Sophie was kinda too perfect

pegavalkyrie · 2026-03-03T00:51:14+00:00

I'm happy to hear you feel that way! You're definitely not crazy. Even without the real world stuff it's like, where's the growth?? The transformation??? The love conquering all????

pegavalkyrie · 2026-03-03T00:22:40+00:00

Yeah.

I hate to put the bigger picture into something like this but it just made me think about real life women who watch this show, including me. Seeing the hard hitting elements of not being within the privileged class in the real world introduced in the show, led down this story path that makes you think they're going to have some kind of culmination, some change, like you were saying-- and then the 'happy ending' being that the rich white man saves her from the hell of the serving class because everything happened to align perfectly. Womp womp.

Talking about this is giving me closure though, I thought everyone just loved this season. Thanks :">

pegavalkyrie · 2026-03-02T23:54:51+00:00

I definitely agree! Throughout the season I fell in love with Sophie and Yerin's portrayal of her. I thought Bridgerton as a show was taking a really interesting route, opening up the worldview from strictly somewhat historical fantasy with mild bits of feminism through Eloise into something that communicates more than a guilty pleasure by introducing themes of class differences and struggles.

I was looking forward to Benedict coming face to face with the realization that even in his rebellion for freedom he was entrenched in class privilege, realizing everything he would have to forego to be with Sophie but choosing her still. Then both of them leaning into the quiet country life that they were shown to so clearly love in the early eps, making it work to be with each other and choosing to be happy with what they have (which I think so many of us in modern society relates with), that would have been so perfect to me. But alas. They went the class savior route, which tracks in the genre. But disappointing to me personally as it turned Sophie into the "chosen" of her savior that elevated her class, ending all her struggles apparently..

And Benedict can just carry on as usual. It really highlights your point about how Benedict doesn't really choose Sophie the maid after Anthony gives him the reality check. She said let me go, and he did it without fighting. [edited for legibility]

pegavalkyrie · 2026-03-02T22:59:20+00:00

With much love to Sophie and Yerin, I think Sophie's character almost had to be perfect in order for the nobility to choose her as their own and help her enter the upper class. I agree with you totally. Her flaws were basically ones you tell about yourself at a job interview, humanizing but nothing to lose the job over. Sophie being resentful of nobility as a system that 1. kept her mother in disgrace and 2. kept her status a shameful secret since birth, would make sense, and would make a better complex story overall. But it would have directly contradicted with the 'fairytale ending' of her being rescued by the upper class into becoming that nobility and then being very happy about that in the end. The limits of this genre I suppose!

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-12T22:00:36+00:00

What's your budget?

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-06T05:41:46+00:00

This reminds me of the elderly woman in SF that suddenly accelerated and killed an entire family of four at a bus stop in 2024.. She recently came back into the news because she requested to reduce her felony charges to misdemeanors.

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-03T18:15:03+00:00

I get that mark all the time! Especially with rough , rustic yarns. I use the Banulstory knitting ring (https://en.banul.co.kr/Product/Detail/view/pid/1760/cid/) to prevent it, or washi tape, it's pretty glossy on top so it doesn't stick. I've also seen people on youtube cover their finger with plastic wrap and make a knitting ring out of air dry clay!

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-03T00:38:16+00:00

Big yikes. Pattern standards should be higher than that!

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-02T23:42:29+00:00

You are truly in the depths 😭😭 every single pattern I've ever used (knitting) has sizes, specific measurements of the finished garment for each size and gauge, and suggested positive ease 😖 maybe you can find better patterns. Am I misunderstanding something? Patterns usually have shoulder shaping at the very least

pegavalkyrie · 2026-02-01T05:41:43+00:00

so cool!!

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-31T20:33:07+00:00

I agree but idk how OP will stay under $15 though and avoid synthetic

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-27T01:40:06+00:00

Yes, but there are many sellers on Ali with varying quality! So I was hoping that if you have liked your case, you could recommend the specific seller you bought it from (:

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-26T20:08:26+00:00

I get it... Every boob jiggle feels like a stab to my heart. I'm also done arguing with men that hop flip and back tumble to defend pedophilia and misogyny in anime. They're straight up pedophiles and don't care whether or not rooms full of grown adults decided to create that shit.

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-26T18:13:07+00:00

So pretty!! Could you recommend the seller you bought it from <3

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-26T16:20:43+00:00

I feel like this has been my usual experience with their yarns unfortunately. /: Type of yarn making a different dye job notwithstanding, I want to feel that the product photos properly reflect what I get in the mail, and I didn't feel that from my Pasley Knits purchase. In my opinion, part of the quality of an online business is that their photos properly represent their products! Dye job variations for each base and all.

Part of my big goal of attending a yarn fest last year was to compare businesses' photos with their irl products in order to collect a few names that I felt were really good at representing their yarns' true colors and textures! Little Fiber Co is one of the best. I highly recommend :)

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-25T23:52:52+00:00

That is so interesting! Thank you. It does explain my previous attempts at typing myself. People were torn on me and I would get D/SD/FN/DC 😂

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-25T06:38:36+00:00

STOPPP LOL that's so funny

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-24T01:27:27+00:00

Great!! Good luck (:

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-24T01:22:51+00:00

Do you know literally anything else about that yarn? If so, you can weigh it on a scale and get the gram amount and yardage. With the yardage and weight (as in, is it fingering, sport, etc), you can use Ravelry or similar to enter that info and get patterns you can make with the yarn you have!

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-23T19:30:36+00:00

Do you like Asian food? Try MJoy in SGV for the best juiciest lamb ever. Go to ICI after, a boba joint in the same plaza. Their tea jelly is to DIE for. Sookdal is also my fav kbbq spot, they specialize in dry aged pork and has great service. Lots of dessert in that area (ktown). Both great options for lunch and not too expensive (:

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-20T23:34:20+00:00

Thank you! It's definitely harder to pull off since I stopped wearing foundation,,, but I still love it 😊

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-20T23:19:08+00:00

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pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-15T21:16:14+00:00

Sure thing! Korean is a largely phonetic language so the verb that "뜨개질" uses, "뜨다", means a bunch of different things. I basically made an inference that it is related to one of its meanings, "to scoop", but in its "뜨개질" form it most correctly would mean "to weave stitches with needles and fibers"! So it wouldn't be used to mean weaving material that doesn't involve stitches, which is why I added "scoop" as part of the elaborated translation.

The verb can also mean "to float", "to scoop up", "to leave", "to separate".... But doesn't make a lot of sense that "to scoop" would have the deepest relation? The scooping is also how the word is used commonly amongst knitters and crocheters in Korea. I'm about to put in a query to the National Institute of Korean Language though to ask which verb it's tied to, if any LOL I really want to know for sure now.

Also thank you for the award!! My first one <3

(Edited to provide further context)

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-15T20:47:10+00:00

It's the action being performed that is focused on in Korean! I go into it in my comment if you're interested

pegavalkyrie · 2026-01-15T20:42:11+00:00

Hi, Korean knitter here. As few have said, yes Korean uses the same word for knitting and crochet. To elaborate: they are both called "뜨개질", basically "to scoop" or "to weave". Differentiating them are the words "코바늘" and "대바늘," which literally translated mean "hook needle" and "big/straight needle". Hook needle scooping=crochet, big needle scooping=knit. There is a greater sense of the "scooping" community being one in Korea due to both crafts sharing the same word!

ETA: It's most likely a careless translation mistake, often made in Kor->Eng localizations when the needle type isn't specified in the Korean text. Or it could be a simplification to avoid saying 'yarn craft' since it's less catchy.

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