen is just hilarious. I get that its fantasy but there's a limit to being unrealistic.

It seems to me the writers wrote themselves in a corner by having Pen write all that shit in the first 2 seasons to stir up drama and move the plot forward. Then they started scrambling when they had to make her look good for her own season.

Also why show us all that backstory with Cressida if that's the ending she was gonna get. Its the poorest writing I've seen.

What the fuck show?

If Cressida is a monster for publishing one little cue card worth of Whistledown that doesn’t even slander anyone, how much worse of a monster is Penelope, who has been releasing a double sided three columned sheet consistently for years at this point?

If Cressida is a monster with a feud with Eloise and her family when she hasn’t even written anything about Eloise or the Bridgerton’s (yet?) how much more is Penelope a monster for her very overt resentment of the Bridgerton’s (for being what? Prettier than her? More loving? As if the Bridgerton’s aren’t chock full of dysfunction) a resentment so strong that it bleed into her writing that consistently attacked the Bridgerton’s?

If Eloise has put her family in danger by inviting Cressida into her home, how much danger did she put them in by inviting Penelope into their home?

If Eloise should never have befriended Cressida - how much more should she have never befriended Penelope?

If Cressida is evil for pretending to be Lady Whistledown how much more is Penelope evil for BEING Whistledown?

It can’t be one rule for one and another rule for another?

What is this moral essentialism? Where when Cressida does something it is bad because she is bad and when Penelope does a worse thing for long it’s fine because Penelope is good?

Well I am sorry show but I don’t believe that some people are good and some people are bad - I think the morality of people’s actions is what defines their personal morality.

Why didn’t they have Eloise doing her speech about feeling upset and guilty about inviting a viper with a grudge in to her home, and make it about Penelope?

Because having her say it about Cressida feels fake

But having her say it about Penelope would have felt real - and would have been one of the desperately needed consequences for her.

face

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

One of my favorite moments while reading Emma is when Mr. John Knightley is absolutely flabbergasted that Mr. Weston would rather attend a party with several people than sit at home near a fire.

You and me both Mr. Knightley

Women saying "He has a good sense of humour" means his jokes made me laugh.

Men saying "She has a good sense of humour" means she laughs at my jokes.

While it was a longshot, I do appreciate that Gimli did try chopping the Ring up with an axe first. It was worth a shot, and they'd have all felt like bloody idiots if they took the Ring all the way to Mordor only to find out it could have been chopped up by an axe all along.

On the second viewing, I realized that House of Usher is also a story about how Boomers made a deal with the devil - an easy life with the consequences to be paid by future generations. Gen X got to reap the most benefits from this deal - got to live longer and get more established and see where they were supposed to be able to get before they got cut off at the knees. Millennials got less - struggling to establish themselves in careers when the world is falling apart, ending up in weird digital jobs like streaming video games or throwing parties, retreating into nihilistic hedonism to deal with it. And Gen Z - poor Gen Z may not even get started, so many of them struck down before they can even really live by war and climate change and gun violence and disease. They're young enough and innocent enough to see what's wrong with the world but not powerful enough to fix it. And then the Boomers sit back and complain about how it's everyone else's fault - that they're all greedy and lazy and the cause of their own destruction - and refuse to hand over power when they should, choosing instead to collapse the entire house around them in their senility.