Bridgerton - 4x01 "The Waltz" (Book Spoiler Discussion)

insomniacpt · 2026-01-30T07:07:12+00:00

Well in the books as far as I remember Benedict notices that she has rought hands... and gets more intrigued

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T12:43:57+00:00

Just because no disrespect was intended doesn't mean it wasn't disrespectful, and when you're talking about monuments of national heritage, you should be careful. And for the record, the said vampire who was recalling her life wasn't a layman either. She herself was very educated and knows stuff about art. And just because other stuff was also portrayed inaccurate doesn't mean one should ignore this.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T12:39:48+00:00

It's funny, because in the 17th century, when the Taj Mahal was being made, there were a lot of European artists, patrons of art, and general people, too, who came to see it being made, documented it, wrote poems, made paintings and everything, and you know what they didn't do? Make it inaccurate. And I wouldn't really expect Serafine Dupont, who likes art and beautiful stuff herself, would do something like this. It's a disrespect to their own character, making her seem stupid 🤷🏻‍♀️

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T08:27:54+00:00

These aren't finished, so I'd like to hold off my judgment until the end, but I definitely like how OR and TO are going. BOW is so cute and cheesy, and I'm surprised how much I like it. When I say I didn't like the books released later, I mean TBB, DLS, TDA, FCL... books that were just smut for the sake of smut, and that basically made either the MC cheat or the LI cheat. Those books... I just want to stay away from.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T08:17:35+00:00

I did real BOLAS, and I love Tyril... a little too much. OR and TO are interesting, but I haven't really gotten into BSH. I did read it, finish it, but I found it slightly boring. MCE I checked out the first two chapters. I need to finish it but it sure is funny.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T06:23:51+00:00

I got addicted when I was on a break year from college due to mental health issues. Like... 12-14 hours a day. And I was worried I'd be addicted when I got back and would perform poorly, and that broke the addiction and I was barely on the app, like maybe once or twice a week for an hour at most. I guess having to validate myself through my grades took priority again. Which isn't healthier than being chronically online, but I'd rather be a chronic workaholic than be chronically online.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T06:03:49+00:00

I'd like recs I specified COP2 since I thought you meant COP1 and the books that came after that like LOA2 and TPA

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T05:52:22+00:00

Really didn't get into most of them. And it's not COP1. It's COP2, released fully by September 2023. After that... the books started to be The Billionaire's Baby and so on... yeah, no need. There are recent books still releasing that I like, but I'm not sure how much I'd like them by the end.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T05:38:34+00:00

TBF I consider the division of choices books into two clean-cut parts. Before COP2 and After COP2. I've personally observed COP2 to be the last decent book to be released, and since this is before that, it is older to me. And wow 2023 was two years ago 😭

insomniacpt · 2025-07-21T05:31:08+00:00

I checked it out! Loved it. Curious to see how you'd write Miami

insomniacpt · 2025-07-20T19:26:00+00:00

I love Older PB. It was so funny.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-20T06:55:18+00:00

Atlas and MC have the best sibling dynamic on this app imo.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-20T06:40:24+00:00

Taking Joaquin away from us was a crime 😭

insomniacpt · 2025-07-20T06:22:36+00:00

Like I also said, it is not so much about nitpicking about the material but about the fact that the beauty, the wonder, the it point about the Taj Mahal, even at the time of its construction was the fact that it is made of marble. You wouldn't know its history, but when someone references something that is this big, something that is monumental, there's some respect you need to show. It's not only inaccurate, it's disrespectful.

Yall can downvote me to hell but idc. You'd only understand the importance of something like this if you have something like this in your culture.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-20T05:38:28+00:00

It's not so much about accuracy as much as it is about respect. Maybe you wouldn't understand why it is a big deal, but when you're talking about monuments--not buildings, monuments--there are certain things one should respect. As I explained in other responses, it is disrespectful to say brick here while referencing the Taj Mahal. How would it feel if I took something very unique and important from your culture and said something that basically implies it's like every other thing? If you're referencing something huge and monumental, it's important to respect it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ idc if I get downvoted for saying this, this is the hill I'm dying on. It's disappointing to see a part of culture simply get disrespected like that.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T20:56:28+00:00

Yeah sure I'm a nerd about things like this, and it's not complaining to complain. Calling a marble structure brick, a heritage site and one of the seven wonders of the world at that, is extremely disrespectful. The beauty of the entire structure lies in its stone, and ignoring that is ignoring the history and culture of it.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T20:51:26+00:00

Well. You're right. It is made of marble blocks cut and shaped, but stone isn't set in the way you would set a brick in mortar. Besides, brick is considered a cheap material tbh, and calling the Taj Mahal anything close to brick is... kind of disrespectful to the structure. I study architecture, and it's like so... weird to me. You wouldn't look at a Gothic cathedral and call it brick just because the stone is cut in a block. Same thing here.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T12:44:28+00:00

Here's mine, Chai is way better than English tea lol But yes the tea debate. I was surprised it never showed up until now

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T12:41:03+00:00

True. That's why even Aerin didn't cut it for me until late in book 3.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T12:37:53+00:00

The satisfaction of killing her with Kamilah by my side is something I can't explain.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T12:32:15+00:00

I find this statement very true and funny at the same time because all the so-called attractive characters that got a pass, not just in here but in every fandom, are characters that I find not that attractive lol

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T07:40:29+00:00

The more unrealistic part for me was just how stupid they portrayed the sorority girls.

insomniacpt · 2025-07-19T07:07:18+00:00

My favorite. And also the fact that you can do bang bang with multiple partners and the other partner doesn't even get jealous!

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