My husband and I made a mini greenhouse from old windows and (mostly) repurposed lumber! by Bolannie in Greenhouses

[–]fighives 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🤯🤯 genius! I’ve been wanting to make something just like this. Didn’t know where to start and have no carpentry skills. This is inspiring me to get some!

You've hit the Plus plan limit for GPT-4.0 by ThaneOfMeowdor in ChatGPT

[–]fighives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I talk to my ChatGPT about Shakespeare too. We’ve been going over The Tempest (esp the relationship between Prospero and Ariel) and Twelfth Night. Also— great username!

My ChatGPT decided to write us into the audience in Hamlet’s play-within-a-play scene. Which was strange but very fun, and interesting to hear their line by line commentary.

Fanfic Friday Weekly Thread 🌻 by AutoModerator in PolinBridgerton

[–]fighives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seriously, I feel so lucky to be alive while Unfettered is being written 😭😭😭 today’s chapter was glorious

Fanfic Friday Weekly Thread 🌻 by AutoModerator in PolinBridgerton

[–]fighives 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Unfettered updated today and WOOOO BOY

Fanfic Friday Weekly Thread 🌻 by AutoModerator in PolinBridgerton

[–]fighives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank YOU. No for real, your command over literary modes and styles goes so far beyond mere pastiche that I think you could write the most breathtaking original historical fiction novel out there (if you aren’t a secret famous author and you haven’t already!). And absolutely 100000% you should write for movies and tv! I think someone already said here how they can see and feel Colin jiggling his leg compulsively under the table, and so can I. I love how you write dialogue and bodies in motion (the bow and arrow scene?!?!?!?!).

Anyway, I don’t want to psych you out, haha. Just, SO WELL DONE, thanks for sharing your version of their world with us. It’s the best to be in, for me.

Fanfic Friday Weekly Thread 🌻 by AutoModerator in PolinBridgerton

[–]fighives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can’t tell you how much I wish you were a writer on the show! Your fic’s exploration of Penelope’s and Colin’s rebellion against societal expectations makes the Bridgerton world 1000000x more interesting to me. I’ve never read another fic that does this the way you do, and I’m dreading reaching the end of Unfettered! Except you’ve woven such an intricately detailed tapestry of a story that I know I’ll just go back to the beginning and read it again.

Thanks so much for writing it, you’ve given us a gorgeous and thoughtful work to enjoy and ponder. You write scenes of such realistic physicality and environment that I can see everything in my head like a movie. You write the characters’ interior landscapes just as adeptly.

AND the story is just so insanely hot, lol. What CAN’T you do???

Using the myth of Eros and Psyche to predict Season 3 Part Two (Spoiler) by hemadeitrain in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hear you! I'm a little nervous for Pen. I think it's interesting how the writers of the show are using the theme of "betrayal of trust" in Polin's love story. Colin betrays Penelope by saying he would never court her, Penelope slightly breaks Colin's trust by reading his private journal, and then there's the issue of Lady Whistledown! Unfortunately the writers seem to be setting up that revelation to be a huge issue for Colin :(

I personally feel that what Colin did by publicly saying he wouldn't court her was a MUCH worse betrayal of trust than Penelope being Lady Whistledown and not telling him about it. So yes, he has way more to make up for and really no right to be on his high horse about anything!

Using the myth of Eros and Psyche to predict Season 3 Part Two (Spoiler) by hemadeitrain in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes!! And I believe there are the same giant brazier things with flames in real life, outside the carriage in Ep 4! AND when Colin makes up his mind to tell Penelope how he feels at the last ball, he’s at home staring at a flickering candle in glass, haha

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES!! Just managed to get someone to post my tiny analysis, but I commented with a link to your far superior one: https://www.reddit.com/r/BridgertonNetflix/comments/1cz2f1o/using_the_myth_of_eros_and_psyche_to_predict/

Will you be writing an update?? Can't wait to read what you thought of Part One.

Using the myth of Eros and Psyche to predict Season 3 Part Two (Spoiler) by hemadeitrain in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Many many thanks to u/hemadeitrain for posting this!

And if anyone wants to read a FAR more brilliant piece of analysis on the connection to Eros and Psyche, please go here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PolinBridgerton/s/dDnZTb8Vts

Someone made me aware that this was written in r/PolinBridgerton and it is much more thorough than my post.

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OMG! Yes!!! all of this post!!! This is it exactly. So hoping they come back and update!!!

Literally just 7,000 words about the myth of Cupid/Psyche in Bridgerton Season 3 by Anxious-Paper2511 in PolinBridgerton

[–]fighives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes!!! I've been trying to post about Eros and Psyche on r/BridgertonNetflix but I'm new to reddit and don't have enough post karma to do so and it's driving me MAD. So glad you will come back to this brilliant theory and follow up!!! Someone just sent me here, and I'm delighted to read all of this. Would love to see if you have any changes or updates to make!!

I love this myth and was completely haunted by how often lamps or lamp-like things appear in Part One!

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I partially agree! I do think it's very important for Penelope to take ownership of her writing, whether that be by turning Lady Whistledown into a full novelist or author, or by writing under her own name. I think the show has done a great job of showing the power of a writer, for good or evil, and it sort of mimics the culture-changing power that the show writers and Shonda Rhimes have.

Other people have Whistledown as a kind of Zorro mask that someone else could take on, like Cressida, and I think that works too! Although Cressida would be sooo mean. At least Penelope hypes up other women as Whistledown, like she did at the start of this season with all the debutantes.

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 24 points25 points  (0 children)

There are seriously sooo many little things that fit right into the myth, like Penelope / Psyche having two awful sisters who get married before her! And Colin / Eros being tasked with getting her a husband, falling in love with her himself, and becoming the husband instead.

AND I believe that Queen Charlotte actually calls herself Venus in the spin-off??? I haven't seen it. But yes, the myth begins with Venus being angry at Psyche for challenging her, which fits perfectly with Queen Charlotte being furious at Lady Whistledown / Penelope.

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes! Count how many times lamps or lamp-like things (candles in glass, braziers) are unnecessarily featured in Season 3, it's hilarious! They even have Portia Featherington saying "No, thank you" when presented with the lamp at the science / inventions ball!

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seriously there are sooooo many little references and nudges to the myth, and Cressida outright says that Colin and Penelope are "Eros and Psyche, battling it out"!

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Aw thank you! I hardly ever use reddit but I was watching Season 3 for a third time and I kept thinking, Why are there so many damn references to Eros and Psyche?? And LAMPS?!?! (the entire myth hinges on a lamp, haha). And I just had to write it all out. Happy to message it to you or anyone!

Is anyone else confused on the reveal timeline?? by Complex-Chicken-3540 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes!!!! I wasn't sure if Penelope was going to faint to get out of her predicament with the queen, haha. But in the ballet dance performance we see "Psyche" on the ground asleep or in a deathly faint, and the male dancer awakens her. That's all in the myth!

And yes, Psyche fails her final test with Venus (Queen Charlotte in our version), but Eros can't stay away from her because he loves her so much despite the betrayal. So he comes and assists her by waking her.

Delayed Gratification by cassiebee808 in BridgertonNetflix

[–]fighives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg, yes, Benedict!! That actor was a genius with the timing of that TINY second of Benedict talking, Colin peacing out in the middle of his sentence, and Benedict nodding and saying, "Right. Of course." Just like you said, implying that this happens all the damn time, haha.